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t’s an honor to be able to prepare this American Composers Update. How inspirational to see so much activity reported from every corner of the country! The Lambda Iota Chapter I advise provides continual delight; and I’m goaded into productivity by one of my students, a 12-year-old son of a former student whose father thought he could use lessons after the young man taught himself to write fugues. — Susan Cohn Lackman, I SAI Composers Bureau Director

H. LESLIE ADAMS Concert, DeKalb IL, 4/13/14. Concerto for Steelpan MN, 10/26/14. Adams appeared in person for the and Orchestra, Josanne Francis, steelpan, NIU PUBLICATIONS: Children of the Heavenly Father, premiere of his complete Piano Philharmonic, NIU Concerto Concert, DeKalb, SATB a capella, Boosey & Hawkes. Etudes, Parts I & II at the University 2/12/14; also, Francis’ graduate recital, NIU, RECORDINGS: Treasures from the Archives, Navona of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, 4/18/14; American Protégé Concerto Competition, Records/PARMA Recordings 11/1/2014 and 11/2/2014. Carnegie Recital Hall, 5/16/14. Concerto for Steelpan PERFORMANCES: Nightsongs for and Orchestra, Liam Teague, steelpan. Elkhart JOHN H. BECK Voice and Orchestra, Kay George (IN) Symphony, Brion Groner, conducting, 3/3/13. PERFORMANCES: International Roberts, conductor, Carnegie/ Eisteddfod for flute, harp, and viola, Janus Trio, Percussion Festival, Jazz Variants, Weill Hall, NYC, 4/1/2014. Four ADAMS Chicago, 2/9/13; also, Shippensburg PA, 3/4/13; Beck, conductor, also, A Few lecture-recitals by Thomas Otten Myriad Trio, San Diego 3/10/13, July 2014. Moments of Fun, Beck, timpani, on Adams’ Piano Etudes: Alabama School of Fine PUBLICATIONS: NIU Music, horn and piano; Quito, Ecuador, 5/28-30/14. Recital Arts, Birmingham, 1/27/14; North Carolina Central Kammerkonzert horn and string orchestra; Oompah with Anders Astrand (Sweden), University; Durham, 2/7/14; Regional Conference Suite, horn and tuba; Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; International Percussion Forum, of Mid-Atlantic & Southern Conference; University Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra; Partita, flute, Zagan, Poland, 8/16-27/14, Zagan, BECK of Tennessee; Knoxville, 2/13/14; Wake Forest harpsichord, ‘cello; French Suite, unaccompanied Poland. The Two of Us, Michael University; Winston-Salem, NC, 2/21/14. horn; Canon and Caccia, for five horns,Blowout , brass Burritt, John Beck, timpani duet, PREMIERES: Piano Etudes, first complete quintet; Triptych, brass quintet; Triple Play, brass trio; Eastman School of Music, 9/9/14. performance, Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Part all published by Cimarron Music Press. PUBLICATIONS: The Two of Us (timpani duet), Kendor I, Maria Corley, 11/1/2014, Part II Thomas Otten, RECORDINGS: Quintet for Tuba and Strings, Fabien Music. 11/2/2014. Wallerand, tuba, Quatour Monticelli: PUBLICATIONS: Piano Etudes, Part I & Part II (sold Vibrations, CD SDRM-N 220991, June 2014. Lazy ELIZABETH R. BEESON ** separately or together), American Composers Alliance; Blues, Mardi Brass Quintet: Something Blue: CD For this season, Elizabeth Beeson gave piano concerts PO Box 1108, NYC 10040; or 802 W. 190th St., NYC LIR028, August 2014. on September 3 and October 22, 2013; another piano 10040. concert was given May 9, 2014. All three concerts RECORDINGS: Piano Etudes, Part II. Thomas Otten, CAROL BARNETT •••• were at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church in soloist. Albany Records. PERFORMANCES: Angelus ad Houston, TX. She also performed on December 20, WEBSITE: hleslieadams.com virginem was performed by the Choir 2013, at Park Shadows Clubhouse in Houston, TX, of Selwyn College, Cambridge/Sarah and gave organ concerts at Our Lady of Walsingham ELIZABETH R. AUSTIN • MacDonald during their Christmas Catholic Church in Houston, TX on January 31, 2014 RECORDING: Rose Sonata, Jerome Reed, piano, 2013 concerts in Cambridge and August 7, 2014. Beeson gave lectures and organ Elizabeth R. Austin, reciter, duration: 25:17, and London. It was recorded and demonstrations on the following topics: “Renaissance Spectra: Connecticut Composers Music: Navona broadcast by the BBC Singers Music” on October 2, 2013 and “Music During the Records 12/16/2013. Wonder Where, Reformation” on February 5, 2014. Both events American Spiritual Ensemble, Dr. BARNETT JAN BACH Everett McCorvey, conductor, Colla were at Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church in COMMISSIONS: Dr. Bach reports Voce Music, Inc., Central Presbyterian Church, St. Houston, TX. Also, Beeson taught two classes on that his Bach Talk, a three- Paul, MN, 2/13/14. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass English song on July 23, 2014 and July 30, 2014 in movement work for steelpan and Mass, Distinguished Concerts Singers International, Houston, TX. Elizabeth Beeson still plays organ and violin, commissioned by Liam Dailey & Vincent, Jefferson Johnson, Distinguished piano at local churches. Teague and the Music Literacy Concerts International New York, Boosey & Hawkes, PERFORMANCES: “Lullaby in C Major, #1 and 2” at trust of Trinidad and Tobago, was Carnegie Hall, NYC, 6/8/14; also, Masterworks Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church, Houston, completed in August 2013. Acro- Festival Chorus, Monroe Crossing, Philip Brunelle, TX, January 11 and 15, 2014, with the composer at botics, a five-movement work for conducting, Carnegie Hall, 6/9/14. Credo from The the organ. “In Green Meadows” with the composer on BACH tuba and ‘cello, commissioned by World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, VocalEssence the organ on January 31, 2014, at the same location. Jay Hunsberger, tuba, and Scott Ensemble Singers, Philip Brunelle, Shanghai & “Church Medley” with the composer on the organ on Kluksdahl, ‘cello, members of the Sarasota Symphony, Nanjing, China, 8/14-20/14. Three Norwegian Folk May 31, 2014, at the same location. “Spanish Waltz completed in July 2014. Songs, Maria Jette, soprano, Jill Olson-Moser, violin, in F” and “Russian Madness” with the composer on PERFORMANCES: Pilgrimage, for trumpet and piano Sonja Thompson, piano, The Edvard Grieg Society, the piano for both performances on March 4, 2014 at (orchestral transcription), Mark Baldin, trumpet, Mindekirke: Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church, Ashford United Methodist Church in Houston, TX. Northern Illinois University Philharmonic, Lucia Minneapolis, MN, 9/21/14. PREMIERES: “Easter Surprise” an organ solo was Matos, conductor, DeKalb, 11/25/13; also, Mark PREMIERES: March to Glory, Colin Lynch, organ, played by the composer at the organ at Our Lady of Baldin, trumpet, Jon Warfel, piano, U. of IL, Urbana, Beady Eyes Publishing, American Guild of Organists Walsingham Catholic Church in Houston, TX on August 4/2/13; Northern IL U, DeKalb, 4/6/13; IL State 2014 National Convention, Cathedral of the Holy 7, 2014. U, Bloomington, 4/29/14; Milliken U, Decatur IL, Cross, Boston, MA, 6/24/14. Hyrfrydol Meditation, RECORDINGS: A production of Beeson’s new piano 4/29/14. Bach Talk, for steelpan and violin (third Westminster Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir, movement only), Liam Teague, steelpan, Graciela Beady Eyes Publishing, Aaron Humble, conductor, CD was released in the spring of 2014 called A Time Nunez, violin, Fortieth Anniversary Steelband Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, To Remember with the composer playing 20 original pieces on piano. 2 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 LAUREN BERNOFSKY 2014 Music Publishers Association Paul Revere Award another great Italian woman, chef Lidia Bastianich, Sonatine won the Newly Published Music Competition for Graphic Excellence for his cover art for “Elephant commissioned and performed by Music from Copland of the National Flute Association and was performed Breath” composed by his publisher, Evan Hause. House.” by flutist Mattie Greathouse and pianist Nolan Pearson PERFORMANCES: Cabaret Songs, selections newly- PERFORMANCES: Mother/Father, Tree of Life, radio at the annual convention in Chicago. orchestrated, Members of the Ryan Center/Lyric broadcast, Valparaiso, Chile. Who, But I? Choral Music PERFORMANCES: Trio for Brass, Black Bayou Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago, Experience Chorus, Meredith Bowen, conductor, St. Brass, International Women’s Brass 8/13/14; also, Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano, KU James Cathedral, Chicago, IL, 8/3/14; also, Portland Conference, Northern Kentucky Chamber Winds, Paul Popiel, conductor, University of OR Symphonic Girl Choir, 4/15/14. University, 6/8/14. Saltarello, Kansas, 10/6/14. PREMIERES: An August Occasion, Sterling Brass John Marchiando, trumpet, Miriam Let Evening Come, Lisa Saffer soprano, Kim Quintet, Blizzard Theater, Elgin, IL, 3/16/14. We Are a Hickman, piano, International Kashkashian, viola, pianist Max Levinson, piano, Choir, Portland Symphonic Girl Choir, Roberta Jackson, Trumpet Guild Conference, King of Boston, MA, 10/22/14; Hal Leonard. Deb Burgess, co-conductors, Portland, OR, 4/6/14. Prussia, PA, 5/21/14. Heart of Fire, PREMIERES: Circus Overture, commissioned by Sinfonietta per Sofia, Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Intermediate Strings, Ottawa Youth the Boston Symphony Orchestra to commemorate Carlo Ponti, conductor, Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, Orchestra Academy, Sandra Van Barr, BERNOFSKY Leonard Slatkin’s 70th birthday; Boston Symphony CA, 7/19/14. Canata Stagionale, Music from Copland conductor, Kiwanis Music Festival, Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor, Tanglewood, House Chamber Ensemble, James Martin, baritone, Ottawa, Ontario, 4/24/14. The Tiger, Los Cantates Lenox, MA, 8/8/14; also, Lyon (France) and Detroit Del Pasto Ristorante, NYC, 10/12/14. del Lago, Timothy Ruff Welch, director, Ajijic, Jalisco, Symphony Orchestras, Slatkin, conductor; E. B. Marks PUBLICATIONS: Boosey and Hawkes, Inc.: My Mexico, 3/26/14. Concerto for Trumpet, Richard Rulli, Music. Millennium, commissioned by the Grant Park Sweet, Crushed Angel, unison voices, piano; To Hold trumpet, Tomoko Kashiwagi, piano, Southeastern Music Festival to commemorate the 80th anniversary Beauty, SATB chorus, piano; Listening, SSA chorus, Louisiana Univ, 1/30/14. of its founding, Millennium Park, Grant Park Festival piano. Daniel Brewbaker Music, Inc.: Sinfonietta per PREMIERES: My Little Daughter’s Shoes, Aja Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar conductor, 8/15-16/14; E. Sofia, string orchestra; Cantata Stagionale, baritone, Gianola-Norris, alto, Dan Gianola-Norris, cornet, B. Marks Music. Chabrieriana, Anne de Fornel and chamber ensemble; Bravo, Ben, brass quintet; An Yvonne Wormer, piano, Music to My Ears, Cotati, Guy Livingston, pianists, American Embassy, Paris, August Occasion, brass quintet. CA, 8/16/14. Raindrop Serenade, Highlands Ranch 3/6/14. This concert was part of a week-long Bolcom Feeder Elementary Orchestra Beginning Strings, Festival featuring concerts by various artrists [as well ALLEN BRINGS Susan Day, conductor, Highlands Ranch, CO, M/7/14. as an appearance by Bolcom and his wife, mezzo PERFORMANCES: A Cradle Song, Nancy Ogle, Electric Sinfonia, Musical Arts Youth Organization soprano Joan Morris], classes, and three extensive soprano, Ginger Yang Hwalek, piano, Mira Music (MAYO) Symphony, Lauren Bernofsky, music director, radio interviews. Associates, University of Maine, Orono, 2/8/14. Three Bloomington, IN, 4/25/14. PUBLICATIONS: All Bolcom publications are available Studies for Piano, left-hand, Allen Brings, piano, PUBLICATIONS: Sonatine (flute, piano), Saltarello through Hal Leonard. Concert Songs, two-volume Mira Music Associates, Christ & St. (trumpet, piano), Anacostia Journal (string quartet), compilation in both high and medium voices; also Stephen’s Church, NYC, 4/7/14; all Theodore Presser. Electric Sinfonia, Postcard from available, Theatrical Songs, two volumes for high and also Steinway Hall, NYC, 6/28/14. Mars, Millipede Madness (string orchestra), all FJH. medium voice. Aria, solo guitar, commissioned by the Variations on an