RED NOTE New Music Festival

Congratulations to Justin Weiss (RED NOTE Workshop 2025 alumnus) on being named Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Florida School of Music!

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🎼 The UF School of Music welcomes Dr. Justin Weiss, Assistant Professor of Composition! 🎼  Dr. Justin Weiss is currently a visiting assistant professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and will be joining the School of Music as assistant professor of composition this fall.    A composer and conductor whose music has been described as “mesmerizing…simultaneously colorful and sparklingly direct” (Amici per la Musica) and “powerfully visual” (Third Coast Review). Dr. Weiss’s work has been recognized with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the League of Composers/ISCM Prize, the Prix Langage Musical from Les Écoles d’Art de Fontainebleau, the Walter E. Aschaffenburg Prize, awards and recognitions from institutions including ASCAP, Society of Composers, Inc., The American Prize, Tribeca New Music, and he was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School.    Dr. Weiss’s music has been performed internationally by ensembles including Quatuor Diotima, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Grossman Ensemble, Akropolis Reed Quintet, TAK Ensemble, ~Nois Saxophone Quartet and Sandbox Percussion Quartet. He is the co-artistic director and conductor of the contemporary music ensemble, Mycelium New Music. Dr. Weiss studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. #newfaculty #ufmusic #uflorida #ufcota #ufcomposition

⭐️ COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT: IAN JONES ⭐️
Meet Ian Jones, one of the eight gifted composers participating in this year's RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop!

Tell us about your music! What excites you as a composer?
"In my music I like to explore the roles of rhythm and timbre in relation to structure. A large amount of my music recreates electronic effects acoustically, driving the decisions for these elements. I am inspired by topics in psychology, social issues and the human experience."

Can you tell us anything about your new piece for the RED NOTE Composition Workshop?
"My piece for RED NOTE is inspired by the opening measures of the 'Intermezzo' in B minor from Brahms' '4 Klavierstücke.' I took the simple idea of falling thirds and put them through processes similar to simple electronic effects such as time stretching, delays, and filtering. The results are layered into a rich collage of sound."

Is there a fun fact about yourself that you’d like to share?
"I'm in a punk band! And I love to hike."

Learn more about Ian here! https://www.iantjonescomposer.com