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ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • Member Laureate • • • • • ALEX SHAPIRO PREMIERES: Immersion, a symphony for winds, percussion and prerecorded soundscape, University of Minnesota Symphonic Band, Jerry Luckhardt, conductor, Feb. 2011; Activist Music, publisher. Paper Cut, for wind band, prerecorded electronics and printer paper, Singapore premiere, Singapore American School Band, Brian White, conductor, May 2011. Unabashedly More, a mixed chamber sextet, ensemble Lunatics at Large, Carnegie Hall, NY, March 2011. Intermezzo for Cello and Piano, Douglas Davis, cello, Rowena Hammill, piano, Friday Harbor, WA, Aug. 2011. Below, Peter Sheridan, contrabass flute and prerecorded soundscape, Japan premiere in Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 2011. Unabashedly Said, Palomar, mixed chamber sextet, Toronto, Oct. 2011. Spark, Teresa McCollough, piano, NYC, Nov. 2011. Permanent Spark, Fifth House Ensemble, mixed chamber sextet, Chicago, Feb. 2012. PERFORMANCES: Vista, for violin and prerecorded soundscape; Karen Bentley Pollick, violin; Olomouc, Czech Republic, April 2011. Slowly, searching, for solo piano, Susanne Kessel, piano, Zwickau, Germany, May 2010. Elegiac, Cross Island Ensemble, clarinet, cello, and piano, Oakdale, NY, May 2011. Music for Two Big Instruments, Tony Zilincik, tuba, Caroline B. Salido, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 2011. Paper Cut, for wind band, prerecorded electronics and printer paper, VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band, Charles Menghini, conductor, The Midwest Clinic, Chicago, Dec. 2011. PUBLICATIONS: Permanent Spark (2011), Flute/ Piccolo, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and Piano; one movement, commissioned in 2011 by Sherwin Abrams for the Fifth House Ensemble. Unabashedly Said (2011), Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet, French Horn, Violin, Cello and Piano. Transplanted (2011), Viola and Harpsichord, commissioned by Sherwin Abrams. Of Song and Touch (2011), Euphonium and Piano, commissioned by Robert Benton. Intermezzo for Cello and Piano (2011), for Rowena Hammill and Douglas Davis. Spark (2011), Solo Piano, commissioned by Sherwin Abrams. Unabashedly More (2011), Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, commissioned in 2010 by Lunatics at Large ensemble. Intermezzo for Bass Flute and Piano (2011), commissioned by Jenni Olson. Deep (2011), Alto Flute and Electronic Soundscape on CD. Immersion (2011), Symphonic wind band and Electronic Soundscape on CD, "Depth,""Surface" and "Beneath." All Activist Music, Publisher. WEBSITE: alexshapiro.org MARILYN SHRUDE • NEWS: Marilyn Shrude was named a 2011 Guggenheim fellow. The 2011 Sorel Medallion in Choral Composition was awarded to three composers, including Marilyn Shrude. She was the featured composer for the Women in Music Series at Wittenberg University (Oct. 2011). Shrude and musicians John Sampen, Richard York and Jessica McCormack, who organized the entire residency, presented a concert of eight of her compositions. Marilyn Shrude's Lacrimosa was included in the concert repertoire of Duo Solaris (Joel Diegert, alto saxophone, and Mariam Vardzelashvili, piano), who competed in the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition April 2011 in Amsterdam. The duo received 3rd Prize in the competition. PREMIERES: Essay for Solo Saxophone and Band, John Sampen, shrude saxophone, Memorial Junior High School Band, Barry Hartz, director, South Euclid, OH, Feb. 2011. La Folia II: Lacuna was Robert Satterlee, piano, Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, MI on March 2011; the work is one of seven works commissioned by Satterlee in memory of William Albright; also, Coe College, April 2011, University of Iowa April 2011, SUNY-Fredonia, Sept. 2011. PERFORMANCES: Memorie di luoghi . . . Maria Sampen and Xak Bjerken, and by Ioana Galu and Solungga Fang-Tzu, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, June 2011; also Bowling Green State University and Heidelberg University April 2011. Fantasmi and Renewing the Myth, Noa Even with I-An Chen, Phil Pierick, and the Amigo Saxophone Quartet, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, July 2011. Trope, John Sampen, saxophone, Albion College, Bowling