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SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, INC.

NA.TIONAL CONFERENCE

MARCH 5-8, 1997

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS SCHOOL OF MUSIC HERBERT AND NICOLE WERTHEIM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER MIAMI, FLORIDA SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, INC.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

MARCH 5-8, 1997

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS SCHOOL OF MUSIC HERBERT AND NICOLE WERTHEIM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER MIAMI, FLORIDA SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, INC. NATIONAL CONFERENCE

MARCH 5-8, 1997

A Welcome from Your SCI Host ...... l

A Message from the FIU School of Music Director ...... 2

Conference Overview ...... 3

Wednesday, March 5, 1997 ...... 5

Thursday, March 6, 1997 ...... 9

Friday, March 7, 1997 ...... 13

Saturday, March 8, 1997 ...... 17

SCI National Council...... 21

Florida International University• School of Music ...... 22

List of Participating Composers ...... 23

Special Guest/Keynote Speak.er • Donald Erb ...... 25

The Miami String Quartet ...... 26

Continuum ...... 27

Andiamo Chamber Ensemble ...... 31 A WELCOME FROM YOUR SCI HOST

Dear Friends and Colleagues: I want to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to this year's SCI National Conference. We have tried to organize an outstanding conference including many excellent performers, works, papers, panels, and workshops. More specifically, the conference will include 16 papers, 2 panels, 12 concerts with over 70 works, and other events including the SCI banquet with keynote speaker, Donald Erb. Planning and presenting the SCI National is a monumental task especially when you are at an institution that is growing "like a weed" in numbers of students, faculty, facilities, and programs. This incredible growth has multiplied everyone's work load and when you add the presentation of an event like the SCI National Conference, it takes extra efforts from all those involved to realize the event. I want to especially thank my colleague Fredrick Kaufman, Director of the School of Music, for his constant support and assistance. Without his total commitment to this event, the conference would not have been possible. I also want to thank my colleague Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner for the job that she did covering for me while I was on sabbatical in the fall semester, as well as for her assistance with the tech for the conference and countless other details. I want to thank the faculty performers and resident ensembles, The Miami String Quartet, Continuum, and Andiamo, as well as our student ensembles and their directors, for their excellent work. I am also grateful to the 20 plus visiting performers coming from around the country to perform their colleagues' music. Lastly, the conference would not be possible without the work of our business manager and our secretarial staff. Overall, the realization of this conference has truly been a team effort. I hope that you enjoy your time in Miami and that you find the conference as varied and interesting as we have tried to make it.

Orlando Jacinto Garcia, host 1997 SCI National Conference

1 A MESSAGE FROM THE FIU SCHOOL OF MUSIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to the Florida International University School of Music! We are deeply honored to host this year's Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference! Music of the 20th Century plays a very important role in the education of all music majors within the FIU School of Music and we are therefore delighted to have our students exposed to the widely varied creations of the SCI membership. Our students are here for this conference to listen to your music and papers and to be helpful to you in any way they can. All events except the banquet on Saturday will take place in the brand new Wertheim Performing Arts Center. It is our objective to make you as comfortable as possible during this conference. If you have any special needs, please feel free to contact my colleague Dr. Orlando Garcia, this year's conference host, or me and we will do our best to accommodate you. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Garcfa for the work he has done to make this conference a success. He has worked tirelessly for the past six months on your behalf. I would also like to thank my colleagues: Elizabeth Hinkle­ Turner; ensembles conductors John Augenblick, Carlos Piantini, Gary Campbell and Matthew Mcinturf; our applied faculty; my assistant, Cindy Prather; our lighting expert, Jeff Herriott; our sound engineers, Richard Serrota and Paul Speck; Robert Grabowski; the School of Music secretarial staff; and our students, who have worked long and hard for this occasion. This conference could not take place without the assistance and cooperation of all of these people. I sincerely hope you enjoy our fabulous facilities here at FIU and take pride in sharing with you the creative and musical excitement this conference brings to us all. Enjoy!

Professor Fredrick Kaufman FIU School of Music Director

2 SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, INC. 1997 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

9:00 AM - 12 Noon Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 9:00-11:00 9:00-11:00 9:00-11 :00 9:00-11 :00 Installations Installations Installations Installations E Mus S E Mus S E Mus S E Mus S 9:00-10:00 9:00-10:00 9:00-10:00 m00-10:00 Paper I Ii Paper Ses. IV I Paper Ses. VII aper Ses. VIII CR CR CR CR 9:00-10:00 9:00-10:00 ~00-10:00 Paper Ses. IV Ii Paper Ses. VII aper Ses. VIII ' IR IR IR 10:00-11 :00 10:00-11:00 10:00-12:00 10:00-12:00 Paper Ses. II 7 Paper Ses. V Panel I {f) Panel II~ CR CR IR IR 10:00-11 :00 1> Paper Ses. V IR 10:00-12:00 Committee on Minorities RH 11:00-12:00 11:00-12:00 Paper Ses. III 1 Paper Ses. VI CR CR 11 :00-12:00 11:00-12:00 Paper Ses. III 10 Paper Ses. VI IR IR

3 SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, INC. 1997 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

12 Noon - 10:00 PM Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 1 :00 1:00-3:00 1 :00-3:00 I :00-3:00 Welcome Concert IV Concert VII Concert x Ceremony RH RH RH CH 1: 15-3:00 3:00-4:00 15 3:00 Concert I Sax Workshop SCI Bus. Mtg. CH CR IR 4:00-6:00 4:00-6:00 4:00-6:00 4:00-5:30 Concert II Concert v Concert VIII Concert XI RH CH RH RH 5:30-7:30 Banquet FC 8:00-10:00 8:00-10:00 8:00-10:00 8:00-10:00 Concert III Concert VI Concert IX Concert XII CH CH CH CH

