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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • score was recorded in the 2011-2012 academic year by the Oklahoma City University Philharmonic, Benjamin Niles, conducting. Dr. Yeagley is the first American Indian composer to be commissioned to write a full-length movie score. Daughter of Dawn is an action drama, a love story, and a cultural treasure, with an all-Indian cast (Comanche and Kiowa). It was filmed in the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma, the heart of Comanche land. There is a special web site about the movie and the score at daughterofdawn.com. Dr. Yeagley has also recently completed his first symphony (No. 1) The Four Horses of the Apocalypse, a major, four-movement work for large orchestra. This work was in honor of Comanche elder Eva Fawbush Doti. He has also completed a large piano sonata (No. 1) in four movements. In addition, he has written a four-movement duet for clarinet and bass clarinet, Two Crawdads on a Warm, Sunny Afternoon. He has also written a large-scale three-movement violin concerto, and is now working on his Piano Sonata No.2, Rosh Hashanah. The work directly relates to the spiritual significance of the Jewish High Holidays. WEBSITE: Baldeaglefoundation.com JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT • • • • NEWS: Composer of the Month for WFIU Public Media (Indiana ) Jan. 2012. Prizes in first half of 2012: The American Prize in Orchestral Composition 2012 (one of three awarded): CONCERTO 'Solar Traveller' August, 2012; First Prize: Tempus Continuum Ensemble, NY, Doubles (oboe and piano), May, 2012; First Prize : Third Millennium Ensemble (Washington, DC /Baltimore), Serenade (violin, cello, piano), April, 2012. Wizards: Three Magic Masters on the repertoire list for 2012 William Kapell Piano Competition. ETERNAL EVOLUTION Music of Judith Lang Zaimont, CD (Navona), selected for Fanfare magazine 2011 "Want List," Dec., 2011. PREMIERES: Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra 'Solar Traveller,' Great Lakes regional premiere, Timothy Lovelace, piano, University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Craig W Kirchhoff, conductor, Ted Mann Hall, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 9, 2012. Wizards: Three Magic Masters, New York premiere, Young Ah-Tak, piano, Carnegie Hall, NYC, March 8, 2012; also, Chinese premiere, Stanley Wong, piano, Hong Kong City Hall, Nov. 2, 2012. Leda from Jupiter's Moons, Chinese premiere. Stanley Wong, piano. Hong Kong City Hall, May 6, 2012. JoyDance in Spring, World premiere; commissioned by Camerata Bern to Honor its 50th Anniversary, Camerata Bern, chamber orchestra, Geneva Town Hall, Switzerland, July 19, 2012. Sonata, Chicago premiere, Elizabeth Moak, piano, all-Zaimont recital, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, Sept. 6, 2012. String Quartet — The Figure, Massachusetts premiere, Harlem Quartet, Jordan Hall, Boston, Feb. 16, 2012; also, Colorado premiere, Yellow Spring, March 19, 2012. All works cited here published by Subito Music. Corp. PERFORMANCES: All-Zaimont recital: includes Wizards, Jupiter's Moons, zaimont Sonata, Elizabeth Moak, piano. Faculty Artists Series, Marsh Auditorium, University of Southern, Mississippi, Hattiesburg, March 20, 2012. A Calendar Set, Christopher Atzinger, piano, Steinway Series Recital at McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, April 8, 2012. A Calendar Set, Christopher Atzinger, piano, Sagrestia Vault at the Waterfront, Valletta, Malta. April 23, 2012. Israeli Rhapsody, University of Minnesota Concert Band, Jerry Luckhardt, conductor, Ted Mann Hall, Minneapolis, April 9, 2012. Wizards and Jupiter's Moons, Janet Norman, piano., two recitals, Conservatorio in Vina del Mar, Chile, Aug. 2011. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Music: JoyDance in Spring, orchestra with sectional strings soli, Subito Music Corp. The Pure Impure – 3 Abstracts for Piano, Subito Music Corp. Videos: Jazz Waltz (posted July 2012), available on youtube.com . Nocturne – La Fin de siècle available on youtube.com. Temperate, mvt. III of Zones Piano Trio No. 2, available on youtube.com. "Folderol" mvt. 3 of Parallel Play for Saxophone Quartet NEW RECORDINGS: Judith Lang Zaimont Sonata/ A Calendar Set / Nocturne, Christopher Atzinger, piano, NAXOS CD. Art Fire Soul: Piano Works of Judith Lang Zaimont, Elizabeth Moak, piano, 15 complete works, Box set, MSR Classics. composers bureau criteria T he candidate for membership in the SAI Composers Bureau must show a pattern of continued activity as a composer of concert music. In addition, prospective members must meet any one of the following criteria: • Publication by a recognized publisher. • Performance by professionals in a professional concert venue. • Performance by professionals on national radio or TV. Names for possible inclusion together with the composer's credentials should be sent to: Dr. Susan Cohn Lackman 2126 Mohawk Trail, Maitland, FL 32751-3943 EMAIL: slackman@rollins.edu CLICK FOR MORE Sigma Alpha Iota is pleased to provide this resource of information about contemporary American Composers. Our online Composers Bureau contains the previous three years' of composer information from PAN PIPES. Visit the Composers Bureau at www.sai-national.org C oda for C omposers B ureau elcome to the 66th Annual Contemporary American Music Issue and our 64th Annual Composer Update! The National Objectives 2012 – 2015 for Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity state, "We, the members of Sigma Alpha Iota, will advance American composers, especially women, through new commissions, performances of their works, and concert attendance." The Composers Bureau, a project of SAI Philanthropies, Inc., is here to support fulfillment of that objective. A link to the Composers Bureau is on the Sigma Alpha Iota home page: sai-national.org. You can search for information on all the members of the Composers Bureau, not just the ones who sent us an update for publication this year. Many composers have links to their personal websites, and performers can search the website to do research on composers and their works. Use the Composers Bureau as a springboard to support the American composer. And composers – you can update your Composers Bureau listing any time during the year, as well as in response to the annual request for updates sent to all members of the Composers Bureau in early fall. Please make sure we have your correct e-mail and street address so we may send you the update forms, or you can just contact me via e-mail me at slackman@rollins.edu. With best wishes, Susan Cohn Lackman, Ph.D., M.B.A. Director, Sigma Alpha Iota Composers Bureau 34 PAN PIPES WINTER 2013 sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 34 2/12/2013 2:15:48 PM

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