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COVER COMPOSER RICHARD A. CROSBY Richard Crosby, has been demonstrate outstanding at EKU more than two a faculty member since abilities in teaching, decades ago with the help D r. 1986 at Eastern Kentucky service, and research. of Brenda Ray and your University, where he teaches piano and No stranger national staff, and have music history. Born in Ohio and raised to the rewards and been very supportive of the in Florida, he received his B.M. in music responsibilities of girls in our chapter. education, a M.M. in piano performance fraternal music life, he I am a pianist by training, and wind conducting, and his DMA in piano has undertaken many but as a composer I am performance, all from the University of roles in Phi Mu Alpha self-taught. I had tinkered Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Sinfonia. Crosby served with composing off and Ohio. 18 years on the National on in my 20s and 30s, As a pianist, he is heard frequently in Executive Board, including but it was only after four concert performances of solo and chamber three terms as National surgeries on my hands and music. He has released a CD through President. He remains the fear that my performing Capstone Records entitled An American Governor of Province 25, a days were behind me that Portrait, containing works by Charles position he has held since I turned more seriously Griffes, Amy Beach, William Grant Still, 1988. He also served for towards composing. My Lee Hoiby, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, David 12 years as a trustee on first serious, major work Guion, and George Gershwin. Richard has the Sinfonia Educational was my Trombone Sonata, also distinguished himself as a successful Foundation. written in 2003. Thanks to an amazing composer, penning works in a variety In a telephone conversation, he surgeon I have recovered my ability to of genres including songs for voice and reminisced about his longtime, treasured perform but I still put a good bit of time piano, solo selections for piano and organ, friendship with former SAI National into composing. I determined from the several chamber , and individual President Ginny Johnson during their start that I would write the kind of music commissioned pieces for concert band, concurrent years of fraternity leadership. that I wanted to hear and not worry about wind ensemble, and chorus. Dr. Crosby’s When asked about his thoughts on being pleasing anyone else. I have found that works are published by Southern Music, selected as an honored Composer-Judge stance very liberating. I am a Romantic by Prairie Dawg, Press, TRN, and Northeastern for IAMA, Richard offered this summary nature, and my music is tonal, although I Music Publications, Inc. In 2014, he encapsulating his personal connection to continue to stretch my horizons in the use was the recipient of the 2014-16 EKU SAI: of dissonance. I am pleased to be given Foundation Professorship, the university’s “I am very proud to be a National the chance to write a work for the 2018 SAI highest honor for teaching excellence. Arts Associate of SAI. I played a major role National Convention and I look forward to The annual award recognizes those who in helping to establish the SAI chapter sharing my music with all of you.”

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 JAMES ADLER ••• Silences, SATB and Piano, poetry by Jeffrey Band, Grade 2. Published by7 LFA Music. PREMIERES: FANFARE XL, Symphonic Band, Gilden, GIA Publications, Chicago: April NEWS: Lori Ardovino was chosen as Composer Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band, 2020. Choral Meditation: The Gift of Time, of the Year by the Alabama Music Teachers Henco Espag, conductor, Saint Bartholomew’s GIA Publications, Chicago: summer 2020. National Association. She has also completed Church on Park Avenue, NY, 4/13/19. A Cat, Entire catalogue of choral music published by two commissions; Convergence for two clarinets A Bird, and Winter Fur, SATB Choir and piano, HINSHAW Music, Inc. is now available through for the Amaciata Duo and Palaver Between Central Regional High School, Beth Moore, Jerry Bock Music, distributed by Hal Leonard. Friends for flute, clarinet and piano for Trio Leo. conductor, Bayville, NJ, 5/21/19. NEWS: Developmental workshop No Parking, PERFORMANCES: Canticle (Letting Go; Moving On), a music-theater piece LAUREN BERNOFSKY PREMIERES: for Peace, Debra Rue, lyrics, about Alzheimer’s, written with Elizabeth Antamina, Prelude Chamber Strings, Lauren Bernofsky, conductor, at Christ SATB Choir, 3 Trumpets in B-flat, Bassine, using characterizations colored Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA, 5/11/19. O, Organ, American Music Concert by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. At Cosmos from the Vonnegut Requiem, Voces at Broadway Baptist Church, the Nautilus Music-theater, in St. Paul, MN, Novae, Susan Swaney, Fort Worth, TX, 2/24/19; early summer 2020. Premiere Production: conductor, Unitarian Universalist sponsored by the SAI Fort Worth Abraham’s Land, a music theater work about Church, Bloomington, ADLER Alumnae Chapter. Homages the crisis in GAZA, written with Lauren Goldman IN, 5/12/19. Haubrich & Remembrances, CD launch Marshall, at the Broadway Performance Hall, Suite, Monarch Brass, recital, James Adler, pianist-composer, with Seattle, WA, 9/17–27/20. How Green was International Women’s Brass Cain-Oscar Bergeron, flute, Yamaha Artist My Valley, a music-theater piece written with Conference, Arizona State Services Piano Salon, 11/12/19. Flute and Elizabeth Bassine, and based on the novel by University, Tempe, AZ, 5/25/19. BERNOFSKY Piano Sonatine by Gaubert, also, James Richard Lewellyn, received a Director’s Choice PERFORMANCES: Three Adler’s Celebration, from Elegy for Norman, Award, by Boradway director Michael Mayer Portraits of a Witch, Atlanta Philharmonic, Amy James Adler, pianist-composer, Scott Oaks, in an international competition by Mainstreet Wilson, conductor, North Decatur Presbyterian flute, QUOtets XIV Chamber Concert, LGBTQ Musicals. As a result, it received 5 Equity Church, Decatur, GA, 5/5/19. From a Mother’s Community Center, New York, 12/8/19. ‘workshop readings,’ in various cities in the U.S. Journal, Nicole Abissi, trombone, Hanako PUBLICATIONS: FANFARE XL, symphonic band It awaits its first full production, and is currently Yamagato, piano, International Trombone published by AdlerOaks Music Library. A Cat, negotiating with the Welsh National Opera. Festival, Ball