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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • The Lilacs Bloomed (A Choral Triptych for SATB Chorus and Piano): 2011 US tour, including: Valparaiso University Chorale (Christopher Cock, conductor), Grace Lutheran Church, Naples, FL, March 2011. PERFORMANCES: Pater Noster (A Motet for SATB chorus, divisi, a cappella), on 2011 US tour, including: Duke University Chorale (Rodney Wynkoop, conductor), Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, March 2011. PUBLICATIONS: All by Subito Music: Trumpets of Light, A Suite in Four Movements for Trumpet and Organ, commissioned by The Reformed Church of Bronxville, NY. WINTER (from the forgottens), A Fourmovement Choral Cycle for Glee Club and SATB, TTBB and SSAA Choruses and Piano), commissioned by the Harvard Radcliffe Choral Society. Creator of the Stars of Night, (An Advent Anthem for Chorus and Organ). Jubal's Muse for solo harp. Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (Full score and reduction), commissioned by the Greensboro Chapter of the American Guild of Organists for the Region IV 2011 Convention. RECORDING: Dan Locklair's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra appears on a new six-CD set released in Oct. 2011 from WCPE-FM and the Eastern Music Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary year of EMF. Locklair's work is conducted by Gerard Schwarz, with Susan Bates as organ solo. WEBSITE: locklair.com SAMUEL MAGRILL • • • NEWS: Samuel Magrill is a Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) School of Music in Edmond. Fall 2011, he received his 24th consecutive ASCAP Award. Almost all of magrill Samuel Magrill's works are available through Lynn Morse Publishing, 1725 Westwood Lane, Edmond, OK 73013. PREMIERES: Song of Hope (2008), text: Psalm 71, Dr. Barbara Streets, soprano, Richard Jobe, organ, University of Central Oklahoma Faculty Concert, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Oklahoma City, OK, Nov. 2011. Jade (2011) was premièred by Natalie Syring, flute, and Samuel Magrill, piano, Oklahoma Composers Association Composers Salon, Sonder Music, Norman, OK, Feb. 2011. Fiddle Tune (2011) Kirsten Underwood, cello, Vignettes (1991), Pamela Richman, soprano, Samuel Magrill, piano, Hommage à Brahms (2004), Ron Howell, clarinet, Tess Remy-Schumacher, cello, Samuel Magrill, piano, Island of the Dew of God (2001), Hong Zhu, violin, Samuel Magrill, piano, Song of the Seasons (2008), Pamela Richman, soprano, Ron Howell, clarinet, Tess Remy-Schumacher, cello and Samuel Magrill, piano, East West Duo (2004), Hong Zhu, violin, Tess Remy Schumacher, Cello, Zoe Sherinian, mridangam, Faculty Artist Concert Series, Jazz Lab at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Sept. 2011. Stone Poems (2011), Jade and Ruby, Natalie Syring, flute, Samuel Magrill, piano on the Faculty Artist Concert Series at the Jazz Lab of the University of Central Oklahoma in 32 PAN PIPES WINTER 2012 sai-national.org Edmond, Sept. 2011. PERFORMANCES: Tango! for Wind Symphony (2004), 2011 Oklahoma Intercollegiate Honor Band, Michael Haithcock, clinician/conductor, Oklahoma Music Educators Association Convention, Tulsa, Jan. 2011. Jade (2011) Mira Magrill, flute, David Gilliland, piano, Britton Recital Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor March 2011. Tango Flauto (2006) for flute quartet, was performed by Michael Avitable, Amanda Galick, Erin O'Shea, and Katherine Standefer, flutes, Studio Recital, Britton Recital Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2011. Oklahoma Bandscapes: Wind Music of Samuel Magrill: UCO Wind Symphony, Brian Lamb, conductor, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond at the Society of Composers, Inc. 2004 National Conference and the College Band Directors' National Association 2004 Southwestern Division Conference (2004), April 2011. Odyssey Etude (2011) Emily Butterfield, flute and Samuel Magrill, piano, Concert in honor of Dr. Margaret Brisch's 70th birthday, Radke Fine Arts Theatre, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Aug. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: All Lynn Morse Publishing: Jade (Jan. 2011) for flute and piano, written especially for Natalie Syring. Fiddle Tune (Aug. 2011) for solo cello, written especially for Kirsten Underwood. Ruby (Aug. 2011) for flute and piano, written especially for Natalie Syring. Jade and Ruby together form a work entitled Stone Poems (2011). RECORDINGS: Cello Music of Samuel Magrill, Volume II, Xolo CD 1022. Performers: Tess Remy-Schumacher, cello, Kirsten Fedje Underwood, cello, Hong Zhu, violin, Zoe Sherinian, mridangam, Samuel Magrill, piano, John Clinton, conductor, Dec.2010. Oklahoma Bandscapes: Wind Music of Samuel Magrill, The University of Central Oklahoma Wind Symphony, Dr. Brian Lamb, conductor. Recorded April 2011, Released Sept. 2011. URSULA MAMLOK • • • • • NEWS: Ursula Mamlok has lived in Berlin, Germany, the city of her birth, since 2006. She traveled to New York in May 2011 for the premiere of Mosaics for piano four-hands (2011) by CONTINUUM at Merkin Concert Hall, mamlock New York. PREMIERES: Mosaics for piano four-hands (2011) CONTINUUM, Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, piano, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, May 2011. Rotations (2011), Jakob Spahn, cello, Holger Groschopp, piano, Hochschule Hanns Eisler (Studiosaal), Berlin, Oct. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Approximately 35 previously unpublished works by Mamlok have now been issued by Boosey and Hawkes. Included are many works from the period 1956-1976, as well as all of the music that she has written since 2000. RECORDINGS: Bridge Records is recording Mamlok's complete works. Three CDs have been issued thus far: Bridge Records 9360 "Music of Ursula Mamlok" Vol. 3 (2011); Bridge Records 9293 "Music of Ursula Mamlok" Vol. 2 (2011); Bridge Records 9291 "Music of Ursula Mamlok" Vol. 1 (2009). The notes for all of the Bridge CDs are by Barry Wiener. WEBSITE: ursulamamlok.com MICHAEL MAULDIN • • NEWS: Mauldin was invited to contribute scores and recordings of his works to the Fine Arts Library at the University of New Mexico, where they will be archived and included in an online database. PREMIERES: Voca Me, Barry Garrett, clarinet, Benjamin Garrett, horn, Jennifer Garrett, piano, on Jennifer Garrett's Doctoral Project Recital, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2011. PERFORMANCES: Bird of the Bright Mountain (clarinet and piano), Three Songs of the Green Earth (horn and piano), Shaman's Power-Song (soprano, flute and piano), Three New Mexico Landscapes (clarinet and piano), and Voices from Chaco (piano and woodwind quintet), University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign by Jennifer Garrett, piano, Barry Garrett, clarinet; Benjamin Garrett, horn, Kate Garrett, flute; Angela Schmid, oboe; Jui-Chen Huan, bassoon and Dawn Harris, soprano on Jennifer Garrett's Doctoral Project Recital, March 2011. Three Jemez Landscapes, Santa Fe Community Orchestra, Oliver Prezant, Music Director, Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe NM, May 2011. Fiori Musicali: Five Preludes for Piano, Michael Mauldin, piano, First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque NM, opening concert of the New Mexico School of Music's Young Composers' Institute, July 2011. With This Child: Christmas Cantata for Women's Voices and Harp. Las Cantantes, women's chorus, Maxine Thevenot, conductor, Lynn Gorman deVelder, harp at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Dec. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Prayer of Mesas (orchestra and chorus), With This Child: Christmas Cantata for Women's Voices and Harp and Senior Pieces, Book 3 (piano solos) were published by M Mauldin. WEBSITE: mmauldin.com KIRKE MECHEM • • • PREMIERES: The Rivals, opera in two acts, Skylight Opera Theater, Dorothy Danner, director; Richard Carsey, conductor Milwaukee, IL, Sept. - Oct. 2011. Pride and Prejudice, opera, Act II, staged performances with piano, workshop premiere by New Opera Works, Leigh Holman, director, Patrick Mason, music director, Colorado University, Boulder, June 2011. Daybreak in Alabama on text of Langston Hughes, for soloist and SSAA or SATB choir, unaccompanied, commissioned by Piedmont Choirs, Robert Geary, artistic director, November 2011. A Country Fair, new narration for Whims, 15 Vignettes for Piano, premiere by composer with Alexander Paley, piano, San Francisco, June 2011. PERFORMANCES: Songs of The Slave: suite from the opera John Brown for two soloists, chorus and orchestra by Bel Canto Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony, May 2011; also, Missouri University Choral Union, April 2011. Tartuffe, opera, Houston University, Jan. 2012; mechem

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