L.A. Composer Dr. Allison Adah Johnson- Sunday May 31st @ 2pm- OSU Benton Hall #303
Join us for a final afternoon of New Music at OSU Music Department featuring guest composer Allison Adah Johnson.
Dr. Johnson will premiere new works with the Ensmble Sonic Possibilities
Allison Adah Johnson, composer and musician, received degrees in music from Stanford University (BA), CalArts (MFA), and UC San Diego (PhD), and studied gamelan with Djoko Walujo and with Suhardi in Surakarta, Java. She currently teaches music history and ethnomusicology at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California, and was recently a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at Occidental College where she taught in the Music, Asian Studies, and Cultural Studies departments.
Her compositions and multi-media works have been performed at the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, the New Directions in Asian-American Music Festival, the California Biennial, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Feminist Theory & Music, La Jolla Athenaeum, Parallel 66, and Frau Musica (nova) Festival in Cologne, among others, and she has received grants, awards, and residencies from American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, the Luce Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, Centrum Arts, and the Getty Foundation. Her theater collaborations have been performed at the Berlin Volksbühne, the Colony Theatre in Burbank, and Occidental College’s Keck Theatre.
The concert with also feature music by John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Sila Shaman and Dana Reason
Sonic Possibilities is Bob Brudvig, Sila Cevikce Shaman, Michael Coolen and Dana Reason
