MATTHEW RUSSELL DURRANT portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, School Of Music
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Creative Research

  • River of No Return (ob/cl/bsn/pno) Premiere - Trio de Bois – Ladies Reeding Society, Brigham Young University – Idaho; Rexburg, Idaho Performance, completed 06/07/2022.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6wxDLyeTOY
  • Sonata for Flute and Piano Society of Composers, Inc. Online National Conference Performance, completed 05/28/2022.
    http://wp.societyofcomposers.org/conferences/2022-...
  • Sonata for Flute and Piano Performances at Flute Day; Indianapolis, Indiana Performance, completed 04/02/2022.
  • Sonata for Flute and Piano Premiere- Stephen F. Austin University; Nacogdoches, Texas Performance, completed 01/20/2022.
    https://www.uvu.edu/philhum/docs/durrant-program.p...
  • Gunnison Island (fixed electronics)- Winner of the 8th Annual Alfred Lambourne Prize (sound category)sponsored by Friends of Great Salt Lake. Competition, completed 11/05/2021.
    https://www.fogsl.org/programs/alfred-lambourne-ar...
  • The Land of Standing Rocks (fl/cl/vln/vlc/pno) Grand Circle New Music; Dixie State University; St. George, Utah Performance, completed 05/11/2018.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_U-zqulCx4
  • Postcards from the Inland Sea (ob/pno) Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Performance, completed 01/07/2017.
    https://archive.org/stream/schoolofmusicpro22017br...
  • Commissioned by DeAunn Davis and Adams Snider to write new work for Horn, Tuba, and Piano. Premiered at University of Nevada-Reno in March of 2016. Commission, completed 03/18/2016.
    https://vimeo.com/167599950
  • The Land of Standing Rocks (fl/cl/vln/vlc/pno) Open Space Festival of New Music; University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado Performance, completed 03/05/2016.
  • Postcards from the Inland Sea (Oboe/Piano) Finalist for 2nd Annual Alfred Lambourne Prize sponsored by Friends of Great Salt Lake. Competition, completed 09/15/2015.
    https://www.fogsl.org/programs/alfred-lambourne-ar...
  • The Land of Standing Rocks (fl/cl/vln/vlc/pno) North/South Consonance – Rumbles of Spring concert; New York City, New York Performance, completed 03/16/2015.
    https://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?...
  • Exhibits for Bassoon and Piano commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Utah. Performed at the Museum for the public. Performance, completed 01/24/2015.
  • The Land of Standing Rocks (fl/cl/vln/vlc/pno) Utah Contemporary Museum of Art; Salt Lake City, Utah Performance, completed 08/09/2014.
  • Quintet No. 2 for Winds Premiere - Midwest Graduate Music Consortium; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Black Marigold Quintet; Madison, Wisconsin Performance, completed 05/17/2014.
  • The Land of Standing Rocks (fl/cl/vln/vlc/pn) TEMPO X; California State University-Northridge – The Epicenter Music Performance Organization; Northridge, California Performance, completed 02/08/2014.
  • Quintet No. 1 for Winds - SCI Region IV Conference; Eastern Kentucky University; Madison Winds; Richmond, Kentucky Performance, completed 10/19/2013.
    http://wp.societyofcomposers.org/conferences/past/...
  • The Land of Standing Rocks (flute/clarinet/violin/cello/piano) - Critical Rediscovery of the Northern Rockies Conference; Montana State University; Bozeman, Montana Performance, completed 10/12/2013.
  • Creations for Trombone Choir - SCI Region VI Conference; West Texas A&M University; Canyon, Texas Performance, completed 10/06/2012.
    https://library.uta.edu/sci/sites/library.uta.edu....

Presentations

  • Artist in Residence - Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. Composed a set of pieces for the park and will perform the works and make a presentation to the public at the park on 9/3/2022. Other, Accepted, 07/01/2021.

Research/Scholarship Projects

  • Inland/Outland Utah. PI: Svavar Jonatansson. Co-PI(s): Devin Maxwell. 01/01/2012 - 08/31/2014.

Languages

  • Tagalog, fluent.

Publications