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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • March 2011. Incidental music First Farewell by Judy Goss, Argenta Community Theatre, North Little Rock, Sept. 2011. Jesse James Rag, Portrait of Chopin and Sonatina 2000, Norman Boehm, pianist/composer, Hendrix College, Conway; also, University of Arkansas - Little Rock, Sept. 2011. RECORDINGS: Fading, animated video by artist Warren Criswell, Benton, AR, original score by Boury. WEBSITE: ualr.edu/music DANIEL BREWBAKER NEWS: Composing Residencies at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM, July 2011; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Oct. and Nov. 2011. Current commissions: Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Maud Powell String Quartet, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, Sterling Brass Quintet PREMIERES: Be Thou The Voice, for Soprano and Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Jan. 2011. La Boca, for Piano Trio, Alaria Chamber Ensemble, Carnegie's Hall's Weill Hall, NYC, Feb11. Love Letters On Ripped Paper, Modern Ballet, Buglisi Dance Thater, Joyce Theater, NYC, Feb. 2011. Searching For Ourselves, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, Portland, OR, April 2011. Mother, Father, Musica Sacra, Kent Tritle, conductor, Alice Tully Hall, NYC, May 2011. Last Lullaby, John Kamitsuka, pianist, Carnegie's Weill Hall, NYC, May 2011. Through The Door, Heather Antonissen, Mezzosoprano, Vanessie, Santa Fe, NM, Aug. 2011. PERFORMANCES: His brewbaker Choir, This Choir, Anima Young Singers, Emily Ellsworth, conductor, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, National ACDA convention, March 2011. Birdsong, La Guardia HS Advanced Women's Chorus, Jana Ballard, conductor, La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts, NYC, May11. String Quartet No. 2, Borromeo String Quartet, Taos, NM, July 2011, also Rockport, MA, Peterborough, NH, Napa, CA. Sent From The Power, Kansas Choral Directors Association All-State Women's Chorus, Doreen Rao, conductor, Kansas City, MO, July 2011. Blue Fire, National Symphony Orchestra of Kiev, Robert Hanson, conductor, Lviv, Ukraine; also Kiev, Nov. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: All Boosey&Hawkes: From The Heart, for SATB Chorus and Piano, 1. Great Mother, 2. Let Love Go On, 3. Crossing Ohio When Poppies Bloom In Ashtabula, 4. To Know Silence. Open Your Heart, for SSAA Chorus and Piano. His Choir, This Choir, for SSA Chorus and Piano. Newly Self-Published Works: Be Thou The Voice, Soprano and Orchestra; La Boca, Piano Trio; Searching For Ourselves, SSA Chorus; Mother, Father, SATB a cappella Chorus; Last Lullaby, Piano; Through The Door, for Soprano and Piano; String Quartet No. 2. RECORDINGS: Mother, Father by Musica Sacra, Kent Tritle, conductor. J. ROBERT BURULL PREMIERES: Little Rainbow (for a lovely American Goldfinch), Dr. Susan Udell, piano, Sarah Swanson, SAI Province Day (Epsilon A), Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, March 2011. HOWARD J. BUSS NEWS: Three Euphonics for solo euphonium was been named the first place winner of the 2011 Lieksa Brass Week's International Composition Competition. In addition to receiving a $1,000 prize, the winning work was used as required music for the Lieksa International Euphonium buss Competition, July 2011 in Lieksa, Finland. Howard J. Buss received a 2011 AscaPlus Award in recognition of significant performances of his music in noncommercial venues. PREMIERES: Zoom for bass trombone and harp, Brandt Attema, bass trombone, Astrid Haring, harp May 2011 in KHL Koffiehaus in Amsterdam, Holland, May 2011; also, 2011 International Trombone Festival, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, June 2011. Inner Quest, Elena Cecconi, flute, Paola Devoti, harp, Tampa Lirica and Tetracordo - Viaggi Festival Concert Series, Salle delle Muse, Piacenza, Italy, May 2011. Dragon Flight, Elena Cecconi, flute, Federico Brunello, piano, Sala della Filarmonica Amici dell'Opera Eustachio Garofalo Opera and Concert Series in Trento, Italy, May 2011. PERFORMANCES: American Phoenix, William Rose, bass trombone, McNeese State University Percussion Ensemble Lonny Benoit, director, Sept. 2011 memorial