LOCATION OF ROOMS HERBERT AND NICOLE WERTHEIM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: CH= Concert Hall (PA-170) CR = Conference Room (PA-142) E Mus S = Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) IR = Instrumental Room (P A-157) RH = Recital Hall (PA-150)

GRAHAM CENTER BUILDING: FC = Faculty Club

4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1997

Installations 9:00-11 :00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Dido and Ana'is, a CD-ROM installation Kristine H. Burns • Dartmouth College

9:00-11 :00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Full Circle, a CD-ROM installation Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner • Florida International University

Paper Session I 9:00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) Electroacoustic Performance: TransActional Composition Cleve L. Scott• Ball State University

Paper Session II 10:00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) Cross-fertilization Between Contemporary Acoustic and Electroacoustic Compositional Practice Pieter Snapper • Oberlin Conservatory

Paper Session Ill 11 :00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) Schenker, Schoenberg, and Form Deborah Weagel •University of New Mexico

11 :00 AM Instrumental Room (PA-157) The Pythagorean Derivation and Theories of Truth John D. White • Talladega College

Welcoming Ceremony

1:00 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) Orlando Jacinto Garcia, host, 1997 SCI National Conference Fredrick Kaufman, Director, FIU School of Music Arthur Herriott, Dean, FIU College of Arts and Sciences Modesto Maidique, President, Florida International University

5 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1997

Concert I I: 15 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) FIU Concert Choir John Augenblick, director

Over the City (in memory of the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima) for SA TB chorus and chamber ensemble Karen P. Thomas • Seattle, WA Seattle Pro Musica

Deum laudent, o Maria, Pro te Virgo puerpera Jon C. Nelson • North Texas University

The Definition of Nihilism James F. Crowley • Drury College, MO

Death Be Not Proud Jacob Druckman (1928-1996)

Concert II 4:00 PM Recital Hall (PA-150) Visiting Performers

Sonnets for a Solitary Oboe Elaine F. Lebenbom • Bloomfield Hills, MI Sylvia Starkman, oboe

"Family Portraits" (Brenda, Earl, Ivy and Sylvia) Stuart Saunders Smith• University Maryland Balto County Thomas Moore, piano

Primal Landscapes for electric Indian flute and computer generated samples Burton Beerman • Bowling Green State University

6 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1997

Concert II continued

Sepulcher, 7th Piano Sonata Peter Blauvelt •Tampa Bay Comp Forum Peter Blauvelt, solo piano

do you love me ? for stereo tape Bobby Lombardi • Stanford University

The Red Shoes Pamela A. Madsen • University of California at San Diego Patti Cudd, solo percussion

Sonatina for Soprano Saxophone and Piano HyeKyung Lee • University of Texas Austin HyeKyung Lee, piano Todd Yukumoto, soprano saxophone

BAGEND INC., is pleased to be involved in the 1997 National Conference of the Society of Composers Inc., providing the sound reinforcement system for this event.

Concert III 8:00 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) Continuum @ Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs , directors Martha Elliott, soprano Ulla Suokko-Hixson, flutes David Gresham, clarinet, bass clarinet Renee Jolles, violin Darrett Adkins, cello Stephen Gosling, piano Joel Sachs, piano, conductor

Trio, for flute, bass clarinet, and piano James Neng-Hsien Ho• Tunghai University, Taiwan

7 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1997

Concert III continued

Kyrie Mantra, for flute and piano Richard Cameron-Wolfe• New York, NY

Der Geist von Schlegel Klaviertriosatz, for violin, piano, and cello Melissa Maier• Magliaso, Switzerland

Songs of Ana Akhmatova Judith Shatin • University of Virginia

El Sueiio de Bolivar, for soprano, clarinet, violin, piano, and conductor Francis Schwartz • Universidad de Puerto Rico \. ~io Piedras,lwrto Rico ::i: ·. w~ ~ r01aJL fo.~t ,"' JC. ~ Continuum ®is a service mark of the Performers' Committee, Inc., Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, directors.

8 THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1997

9:00-11:00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Dido and Anai's, a CD-ROM installation Kristine H. Burns • Dartmouth College

9:00-11:00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Full Circle, a CD-ROM installation Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner • Florida International University Paper Session IV 9:00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) The Condition of Postmodernity in Contemporary Art Music David Brackett• SUNY Binghamton

9:00 AM Instrumental Room (PA-157) Serialism and Aleatory: A Question of Aural Perception George Warren •Pompton Lakes, NJ Paper Session V 10:00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) Subtle Timbre Resources for Clarinet: A Consolidation of Extended Instrumental Resources E. Michael Richards • Hamilton College

I 0:00 AM Instrumental Room (PA-157) Communities of Composers: Belonging, Networking, Promotion Richard Brooks • Nassau Community College Committee on Minorities 10:00 AM Recital Hall (PA-150) Marshall Bialosky, presiding

Composing Black Dolores White • Cleveland, OH

Being a Female Composer in the US Navy Cherilee Wadsworth• US Navy Paper Session VI 11:00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) Warped Ideas: Transforming Rhythm With Calculation and Scaling Maurice Wright • Temple University

9 THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1997

I I :00 AM Instrumental Room (PA-157) Direct Spectral Manipulation as Compositional Resource in Computer Music Thomas Wells •Ohio State University

12:00 Conference Room (PA-142) Executive Committee National Council Meeting (Closed Session)

