The UVA Department of Music is pleased to present a colloquium with artist alvin hill on Friday, April 17th at 3:30pm in Room 107 of Old Cabell Hall. This event is free to attend but has limited capacity due to classroom size.
alvin hill is a technology based artist whose work combines projection, light, modular synthesis, and LEGO bricks. He has performed as a DJ, electronic music composer, and multimedia artist for over thirty years, in addition to extensive work in arts education and youth development. alvin has composed and performed with dance companies such as Arachne Aerial Arts, Brown Dance Project, Chavasse Dance and Performance, and Koichi Tamano & Harupin-Ha, including performances at the Alvin Ailey Theater, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. His installations have been featured at the Smithsonian, Tübingen's Kultur Nacht festival, and UMMA.
alvin hill will also be performing with Ted Coffey and others in the Composition & Computer Technologies community on Thursday, April 16th at a time and place to be announced soon. Stay tuned!
The Music Department Colloquium Series is free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Invited speakers have represented a broad range of backgrounds and interests. We have enjoyed visits by Ann Cooper Albright, Milton Babbitt, Scott Burnham, Mark Butler, Suzanne Cusick, Walter Frisch, Kyle Gann, John Gibson, Katherine Hagedorn, Berthold Hoeckner, Melissa Hui, Elisabeth Le Guin, Susan McClary, Louise Meintjes, Roger Parker, Lara Pellegrinelli, Douglas Irving Repetto, Deidre Sklar, Robynn Stilwell, Troika Ranch (a digital dance theater company), Dan Trueman, Gayle Wald, Kendall Walton, James Webster, and Deborah Wong, among many others.
Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA's historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda. For parking options, please visit our Directions and Parking page.
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