concert, St. Luke-Simpson United Methodist Church, Lake Charles, LA. Stellar Visions, The McCormick Duo: Kim McCormick, flute, Robert McCormick, marimba, National Flute Association Convention, Charlotte, NC, Convention Center, Aug. 2011. De La Madera, Margaret Marco, oboe, Ji Hye Jung, marimba, Annual Conference of the International Double Reed Society, Galvin Playhouse, Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2011. Capriccio for clarinet, trombone and percussion, members of the Kyoto Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Kyoto, Japan, May 2011. Four Miniatures, Arnold Irchai and Tama Kott, bassoons, Conference of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI), University of Florida, Gainesville, Feb. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: All Brixton Publications (ASCAP), brixtonpublications.com. Three Euphonics for solo euphonium. Four Miniatures, version for 2 French horns; also version for clarinet and bass clarinet. Zoom for bass trombone and harp. Levi's Dream, version for clarinet quartet, also version for trombone quartet; also version for bassoon quartet. Dragon Flight for flute and piano (re-edited version). Awakening, version for solo harp. RECORDINGS: Stellar Visions for flute and marimba, McCormick Duo: Kim McCormick, flute and Robert McCormick, percussion, Ravello Records (PARMA) CD "McDuo" Works for Flute and Percussion. Four Miniatures, Arnold Irchai and Tama Kott, bassoons, Soundview Multimedia CD Duettino, available from Arnold Irchai at irchai@ufl.edu. Dragon Flight, Elena Cecconi, flute and Federico Brunello, piano, CD Flute and Piano, La Bottega Discantica (Milan, Italy) BDI 237. WEBSITE: brixtonpublications.com/ howard_j_buss-2.html ELLIOTT CARTER PREMIERES: Trije glasbeniki for flute, bass clarinet, and harp (2011). String Trio (2011). Double Trio for trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, violin and cello (2011). Conversations for piano, percussion, and chamber/full orchestra (2010). A Sunbeam's Architecture (2010), Nicholas Phan, tenor and chamber orchestra. Retracing III (2009) for solo trumpet. Double Trio (2011), Rolf Schulte, violin, Richard O'Neill, viola, Fred Sherry, cello. Three Explorations (2011) for The Juilliard School's AXIOM Ensemble, Jeffrey Milarsky,director, Evan Hughes, bass-baritone, winds, and brass. All in honor of the composers' 103rd birthday, Nov. 2011. WEBSITE: schirmer.com and boosey.com AUGUSTA CECCONI-BATES • NEWS: Feature writeup, on-line magazine, Thousand Islands Life. Plans are in place for new performances of the opera Molly of the Mohawks during 2012. PREMIERES: Vancouver's Poet: E. Pauline Johnson, musical play about the Mohawk Poet. Rosiere, NY, cecconi-bates Rhona Gale, soprano, Oct. 2011. PERFORMANCES: Vancouver's Poet, Kingston, NY, Oct. 2011; Cape Vincent, NY, Nov. 2011. WEBSITE: cecconibates.homestead.com SONDRA CLARK • • NEWS: Winner of the 2nd Prize, Professional Level, for Nora's Waltz for piano, four hands, 2011 Composers Today Contest. Last fall I began writing articles on composition for The California Music Teacher which talked about how developing a two-way relationship with your inner, creative musical voice by regularly composing music is a necessary step for all musicians in achieving your highest artistic potential. My articles presented formulas designed to help musicians, teachers and students rise above the curious notion that there's clark a basic difference in the inspirational process of creating music by performing it and creating music by composing it. PREMIERES: Scenes from New Orleans (two pianos, eight hands) by the Fabulous Four Piano Quartet Spring Concert at the Congregational Church of San Mateo, CA, March 2011. Danza Cubana (harp, flute, cello), Dan Levitan Trio, Winter National Assoc. of Composers concert, Convenant Church, Palo Alto, CA, June 2011. Latin American Dances and Angel Falls (piano, four hands), Kardontchik-Clark Duo, Fortnightly Club Concert, Lucie Stern Center, Palo Alto, CA, Sept. 2011. PERFORMANCES: South American Dances (two pianos, eight hands), The Fabulous Four, Cribari Hall, San Jose, CA, Oct. 2010. Postcards from Yosemite (wind quintet), Avenue Winds, Martin Hall, Menlo College, sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 25