Concert IV 1:00 PM Recital Hall (PA-150) Continuum Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs , directors Martha Elliott, soprano Ulla Suokko-Hixson, flutes David Gresham, clarinet, bass clarinet Renee Jolles, violin Darrett Adkins, cello Stephen Gosling, piano Joel Sachs, piano, conductor

de barrio obrero a la quince, for piano four hands William Ortiz • Universidad de Bayamon Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Diary of an Alien, for solo flute Margaret Brouwer • Cleveland Institute

A wakening, for solo cello Sue Dellinger• Bloomington, IN

Black and White, for clarinet and piano Elena Ruehr • MIT

Burn Notice, for flute, cello, and piano David Lang • New York, NY

INTERMISSION

10 THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1997 Concert IV continued

The Plain Presentation of It, for soprano, flute and violin Beth Wiemann • College of the Holy Cross

Dream Time Suite, for violin, clarinet, and piano Virko Baley • University of Nevada LV

BAGEND INC., is pleased to be involved in the 1997 National Conference of the Society of Composers Inc., providing the sound reinforcement system for this event.

Continuum ®is a service mark of the Performers' Committee, Inc., Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, directors.

Saxophone Workshop 3:00 PM Conference Room (PA-142) The Performer in Computer Music: Challenges in a New Performing Environment Steve Duke • Northern Illinois University Steve Duke, saxophone

Concert V 4:00 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) The Other Music Ensemble from the University of Miami Dennis Kam , director David Stockton, guest conductor Bonnie Hurley, Lillian Santiago-Caballero, Julia Tichi, flutes Johnson Machado, Robin Rahman, clarinets/bass clarinet Matt Corey, bassoon Paul Wilson, horn Brian McGrath, trumpet Patrick Cotter, trombone James Castelli, percussion Maria Letona, Amy Tarantino, piano Whitney LaGrange, Andres Gonzales, violins Ana Amengual, viola Kendra Leonard, cello Timothy Mason, David Weinstein, double bass

11 THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1997 Concert V continued The Bergonzi String Quartet (University of Miami) Glenn Basham, violin Tomasz Leibig, violin Pamela McConnell, viola Ross Harbaugh, cello

Errol Rackipov, vibraphone/marimba Keith Aleo, marimba Daniel Koppelman, piano

Chamber Concerto David Brackett • SUNY Binghamton The Other Music Ensemble

Music for a Small Space Small Room Dancing and Future Presents Timothy Vincent Clark • Synchronia, St. Louis, MO The Other Music Ensemble

Rage Within, for chamber ensemble Frederic Glesser • Miami, FL The Other Music Ensemble Windward Passage, for percussion and string quartet Daniel Adams • Texas Southern University The Bergonzi String Quartet Errol Rackipov, vib/mar

Surface inventions, for solo piano Keith Kothman • University of Miami Dan Koppleman, piano

Glide, for marimba and violin Robin Cox • Cal State LA Glenn Basham, violin Keith Aleo, marimba

Double Take, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion Joseph Koykkar • University of Wisconsin Madison The Other Music Ensemble

12 THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1997

Concert VI 8:00 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) Ensemble Screamer from the University of Illinois Florida International University Wind Ensemble Matthew Mcinturf, director Florida International University Symphony Orchestra Carlos Piantini, director

Breakpoint Screamer, for 5 trumpets and tape Zack Browning • University of Illinois

Spinning Rounds, for symphonic band Don Freund • Indiana University

Rose, for chamber ensemble Joseph Rubenstein• Yale University

Chiaroscura: Zebra Variations, for wind ensemble Elliott Schwartz • Bowdoin College

INTERMISSION

Variations for Orchestra Charles Bestor • University of Massachusetts

" ... Fygein Adynaton ... ", for guitar and orchestra Apostolos Paraskevas • Boston University Apostolos Paraskevas, solo guitar

Possible Worlds, for orchestra Martin Rokeach • St. Mary's College, CA

BAGEND INC., is pleased to be involved in the 1997 National Conference of the Society of Composers Inc., providing the sound reinforcement system for this event.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997

9:00-11:00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Dido and Anai's, a CD-ROM installation Kristine H. Burns • Dartmouth College

13 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997

9:00-11 :00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Full Circle, a CD-ROM installation Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner• Florida International University Paper Session VII 9:00 AM Conference Room (PA-142) Digital Notation Representation and Online Retrieval of Musical Information: A Discussion of Current Options and Practices Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner• Florida International University

9:00 AM Instrumental Room (PA- 157) The Realization and First Complete Performances of Charles Ives's Universe Symphony: A Synthesis of Compositional Processes Larry Austin • Denton, TX Panel I I 0:00 AM Instrumental Room (PA- 157) Composition in the 21st Century Roger Johnson, moderator • Ramapo College, NJ James Mobberley • University of Missouri at Kansas City Stephen Montague • London, England Luis Jorge Gonzalez• University of Colorado, Boulder Kristine H. Burns • Dartmouth College Concert VII I :00 PM Recital Hall (PA-150) The Miami String Quartet

Guest Artist, Gregory Taylor, piano

... between Scylla and Charybdis, for piano Charles Argersinger • Washington State

String Quartet #2 Maurice Gardner • Miami Beach, FL Commentary • Query • Allegory • Serendipity • Epiphany

Sonata No. 1 "Del Plata", for piano Luis Jorge Gonzalez • University of Colorado Boulder

String Quartet #3 Robert Starer • Woodstock, NY

14 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997

SCI Business Meeting 3 :00 PM Instrumental Room (PA-157) All members welcome

Concert VIII 4:00 PM Recital Hall (PA-150) Visiting Performers and FIU Faculty Artists Lisa LaCross, flute Luis Gomez-Imbert, contrabass

