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62 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • Before Spring, Suite for Violin and Piano, Homage to Paderewski, Three Hymns, Catch-A-Turian Toccata. At amazon.com and on YouTube. Truetone Productions. 11/09. Sonata No. 3 on album American Journey with Roger McVey, piano, is at CD Baby, etc. 2010. Serenade/Toccata from Sonata No. 3 on album TOUCH: the toccata project with Philip Amalong, piano. Albany Records. 2010. JONATHAN ELKUS PERFORMANCES: Cal Band March by University of California Wind Ensemble conducted by Robert Culonio for the Spring Showcase 2010 at Haas Pavilion, Berkeley on 4/23/10. JANE ELLEN • NEWS: At the February 2010 TMEA Convention in San Antonio, TX, I received a commission (currently in progress) from Guido Six the director of Claribel, a 32-member clarinet choir based in Oostende, Belgium. In September I received my 21st consecutive ASCAPlus Award. My latest CD, Following My Heart, has been featured on several websites, including Spains Reviews New Age.com, where Alejandro Clavijo gave it a 5/5. KC Café Radio (kccaferadio.com) chose three tracks from the album (Colours of My Life, Follow Your Heart, and Visions of the Past) as part of a special station promotion designed to attract new listeners. PERFORMANCES: Follow Your Heart by Maria Vesper at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque, NM on 2/10. Arrangements of The Opera Reel and Jenny Lind Polka written for period American Civil War brass band by the Albuquerque Territorial Brass directed by Ralph Harris for a re-enactment dance and gala on 3/10. Green Hills of Eire and Memories of Erin by the composer at the Albuquerque Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on 3/7/10. A Debt of Love (SAB choir and piano) by the Faith Bible Church Chancel Choir led by Irma Reeder accompanied by the composer on 3/28/10 and by the Choir of Our Lady of the Annunciation Church on 4/2/10, both in Albuquerque. RECORDINGS: Lukisan Hati, HS Maju Productions, West Malaysia, March 2010; film soundtrack uses the piano solos I Will Find You and Promise of Spring; promotional videos for the film uses Lullabye, also for piano. WEBSITE: janeellen.com FRANK FELICE NEWS: Much of my last year has been spent writing a lot of chamber music and also building a composing/ recording/sound design studio -- this has now just been completed, and the first work to be completed in it is titled "In This Place," a work for solo double bass -- the idea for this piece came from composer Frank LaRocca, who wrote a piece for clarinet, violin and piano with this title -- in essence, this piece is a work of thanksgiving to God for the gift of such a magnificent place to create, practice and perform music. PREMIERES: Five Whimsies for Non-Grownups by The New Century String Quartet in Indianapolis, IN on 2/10. Le Cadavre Exquis Boira Le Vin Nouveau (mixed ensemble) by Zdradci New Music Ensemble in Boston, MA on 2/10. You Drive ME Nervous by members of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra in Indianapolis, IN on 4/10. Shichi Mata Ha…. For solo piano by Nana Omori in Indianapolis, IN on 4/10. 26 PAN PIPES WINTER 2011 sai-national.org National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • PERFORMANCES: Awakenings (Winter) by Michael Kirkendoll, piano for the 2010 Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy on 7/10. …of Glass (four channel recorded medium) at Butler University Elektonik Musik Fest on 1/10. Charismata (mixed quartet) at the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers National Conference at Indiana Wesleyan University on 10/10. My Daughter (SSA and English horn) by Augustana University Jenny Lind Choir in Rock Island, IL on 10/10. Le Cadavre Exquis Boira Le Vin Nouveau (mixed ensemble) by Irvine College New Music Ensemble in Irvine, CA on 10/10. RECORDINGS: A new disc of piano music by living composers performed by pianist Kate Boyd has just been released -- it is titled "Music for the End of Winter" and is available from Ravello Records. This CD contains my work, Three Pieces From Banff, pieces that were all composed during a recent residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Additionally, I produced and mastered this recording. A new CD by violinist Davis Brooks that will be released in early 2011 will contain my violin and stereo recorded medium piece Brace Yourself Like A Man, based on the book of Job from the Old Testament. BRIAN FENNELLY NEWS: Fantasia Concertante (2009) for violin, cello, and orchestra is the winning piece of the 2009 Fauxharmonic Orchestra International