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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • January and February, 2013. He will complete a set of Preludes for piano in consultation with Londonbased pianist Martin Jones who plans to record the pieces in April, 2013 for commercial release later in the year. Mahin has been the faculty advisor for the Iota Epsilon chapter of SAI since 2001. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Mahin has released an electronic book on the Apple iTunes store titled I Love Music: a Short Course in the Appreciation of Music. This iBook contains over 100 pages of text, over 50 audio examples and numerous links to online video content. Music comes to life through the music of Bach, Beethoven, Copland, to name a few. Musical scores accompany narrated audio examples walking the reader through the concepts of theme, transition, musical form, and musical texture. Instruction in basic music composition is also covered. NEW RECORDINGS: New recordings of performances by the Glasgow-based "Scottish Voices" on the Parma Ravello label will be released in early 2013. This CD includes 4 works for the vocal ensemble plus harp on poetry by Robert Penn Warren and Walt Whitman. A free iPad application containing printable study scores, photos and notes will also be available on the Apple iTunes store. KIRKE MECHEM • • • NEWS: Kirke Mechem was award an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by the University of Kansas, May 13, 2012. He was a panelist for the 2012 annual conventions of Chorus America and National College Choral Organization. The 8th doctoral dissertation on aspects of KM's choral music was published May, 2011 by Russell Thorngate, Ball State University: The Choral Cycle, A Conductor's Guide. PREMIERES: We Can Sing That! text by KM, for treble voices, a cappella, commissioned by the Orange County Women's Chorus, Eliza Rubenstein, director, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach, CA, Dec. 8-9, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Songs mechem of The Slave: Suite from the opera John Brown, Albany Pro Musica, Chorus & Orchestra, June 9, 2012. Tartuffe, opera in 3 acts, University of Kansas, January 25-27, 2013. The Rivals, (Scenes), Portland State University for National Opera Association convention, Jan. 4, 2013. Daybreak in Alabama, soloist and SSAA choir, unaccompanied, and Sing All Ye Joyful for SSAA choir and piano, 18 choruses from 11 countries in final concert of Golden Gate International Choral Festival, Berkeley, CA., Robert Geary, artistic director. Seven Joys of Christmas, chorus and orchestra (or harp), hundreds of performances in Dec., 2012. Blow Ye The Trumpet, chorus with piano or orchestra, hundreds of performances in US, Canada, Haiti, Korea, Switzerland, Wales. RECORDINGS: The Winged Joy (7 titles) SSAA and piano, Milwaukee Chamber Singers, Sharon Hansen, conductor. Four Songs for Baritone (4 titles) and From the Heartland (4 titles), song cycles for baritone and piano, sung by Robert Peavler with pianist Arlene Shrut, on Albany CD From The Heartland. WEBSITE: kirkemechem.com. MARGARET SHELTON MEIER NEWS: My recorded music is being streamed by Radio ArtsIndonesia regularly and I was featured as their "Artist of the Week" in July, 2012. Radio ArtsIndonesia is a station that broadcasts classical music 24/7 and has a commitment to dedicating a percentage of their air time to the music of women composers. In May I composed piano meier pieces for a dozen of my students using the letters of their names as themes. The students and I performed them in a June recital. PREMIERES: Two Legacies, Carol Stephenson, soprano, Maggie Worsley, clarinet, Masako Okamura Klassen, piano, Feddersen Recital Hall, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA, Oct. 26, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Brief Words from Emily, Carol Stephenson, soprano, Maggie Worsley, clarinet, Masako Okamura Klassen, piano, Feddersen Recital Hall, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA, Oct. 26, 2012. Night Thoughts, Kyle Champion, cello, Agatha