Incandescent Neon, for flute and double bass Scott Brickman • University of Maine Mathias Luis Gomez-Imbert, contrabass Lisa LaCross, flute

Harmonizer, for violin and tape Daniel McCatthy • Indiana State Sharilyn Spicknall, violin

Duo for Contrabassoon and Piano John Van der Slice• University of Miami Henry Skolnick, contrabassoon Jose Lopez, piano

Autumn Air, for flute and double bass Yang Yong • New England Conservatory Luis Gomez-Imbert, contrabass Lisa LaCross, flute

Echo, for solo horn Dorothy Hindman • Birmingham Southern AL Paul Basler, horn

BluesAx, for saxophonist and computer music Larry Austin • Denton, TX Steve Duke, saxophone

Cascade Range, for cello and piano Laura Elise Schwendinger • San Francisco Conservatory Scott Kluksdahl, cello Daniel Stevens, piano

15 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997

Concert VIII continued Caution to the Winds and Into the Maelstrom, for piano and electronic tape James Mobberley •University of MO at KC Gregory Taylor, piano

BAGEND INC., is pleased to be involved in the 1997 National Conference of the Society of Composers Inc., providing the sound reinforcement system for this event.

Concert IX 8:00 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) Andiamo Ensemble Barbara Siesel, artistic director Nina Kogan. piano Matthias Naegele, cello Calvin Wiersma, violin, viola Julian Milkis, clarinet Barbara Siesel, flute

Elements: 2 Ron Caltabiano • San Francisco State University

Folk Songs (Set No. 9), for flute and cello Reza Vali • Carnegie Mellon

Hradjanska, for flute, violin, cello and piano Charles Norman Mason • Birmingham Southern AL

INTERMISSION

The Blue Melody, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Kui Dong •Stanford University, CA

Sonata No, 1 for Flute and Piano Elisenda Fabregas • University of Texas San Antonio Elisenda Fabregas, guest pianist

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- - --~~ SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1997

9:00-11 :00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Dido and Anai·s, a CD-ROM installation

Kristine H. Burns • Dartmouth College

9:00-11:00 AM Electronic Music Studio (PA-169) Full Circle, a CD-ROM installation

Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner• Florida International University

Paper Session VIII 9:00 AM Conference Room (PA- 142) Women Composers in Cyberspace: Tools for Networking

Sally Reid• Abilene Christian University, TX

9:00 AM Instrumental Room (PA- 157) An Analysis of Transformation Procedures in Gyorgy Ligeti's String Quartet, number 2

Richard Power • Austin, TX

Panel II I 0:00 AM Instrumental Room (PA- 157) The composition curriculum in the 21st Century

Roger Johnson, moderator • Ramapo College, NJ Don Freund • Indiana University Francis Schwartz • Universidad de Puerto Rico Fredrick Kaufman • Florida International University Judith Shatin • University of Virginia

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SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1997

Concert X 1:00 PM Recital Hall (PA-150) Andiamo Ensemble Barbara Siesel, artistic director

Nina Kogan. piano Matthias Naegele, cello Calvin Wiersma, violin, viola Julian Milkis, clarinet Barbara Siesel, flute

Windrider/Final Ascent, for flute and piano Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy • Ithaca, NY

Gemini, for flute, cello, and piano Jeremy Beck • University of Northern Iowa

Colloquies, for Flute and Clarinet Bernard Gilmore • University of California at Irvine

INTERMISSION

Scherzo Silhouette, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano Richard Nelson • Brunswick, ME

Palindrome Variations for flute, violin, and cello Paul Epstein • Temple University SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1997

Concert XI 4:00 PM Recital Hall (PA-150) Visitillg Performers

"The Sea-Elephant" from Eight Poems of William Carlos Williams, for solo trombone David Vayo •Illinois Wesleyan University David Manson, trombone

FramesetuDe (the art of being in the right space) Michael D. Golden• Marshall University, WV Leo Welch, guitar

re: David, for trombone and electronics Gustavo Matamoros • Miami, FL David Manson, trombone

Homage - Bud Powell, for solo piano and tape Karl Korte • University of Texas Austin Jeff Helmer, piano Interzones, for vibraphone and tape Bruce Hamilton • Indiana University Bruce Hamilton, vibes

Syllogism No. 2, for solo trombone James Paul Sain• University of Florida Arthur Jennings, trombone

Sburator, for Mandolin and Tape Pieter Snapper • Oberlin Conservatory Dimitris Marino, mandolin

BAGEND INC., is pleased to be involved in the 1997 National Conference of the Society of Composers Inc., providing the sound reinforcement system for this event.

19 SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1997

SCI BANQUET

5:30 PM FIU Faculty Club Keynote Speaker Donald Erb

Also in Appreciation of Greg Steinke, Outgoing SCI President: Special Presentation by Richard Brooks

Concert XII

8:00 PM Concert Hall (PA-170) The Miami String Quartet Florida International University String Orchestra Carlos Piantini, director Guest Artist, Mark Drobinsky, cello

String Quartet Number 1 (Rendering Counterpoint) Orlando Jacinto Garcfa • Florida International University

String Quartet Number 1 Don Erb • Cleveland, OH Allegro Adagio Moderato

Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra, "Kaddish" Fredrick Kaufman • Florida International University Mark Drobinsky, cello

20 SCI National Council (1997-98)

Greg A. Steinke, Chairman and President Millikin University David K. Gompper, President-elect The University of Iowa