Concerto Composition Competition. It will be performed with Duo Parnas, for whom it was written, at a concert and location to be announced. The recent Sheffield lab CD Gare du Nord featuring Duo Parnas in music of Gliere, Honegger, Martinu, Milhaud, and Fennelly fennelly ('Sigol' for Two) received a rave review on Gene Gaudette's classical music blog of May 30, 2010. Fennelly's The Other Side of Time (2009) for Winds, Brass, and Percussion was chosen by the League of Composers/ISCM as an official submission to the 2010 ISCM World Music Days in Croatia. PREMIERES: Skyscapes IV (mixed quintet of winds, strings and guitar) by Washington Square Ensemble conducted by Scott Voyles at Merkin Hall in New York, NY on 12/3/09. Sasquatch (bass trombone and two percussionists) by J. J. Cooper, trombone at the Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ on 4/2/10. Maverick Tango (violin / cello) by Duo Parnas at the Anderson Center, Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY on 4/2/10. Corollary IV by Andrew Malloy, trombone and Junko Ueno, piano at California State University Northridge on 3/14/10. PERFORMANCES: Three's Company for flute (piccolo), saxophone, and piano by the No Borders Quartet in Italy on 11/8, 11/21, 11/23, and 11/24/09 and 3/26, 3/29 and 3/30/10 at Hartford University (CT), New York University, and Thalia Symphony Space, NYC as part of a Composers Circle recital. 'Sigol' for Two by Duo Parnas at Sanford Auditorium in SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY on 9/8/09, at the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, NY on 3/27/10, and at Hartwick College in Oneonta on 4/9/10. Sigol Musings by Rolf Schulte, violin at the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Member Laureate • • • • • Music at Mannes Concert Hall, New York City on 6/15/10. PUBLICATIONS: Sacred Songs (2010) for baritone and piano, settings of three poems of George Herbert (1593-1633) written for the 2011 international conference on George Herbert to be held in Wales, UK; by American Composers Edition (American Composers Alliance). RECORDINGS: The New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Charles Peltz, conductor, has prepared a recording of The Other Side of Time (2009), a 16 minute piece for 30 winds, brass, and percussion commissioned by them, for release on an upcoming "portrait" CD of Fennelly's music by Albany Records. For the same CD, trumpeter Chris Gekker, with pianist Rita Sloan, has recorded Corollary III, the piece written for Mr. Gekker which won the 1990 International Trumpet Guild Composers Competition. WEBSITES: http://amc.net/BrianFennelly http://composers.com/brian-fennelly CHARLES FITTS PREMIERES: The composer's two-act opera, Amontillado, will begin rehearsals in October, 2010 for its premiere performance by Theatre Victoria in the new Wilder Center for the Performing Arts in Victoria, Texas. The opera fitts is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Cask of Amontillado and will be performed with orchestra and a cast of three. Stage direction and lighting will be provided by the staff of the Wilder Center. The opera will receive two performances during 1/11. PERFORMANCES: Kyrie and Gloria for Chorus and Orchestra by Montgomery County Choral Society directed by Ann Lee on 4/23/10. Chisos Epiphany by the Conroe Symphony Orchestra directed by Dr. Don Hutson on 3/29/10. WEBSITE: charlesfitts.com ROBERT FLEISHER PREMIERES: Loretto Alfresco (piccolo), a 2-channel electro-acoustic composition, presented as part of Crimson Mix, 360 degrees of 60x60, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Electronic Music Foundation (NYC) & Stony Brook University. Subsequent performances in 2010 include: Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) Region 5 Conference (Augustana College), Electronic Music Midwest (Lewis Univeristy), The Music Gallery (Toronto), and threewalls gallery (Chicago). Gig Harbor by Tomoko Deguchi, piano at Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) national conference at the University of South Carolina, Columbia on 11/15/10. PERFORMANCES: Loretto Alfresco (2-channel electroacoustic composition) at "Noise Floor Festival," Staffordshire University (Stafford, U.K.), CHAT" Digital Arts Festival (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), national conference of the Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS), American Composers Alliance festival, Symphony Space/ Thalia (NYC). Secrets by Tomoko Deguchi, piano at Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) Region IV Conference

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