Composition
Faculty List:
Kevin Ernste
Director, Cornell Electroacoustic Music CenterAssistant Professor
Composition (electroacoustic music)
Ph.D., Eastman School of Music
B27 & 108 Lincoln Hall
Tel#: 607-255-5795
kme32@cornell.edu
Personal website
Kevin Ernste is a composer, performer, and teacher of composition and electronic music at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center. He did graduate work in Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music (MA, PhD). Recently he was the Acting Director and lecturer at the Eastman Computer Music Center and Co-director of the ImageMovementSound festival. He was the 2007 and 2008 composer in residence at the Alexandria Guitar festival in Alexandria VA.
Kevin Ernste's recent music includes a work for guitarist Kenneth Meyer (gtr. and electronic sounds,2006), saxophonist Randall Hall,a piece for viola with electronic sounds for John Graham performed on Mr. Graham's May 2004 China tour (Beijing, Wuhan, Xiamen, Hong Kong), as well as at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, a piece for solo piano and tape narration for Fang-Tzu Liu called Long Path, recently performed in the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, and a commission celebrating the work of Pulitzer prize winning former Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
He is currently composing a number of new works, one for guitarist Nathan Fisher to be premiered in Cairo, Egypt, one in collaboration with artist Buzz Spector based on Spector's 1992 book and train station installation "Crenshaw Stories", a new piece for the Janus Trio to be premiered in Spring 2010, and a half-evening-length piece for viola, percussion, and prepared piano based on the events of April 4th 1968 and the poetry of Aeschylus.
Kevin Ernste's awards include a Whitford L. Huff Award, two Belle Gitelman Awards, a Howard Hanson Ensemble Prize, a McCurdy Prize, an American Music grant, and the Ralph Jackno Scholarship. A recent CD including his piece "To Be Neither Proud Nor Ashamed" appears on theInnova label (CD 660). His music has been performed nationally and internationally, with recent and upcoming concerts in Holland, Taiwan, Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong, England, Cuba, California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Virginia, Oregon, New Jersey, and New York, including institutions such as Cornell, Princeton, Syracuse, and others.
Links of interest:
Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center (CEMC) informationCornell Electroacoustic Music Center (CEMC) website
Selected Work:
Neither Proud Nor Ashamed: New works for saxophone and electronics by Luciano Berio, Christian Lauba, Kevin
Ernste, Jonathan Kirk, Nicolas Scherzinger and Randall Hall (performer).
play audio: Neither Proud Not Ashamed