Alumnus explores depths of new music with current grad student (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Alumnus Aakash Mittal (BM ‘07) has been busy. His album “Nocturne”—released at Dazzle Denver last fall, and on which he’s joined by Rajna Swaminathan on mridangam and Matt Fuller on guitar—has been featured on The New York Times playlist. His awards and honors further include the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, the Herb Albert/ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award and an American Institute of Indian Studies Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship. 

Currently, as a Composer Fellow of the Gabriela Lena Frank* Virtual Artist Partnership Program, the Brooklyn, New York-based alto saxophonist, composer and improviser is collaborating with student MarieFaith Lane—who’s pursuing a master’s in violin performance and pedagogy at the College of Music—on a project blending Hindustani and Western Classical music.

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