Anthony M Kelley

Education

• PhD University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Research Interests

B.A. and A.M., Duke University, 1991. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Anthony Kelley joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. He received his B.A. and A.M. from Duke University in 1991. In 1999, Richmond Symphony premiered his piano concerto, "Africamerica," with soloist Donal Fox. In 1998, The American Composers Orchestra gave the premier performance of a commissioned work, "The Breaks," under the direction of Gerard Schwartz. The Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, North Carolina, Oakland East Bay, Marin (CA) and San Antonio symphony orchestras have also performed Kelley’s music. Among his awards and honors are the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters, and composition fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. His recent work, such as his soundtracks to the H. Lee Waters/Tom Whiteside film "Conjuring Bearden" [2006] and Dante James's film, "The Doll" [2007], explores music as linked with other media, arts, and sociological phenomena. He is a performer in and co-director of the improvisational Postmodern New-Blues musical collective called the BLAK Ensemble.

Miscellaneous

Improvisation and Performance in revised "Africamerica" Piano Concerto, Recording and Performance of New Blues with BLAK Ensemble, Recording Release of "Grist for the Mill", by Mallarme Chamber Players , Documentary on THE ALFALFA CLUB

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Duke University Alumni Association, October, 2011
• 2008 Director's Choice Third Place Award, 28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ, July, 2008
• Aaron Copland Foundation Recording Project, Mallarme Chamber Players, September, 2007
• Selection for Presentation, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 2007, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April, 2007
• Henry Schuman Prize for Musical Composition, Duke University Music Department, 1987
• Recipient, Mary Duke Biddle Scholarship for Musical Composition, Duke University, 1986-1987

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• Music 120.01, Motown Synopsis

  Biddle 101, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• A.M. Kelley. Soundtrack to "Kudzu Vine" [Documentary]. May, 2011 . [26640630]  [abs]
• A.M. Kelley, Nicholas Lewis, Reginald Patterson, David Garner. Contra-Funkti, 1-6. 2009 .  [abs]
• A.M. Kelley. Incidental Music to the stage production, SPRING AWAKENING. Spring, 2008 .  [abs]

• A.M. Kelley. "Kudzu Vine Suite". 2011 .  [abs]
• A.M. Kelley. "Grist for the Mill". 2010 . [id380000131]  [abs]

   Commissions:

• Commissions, Incidental Music to the Wedekind play, SPRING AWAKENING, March 29, 2008 - April 13, 2008
  This music, for clarinet, synthesizer, and piano, was composed exclusively for and used in the theatrical production of SPRING AWAKENING, by Duke Department of Theater Studies.

• Solo Performances, Friends of the Library Annual Dinner, Doris Duke Center, May 05, 2010
  Performance and Improvisation based on material in the Duke Jazz Archive for Friends of the Library Annual Dinner, Doris Duke Center, May 5, 2010 [Some works also performed with vocalist, Lois Deloatch]

• Performances, Durham Marriott Convention Center, Durham NC, December 04, 2010
  Duke Children’s Hospital "Teddy Bear Ball" Fundraiser Pianist, John Brown Big Band, December, 2010
• Performances, Bone Hall [Duke University], November 16, 2010
  Leadership Education at Duke Divinity Performance/Lectures on New Blues Improvisation Practice and Philosophy [ with guests, Nicholas Lewis, Clarinet, and John Brown, Bass] November 16, 2010
• Performances, Nelson Music Room [Duke University], August 24, 2010
  Leadership Education at Duke Divinity Performance/Lectures on New Blues Improvisation Practice and Philosophy [ with guests, Reginald Patterson, Violin, Nicholas Lewis, Clarinet, and John Brown, Bass]: August 24
• AFRICAMERICA, performed by the Western Piedmont Symphony, Hickory, NC, November 07, 2009
  Performed and improvised the solo piano part with an orchestra in my concerto, AFRICAMERICA, with John Gordon Ross conducting. Review is here: http://www.CVNC.org/reviews/2009/112009/WesternPiedmont.html
• Africamerica, Duke University, March 04, 2009
  Performed as guest piano soloist/improvising musical artist in original piano concerto: World Premiere of Revised, Enhanced Orchestral Edition http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2009/032009/DukeSymph.html

• Premiere [NYC], New York, NY, October 09, 2011
  New York City Screening of collaborative film/soundtrack, "Kudzu Vine"[Gibson/Kelley], New York Film Festival
• Works Premiered, Duke University, February 04, 2010
  "Contrafunktus I" [DNME] and Contrafunktus II" [DNME] Performed by the Duke New Music Ensemble

• Mentor, Musical Composition for Jack Kent Cooke Foundation AMP, Providence, RI; Durham, NC, New York, NY, June, 2007 - 2008
  I served as a composition mentor for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Advanced Mentoring Program for highly gifted high school students. I presented an overview of my work in a lecture at Brown University for the program and I worked with my protege, Brian Shoener, on the creation of a new composition, which he will premiere in summer of 2008. We will be in consultation during the course of the year and will meet once in New York City for a face-to face update.

• Presenter and Panelist, Atlanta Symphony and ASO Youth Orchestra Talent Development Program, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, November 01, 2008
  Provided an overview of the presence and purpose of African-Americans in the world of symphony orchestras. After presentation, I received questions with other panelists [Dr. Joyce Johnson, and Cellist Ishmael Akbar]
• Music Recording Session Completed, Zenph Studios, Raleigh, NC, May 28, 2008
  GRIST FOR THE MILL was recorded at Zenph Studios in Raleigh, NC for an upcoming CD (2009) which includes Kelley, Banfield, Undine S. Moore, and TJ Anderson.
• Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Juror, State Funded Awards and Fellowships, Baltimore, MD, January 31, 2008 - February 02, 2008
  Served on a panel of artists in various disciplines to determine arts awards to be presented by the foundation.