American Folk Among All Creatures (soprano or baritone, harp), Guitar Foundation of America for its 2013 competition. Song, Allen Brings, piano, Mira Music Fatrock Ink. Why Was Cupid a Boy? SATB chorus, commissioned by Associates, Christ & St. Stephen’s the New York Virtuoso Singers and conductor Harold Church, 4/7/14. O Sacred Heart CHARLES ROLAND BERRY Rosenbaum for the group’s 25th anniversary. Satires, of Jesus, chorus of mixed voices, a The William H. Upton Naval & Military Masonic Lodge SATB chorus, seven madrigals composed for The cappella, Long Island Composers BRINGS in Bremerton has sponsored concerts of Masonic Western Wind. Speedgetsem, brass band, composed Alliance Chorus, Mira Music composers during the past three years as part of for the Brass Band of Battle Creek. Lady Liberty, SATB Associates, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY, the regular season of the Bremerton Symphony. This chorus, composed for Ann Arbor Vocal Arts Ensemble 4/7/14. Getting Around, women’s chorus, a cappella, year’s concert, called Made In America, includes and Master Singers of Lexington, MA. Complete Rags, Adesso Choral Society, Margaret Collins Stoop, Berry’s Masonic tone poem, Three Stations of a revised and expanded edition of all 24 of Bolcom’s conductor, Mira Music Associates, Gilbert & Bennett Traveling Man, as well as works by Paine, Copland, piano rags. Community Cultural Center, Wilton, CT, 6/8/14. Bernstein, Cage, Hermann, Duke Ellington and John RECORDINGS: “Romanza” on NSS Music performed PUBLICATIONS: From Within and Without, piano, Mira Philip Sousa. Mr. Berry is the Installed Musician at five by violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, New Century Music Associates. Duologue 17, flute and violin, Mira Masonic Lodges in Seattle area. Chamber Orchestra. The Hawthorn Tree, Americus Music Associates. In Line, flute, oboe, clarinet, Mira PREMIERE: Three Stations of a Traveling Man, Records, Joyce Castle, mezzo soprano, St. Luke’s Music Associates. Bremerton Symphony, Alan Futterman, conductor, 15 Chamber Ensemble. Billy in the Darbies, Bridge November 2014, Bremerton, WA, 11/15/14. Records, Stephen Salters, baritone, The Lark Quartet. CANARY BURTON RECORDINGS: Buddha Pillow, Qabalah, Upanishads, Piano Quintet No. 2, Albany, Pro Arte Quartet, Canary Burton is winner of the Tao River, four CDs for meditation and massage Christopher Taylor, piano. PatsyLu Award from the International therapy. Music composed specifically for the needs of Alliance of Women in Music for the relaxation, sometimes using birdsongs, whalesongs, DANIEL BREWBAKER ••• cello and viola piece Southern River. water, wind and lightning, with composed music for Daniel Brewbaker comments: “I am happy to serve PERFORMANCES: Artist of the orchestra and solo instruments, guitar, dulcimer, as composer/judge for the Inter- week on Skope Radio playing from piano, organ, marimba and kalimba. This music can American Music Awards, and appear Classical Bird and Bird Notes. be heard on internet radio at internet-radio.com/ at the 2015 SAI National Convention In rotation on Women of Substance BURTON station/marsexpedition July 23 – 27 in St. Louis, MO. I look Radio. Soundpaintings on forward to seeing many SAI friends Dependance, Radio Berlin, June WILLIAM BOLCOM and colleagues, as well as meeting 2014. In rotation, in Russia, Electroshock Radio. Bolcom, along with librettist Mark Campbell, has new ones. I was very happy this Familiarity, Turkey Too, Monkish, in rotation been commissioned by the Minnesota Opera to year to compose Sinfonietta per HotMix 106. BREWBAKER write a comic opera based on George Kaufman and Sofia in honor of the 80th birthday PREMIERES: (Via CD) The Tea Party, Dancing with My Edna Ferber’s Dinner at Eight to be premiered in of Sophia Loren, as well as to Teddy, Playing Dress Up, Ad Hoc & Key, two clarinets. Minneapolis in March 2017. Bolcom received the compose Cantanta Stagionale in collaboration with The Twelfth of Cold, Fairy Boat, Sno Imp, Frost

Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 3 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • Heaves, violin, viola, bass, piano, clarinet, oboe. In the Three Character Sketches for Solo Viola, duration: clarinet): all Vivace Records, 1748 Roosevelt Avenue, Beginning..., organ. Companion, piano, flute, bass. 8‘. Energico!, band, duration 10’15”. Ocean Moods, Los Angeles. PUBLICATIONS: Interview and review in the online flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, duration 13’30”. WEBSITE: ceelymusic.com mag MusicNotz, July 2014. Review, Skope online mag Fables from Aesop, bass clarinet, violin, duration: 13’. Aug 2014. Female Frequencies, March 2014. Ricercare on C, A. LORIS OHANNES CHOBANIAN • RECORDINGS: Classical Bird, Bird Notes, Jazz Jazz Gabrieli arranged for clarinet quartet duration: 2’30”. PREMIERES: Chopsticks, Sean Bird, Lou Lou Bird, Soundpaintings, Live from the Traditions, violin, clarinet, guitar, string bass, duration: Gabriel, flute, Jack Brndier, Center. 6’30”, 1990, revised 2014 trumpet, Debora Comodeca, piano, RECORDINGS: The following works are on the Baldwin Wallace University Gamble JEANNE ROWLEY BURULL • new CD: Spanish Memoirs: Howard J. Buss: Rite of Auditorium, 9/14/14. Variations on Jeanne Rowley Burull reports two Passage, solo marimba, Incantation, trumpet and an Israeli Theme, Bryan Reichert, works in progress: Piano Solos percussion, Spanish Memoirs, trumpet and percussion Christopher Ellicott, guitars, Baldwin (intermediate to advanced), Songs ensemble, Night Tide, trombone and marimba, Wallace University Fynette Kulas Hall, for Children and Others. She notes: Atmospheres, trumpet and percussion. Soloists: Yu- 5/18/14. CHOBANIAN “Helping other young musicians who Jung Chung, percussion, Diego Arias, trumpet, Manuel Just Violins, Julian Ross, Samuel are interested in composing is very Quesada Benetiz, trombone. [IBS Classical (Granada, Rocberg, violins, and four student violinists, Baldwin rewarding. This includes especially Spain)]. Seaside Reflections, flute and harp is on the Wallace University Chamber Hall, 5/1/14. Rhapsodic those talented young musicians who new CD Allume, performed Brian Luce, flute, Carrol Variations, Regina Mushabac, cello, William Shaffer, BURULL composer by ear and who need help McLaughlin, harp. [Albany Records, (Troy1464)] piano, Baldwin Wallace University Chamber Hall, with notation, key, time signatures, WEBSITE: brixtonpublications.com/howard_j_ 4/14/14. Mayerovitch, Piano Sonata, Robert and lyric placement. Sometimes the lyrics come first. buss-2.html Mayerovitch, piano, BW Gamble Auditorium, 3/2/14. The whole process is effective as a learning tool Fantasia, Trio Bel Canto, Patrick Meighan, alto sax, because I work one-on-one. It’s exciting, sort of like a JERRY CASEY • John Moore, tenor sax, Krista Wallace, piano, BW design-build.” Tracks from Jerry Casey’s CD, Yet, I Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Dwight Oltman, conductor, PREMIERES: Love is Kind, piano solo. Chorale (lyrics, Will Rejoice, continue to be broadcast BW Gamble Auditorium, 1/31/14. Vocalise, Tracy Washington Gladden (1836-1918), Grace Singers, on Radio Arts Indonesia on a regular Grady, Cynthia O’Connell, sopranos, Bryan Reichert, Westby Norseland, Westby WI, 9/7/14. basis. Completion of Pilate’s Wife guitar, BW Gamble Auditorium, 1/25/14. The Soldier (chamber opera) was interrupted by Returns, Louise Zeitlin, viola, James Howsman, piano, HOWARD J. BUSS a move to South Florida; target for BW Gamble Auditorium, 1/17/14. During 2014, Howard J. Buss received an ASCAPlus completion is now the end of 2014. Award from the American Society of Composers, PERFORMANCES: Only for a SONDRA CLARK •• CASEY Authors, and Publishers in recognition of significant Time, Jerry Casey, soprano, taped Sondra Clark reports: “At the performances of his music. His Saint accompaniment, Jerry Casey Music, beginning of 2014, I found it Francis and the Animals for flute, Worthington OH Baptist Church, 3/23/14. What a necessary to take a leave from my clarinet, and harp was a Finalist in friend we have in Jesus, Church Choir, Jerry Casey, work in order to care for my beloved the 2014 Newly-Published Music Worthington Baptist Church, 3/30/14. A Special husband of 55 years, who is very Competition of the National Flute Gift, Jerry Casey, soprano, Ian Quimba, piano, Jerry ill. Although I have not had the time Association. Casey Music, Worthington Baptist Church, 6/1/14. to produce, play or promote my PERFORMANCES: Illuminations, Celebrate 25! Tara Travers, violin, Eric Kutz, cello, Miko music, I am blessed with wonderful CLARK Jonas Arne Johansson, bass Kominami, piano, Jerry Casey Music, Iowa Composers musician friends and fans who trombone, Milan Rabrenovic, BUSS Forum Cafe Concert, Opus Concert Cafe, Cedar gladden my heart with reports of piano (Brixton Publications), Institute Rapids, IA, 10/4/14. Anna’s Song, Elizabeth Sywulka, faraway performances of my music. And the few for Music and Dance, University of Stavanger, Norway, soprano, Jerry Casey Music, Annual conference of the times I’ve been persuaded to perform my music in a 5/28/2014. Tennessee Suite, Tabatha Easley, flute, Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers, BIOLA concert, the experience never failed to be uplifting and Braunwin Sheldrick, viola, Andrés Gómez Bravo, University, La Mirada, CA, 10/10/14. therapeutic -- music is truly ‘the best medicine!’ ” piano (Brixton Publications), Universidad EAFIT in PERFORMANCES: Favorite Carols for Two, for piano, Medellin, Colombia, 5/19/2014. Space Renaissance AUGUSTA CECCONI-BATES • four hands, Kardontchik/Clark Piano Duo, S.A.I. Suite, Elena Cecconi, flute, Space Renaissance Italia- Her newly commissioned opera Skaters will premiere Holiday Musicale, Glenn Rouse Hall, Los Gatos, CA, Congresso, Milano Politecnico Bovisa, 5/9/2014; in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, May 2015. Molly Dec 2013. Key Lime Sunset and Pentatempo Waltz, also, National Space Congress ISDC Convention, of the Mohawks (opera) will have two Canadian Libby Kardontchik, piano, Unitarian Church, Palo Sheraton Gateway Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, 5/16/2014; performances in 2015. Alto, CA, Dec. 2013. Florida Fantasy, Kardontchik/ Conservatorio Superior de Música, La Coruña, RECORDINGS: 2 CD Set: a. Music of Wars; b. Songs Clark Duo, National Assoc. of Composers, USA Spain, 4/19/2014; Monteverdi in Mantova MN, Italy, of Animals Series, Lucie Stern Ballroom, Palo Alto, Ca, Feb. 2014. 3/19/2014. A Day in the City: 7 Vignettes, Mark Syslo, Three American Scenes and Florida Fantasy Suite, unaccompanied horn (Brixton Publications), Hope ROBERT CEELY Kardontchik/Clark Duo, S.A.I. Annual Public Musicale, United Church of Christ, Allentown, PA, 5/4/2014. Ceely’s music is available from ACA The Forum Concert Hall, Cupertino, CA, April, 2014; Night Flight, Ilonka Kolthof, piccolo, Mor Levin, and BEEP. also, Florida Fantasy Suite, Kardontchik/Clark Duo, clarinet, Anne Veinberg, piano (Brixton Publications), PREMIERES: Ontageny (fixed Palo Alto Two-Piano Club Annual Concert, Lucie Stern Chamber Music Festival, Royal Conservatory of media); Negative for solo piano Ballroom, Palo Alto, CA, May 2014. Antwerp, Belgium, 5/3/2014. RECORDINGS: Buell Neidlinger, PREMIERES: Brasilia Beguine, two pianos, eight PREMIERES: Reflective Journey, Andrew Pelletier, Basso Profundoi, Hymn, Fred Sherry, hands, Commissioned by Gwendolyn Mok for finale horn, Ryan Williams, Dave Nelson, Billy Sheak, Roger cello, Buell Neidlinger, bass; Logs, of “PianoMania,” The San Jose State University Piano Schupp, percussion ensemble, J. J. Pearse, conductor, Don Palma, Buell Neiflinger, bass. Quartet, CSUSJ Concert Hall, San Jose, CA, Oct. 2013. CEELY Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, OH, Oh One to Five (Brass Quintet); Homage to George Gershwin, string quartet, written 9/17/14. Extensions, piano; 5 Songs for The Sorella String Quartet, National Assoc. of PUBLICATIONS: All published by Brixton Publications: (SATB); Ontageny; Songs for Soprano and Piano: Composers Series, Foothill Congregational Church, Los Illuminations, bass trombone (or tuba) and band 20’. Remembering George (Big Band); Post hoc (bass Altos, CA, June 2014.

