New Music Festival, featuring composer David Dzubay.

David Dzubay has received commissions from Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the US-Mexico Fund for Culture, and the Fromm and Barlow foundations, among others. Recent honors include Guggenheim, Bogliasco, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House and Djerassi fellowships, a 2011 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Heckscher Prize the 2015 Sackler Prize and a 2015 Fromm Commission. His music has been performed by orchestras, ensembles and soloists in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia, and is published by Pro Nova Music and recorded on the Sony, Bridge, Centaur, Innova, Naxos, Crystal, Klavier, Gia, and First Edition labels. Currently chair of the Composition Department and Director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay also spent three years as Composer-Consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and one as Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center.

The Cardinal Singers, directed by Dr. Kent Hatteberg, international festival appearances include the U.S./Cuba Choral Symposium in Havana, Cuba in 2012, the Taipei (Taiwan) and Beijing (China) International Choral Festivals in 2010, and the 7th World Symposium on Choral Music in Kyoto, Japan in 2005. They won the Grand Prize at the Yeosu (Korea) International Choir Competition and the Hội An Choir Prize at the 3rd Vietnam International Choir Competition in 2013.

Collegiate Chorale, directed by Dr. Kent Hatteberg, is the premier choral ensemble of the School of Music. The Chorale performed at the 2011 National ACDA Convention in Chicago, in the feature major works concerts at the 2009 ACDA National Convention in Oklahoma City, in the Headliner Concert at the 2008 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Louisville, and at the 2005 ACDA National Convention in Los Angeles. Although the Chorale performs primarily a cappella repertoire, they collaborate regularly with the Louisville Orchestra and Orchestra Kentucky in the performance of major works.