Tarleton music professor wins international competition

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Thursday, October 10, 2019

STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton music professor Zvonimir Nagy took first place at the recent Disklavier Composers Contest in Cremona, Italy.

The competition, sponsored by Cremona Musica and Yamaha Music Europe, features entries from composers across the globe.

Contest participants submitted an unreleased piece played live on the Yamaha Disklavier piano that was judged by an international panel of pianists and composers consisting of Paolo Bjonvino, Carlo Boccadoro, Stuart Isacoff, Gwilym Simcock and Fabio Vacchi.

Dr. Nagy is a Croatian-born American composer, music scholar and performer. He was the only composer in the competition from the United States. As one of the five finalists, he was invited to the grand finale in Italy the last weekend in September.

His creative and research work extends into interdisciplinary contexts, forging connections between composition, music theory and musicology, psychology and philosophy, media and technology.

He currently is focused on systematic musicology, in particular on the application of insights from embodied music cognition and the computer sciences of music to the formal study and practice of musical creativity.

Previously, Nagy taught music at Duquesne University, Northwestern University and St. Xavier University in Chicago. He earned a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern, and he also studied music at Texas Christian University and at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, Croatia.

For winning, he received a Yamaha U1 Disklavier Enspire ST piano.

Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today’s scholars into tomorrow’s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.

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