Justine Hawelu, a music industries studies student, was awarded the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) President’s Innovation Award (PIA). Hawelu was among 33 recipients across the nation and was invited to attend NAMM’s Believe in Music Week event in January 2021.…
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It is finally here, the long-awaited show. All the practicing and late nights come down to this performance, but you are ready. Here goes nothing! Only instead of taking the stage, you open your laptop and hit record. The studio…
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At her high school in suburban Boston, Iris Levine’s aptitude tests earmarked her for a career as an accountant. Her mother sounded a different note. “If you want to go to school for accounting, you’ll live at home and go…
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Why is that guy standing in a field of horses with a trombone, you may wonder. The scene is from the music video “Socially Distant Trombone Duet,” by music students C.J. Woods and Raymond Fong (’20, music). Their video won…
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Cal Poly Pomona senior Kevin Truong, who will graduate with a Bachelor of Music in performance, has recently been admitted to the USC Thornton School of Music on scholarship to pursue a Master of Music in bass trombone performance. Kevin…
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The Department of Music Spring 2020 series of events features student performances, special faculty presentation and appearances by renowned guest artists. Thomas Kotcheff, a Los Angeles based composer and pianist, whose music has been described as truly beautiful and inspired,…
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Add Grammy Award winner to Cal Poly Pomona Music Professor Nadia Shpachenko’s list of accomplishments. Shpachenko won in the category of Best Classical Compendium for her contemporary classical CD “The Poetry of Places” at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards Premier…
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Recording artist and Cal Poly Pomona Music Professor Nadia Shpachenko’s new CD “The Poetry of Places” has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Best Classical Compendium for the album and for Producer of the Year Classical, for producers Victor…
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Bass trombonist Kevin Truong and pianist Jeffrey Sweede will share the top prize after they tied for first place in the music department’s 2019 Concerto Competition. Both winners will perform as featured soloists in a concert with the CPP Philharmonic…
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Cal Poly Pomona Music Professor Arthur Winer’s song “The Minor Key” won a Silver Medal in the 2019 Global Music Awards, an international songwriting competition. The song was released on Oct. 15 through Canaveral Skies Music and Winer’s band MacArthur.…
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