4 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 NANCY HILL COBB • Felix Reyes and the soundtrack to a documentary on ADRIENNE ELISHA •••• Nancy Hill Cobb’s music was the history of Eastern Kentucky University, which will Adrienne Elisha was in residence performed across the United States, be presented in the Fall 2015. I was recently named at MacDowell Colony, October- in Europe and Asia in the last year. EKU Foundation Professor, the highest honor available November 2012 and the Bellagio Her newest composition is “Tread to EKU faculty recognizing outstanding achievements Center (Rockefeller Foundation Softly on My Dreams,” for mixed in Teaching, Scholarly/Creative work and Service. I am Award), May-June 2013. chorus, and her latest publication the first musician ever to receive this recognition.” PERFORMANCES: Solo Viola Music is “Sing We Now of Christmas,” PERFORMANCES: Viola Sonata Op. 10 and Trumpet for Salon Arendt, Köln, Germany, a new setting of that traditional Concerto Op. 12, American Composers Concert, Adrienne Elisha, viola July 2013. and familiar text. Cobb continues COBB Evansville, IN, 7/23/14 PREMIERES: InCantation (Ballet ELISHA her work as Associate Provost for PREMIERES: 4 Latin Dances for Oboe and Piano, Version) James VanDemark, Faculty Affairs at the University of Northern Iowa in Op. 14 by oboist Evelyn McCarty and pianist Imelda contrabass, Jamey Leverett, choreographer, Rochester Cedar Falls. Delgado in Corpus Christi, TX in July 2014. NY City Ballet, 1/31-2/1/; also, Solo Version, Eastman PERFORMANCES: Gloria, San Francisco Boys Chorus, School of Music, March 2012; Harvard University, Ian Robertson, artistic director, Bing Concert Hall, MICHAEL G. CUNNINGHAM May 2012; Aigues-Vives Festival en Musiques, France, Stanford University, 12/15/13. And Draw Her Home RECORDINGS: Silhouettes (9), and Aug 2013; Roundtop Music Festival, June 2012; San with Music, Michigan All State Men’s Chorus, Michigan the Bach Prelude in French Style, Antonio, TX, June 2013. Music Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1/24/14. both recorded by Petr Vronsky and When Music Sounds, University of Northern Iowa the Moravian Philharmonic. BRIAN FENNELLY Concert Chorale, John Wiles, conductor, Gallagher- SCORES: Four Christian Bach Brian Fennelly is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty Bluedorn Music Hall, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 3/16/14. Vauxhall Songs scored for soprano of Arts and Science at New York University and co- Invictus, Ohio State University Men’s Glee Club, and reduced Concert Band. Early director of the Washington Square Contemporary Robert Ward, conductor, Weigel Auditorium, Ohio State Debussy Symphonie scored for Music Society, now in its thirty-eighth season of CUNNINGHAM University, Columbus, 9/14/14. Concert Band. Memorial Concert concerts in New York City. A graduate of Union College Cantate Domino, Aachener Domchor, Berthold Botzet, Mass for SATB and piano. Analects in engineering and liberal arts, he was awarded the conductor, Aachen Cathedral, Germany, 9/14/14. for a cappella SATB. Union College Outstanding Engineering Alumnus PUBLICATIONS: “Sing We Now of Christmas,” Award in May of 2013. At the award ceremony at SSAATTBB, Colla Voce Music, Spring 2014. the college he spoke of his career as a composer WALLACE DE PUE, SR. •• and his early involvement in electronic music. His JAMES COHN ••• “At present all of my time is composition Empirical Rag, version for wind quintet, Eileen Cohn, SAI patroness, writes for her husband devoted to redoing my website was the winner of the 2014 Composers Concordance Jim, who celebrated his 86th birthday in February, and publishing my grand opera, composer competition, senior division. “Maestro Patrick Botti of the Waltham (MA) Symphony Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The PERFORMANCES: Sacred Songs, “One Quiet Orchestra has programmed Cohn’s Boston Metro Opera plans to Plunge”, Kelvin Chan, baritone, Joshua Groffman, Miniatures for Orchestra because he perform my opera (see premiere piano, Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, loves this piece so much. Botti led of “barbershopera Something Poughkeepsie, NY, 6/29/14; also, Miniatures again with the Waltham Special” on YouTube) four times in CUA New Voices Festival, Alex DE PUE Symphony on December 2nd. Jim 2015. During January, it will start in Ruhling, baritone, Justus Parrotta, has had, and is having, lots and lots Nashville, TN, and end in Atlanta, piano, St, Vincent de Paul Chapel, of performances of his chamber GA. The Pittsburgh Opera Theater plans to perform my Catholic University of America, music, for which we are both very Washington, DC, 1/25/14. Empirical COHN opera The True Story of the Three Little Pigs during grateful. This past summer he had 2015.” Rag, Composers Concordance, FENNELLY two pieces performed at the Oyster PERFORMANCES: Little Lamb Who Made Thee, Compcord Wind Quintet, Wohl Center Bay Music Festival (his “Strutting Butterflies” by the Corolyn Lorenzoni, soprano, Sigma Alpha Iota at Goddard Riverside Community Center, NYC, 5/17/14. 11-year-old-phenom, Maxim Lando) and a premiere of Indianapolis, 4/20/13. Praetorius’ Sing Dem Herrn his Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano performed by Maverick Tango, Stanley Alexandrowicz, guitar, (arr), Middle Level Boy’s Honor Choir, Vincent Oakes, the young artist who commissioned it, Joseph Shy. Schott Recital Room, Schott Music, London, England, director, North Central ACDA Convention, 4/2/14; also, PERFORMANCES: In New York, he had the second 3/28/14. Three Pieces for Piano, Zi Liang, piano, concert lists of GA, IN, MO, FVA, and NC choral groups; performance of a Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Cello LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College, NYC, 11/1/13. also, Aosa National Convention Reading Session. performed by the gentleman who commissioned the SUKHI!, Boston New Music Initiative, Parma Music piece last year, Joseph Rosen. Sonata for Bassoon Animal Fugue, “Humor in Music” Festival, Battelle Fine Festival, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth, NH, 8/16/13. and Piano, Shotaro Mori, November 2014. Sonata Arts Center, Otterbein University, 3/31/14. Evening Consort II: Photogram for Saxophone Quartet, various for French Horn and Piano, Barbara Oldham, January Song for Jeannie, Neil Thornock, carillon, Ball State faculty, SCI National Conference, Ohio State University, 2015. Sonata for Violin and Piano, Patrisa Tomassini, University, June 2014. Columbus, 2/16/13. violin, Paul Morin, piano, January 2015. PREMIERES: When It’s Christmas Time (arr.) PREMIERES: Tableaux (2013-14) for Piano and Ten 11/19/13. Instruments, Ensemble Mise-En, Dorothy Chan, piano, RICHARD A. CROSBY ••• PUBLICATIONS: A sample of many: Sanctus (SATB, Mark Loria, conductor; American Composers Edition Mr. Crosby reports: “4 Latin Dances organ) 4/18/13; To America from Her Fathers (fl. or (ACE), Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC, 3/28/14. Distant for Oboe and Piano, Op. 14 was vln, sop, alt, 5/12/13; Prelude and a Dorian Dance, Call (2013) for solo muted trumpet or flugelhorn, Jack commissioned by Evelyn McCarty orchestra, 5/23/13; With Rue My Heart Is Laden Sutte, flugelhorn, ACE, Cleveland Orchestra at Gordon and Imelda Delgado in honor of (SATB) 5/26/13; One Little Light at Christmas, sop, Square, Survival Kit at 78th St. Studios, Cleveland, OH, Delgado’s father, Narciso Delgado, alt, harp or pno, 9/23/13; Love Divine (sop. obbligato, 3/17/13; also, Sean Butterfield, trumpet, International who was active in the early years SATB, organ), 5/24/13; The Spinning Wheel (SSAA, Trumpet Guild Conference, King of Prussia, PA, of the Tejano movement. The work pno, vln, Cb), 1/17/14. 5/23/14; Haddock Recital Hall, University of Idaho, is published by Prairie Dawg Press. Moscow, 3/6/14; IFC3 Conference, Ansen-Hull Hall, CROSBY RECORDINGS: The De Pue Brother’s Band, When Current projects include a solo It’s Christmas Time…, Beat the Drum Entertainment, University of Oregon, Eugene, 6/16/14. marimba work commissioned by PUBLICATIONS: Tableaux (2013-14) for Piano and 11/19/13.

Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 5 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • Ten Instruments, Distant Call (2014) for solo trumpet Orchestra, Thomas Wilkins, conductor, Joslyn the Living, a 60-minute work in eight movements for or flugelhorn,Memoria (2014) for piano. American Museum, NE, 11/23/14. Diversions Overture, symphony orchestra, full choir, and SATB soloists. The Composers Edition, American Composers Alliance, Wooster Symphony Orchestra, Jeffrey Lindberg, St. Petersburg State Symphony and Choir, conducted composers.com conductor, McGaw Chapel, The College of Wooster, by Vladimir Lande, has been shouldering the largest RECORDINGS: Distant Call (2014), Jack Sutte, OH, 2/28/14; also, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, share of the work, with soloists to be announced and flugelhorn, “Fanfare Alone”, 2-CD release of twenty JoAnn Falletta, Music Director, Kleinhans Music Hall, recorded in early 2015. The recording is a project of works for solo trumpet, available online Fall 2014. 2/7-8/14. Capriccio, Marc Antonio Estrada, Ryan WEBSITE: library.newmusicusa.org/brianfennelly Anthony Wygant, trumpets, Senior Recital, Student Parma Recordings, LLC, and will be released on their Union, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX, Navona label in early Summer of 2015. Released in SHEILA FIRESTONE • 19 March 2014; also, Daniel Zehringer and Eric Knorr, Fall of 2014 was a recording of Amelia, for symphony PREMIERES: Pandora Triptych trumpets, “Twilight Concerts,” NCR Renaissance orchestra, performed by the Shepherd Symphony Music, Sheila Firestone, piano, Auditorium, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 16 July Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conducting, and on the Jennifer Wilson, Charles Sheikovitz, 2014. Ablaze label under the title Millennial Masters dancers-coreographers, Boca Raton RECORDINGS: Symphony No. 2 Ascendant, Volume 5. National League of American Pen recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Women, Delray Beach, FL, 4/17/14. Falletta, conductor, released January 2015 on JACKSON HILL To Erik Satie, Delian Suite No. 8, Naxos “American Classics.” Recorded at Blackheath Octava Chamber Orchestra, Seattle, Halls, London, the forthcoming disc includes Quiet Dr. Jackson Hill is Professor of Music, Emeritus, of FIRESTONE WA, Oct 2015. Third World E-Waste Reflections (formerly, A Quiet Musicke), a twelve- Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. He is currently the Graveyards, sop, alt, counter tenor, minute single-movement work. In August 2014 at composer for a project involving five baritone, piano, crotales, tympani, also Chromatic WFMT studios in Chicago, pianist Frank Huang, poets who have been collaborating Preludes in Five, Delian Society, Sale, England, Fall Assistant Professor of Piano at Miami University in at the Yaddo Writers’ Colony in 2015. youtube.com/watch?v=dQoA6AEyT5E Oxford, Ohio, recorded Gallagher’s music for solo Saratoga Springs, NY. He gave piano for projected CD release on the Centaur Records presentations and lecture recitals on label. Celebration and Reflection, for brass quintet, Proust and Music in connection with ROBERT FLEISHER was recorded by Bala Brass and released in October the centennial of the publication PERFORMANCES: Gig Harbor, Carl Rosser, piano, 2014 as part of the disc Revealed, on Beauport HILL of Swann’s Way. The Japanese Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) region 8 conference, Classics BC41420. University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 3/8/14. ensemble Goben no Hana is currently touring his ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK Dans le piano (fixed media), College Music Society Omiizuru Koi, and the ensemble New York Polyphony, PERFORMANCES: Toussaint Rocky Mountain regional conference, Metropolitan which recorded his Ma fin est mon commencement Overture, Lake Charles Symphony, State University, Denver, CO, 3/21/14; also, PARMA in 2011, continues to tour that work. His composition Bohuslav Rattay, conductor, music festival, Portsmouth, NH, 8/14/14. Five Songs Voices of Autumn is frequently broadcast in the US, African-American History Month from Carl Sandburg’s ‘Prairie’, Joy Gann, soprano, Observance, Lake Charles, LA, the UK, and in Australia, and the Fitzwilliam String Fofi Panagiotouros, piano, New Music Conflagration, 2/15/14; also, Symphony North, Quartet routinely include his composition Ghosts in St Petersburg Public Library, 6/8/14. Loretto Reynaldo Ochoa, conductor, their concerts in the UK. Alfresco (fixed media), College Music Society national Houston, TX, 2/23/14. At The Space PERFORMANCES: Tango No Tango, Silas Bassa, conference, St. Louis, MO, 10/30/14. GOTTSCHALK Age Vinyl Music Box Lounge, Bird piano, Atelier de la main d’or, Paris, 4/4/14; Accueil PREMIERES: Variations and Soliloquies (Fantasia on on a Wire New Music Ensemble, Dvorak’s Trio No. 4 in E minor, “Dumky”), Amicizia Trio, Musical St-Merry, Paris, 7/20/14; Biblioteca de Villa David Colson, Director, Western Michigan University, Song-A Cho, violin, Stephanie Iovine, cello, Johanna Montanina, Velo d’Astico, Italy, 7/21/14. Ma fin est Kalamazoo, MI, 3/27/14. And on April 5, 2014, the Kosak, piano, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, mon commencement, New York Polyphony, Waalse The Kaleidoscopic Pocket Hockets Boogaloo Texas 4/14/14; also, Northern Illinois University, 4/14/14; Kerk Amsterdam, 4/22/14; St.