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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • AYALA ASHEROV – KALUS NEWS: Ayala Asherov - Kalus is a recipient of the 2012-2013 South Carolina Film Commission Indie Grants Award for "Pencil Point," an animated short film which she conceived and wrote, and is currently scoring for orchestra. The animators and production team at Out of Our Minds Studio of Winston-Salem, NC are working with Ayala to create the animation for the film. The College of Charleston orchestra under conductor Yuriy Bekker will perform and record the score for "Pencil Point" later this year. In July, 2012, her quintet "Prelude to a Kiss and a Dance" for flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and piano, was performed by the Namaste Ensemble in Citta Di Costello and Rome, Italy. Later this year violinist Rebecca Hunter and pianist Lynn Compass of USC South Carolina will perform Ayala's duo "Sunsets" in a Far East tour featuring American composers. In March, 2013, USC New Music Group CICA will premiere Ayala's "Cycles of the Moon" for solo viola and strings, featuring violist Andrae Raffield. Ayala is currently working on a compilation CD of her original chamber works to be released by Navona Records in 2013. PREMIERES: "Tomorrow Never Came," Janet Hopkins, voice, Robert Jesselson, cello, Rebecca Hunter, violin, Constance Gee, viola, Mix Meter Music Publishing Company, Beth Shalom Synagogue, Columbia, SC, April 9, 2012; also Charleston, SC, April 22, 2012. "Prelude to a Kiss and a Dance," Andrea Biagini, flute, Arianna Tieghi, clarinet Michele Bianchini, saxophone, Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet, Giovanni Sorana, piano, Mix Meter Music Publishing Company, Sala degli Specchi, Circolo degli Illuminati, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 7, 2012; also, Rome, July 11, 2012. "Sunsets," Rebecca Hunter, violin, Lynn Kompass, piano, Mix Meter Music Publishing Company, University School of the Lowcountry, Charleston SC, Nov. 5, 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Tomorrow Never Came, Prelude to a Kiss and a Dance, Sunsets NEW RECORDINGS: Tomorrow Never Came, Prelude to a Kiss and a Dance ELIZABETH R. AUSTIN • NEWS: that I'm one and double too, a full-length opera based on Heinrich von Kleist's The Marquise of O has now been completed in bilingual (German/English) versions. PREMIERES: B-AC-Homage, Laura Krentzmann, viola, Anastasia Seifetnova, piano, Hartford-based new music ensemble 016, Chamber Music by AUSTIN Connecticut Composers, Inc. , The Hartt School, Hartford, CT, May 27, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Mass of Thanksgiving ('We Gather Together'), SATB chorus, Cryder Banks, organ, and optional instruments, Mother's Day/ Women's Mass, St. John's Episcopal Church, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, May 13, 2012. A Child's Garden of Music for solo piano, students of the Portland (ME) Conservatory of Music, Back Cove Contemporary Festival, April 14, 2012. Three Sandburg Songs Erica Maas, soprano, and piano, Christ Church Cathedral and The Hartt School, Hartford, CT, Sept. 8, 2012. WEBSITE: elizabethaustinmusic.com  CAROL BARNETT • • • • NEWS: The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass will be performed at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 18, 2013, by Monroe Crossing and a mass choir conducted by Nancy Menk. PREMIERES: Stars, Stones, Water, barnett Minnesota Boychoir, Mark Johnson, director, Beady Eyes Publishing, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, June 2, 2012. Thelma's Country Garden, Thelma Hunter, piano, Beady Eyes Publishing, 1175 Orchard Place, St. Paul, MN, Aug. 25, 2012. PERFORMANCES: American Kaleidoscope, 9-11 Tribute Orchestra, Manny Laureano, conductor, Alliance Publications, Inc., Lake Harriet Band Shell, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 11, 2011. Tiresias, Michigan Youth Chamber Singers, Eugene Rogers, conductor, Beady Eyes Publishing, Stamps Auditorium – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Nov. 20, 2011. Remember the Ladies, 2011-2012 Minnesota All-State Women's Choir, Sandra Snow, conductor, Boosey & Hawkes, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 18, 2012. Veni Sancte Spiritus, Kantorei, Axel Theimer, director, Roger Dean Publishing Company, Saint Paul Seminary Chapel, St. Paul, MN, May 6, 2012. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, VocalEssence, Monroe Crossing, Philip Brunelle, director, Boosey & Hawkes, Chorus America Conference, Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN, June 14, 2012. JOHN BEALL NEWS: I continue full time teaching at WVU, but, at age 70 now, the end is in sight. PREMIERES: Music for the Burial Service (Book of Common Prayer) Nov. 11, 2011, by the Slippery Rock State University Chamber Singers, Stephen Barr, dir., at St. Thomas á Becket Church, beall Morgantown, WV PERFORMANCES: (All performances at the WVU Creative Arts Center, Morgantown, WV) September Morning: Elegy for 9/11, WVU Music Faculty, Mitchell Arnold, dir. Sept. 11, 2011. Symphony #2 "Spruce Knob," WVU Symphony Orchestra, Mitchell Arnold, dir. Sept. 29, 2011. Hammarskjöld Songs, Nicholas Perna, tenor, Robert Thieme, piano, Oct. 27/11. Rilke Songs, Mandy Spivak, soprano, Robert Thieme, piano, Oct. 27, 2011. Fantasy for Violoncello Alone, William Skidmore, Feb. 17, 2012. RECORDINGS: Quintet for Piano and Strings, West Virginia Piano Quartet, Andrew Kohn, double bass, for release on Parma Recordings in summer 2013. JOHN BECK NEWS: April 10-20 in residence at the Akademia Muzyczna im. Paderewskiego in Poznan, Poland. May 4–5, participating in Percussion Rochester. July 9-13, participating in Eastman School of Music Summer Percussion Institute. August 1626, participating in Miedzynarodowe Forum Perkusji in Zagan, Poland. Sept. 5-13, participating in Giornate beck della Percussinoe, Fermo, Italy. Oct. 31-Nov. 3, participating in Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, Texas. PERFORMANCES: Central Arkansas Percussion Festival, March 9–11, 2012. PUBLICATIONS: Studio Works – snare drum and timpani, Kendor Music, Inc. CHARLES ROLAND BERRY NEWS: During 2012, Charles Roland Berry has licensed music to the following film and TV productions. TV: Lost; Weeds. Film: Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Arthur, Dinner for Schmucks, How To Train Your Dragon. PREMIERES: The following Masonic Lodges have had premieres of solo piano works. These pieces were presented as part of the Lodge rituals, and not to the general public. The works were written to accompany the opening and closing of Lodge, and also for use during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Degree Rituals; Charles Berry, piano: Are All Present Master Masons?" Doric Lodge #92, Fremont, WA, May 1, 2011; Opening the Great Lights, Green Lake Lodge #149, Seattle, berry WA, May 3, 2012; Prayer, Peninsular Lodge #95, Everett, WA, May 10, 2012; Posting the Flag, Lodge #72, Ballard, WA, June 21, 2012; Closing the Great Lights, Daylight Lodge #232, Seattle, WA, Sept. 15, 2012; Journey of Hiram Abif, Occidental Lodge #72, Ballard, WA, June 27, 2012; Circumambulation, Doric Lodge #92, Fremont, WA, June 28, 2011. LAUREN BERNOFSKY NEWS: I was commissioned to set Sylvia Plath's poem, "Morning Song," for soprano, violin, and cello, for a performance at the Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012 held in October at Indiana University. The world premiere performance will take place on October 26 in the IU Cinema. My new children's opera entitled Mooch the Magnificent, on a libretto by Scott Russell Sanders, received its world premiere on August 31. This is a 40-min. opera to be performed for children, and it will receive multiple performances in the 2012-2013 season in south central Indiana by Roundabout Opera for Kids. The singers, costume designer, instrumentalists, and director are full of wonderful ideas and a lot of good humor and charm! My "Salamander Samba" 18 PAN PIPES WINTER 2013 sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 18 2/12/2013 2:15:18 PM

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