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WOMEN SHAPING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!

Unapologetically Female: Three-Part Series
Join us for a week of celebration of women in music! Learn about the journeys of these remarkable women and the unique projects they're developing as leaders in different areas of the music world. Each of these sessions will be moderated by Jacobs students in the represented fields. 

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Unapologetically Female in COMPOSITION
with Nina C. Young
moderated by Kim Osberg (M.M. Composition)Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Unapologetically Female in MUSIC ACADEMIA
with Professor Halina Goldberg, Professor Ayana Smith and Professor Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
moderated by Anna Gatdula (M.M. Musicology)
Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 | 3pm - 4pm
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Unapologetically Female in JAZZ
with Monika Herzig, Leni Stern, Jennifer Vincent, Reut Regev, and Rosa Avila
moderated by Kathryn Sherman (B.M. Jazz Voice) Friday, Sep. 30, 2016 | 9am - 10:30pm
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GUESTS

Nina C. Young

A New York-based composer, Nina C. Young’s (b.1984) music has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra, Inscape Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orkest de ereprijs, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Either/Or, Ensemble de Musique Interactive, the JACK Quartet, mise-en, Scharoun, Sixtrum, and Yarn/Wire. Winner of the 2015-16 Rome Prize in Musical Composition, Young has received a Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award, Aspen Music Festival's Jacob Druckman Prize, and honors from BMI, The International Alliance for Women in Music, and ASCAP/SEAMUS. Nina currently serves as Co-Artistic Director of NY-based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé.

Dr. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert

Marianne C. Kielian-Gilbert has served as secretary of Music Theory Midwest and vice-president of the Society for Music Theory and is a member of several editorial boards, including Perspectives of New Music, for which she also served a term as co-editor. She has published essays on Stravinsky's music, tonal/Schenkerian analysis, 20th- and 21st-century music, and music and cultural studies (feminism and music). Her work appears in essay collections and journals including College Music Symposium, In Theory Only, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum, 19th-Century Music, Perspectives of New Music, and Theory and Practice. Recent publications concern music, philosophy and feminist theory, and music and analysis in different experiential, cultural, material/media, and philosophical orientations. In 2008 she received the Distinguished Scholar Award from Indiana University's Office for Women's Affairs.

Dr. Halina Goldberg

Professor of Musicology Halina Goldberg's research includes Chopin, music in Poland and Eastern Europe, performance practice, reception, and national constructs. She is the editor of The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Indiana University Press, 2004) and the author of Music in Chopin's Warsaw (Oxford University Press, 2008). Goldberg has given invited lectures at the Polish Chopin Academy in Warsaw; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Warsaw University; and the University of Rouen, France. Her radio interviews include WETA in Washington, D.C., Warsaw 2 in Poland, and Music Matters (BBC).

Dr. Ayana Smith

Ayana Smith is Associate Professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a specialist in Italian baroque opera. Inspired by her background both in classics (B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College) and as a singer, she focuses on intersections between literature, reception of the classical past, and interpretation. Her current book manuscript, Dreaming with Open Eyes, investigates the importance of visual culture to theories of literature and music drama within the Accademia degli Arcadi in late seventeenth-century Rome.

Monika Herzig

Jazz pianist Monika Herzig has completed her Doctorate in Music Education and Jazz Studies at Indiana University, where she is now a faculty member in Arts Administration. Her book “David Baker – A Legacy in Music” was released November 2011 on IU Press, a Listener’s Guide to Chick Corea is forthcoming on Littlefield & Rowan. As a touring jazz artist, she has performed at many prestigious jazz clubs and festivals, such as the Indy Jazz Fest, Cleveland’s Nighttown, Louisville’s Jazz Factory, the W.C.Handy Festival, Jazz in July in Bloomington and Cincinnati, Columbus’ Jazz & Rib Fest, to name just a few.

Leni Stern

Leni Stern, jazz guitarist and vocalist, has been awarded Gibson Guitar’s Female Jazz Guitarist of the Year Award for five consecutive years. She has played with many big jazz names, including Dennis Chambers, Bill Frisell, Michael Brecker, Paul Motian, and more. Stern travels all over the world and speaks several languages, incorporating all of these vastly different influences into her music.

Jennifer Vincent

Jennifer Vincent, bassist and cellist, has played and toured with the likes of Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln, the famed Boy's Choir of Harlem, Willie Martinez y La Familia, Son Sublime, the Xavier Cougat Orchestra, the Roberto Rodriguez Septet, Carmen Lundy, Harry Whitteaker (longtime artistic director and keyboardist for Roberta Flack), Jon Hendricks, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and many other jazz and Latin notables. She started as a classically-trained cellist at Oberlin Conservatory, is equally comfortable in the jazz, Latin-jazz, and traditional Cuban musical idioms. Her bass teachers include jazz icon Ron Carter, Andy Gonzales, Ed Bennett, Buster Williams, and Cuban bass legend Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Reut Regev

Born and raised in Israel, Trombonist, composer and bandleader Reut Regev has been living and creating music in NYC for over a decade, collaborating, recording and touring with some of the finest musicians in various fields, including Latin, Klezmer, Rock, Blues, Jazz, contemporary classical and improvised music. Anthony Braxton, Frank London, Butch Morris, Joe Bataan, Firewater, Elliott Sharp, Dave Douglas, Metropolitan Klezmer, Hazmat Modine and many more have picked Reut as their Trombonist of choice for tours, recordings and other projects. After years of working mostly as a side musician, Reut has recorded her debut Album "This is R*time". Following the debut R*time's sophomore CD "Exploring the Vibe" was released on Enja Records in 2013.

Rosa Avila

Rosa began playing drums at age 16 and has studied at The Music Conservatory Of the University of Veracruz, and The School of Superior Studies of Mexico City. She was later granted a scholarship from the Mexican Endowment of the Arts for completion of her training at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, California where she studied with such notables as Casey Scheuerrell, Ralph Humphery, Joe Porcaro and Taka Numazawa. She has also performed with artists such as The Lennon Sisters, Ann Margret, Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Debby Boone, Shari Lewis, Elkie Brooks, Petula Clark, and the Broadway show "Five Guys Named Moe.”