-Hippolytuskapel, A&M-Commerce Clarinet Choir, Mary Alice Druhan, Columbia College, Chicago, 4/16/14. Delft, 4/23/14; Keizerzaal Rotterdam, 4/24/14; Director, International Clarinet Choir Festival, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 4/5/14; also, Wind Serenades Laurenskerk, Rotterdam, 4/25/14. Love is Life, Bucks JACK GALLAGHER ••• Bass Clarinet Choir, Sarah Watts, Director, The Voice County Choral Society, Thomas Lloyd, director, Our More than 150 broadcasts of Gallagher’s Box, Derby, Ireland, 10/14/14. Concerto for Wind and Lady of Guadalupe, Doylestown, PA, 10/26/14. Saint compositions were aired on NPR, regional and Percussion Orchestra, Roosevelt University Symphonic Chad Service (Lichfield Cathedral Magnificat and other outlets nationwide and Band, Stephen Squires, conductor, Chicago, IL, Nunc dimittis), Choir of St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, internationally including stations 9/10/14. Sonatina Casada, Leonard Garrison, flute, Denver, CO, 10/26/14; also, Choir of St. Mark’s in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago, and Shannon Scott, clarinet, College Music Society’s Church Locust Street, Philadelphia, Wells Cathedral Detroit, Atlanta, Cleveland, National Conference, in St. Louis, MO, 11/1/14. Phoenix, Minneapolis, Miami, (UK), 8/12/14. Brodwick Songs, John Duykers, tenor, Timothy PREMIERES: No Traveler More Blest, Bucknell Pittsburgh, Denver, Houston, Harpster, double bass, also, Fantasy Variations, University Chapel Choir, William Payn, director, Rooke Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, Kenneth Goldsmith, violin, UNLV Chamber Orchestra, Orlando, Cincinnati, San Antonio, Taras Krysa, conductor, Nextet Series, Las Vegas, Chapel, 4/29/14. the Australian Broadcasting GALLAGHER 5/4/14. Company (ABC), Sirius XM Radio, QUINCY HILLIARD PREMIERES: RadioArtsIndonesia.com, and in-flight broadcasts on Capriccio Genovese, Rocco Parisi, bass Hilliard was recently chosen for the Mississippi Arts clarinet, Ritz Chamber Players; also, Sonata for Bass Continental, AirTran, Jet Blue, and Frontier Airlines. and Letters Award for 2014 for the composition PERFORMANCES: Clarinet and Piano, Sauro Berti, bass clarinet, Audrey Proteus Rising from the Sea, “Kojiki.” The piece is based upon the creation of the Sacramento Symphonic Winds, Lester E. Lehr, Andrist, piano, International Clarinet Festival, Baton world according to a Japanese Prophet. conductor, Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, CA, Rouge, LA, 7/31/14; also, Andrij Dyachenko, bass PUBLICATIONS: 10/19/14. A Psalm of Life, Ohio Northern University clarinet, Rice University Syzygy Concert, Shepherd Blessing of the Fleet (Concert Band), Wind Orchestra, Thomas A. Hunt, Director, Freed School of Music Student String Quartet, Houston. Lakeside Overture (Concert Band) Center, Ohio Northern University, Ada, 12/14/13. RECORDINGS: Much of 2014 has been taken up WEBSITE: music.louisiana.edu/faculty/ Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Omaha Symphony by recording and production work on Requiem: For qhilliard.html

6 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 SYDNEY HODKINSON Quartet, quartet-in-residence at West Texas A&M China, 10/13/12. A commission has been received from Aspen Music University. Samuel Jones spent a week in residence at PREMIERES: Rhapsodic Music, The Formalist Festival for a String Quartet, to be premiered summer Delta College, Saginaw, MI, in November 2014, where Quartet, HEARNOW 2013 Festival of Music, Los of 2015 by the Jupiter Quartet. he was recognized for establishing the Delta College Angeles, 04/13/13. Five Reactions, Genevieve Feiwen PERFORMANCES: A Pilgrim’s Summer Conservatory of Music and the Festival Lee, piano, Claremont, CA , 19/27/14; also, Los Counsel (A Warning to All), Ernest Orchestra as well as for his successful tenure as Angeles, 10/06/14. Cantilena III, Yuri Inoo, marimba Murphy, tenor, Michael music director of the Saginaw Symphony in 1962-65. and Aron Kallay, pianom Eagle Rock, 02/08/14, also, Rickman, piano, Elizabeth Hall, PERFORMANCES: Tuba Concerto, Thomas Allely, Santa Monica, CA, 02/16/14. Stetson University, Deland, FL, tuba, Queensland Symphony, Johannes Fritzsch, PUBLICATIONS: (All Material Press, Frankfurt, 10/26/2013. Kerberos (1990), Marja conducting, Brisbane, Australia, 3/8/13. Cello Germany); Cantilena 2012, flute and piano; Kerney, snare drum, Elizabeth Hall, Concerto, Norman Fischer, Cellist, Shepherd School More Recreations, two pianos; Soliloquy V, guitar; Stetson, 2/7/2014. ORGANMUSIC Symphony Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conducting, Concords III, cello and guitar; Three Pieces, string (2009), 3 movements, Boyd Jones, HODKINSON Rice University, Houston, TX, 4/18/13. The Trumpet quartet. organ, Elizabeth Hall, Stetson, of the Swan (for Chorus and Orchestra), Mississippi 2/7/2014. EPITAPHIAN (1990), Aspen Philharmonic Symphony, Crafton Beck, conductor, Millsaps Singers, SUSAN COHN LACKMAN • Orchestra, Nikolas Nagele, conductor, Aspen Music Timothy Coker, Conductor, Jackson, MS, 4/20/13. PERFORMANCES: Peace (SATB a Tent, Aspen, CO 7/9/2014. The Shoe Bird, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, capella), Benefit Concert for K-9s for PUBLICATIONS: (All Presser): Brain Drops: A Michael Butterman, conductor, Jennifer Carsillo, Vets, Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, Serenade for Two Pianists, 6/2014; Three Dance narrator, and Canandaigua Academy Womens Choir, 11/7 – 11/14. Temple Israel High Preludes (1981), alto saxophone and piano 9/2014; Rochester, NY, 5/19/13. Elegy (for String Orchestra), Holiday Choir, conductor, arranger, Chalumeau (1984), canonic prelude for solo clarinet New Century Chamber Orchestra, Nadja Salerno- Fall 2014. and electronics. Sonnenberg, conductor, San Francisco, CA, 11/20- PUBLICATIONS: Program notes, RECORDINGS: A KEYBOARD ODYSSEY, Barry Snyder, 24/13. (In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, piano, Boyd Jones, organ, Navona Records 961, the death of President John F. Kennedy.) Trombone Orlando Ballet. LACKMAN 6/2014. Concerto, Douglas Scarborough, trombone, Walla Walla Symphony, Yaacov Bergman, conductor, Walla LORI LAITMAN •••• ANTHONY IANNACCONE Walla, WA, 3/1/15. Cello Concerto, Julian Schwarz, Laitman offered a master class at the University of Iannaccone was awarded the 2014-2015 Ulysses Cellist, All-Star Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 4-6, James Prize for Orchestral Music, for Dancing on 55 broadcasts over PBS stations throughout the US 2014, including a concert of her songs. Vesuvius and Waiting for Sunrise during the 2013-2014 season. PERFORMANCES: Joy in Singing presents Songs of on the Sound, and served as the PREMIERES: Violin Concerto, Anne Akiko Meyers, Stephen Foster and Lori Laitman, soprano Kristina Gretchen French Visiting Artist violin, All-Star Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conducting, Bachrach, soprano, Michael Kelly, baritone, Bretton at Ashland University, where soloist, recorded on August 27, 2014, at SUNY Brown, piano, The Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln he conducted ensembles in Purchase, New York, and to be premiered on PBS Center, NYC, 5/1/14. The Prison performances of several large works, television stations, Spring, 2015. (This is believed Scene from The Scarlet Letter delivered lectures, and participated to be only the third work commissioned for and Washington National Opera Young in faculty performances of his premiered exclusively on television, the other two Artists, Smithsonian American Art chamber music. IANNACCONE being Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and Museum, Washington, DC, with PERFORMANCES: Dancing on Stravinsky’s The Flood.) Four Haiku, Chamber Version, soprano Shantelle Przybylo, soprano, Vesuvius, Florida State University TangleTown Trio, (Jo Nardolillo, violin, Sarah Mattox, Chrisian Bowers, baritone, Tomoko Symphony Orchestra, A. Jimenez, conductor, mezzo-soprano, Judith Cohen, piano), Seattle, WA, Nakayama, piano, 4/6/14. The Love Tallahassee, FL, 1/31/15; Austin Civic Orchestra, 11/23/14. Fanfare and Celebration, arr. for Concert Poems of Marichiko, The Ethical LAITMAN L. Ferrari, cond., Anderson Performing Arts Center, Band, U.S. Navy Band, Capt. Brian Walden, conductor, Society of Philadelphia, PA, Shannon Austin, TX, 11/9/13. Dancing on Vesuvius and Waiting Puyallup, WA, 2/12/13. Coulter, soprano, Michal Schmidt, piano, 4/12/14. for Sunrise on the Sound, Washington Metropolitan PUBLICATIONS: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, The Silver Swan, Vocal Arts DC, The Phillips Collection, Philharmonic, U. James, cond., Geo. Washington published by Campanile Music Press, Carl Fischer, Natalie Conte, soprano, Dr. R. Timothy McReynolds, National Memorial Theater, Alexandria, VA, 10/12/14; exclusive agent. Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, piano, 4/17/14. I Never Saw Another Butterfly, also, The Church of the Epiphany, Washington, DC, Solo Violin part and Piano Reduction, published by Holocaust Memorial Concert, Fondazione Adkins Chiti, 10/19/14. Sea Drift, Univ. of MI Wind Ensemble, Ann Campanile Music Press, Carl Fischer, exclusive agent. Teatro Verdi, Milan, Italy, 1/27/14; also, Castleton Arbor, MI, 10/7/13; also, Western Michigan Univ. Four Haiku, Chamber Version, published by Campanile Farms, Castleton, VA, Susan Wheeler, soprano, Symph. Band, Kalamazoo, MI, 10/13/13. Music Press, Carl Fischer, exclusive agent. Pamela Helton, saxophone, 3/22/14. PUBLICATIONS: Four new orchestra study scores: RECORDINGS: Cello Concerto, Julian Schwarz, Cellist, PREMIERES/COMMISSIONS: The Three Feathers, Escape, From Time to Time, Waiting for Sunrise on All-Star Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conducting, Naxos a one-act children’s opera based on a Grimm’s fairy the Sound, and West End Express, publ. by Tenuto/ DVD. tale, with librettist Dana Gioia, commissioned by Theodore Presser (King of Prussia, PA). Center For The Arts at Virginia Tech. Premiere on KARL KOHN October 17, 2014, Scott Williamson, conductor, Beth SAMUEL JONES New works include Cantabile, cello; Sonata a tre, viola, Greenberg, director, Center for The Arts at VA Tech, Samuel Jones stepped down last cello, and piano; Paralogue I, cello and piano; Seven Blacksburg, VA. In Sleep The World Is Yours, song year after 16 years as Director of the Brevities, piano; Reflections (2014), string quartet. cycle for soprano, oboe and piano (poetry by Selma Seattle Symphony Young Composers PERFORMANCES: Die Kirche, for voice, lute, clarinet, Meerbaum-Eisinger). Commissioned by Music of Workshop. He served again as a violin, cello, and piano, Lucy Shelton, soprano, Remembrance and premiered May 12, 2014 with faculty member of the Conductors ensemble united-berlin, A. Peskalozza, conductor, soprano Megan Chenovick, oboist Ben Hausmann and Institute of South Carolina in June, Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany, 10/24/13. Three pianist Mina Miller. Repeat performance in Seattle, 2014, where his Let Us Now Praise Pieces, Eclipse Quartet, Claremont, CA, 12/09/13. October, 2014. The Soul Fox. Famous Men and Elegy were Toccata and Virelais, A. Melichar, accordion, RECORDINGS: “If I…”, new cl/voice version JONES performed. His next commission is J. Mossyrch, harp, Ensemble Wiener Collage, recorded with Randall Scarlata, baritone, Anthony for a String Quartet for the Harrington Contemporary Music Festival Cheng Dou, Szechuan, McGill, clarinetist, Lori Laitman, piano, An AIDS Quilt

Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 7 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • Songbook: Sing for Hope, GPR Records, December Japan (Tokoro Katsuyori). Spiral Mirrors, Scottsdale DAN LOCKLAIR •• 2014. The Apple Orchard on The Lyric Clarinet, Center for the Performing Arts, Manhattan Plaza, Dan Locklair is Composer-in-Residence and Professor with clarinet F. Gerard Errante and pianist Philip N.Y., Manhattan Plaza, N.Y., Amherst College. Sirens, of Music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, Fortenberry. Holocaust 1944, Acis Productions, Mexico City, Ensamble Tamayo. Concert Etudes, New NC. UK broadcasts of Locklair works Dashon Burton, baritone, Logan Coale, doublebass. York Guitar Marathon. Gigolo, Hokkaido, Japan (Kaoru have included Hodie Christus natus The Earth and I, premiere recording of my choral Tanaka) est (from Three Christmas Motets), Dickinson cycle, The Washington Master Chorale, PUBLICATIONS: Spiral Mirrors (electric guitar and performed by the BBC Singers (David Albany Label. In My Memory: American Songs alto saxophone), Dorn Publications, MA. Passing Hill, conductor), on the 23 December and Song Cycles includes new recording of “The Future Past, Dorn Publications. Serpent (9 new 2013 BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show. Apple Orchard” and the premiere recording of On A instrumentations now available) Fatrock Ink, Los In America, the week of June 9, 2014 Photograph, Kerry Jennins, tenor, Amanda Asplund Angeles. Cor Prudentis (rearranged for brass and APM’s nationally syndicated radio Hopson, piano, Centaur. Experience: Soprano Natalie percussion) Cherry Classics, Vancouver. 60 Beginning program, Pipe Dreams, presented the LOCKLAIR Mann and pianist Jeffrey Panko perform songs by and Intermediate Guitar Studies Lorimer Editions, New first national broadcast of Locklair’s Lori Laitman and Richard Pearson Thomas, Albany York (Roseanne BMI), available 2015. Glory and Peace (A Suite of Seven Reflections) as Records. Andrew Garland: American Portraits, Andrew RECORDINGS: Distances Within Me, Blue Griffin performed by organist Thomas Murray at the Cathedral Garland, baritone, Donna Loewy, piano, perform Men Recordings BGR 325. Spiral Mirrors, White Pines Church of St. John the Divine, New York City. with Small Heads, along with works by Cipullo, Heggie Records, 2014. Walls of Paradise (DVD), Art COMMISSIONS: A four-movement composition for and Paulus, on GPR Records. Adventures, Zurich 2015 organ and wind quintet, commissioned by Indiana University of Pennsylvania in celebration of the MARVIN LAMB TANIA LEÓN University’s newly acquired Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Marvin Lamb served as the 2014 Composition Born in Cuba, Tania León is highly Lester D. Yankee Organ. Contest Judge for the California MTNA Composition regarded as a composer and PERFORMANCES: Dream Steps (A Dance Suite for Competitions. Also, he served as a conductor recognized for her Flute, Viola and Harp), Fire Pink Trio, Chamber Music consultant/ reviewer for the doctoral accomplishments as an educator America’s National Conference, Christ & St. Stephen’s programs in the Texas Tech School and advisor to arts organizations. Episcopal Church, NYC, 1/19/14. of Music. She has been the subject of Phoenix, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Robert Moody, PERFORMANCES: Heavy Metal, numerous news profiles, including conductor, Belk Theater, Blumenthal tuba ensemble (C. Fischer, Inc.), Univision’s Orgullo Hispano, which Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, 2/28-3/1/14. Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC, celebrates living American Latinos LEÓN Rubrics for organ (e.c.kerby, ltd.), David Leigh, April 2014; also, International Tuba/ whose contributions in society organ, RTE National Symphony, National Concert Hall, Euphonium Conference, Indiana LAMB have been invaluable. Besides the commissioned Dublin, Ireland, 4/4/14. In Memory – University Jacobs School of Music/ SATB work to be premiered at the 2015 SAI National H.H.L., May 2014. American Sketches, Brass Trio (C. Fischer, Convention, Dr. Leon’s current activities revolve St. Francis’ Episcopal Church Orchestra, Robert Inc.), Faculty Recital, University of Oklahoma School around the Composer Now 2015 Festival in New Kerman, Director of Music, St. Francis’ of Music, April 2014. Grappelli Dreams (Carl Fischer, York City. As the Founder and Artistic Director, she Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, 6/1/2014. In Inc), alto saxophone, viola, New Century Ensemble, is involved in the many performance venues for Mystery and Wonder (The Casavant Diptych), University of Oklahoma, November 2014. American new music around the city throughout the month of William O’Meara, organ, Cathedral of St. Michael, Sketches, Phi Mu Alpha American Music Week, February. Toronto, Canada, 6/15/14. University of Oklahoma/ October 2014. PREMIERES: Presented on the Saint Martha – PREMIERES: In Memory – H.H.L., Dan Locklair, PREMIERES: Sonata for Violin & Piano, scheduled Yamaha Concert Series in Miami Shores, “del Carribe, organ, Winston-Salem AGO Sounds of the Summer 2, premiere and recording project, Feb 2015. Work soy” for flute and piano, Nestor Torres, flute, the Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 6/29/14. for Solo ‘Cello premiere scheduled for March/April composer at the piano. Canzona for the Music Makers (for chamber ensemble), 2015. PUBLICATIONS: Included in the 2015 book by Commissioned by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra PUBLICATIONS: American Sketches, Brass Trio Robert Raines, Composition in the Digital World: for The Northwest School of the Arts, Charlotte, NC, The (Bb Cornet, Euphonium & Tuba). Fantasy For Viola Conversations With 21st Century American Composers Chamber Music Class of Northwest School of the Arts, & Piano. Mingus Among Us, solo Double Bass & (Oxford University Press) 5/4/14. The Cloths of Heaven (SATB choir, a cappella), Speaker. All Carl Fischer, Inc. Concert Choir of Wake Forest University, Brendle RECORDINGS: Pablo/ Saul, Pierrot Ensemble & DAVID LIPTAK Recital Hall, Winston-Salem, NC, 3/4/14; also, on tour Percussion, Los Angeles New Music Ensemble, PREMIERES: Dove Songs, six songs on poems by Rita throughout Ireland. Two Transcendental Odes, Eppes Christina Giacona, cond., CENTAUR RECORDINGS CRC Dove, Tony Arnold, soprano, Alison d’Amato, piano, String Quartet, Jacksonville University, FL, 3/4/14. All 3364. November 2014. Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, Subito publications. WEBSITE: marvinlamb.com NY, 9/7/14. Alive, percussion sextet, Eastman PUBLICATIONS: (First three Subito; Fourth listing Percussion Ensemble, 2/27/14. Novello): Canzona for the Music Makers (for chamber JOHN ANTHONY LENNON PUBLICATIONS: Alive, Broken Cries, Commedia, ensemble), ca. 6’ 00”, Commissioned by the Charlotte Lennon is one of six American Concerto for Viola and Percussion, Contellations, Dove Symphony Orchestra for The Northwest School of the composers interviewed for book by Songs, Edge of Amber, The Eye that Directs a Needle, Arts, Charlotte, NC, May 2014. In Memory – H.H.L. Robert Raines, Oxford University Footsteps, Freight, Ice Flowers, Like Clockwork, Piano (Solo organ version), ca. 4’ 00”, organ transcription Press, titled tentatively Composers in Roll Blues, Preludes, American Composers Alliance, of Locklair’s popular string orchestra original version, the Digital Age, available 2015. 2014 recorded on the Naxos CD: Dan Locklair:Symphony of PERFORMANCES: (An incomplete RECORDINGS: Stars. Stories. Song.: Music by Ricardo Seasons, May 2014. The Cloths of Heaven, (for SATB list): Myth of Aeolia, University of Zohn-Muldoon and David Liptak Chorus, a cappella, based on poetry by William Butler Illinois. Serpent, University of Illinois. (Ravello Records, 2014). Freight. Dieter Hennings, Yeats), ca. 3’ 00”, (Composed for the Wake Forest Passing Future Past, Northwestern LENNON guitar. Preludes. Chien-Kwan Lin, saxophone, Michael Concert Choir’s 2014 Ireland tour), March 2014. The University, University of South Burritt, percussion. The Eye that Directs a Needle, Lord Bless You and Keep You (for SATB Chorus, a Carolina. Distances Within Me, University of Toronto, Jamie Jordan, soprano, Pia Liptak, violin, Megan Arns, cappella), ca. 1’ 15”, included in The New Novello Murray State University, Havana, Cuba (tour), Michigan percussion. Book of Short & Easy Anthems, February 2014. State University, University of Hartford, Nagoya, WEBSITE: composers.com/david-liptak RECORDINGS: TAPESTRIES –The Choral Music of

8 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 Dan Locklair (2-CD set) MSR Music (Albany), Bel Canto Ensemble, Dr. Tess Remy-Schumacher, director. (July, Orchestra, 28 minutes. The Legend of Befana, (20 Company, David Pegg, conductor, also, Choral Art 2014). Fiddle Tunes for solo cello, commissioned minute cantata for grade school musicians). Piano Society, Robert Russell, conductor, May 2014. by Kirsten Underwood (May, 2011-May 2014). The sonatas numbers 2, 3, and 4. Violin Sonata #2. WEBSITE: locklair.com Winding Way. Rhapsody for Two, alto saxophone and Retrieval (septet) Flute/Picc., Oboe, Clarinet, Trpt. marimba, commissioned by Keith Talley, saxophone Violin, Percussion, Piano. (All published by DAPrint, SAM MAGRILL ••• and David Bessinger, marimba (December, Omaha, NE) Samuel Magrill is a Professor of Music and Composer- 2013). in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma KIRKE MECHEM ••• (UCO) School of Music in Edmond. In the fall of 2014, BRUCE MAHIN •• The Volti Chamber Chorale, San Francisco, presented he received his 27th consecutive ASCAP Award. Dr. Mahin continues to serve as a Mechem concert June 8, 2014, at which an Almost all of Samuel Magrill’s works are available faculty advisor for the Eta Upsilon honorary plaque from the city’s mayor was awarded through Lynn Morse Publishing, 1725 Westwood Lane, chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota at the composer for having “helped shape the musical Edmond, OK 73013. Radford University in Virginia. history of our City.” PERFORMANCES: Stone Poems (2011-13), written PERFORMANCES: Le Sens, Kevin PERFORMANCES: Tartuffe (G. Schirmer), opera in for Natalie Syring, “Jade,” “Ruby,” “Agate” and Matheson, violin, Bryan Matheson, 3 acts, University of California Santa Cruz, Nicole “Emerald”, Natalie Syring, flute, Samuel Magrill, piano, viola, Julia Goudimova, cello, Radford Paiement, conductor, Brian Staufenbiel, director, 5/9- Oklahoma City Pianists’ Club, Edmond, 10/1/13; University Covington Center for the 6/1/14. The Rivals (G. Schirmer), MAHIN also, Ladies Music Club Annual Performing Arts, 10/14/14. opera in 2 acts, Bronx Opera, Composers Program, Chapel Hill RECORDINGS: Préludes de Paris, Michael Spierman, conductor, Ben United Methodist Church, Oklahoma Martin Jones, piano, released as PnOVA 21001, Spierman, director, Lovinger Theater, City, 2/19/14; Noon Tunes Library 9/29/14. Available on CD and digital downloads from Bronx, NY, 1/12-13/14, also, Concert, Downtown OKC Library, all major outlets. Danny Kaye Playhouse, NYC, 1/18- Oklahoma City, 2/27/14; Floot Fire, WEBSITE: mahinmedia.com 19/14. Seven Joys of Christmas Oklahoma City Community College (ECS), chorus and orchestra (or Performing Arts Center, 7/17/14; MICHAEL MAULDIN •• MAGRILL keyboard or solo harp), hundreds of MECHEM “Contemplation and Inspiration,” PERFORMANCES: Dawn at San Juan Mesa, performances in Dec., 2014. Suite Forty-Second Annual National Flute Albuquerque Youth Orchestra, Sayra Silverson, for Two Violins (ECS), Yukiko Kamei Kurakata, Kenneth Association Convention (Perform, Inspire, Educate!), conductor, Popejoy Hall, University of New Mexico, Renshaw, also, To An Absent Love (G. Schirmer), song Hilton, Chicago, 8/7/14. Genius (2012), poem by Albuquerque, 2/4/14. Introduction of the Child to cycle, Lauren Libaw, soprano, Markus Pawlik, piano, Mark Twain, Robert Glaubitz, baritone, Dawn Marie the Cosmos, mixed chorus and piano, Mastersingers both works performed as part of the Nagano/Kodama Lindblade, clarinet, Samuel Magrill, piano, College by the Sea, Dr David MacKenzie, director, “Fantasies “Forest Hill Musical Days” Festival, San Francisco CA, Music Society South Central Chapter Conference at on Birth, Death and Beyond,” Church of the Good 8/21-24/14. Island in Space (G. Schirmer), SATB a the University of Arkansas—Fort Smith, 3/8/14; also, Shepherd, Wareham MA, 3/1/14; also, First cappella, Exultate Chamber Singers, Hilary Apfelstadt, and on at the Oklahoma City Pianists’ Club, 10/7/14; Congregational Church, Falmouth MA, 3/2/14. conductor, Toronto, Canada, 3/23/14. Robert Glaubitz, baritone, Dawn Marie Lindblade, Dawn at San Juan Mesa, Concert Orchestra of the PREMIERES , clarinet, Sallie Pollack, piano, College Music Society Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Benjamin : Green Music combined choirs of Fifty-Seventh National Conference, St. Louis, MO, Klemme, conductor, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, the New Music for Treble Voices Festival, Martin 10/30/14. Let’s Duet! (2012), Dawn Marie Lindblade, 4/13/14. Birds in Winter: Six Preludes for Harp, Benvenuto, conductor, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, clarinet, Michael Geib, double bass, Sursa Hall, Julie Smith Phillips, harp, San Diego New Music, Palo Alto CA, 3/22/14. (Commissioned for the Festival Concert IV of the Society of Composers, Inc. National Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA, 5/6/14. by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus). Laugh till the , Conference & Forty-Fourth Annual Festival of New With This Child: Christmas Cantata for Treble Voices Music Stops Kirkland Choral Society, Dr. Glenn R. Music, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 3/21/14. and Harp, Chanteuses, Dr Chris Alford, director, Gregg, conductor, Elisabeth Ellis, piano, Seattle and Kenmore WA, 5/16-18/14 (Commissioned by the Odyssey Etude (2001), Wendy Rolfe, flute, Samuel Beverly Wesner-Hoehn, harp, All Saints Episcopal th Magrill, piano, also, Jade (2011) Katherine Kemler, Church, Sacramento CA, 12/13/14; also, St. John’s Society for its 25 anniversary season). We Can Sing flute, Samuel Magrill, piano, Reunion Recital, Clonick Lutheran Church, Sacramento, 12/19/14. That! Volti Chamber Chorus, Robert Geary, conductor, Hall, Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, Oberlin PREMIERES: Tribute, Jesse Tatum, flute, James T Berkeley, San Francisco, Palo Alto CA, 5/16-18/14 College, Ohio, 5/25/14. Sacred Suite, Pamela Shields, clarinet, Nathan Ukens, horn, James Holland, (SATB version commissioned by Volti). Brothers and , Richman, soprano, Tess Remy-Schumacher, cello, cello, Judith Gordon, piano, commissioned for Sunday Sisters: Introit First Unitarian Universalist Church Center for Historical Performance Fall Concert, Radke Chatter by Janet and Robert Ford to honor their family, of San Francisco, Dr. Mark Sumner, Music Director,

Fine Arts Theatre, University of Central Oklahoma, The Kosmos, Albuquerque, NM, 3/9/14. November 2014 (commissioned by Judy Payne). PUBLICATIONS: th Edmond, 10/2/14. PUBLICATIONS: Celebration of the Sun: Three 50 anniversary new edition of the PREMIERES: The Winding Way (2014), liturgical Conservations for Piano and Orchestra, published by vocal/orchestral score of Seven Joys of Christmas setting for SATB Choir, written especially for the UCO M Mauldin. by ECS, 2014. Song cycle for baritone and piano, , Concert Chorale, Dr. Karl Nelson, director, for their RECORDINGS: Song for a Windless Night, Lindsey From the Heartland G. Schirmer, 2014. Daybreak in , summer Brazil tour (2014), UCO Concert Chorale, McLennan, soprano, Cole Tutino, cello, James J Alabama G. Schirmer, 2013, SSAA or SATB a cappella. Dr. Karl Nelson, director, Masterworks Concert, Pellerite, Native American Flute, on the album We Can Sing That! G. Schirmer, 2014, SSAA or SATB. Mitchell Hall, University of Central Oklahoma, Embrace the Wind, Albany Records. Ancient Sunlight, Once to Every Man and Nation: Variations on an Old Edmond, 5/3/14; also, “What Makes It Jewish: Emily Higgins, flute, Kirsten Carrell Osborne, harp, Welsh Melody, G. Schirmer, 2014, SATB, baritone solo, An Exploration of Jewish Influence on the Music of commissioned by Alla Prima Flute and Harp Duo for keyboard or string orchestra. RECORDINGS: Modern Jewish Composers,” Temple B’nai Israel, their debut album, Song to the Waking Sun. Five Centuries of Spring by Oklahoma City, 7/11/14; 2014 Oklahoma Choral Washington Master Chorale on The Earth and I: New Directors Association Summer Convention, Sharp Hall, DAVID W. MAVES ••• American Choral Music (Albany), 2013. Seven Joys University of Oklahoma, Norman, 7/14/14; Teatro PREMIERES: The commissioned work Concerto for of Christmas by Madison Symphony Chorus and Municipal Severino Cabral, V Festival Internacional de Timpani and Orchestra, Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra (A Madison Christmas); also, with solo harp Mùsica de Campina Grande, Brazil, 7/25/14. Dwight Thomas, timpani, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, accompaniment by Seattle Choral Company (Joys of

PUBLICATIONS: All Lynn Morse Publishing: Ba-rock NE, 11/23/14. Christmas). I Could Hear the Least Bird Sing (from Cello Quartet, written especially for the UCO Cello PUBLICATIONS: Concerto for Timpani (solo) and Earth My Song on Ring Out!, Atlanta Master Chorale.

Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 9 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • MARGARET SHELTON MEIER Unknown Chamber (three songs for medium voice and Morning Star Birnham Publishers. Music of the COMMISSIONS: Pilgrim Place, the somewhat unique piano). All Shrewsbury Press. Masters Book 2: Handbell/Handchimes reductions retirement community where I live, has commissioned RECORDINGS: CD Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Songs of famous classics for school and church use, Levels a choral composition for their for Tenor and Piano, William George and Andrea 1+2+; also, Famous Classical Themes, Levels 2, 2+; 2015 Centennial Celebration. The Lodge. all Choristers Guild. composition, Gather Up the Years, with text by Pat Patterson, was ROBERT XAVIER RODRÍGUEZ ••• STEVEN L. ROSENHAUS completed in January 2014. COMMISSIONS: A piece for the San Antonio COMMISSIONS: Thirteen Ways of Looking at PERFORMANCES: Mute Deity, Symphony (January 2015), for the City Choir of a Pigeon (2014) for soprano and piano quintet, A Brief Word from Emily, Two Washington, DC (15-16 season), and a solo guitar commissioned by soprano Nadine Carey and Legacies, Creation, a Symphony, work for Enric Madriguera. the Prometheus Quintet; premiere 2014-2015 Nature Moves, Celebration, Sorrow, MEIER PERFORMANCES: Bachanale (for piano four-hands), performance season. Ayshet Chayil (A Woman of Strength, Morning in the Garden, Dranoff Foundations Composers Concert (Miami), Valor) baritone voice and concert Fountains Water the Garden, The 1/22/14; plus multiple touring performances band, Helen and Sam Kaplan Kartonyal Processional, Carol Stephenson, soprano, throughout South America during 2014. Foundation Commission at St. Maggie Worsley, clarinet, Margaret S. Meier, piano, La Curandera, Opera Piccola (San Antonio), 2/15- Mary’s University, Winona, MN, Frances Nobert, piano, Marvelous Melodious Music of 16/14. The Dot and the Line, Dayton Philharmonic, premiere 2015. Work for cello and Margaret Meier. Lovely and Loving, from Scenes from Nancy Cartwright, Narrator, 3/7-9/14. Monkey See, piano, commissioned by the Delta a Life, Gold Coast Trio: Rachel Vetter Huang, violin, Monkey Do, Sacramento Opera, 3/21-22/14. Frida, Omicron Foundation, premiere 2015. Susan Lamb Cook, cello, Hou Huang, piano, Boone Microscopic Opera (Pittsburgh), 10/24-11/2/14. Two works for middle school band Hall, Scripps College, Claremont, February 2014. PREMIERES: Xochiquetzal for Violin and Percussion and one work for high school band, ROSENHAUS PREMIERES: Gather Up the Years, Pilgrim Place Ensemble, New England Conservatory Percussion commissioned by the Pascack Hills Chorale, Donna Danielson, director, 4/26/15. Ensemble, Nicholas Kitchen, Violin, 11/23/14. middle schools and high school, My Green Lady, also, Two Legacies, Carol Stephenson, PUBLICATIONS: Xochiquetzal for Violin and Pascack, NJ, premiere 2015. Work for orchestra, soprano, Maggie Worsley, clarinet, Margaret S. Meier, Percussion Ensemble - all works published by G. commissioned by the Etowah Youth Orchestra, Etowah, piano, Artemis Bedros House Concert, Dominant Schirmer. Commissioned jointly by the New England MS, premiere 2015. Music Club, 2/8/14. A Wise Woman is ---, clarinet, Percussion Ensemble, Southern Methodist University, PERFORMANCES: Nine Feet of Brass (A Concerto piano, also In God’s House, soprano and piano, the University of North Texas and SUNY Onondaga. for Trombone and Band), Keith Johnston, trombone, Maggie Worsley, clarinet, Carol Stephenson, soprano, combined Mott Community College and Flint Concert and Margaret S. Meier, piano, Marvelous Melodious SHARON ELERY ROGERS • Bands, Mary Procopio, Bruce Nieuwenhuis, directors, Music of Margaret Meier, Mt. San Antonio Gardens, Sharon Elery Rogers notes: “I am celebrating my Steven L. Rosenhaus, conductor, Mott Community Claremont, 1/13/15. 50th year of receiving annual honorary composer’s College MMB Auditorium, Flint, MI, 2/22/13; also, monetary awards from ASCAP with over 670 John Rojak, bass trombone, NYU Concert Band, ALICE MOERK publications to date. I was initiated into SAI, Sigma Michael L. Reaux, director, Steven L. Rosenhaus, PERFORMANCES: Magnificat, Mu Chapter at Hillsdale College in Michigan where conductor, 5/3/13. Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Carole Cornman Fetterman, soprano, I received the Mattie-King-Bailey Albert Von Tilzer, arranged by Steven L. Rosenhaus, Thom Tenny, piano, Church of the four-year music scholarship. I began New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor, Annunciation, Holmes Beach, FL. writing music for the South Bend, IN, Great Lawn in Central Park, NYC, 7/13/13. Variations Wheel of Life, soprano and oboe, and Hillsdale Symphony orchestras on a Neapolitan Theme, UNLV Community Concert Carole Fetterman, soprano, Spring and choirs. I worked on my Master’s Band, Anthony LaBounty, director, Cara Froelich, Concert, Church of Immaculate degree at Wayne State University conductor, Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, University Conception, Holmes Beach, FL. and pursued a teaching career in the of Nevada, Las Vegas, 11/6/13; also, Ridgewood MOERK Sirens, song cycle, Carole Cornman, public schools; I sang and composed Concert Band, Christian Wilhejelm, director, Steven soprano, Friends of Music Concert, music at several radio stations and ROGERS L. Rosenhaus, conductor, West Side Presbyterian Holmes Beach FL, April 2014. Church, Ridgewood, NJ, 3/21/14. Folk Song Suite No. was Director of Music in various PUBLICATIONS: Jackie (children’s book), Alice Moerk, 1 (string orchestra), Wooster High School Orchestra, author, Ellen Di Piazza, artist. Shattered Mosaics, churches in Michigan and Florida. I expanded my Dan Adams, conductor, Wooster OH High School novel on Cathars of 13th century France, Peppertree career in composing and received many Honorary Life Performing Arts Center, 12/2/13. Sussex Celebration, Press, 2014 Awards from various national music organizations.” Jackson Heights Orchestra, Patricia Glunt, conductor, PERFORMANCES: Selections from Noel Fantasies Community United Methodist Church, Jackson MARGA RICHTER (Shawnee Press), A Christmas Carol Suite (Morning Heights, NY, 3/12/14; also, Travers Park, Jackson PERFORMANCES: Two Sonnets (Shakespeare), Star Publishers), Sharon Elery Rogers, organ, St. Heights, NY, 7/6/14. Christian Gibbs, tenor, Queens College, NY, 4/2/14. David’s Episcopal Church, Englewood, FL, 1/5, PREMIERES: Dream, Sheboygan Symphony Fragments, Michael Skelly, pianist, Hyde Park, 12/2014. Selections from organ collections, Rogers, Orchestra, Kevin R. McMahon, conductor, Stefanie NY, 4/14/14. Serenade for Alto organ, St. Nathaniels Episcopal Church, North Port, FL, H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts, Sheboygan, Saxophone, Percussion and WI, 5/11/13. First Blues, Barron Collier HS Chamber Sept-Oct 2014. Marimba, Scott Hoefling, Sam Strings, Adam Michlin, conductor, Barron Coller High PREMIERES: A Rose Tree Blooms in the Silent Night, Sowyrda, Cesare Pappetti, School, Naples, FL, 12/12/13. Cinematic Escapades, South Huntington Public Library, The Star Carol Medley, A Service of Lessons and string orchestra with percussion, Linn-Mar HS Melville, NY, 6/8/14. String Quartet Carols, The Chapel of St. Andrew Handbell Choir, Janet Symphony Strings, Joshua Reznicow, director, Steven #3, The Poetica Ensemble (Song-A Daniels, director, Boca Raton, FL, Christmas Eve 2014. L. Rosenhaus, conductor, Marion, IA, 5/20/14. Cho, Christina Perro-Williams, violins, In His Love, and A Joyous Aire, Charles Wright, cello, PUBLICATIONS: Concerto Grosso (string quartet RICHTER Christopher Shaughnessy, viola, Sharon Elery Rogers, piano, Venice FL Presbyterian and string orchestra), Music-Print Productions, Stephanie Iovine, cello,) Southold, Church, 3/16/14; also A Joyous Aire, and Intermezzo, distributed by LudwigMasters Publications, 2014. NY, 7/16/14. Venice Library, Venice Musicale, 11/20/14. Variations on a Neapolitan Theme (concert band, PUBLICATIONS: Dream Andante for Piano; Songs PUBLICATIONS: The Snow Lay on the Ground, Music published) Music-Print Productions, distributed by of Celebration (three songs tenor/piano; Into What LudwigMasters Publications, 2014. Do It Again, a for Handbells and handchimes (2 or 3 octaves), 10 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 collection of early 20th century popular songs by made from processed recordings 2014 Spring Tour, CNM Ensemble, University of Iowa, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, et al., arranged for of the huge Maria Dolens bell in David Gompper, director, incl University of Wisconsin, string quartet, LudwigMasters Publications, 2013. Rovereto Italy. Originally made Madison, University of Minnesota, University of Iowa, The Rowan Tree, traditional Scottish song arranged from cannons melted after WWI, it 4/11-13/14. Trope, Kent State New Music Ensemble, for string orchestra, Grand Mesa Music, 2013. seemed especially appropriate for Frank Wiley, director, Kent, OH, November 2013, April Sonata ‘Pathetique’ — Adagio Contabile,” by Ludwig the commission by Ivano Ascari, 2014; also, John Sampen, director, California State van Beethoven, arranged for string orchestra, Print the terrific trumpeter who lives in University, Sacramento, CSU, Stanislaus, CSU, Long Music Source, 2014. Themes Like We’ve Heard This Rovereto. I also continue to enjoy Beach, San Jose State U, Whittier College, September SHATIN Before, string orchestra (13 classical themes by nine teaching in the Composition and 2014. Within Silence, Society of Composers Region V composers), Print Music Source, 2014. Holiday Canon Computing Technologies program Conference, 3/28/14. (string orchestra) (with Pachebel’s “Canon in D,” “Joy at the University of Virginia, where my courses range PREMIERES: Libro d’Ore (Book of Hours) for violin to the World” and “Silent Night”), Print Music Source, from Songwriting to Proseminar in Composition, and orchestra was premiered by Ioana Galu and 2013. Got the World on a String (string orchestra) and also include Acoustic, Choral, and Digital the Central Ohio Symphony under the direction of (seven folk songs from seven countries), Print Music Composition.” Jaime Morales-Matos on May 3, 2014. The Face of Source, 2013. PERFORMANCES: (All music published by Wendigo Water (brass and percussion), Monarch Brass, Marie Music) Grito del Corazón, (version for bssoon, violin, Speziale, conductor, Northern Kentucky University, ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ viola, piano and electronics), Till by Turning Ensemble, 6/5/14. Libro d’Ore (Book of Hours) received its Elliott Schwartz was BMI Composer-In-Residence at Unlimited Festival, Wels, Austria, 11/8/14. Marvelous European premiere on June 19, 2014 with the Sibiu the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University in Pursuits, (vocal quartet + piano 4-hands), Staunton (Romania) Philharmonic, Emily Freeman Brown, Nashville, April 2014. Music Festival, Staunton, VA, 8/20/14. Fasting conductor, and Ioana Galu, soloist. Brown and Galu PERFORMANCES: All-Schwartz Heart, Kelly Sulick, flute, National Flute Association, performed the piece again on October 17, 2014, for concert, Vanderbilt University, Chicago, IL, 8/8/14. Tape Music 4 (quadraphonic the 35th Annual New Music Festival with the Bowling Remembering David (clarinet, electronics), Jerusalem Academy, Jerusalem, Israel, Green Philharmonia. Maria Sampen gave the Pacific horn, cello, piano, recorded 6/10/14. Ockeghem Variations (wind quintet, piano), Northwest premiere on November 21, 2014, with the sounds), Vienna Dreams (viola, Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, MA, 2/1/14. University of Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra under clarinet, piano), The Facebook PREMIERES: Trace Elements (2 pianos, 2 the direction of Huw Edwards. It was commissioned Chronicles (mixed septet of speaking percussion), Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion, by the International Women’s Brass Conference and musicians), Chamber Concerto Konzerthaus, Berlin, 12/9/14. Being in Time presented at their 8th International Conference. VI: Mr. Jefferson (violin solo and SCHWARTZ (conductor-controlled electronics, wind ensemble and chamber orchestra), Nashville, interactive video), UVA Wind Ensemble, Old Cabell FAYE-ELLEN SILVERMAN TN, Apr 2014. Celebration Fanfare Auditorium; Charlottesville, VA, 11/3/14. Autumn Silverman gave two music lectures in Warsaw, Poland, (brass and percussion), University of Massachusetts Way, Suzanne Mueller, cello, String Poet Society, April 2014 at the The Fryderyk Chopin University of Concert Band. Amherst, MA, Apr 2014. A Garden Huntington, NY, 9/20/14. Music in Warsaw and served as a panelist on the for RKB (clarinet, violin, piano), Gamper Festival of RECORDINGS: Time to Burn: Solo CD, including featured composers panel and served as a judge Contemporary Music, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Glyph (viola, string quartet, piano), Time to Burn (oboe for