Corey Dundee
Corey Dundee is an Ann-Arbor based composer and saxophonist whose work has been described as “trippy dream music” (casual university acquaintance) and “falling down a black rabbit hole” (six-year-old concert-goer in Norfolk, CT). A recipient of Chamber Music America's coveted Classical Commissioning Grant in 2016, Corey was recently named Honorable Mention for MTNA’s 2018 Distinguished Composer of the Year Award, as well as a Finalist for the 2018 Cortona Prize. Corey has undertaken an Artist Residency at the Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, and he has received commissions from saxophonist Timothy McAllister, the Akropolis Reed Quintet, the Michigan Music Teachers Association, the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble, Front Porch, the Spatial Forces Duo, Taos Chamber Music Group, the UNCSAx ensemble, and saxophonist Shawna Pennock. In 2013, Corey was accepted into the Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University composition program, where he studied composition with renowned composer Samuel Adler.
As a performer, Corey is the tenor saxophonist of Kenari Quartet, a First-Place Laureate Ensemble of the inaugural M-Prize Chamber Arts competition and 2018 Protégé Project Artists at the Chamber Music Northwest festival in Portland, OR. Individually, Corey has appeared as featured soloist with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Interlochen Philharmonic, and the UNC School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra. In April of 2012, he performed on stage with singer-songwriter Ben Folds at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for Arts Advocacy Day 2012. Corey can be heard on NPR’s Telarc-label CD titled “From the Top at the Pops,” performing the third movement of Russell Peck’s The Upward Stream concerto with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
Corey is currently a Regents Fellow and Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan, where he is pursuing a DMA degree in Composition under the instruction of Evan Chambers. He previously earned an MM Composition degree from the University of Southern California—where he served as a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate music theory and aural skills classes—and BM degrees in Composition and Saxophone Performance from Indiana University. Corey has studied composition with Kristin Kuster, Bright Sheng, Donald Crockett, Ted Hearne, Samuel Adler, Don Freund, and Claude Baker, and his saxophone instructors have included Otis Murphy, Taimur Sullivan, and Timothy McAllister.