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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • Band, Milwaukee, May 2010. C. M. Von Weber's Rondo from Concerto No. 1, arr. by Gee, Andy Pac, clarinet, Delaware Valley Wind Symphony, Yardley PA, April 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Weber's Rondo from Concerto No 1, band orchestration, Wingert-Jones, publisher. Dixie Fantasy for clarinet, Kendor Music. Mozart, Second Ballade for Flute and Piano and Largo and Rondo from Divertimento 1, K. 229, arrangement for clarinet quartet, Northeastern Music Publications. JULIE GIROUX PREMIERES: K2, The Savage Mountain, Commissioned by the Eastern District of the North Carolina Bandmasters Association, Jason Barclift, President, Russell W. Knight, Commissioning Chair, Jan. 2012. The Speed of Heat, Commissioned by the USAF Academy Band, Lt. Col. Larry H. Lang, Commander-Conductor. Untitled Work, Commissioned by a Consortium Organized by the Western & Northwestern Divisions of the College Band Directors National Association, March 2012. Overture in Five Flat!, Composed for the 2010-2011 Missouri All State Band, sponsored by the Missouri Bandmasters Association in honor of Dr. Lowell Graham. PUBLICATIONS: The Bonsai Tree, Silent Night in Gotham, Christmas & Sousa Forever!, One Life Beautiful, Swashbuckler, Outlander, Overture in Five Flat!, The Speed of Heat, and many of the Concert Band Christmas Gone Crazy Recordings charts. Please email Musica Propria for details on the brand new releases: info@musicapropria.com. The Music of Julie Giroux, recording by the University of Texas, El Paso, Ron Hufstader, conducting; released by Mark Masters 2010. 8724-MCD. Julie Giroux Presents: Concert Band Christmas Gone Crazy, 9417-MCD P 2011, Nov. 2011; also available for download. The Speed of Heat, USAF Academy Band, Colorado Springs. WEBSITE: juliegiroux.www2.50megs.com ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK NEWS: Arthur Gottschalk was asked to present his work for wind ensemble, Amelia, to the Virginia College Band Directors Association Symposium in Feb. 2011. Gottschalk was commissioned by the Rico Reed Company to compose a piece for gottschalk bass clarinet choir, for the International Clarinet Associations's conference in Northridge, California in August. He has also been commissioned by Western Michigan University to compose a new work for trumpet and piano for Sylvia Roederer and Scott Thornburg. And he was awarded the distinguished Bogliasco Fellowship, for work and study at the Bogliasco Foundation's villa in the Italian Riviera, during November and December. PREMIERES: Blackberry Hill Rag, Kenneth Goldsmith, violin, Jo Anne Ritacca, piano, de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2011. Sonata for Horn and Piano, William ver Meulen, horn, Brian Connelly, piano, Rice University, Houston, TX, Jan. 2011. Arecibo, electroacoustic sounds, Arts Now Series, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, March 2011. Liszt Connections, Shiau-uen Ding, piano, Vox Novus "Composers Voice" Series, Jan Hus Church, New York, NY, March 2011. American Nights, Andrew Streitelmeier, violin, Paula Brusky, bassoon, Cole Burger, piano, International Double Reed Society International Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, June 2011. The Kaleidoscopic Pocket Hockets Boogaloo, The Rico Reeds International Bass Clarinet All-Stars, International Clarinet Association International Conference, University of California, Northridge, Aug. 2011. PERFORMANCES: Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano, Andrew Morrow, bass clarinet, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 2011. American Nights, Paul Roby, violin, Lecolion Washington, bassoon, Lois Hobbs Yu, piano, PRIZM Ensemble Chamber Music Festival, Memphis, TN, June 2011. Sonata for Alto Saxophone, Mario Ciaccio, alto saxophone, Simone Miotto, piano, Italian-American Cultural Center, Houston, TX, April 2011. The Blackberry Hill Rag, Seamus Dewsnap, violin, François Killian, piano, Astona International Gala Concert, Aula Hall, Zugerburg, Switzerland, Aug. 2011. The Kaleidoscopic Pocket Hockets Boogaloo, The Rico Reeds International Bass Clarinet All-Stars, Pedro Rubio, director, European Clarinet Conference, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: American Nights, violin, bassoon, piano, TrevCo Music. The Kaleidoscopic Pocket Hockets Boogaloo, bass clarinet choir, Potenza Music. RECORDINGS:Whack!, Shepherd Percussion Ensemble, Richard Brown, director, Contemporary Art Music in Texas, 2011, Stephen F. Austin