Hou, piano, Morning in the Garden, Fountains Water the Garden, Kevin Hou, piano, Trinity Methodist Church, Pomona, CA, Jan. 24, 2012. Romantic Passacaglia on a Twelve Tone Theme, Frances Nobert, organist, Pasadena Presbyterian Church Friends of Music series, Pasadena, CA, Jan. 21, 2012; also, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Tribute Concert for T.H. Russell, May 5, 2012. NEW RECORDINGS: Romantic Passacaglia on a Twelve Tone Theme, Althea Waites, pianist, on Celebration – Music of American Composers, released by Kuumba Music, October, 2012. ANN MILLIKAN NEWS: Commissioned by Pat O'Keefe, new work for bass clarinet and piano, premiere and recording in 2013. Abstrações premiered by ABSTRAI ensemble, August 3, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MN State Arts Board 2011 Artist Initiative Grant for Swede Hollow opera (music & libretto), premiered June 2, 2012, Art In The Hollow Festival. Ballad Nocturne performed in millikan Festival Silenzio! April 27, 2012 – featuring music by Daugherty, Cage, Millikan, Feldman and Philip Glass – Bari, Italy. Xingu, scored for solo cello, I shot video in July, 2011 on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, available on YouTube. 2011 HOUSE OF MIRRORS Concert Series at the old Hamms Brewery in Saint Paul, my Community Outreach Project as a 2010 McKnight Composer Fellow. September, 2012 features: NewMusicBox "Cover", "Composers of the Month" on Pytheus Center for Contemporary Music, and "Gallery 16" of the online journal AlteredScale. PREMIERES: Abstrações, ABSTRAI ensemble, Salão Leopoldo Miguez, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012. Swede Hollow, opera, Mankato Symphony Orchestra, Swede Hollow Park, Saint Paul, MN, 2012. Dakota Land, Mankato Symphony Orchestra, Swede Hollow Park, Saint Paul, MN, 2012. Thunder Woman, Manitou Project, Teatro Kismet OperA, Bari, Italy, 2011, House of Mirrors IV: Trumpet, Geoff Senn; House of Mirrors V: Tuba, Stefan Kac; House of Mirrors VI: Violin, Kathryn Bennett; House of Mirrors VII: Soprano, Maria Jette, Hamms Brewery, Saint Paul, MN, 2011. House of Mirrors VIII: Ensemble 1, M. Jette, K. Bennett, Pat O'Keefe; House of Mirrors VIII: Ensemble 2, G. Senn, S. Fultz, S. Kac; House of Mirrors VIII: Ensemble 3, G. Senn, P. O'Keefe, S. Fultz, S. Kac, Saint Paul, MN, 2011 PERFORMANCES: Mezzo Aria from Swede Hollow, Opera on Tap, Honey, Minneapolis, MN, 2012. Ballad Nocturne, Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari, Emanuele Arciuli, piano, Carlo Boccadoro, conductor, Festival "Silenzio!", Bari, Italy, 2012. Cantando para a Onça, Zeitgeist, Studio Z, Saint Paul, MN, 2011. Kuiper Belt Wamfle, Zeitgeist, Studio Z, Saint Paul, MN, 2011. NEW RECORDINGS: Kuiper Belt Wamfle, Zeitgeist, Here and Now: Celebrating 30 Years of Zeitgeist, Innova 799, 2011 ALICE A. MOERK • NEWS: Speaker, National Novel Month, Bradenton FL Public Library, Nov. 3, 2012. The Piper of T'p's'l (novel), 1st place in fiction, Florida State National League of American Pen Women. Ain's Song, Eudora Welty Award, National League of American Pen Women moerk National Conference. PREMIERES: A Mountain Mother Goose, operetta for young audiences, Town and Gown Youth Company, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV, June 7-10, 2012. Inside Outside Clyde, melodrama for narrator, oboe & piano. Stephanie Daige, oboe, Ronni Miller, narrator (and lyricist), Alice Moerk, piano, NLAPW musicale, Sarasota FL, Feb. 3, 2013. PERFORMANCES: Muse for oboe, Karen Birch Blundell, oboe, NYC/SAI Alumnae musicale, Feb. 2012. Magnificat for voice and piano, Carole Cornman Fetterman, soprano, Thom Tenny, piano, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Holmes Beach, FL. March 25, 2012. Various piano works, Alice Moerk, piano, NLAPW Art Exhibit, Venice, FL, Dec. 14, 2012. A Mountain Mother Goose, excerpts, NLAPW Musicale, Sarasota, FL. Feb. 13, 2013 NEW PUBLICATIONS: The Bag Ladye's Tayle (novel), Peppertree Press, 2012. sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 27 WINTER 2013 PAN PIPES 27 2/12/2013 2:15:35 PM

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