State University, Muncie, A Bird, and Winter Fur, SATB Choir and piano, IN, 7/12/19. Heart of Fire, Intermediate Colle Voce Music. LORI ARDOVINO • Concert Orchestra, Liber Cuervos, conductor, RECORDINGS: Homages & Remembrances, PREMIERES: Letters: The Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, released on Albany Records 8/1/19, music by poetry of Anne Bradstreet”, MI, 8/3/19. Concerto for Trumpet, John Paul Turok, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Melanie Williams, soprano, Rommel, trumpet, Bloomington Symphony Debussy, Henco Espag, Modeste Mussorgsky, Lori Ardovino, clarinet, Laurie Orchestra, Charles Latshaw, conductor, Buskirk- and pianist-composer James Adler. Middaugh, piano, Alabama Chumley Theater, Bloomington, IN, 10/6/19. NEWS: Wrote an article on “Homages & Music Teachers Association, Passacaglia, Boston Symphony Chamber Remembrances” for international Sonograma Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Players, Springdale Barrel Room, Franingham, ARDOVINO Magazine (), published 10/29/19. 5/30/19; also, Birmingham MA, 3/1/20. Commission to compose Beyond Night for lyric Art Music Alliance New Music PUBLICATIONS: Fandango (solo ), baritone and piano; poetry by my late friend Festival, Smaford Univerisyt, 10/16/19. The Theodore Presser. 7th Street Beat (string – and friend of the Arts, Rosalie Calabrese Nine Worlds, Brittany Patterson, flute, Lori orchestra), Carl Fischer. Monster Mambo (string (premiere in April 2020). Asked to compose a Ardovino, clarinet, Laurie Middaugh, piano, orchestra), Wingert-Jones. We Wish You a work for symphonic band, A Remembrance, for National Association of Wind and Percussion Klezmer Christmas (concert band), FJH. premiere in 2021. Instructors, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar NEWS: I was composer-in-residence at the Falls, IA, 10/12/19; also, National Association Sound Waves New Music Festival at Texas A & ROGER AMES ••• of Composers USA, University of Montevallo, M Corpus Christi. I was commissioned to write PREMIERES: The Greatest Generation, 10/20/19. a solo by Megan Healy, who will (an American Oratorio), Oratorio Society of PERFORMANCES: Letters and Nonsense premiere it this summer in Chicago and then Minnesota and the Mendelssohn Choir of Songs, International Clarinet Association take it on a national recital tour. During the Pittsburgh, PA: May 2020, Conference, University of Tennessee, 7/24/19; 2019-2020 season, Reimagining Opera for Kids conducted by Matthew also, Snead State University, 9/17/19. has been performing my young audience opera Mehaffey. COMMISSIONS: Letters for soprano, Mooch the Magnificent in over 25 performances PERFORMANCES: Numerous clarinet and piano, Alabama Music Teachers in south central Indiana. – Choral Octavos, Oratorio Association. Convergence for Eb and Bb clarinet, VICTORIA BOND Society of Iowa: REJOICE – a Amacitia Duo. Palaver Between Friends for flute/ PREMIERES: Celebration of Christmas Carols. clarinet/piano, Trio Leo Opera CLARA about Clara Schumann, with libretto by Barbara Zinn Krieger, PUBLICATIONS: Love in the AMES PUBLICATION: Pat A Pan, arranged for Young Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival in Baden- sai-national.org • Winter 2020 Digital Exclusive 3 71 71 71 7EVENTY F1RST

• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 1 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate 7Baden, , performed of London, England, 9/28/19. Demeter Prelude Utah Wind Ensemble conducted by Scott Hagen at the Theater Baden-Baden (string quartet), Heights Arts Close Encounters at the Western Regional Concert Band Festival, 11 times throughout April, May Series, Dunham Tavern, Cleveland, OH, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 3/2/19. Anne and June of 2019. Simeron 11/24/19. of the Waves for solo flute, Francesca Arnone, Kremate for piano was PUBLICATIONS: All Brouwer New Music at the Florida Flute Convention, 1/25/19. commissioned by pianist Paul Publishing: Through the Haze for percussion Ricordi d’amore for two harps by Paola Devoti Barnes, premiered on Cutting plus 3 players. All Lines are Still Busy for solo and Elisabetta Ghebbioni, Ex Convento San BOND Edge Concerts New Music violin. This Morning is Beautiful for tenor Francesco, Pordenone, 12/8/18; also at Festival at Symphony Space in NYC, 2/18/19. and piano. Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 12/20/18. The Voices of Air for Trombone and Piano, RECORDING: Voice of the Lake, video recording PERFORMANCES: Alien Loop de Loops for commissioned by JoDee Davis, premiered at the of revised version, Domenico Boyagian- horn and electronic recording, Colvin Bear, University of Missouri at Kansas City, (UMKC) conductor, Angela Mortellaro-soprano, Sarah Krieg Recital Hall, Wittenberg University, Conservatory 11/3/19. Beaty-mezzo, Brian Skoog-tenor, Springfield, OH, 9/4/19. Energico! for flute RECORDINGS: Instruments of Revelation on Bryant Bush, bass, Blue Streak Ensemble, Blue choir and Zephyrs of the Dawn for flute choir, Naxos. Soul of a Nation on Albany Records. Streak Ensemble Chamber Singers, Cleveland Flutefinity, Abravenel Hall during the National Institute of Music Children’s Choir. Flute Association Convention, Salt Lake City, ROBERT BOURY ••• NEWS: Margaret Brouwer’s big project during UT, 8/3/19. Four Miniatures for clarinet and PERFORMANCES: Angel Wings, Boury, the 2018-19 season was Voice of the Lake, an bass clarinet, Barry McGinnis and Karl Kolbeck, Wayne Chapman, theater director, Stephanie 80-minute oratorio about the environmental during ClarinetFest, University of Tennessee, Thibeault, dancer, LifeQuest students, multi- problems facing Lake Erie and the political Knoxville, 7/25/19. Three Jazzicals for soprano media presentation; also This controversy surrounding it. The performance sax and tuba, Phantasmgoria Ensemble (Helder Amazing Day, Boury, piano, was video recorded and has recently been Alves, sax and Tiago Santos, tuba), Saxophone plus music by Erik Satie and made available to watch in its entirety on Village of Festival International de Saxofone, J.S. Bach accompanying poetry YouTube. Voice of the Lake is also being aired De Palmela, Portugal, 7/13/19. Dances and readings by the cast on the on TV stations throughout the nation. Margaret Interludes for solo guitar, Robert Phillips, subject of angels, Second Brouwer also recently made video recordings of White House of the Timucua Arts Foundation, Presbyterian Church, Little Rock, two works that have visual elements: Through Orlando, FL, 