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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • NEW PUBLICATIONS: Fleeting Moments, piano solo, Subito Music Corp., summer 2012. Shifting Colors, guitar, percussion, contrabass, and piano, written for ZigZag Quartet, Subito Music Corp., Summer 2012. Conversations Continued, alto flute and clarinet, written for Voices of Change, Subito Music Corp., Summer 2012. PAUL SISKIND NEWS: Paul received the St. Lawrence County Arts Council's Arts Recognition Award, in honor of artists who have "made a significant contribution to the arts and cultural life of our region." He also served as an adjudicator for the NAfME Composition Competition (Western Division), as well as continuing to serve on the NYSSMA Composition Committee. PREMIERES: Three Star Songs, Steven Sauter, piano, Canton, NY. PERFORMANCES: Memoriale, Rosewind Duo (Clifford Leaman and Scott Herring), on tours that included Sweden, South Carolina, and New York. Guest composer at Tufts University (Medford, MA), for a concert in honor of his teacher T.J. Anderson. Andere Klaenge, John McDonald, piano, Robert Schulz, percussion, premiere of Suite: 75 for T.J. Trio a3, Lily Jarvis (saxophone), Jason Buckel (tuba), and James Welch (piano), College Music Society's Regional Conference in Fredonia, NY. Etwas fur Bratsche, Schoenberg Variations, and Souvenirs éphémères, Timothy MacDuff, viola, Samuel Whitesell, piano, Hudson Falls, NY. Antiphochrome University of New Mexico Saxophone Ensemble, NASA Biennial Conference, Tempe, AZ. NEW RECORDINGS: Etwas für Bratsche (etwas rasch!), Shelly Tramposh, viola, Cullan Bryant, piano, Parma Recordings. HALIDE K. SMITH • Halide K. Smith composes for: Piano, vocal, instruments, contemporary to classic music. Music written for young and old audiences and performers. JARED SPEARS • • • NEWS: SAI National Arts Associate Jared Spears has received an ASCAP award for the past 32 years. PREMIERES: A Zion Celebration, Zion Lutheran Concert Band, Teresa Thoelke, Director, Zion Lutheran Church, Harvestown, MO, May 8, 2012. PERFORMANCES: Colorado Blue (Ludwig Masters Publications), EKU Wind Symphony, Joseph Allison, conductor, spears Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, Feb. 24, 2012; also, Maryland All-State Symphonic Band, Patric J. Burns, conductor, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, Feb. 26, 2012; also New Jersey City University Symphony of Winds and Percussion, Joseph Allison, conductor, Jersey City, NJ, April 17, 2012 Rondo Capriccioso (C.L. Barnhouse Publications), Temondrea Thuman, euphonium, Martin Kennedy, piano, Webster University School of Music, Webster MO, March 13, 2012. A Time with Nicholas (Grand Mesa Publications), University of Missouri, St. Louis, Wind Ensemble, Gart Brandis, conductor, UMSL, April 22, 2012. PUBLICATIONS: Wind River Reflections, string orch, Kendor Music Publishing Co. Africa!, percussion octet, Kendor. Concerto for Percussion Section and Band, Ludwig Masters. NEW RECORDINGS: Concert for Percussion Section and Band, CD 2012-13 Music for Concert Band, Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Loras John Schissle, conductor, Ludwig Masters Records, Dec. 2, 2012. ROBERT L. STERN PERFORMANCES: Oseh Shalom, Holly Heffelbower, conductor, Chorus of Congregation B'Nai Jeshrun, Lincoln, Nebraska, September, 2012. Music for a midsummer evening, Lynn Klock, saxophone, Laura Klock, horn, stern Estela Olevsky, piano, Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October 9, 2012. NEW RECORDINGS: Shofar, an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra, on Awakenings, Coro Allegro of Boston, David Hodgkins, Artistic Director, Navona Records. NEWS: Recipient of ASCAP award. GREG A STEINKE NEWS: Recipient of an ASCAP PLUS AWARD/ Concert Division. Performance of "... found dreams..." from Moments from White Blowing Daffodil Seeds for Piano Trio as an Honorable Mention winner of Third Angle Ensemble's New Ideas steinke in Music Competition at Lincoln Recital Hall, Portland State University, Portland, OR April 26-27; Ron Blessinger, Violin, Hamilton Cheifetz, Violoncello, Susan Smith, Piano. 