Region co-chairs

Eric Sawyer (I) • MIT Brian Hulse (I) • Harvard Andrew Simpson (2) • SUNY Potsdam Samuel Pellman (2) • Hamilton College Simon Andrews (3) • Franklin and Marshall College Jan Krzywicki (3) • Temple University Kari Henrik Juusela (4) •Stetson University John D. White (4) • University of Florida James E. Chaudoir (5) • University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Rocky Reuter (5) • Capital University Daniel Adams (6) •Texas Southern University Samuel Magri II (6) • University of Central Oklahoma Marshall Bialosky (7) • Cal State University Dominguez Hills Glenn Hackbarth (7) • Arizona State University Charles Argersinger (8) •Washington State University Cindy Cox (8) • University of California Berkeley Kate Waring (9) • Europe

Executive Committee (}997-98)

Reynold Weidenaar, Chairman •William Patterson College Bruce J Taub, editor, Journal of Music Scores C.F. Peters Corporation Richard Brooks, producer, CD series • Nassau Community College William Ryan, Submissions Coordinator Ting Ho, Student Chapters • Montclair State University Kirk Corey, Listserv Coordinator Barton McLean, Independent Composer Representative Dorothy Hindman, Representative for Local Chapters and Affiliated Groups David Vayo, Membership Chair• Illinois Wesleyan University Fred Glesser, editor, Monograph Series Gerald Warfield, General Manager Martin Gonzalez, Executive Secretary

21 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC FREDRICK KAUFMAN, DIRECTOR

The Florida International University School of Music, in the College of Arts and Sciences, is located in the beautiful new, 14 million dollar Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. This new facility houses a 600 seat Concert Hall (PA-170) and a 150 seat Recital Hall (PA-150) as well as rehearsal halls, faculty offices, practice rooms and a state of the art electronic music laboratory.

The School serves over 170 music majors from 14 countries with 24 full time faculty an

The star-studded faculty of artists at FIU include such renowned musician/educators as pianist Susan Starr, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, The Miami String Quartet, composers Fredrick Kaufman and Orlando Jacinto Garcia, flutist Nestor Torres, conductor Carlos Piantini, jazz educator Richard Dunscomb, and numerous others in all areas of music. The brilliant contemporary ensembles Andiamo and Continuum also recently joined the faculty in the capacity of Ensembles-in-Residence.

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS HERBERT AND NICOLE WERTHEIM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER SCHOOL OF MUSIC, PA-141 MIAMI, FLORIDA 33199, USA Telephone (305) 348-2896 • FAX (305) 348-4073 TDD VIA FRS 1-800-955-8777

22 LIST OF PARTICIPATING COMPOSERS

Daniel Adams Charles Argersinger Larry Austin Texas Southern Washington State Denton, TX University Virko Baley Jeremy Beck Burton Beerman University of Nevada LV University of Northern Bowling Green State Iowa University Charles Bestor Marshall Bialosky Peter Blauvelt University of Cal State Dominguez Tampa Bay Comp Massachusetts Hills Forum David Brackett Scott Brickman Richard Brooks SUNY Binghamton University of Maine Nassau Community Col Mathias Margaret Brouwer Zack Browning Kristine H. Burns Cleveland Institute University of Illinois Dartmouth College Ron Caltabiano Richard Cameron-Wolfe Timothy Vincent Clark San Francisco State New York, NY Synchronia, St. Louis, University MO Robin Cox James F. Crowley Sue Dellinger Cal State LA Drury College, MO Bloomington, IN Kui Dong Paul Epstein Don Erb Stanford University, CA Temple University Cleveland, OH Elisenda Fabregas Margaret Fairlie- Don Freund University of Texas San Kennedy Indiana University Antonio Ithaca, NY Orlando Jacinto Garcia Maurice Gardner Bernard Gilmore Florida International Miami Beach, FL University of CA at University Irvine Frederic Glesser Michael D. Golden Luis Jorge Gonzalez Miami, FL Marshall University WV University of Col Boulder Bruce Hamilton Dorothy Hindman Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner Indiana University Birmingham Southern Florida International AL University James Neng-Hsien Ho Roger Johnson Dennis Kam Tunghai University, Ramap College, NJ University of Miami Taiwan Fredrick Kaufman Karl Korte Keith Kothman Florida International University of Texas University of Miami University Austin Joseph Koykkar Elaine F. Lebenbom HyeKyung Lee University of Wisconsin Bloomfield Hills, MI University of Texas Madison Austin

23 LIST OF PARTICIPATING COMPOSERS

Bobby Lombardi Pamela A. Madsen Melissa Maier Stanford University University of Calif at Magliaso, Switzerland San Diego Ursula Mamlok Charles Norman Mason Gustavo Matamoros New York, NY Birmingham Southern Miami, FL AL Daniel McCarthy James Mobberley Stephen Montague Indiana State University of MO at KC London, England Jon C. Nelson William Ortiz Apostolos Paraskevas North Texas University Ude Bayamon, Puerto Boston University Rico Richard Power Sally Reid E. Michael Richards Austin, TX Abilene Christian Hamilton College University TX Joseph Rubenstein Elena Ruehr James Paul Sain Yale University MIT University of Florida Elliott Schwartz Francis Schwartz Laura Elise Bowdoin College U Puerto Rico Rio Schwendinger Piedras San Francisco Conservatory Cleve L. Scott Judith Shatin Paul A. Siskind Ball State University University of Virginia University of St. Thomas MN Stuart Saunders Smith Pieter Snapper Robert Starer University Maryland Oberlin Conservatory Woodstock, NY Balto County Karen P. Thomas Reza Vali John Van der Slice Seattle Pro Musica Carnegie Mellon University of Miami David Vayo Cherilee Wadsworth George Warren Illinois Wesleyan US Navy Pompton Lakes, NJ University Deborah Weagel Thomas Wells Dolores White University of New Ohio State University Cleveland, OH Mexico John D. White Beth Wiemann Maurice Wright Talladega College College of the Holy Temple University Cross Yang Yong New England Conservatory

24 DONALD ERB

Special Guest/Keynote Speaker

Many adjectives have been applied to Donald Erb's music: vital, aggressive, raunchy (by Erb himself), bold and harrowing, even whiz­ bang (Harold C. Schonberg); it can also be lots of fun. He has described himself as an abstract expressionist; that's about as close as one can get to pinning a label on his music. Erb has written I 00 works over the past thirty-seven years, and his music has been widely heard. Over eighty orchestras in the United States, including every major ensemble, have performed his music, and this does not include conservatory performances, of which there have been many more. These totals are all the more astounding when one considers that Erb's music has always been considered avant-garde.