5/17/19; also Gram Parsons AR, 5/22/19. Sonata Noir, BOURY the Haze for percussion plus 3 additional Derry Down, Winter Haven, FL, 10/28/18. Michael Underwood, trombone, players. The other is All Lines Are Still Busy, a Alien Loop de Loops for trumpet and electronic Naoki Hakutani, piano, International Trombone satirical musical monologue for solo violin. recording, Jeremy Perkins, Kennesaw State Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, University, Kennesaw, GA, 5/3/19. Concerto for Euphonium for euphonium and piano, John 7/12/19. HOWARD J. BUSS Shirley and I-Fei Chen Markham, State University PREMIERES: Reflections on of New York in Fredonia, 4/28/19. Illuminations MARGARET BROUWER the Last Post for clarinet and for bass trombone and band, John Allen with the PREMIERES: All Lines Are Still Busy, Mari Sato, band, Keith Koons with the Oklahoma City University Wind Philharmonic, University of Central Florida violin, Western Reserve Fire Museum, Cleveland, Matthew Mailman, conductor, Kirkpatrick Fine Wind Ensemble, Scott Lubaroff, OH, 9/23/19. Running, Luke Rinderknecht, Arts Center, OCU campus, 2/28/19. director, University of Central percussion, BOP STOP @ The Music Settlement, PUBLICATIONS: All works are published Florida, Orlando, 11/7/18. Cleveland, OH, 1/27/19. This Morning is by Brixton Publications at: www. Totally Tubular for / BUSS Beautiful, Brian Skoog, tenor, John Simmons, brixtonpublications.com English horn and trumpet/ piano, Drinko Hall, Cleveland RECORDINGS: Many new recordings Flugelhorn, Lauren and Robert McMurray, State University, OH, 10/13/19. have been added to the composer’s Brixton Publications, International Double Voice of the Lake, Blue Streak YouTube playlist at https://www.youtube. Reed Society (IDRS) Conference, University of Ensemble, Kulas Hall, Cleveland com/playlist?list=PLFBAfdqeuoU3fi_ South Florida, Tampa, 7/14/19. Bassoonisms Institute of Music, OH, 10/19/19. FQxmXwqRr3VZE3j8qh for quartet, Eric Varner and “Teacher PERFORMANCES: Trio, NEWS: You can learn more about the music of Band,” IDRS, 7/15/19. Sonic Fables: Lessons (violin, clarinet, piano), Strata, Howard J. Buss on Wikipedia at: from Aesop for brass quintet, percussion, BROUWER http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_J._Buss Gildenhorn Recital Hall, and narrator, Granada Brass, Yolanda Chung, and on his website at: http://www. University of Maryland, College Park, 2/10/19. percussion, Isabel Hernàndez, narrator, Tocando brixtonpublications.com/howard_j_buss-2. Remembrances, Cleveland Institute of Music Las Estrellas Festival, Marquès de Valdecaños, html Orchestra, Andrew Grams, conductor, Kulas Adalusia, Spain 3/12/19, (Spanish premier). Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, OH, 3/29/19. Vibrant Horizons for flute and wind ensemble JERRY CASEY • Lonely Lake (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, (official premier), Brian Luce with the University PREMIERES: Christmas cinquains, Jerry percussion), Balance Campaign, University of of Arizona Wind Ensemble, Chad R. Nicholson, Casey, soprano, Catherine Frecker, piano, also, Maryland - Baltimore, 4/19/19. Pulse, Royal conductor, Tuscon, AZ, 3/21/19. 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• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 Naples, Florida, 12/13/17. Bird ANDREA CLEARFIELD •••• vocal quartet, Fourth Coast 7Ensemble, they will raptures (poetry of Christina PUBLICATIONS: Now Close the Windows, for perform a number of my works this season and Rossetti), Rachel Holland, treble choir to poetry by Robert Frost. Published commission a song cycle in collaboration with soprano, Patti Watters, flute, by Boosey & Hawkes. https://www.youtube. Zen poet, painter and activist Kaz Tanahashi for Ferguson Center for the Arts, com/watch?v=6ekQTlBaR5U a work incorporating his poems and artwork, Christopher Newport University, RECORDINGS: The Kiss for treble chorus, cello voices, Japanese flute and percussion on Newport News, VA, 3/24/18; and piano, on Ecstatic Songs, mirabai chorus, “singing and painting peace” for premiere on CASEY also, Dr. Cheryl Coker, soprano, Sandra Snow, conductor. https://www.amazon. October 19, 2020 in Chicago. My Philadelphia Gayle Entredin, flute, Faculty com/gp/product/B07B9SVPRY/ref=dm_ws_ Salon, featuring classical, contemporary, Recital, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, 2/3/19. sp_ps_dp#customerReviews jazz, world, folk music, dance and multi- Shout praises to the Lord, Chamber Choir, COMMISSIONS: As 2020 Composer-in- media collaborations celebrated its 33-Year Dr. Jon C. Peterson, director, Johnson Center Residence with National Concerts at Carnegie Anniversary in September, 2019. for Worship and the Arts, Malone University, Hall, I am composing a work for multiple treble Canton, Ohio, 11/1/18. choirs, percussion, and piano, Home in me NANCY HILL COBB • PERFORMANCES: Pilate’s wife, scene from Act I, Kimber Carter, soprano, Randi Bivens, mezzo, to evocative text by Sienna PREMIERES: I Dream a World, SATB with Charlene Sutton, piano, Ron Montgomery, Craig on “what is home”. The Piano, Metropolitan Chorale, Waterloo, IA, Amy director, Irons Recital Hall, University of Texas, work, supported in part by an Kotsonis, Director. Arlington, 2/4/17. In a stable, Women’s Chorus, ACDA Diverse Voices grant, will PERFORMANCES: Suite For Reeds (oboe, Bethany Alvey, conductor, Recital Hall, Fresno premiere on February 16th at clarinet, bassoon), Kairos Trio from the Pacific University, Fresno, CA, 10/6/17. Out of Carnegie Hall, conducted by University of Northern Iowa, ClarinetFest, the depths, Jonathan Levin, piano, Poindexter Sandra Snow. Prayer to the Knoxville, TN. Writing for the Suffragist from Hall, Mississippi University for Women, Shechinah, a choral commission CLEARFIELD The Suffragist (a new musical), University of Columbus, Mississippi, 3/3/18. Anna’s song, by Grammy-winning professional Northern Iowa, Women’s Chorus and Northern Chelsea Hollow, soprano, Taylor Chan, piano, choir, Conspirare, to poetry by Mirabai Starr, that Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Cantato Domino, Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA, will premiere in Austin, TX, February 20th, Craig Indiana Circle the State with Song Honor Chorus. 