State University Press ISBN-10: 1-93620515-7. Heavy Metal, Shepherd Brass Quintet, Millennial Masters II, Ablaze Records. American Nights, Wen-Lei Gu, violin, Paula Brusky, bassoon, Kay Kim, piano, Bassoon and Friends, MSR Classics MS 1367. Recuerdos de Mexico, Merrie Siegel, flute, Milton Laufer, piano, Flute Music of the Americas, Vol. II, Beauport Classical. WEBSITE: ruf.rice.edu/~gottsch/functional/ BioPage.html DONALD HARRIS NEWS: On the occasion of his eightieth birthday and retirement from the full-time faculty, Harris was the featured composer at the 2011 Ohio State University Contemporary Music Festival. In addition to a concert featuring six of his compositions, the Festival showcased the premiere of a 50-minute documentary film, Sonata 1957, about a piece that Harris composed in Paris as a young man. In June, Harris was honored with the OSU School of Music's Distinguished Service Award "in recognition of the trailblazing contributions and the dedicated service provided to the music profession and the arts community as a composer, professor, and arts administrator." PREMIERES: A Letter from Home (Mary Oliver) for two soprano voices, flute, viola, harp, Lucy Shelton. Christine Shumway Mortine, sopranos, COSMOS (Katherine Borst Jones, flute; Mary E. M. Harris, viola; Jeanne Norton, harp), Ohio State University Contemporary Music Festival, Weigel Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio, April 2011. Symphony #2, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor, Ohio Theatre, Columbus, Ohio; co-commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, April 2012. PERFORMANCES: Five Tempi (LUDUS III), Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman, conductor, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA, Nov. 2010. Lyric Fanfare, OSU Symphony Orchestra, Marshall Haddock, conductor, Contemporary Music Festival, Ohio State University, April 2011. Pierrot Lieder, Lucy Shelton, soprano, OSU ensemble, Russel Mikkelson, conductor, Contemporary Music Festival, Ohio State University, April 2011. String Quartet #1, High Street Four, Contemporary Music Festival, Ohio State University, April 2011. Piano Sonata 1957, Daniel Beliavsky, pianist, Nicholas Roerich Museum, NYC, May 2011. A. OSCAR HAUGLAND PERFORMANCES: O Sacred Head Now Wounded, Jan Palmer, organ, Westminster Presbyterian Church, DeKalb, IL, April 2011. This is the Day, First Congregational United Church of Christ Choir, DeKalb, Sept. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: All published by HOA Music: Scherzo for Violin and Piano; Theme and Variations for Flute and Piano; Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano. JENNIFER HIGDON • NEWS: Higdon has been named the recipient of the 2012 A.I. du Pont Award, an award given annually by the Delaware Symphony to living composers for their outstanding contributions to contemporary classical music. Dr. Higdon higdon currently holds the Milton L. Rock Chair in Composition Studies at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published exclusively by Lawdon Press. Santa Fe Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia, commission for an opera based on best-selling novel Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier; with Gene Scheer, librettist. The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc., commission to write new work for the Cypress String Quartet, plus soprano voice, text based on poems by W. S. Merwin. RECORDINGS: Echo Dash, Hilary Hahn, "In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores," 2012-13 season. On the Death of the Righteous, premiere recording, on "Metamorphosis," Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Alan Harler, director, on Innova, March 2012. World premiere of All things Majestic, Grant Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, director; in both audio and visual formats via gtmf.org. WEBSITE: http://jenniferhigdon.com JACKSON HILL NEWS: Jackson Hill's El Duelo (The Mourning), a commission from Paris-based countertenor Ryland Angel for a work for solo voice and string quartet will be premiered and recorded early in 2012. He is at work on a collaboration with five Yaddo writers' colony poets for premiere in 2012. Hill's Ma fin est mon commencement is currently being toured by the ensemble New York Polyphony and is scheduled for recording by BIS records in Sweden. PREMIERES: The Silent Ground, Roderick Williams, baritone, Christopher Glynn, piano, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland, May 2011; BBC Radio 3 sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 29