Musical Scores and Performances

Matthew Smiley

Quarantine

Matthew Smiley, a graduate student in CU's School of Music, received an Honorable Mention for his production of a series of solo musical composition on the topic of quarantine, written for friends around the globe.  Each of the 40 compositions were written for the performers, who made their request through social media.  Smiley notes that "Some of the pieces are through composed using traditional notation, some of the pieces involve improvisation, and some of the pieces use non-traditional notation with a combination of text and graphics."

A PDF collection of 44 compositions written during Quarantine is available here. 

Several of these performances are available here:

Jo Asker – Quarantine piece no. 2

Ed Breazeale - Quarantine piece no. 3

Kate Skinner – Quarantine piece no. 23