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Q: What is the best piece of advice you would give to those still in school?Ī: Find other students to collaborate with, try to get enough sleep, prioritize your mental health, and try to take breaks and have fun. Fernanda Navarro, for being an amazing mentor. Q: Which professor taught you the most important lesson while at ASU?Ī: There are so many wonderful professors, but I would really like to acknowledge my committee chair, Dr. I have learned a lot from my teachers, friends and other students.Ī: For the diversity in styles and perspectives of the composition department. Q: What is something you learned while at ASU - in the classroom or otherwise - that surprised you or changed your perspective?Ī: I don’t think there was just one thing specifically, but I am really glad that I got to meet so many wonderful people. I don’t think there was a specific “moment,” but it’s something I decide to do every day. Question: What was your “aha” moment when you realized you wanted to study the field you majored in?Īnswer: I remember seeing a friend who was taking composition lessons have a lot of fun writing, and I decided I wanted to try it too. In 2020, her string quartet Desertification won first prize in the ASU Mykytyn Distinguished Composition Award.īrackney received a Special Talent Award and Teaching Assistantship, which she said allowed her to pursue her doctoral degree. Her work has been premiered at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium and the Look and Listen Festival by Grit Collaborative + Oh My Ears and performed by groups such as the AURORA trio, Gamelan Lipi Awan and Quince Ensemble. “Laura has so many positive attributes, it’s difficult and would be unfair to just list one,” said Fernanda Navarro, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre. “Laura has been very supportive of the community she is also curious, multifaceted, creative and industrious.”īrackney’s work has been commissioned by the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, the Bullock Texas State History Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, the 78th anniversary of the UT Kniker Carillon, the New Media Art and Sound Summit, the Portland Youth Philharmonic and Collide Arts, among others. She has written several stunning works that extend the usual timbral possibilities of instruments and has collaborated extensively with the Wind Ensemble to develop her art. While at ASU, Brackney delved into electronic music and explored new compositional techniques. In addition to traditional concert music, she has created music for theater, film, fixed media and bicycle installations. Cloudlands: a place of dreams, of ‘impractical speculation,’ of unreal skies.” The amorphous harmonic language represents clouds of bells which collide and blur into each other.

Competing materials drift against each other, merge and condense before ultimately dissipating peacefully. The music works to reconcile the differences between a persistent ostinato and freer, wave-like gestures. Brackney describes the piece in the center’s news release as “inspired by the process of loss and acceptance.

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“Cloudlands,” the 2022 composition in the 'Music for Mayo' Carillon Music Series, will be available in early August free of charge to carillonneurs around the world. Jason Caslor to write a piece about a river I love.” “It was a great experience to work with the musicians, doctoral conductor Kristen Zelenak and Dr. “I am grateful to be the composer-in-residence with the ASU Wind Ensemble this year,” said Brackney. The commission was requested by the clinic’s official carillonneur, Austin Ferguson, who also commissioned Brackney’s first work after earning her undergraduate degree.

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Download Full Imageīrackney is currently serving as the composer-in-residence for the ASU Wind Ensemble and recently completed a commission for solo carillon for Mayo Clinic’s Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine. Laura Brackney’s work has been commissioned by Mayo Clinic’s Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, the Bullock Texas State History Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, the 78th anniversary of the UT Kniker Carillon, the New Media Art and Sound Summit, the Portland Youth Philharmonic and Collide Arts, among others. Laura Brackney, Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition, views composing as a form of sonic gardening, cultivating each work’s interrelationships and sounds as ecosystemic material. Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2022 graduates.

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