Dr. Mikel Kuehn, of Bowling Green State University music composition faculty, has received the Barlow
Endowment Commission for Music Composition, one of the leading commissioners of contemporary music in
the United States.
This comes on top of his being named a Guggenheim Fellow last spring, when he also received a 2014 Ohio
Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.   
The Barlow is awarded to six to 10 composers a year. Applicants must identify an ensemble with whom they
would like to work, and that group must agree to perform the composition. Kuehn will compose for the
Spektral Quartet, a string quartet based at the University of Chicago.
Kuehn said of Spektral: "They’re all great and very open-minded and willing to devote themselves to
whatever the composer wants to do. That’s not so easy to find."