Dr. Bruce MacIntyre writes:
This afternoon, at Faculty Day’s Award Ceremony, President Karen Gould announced the following four winners of this year’s Tow Professorships of $25,000 each toward expenses of research and creative work over the next two years, 2013–15:
- Professor. Luigi Bonaffini, Modern Languages and Literatures
- Professor Patricia Cronin, Art
- Associate Professor Jason Eckardt, Conservatory of Music
- Professor Aaron Kozbelt, Psychology
We can certainly be pleased and proud that Jay has won this special award. As I wrote in my nominating letter:
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“Jason has a most viable plan for his Tow Professorship application, one that would definitely help advance his already notable reputation in composition. The Tow support could allow the following tasks: Recording by the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble of five of his compositions; Travel to Paris and Strasbourg for research on contemporary instrumental performance techniques with flutist Mario Caroli and Ensemble Linea (for his new flute concerto); His ongoing scholarly research and empirical testing of accuracy in human realization of complex musical rhythms; Travel to Teatro Manzoni, Milan, to supervise performances of his work for the festival Aperitivo in Concerto.”