Green State University, DePauw University, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Grand Valley State University, and the University of Michigan, Fall 2011 tour. Into Light, Interlochen Philharmonic, Octavio Mas-Arocas, director, July 2011. Raining Glass, Puget Sound Piano Trio (Maria Sampen, violin, David Requiro, cello, and Duane Hulbert, piano); included performances in Tacoma, Minneapolis, and Vancouver BC, Fall 2011 concert tour. The trio is in residence at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA). RECORDINGS: Continuum (Postscript '97, Carrie Koffman and Margreet Francis, alto saxophone and piano, on Carillon Sky (Impermanence Records CD 600G). Marilyn Shrude's Trope for alto saxophone and pre-recorded saxophones, John Sampen, James Fusik and Jeffrey Heisler for CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38, Music from Bowling Green State University, MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. WEBSITE: marilynshrude.com Jung Tsai, on KTRU (Houston), Oct. 2011. PREMIERES: Danish Delights, European premiere, Volkmar Zimmermann, with Jauna Muzika, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Danish Cultural Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania, Oct. 2011; also, in Vilnius, Lithuania; Kedainiai, Lithuania. Conversations Continued, Helen Blackburn, alto flute, Daryl Coad, clarinet, Voices of Change, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2011. Contrasts (from Fleeting Moments), Faye-Ellen Silverman, piano, Commissioned by the Phoenix Concerts, Music from Mt. San Angelo, Celebration of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, NYC, March 2011. Danish Delights, Sofia Dimitrova, soprano, Francisco Roldán, guitar, NYC, March 2011. PERFORMANCES: Taming the Furies, Karin Kantenwein, flute, Third Wheel, Irvine, CA, Sept. 2011. Conversations, Helen Blackburn, alto flute, Daryl Coad, clarinet, Voices of Change, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2011. Interval Untamed, Javier Olviedo, alto saxophone F.R.E.D. Chamber Players, NYC, April 2011. Two Bagatelles, Laetitia Ruccolo, piano, Alphabet Soup, NYC, Sept. 2011; also, Sophia Yan, piano, NYC, Jan. 2011. RECORDINGS: Transatlantic Tales: chamber music with guitar, Processional, 3 Guitars, In Shadow, Wilde's World, Danish Delights, and Pregnant Pauses, TROY 1250 (Albany Records). WEBSITE: Fayeellensilverman.com FAYE-ELLEN SILVERMAN NEWS: Standard Award, ASCAPLUS. Resident Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fall 2011. Guest composer, University of North Texas and Southern Methodist University, Oct. 2011. Transatlantic Tales played on Classical Discoveries (WPRB Princeton), Scordatura (KTRU Houston), Radio Horizon (Johannesburg, South Africa), CKWR (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada); Taming the Furies (Points of Entry CD) played on the Latest Score WOMR, (Provincetown, MA),WFMR FM (Orleans, MA). Two-hour live radio silverman interview with Hsin- GAY HOLMES SPEARS • NEWS: Spears is an adjunct professor in the music department at St. Louis University. She also serves as the music director and organist for the Faith Des Peres Presbyterian Church in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. PERFORMANCES: Where the Rivers Run, UMSL Orchestra, Dan Presgrave, conductor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Dec. 2011. Reflections on 'Wondrous Love', Franklin County, KY, High School Band, Dave Shelton, director, Oct. 2011. HALIDE K. SMITH • PREMIERES: Whistle, Estelle Schultz, flute, Mary Webb, piano, Eerht Dnilb Ecim (revised), Francesca Veglia and Carole Cornman sopranos, Mary Webb, piano, Sigma Alpha Iota Sarasota-Manatee Chapter musicale, Feb. 2011. smith PERFORMANCES: Sun Shine, My Friend Judi, Uskudar, Mary Webb, piano, for the SAI SarasotaManatee Chapter Musicale, Sarasota Florida, also If I Were Three, Amanda Lyon, flute and CD, Feb. 2011. WEBSITE: nlapw-sarasota.com/members/halidesmith.htm JARED SPEARS • • • NEWS: Continuing to receive consecutive ASCAP rewards for the past 30 years, SAI National Arts Associate, Jared Spears has been commissioned to compose a mallet percussion collection and a string orchestra piece for the Altrusa Music Publishing Co sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 35

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