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62 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI Member • Friend of the Arts • • performer, and two giant Tesla Coils (producing 1,800,000 Volts) was performed as the last composition at the New Music Ensemble Concert, in the outdoor Amphitheater of the University of Illinois Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on September 26, 2009. WEBSITE: ems.music.uiuc.edu/ ROBERT WYKES PERFORMANCES: Flourishes and Hymn, trombone quartet; Lake Music for solo bass flute; Nine Miniatures for piano trio; For Cello for solo cello; Three Facets of Friendship for flute and clarinet; Quintet for Piano and String Quartet on Eighty-fifth Birthday Concert, sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis on 2/10. RECORDINGS: Three Facets of Friendship, a divertimento for flute and clarinet by The Silverwind Duo, American Kaleidoscope, Emeritus, Nicole McPherson and Andrew Seigel. JAMES YANNATOS PREMIERES: All Bout Sax – fantasy for Saxophone Quartet by Athens Saxophone Quartet in Athens, Greece on 7/3 – 7/4/10. PERFORMANCES: String Quartet No. 2 by Daniel Stepner Quartet at Harvard University on 10/3/10. String Quartet No. 3 by Chiara Quartet on 4/10. Ritual Images by Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra at Sanders Theatre on 10/15/10. Ritual Images by Seattle Symphony on 11/4 – 11/6/10. DAVID A. YEAGLEY NEWS: Dr. Yeagley has written a grand opera, Jacek, in three acts. It is based on the story of Jack P. Eisner, a Holocaust survivor with whom Dr. Yeagley was acquainted personally. In 2007, he was commissioned by the Oklahoma Historical Society to compose symphonic music for the silent film, Daughter of Dawn, a 1920 feature involving all Indian actors in an Indian story. Dr. Yeagley is the first American Indian composer to be commissioned to write a full length movie score. The work is 80 minutes of non-stop, non-repetitive symphonic music. Dr. Yeagley has now begun composing his first symphony, in four movements. PREMIERES: HaNitzol (the survivor) for oboe and orchestra by Tifereth Israel Orchestra, San Diego, CA on 11/16/10. Wessi va-peh (curl of hair) for American Indian flute and orchestra by Phoenix Symphony, Phoenix, AZ on 1/26 – 1/28/08. PERFORMANCES: Salve Regina, for women's chorus and American Indian flute, Comanche Hymn, for women's chorus, alto flute, hand drum by Cantata Singers, Gisele Becker, National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. on 11/12/07. The Writhing of Earth Worms Under a Great, Uplifted Rock, for Oboe, Viola, and Bassoon at the International Double Reed Society, Norman, OK on 6/25/10. PUBLICATIONS: Meditation and Rhapsody (Nos. 1-6), for unaccompanied Violin; Apocalypse Collection (Nos. 1-6), for unaccompanied 'Cello; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; String Quartet No. 1; Sonata for Two Guitars. All are published by the composer and available on his website. RECORDINGS: HaNitzol (the survivor) for oboe and orchestra by Polish National Radio Symphony, Meirav Kadichevsky, oboist, 2005, Opus One, Kiev Philharmonic, Volodymyr Koval, oboist, 2006, ERM. Wessi va-peh (curl of hair) for American Indian flute 40 PAN PIPES WINTER 2011 sai-national.org National Arts Associate • • • Honorary Member • • • • and orchestra by Polish National Radio Symphony, Timothy Archamboult, flute, 2006, Opus One, Moravian Philharmonic, James Pellerite, flute, 2006, Albany. WEBSITE: davidyeagley.com JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT • • • • NEWS: Profile in InMaricopa. Com magazine – April 2010 (spring issue). Composer in Residence at Slippery Rock University, supported in part by a Met Life creative connections grant zaimont from 4/29 – 5/2/10. Featured Composer at a three day weekend symposium on Zones – Piano Trio No. 2 at the University of Alabama – Huntsville on 2/12 – 2/14/10. Master Composer in Residence at the Intégrales new music symposium at the University of Southern Mississippi – Hattiesburg on 10/28 – 11/4/10. Master Composer / Composer in Residence for an eight day residency at the University of Minnesota in 4/11. PREMIERES: Serenade (violin and piano) by Marta Szlubowska, violin; J. Zaimont, piano in Huntsville, AL on 