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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • RECORDINGS: Three Rivers, trio for clarinet, viola and piano, on the CD Claviatures, Navona Records. WEBSITE: AyalaAsherov.com ELIZABETH R. AUSTIN • PREMIERES: Wachet auf...der Morgenstern (2006) for organ solo, Barbara Harbach, organ; New York Women Composers, March 2011. PERFORMANCES: Frauenliebe und –leben for soprano & piano; Portland, ME, Conservatory Festival; Chandler Thompson, voice, Elizabeth R. Austin, piano, April 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Chapter on Elizabeth AUSTIN Austin's music included in Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers, Michael K. Slayton, editor, Scarecrow Press, 2010. Austin's music featured in SCOPE Magazine, Winter11, scope-mag.com. WEBSITE: elizabethaustinmusic.com CAROL BARNETT • • • • NEWS: The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass continues to be performed, this year in Minneapolis, MN; South Portland, ME; Austin, TX; and Hochdorf, Switzerland. PREMIERES: Remember the Ladies, Aug. 2011, BARNETT Minnesota All-State Women's Choir, Sandra Snow, director, Boe Memorial Chapel, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. Bega, Nov. 2011, Ithaca College Choir, Larry Doebler, director, Ford Hall, Ithaca, NY. PERFORMANCES: Sonata for Horn and Piano, Sept. 2010, Herb Winslow, horn, John Jensen, piano, MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, MN. Among Friends, Nov. 2 010, Music St. Croix, Washington County Historic Courthouse, Stillwater, MN. Cyprian Suite, Oct. 2010, University of Massachusetts Symphony Band, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. Dance of Zalongo, Jan. 2011, Wisconsin Choral Directors Association All-State Collegiate Choir, St. Francis Xavier Cathdral, Green Bay, WI. My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, March 2011, Kantorei, Richard Larson, director, American Choral Directors Association National Convention, Chicago, IL RECORDINGS: Z=30: Schumann's Excellent Extension, on "Here and Now: Celebrating Thirty Years of Zeitgeist" (INNOVA 799) WEBSITE: carolbarnett.net JOHN BECK NEWS: In residence at University of Alabama School of Music, giving master classes, teaching and performing; the entire percussion was devoted to music of John Beck, March 2011. Attended the International Forum Perkusji in Zagan, Poland, as teacher, clinician, and performer. Attended Giornate della Percussione (Days of Percussion), Fermo, Italy, as judge, clinician, and performer, Sept. 2011. 24 PAN PIPES WINTER 2012 sai-national.org PUBLICATIONS: A Few Moments of Fun, Multiple Percussion Duet, Kendor Music. ELIZABETH R. BEESON • NEWS: During the past year Elizabeth Beeson gave classical piano concerts in Houston and Huntsville, TX. Additionally, she performed a concert of sacred organ music, as well as giving piano concerts featuring beeson folk, classical, and entertainment styles. Beeson has given presentations on Romantic Vocal Music, and lectured on English Folk Song and English Opera. She also lectured on Performance Practices in Sacred Worship. Published articles this season include George Frederick Händel; Music Highlights Worship; Meditative Music in Chant, Oratorio, and English Anthem. PERFORMANCES: In Green Meadows, composer at the piano, University Place, Houston, TX, Feb. 2011. Praise Ye the Lord and Lord, Hear My Prayer, composer at the organ, Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church, Houston, March 2011. Chorale, composer at the organ, Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church, Houston, April 2011. Journey Through the Darkness, composer at the piano, Vosswood Nursing Center, Houston, Aug. 2011. LAUREN BERNOFSKY NEWS: I have been commissioned by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington (IN) to write a children's musical on several creation stories, on a libretto by Stephen Hammoor. The musical is entitled "BOOM" and is slated to be premiered, Spring 2012. I have also received a commission from Kim Carballo (Indiana University) to compose a short