2nd place winner in 6th Annual Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers with my Expressions III on Paintings of Klimt for Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, Percussion and Piano on concert at Cullen Hall, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX on May 19. Was a finalist (Orchestra - Professional Division) in the America Prize in Composition competition for 2012 for my All in a Moment's Time for Viola and Orchestra, a 27' work (announced June 10th). Was prize winner in the Delta Omicron Triennial Composition Competition 2012 for French Horn and Piano; see premiere performance listed above, July 27. July 3, 2012 announced as OMTA Composer of the year with a $1,000 commission for new chamber work and performance on June 27-30, 2013 in Bend, OR at state conference. PREMIERES: Please note that all works mentioned are published by Tierra del Mar Music except as noted. Van Gogh Vignettes, Flute and Violoncello, 2012 Madison MI Muse Fest May 5, 12. Rondo Scherzo Fantastique, Globe Saxophone Quartet (Rhett Bender, Sop. Sax; Jennifer Turpen, Alto Sax; J. Scott Turpen, Ten Sax; John Bleuel) World Saxophone Congress XVI, Younger Hall, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, July 11, 2012. Suite in Memory of Chief Joseph, William Sharnberg, French horn, Suzzane Berg, piano, Delta Omicron Conference, Lexington, KY July 27, 2012. Random Blackouts I (Image Music XXIII), Nathan Kondrat, baritone, David Saffert & Rebecca Stager, piano, NACUSA Cascadia Concert "September Celebration!" Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, Portland OR., Sept. 15, 2012. Vexation Variation for Flute, Oboe, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Vibraphone and Double Bass, Vexations Project Concert, Generous Ensemble, Torp Hall, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Sept. 8, 2012. Recitative And Aria: Pena Tiranna from Handel's Amadigi (Arr./Ed. by Steinke), oboe d'amore and piano, Haddock Performance Hall, University of Idaho, Moscow, Sept. 22, 2013. Brief Moment clarinet, a very small consortium ensemble, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Sept. 29, 2013. PERFORMANCES: Inquietude, Celine Thackston, flute, NACUSA Cascadia Concert "Bang On A Canon," Sherman Clay Pianos, Portland, OR, Jan. 21, 2012. A Japanese Folk Suite for Reciter and Flute on Legends, Karen Henry, reciter, Katherine Kleitz, flute, Row Twelve Ensemble in Sharon, MA March 11, 2012. Diversions and Interactions for Percussion Trio, SOU Percussion Ensemble, Terry Longshore, dir., NACUSA-OR Concert, "Living Sound," Southern Oregon University Recital Hall March 13, 2012. In Memoriam - Sacajawea, Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet, To Get To Fresno for soprano, clarinet, piano, Memories of Chief Joseph II, Roger Cole, clarinet, Pamela Bathhurst, soprano, Kay Zavislak, piano, CMS 25th Annual Pacific Northwest Conference, Capilano University, North Vancouver, BC, March 16, 2012. One by One, Justin Lee, flute, Meredith Clark, harp, 10th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music, Trinity Chapel in Berkeley, CA, June 23, 2012. NEW PUBLICATIONS: Rudimentalisis for Solo Percussion, Diversions & Interactions for Percussion Trio, HaMar Percussion Publications. GLORIA SWISHER • • • • • NEWS: Composed a choral work commissioned by the Pasadena Alumnae Chapter for the SAI chapter at Fullerton State University, Evening Solace, SSA and piano or harp, poem by Charlotte Bronte. Completed an opera, The Happy Hypocrite, swisher based on a story by Max 30 PAN PIPES WINTER 2013 sai-national.org winter 13 PP.indd 30 2/12/2013 2:15:42 PM

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