Jacobs professor rewarded

Jacobs School of Music Professor David Dzubay won first prize in the 2007 Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival/Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition. His winning composition, “Double Black Diamond,” will be performed Nov. 9 at the Indiana State University Music Festival. This is the second time Dzubay has been awarded this prize. In 1992, he won first place for his composition “Snake Alley.”\nDzubay is chair of the Jacobs School of Music Composition Department. His winning composition is about a ski run and was originally commissioned by the Utah Arts Festival. It premiered in 2005 at the festival and has also been performed by the IU New Music Ensemble, for which he is director and conductor. \n“This virtuoso piece is mostly very fast and rhythmical,” Dzubay said of “Double Black Diamond” in a press release. \n“Partly because of the subject matter, the music follows a central line with shifting orchestration. It was a fun piece for me to write, and it can be done with single strings, like when the New Music Ensemble performed it, or with multiple strings, which will be the case with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.”\nDzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals, and his work has been performed all over the world. He was the composer in residence for the Green Bay Symphony for the 2005-2006 season and is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow.