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Anthony M Kelley
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Music
- Arts of the Moving Image, Program in
- 078 Biddle Music Building
- Campus Box 90665
- Phone: (919) 660-3328
- Fax: (919) 660-3301
- Homepage
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Specialties
- Composition
- Music Theory
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Research Summary
Post-19th Century Composition, African-American Music Making, Performance, New Blues, and Improvisation, Film Music, Documentary Film/Video/Music -
Research Description
B.A. and A.M., Duke University, 1991. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Anthony Kelley joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. He received his B.A. and A.M. from Duke University in 1991. In 1999, Richmond Symphony premiered his piano concerto, "Africamerica," with soloist Donal Fox. In 1998, The American Composers Orchestra gave the premier performance of a commissioned work, "The Breaks," under the direction of Gerard Schwartz. The Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, North Carolina, Oakland East Bay, Marin (CA) and San Antonio symphony orchestras have also performed Kelley’s music. Among his awards and honors are the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters, and composition fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. His recent work, such as his soundtracks to the H. Lee Waters/Tom Whiteside film "Conjuring Bearden" [2006] and Dante James's film, "The Doll" [2007], explores music as linked with other media, arts, and sociological phenomena. He is a performer in and co-director of the improvisational Postmodern New-Blues musical collective called the BLAK Ensemble. -
Current Projects
Improvisation and Performance in revised "Africamerica" Piano Concerto, Recording and Performance of New Blues with BLAK Ensemble, Recording Release of "Grist for the Mill", by Mallarme Chamber Players , Documentary on THE ALFALFA CLUB -
Areas of Interest
African-American music making
New Blues
Improvisation
Documentary Film
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Education
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- PhD,
- University of California, Berkeley,
- 2001
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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- Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award,
- Duke University Alumni Association,
- October, 2011
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- 2008 Director's Choice Third Place Award,
- 28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ,
- July, 2008
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- Aaron Copland Foundation Recording Project,
- Mallarme Chamber Players,
- September, 2007
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- Selection for Presentation, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 2007,
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival,
- April, 2007
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- Henry Schuman Prize for Musical Composition,
- Duke University Music Department,
- 1987
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- Recipient, Mary Duke Biddle Scholarship for Musical Composition,
- Duke University,
- 1986-1987
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Recent Publications
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- (May, 2011).
- Soundtrack to "Kudzu Vine" [Documentary].
- [web]
Publication Description
Electronic musical work to accompany the documentary by filmmaker Josh Gibson.
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- (2011).
- "Kudzu Vine Suite".
Publication Description
Compositional audio montage, expanded from music in the soundtrack to Gibson's "Kudzu Vine".
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- (2010).
- "Grist for the Mill".
- [web]
Publication Description
Composition for mixed chamber ensemble, recorded for Albany Records by The Mallarme Chamber Players.
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- (2009).
- Contra-Funkti, 1-6.
Publication Description
New approach to open improvisation, requiring close listening and response to polyphonic textures.
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- (Spring, 2008).
- Incidental Music to the stage production, SPRING AWAKENING.
Publication Description
This music provides transition and background scoring for the Duke Department of Theater Studies production of SPRING AWAKENING, Spring, 2008.
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PhD Students
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Paul Swartzel
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David K. Garner
- August 01, 2008 - present
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Paul Swartzel
- August 01, 2006 - present
- Status: PostQual
- Thesis: T.B.D.
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