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University Visits
Check out some of our work from past residencies!
University of Florida Graduate Composition Residency 2025
Sputter Box was in residence at the University of Florida as collaborating artists with the graduate composition studio for the 2024-2025 season. We met with the students months in advance for a workshop on writing for our instruments and for a unique instrumentation. Leading up to the performance, we worked with the composers in rehearsal and feedback sessions.
UNCW New Music Festival 2025
Sputter Box was in residency at UNCW as a part of their New Music Weekend. Earlier in the week, the ensemble worked with music students on how to incorporate their aural skills into improvisation. Later in the residency they performed their Sputter Shows program. From the bittersweet nostalgia of letting go of your past self to a hilariously chaotic soprano possessed by the ghosts of operatic composers, the program takes the audience on a journey through a wide range of emotions and stories.
Pathfinder Concert Series
Sputter Box was in residency at Colombus State University in Georgia as a part of their Pathfinder Concert Series. They spoke with the students about chamber music and being a professional ensemble, culminating in a performance of works written for the ensemble.
Princeton Sound Kitchen
Sputter Box was in residency at Princeton University as a part of their Princeton Sound Kitchen, giving graduate composition students the opportunity to work with professional musicians. This program featured new works by Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Kennedy Taylor Dixon, and Onche Rajesh Ugbabe.
The second half of the concert featured Gemma Peacocke’s “A Strange Power,” a evening length cantata about the tangled web of romance, free love, creation, and death in the early lives of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. Sputter Box was joined by Charlotte Mundy as Mary, Aaron Wolff on cello, and Isabelle O’Connell on piano.
University of Florida Graduate Composition Residency 2021
Sputter Box was in residence at the University of Florida as collaborating artists with the graduate composition studio for the 2021-2022 season. We met with the students months in advance for a workshop on writing for our instruments and for a unique instrumentation. Leading up to the performance, we worked with the composers in rehearsal and feedback sessions. We cannot wait to return, Spring 2025!
UMass Amherst Residency
Early 2020, Sputter Box did a residency with University of Massachusetts Amherst and worked with the percussion studio students in a master class, concluding with a joint recital. This project included music from the 20th and 21st centuries, some of which was written specifically for Sputter Box
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