Music

Omri Shimron, assistant professor of music, was invited to present a lecture-demonstration at the Chautauqua Institution's Piano Department on July 26.

Todd Coleman, associate professor of music and coordinator of music technology, spent the first week of August adjudicating scores and recordings entered in the Barlow Endowment's international music composition prize - a $12,000 commission to compose a major new work for woodwind quintet.

Thomas Erdmann, professor of music, was asked to part of the 2012 International Trumpet Guild Recording Project.

Members of the Elon University community participated in the Greensboro (N.C.) 48 Hour Film Project. Participants met June 24 at 7:30 p.m. to draw a genre out of a hat. They were given a character, prop and line of dialogue to incorporate into the 4-7 minute film. The creative team then met to brainstorm script ideas.

Matthew Buckmaster, assistant professor of music and education, was recently elected the chair-elect of the North Carolina Music Educators Association Higher Education division.