Donald Erb was born in Youngston, Ohio, in 1927, and his early ambition was to be a jazz trumpeter; her worked in that capacity for a number of years. After majoring in trumpet and composition at Kent State University ( 1950), Erb went off to the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with composer Marcel Dick. Erb is more interested in making music than in explaining methods, but a statement in his notes to a 1969 Nonesuch LP still carries force today:

To me composing is basically an intuitive process. A composer should be able to use what he knows about music in an instinctive manner rather than relying on "systems. " Neither am I interested in abdicating my responsibility as a composer to factor over which I have little control.

At age seventy, Erb continues at his blistering pace, and his music still keeps getting better; thirty-seven years of composition have refined his skills without dimming his wondrously fertile imagination. Erb is a fearless critic of pretension and shoddiness, and the unflagging honesty of his public utterances has ruffled more than a few famous feathers. He is deeply concerned for the future of young composers in this "age of sleaze," where art and culture are fast degenerating into the thirty-second commercial sound bite. In these days of trepidation over the future of classical music in America, Donald Erb is a beacon to follow.

25 THE MIAMI STRING QUARTET Ivan Chan, violin • Cathy Meng Robinson, violin Chauncey Patterson, viola • Keith Robinson, cello

Praised in The New York Times as having "everything one wants in a quartet: a rich, precisely balanced sound, a broad coloristic palette, real unity of interpretive purpose and seemingly unflagging energy," The Miami String Quartet has quickly established its place among the most respected young quartets in America. In 1992, the Quartet became the first string quartet in a decade to win First Prize of the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition and was also awarded the competition's special ITT Corporation Prize. The Miami String Quartet has won recognition in competitions throughout the world as laureate of the 1993 Evian and 1991 London string quartet competitions, and as the 1989 Grand Prize Winner of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Highlights of their 1995-96 season included performances at New York's Merkin Hall and at the Krannert Center in Champaign-Urbana, IL., as well as a collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In addition to their recording for the Pyramid label of the first two quartets of Alberto Ginastera, the Quartet's 1994-95 season included performances in New York (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and for the New School Concerts), Los Angeles (Ambassador Auditorium), San Diego (University of California), for the Portland (OR) Friends of Chamber Music, and their own series of concerts in Palm Beach and at Kent State University. Other recent season highlights have included performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's "Music of Our Time" series, the Concert Society at Maryland (College Park), the Spivey Concert Hall in Atlanta, Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Quartet in Residence at Florida International University in Miami, they have performed throughout the U.S., Europe and South America. For the last several years, The Miami String Quartet has also served as the resident ensemble at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival in Ohio. Other festival appearances have included Chamber Music Northwest, Mostly Mozart, Maverick Concerts, Princeton Summer Music Concerts, Bellingham Chamber Music Festival, the Pensacola and Palm Beach festivals, and the Strings at the Mountains Festival in Steamboat Springs. The ensemble's great interest in new music has led to a commissioning grant from Chamber Music America for a piano quintet from Maurice Gardner, which received its world premiere in January 1993. 1994 brought the premier performances of a quartet by Bruce Adolphe, entitled Whispers of Mortality, commissioned for The Miami String Quartet by Concert Artist Guild, as well as the premier of Maurice Gardner's Quartet No. 2. The summer of 1996 brought the premiere of Robert Starer's Quartet No. 3, Gardner's Co11certi110, David Baker's Summer Memories, and, most recently, Fredrick Kaufman's Mobile String Quartet.

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In April, 1996, The New York Times wrote, "Simply put, there is no musical organization in New York that produces more intellectually enticing or more viscerally satisfying programs than Continuum ... Year after year, its explorations in the 20th-century repertory prove to be not only unusual and unexpected but also important and enduring ... This ensemble has a long history of acting in behalf of composers whom others discover years or decades later." Winner of the prestigious Siemens international prize for distinguished service to music and three ASCAP/Chamber Music America Awards for Adventuresome Programming, New York­ based Continuum has been performing for three decades. Its name embodies the philosophy that new music and old form an unbroken tradition. Aiming to expand the audience for this century's music, Continuum has performed throughout the United States, including appearances at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, at colleges and community series throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, and in 16 tours to Europe and 2 to South America. CBS-TV, educational television, National Public Radio, the Voice of America and the European networks have broadcast Continuum events. Its recordings appear on Nonesuch (Milton Babbitt, Mel Powell, and Stephan Wolpe), Advance (Lawrence Moss), Capstone (Lawrence Moss), CRI (John Anthony Lennon, Tania Leon), Cambria (Virko Bailey), and Musical Heritage Society (Leon Kirchner, Henry Cowell [2 recordings], Robert Erickson, Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Roberto Sierra, Virgil Thomson). Continuum is well known for the tremendous range of its repertoire, spanning the many trends of this century's music. It has premiered works by such diverse composers as John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Conlon Nancarrow, Stephan Wolpe, Arvo Part, Robert Erickson, Mario Davidovsky, and dozens of others. Continuum is acclaimed for its annual series of retrospective concerts, evenings devoted to individual masters whose stylistic development and creative breadth are represented by works from the composer's entire career. The retrospectives received international recognition with Newsweek's article on Continuum's landmark, "USSR- Unveiling the Avant-Garde." In addition to its activities at its New York home, and its international touring, Continuum is guest Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University.