1/26/19. Hella Johnson, artist director. Here I am: I am PUBLICATIONS: And Death Shall Have No PUBLICATIONS: All available through Jerry here, choral cantata by award-winning Boston- Dominion (TTBB with Piano, Casey Music: Christmas cinquains, (Poetry of based choir, Coro Allegro, on transgender Alliance Music Publications. Jerry Casey), five songs for soprano/piano.Bird children and conversion therapy, for premiere on NEWS: The Suffragist, a new raptures, (Poetry of Christina Rossetti), soprano May 17 at Harvard University with subsequent musical with book and lyrics by and solo flute. Three Christmas medleys, for performances in Boston and Minneapolis. Cavan Hallman and music by violin/piano. Standing at the beam for chorus and strings Nancy Hill Cobb will premiere on NEWS: I have a new project entitled Seven from State University on healing to June, 5, 6 and 7, 2020 in the Signs (Song Cycle for Seven Singers and Seven poetry by Anthony Silvestri. Premiere in October Gallagher Bluedorn Performing COBB Instrumentalists) which is based on the Seven 2020 at MSU in Lansing, MI. Standing at the Arts Center in Cedar Falls, Signs (or miracles) found in the gospel of John. Each sign is performed by a different singer and beam for chorus and strings from Michigan Iowa. The Director is Rachel Klein and musical a different instrument. The plan is for each State University on healing to poetry by Anthony director is Rebecca Burkhardt. The musical singer to be in biblical costume (each sign Silvestri, premiere in October 2020 at MSU in chronicles the final push for women’s suffrage is sung by someone from the story of the Lansing, MI. Dramyin Tsering Wangmo (For the in the between 1912-1920 and miracle) and the instrumentalists to be in life of the dramyin) for solo guitar on the theme centers around main characters Alice Paul unrelieved black. At the end the singers and of “diaspora” for William Kanengiser of the and Carrie Chapman Catt. Other important instrumentalists join together in a choral finale Los Angeles Guitar Quartet for recording and characters in the musical are Ida B. Wells, using the words of John 20:31, “But these are premiere in L.A. in 2020. Inez Milholland, Lucy Burns, and Anna Howard written so that you will put your faith in Jesus NEWS: Awarded a Copland House Residency Shaw. The battle of ideas and leadership is as the Messiah and the Son of God. If you (in ’s home) to compose in painted in intimate human moments as well as have faith in Him, you will have true life.” I have September/October 2019. Awarded a composer musical spectacle, bringing to life the parades, completed the first six songs and am nearing residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the rallies, and protests these revolutionary activists completion of the seventh. All that remains to be Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming in September, used to advance their cause. See more at: www. completed is the Finale. 2019. Awarded a composer residency at the suffragistmusical.com Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illionis in AUGUSTA CECCONI-BATES • November, 2019. Awarded a Fellowship at the JAMES COHN ••• PERFORMANCES: Arias from opera Molly of Wurlitzer Foundation for 3 months in Taos, COMMISSIONS: Double Concerto for Violin, the Mohawks, recital featuring soprano Debbie NM in Fall, 2020. Awarded a Fellowship at the Viola & Orchestra, by Genaro Medina, violin, Miller and tenor James Shults. Visby International Centre for Composers in Violinist for the Altoona (PA) Symphony NEWS: A Meet with Composer Talk on Youtube: Gotland, Sweden in Spring, 2021. As “spot- Orchestra. A Musical Joke, by Scott Pool, for https://Youtu.be/7dMdnNXqqf4 light” composer for the Chicago professional solo bassoon. Trio for Flute, Clarinet & Piano,

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 1 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate 7by Margaret Swinchoski, Palisades Virtuosi, commission, Scott Pool, bassoon, Sunny Knabel, in Michigan. Journeys, a symphonic poem, Bogota, NJ. Variations on Turkey in the Straw, piano, International Double Reed Society, was featured on the Des Moines Community by Maxim Lando, piano. Concerto for Oboe, Convention, Tampa, FL, 7/16/19. Concerto Orchestra’s spring concert, honoring the founder Bassoon and String Orchestra, by Sasha for English Horn & String Orchestra, Pedro of the orchestra. Lunatics and Lovers, the Energren, Montclair State University, NJ. Diaz, English horn, International Double Reed Overture and Bacchanalia from Shakespeare Fanfare & March, by Bernard Tamosaitis, St. Society Convention, Tampa, 7/18/19. 3 Pieces Suite #1, was performed by the Concord Thomas Orchestra, Mamaroneck, NY. Sonata for for Clarinet Alone, C. Winfield Swarr, clarinet, Chamber Orchestra in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Contrabassoon & Piano, by William Safford, Troy, Tuesday Morning Music Club, 10/22/19. PUBLICATIONS: Lunatics and Lovers, the NY. Quartet for 3 Contrabassoons & 1 Regular NEWS: I’m grateful to still be able to have Overture and Bacchanalia from Shakespeare Bassoon, by William Safford, Troy, NY. news to report to Sigma Alpha Iota, even as I Suite #1, for symphony orchestra. Elegy for the Greatest Generation, for symphony orchestra. PREMIERES: Variations on Sourwood get older. I’m now 91 years young and, again, All works are published by Coleman Creative Mountain, Quintet of the Americas (Karla Moe, very grateful that my health continues to be Services. www.lindarobbinscoleman.com flute, Matt Sullivan, oboe, Benjamin Baron, good. Commissions have continued to come RECORDINGS: Journeys, selected orchestra clarinet, Sasha Enegren, bassoon, Barbara to me (12 in 2019). I have had many World music by Linda Robbins Coleman. Rags to Oldham, horn), Premieres and many performances during Riches, selected chamber works by Linda Langston Hughes Library, this year and concerts are already scheduled Robbins Coleman. Available through Coleman Corona, NY, 1/3, also, 3/5, for 2020. The Highlight of Summer 2018 was Creative Servies. 3/9, 3/12, 3/14, 3/16, 4/1, attending the Convention of the International NEWS: Linda Robbins Coleman has been 4/23, 5/7, 2019. Sigma Alpha Double Reed Society in Tampa Florida. I had enjoying the 100th anniversary of the 19th Iota , flute, violin, the pleasure of hearing two of my works given Amendment giving women the right to vote, viola, cello, piano, to honor splendid performances. Bassoonist Scott Pool especially as it has created an awareness about 75th anniversary of chapter COHN and his Accompanist Sonny Knabel, Piano, the lack of representation of music written charter, Tulsa, OK, 2/23/19. 