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

Incidental Music for Wedekind's SPRING AWAKENING [stage play];, Documentary on THE ALFALFA CLUB

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• 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 (Fall 2009):

• Theatrst 183b.01, Musical theater: creation Synopsis

  East duke 209, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• Music 70.01, Music, sound, and style Synopsis

  Biddle 101, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• Music 114.001, Theor/prac tonal mus ii Synopsis

  Biddle 104, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• Music 114.01l, Theor/prac tonal mus ii Synopsis

  Biddle 104, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• A.M. Kelley. Incidental Music to the stage production, SPRING AWAKENING. Spring, 2008 .  [abs]
• 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]

• Anthony M. Kelley. "Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Composer with colossal imagination." The News and Observer  (February 11, 2007). [html]  [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.

• "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.

• 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.

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