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Martha Elliott, soprano, is nationally recognized for her wide repertoire, which includes opera, avant-garde works, chamber music, and baroque music with period instruments. She has sung at the Marlboro Festival, Tanglewood and Aspen, and in chamber music recitals throughout the United States. Among recent engagements are an East European tour, a major 80th birthday celebration for Milton Babbitt, and a fully staged production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Les Arts Florissant with the New York Baroque Dance Company and Concert Royal. Baroque performances have included appearances with Concert Royal, the New England Bach Festival, Princeton Pro Musica, and many others. She also sang in the Beethoven Society's production of the original version of Fidelio at Lincoln Center and she has also been featured on National Public Radio and CBS. Ms. Elliott graduated with honors from Princeton University and received a Masters of Music Degree from Juilliard. She currently teaches at Princeton. Darrett Adkins, cellist, is a regular soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, performing concertos ranging from Tartini and Vivaldi to Birtwistle and Britten. His particular interest in contemporary music has led to engagements with Houston's Syzygy, Spokane's Zephyr, Art Norway, and New York's Summergarden. Equally in demand as a chamber musician, Mr. Adkins has won the Coleman Competition and a prize at the Fischoff Competition. Comfortable as a continuo player, alongside Mozart's fortepiano, and in the standard romantic and twentieth-century repertory, some of his projects in late twentieth­ century music have involved elements from theater, electronics, improvisation, and multi-media and cross-cultural music. A doctoral candidate at the Juilliard School, Mr. Adkins holds degrees from Oberlin College and Rice University. An avid exponent of new music, British pianist Stephen Gosling has given performances with new music groups such as the New Juilliard Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Music Mobile, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Concert performances include the European premiere of Paul Schoenfield's Four Parables with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic under Lukas Foss, John Corigliano's Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Hudson Valley (NY) Philharmonic. He performed at the Friedheim Awards finals in Washington's Kennedy Center, and the Summergarden series at New York's Museum of Modern Art and recorded for Decca and New World. Mr. Gosling is currently pursuing a OMA degree at the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for Excellence and Leadership in Music, and the Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship.

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David Gresham, clarinetist, has had extensive experience with contemporary and traditional repertoire on clarinet and bass clarinet. Besides numerous solo and chamber performances in the New York area, including concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), and on the "Around New York" program of New York's radio station WNYC, he has been clarinetist with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and the National Orchestral Association, and as clarinetist with the award-winning woodwind quintet Vanguard Chamber Players. Mr. Gresham was also a featured performer in the Museum of Modern Art' s "Summergarden" concerts. With Continuum he toured in the United States, Europe, and South America. A native of Newnan, Georgia, David Gresham holds degrees from the University of South Carolina and the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Gresham is completing the Doctor of Music Arts degree at the Juilliard School. Renee Jolles, violinist, can be heard regularly with ensembles in the greater New York area and was the featured artist in the first Festival for Young Artists in Solingen, Germany. Among her orchestral engagements was the American premiere of Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's Second Violin Concerto at Lincoln Center. She performs internationally with the Jolles Duo, Andreas Trio, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and during the summers has been heard at the music festivals at Marlboro, Taos, Norfolk, Bennington, and Wellesley, as well as at the "Summergarden" festival of the Museum of Modern Art. She holds the B.M. and M.M. from the Juilliard School, from which she received the school's highest award, the William Schuman Prize. Ms. Jolles is on the chamber music faculty of Juilliard's Pre-College Division. Joel Sachs, Co-director of Continuum, has conducted at major American and European festivals, has been music director for experimental opera projects, and performs extensively as a solo and Lieder pianist. At Juilliard he conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble, a contemporary chamber orchestra, teaches contemporary music, directs the "Focus!" festival of 20th­ cetnury music, and is chairman of music history. He is also Artistic Director of the Museum of Modern Art's "Summergarden" festival, and a faculty member at the Dartington International Summer School (England). He can be heard on Nonesuch, CRI, Cambria, and Musical Heritage Society recordings. A Harvard graduate, Dr. Sachs received the Ph.D. from Columbia, has held Guggenheim and NEH grants, and is writing a biography of American composer Henry Cowell (Oxford University Press).

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Cheryl Seltzer, pianist, has been co-director of Continuum since she co-founded it in 1966. Active in contemporary music since studying at Mills College with composers Darius Milhaud, Leon Kirchner, and Lawrence Moss, she also holds graduate degrees in musicology from Columbia University. Ms. Seltzer made her professional debut with the San Francisco Symphony, and appears as a soloist and ensemble performer. She has participated in the Marlboro and Tanglewood Festivals, and has recorded for Vox, Desto, Advance, Nonesuch, CRI, and Musical Heritage Society. Ms. Seltzer is Director of the Young People's Division at the Lucy Moses School of Music and Dance (New York), and is an officer of the Stephan Wolpe Society, which oversees the restoration and publication of the composer's works. Ulla Suokko-Hixson, flutist, is a native of Finland, where she earned her Master's Degree from the Sibelius Academy, and where she was in the Helsinki Philharmonic. She spent many summers performing and studying at the Academia Chigiana in Italy, and performed extensively as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in Europe. She has also been broadcast on Finnish National Radio. Ms. Suokko-Hixson was one of the original members of the New Juilliard Ensemble, and has also performed extensively on new music programs in New York, including a recital at the Museum of Modern Art's Summergarden series. Ms. Suokko-Hixson has been on the faculty of the Lucy Moses School of Music and Dance in New York and is currently completing her OMA degree at the Juilliard School.

