Anthony M Kelley
| Title: | Assistant Professor of Music |
| Office Location: | 078 Biddle Music Bldg |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3328 |
| Email Address: | antk@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/~antk/ant_music_folder/ant_music_guide.htm |
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
Incidental Music for Wedekind's SPRING AWAKENING [stage play];, Documentary on THE ALFALFA CLUB
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- 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 (Fall 2008):
- Music 65.001, Theor/prac tonal mus i
- Biddle 104, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
- Music 65.01l, Theor/prac tonal mus i
- Biddle 104, WF 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
- Music 70.01, Music, sound, and style
- Biddle 104, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Recent Professional Work:
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- A.M. Kelley. Soundtrack to "The Doll". Myrmecoid Music, October 18, 2007 . [watch] [abs]
- A.M. Kelley. Conjure Bearden [Musical Suite for Film]. Myrmecoid Music, Spring, 2006 . [mov] [abs]
- A.M. Kelley. Point of Reference. Myrmecoid Music, 2003 . [abs]
Compositions Performed:
- "Words are Fun!" (song for brass and boy choir) Composition Performed, Richmond, VA, February 03, 2007
The Richmond Symphony Brass and the Richmond Boys Choir performed "Words are Fun" [text by NIkki Giovanni as part of a 10-year retrospective of the Meet the Composer New Residencies Partnership and the opening of Nicholas Lewis's Manchester Music Exchange.
Residencies:
- 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.