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Guest Lecturers

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JESSICA KRASH
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Jessica Krash was born in Washington, DC and continues to find it a good place to think about worldview and values. Her work as a composer and pianist has been presented in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jessica’s recent CD (Albany Records, 2018) was praised by the Wall Street Journal, Gramophone, and Fanfare, was “Recording of the Month” in Voix des Arts, and was named in “10 of the Best New Releases in 2018” by The Daffodil Perspective.  Jessica’s cello concerto was premiered by Tanya Anisimova, James Ross and the Alexandria Symphony in 2018, and What I Learned From You will be premiered in Vilnius in fall 2020 by the Trimitas State Wind Orchestra of Lithuania. In fall 2019, Jessica was music director and pianist for Tim Nelson’s production of Butterfly at the IN Series, in Washington, DC and Baltimore.

In addition to collaborating with chamber musicians and singers, Jessica has enjoyed working with poets, choreographers, filmmakers, and other visual artists.

Jessica has given series of lectures at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Library of Congress, and NIH on topics of music and the brain, music history, and the insights we get from dangerous, banned and provocative music. She was a professor at George Washington University for almost 30 years. Jessica graduated with high honors from Harvard College, earned a master’s degree in piano from Juilliard, and a doctorate in composition from the University of Maryland.

Composer Jeffrey Mumford
JEFFREY MUMFORD
Guest Lecturer

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, composer Jeffrey Mumford has received numerous fellowships, grants, awards, and commissions including the  “Academy Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and an ASCAP Aaron Copland Scholarship. He was also the winner of the inaugural National Black Arts Festival/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition. Other grants have been awarded by the Ohio Arts Council, Meet the Composer, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Inc., the ASCAP Foundation, and the University of California.

Mumford’s most notable commissions include those from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the Library of Congress (co-commission), the BBC Philharmonic, the San Antonio, Chicago & National Symphonies, Washington Performing Arts, the Network for New Music, ‘cellist Mariel Roberts, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project (through New Music USA), Duo Harpverk (Iceland), the Sphinx Consortium, the Cincinnati Symphony, the VERGE Ensemble /National Gallery of Art/Contemporary Music Forum, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Nancy Ruyle Dodge Charitable Trust, the Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, Cincinnati radio station WGUC, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, and the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress. His music has been performed extensively, by major orchestras, soloists, and ensembles, both in the United States and abroad, including London, Paris, Reykjavik, Vienna, The Hague, Russia and Lithuania.

Mumford has taught at the Washington Conservatory of Music, served as Artist-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University, and served as assistant professor of composition and Composer-in-Residence at the Oberlin College-Conservatory of Music. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Lorain County Community College in Northern Ohio.

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