Continuum ® is a service mark of the Performers' Committee, Inc., Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, directors.

30 ANDIAMO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

"Reminiscent of a young Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society" John Rockwell - The New York Times

Founded in 1983 and under the artistic direction of Barbara Siesel since 1987, The Andiamo Chamber Ensemble has been a ground breaking voice on the chamber music scene. Long a champion of new works with commissions of Aaron Jay Kernis, Ron Caltabiano, Elizabeth Brown, Stefania de Kennessey, and many others, Andiamo was a pioneer in "thematic" programming with concerts constructed with an underlying organizing theme. ' Andiamo has performed in every major chamber music venue in New York, including a world premier of Aaron Jay Kernis at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. The group has performed residencies at Harvard, Princeton, the New School for Social Research and Florida International University. Andiamo performed recently at the World Bank Mozart Festival, as the featured performers for a benefit to create a permanent holocaust memorial in Poland attended by President Chaim Herzog of Israel and a featured performers and participants for the 4th United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing. Andiamo may be heard on Opus One, I Virtuosi, CRI and on the sound track of the movie "The Crossing." The ensemble has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State, and Manhattan art councils (including the largest grant awarded 2 years ago). Barbara Siesel, flutist and Artistic Director, was a featured soloist at FIU's Festival of the Performing Arts celebrating the grand opening of the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Ms. Siesel has recently appeared as soloist with the St. Petersburg Mozarteum Orchestra, New York's Amor Artis Chamber Orchestra (on their sold out New Year's Gala), as touring soloist with the Mid­ Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and at the Crosswaves Festival as soloist/producer of a multi-media performance. Ms. Siesel has performed and taught master classes internationally at such renowned institutions as the St. Petersburg (Russia) Conservatory, The Chinese Central Conservatory in Beijing, George Washington University and the University of Wisconsin. She recently gave a recital at the University of Texas San Antonio comprising works to be included on her soon to be released solo CD on the ERM label. Ms. Siesel received her training at the Juilliard School and is currently on the faculty as wind area coordinator for the New World School of the Arts, and the University of Bridgeport.

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Matthias Naegele, cellist, has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Described as "beautifully inflected" by Bernard Holland of The New York Times, he has performed at the Marlboro, Dubrovnick, Jerusalem, Aspen, and Edinborough music festivals. He performs regularly with the Music Project, New Band, Anthony Neuman's Brandenburg Collegium, the Chamber Society of New Jersey, An Die Musik and others. Mr. Naegele is cellist of the Laurtentian String Quartet in residence at Sarah Lawrence College. Calvin Wiersma, violinist and violist, is a founding member of the Naumberg, Fischoff Coleman and Cleveland quartet competition winning Meliora Quartet. Mr. Wiersma has performed internationally as soloist and chamber musician. He has performed at the Vancouver, Rockport, Portland and Aspen Festivals. He was recently heard performing the complete Beethoven Sonatas on National Public Radio with pianist Catherine Kautsky. Mr. Wiersma is the Artistic Director of the American Symphony Chamber Players and has been on the faculties of Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Florida State University, Brandeis University, New England Conservatory, and Longy School of Music. Nina Kogan, pianist, a top prize winner of the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, has performed with the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Paris, Antverpen Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Stockholm Symphony, Lugano Orchestra under the baton of Kondrashin, Rozhdestvensky, Katz, Lazarev, Tabachnik, Kurz, Barshai, Kogan, and many others. She has appeared as soloist with her father, the legendary violinist Leonid Kogan, on premiere stages all over the world: Carnegie Hall & A very Fisher Hall in New York, Concert Halls in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington DC., Musik Verein in Vienna, Sancta Caecelia in Rome, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Herkules Saal in Munich, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Palais de Beaux Arts, Berlin Philharmonic, Hamburg Philharmonic, Theatre Champs Elysees, Salle Pleyel, and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Rudolfinum in Prague, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Moscow Conservatory and St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro Fenice in Venice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in all major halls in Japan. Since 1980, the Moscow Philharmonic Society has officially represented Nina. She has recorded for Deutsche Gramophone, EMI, Sony, Philips, Chant du Monde, Melodya and Video Kultur. Ms. Kogan performs a variety of chamber music and has given master classes all over the world. I

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Julian Milkis, clarinet, has established an international stature as a soloist and chamber musician and has appeared on the principal stages of Europe, the Far East and the Americas with solo and chamber performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the Great Hall of The Moscow Conservatory, the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the National Concert Hall in Taipei and others. Mr. Milkis has appeared as soloist with the Toronto Symphony, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Vivaldi Chamber Orchestra, the Hamburg Mozarteum, the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, L'Orchestre Nationale de Lyon, L'Orchestre Symphonique Francaise, the Canadian Broadcast Company Orchestra and others.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Milkis has collaborated with Yuri Bashmet, the Borodin Quartet, the St. Petersburg String Orchestra, Valeri Afanasiev, Genneday Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Rudin, Julius Baker and others. He has participated in numerous international festivals and events and has been a featured performer on TV and radio broadcasts throughout the United States and Europe, including the CBC and CJRT in Canada, as well as in France, Germany, Russia and elsewhere. Mr. Milkis is the Music Director of the St. Petersburg Seasons Festival and will also serve as Artistic Director and Supervising Juror for the First Benny Goodman International Clarinetist Competition to take place in September, 1997, in St. Petersburg.

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