the solo competition for IWBC 2014 Conference. ME, July 2014. Darwin’s Dream (electronic sound- and 2 percussion), Grito del Corazon (version for 2 She was a resident Fellow at VCCA (Virginia Center collage, projected visual images, solo violin), Peter clarinets + electronics), Hosech Al P’ney HaTehom for the Creative Arts) – summer Sheppard Skaerved, violin, “Why Darwin Matters” (Darkness Upon the Face of the Deep – electronics), 2014. Radio Arts Indonesia gave Symposium, University of New England. Portland, Sic Transit (percussion and computer assisted multiple broadcasts of her works Maine, Nov 2014. drumming instrument), and Elijah’s Chariot (amp. from the CDs Transatlantic Tales and PREMIERES: Memorabilia, Catherine Cushing, piano, string quartet and electronics made from processed Manhattan Stories. Canary Burton Mikyo Butler, assistant, Back Cove Festival, Portland shofar recordings), Innova #845. Love Song, oboe played “Love Song” from Manhattan Conservatory of Music. Portland, Maine. April 2014. and English horn, recorded by Double Entendre on Stories on her radio program The Tenor Variations, Henry Skolnick, bassoon, Paul Vasile, their CD Double Take: American Reed, released by Latest Score WOMR, Provincetown, piano, International Double Reed Society, NYU, Aug Albany Records, Troy 1515. Penelope’s Song, version MA and WFMR FM in Orleans, MA, SILVERMAN 2014. Portrait, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, solo violin, for Soprano Sax and electronics recorded by Laura 5/6/14. Broadcasts of Dialogue Malmo Conservatory, Sweden, Sept 2014. Quartet Venditti on her CD ElectroSax on her own label. Continued and Protected Sleep from for Horns, Bowling Green State University New Music CD Manhattan Stories on WFCF, Flagler College Radio, Festival, Bowling Green, OH, Oct 2014. MARILYN SHRUDE • St. Augustine, FL. (Music of Our Mothers hosted by PUBLICATIONS: Quartet for Horns; Memorabilia; Marilyn Shrude received Bowling Ellen K. Grolman), 6/18/14. Portrait; Tenor Variations. All published by the Green State University’s 2014 COMMISSIONS: Combined Efforts was commissioned American Composers Alliance, New York. Lifetime Achievement Award in April by the International Women’s Brass Conference for 2014. The award celebrates not only performance by SYmbiosisDuo at the IWBC 2014 JUDITH SHATIN her achievements as a composer, Conference. A new work for trombone and piano was Judith Shatin reports: “My recent work involves teacher and performing artist, but commissioned by Nicole Abissi during the summer of multiple strands: music involving everyday objects also her many activities on behalf of 2014. that are recorded and manipulated (Tape Music); the university’s academic programs. PERFORMANCES: Interval Untamed: Five Miniatures music that invites participation by untrained PERFORMANCES: Matins, SHRUDE for Saxophone (Seesaw), Javier Oviedo, alto musicians (Tape Music∞ ), for any number of University of Puget Sound Wind saxophone, Composer’s Voice, NYC, 3/13/14. Zigzags performers with a roll of tape, a cardboard box, Ensemble, Gerard Morris, director, Society of (Seesaw), JoAnn Hershey, tuba, IWBC Conference, and a blunt pencil + electronic playback); music for Composers Region VIII Conference, 3/8/14. Sotto Highland Park, KY, 6/7/14. Dialogue Continued, virtuoso performers that continues my exploration Voce, Puget Sound Piano Trio, Maria Sampen, violin, TradesMann Trio: Zach Cooper, horn, Bill Mann, of timbral worlds, such as Trace Elements for 2 David Roquero, cello, Dwayne Hurlbert, piano, trombone, Stacy Baker, tuba), IWBC Conference, pianos and 2 percussion, commissioned by the Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, 6/8/14. Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion; and music that University of Puget Sound, KING FM Seattle, PREMIERES: Conversations Continued (NYC combines acoustic and digital elements, such as Northwest Focus, March - April 2014; also, Andrew premiere), Sarah Currier, flute, Ashleé Miller, clarinet, For the Fallen for amplified trumpet and electronics Gentzsch, violin, Tom Maples, cello, Casey Rafn, piano, Mannes Faculty Composers Concert, NYC, 2/11/14,

Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 11 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • also, NYC, 3/9/14; also, Mary Mathews, alto flute, GAY HOLMES SPEARS • Tierra del Mar Music except as noted. Alex Kollias, clarinet, Women Composers Festival Gay Holmes Spears is an instructor in the music PERFORMANCES: Expressions V (Image Music of Hartford, 2014. Edinboro Sonata (NYC premiere) department at St. Louis University. XXXVII), Fantasy on a Painting of Gustav Klimt, (Seesaw), Daniel Burdick, tuba, Faye-Ellen Silverman, PERFORMANCES: Let There Be Music, St. Charles Meredith Clark, harp, NACUSA (“February Fantasies”), piano, Music Under Construction at Mannes, NYC, County Youth Choir, Claudia Fallert, director, Lucy Stern Ballroom, Palo Alto, CA, 2/22/14. 3/16/14. Colored Tones, Patrick Jones, soprano Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 11/17/13. Moments from Singing Heart (Image Music XII), Choir, saxophone, North American Saxophone Association Sonatina in E Minor, Gay Holmes Spears, piano, St. Resonance Ensemble, Spring Concert (“Northern (NASA) Conference Champaign-Urbana, IL, 3/23/14. Louis University’s All-Steinway Initiative, Steinway Light”), Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis and Clark Combined Efforts (world premiere), Symbiosis Duo, Gallery, St. Louis, 11/23/14. College, Portland, OR, 5/17/14; also, Lincoln Recital Gail Williamson, euphonium, Stacy Baker, tuba, A second performance of “Ripples of Hope” was at, Hall, PSU, Portland, 5/18/14. Inquietude, Lisa Eunbyol Ko, piano, IWBC Conference, Highland Park, Missouri, on April 22, 2014. Sourwood Suite Nichols, flute, NACUSA Concert (“Spring Bouquet”) KY, 6/6/14. St. Dominic High School Concert Band, Greg Cissell, Congregational Church of Christ, Ashland, OR, PUBLICATIONS: (All Seesaw Music) The Mercurial director, St. Dominic High School, O’Fallon, MO, 5/24/14. Random Blackouts I (Image Music XXIII), Guitarist, solo guitar. Colored Tones solo soprano 2/22/14; also, Bishop DuBourg HS, St. Louis, Andrew White, baritone, Emily Tian, Valerie Liu, piano saxophone. Combined Efforts, euphonium, tuba, and 2/23/14. 4-hands, 12th Annual Festival of Contemporary piano. PREMIERES: Ripples of Hope, commission, St. Louis Music, Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA, Women’s Hope Chorale, Leanne Magnuson Latuda, 7/26/14. Van Gogh Vignettes, Tatiana Kolchanova, PAUL A. SISKIND director, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, MO, 4/8/14; violin, Michelle Mathewson, viola, Siskind will be taking a hiatus from the composing and also, Maryville University, St. Louis, 11/9/14. Into NACUSA Cascadia Concert, “Sonic Silhouettes” at First teaching professions for the foreseeable future. the Ages, (commission: Francis M. Scala Fund at the Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR, 10/5/14. PERFORMANCES: Ebb and Flow, The Orphan’s Library of Congress), University City Summer Concert PREMIERES: Suspended (Image Music XXVII), Odyssey, Martha Gallagher, Band, Tom Poshak, director, The Loop, St. Louis, Benjamin Coelho, bassoon, Stephen Miahky, Christina composer/organist, Siskind, 6/24/14. McGann, violins, Matthew Daline, viola, Jacqueline orchestration, Lake Placid Black, cello, Meg Quigley Bassoon Symposium, Sinfonietta, Lake Placid NY. JARED SPEARS ••• Festival Concert Hall, Round Top Festival Institute, Antiphochrome, UncsaX, University PERFORMANCES: Return Round Top, TX, 1/19/14. Imaginary Landscape I: of North Carolina. Trio a3, to Wind River (Alfred Music), Antarctic Vistas (Image Music XXI) BSU Trombone Christopher Creviston, saxophone, University City Summer Band, Choir, John Seidel, conductor, SCI National Deanna Swoboda, tuba, Hannah Tom Poshak, conductor., Delmar Conference, Sursa Hall, BSU, Muncie, IN, 3/22/14. Creviston, piano), Arizona; also, SISKIND Square, University City, MO, Three Early Movements, Con Vivo Music: Amelia Georgia; North Carolina. Everyone 6/17/14. A Scary Scherzo, Bridle Hollander Ames, viola, Karisa Werdon, oboe, Nicholas Suddenly Burst Out Singing, University Chorus, St. Path/Montgomery Select String Gallas, clarinet, The Barrow Mansion, Jersey City, NJ, Lawrence University, Canton, NY. Ensemble, Elizabeth Sokolowski, 6/2/14. An Armgart Moment, Courtney Sherman, PREMIERES: In Memoriam E(d)C, Handbell Choir conductor, (Ludwig Masters), SPEARS soprano, small consortium ensemble, University of of the Unitarian-Universalist Church, Canton NY. Midwest Band and Orchestra Wisconsin-Green Bay, 9/27/14. Tip Top Tap Ballroom Gaudeamus, Michelle Martin-Atwood, organ, Clinic, McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, Bonanza, Alto Saxophone and Contrabass, Allerton Watertown NY. The Bulldog on the Bank (folksong arr), IL, 12/18/13. Four Miniatures for Brass Quintet, Hotel Tip Top Tap Ballroom, Chicago, IL, 10/19/14. Any Music Singers, Canton, NY. Ithaca Brass Quintet (Theodore Presser Publishing PUBLICATIONS: Publication of many Tierra del Music RECORDINGS: Ravello Records re-released “Etwas Company. Performed at Hockett Family Recital Hall, compositions now handled by Score Street (https:// für Bratsche (etwas rasch), Shelly Tramposh, viola, Ithaca College, Ithaca New York, April 18, 2014. At a www.scorestreet.net) Cullan Bryant, piano. Antiphochrome, University of Dixieland Jazz Funeral (C.L. Barnhouse), University Iowa Saxophone Ensemble, Jeanné Records of Washington Symphonic Band, Dan McDonald, HOLLIS THOMS (JDR 2282). conductor, University of Washington Meany Theater, A special exhibit running through HALIDE K. SMITH • Seattle, 2/2, 27/14. the 2014 year at the Maryland PUBLICATIONS: Halide Kamay Smith is a composer and artist, Unleashed, symphonic band, Daehn State Archives on Maryland music composing music for a variety of musical Publications. Frenzy!, percussion quartet, Kendor featured the music of Hollis Thoms instruments from contemporary to classic. She Music. and the premiere of his opera in RECORDINGS: paints in oil, watercolor and acrylic. In November, Unleashed. CD 2014, Band Music of 2009 entitled “The Moustache” 2013, Ms. Smith received an award Distinction Vol. 18, Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Loras based on a possible meeting of for Festival, for clarinet and piano John Schissle, conductor. Cipriano Ferrandini and John Wilkes at the NLAPW State Conference at Booth on March 24, 1865 at the THOMS DR. GREG A. STEINKE Daytona Beach, FL. Barnum Hotel in Baltimore. A special PERFORMANCES: Inspiration, Dr. Steinke was recipient of an exhibit running through the fall of 2014 at St. John’s Dreamland, Mexican Little Star, ASCAP PLUS AWARD/Concert College, Annapolis, Maryland featured research done Festival, Stephanie Daige (see Division. Random Blackouts II by Hollis Thoms into Shakespearean education at above); complementary paintings (Director’s Choice) and Three Early St. John’s College, Annapolis, from 1870-1880. On Songs (Honorable mention) were of Festival, Dreamland included SMITH November 5, Thoms gave a lecture on the exhibit at in printed program. Dedication, both winners in 2014 International the College and a 50-page booklet on his research Ann Stephensen-Moe, organ, SAI Sarasota-Manatee Composers’ Competition for will be published. Also, on November 5 at St. John’s performances in Boston Metro’s 4th Chapter Memorial Concert, Church of the Redeemer, College, Annapolis, Thoms gave a lecture-recital on his Annual Contemporary Americana STEINKE Sarasota, FL, 3/2/14; also, 3/26/14. research into Shakespearean scholar and amateur PREMIERES: Song of Tatuam, Stephanie Daige, oboe Festival and Boston Metro’s regular season respectively. He was a finalist (Chamber composer Richard Simpson (1820-1876), who set all (SAI Sarasota-Manatee Alumnae Chapter President), of Shakespeare’s Sonnets to music. A world premiere recorded piano, Sarasota Florida Branch, National Music - Professional Division) in the America Prize recital of Simpson’s songs was given by Jacqueline League of American Pen Women,1/8/14. in Composition Competition for 2014 for Suspended RECORDINGS: Tranquility, songs, MusArt. for Bassoon and Strings, a 19’ work. (August, 2014). Thoms, soprano. PAN PIPES published his research Please note that all works mentioned are published by in last year’s Composer Issue in an article entitled

