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Anthony M. Kelley

Professor of the Practice of Music
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
078 Biddle Music Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions


Black Improvisational Music's Sonic Sanctuaries: Contrasting Approaches to Time, Space, and Structure · October 17, 2012 Lecture Yale Institute of Sacred Music [New Haven, CT]
Composer Session:“Videmus @ 25: Reflecting on the Past … Reaching Toward the Future” · March 24, 2012 Lecture Hill Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
TAKING NOTES: A COMPOSER LISTENS TO THE ART OF MUSICAL DERIVATION AND (In)APPROPRIATE APPROPRIATION · February 2, 2012 Lecture Duke Law School
“Instantaneous Infinity…or, Thinking Beyond the Page in Musical and Human Connection and Communication” · October 11, 2011 Lecture Page Auditorim, Duke University
Kudzu Vine Suite - New York Film Festival · October 9, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance New York, NY New York City Screening of collaborative film/soundtrack, "Kudzu Vine"[Gibson/Kelley], New York Film Festival
Soundtrack to "Kudzu Vine" - New York Film Festival · October 9, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance New York, NY Premiere [NYC]. New York City Screening of collaborative film/soundtrack, "Kudzu Vine"[Gibson/Kelley]
Can American Music Be Classical? · December 6, 2010 Lecture Bishop's House, East Campus, Duke Univeristy
Anthony Kelley: Performances, 2009 - 2010 - Duke Children's Hospital "Teddy Bear Ball" Fundraiser · December 4, 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Durham Marriott Convention Center, Durham NC Pianist, John Brown Big Band
Anthony Kelley: Performances, 2009 - 2010 - Performances · November 16, 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Bone Hall [Duke University] Leadership Education at Duke Divinity Performance/Lectures on New Blues Improvisation Practice and Philosophy [ with guests, Nicholas Lewis, Clarinet, and John Brown, Bass] November 16, 2010
Mozart and the NY Philharmonic [Concert Preparation] · November 15, 2010 Lecture Kimmel Center, New York University
Musical Choice and Consequence · September 10, 2010 Lecture Pegram Dormitory, Duke East Campus
Anthony Kelley: Performances, 2009 - 2010 - Performances · August 24, 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Nelson Music Room [Duke University] Leadership Education at Duke Divinity Performance/Lectures on New Blues Improvisation Practice and Philosophy [ with guests, Reginald Patterson, Violin, Nicholas Lewis, Clarinet, and John Brown, Bass]
Anthony Kelley: Performances, 2009 - 2010 - Solo Performances. Friends of the Library Annual Dinner. · May 5, 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Doris Duke Center Performance and Improvisation based on material in the Duke Jazz Archive for Friends of the Library Annual Dinner, Doris Duke Center, May 5, 2010 [Some works also performed with vocalist, Lois Deloatch]
Contra-Funkti · February 4, 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University Premiere. "Contrafunktus I" [DNME] and Contrafunktus II" [DNME]. Performed by the Duke New Music Ensemble
Africamerica--Sound Images for Piano and Orchestra · November 7, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Hickory, NC AFRICAMERICA. performed by the Western Piedmont Symphony. Performed and improvised the solo piano part with an orchestra in my concerto, AFRICAMERICA, with John Gordon Ross conducting. Review is here: http://www.CVNC.org/reviews/2009/112009/WesternPiedmon
Symphonic Subversion and Paradox in Ives and Beethoven: A Creative Listening Primer for The New York Philharmonic Concert · September 29, 2009 Lecture Kimmel Center, New York University [for Duke in NY, Fall, 2009]
Fin de siècle Opulent Spontaneity, Prudent Rationalism, and the Euro-American Urban Divide in the Music of Gustav Mahler and Jacky Terrasson · June 22, 2009 Lecture Kimmel Center, New York University [for Duke in NY, Summer, 2009]
Africamerica--Sound Images for Piano and Orchestra · March 4, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University Africamerica. Performed as guest piano soloist/improvising musical artist in original piano concerto: World Premiere of Revised, Enhanced Orchestral Edition http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2009/032009/DukeSymph.html
Jazz, Classical, and the Process of Sonic Documentary · November 18, 2008 Lecture Kimmel Center, New York University [New York, NY]
GRIST FOR THE MILL - Mallarme Chamber Players performed GRIST FOR THE MILL [originally commissioned for them] · May 21, 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Carol Woods Retirement Community Chamber Music Performance. Mallarme Chamber Players performed GRIST FOR THE MILL [originally commissioned for them].
Incidental Music to the stage production, SPRING AWAKENING (Wedekind) - SPRING AWAKENING · March 29, 2008 - April 13, 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance theatrical production of SPRING AWAKENING, by Duke Department of Theater Studies
Words are Fun! · February 3, 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Richmond, VA The Richmond Symphony Brass and the Richmond Boys Choir performed "Words are Fun" [text by NIkki Giovanni as part of a 10-year retrospective of the Meet the Composer New Residencies Partnership and the opening of Nicholas Lewis's Manchester Music Exchange
Conjure Bearden [Musical Suite for Film] - Romare Bearden exhibition · 2006 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke's Nasher Museum of Art
GRIST FOR THE MILL - Grist for the Mill · September 25, 2005 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC Chamber Music Performance. GRIST FOR THE MILL, a work for flute, clarinet, cello, and percussion, received a premiere performance at Durham's Hayti Heritage Center
Sidelines · November 1, 2002 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Reynolds Theater, Duke University premiere performance by the Ciompi String Quartet
The Breaks · March 2000 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance CA Scheduled for performance by the Oakland East Bay Symphony (CA), (Michael Morgan, conductor)
The Breaks - Gateways Music Festival · August 1999 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance The Breaks. Performed at the Eastman School of Music's "Gateways Music Festival" (Kay George Roberts, conductor)
Africamerica--Sound Images for Piano and Orchestra - Unnamed event · 1999 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance World Premiere performed by pianist Donal Fox and the Richmond Symphony (George Manahan, conductor)
The Breaks · 1998 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall premiere. Gerard Schwarz, conductor

Service to the Profession


Participant, Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism · January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement
Member : NC Arts Council Showcase Selection Panel · July 27, 2011 Other Raleigh, NC
Consultant : Duke In New York Planning Committee · January 1, 2011 Consulting Duke University Dept. of Music
Reviewer : Outside referee for various publishers · September 20, 2010 Editorial Activities Durham, NC [publisher in Champaign, IL]
Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (PennPAT) Artist Roster Comittee Panelist : Reviewer, Grant applications for Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation · July 29, 2010 Other Philadelphia, PA
Selection Panelist : NC Arts Council/NC Presenters Consortium ArtsMarket Selection Panelist, 2009 · August 11, 2009 Other High Point, NC
Panelist, Reviewer, Phases I and II : Application Review Committee, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Review Panel · May 14, 2008 - May 16, 2008 Other Lansdowne, VA