From BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSICAL ARTS
The doctoral students of BGSU’s College of Musical Arts are excited to present another edition of their “DMA@TMA” concert this year. The BGSU doctoral cohort is a unique collective of performers who are dedicated to the performance of contemporary and experimental classical music. Their performance at the Toledo Museum of Art will include a variety of modern music for solo instruments, various duos, and chamber ensembles as well as a world premiere performance. As a public university for the public good, BGSU views that there is no more appropriate collaboration than one with the TMA, who stands “to integrate art into the lives of people.”
The concert will take place Sunday, Oct. 26, at 2 pm at the Toledo Museum of Art in the Great Gallery. The concert will last about an hour, and viewers are encouraged to take in the art alongside the music in this concert setting. The concert will feature music written entirely by living composers. The artists featured on this program include renowned musicians, like Ohio-based Marilyn Shrude and Jeffrey Mumford. BGSU students, former and current, will also have their work featured on the program: first year student Wesley Nielsen will premiere his new work “Soul Seller” and Patrick Chan’s “open-instrumentation chamber work fuse II” will be interpreted by the first-years of the DMA program.
This will be the 10th year of collaboration between TMA and the BGSU doctoral cohort. DMA@TMA is a renewal of the pre-Covid “EAR | EYE” collaboration, which was a multi-sensory project that sought to unite music with art at the museum. After ending in 2020, the cohort restarted fruitful collaborations with the TMA in 2023. DMA@TMA is a more traditional concert presentation that invites audiences to view the art of the Great Gallery.
Because of scheduled renovations within the galleries, this collaboration will not happen again until at least 2027.
Audience members interested in attending DMA@TMA may be delighted to hear this community of players performing the music of living American composers throughout the Midwest. Upcoming events include performances at the Sandusky Art Center, the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music’s New Music Festival, and throughout the year at BGSU. The DMA cohort hopes to continue expanding its presence by fostering more collaborations in the northwest Ohio region.