2/12/10. Zaimont Suite (four movement music/art video) at Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, on 3/21 – 3/23/10. From the Folk ( 2 movements for wind quartet) by Chandler Symphony Orchestra first chair winds in the Chandler Center for the Arts in Chandler, AZ on 4/9/10. PERFORMANCES: Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra, Solar Traveller by Slippery Rock University – Slippery Rock Wind Ensemble, Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano soloist, conducted by Dr. Brian Meixner on 5/2/10; by University of Minnesota – Minneapolis Wind Ensemble, Timothy Lovelace, piano soloist, conducted by Dr. Craig Kirchhoff on 4/11; by Indiana State University – Terre Haute Wind Ensemble, Ja-Ling Lin, piano soloist, conducted by Dr. John Boyd on 12/1/09. Snazzy Sonata by Peggy Brengle and Don Horneff in Westminster, MD on 4/11/10. Israeli Rhapsody for concert band by University of Minnesota Concert Band conducted by Dr. Jerry Luckhardt on 4/11. Zones – Piano Trio No. 2 by Norea Trio: Hyunjong Kang, violin; Eva Luthi, cello; Petra Besa, piano; in Langnau, Switzerland on 3/10; at Millsaps College, MS on 2/6/10; at University of Southern Mississippi on 2/10/10. In My Lunchbox by Felicia Lin, piano at Music Teachers Association of California on 7/3/10. PUBLICATIONS: Sky Curtains - Borealis, Australis (fl, cl, bsn, cla, cello) published spring 2010 by Jeanné, Inc. From the Folk (clarinet quartet) – Song, Dance published summer 2010 by Jeanné, Inc. Reflective Rag (clarinet and piano) published summer 2010 by Jeanné, Inc. American City – Portrait of New York (1956; 2010) six-movement suite for piano solo, publication: summer 2010 by Subito. Sonata-Rhapsody for Violin and Piano (2009-2010) Five movements, publication: fall 2010 by Subito Music Corp. RECORDINGS: Chroma – Northern Lights, Ghosts, Elegy, Stillness – Poem for Orchestra by Slovak National Philharmonic conducted by Kirk Trevor; Naxos 8.559619 – released 4/27/10. A Calendar Set, Sonata, Member Laureate • • • • • Nocturne - La fin de siècle by Christopher Atzinger, piano; Naxos, recorded at Banff 10/10. Parma/Navona - Chamber Music of J L Zaimont, String Quartet ' The Figure ', Zones - Piano Trio No. 2, Astral … a mirror life on the astral plane …., Serenade by The Harlem Quartet and Awadagin Pratt, piano at SUNY Purchase on 12/10. ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH • PREMIERES: Fanfare; Reminiscence and Celebration (for large orchestra and 18 offstage brass players) by Florida State University Symphony conducted by Alexander Jimenez on 10/8/10. Avanti! (Fanfare for Jerry) by Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz on 2/3, 2/5 and 2/6/11. PERFORMANCES: Septet for Piano Trio and String Quartet by Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson Trio and the Miami String Quartet at Linton Chamber Music zwilich in Cincinnati on 10/17 – 10/18/10; by Members of South Florida Symphony Orchestra on 3/2, 3/3, and 3/7/11. Passages by Boston Musica Viva, Krista River, soprano; conducted by Richard Pittman on 11/12/10. Symphony No. 5 by South Florida Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sebrina Alfonso in Key West, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami Beach on 4/27 – 4/28 and 5/2/11. Symphony No.1 by Chicago Sinfonietta conducted by Mei-Ann Chen on 5/22 – 5/23/11. PUBLICATIONS: Septet for Piano Trio and String Quartet; Lament for Piano; A Poem for Elliott (for Elliott Carter) for Piano; Merion Music, Theodore Presser Co. RECORDINGS: Millennium Fantasy; Peanuts Gallery, Jeffrey Biegel, piano soloist; Images, Read Gainsford and Heidi-Louise Williams, piano soloists by Florida State University Symphony conducted by Alexander Jimenez on Naxos American Classics. ADMISSION TO THE SAI COMPOSERS BUREAU N ames for possible inclusion together with the composer's credentials should be sent to Dr. Susan Cohn Lackman, 2126 Mohawk Trail, Maitland, FL 32751-3943 or slackman@rollins.edu Composers must meet one of the following criteria: • publication by a recognized publisher; • performance by professionals in a professional concert venue; and/or • performance by professionals on national radio or TV. 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