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sai-natiOnal.ORg WintER 2014 PAN PIPES 9 a year oF Composers spans over three decades, her music has earned praise for its rich harmonic texture, rhythmic vitality, emotional and spiritual depth, and wide range of expression. Galbraith's symphonic works have enjoyed regular performances by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, including premieres led by Gennady Rozhdetsvensky and Mariss Jansons. Her De profundis ad lucem received its European premiere by the Limburg Symphony Orchestra in the Netherlands. Her Piano Concerto No. 1 was recorded by SAI National Arts Associate Keith Lockhart and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Galbraith composes in a variety of styles, including pieces for wind ensembles, major choral works, chamber works (including electroacoustic pieces for Baroque flutist Stephen Schultz), ballet (Whispers of Light premiered this year at Bodiography Contemporary Ballet in Pittsburgh) and sacred music. Galbraith is an accomplished pianist and organist and has written a number of works for those instruments. She was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter of SAI. Born in Seoul, Korea, Bomi Jang is a summa cum laude graduate of Yonsei University. Aer winning first prize at the Chosun Newspaper Artist Concert, she came to the United States and received her master's degree at Carnegie Mellon University studying with Leonardo Balada. Her work has been performed in Europe, the United States and Asia, and in various venues such as the Pittsburgh 250th year Residency Project for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the National Center for Traditional Performing Arts in Korea, the XVIII Cycle of Contemporary Music in Malaga, Spain, the Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Student Reading Session. She was the first prize winner at the Montserrat International Competition, the Margaret Blackburn Competition offered by the Pittsburgh SAI Alumnae Chapter, and the Creative Music Festival for the National Center for Traditional Performing Arts. She was a finalist at ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award and the Sungnam City Choir Competition. Jang is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh and teaches composition to undergraduate students as a lecturer at Yonsei University in Korea. mathew rosenblum's music is filled with diverse musical elements derived from classical, jazz, rock and world music traditions. A wide array of groups have commissioned, performed and recorded his music, such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Harry Partch Institute, the American Composers Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and Sequitur. In 2001, Rosenblum was a core participant in the American Composers Orchestra's Orchestra Tech Festival and Conference where his piece Nü kuan tzu, for singers, samplers and chamber orchestra, was one of 20 featured works. In 2009, he was a senior faculty composer at the June in Buffalo Festival. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Music Fellowship Grants, a Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award, two Fromm Foundation Commissions, a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant, a Barlow Endowment Commission and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship Grant. Rosenblum received degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and Princeton University and is currently professor of composition and chair of the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh where he also co-directs the Music on the Edge new music series. Pittsburgh native and SAI National Arts Associate David stock is professor emeritus, Duquesne University, where he conducted the Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble. He has been composer-in-residence of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, and is conductor laureate of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, which he founded in 1976. He retired as music director of PNME at the end of the 1998/99 season, aer 23 years of dedication to new music and the living composer. His large catalog of works includes symphonies, string quartets and concerti for various instruments; chamber, solo and orchestral music; and work for dance, theater, TV and film. Stock has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, five Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, five Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and grants and commissions from Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, the Paderewski Fund for Composers, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, Boston Musica Viva, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Richard Stoltzman, Duquesne University, the Erie Philharmonic and many others. reza Vali was born in Ghazvin, Persia (Iran) and began music studies at the Conservatory of Music in Tehran. In 1972, he went to Austria and studied music education and composition at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He later moved to the United States and continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his Ph.D. in music theory and composition in 1985. Vali has been a faculty member of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988. He has received numerous honors and commissions, From left, SAI Honorary Member Nancy Galbraith, 2007 Margaret Blackburn Competition winner Bomi Jang, and National Arts Associates David Stock and Reza Vali will have works featured by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's 2013-2014 season. SEASON continued on page 27

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