4 performed my Sonata for Bassoon and Piano. by women composers on orchestra concerts Traditions, Anna Urrey, flute, Conway Kuo, viola, And Pedro Diaz, Principal English Hornist of over the years (less than 3% of all orchestra Satoshi Okamoto, double bass, New York Opera the Metropolitan Opera in New York gave the programming). Coleman is deeply grateful for Foundation, NYC, 9/15/19. Serenade, Canta United States Premiere of my Concerto for the commission and performance opportunities Libra Chamber Ensemble, Sally Shorrock, flute, English Horn and String Orchestra. As a result provided by this newfound awareness and looks Bradley Bosenbeck, violin, Veronica Salas, viola, of the performance of my Bassoon Sonata, forward to what the future will bring. Coleman Bernard Tamosaitis, cello, Karen Lindquist, Contrabassoonist William Safford commissioned continues to work as a consultant, writer, and harp, Northport, NY, Library, 10/4/19. Sonata two works, which are noted above, and talks editor; and to compose and publish music with for Cello & Piano, commission, Marcel Krasner, are underway for a Woodwind Quintet utilizing her company, Coleman Creative Services – CCS. For more information, please visit www. cello, Dasha Bukhartseva, piano, Tuesday doubling of some instruments. I also had the lindarobbinscoleman.com and her YouTube Morning Music Club, Community Church of pleasure of attending a Masterclass given by the channel, Linda Robbins Coleman. Douglaston, NY, 10/22/19. Duet for Clarinet President of our SAI Fraternity, Leslie Odom, and & Xylophone, commission, Joseph Rutkowski, my wife and I attended her concerts. Speaking EMILY CROCKER ••••• clarinet, Patrick Kennedy, xylophone, Great with her after her last concert was a bonus. PREMIERES: Who Is There Like Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, NY, Me, Milwaukee Children’s Choir, 10/24/19. Klezmer Fantasy for Woodwind LINDA COLEMAN •••• Lynn Swanson conductor, St. Quintet, commission, Quintet of the Americas, PREMIERES: Nolens Volens, a fanfare for Sebastian Church, Milwaukee, Karla Moe, flute, Matt Sullivan, oboe, Benjamin wind ensemble was premiered by the Central WI, 5/18/19. All Fly Around, Baron, clarinet, Barbara Oldham, horn, Iowa Wind Ensemble on their Spring 2019. Illinois Music Educators Pleasantville (NY) Society, Concertino Mediterraneo, a suite in three Associate Elementary Honor 2/23/20. Flute Quartet, Sally Shorrock, flute, movements for salon-sized chamber orchestra. Choir, Emily Crocker, conductor, CROCKER other TBA, Tuesday Morning Music Club, PERFORMANCES: For a Beautiful Land, 1/26/19. Douglaston, NY, 1/22/20. a symphonic poem, Knox- PUBLICATIONS: All Fly Around, PERFORMANCES: No. 5, Nina Galesburg Symphony and SA with piano and violin. Two Brothers, TTB with Siniakova, piano, Tuesday Morning Music Club, Rockford Symphony Orchestra piano and violin. Laudamus Te, SA with piano. Community Church of Douglaston, NY, 2/27/19. in Illinois; the Waterloo-Cedar Galway Bay, TTB with piano and flute. Sonata for Viola & Piano, Amadi Azikiwe, viola, Falls Symphony and Southeast NEWS: Named Director Emeritus of the Dance Theater of Harlem, 3/17/19. Variations Iowa Symphony Orchestras Milwaukee Children’s Choir, 5/18/19. Added to on I’ve Got Rhythm, commission, Jon Manasse, in Iowa; and the Lansdowne the Fort Worth Independent School District Hall clarinet, Jon Nakamatsu, piano, Juilliard School Symphony in Pennsylvania. In COLEMAN of Fame. of Music, 3/18/19. Homage, St. Thomas Good King Charles’s Golden Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Tamosaitis, Days, a symphonic overture, opened the season RICHARD A. CROSBY ••• conductor Harbor Island Park, Mamaroneck, for the Allegro Orchestra in Lancaster, PA, in PREMIERES: The Transience Of Things Op. 22 NY, 7/4/19. Sonata for Bassoon & Piano, September; also, Warren Symphony Orchestra for Trumpet, Violin and Piano, Richmond, KY, 4/1/20. 6 Winter 2020 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org 71 71 71 7EVENTY F1RST

• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 PERFORMANCES: Sonata Op. 21 for Piano, Philharmonic Orchestra, Dan House, Hampstead, London,7 5/26/19. Dark faculty recital, Eastern Kentucky University, Allcott, conductor, 11/8/19. Geometries (2018) for solo violin and piano, 4/3/19. Nebula (concert band), Oregon Bélen Hernandez doctoral violin lecture-recital PUBLICATIONS: Ricercare Op. 18 and Canzona State University (Corvallis), Wind with pianist Ivana Muncan, UNC, Greeley, Op. 20 for Trombone Ensemble, Four Latin Ensemble, Chris Chapman, Colorado Milne Auditorium, 4/18/19. Thing_ Dances for Oboe and Piano Op. 14. All available conductor, 10/24/18. Thing (2018) for cahón and electronics, Patti through J.W. Pepper. PUBLICATIONS: New concert Cudd, percussion, , DANNER NEWS: I am performing the band publications, all published 2/1/19; also The Music Settlement, Cleveland, complete Chopin Preludes Op. by C. Alan Publications: Gambit OH, 3/29/19. Ghost Theatre (2018) for 28 and the Barcarolle Op. 60 on (gr. 2), His Eye is on the Sparrow (gr. 3), Yankee four percussionists, University of Northern 4/9/20. I am staying busy with Doodle Band (gr. 2.5) and Cherubic Hymn (gr. Colorado Percussion Ensemble, Mike Truesdell, my ongoing involvement in Phi 3). director, 3/26/19. Lulu of the Plains (2018), Mu Alpha and am Vice Chair of RECORDINGS: A variety of Christmas soprano Sharon Harms, chamber ensemble, the Faculty Senate at Eastern CROSBY arrangements by Danner have been recorded by electronics, and video, conducted by Inès Kentucky University. In the fall the Brass Arts Quintet on two CD’s: “Christmas Rodriguez, Open Space Festival of New Music, of 2019 I gave a presentation on the Piano Brass: Suites and Treats for the Holidays,” and Moxie Theatre, Greeley, CO, 3/6/19. Music of Amy Beach at the KMTA Conference “Christmas Brass 2, Santa Claus is BAQ in PERFORMANCES: A Bowl of Light (1996) in Lexington, featuring the Scottish Legend, Town.” All arrangements published by Avanti for percussion quartet, University of Iowa Dreaming Op. 15 No. 3 and the Ballad Op. 6. Music and available at Sheet Music Plus. Percussion Ensemble, Iowa City, Daniel Moore, director, 11/10/19. Thing_Thing MICHAEL G. CUNNINGHAM WALLACE DE PUE •• (2018) University of Limerick, Ireland, 2/15/19; RECORDINGS: All Navona/Parma: Ecumenical NEWS: I’ve been busy completing my grand also Ulster University, Ireland, 2/2019. Spirit, containing archival live recordings of New opera, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 7:30 (2017) for two violins by Du.0 (Aimée Beginnings, The Annunciation, the Gallaudet See my full catalog at: www.wallacedepue.com Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood), Third Lord’s Prayer, the Prayer of St. Francis, Seraphic or listen at: soundcloud.com/wallacedepuesr Street Settlement Music School, New York Mass and the (oratorio) Holy City, 1/18/19. Spirit. Three Theatre Pieces and JON DEAK PUBLICATIONS: Is Passion a Young Person’s Chopin, containing The Real NEWS: Artistic Director of the Game?, NewMusicBox, 8/28/19. Alice, My Name is Pinocchio, Very Young Composers of the RECORDINGS: Émissions Transparents, a Post Meridian (jazz ballet New York Philharmonic, an recording of works for chamber ensemble music), and The Triumph of international, award-winning with solo guitar, solo piano, and electronics, Chopin (for wind ensemble). program he founded in 1995 in percussion ensemble with soprano, and Indiana Collectania, containing CUNNINGHAM which children in grades 4–9 improvisations with percussionist Eddie Prévost. archival live recordings of eleven compose and orchestrate their Composer Christian Wolff was commissioned DEAK small ensemble pieces recorded on the IU own music to be performed to compose a work for solo banjo that Elwood campus from 1969 to 1973, and involving some by the New York Philharmonic and many other recorded. Other performers include folk singer thirty top student performers at the beginning of orchestras and ensembles. Learn more at: Cary Fridley, the Callithumpian Consort of the their careers. www.jondeak.com New England Conservatory (Stephen Drury, NEWS: Completion of Symphony No. 7 conductor), pianist Rose Chancler, and guitarist (Accompaniment to four E.E. Cummings poems), PAUL ELWOOD Pablo Gomez Cano. 005, Symphony 8, and the opera workshop piece, The PREMIERES: The Taming (2019), opera based released January 2019. Bet. Full-fledged operasQuality Street, op.264, on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew with NEWS: Selected for a Bellagio Centre residency and The New Year’s Wish, op.266 are now fully librettist Brian Luedloff and the UNC Opera sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, orchestrated. These two are numbers 8 and 9 in Theatre, 11/22,24/19. Six Questions and November 2020. a series of ten stage productions, most of which an Added Seventh, oboe and cello, for Pablo resemble sung-plays, rather than rather than the Hernandez, oboe, and Romina Monsanto, cello, FRANK FELICE traditional opera. UNC, Greeley, CO, 10/28/19. Podium for solo PREMIERES: Foreign 20, bass conductor, Inés Rodriguez, UNC, Greeley, CO, clarinet and tenor saxophone, GREG DANNER •• 10/28/19. Safernoc (2019) Emma Allison and Demetra PERFORMANCES: Walls of Zion (concert band), in three movements with two Christos, Indianapolis. O Virgo University of Colorado Boulder Concert Band, interludes, text by the composer, Ecclesia, soprano and piano, Dylan Koester, conductor, 2/25/19. Ceremonial for mezzo-soprano Alice Karen Adair, Gainesville, FL. Dances (concert band), Illinois State University Simmons and violinist Tamasin ….fade.... for 5-10 performers, FELICE (Normal) Symphonic Band, Marykatheryne Coates, St. Katherine’s Church, EA Ensemble, IUPUI, E. Kuhne, conductor, 10/4/19. The Greatest Savernake Forest, Marlborough, Indianapolis. Revolution No. 9, JCA Composers Generation (narrator with orchestra), Tennessee UK, 5/25/19; also Burgh ELWOOD Orchestra, Butler University, Indianapolis.

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 71 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Octatonic Octopus: Piano. National League NEWS: In June 2019, Jack Gallagher retired as Blackbird, Mitzi Westra (mezzo) and Greg Martin of American Pen Women Biennial First Place the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music (piano), Butler University, Indianapolis. for “The Forest Primeval,” string quintet (with at The College of Wooster (Ohio) following 42 PERFORMANCES: Song Cycles for Mezzo piano). Third Place for “Lakeside Walk with Joe” years on the music faculty. In a recent overview soprano and piano, Mitzi Westra (including Piano - in the Biennial Music Competition. published in Fanfare magazine, Gallagher’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Four NEWS: Florida State Association of the Symphony No. 2 “Ascendant”, recorded on the Songs of Jennifer Haines, Letters to Derrick, National League of American Pen Women: Naxos label by the London Symphony Orchestra and O Virgo Ecclesia). Preserve Me, O God, PenWoman of the Year 2019. She was also conducted by JoAnn Falletta, was cited as “one Mitzi Westra and The Indianapolis Quartet, given the Exceptional Achievement Award for of the ten greatest such works ever written by an Indiana State New Music Festival. How to Turn the opera Miriam and the Women of the Desert, American composer.” Recordings of his works the Future Perfect Negative, Frank Felice, November 2, 2019. continue to be widely broadcast over Classical Midwest Festival, Kansas 24, Sirius XM’s Symphony Hall, Colorado Public Community College, Kansas City, KS. Ecstatic ROBERT FLEISHER Radio, New England Public Radio, WCLV-FM in Cling for electric bassoon and wind ensemble, PERFORMANCES: Six Little Cleveland, and more than 150 fine arts stations bassoonist Mark Ortwein and the Indiana Wind Piano Pieces, William Koehler, in the U.S. and abroad. Symphony, Carmel, IN. Crack the Whip!, Lone piano, SCI V, Eastern Illinois Star Orchestra, Cypress, TX. University, Charleston, IL, ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK RECORDINGS: Liturgy of the Hours (Violin 10/11/19; Martin Jones, piano, PREMIERES: Sonata for Violin, Dominika Sonata No. 1) recorded by the violin/piano duo First Presbyterian Church, Dancewicz, violin, Donald Doucet, piano, Rice Ascending on their premiere disc: Frank Felice: Arlington Heights, IL, 11/10/19; FLEISHER University, Houston, TX, 11/24/19. Reflections and Whimsies, Chamber Music for Manchester University, PERFORMANCES: Hacksaw, Richard Strings and Voice (Enharmonic Records). Manchester, IN, 11/12/19; Purdue University, Nunemaker, soloist, the University of Louisville NEWS: I am in the process of recording a Lafayette, IN, 11/14/19; St. Matthew’s Wind Ensemble, Frederick Speck, conductor, disc of my song cycles for mezzo soprano Episcopal Church, Providence, RI, 11/17/19. Louisville, KY, 4/14/19. Amelia, Guangxi and piano, featuring mezzo Mitzi Westra and RECORDINGS: Six Little Piano Pieces and Gig Symphony Orchestra, CAI Yang, conductor, pianist Greg Martin. I recently gave a TEDx talk Harbor, Martin Jones, piano, American Piano Guangxi