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58th Annual Festival

The ISU School of Music hosted the 58th Annual Contemporary Music Festival on October 23-25, 2024. The festival featured Grammy nominated American composer Shawn Okpebholo whose music has been hailed as "devastatingly beautiful" and "fresh and new and fearless" (Washington Post), "affecting" (New York Times), "lyrical, complex, singular" (The Guardian), "searing" (Chicago Tribune), "dreamy, sensual" (Boston Globe), and "powerful" (BBC Music Magazine). The featured guest performers for the festival were Chicago-based guest chamber ensemble Picosa. Other guests included winners of the Music Now Contest. To see photos from the festival, please visit the CMF 2024 Photo Gallery. 

Activities made possible in part by Arts Illiana and the Indiana Arts Commission, which receives support from the State of Indiana and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

7:30 p.m. Opening Showcase Concert: Faculty and Friends Recital
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Boyce Recital Hall

Thursday, October 24, 2024

9:00 a.m. Session: Principal Guest Composer, Shawn Okpebholo
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 159

10:30 a.m. Concert: ISU Student Performer and Composer Recital
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Boyce Recital Hall

12:05 p.m. Open Rehearsal: Wind Orchestra with Shawn Okbebholo
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 159

2:00 p.m. Session: Panel Discussion with Festival Guests
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 150

3:30 p.m. Open Rehearsal: Guest Chamber Ensemble: Picosa
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Boyce Recital Hall

6:30 p.m. Session: Concert Comments with Picosa
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Boyce Recital Hall

7:30 p.m. Concert: Guest Chamber Ensemble: Picosa
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Boyce Recital Hall

Friday, October 25, 2024

9:00 a.m. Session: Chris Lennard Presents
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 159

10:00 a.m. Session: Music Now Composers
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 159

1:00 p.m. Concert: Music Now Recital
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Boyce Recital Hall

2:00 p.m. Open Rehearsal: University Chorale with Shawn Okbebholo
Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 150

schedule subject to change

Official 2024 Festival Program

Download the 2024 Festival Program (PDF)

Official 2023 Festival Program

Download the 2023 Festival Program (PDF)

Campus Map
ISU Venue/Parking Map

Parking Information
The Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts is located at 300 7th Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809. Guests invited to participate in the festival will receive a free parking pass for the duration of the festival. Please visit the School of Music office at the front entrance of the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts when you arrive to receive your pass.

The closest ISU parking lot to the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts is directly across 7th Street behind the Centenary United Methodist Church. Other ISU parking lots can be found just east of this location on 9th Street. If you don’t have a parking pass, street parking can often be found and there is also a pay parking lot two blocks south of the music building at Wabash Street and 7th Street. All ISU lots are free to the public after 5:00 p.m.

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Links to ISU photo galleries

CMF 2024
CMF 2023
CMF 2022
CMF 2021
CMF 2020

Kurt Fowler, Artistic Director, Music Faculty
Paul Bro, Music Faculty
Grace Coryea, Music Student
Yunjung Lee, Music Faculty
Angela Reynolds, Music Faculty
Eric Scott, Music Faculty