2012 Alumni-Student London Lecture

Prof Kenneth Dye: “Music and the Olympics:  A Soundtrack for Competition, Ceremony, and Celebration.”   

 

Kenneth DyeND Professor of Music and Leader of Bands, Ken Dye, who has just led the band in a St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin will speak here to a student-ND London alumni gathering on the topic of “Music and the Olympics:  A Soundtrack for Competition, Ceremony, and Celebration.”   

 

This event is part of a series that brings together LUP students with ND alumni living in London, most of whom are leading extremely interesting lives in international finance, law, and politics. 

 

Kenneth Dye is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Notre Dame. He is a graduate of the University of Houston, where he holds a Doctorate in Music Education and a MBA in Marketing. He has also earned degrees of Master of Arts in Music from California State University and Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California.

 

As a composer/arranger, Ken Dye serves as a staff writer for several publishers and served as composer/arranger for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Band and pops arranger for the Dallas Symphony. His writing activities have produced over 1200 works for Band and orchestra
performed throughout the U.S. and overseas.

 

The Concert Band has performed Concerts in the Sydney Opera House and for Mozart’s 250th birthday in the Mozarteum, in Salzburg Austria. In 2006 and 2011 the Notre Dame Band performed with the Band “Chicago” at Notre Dame Stadium. The Notre Dame Band has also performed Concerts in the Sydney Opera House, Beijing Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall as well as toured Europe, Asia, and Brazil. For 2012 , the Concert Band will embark on a tour of the “Olympic Capitals of Europe” opening the tour at London's Regent Hall on May 23, 2012.


Dye also serves as a concurrent professor of Computer Applications developing the course“Music through Technology” and also teaches music from a business perspective in a course entitled “The Business of Music”. Most recently Dye’s research has involved the musical history of the Olympics and is incorporated in a new course: “Music and the Olympics: A Soundtrack for Competition, Ceremony, and Celebration”.

Alumni-Student London Lecture previous speakers:

James Turk (2009), Founder & Chairman of GoldMoney
Stryker McGuire (2010), Contributing Editor, Newsweek
Cmdr. Joseph Carrigan (2011), USS Russell

Students and alumni wishing to attend should should email  Christina.Pehlivanos.1@nd.edu to reserve a seat. Please put “Dye Talk” in the subject line.