Film, Belonging, and Divergent Composition: A Conversation with Composer Michael Abels on Indelible Sonorities

Name: Film, Belonging, and Divergent Composition: A Conversation with Composer Michael Abels on Indelible Sonorities
Start: 2023-04-20T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-04-20T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Film, Belonging, and Divergent Composition: A Conversation with Composer Michael Abels on Indelible Sonorities

4.20.23 | 4:30pm–5:30pm

April 20, 2023 | 4:30pm–5:30pm |

Yale University

Instructions

Address:

Adams Center

Hendrie Hall, Room 201

165 Elm Street, North Entrance

New Haven, CT 06511

This event is for Yale students, faculty, and staff, and all members of Yale Camerata. No registration required.

Questions? Contact Collin Edouard (collin.edouard@yale.edu)

If you’re interested in the April 21 YSC Session, “Creative License - A Session with Change Agent Michael Abels,” consider the following opportunity to get to know the composer and his work:

Moderated by Collin Edouard, a second-year doctoral student in ethnomusicology, this conversation is an opportunity to interact with award-winning composer Michael Abels and gain firsthand insight into the composition techniques and musical adventures that have garnered his work worldwide attention.

Abels is best-known for his scores for the Oscar-winning film GET OUT, and for Jordan Peele’s US, for which Abels won the World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, an Image Award nomination, and multiple critics awards. As a concert composer, Abels has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, and the Sphinx Organization. His orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra. Upcoming projects include the ballet for concert band FALLING SKY for Butler University, AT WAR WITH OURSELVES for the Kronos Quartet, and the Hugh Jackman film BAD EDUCATION for HBO.