Baljinder Sekhon, II
February 8, 2010 – 6:09 pm
Baljinder Sekhon, II is an active composer, percussionist and teacher whose works range from ensemble to solo pieces to electronic music. His recent awards include the Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize (2007 and 2009), Audio Inversions Composition Contest, Brian M. Israel Prize, Percussive Arts Society Composition Competition, Belle Gitelman Award, and a Morton Gould Young Composers Award from ASCAP. Baljinder has received fellowships to the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the Eastman School of Music where he has taught in the Eastman Computer Music Center, private Composition Lessons, Orchestration, Electronic Music Engraving, and served as President of the OSSIA New Music Ensemble. His works have received nearly 200 performances around the world and are distributed internationally by Steve Weiss Music (USA), Southern Percussion (UK), and Keyboard Percussion Publications.
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Sekhon: Work Samples
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Red Line’s Doug O’Connor performing Sekhon’s “Gradient” (below)
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Colored Windows, Tempered Rooms for percussion ensemble (below)
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Ancient Dust for Chamber Orchestra (below)
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