opera to be taken on tour by students at Indiana U. as part of a program that brings operas into area schools, libraries, and hospitals. The librettist for this opera is Scott Russell Sanders, who will base the libretto on his novel, "The Engineer of Beasts." PREMIERES: Among All Creatures, Daniel Neer, baritone, Alyssa Reit, harp, The Tank, NYC, April 2011. The Salamander Samba, Julia Irmscher, violin, Nicholas Dold, piano, Kids' Talent Show, Unitarian Universalist Church, Bloomington, IN, May 2011. PERFORMANCES: The Tiger, Intergenerational Honor Choir, Mary Goetze, director, ACDA-PA Summer Conference, Penn State University, Aug. 2011. The Castle-Builder, Aja Gianola-Norris, alto, Daniel GianolaNorris, cornet, Ed Goldfarb, piano, CD Release Concert, Ner Shalom, Cotati, CA, Aug. 2011. Trio for Brass, Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Delray Beach, FL, July 2011. House of Untold Horrors, Old Bridge Chamber Orchestra, Dana McCarthy, director, Milk and Cookies Family Concert, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Woodbridge, VA, June 2011. Fantasia and Scherzo, Advanced Cello Ensemble, Benjamin BERNOSFKY C. Myers, director, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD, May 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Concerto for Trumpet, Balquhidder Music. A Minor Case of the Birthday Blues and Fantasy on 'Oh, Chaunkah', FJH Music Co. Dinosaur Damage, Grand Mesa Music. RECORDINGS: The Castle-Builder and Of Molluscs, on "Food of Love, Music to My Ears." Trio for Brass, on "University of Maryland Brass Trio," Albany Records. WEBSITE: laurenbernofsky.com ALLAN BLANK • • • PERFORMANCES: Introduction, Five Poems, Interludes and Conclusion, Jennifer Miller, soprano, Andrew Kohn, String Bass, Robert Frankenberry, piano, Shenandoah Conservatory, Sept. 2010. Becoming: A Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, David Niethamer, clarinet, Neal Cary, cello, John Walter, piano, Richmond Chamber Players, Aug. 2011. Three Songs for Children's Chorus and Piano, All-County Elementary Chorus, Tuscarora High School, VA, May 2011. Nocturn for Bassoon and Harp, Sarah McKittrick Sethi, bassoon, Jacqueline Pollauf, harp, Baltimore, MD, March 2011. Duo for Cello and Piano, James Wilson, Cello, Carston Schmit, piano, The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia, Feb. 2012. PUBLICATIONS: All Northeastern Music Publications: A Micsellany for Saxophone Quartet. Five Sketches for Alto Saxophone. Scenes for the Ear (Saxophone Trio). Introduction, Seven Vignettes, and Conclusion. RECORDINGS: The Saxophone Music of Allan Blank, Albany Records TROY 1261. ROBERT BOURY • • • NEWS: Boury was appointed Composer in Residence at the University of Little Rock at Arkansas in March 2011. His librettist for the next commission will be Brittany Barber of Atlanta, GA, and their new opera will be based on a short story by Mark Twain. In April, June and August 2011, Boury collaborated with lyricist and poet Kara Bibb in teaching Songwriting to children (ages 8-15) in the Community School for the boury Arts at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Beginning, Fall 2011, Boury has been invited to perform regularly for patients at the University of Arkansas Medical Science Cancer Institute in Little Rock. PREMIERES: Seastruck (childrens' opera), with librettist Madeleine St. Romain of Atlanta, GA, Pulaski United Methodist Church, Little Rock, AR, May 2011; written for the Chotard Institute. PERFORMANCES:  Flight of the Monarch, DDG (Duck, Duck, Goose) Woodwind trio, Hendrix College, Conway, AR, March 2011. At Morning Star, Donald Creer, baritone, Boury, piano, "Songs Across the Americas" Festival, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, March 2011. Performed both original and classic ragtime pieces, Boury, pianist/composer, Childrens' Fete, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, April 2011. At Morning Star and To Dream Again (song cycles), Donald Creer, baritone, Mary Smith, soprano, Boury, piano, ARCARE Arts Festival, Augusta, GA,

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