12 Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • 6666 “Richard Simpson: Composer Lost, Then Found.” On Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, 2/22/14. Five Preludes, Kristian Kelfstad, piano, January 4, 2015, Hollis Thoms was joined by his son, 2/13/14. Joint Regional Conference, College Music Society horn player Jonas Thoms in a pre-concert children’s Workshop/Concert, Persis Vehar Southern Chapter, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Association program in conjunction with a monthly Bach in Competition for Excellence in of Technology in Music Instruction, University of Baltimore Bach concert. PAN PIPES published in the Composition, 3/25/14. Tennessee, Knoxville, 2/14/14; also, Walton Lott, Winter 2015 issue an article entitled “Composers Of the Feria, from Trilogy For St. piano, the Southeastern Composers League Forum Alive!” which describes previous engaging pre-concert Ann, David Snyder, organ, Kenmore at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2/22/14. children’s programs by Thoms bringing Bach and the Baptist Church, Kenmore, NY, VEHAR Bonbons, three flutes, Georgia College and State young Mozart to life for children. 5/18/14. This is my letter to the University Flute Ensemble, Milledgeville, 4/28/2014. PERFORMANCES: Do not Weep, Civil War texts World from Emily’s World, Monique Essex, soprano, PUBLICATIONS: Tête-à-tête, violin and viola, Howard and a song by Stephen Foster, …a blue true dream Junko Nojima, piano, U of California, Irvine, 5/23/14. J. Buss Publications, 2014. (18 min.) Cityscapes of sky, poem by E. E. Cummings, Concordia College Life, Love & Timelessness, Jonathan Howell, tenor, clarinet choir, Buss Publications, 2014. (14 min.) Choir, Jason Thoms, director, Bronxville, New York, Victoria Krukowski, clarinet, Sar Shalom Strong, Five Preludes, piano, Buss Publications, 2014. (13 11/23/14. piano, Syracuse Society for New Music, Cazenovia NY min.) Music Becomes Me, solo voice, solo flute, wind PREMIERES: Lyric 2, Sonja (Thoms) Winkler, oboe, Counterpoint Summer Series, St. Peter’s Episcopal ensemble, C. Alan Publications, 2014. (20 min.) IKTUS Percussion, Baltimore MD Composers Forum, Church, 7/18/14. Vehar Songs TBA, Syracuse WEBSITE: rogercraigvogel.com An die Musik, 4/4/14. Playing 3 (oboe, clarinet, University Music Faculty and Students, incl composer soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, bassoon), Atlantic interview on Artifix, Jon English, host, WCNY-FM ELIZABETH GRIEGER WIEGAND • Reed Consort, Baltimore Composers Forum, 11/7/14. (Syracuse), WUNY-FM (Utica) & WJNY-FM (Watertown), A new scholarship has been established by The O, know, sweet love, I only write of you, 60-minute Nov 2014. National Federation of Music Clubs, named the opera for soprano, baritone, string quartet, on Sonnets PREMIERES: President’s Campaign Aria, from Shot!, Elizabeth Grieger Wiegand Award; it has two divisions: of Shakespeare and love letters of Jacqueline Thoms, At Mass, Ghosts Of Lindsay, 2 Carnations from From Sacred Music and Classical Music. Sigma Alpha Iota 2015-2016 year, Jason Thoms, baritone, Treva Foss, Buk’s Battered Heart, Valerian Ruminski, bass, Verhar, International Music Fraternity will receive information soprano, to commemorate 400th anniversary of piano, lecture, Opera Buffs of Western New York, for listing it in Opportunities. and the Texas Woman’s Shakespeare’s death. Buffalo State College, 5/17/14. University will administer and select the winner. RECORDINGS: City Of Light: The Music of Persis Wiegand received a rosewood plaque and gold ring JERRY ULRICH Parshall Vehar, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, John from Remington Registry, NY, called the Visionary PERFORMANCES: Heleluyan, Conservatory Summer Fullam, clarinet, JoAnn Falletta, conductor, Amberg Award and Life time Achievement Award, with Intensive, Baldwin Wallace University, OH, 2013; Chamber Players, Vehar, Mark Masters, pianists. Humanitarian Contributions. Her biography will appear also, Beloit Memorial High School Men’s Chorus, WI, Grammy Nominations in three categories. From The in the Visions edition of Inspiring the 2014. I Did Not Die, Women’s Choral Mountaintop, David and Daniel Kuehn, trumpets, Ken Youth of America. A highlight on the Society, University of Oregon, 2013; Mervine, organ, Fleur de Son Classics, Ltd. plaque is the motto from TWU, “You also, Judson HS Choir Fall Festival, Mezzo soprano Sharon Mabry recorded Verhar’s song stand as a testament to the history TX. Why, Oh Why, Texas A&M cycle, Women, Women. Sept. 27, 2014, Vehar’s City Of of women in culture.” Featured on it University Century Singers. Light Concerto, Clarinet, John Fullam, Clarinet, Buffalo is a picture of Wiegand performing PREMIERES: I Thought of You, Sara Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor, at the piano for the Chicago Artist. Teasdale, poet, SSA choir, piano, and Sea Pieces, Amberg Chamber Ensemble, were The plaque will be hung in the WIEGAND oboe, Nov 2014. Exaudi vocem Dei, ULRICH aired WCNY-FM, WUNY-FM & WJNY-FM radio Jon Blagg-Huey Library, TWU, next to for 2 treble voices, English horn, English, host. the one of Ms. Wiegand performing at the organ in harp, Jan 2014. Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Europe. The book is scheduled for release in October, poet, SATB choir a capella, Mar 2014. The Sound of ROGER C. VOGEL and Ms. Wiegand’s biography is first, signifying First Despair and the Voice of Hope (text, anon.) for strings, PERFORMANCES: Mythic Quest, by Tammy Evans Place out of 3,000 biographies. The book is archived SATB chor, fl, ob, bsn, and 7 narrators) – Spring, 2014. Yonce, flute, and Aaron Durst, alto saxophone, in the Library of Congress. Wiegand is organist at Adam lay ybounden, SAB, harp or piano, Dec 2013. University of Wisconsin-Stout, St. Menomonie, Franciscan St. Anthony Health, Michigan City, and PUBLICATIONS: Adam lay ybounden, Carl Fischer, 10/14/2014. Twin Moons, Nicole Chamberlain, received a gold pin for accumulating 9,000 hours as 2015. How Can I Keep from Singing? Robert flute, Tim Fitzgerald, clarinet, Terminus Ensemble volunteer. She produces a TV show with George Mares Wadsworth Lowry, poet, three-part mixed voices, of Contemporary Music Concert, Georgia State on Channel 99 in Michigan City. piano, oboe, Carl Fischer, 2014. University, Atlanta, 10/22/2013. “The Frog” from Cats WEBSITE: jerryulrichmusic.com and Bats and Things With Wings, DONALD REID WOMACK ••• Athens Chamber Singers, Friendship Womack was invited to a weeklong guest composer PERSIS PARSHALL VEHAR • Presbyterian Church, Athens, GA, residency at Seoul National University, Korea’s most ASCAP awarded Vehar a 2013 ASCAP Plus Award 4/27/2014. prestigious institute of higher learning. In addition for excellence in composition. Dr. Judith Wolf PREMIERES: Cityscapes, to his music being featured on three concerts, while commissioned Vehar to write her 7th opera based Chattanooga Clarinet Choir, there he gave several lectures and workshops for on the assassination of President McKinley. March International Clarinet Association students of both Western and Korean music. For its 16, 2014, Vehar’s Dona Nobis Pacem, North Texas ClarinetFest 2014, Louisiana State 50th anniversary season, Pro Musica Nipponia, the Choir, Mel Ivey, conductor, was aired on “Fresh Ink,” University, Baton Rouge, 7/30/14. VOGEL first ensemble of Japanese traditional instruments a program of contemporary music on WCNY-FM 91.3 Tête-à-tête, Michael Heald, violin, dedicated to contemporary music, has commissioned (Syracuse), WUNY-FM 89.5 (Utica), and WJNY-FM 90.9 Maggie Snyder, viola, Southeastern Composers Womack to write a new work for large ensemble of (Watertown). League Forum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Japanese instruments. The piece will be premiered in PERFORMANCES: Choosing Words, Part 2, lecture, 2/22/2014; also, University of Georgia, Athens, Tokyo’s Yomiuri Otemachi Hall.

Winter 2015 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 13 ANNUAL AMERICAN COMPOSERS UPDATE SAI MEMBER • FRIEND OF THE ARTS • • NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE • • • 6666 HONORARY MEMBER • • • • MEMBER LAUREATE • • • • • PERFORMANCES: Koto Coloring SCOTT A. WYATT University, Kirksville, MO, Book, for solo koto, was performed Scott A. Wyatt, Professor Emeritus of Music 3/29/14. Prince of Peace; Thou by legendary koto player Reiko Composition, continues to serve actively as a Glorious Rider (soprano, chamber Kimura, for whom the piece was faculty member of the University of Illinois at orchestra), Kevin Hartnett, poet, written, in Nagano, Japan. Highwire Urbana-Champaign School of Music teaching music commission Henry Charles Smith, Act)for solo gayageum, received composition and electroacoustic music, as well conductor, Stacy Stofferahn, multiple performances in Seoul, as serving as director of the University of Illinois soprano, South Dakota Chamber Korea. Sori for haegeum, cello and WOMACK Experimental Music Studios. He recently was an Orchestra, Hoven, SD, 12/7/14. YARBROUGH janggu, was performed by members invited guest composer for the Department of Music Julian Trio, commission The Rawlins of the Seoul National University Contemporary Gugak and Arts Technology at Indiana Trio: Susan Keith Gray, piano, Eunho Kim, violin, Ensemble. ‘Aina, for flute, clarinet and piano, was University-Purdue University- Marie-Elaine Gagnon, cello. Prairie Winds, commission performed by the Palisades Virtuosi Trio in Ridgewood, Indianapolis, and for the Indiana Wyatt Smith, organ. NJ. Splashed Ink, the New York Intercultural Music University Jacobs School of Offertory for Viola and Organ, T. David Lowe, viola, Society, in Honolulu.The Sound of Drums Echoes Music. Professor Wyatt remains Hoisington, KS, June 2013. Sing for Joy! (choir, Beyond the Heavens, Busan Maru International Music on the Society for Electro-Acoustic organ), commissioned choir members of Calvary Festival, 9/2014 and 10/2014 by the Seoul National Music in the United States Board of Cathedral Church (Episcopal) in celebration of Monty University Gugak Orchestra. Directors, while also continuing to WYATT Barnard’s 40 years of service to the music program PREMIERES: Dancing With Spirits, a concerto serve as director and producer of of the Cathedral, Sioux Falls, SD, 4/24/14. LyricWood for haegeum and Korean traditional orchestra, the Music from SEAMUS Recording Series. Overture, LyricWood Chamber Orchestra, Dakota by the Busan (Korea) Gugak Center Orchestra PERFORMANCES: All At Risk, for video presentation Wesleyan University, Stephen Yarbrough, conductor, who commissioned it and The Sound of Drums with electroacoustic music designed for 8-channel 11/3/13. Spirituals for String Orchestra, Lyricwood Echoes Beyond the Heavens, at the Busan Maru audio performance, was presented as part of the Orchestra, Liz Soladay, director, Dakota Wesleyan International Music Festival, 9/2014. The latter University of Illinois Computer Music Project 30th University, Mitchell, SD, Feb 2014. A Little March piece was performed the following month in Seoul, Anniversary Concert II presented in April 2014, and (bassoon quartet), University of S. D. Double Reed by the Seoul National University Gugak Orchestra. his composition, On a Roll, for electroacoustic music Workshop, Feb 2014 Splashed Ink, a work for violin and guzheng based designed for 8-channel audio performance, was RECORDINGS: Attracting Opposites: New Music for on the splashed ink paintings of Chang Dai-Chien, by performed at the Indiana University Jacobs School of the New York Intercultural Music Society, with Sean Piano Trio professionally, The Rawlins Trio, includes Wang and Yi-Chieh Lai performing. Sori, originally Music on April 27, 2014. Julian Trio, Azica Records. All Love Unbounded, for haegeum, cello and janggu, was arranged by Stephen Yarbrough’s 2nd CD contains twenty-one new members of the National Gugak Center Orchestra for STEPHEN YARBROUGH compositions, released to CD Baby, Pandora, Amazon, two haegeum, ajaeng and janggu, at the Seoul Arts PERFORMANCES: Celebrate South Dakota!, South et al, Jan 2014. Center. Sword Flower for two violins by Wu Hung Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Delta David and Nancy Shoop in Honolulu. The Floating Bridge of Gier, conductor, celebration of South Dakota’s 125th MARILYN J. ZIFFRIN ••••• Heaven, for shakuhachi, koto, shamisen and string Birthday of Statehood, Capitol in Pierre 11/1/14. Marilyn Ziffrin is working on a new quartet, received its New York premiere by Kyo-Shin- Julian’s Showings, 8-song cycle, Hannah Lu, soprano, piece for tenor sax, clarinet, and An Arts and the Cassatt String Quartet at the Tenri Susan Keith Gray, piano, University of South Dakota, piano to be titled Trio NJM. She is Cultural Institute in Manhattan. 1/27/15; also, Robin Massie, soprano, Westminster the author of the sole biography of RECORDINGS: Breaking Heaven (Albany Records) Choir College, 3/29/15. With the Voice of Joy and Carl Ruggles (University of Illinois features five of Womack’s works for Japanese Praise, All-State Orchestra, Mankato, MN; also, Florida Press). She has had six residencies instruments, including his triple concerto for All-State Orchestra. at the MacDowell Colony though shakuhachi, biwa and koto, Three Trees. ‘Aina was ZIFFRIN included on the Palisades Virtuosi Trio’s release New PREMIERES/COMMISSIONS: Some of the Hidden the years. American Masters, vol. 5. Stars (song cycle, tenor, piano), Scott RECORDINGS: TEN, North/South WEBSITE: donaldwomack.com Piper, tenor, March 29th, 2014, Truman State Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, conductor.

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