Culture and Art Center on improvisation at TEDx Hieronymous Park, Music Series, Vol. 5 (PNOVA 21005), 2019. Concert Hall, Nanning, China, Hamilton, MT. I still continue to play bass for a 6/1/19. Four New Brothers, number of bands around central Indiana, JACK GALLAGHER ••• Stephan Vermeersch, Sauro including progressive rock band Progressive PERFORMANCES: Diversions Overture, Berti, Rocco Parisi, Paolo de Lenses, and recording for Wave Mechanics Wooster Symphony Orchestra, Jeffrey Lindberg, Gaspari, solo clarinets, Banda Union, a progressive jazz band. I will be touring conductor, McGaw Chapel, The College of Musicale Citta di Camerino, to Munich, Germany this summer with the Wooster, Wooster, OH, 2/23/19. A Psalm of Life, Vicenzo Correnti, Director, 9th GOTTSCHALK Denver Philharmonic. Wooster Scot Symphonic Band, Nancy Ditmer, European Clarinet Festival, Director, McGaw Chapel, The Camerino, Italy, 8/13/19. Sonata for Alto SHEILA FIRESTONE College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, Saxophone, Mario Ciaccio, alto saxophone, PREMIERE: Miriam and the Women of the 4/28/19. Song of the Daffodils Simone Miotto, piano, Union League of Desert, A Musical Journey, Empire Stage and Springsong, The Wooster Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 10/28/19. Theatre, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 3/30–4/7/19. Chorus, Lisa Wong, Director, Sonata for Bass Clarinet, Sauro Berti, bass PERFORMANCES: Adon Olam, Women 2019 Commencement Concert, clarinet, Naomi Fujiya, piano, Rappongi Cantor’s Network Concert and Conference, McGaw Chapel, The College of Symphony Salon, Tokyo, Japan, 12/28/19. Oklahoma City, OK, June 2019. Lakeside Walk Wooster, 5/12/19. Sonata Breve GALLAGHER PUBLICATIONS: 2 American Hymns, SATB with Joe, Music Awards at the for unaccompanied trumpet, choir; Anthem, SATB choir and organ; Come Pen Arts Music Reception at Pietro Sciutto, trumpet; 47th Musical Season Light, SATB choir and organ; Psalm 27, SATB the Pen Arts Building, piano of Canonica, San Vittor Collegate (Canonica) di choir and piano: all with SMP Press. performance, 4/25/20. Brezzo di Bedero, Italy, 7/6/19. Sinfonietta for RECORDINGS: Fakebook II, Brian Connelly, PUBLICATIONS: “Adding Our String Orchestra (I, II, V), “The President’s Own” piano, Modern Music for Piano 2, Contemporary Voices: The Torah of Jewish U.S. Marine Band Chamber Orchestra, JoAnn Collection Volume 10, RMN Classical Women in Song Initiative,” Falletta, guest conductor, 2020 Presidents Day (England). Benny, Zoot & Teddy, Sonata for Alto FIRESTONE Tallit of Sisterhood, Refuah Gala Concert, The Music Center at Strathmore, Saxophone, Oh More or Less, Sonata for Bass Shalayma, to be released “Adon Olam,” Kol Isha North Bethesda, MD, 2/17/20. Clarinet, Shalom, (Mario Ciaccio, saxophones, Songbook: Women Cantor’s Network, 2019. RECORDINGS: Stanfare, arr. Niels Jenster, Sauro Berti, clarinets, Naomi Fujiya, piano, AWARDS: Florida State Association NLAPW Letter from Home, Marine Band of the Eccher School of Music Vocal Ensemble, Chiara Conference 2019: First Place, Instrumental, Royal Netherlands Navy Brass Quintet and Biondi, director), “Art for Two”, Navona Records, Multiple Instruments, Lakeside Walk with Joe; Percussion, Aliud Records compact disc AL 090, NV6185. First Place Music Award: Experimental Category, February 2017. NEWS: 2019 saw performances by soloist

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 Richard Nunemaker of Hacksaw, performances mezzo soprano, Simon Lepper, piano, Oxford Patrick O’Shea, conductor, 7 of Sonatina Casada by Leone Buyse and Lieder Festival, Oxford, England, 10/18/19. Dr. Janet Heukeshoven, flute. Michael Webster, and numerous performances When the South Wind Sings (7 songs for Germany and - Feb/ of my Sonata for Bass Clarinet by various artists soprano and piano on poems by Carl Sandburg), March 2019 tour: Apostel worldwide. I was composer-in-residence at Tabitha Burchett, soprano, Riley McKinch, piano, Kirche, Wessling, Germany, Southern Illinois University, where my percussion Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, 2/24/19; also, Cathedral of ensemble and electroacoustic sounds piece Bloomington, IN, 10/13/19. St. Michael, Brussels, 3/1/19; HEUKESHOVEN Whack! was performed twice, along with Cello: PUBLICATIONS: All with E.C. Schirmer: And It Sint-Joselsinstituut/Sint- Fishing at Antibes, Jeu du Chat, and Imágenes Came To Pass (canticle for countertenor and Gertudskik - Ternat, Belgium - 2/28/19; Chapel de Cuba, performed by the Apollo String Quartet. piano on passages from the Biblical Gospel Mary of the Angels, Winona, MN 3/7/19. Naomi Fujiya toured my Fakebook I throughout of Luke), catalogue no. 8851. Great Camelot NEWS: My Music Reaches to the Sky, a new Japan. I was a featured composer at the 2019 (3 songs for tenor and piano on poems by work for concert band and solo flute based China-ASEAN Music Festival in June, and guest Sameer Dahar), no. 8850. Of That So Sweet on original themes from the Chippewa Nation. composer-clinician at the 2019 International Imprisonment (7 songs for contralto and piano Premiere will take place in Europe 2020. Trombone Festival in July. After touring Scotland on poems by James Joyce), no. 8769. Sentiment Commissioned by Minnesota Ambassadors in August, I attended a week-long series of (monodrama for unaccompanied soprano on of Music, Chip Williams, director. The original seminars on the new digital media laws, at the texts by Caitlin Vincent), no. 8849. The New themes were collected by Frances Densmore, Cutting Edge Legal Conference in New Orleans. Colossus (setting for baritone and piano of the a native Minnesotan, in the early 1900s and And in October, the Prairie View A&M Concert poem by Emma Lazarus), no. 8852. Through meticulously documented in publications from Choir recorded my work Litany, under the the Guarded Gate (5 songs for mezzo soprano the Smithsonian. direction of Dr. Arlecia Taylor, with piano soloist and piano on poems by Margaret Widdemer), John Cornelius and the Axiom String Quartet. no. 8728. To Meet a Flower (3 songs for soprano SYDNEY HODKINSON and piano on poems by Emily Dickinson), no. PREMIERES: Embers (2017) JULIANA HALL 8644. Upon This Summer’s Day (3 songs for Clarinet & Symphony PREMIERES: Of That So Sweet Imprisonment, for soprano and piano on poems by Emily Orchestra, Illinois State Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano, Alan Louis Dickinson), no. 8645. Woods in Winter (song University Orchestra, Dr. G. Smith, piano, Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM for baritone and piano on a poem by Henry Block, cond. David Gresham, Festival, New York, NY, 1/19/19. Through the Wadsworth Longfellow), no. 8858. clarinet, Illinois State University, Guarded Gate, Clara Osowski, mezzo soprano, RECORDINGS: Emergence: Emily Dickinson, Normal, IL, 2/10/19. Lauda Juliana Hall, piano, Seattle Art Song Society, Nadine Benjamin, soprano; Nicole Panizza, (from String Quartet No. 9 HODKINSON Seattle, WA, 3/8/19. The New Colossus, Simon piano, Stone Records, catalogue no. (2018), The Barron Quartet, Elizabeth Hall, Chalifoux, bass baritone, Michel-Alexandre 5060192780864. Recording of the soprano Stetson University, Deland, FL, 2/6/19. Broekaert, piano, Société d’Art Vocal de song A Northeast Storm and soprano song PERFORMANCES: Trio: Epitaph & Scherzo, Montréal, Canada, 3/10/19. cycles In Reverence and To Meet a Flower (1988), for clarinet, violin, & piano, R. Grace, Sentiment, Laura Strickling, Still Life: New Music for Oboe, Oboe d’Amore piano, B. Kragulj, clarinet, P. Pan, violin, Bold soprano, Calliope’s Call, and English horn, Margaret Marco, English horn, City Contemporary Ensemble, Friday Musicale, Boston, MA, 4/27/19. Godiva, independent recording of the 5-movement work Jacksonville, FL, 3/1/19. Versicles (2018) for Kitty Whately, mezzo soprano, A Certain Tune for solo English horn. tenor voice, piano, & percussion, Jack Sumrall, Libby Burgess, piano, Beverley NEWS: Works composed in 2019: Peace on tenor, Hannah Sun, piano, Maria Toledo & Kevin Chamber Music Festival, Earth (song for soprano and piano on a poem Bennett, percussion, Elizabeth Hall, Stetson Beverley, Yorkshire, England, HALL by William Carlos Williams) for Katherine Lerner University, Deland, FL, 3/1/19. String Quartet 9/27/19. Tornado, Caitlin Lynch, soprano; Lee. Tornado (song for soprano and piano on No. 7 (2014), Jupiter String Quartet, Maverick Kathleen Kelly, piano, Detroit Song Collective, a poem by Kathleen Kelly) for Kathleen Kelly. Festival, MA, 8/5/18. Papillons, Book III (1984) Detroit, MI, 10/26/19. Godiva (monodrama for soprano or mezzo for solo organ, Douglas Reed, Holy Cross PERFORMANCES: Letters from Edna (8 songs soprano and piano on a libretto by Caitlin College, MA, Spring 2019. Stolen Goods – Four for mezzo soprano and piano on letters of Vincent) for Kitty Whately. Ruffians of the Sky Preludes for Piano – II Chase (2008), for piano, Edna St. Vincent Millay), Kitty Whately, mezzo (2 songs for high coloratura soprano and piano Barry Snyder, China Festival, 8/14/19. soprano, Simon Lepper, piano, Wigmore Hall, on poems by E. E. Cummings) for Emily Thorner. London, England, 2/18/19. How Do I Love Blue Violin BONNIE RUTH JANOFSKY • Thee? (5 songs for soprano and piano on (3 songs for mezzo soprano and violin on poems PERFORMANCES: Olivia’s First Waltz, Bonnie poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Martha by John Gould Fletcher and Amy Lowell) for Duo Ruth Janofsky, piano, First Presbyterian Church Guth, soprano, Erika Switzer, piano, Slovenska Cortona, Rachel Calloway, and Ari Streisfeld. of Burbank, Burbank, CA, 11/2/19. Filharmonija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3/29/19. Godiva, Loralee Songer, mezzo soprano, Perry ERIC HEUKESHOVEN LEE KESSELMAN ••• Mears, piano, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, PREMIERE: Father Forgive, Saint Mary’s PREMIERES: Be Quick to Love (May 2019) New York, NY, 10/14/19. Godiva, Kitty Whately, University of Minnesota Chamber Singers, Dr. treble voices, flute, finger cymbals & piano,

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 1 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate 7Text: Henri-Frédéric Amiel, commissioned & movement reflection of non-dominant voices Saxophone, February 2020. Our Nights (tenor premiered by the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, in American History and literature. The texts aria from The Scarlet Letter) to be included in available from www.MusicSpoke.com OZ represent Harlem Renaissance poets, immigrant Arias for Young Voices, published by Gehrmans Cantata (March 2018 at the ACDA National and Native American writers, suffragettes, AIDS Musikförlag, anticipated fall 2020 release. Conference), three-part treble voices, violin, victims, and more. The premiere will incorporate RECORDINGS: Living in the Body, double cello & piano, Text: The Wonderful Wizard of visual images, student projects, spoken word CD on Naxos, featuring 49 world premiere Oz, commissioned & premiered with underscoring, and original music. The recordings, with sopranos Jennifer Check, Ashley by the Allegro Choirs of Kansas entire work and individual movements available Emerson, Sari Gruber, Alisa Jordheim, Maureen City, Available from MusicSpoke. for performance in 2020-2021. McKay; mezzo-soprano Margaret Gawrysiak; When You Command Me To countertenor Darry Taylor; tenors Dominic Sing (May 2018), 2-part treble MICHAEL KUREK ••• Armstrong and Vale Rideout; baritone Randall voices, piano & optional flute, PUBLICATIONS: (Book) The Sound of Beauty: A Scarlata; cellist Thomas Kraines; flutist Emily Text: Rabindranath Tagore, Composer on Music in the Spiritual Life (Ignatius Skala; pianists Warren Jones, Lori Laitman, KESSELMAN commissioned & premiered Press) – Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. Andrew Rosenblum, and Kirsten Taylor. by the Cincinnati Youth Choir, available from RESIDENCIES: Nazareth College, Rochester, MusicSpoke. Songs of Songs for two-part LORI LAITMAN ••••• NY (April 2-4, 2019); Murray State University, treble choir and string orchestra, Texts: PREMIERES: Partial Lunar Eclipse – arranged Murray, KY, (Nov 6-9, 2019); George Mason Song of Songs, 1. So Is My Beloved, 2. I Am for chorus, dual premieres by these co- University (Nov 2019 and Jan/Feb 2020), Come Into My Garden, 3. I Am My Beloved’s, commissioners: Virginia Choral Society at Fairfax VA; and will be visiting guest artist for (Published by Boosey & Hawkes), orchestrated the Hampton Roads Academy, Hampton, VA, the upcoming SHE Festival at Univ of AR (March for string orchestra & piano, commissioned & 5/4/19; Alexandria Choral Society, Convergence 2020) and guest artist at UC Irvine (March premiered by Radford University choir, string Arts Initiative, Alexandria, VA, 5/18/19. Hands 2020). version available from www.KesselmanPress. (SATB a cappella) commissioned by Grant NEWS: Accompanied Stephen Powell on com Tsvey Taybelekh, Yiddish folksong in Park Music Festival, Columbus Park Refectory, my music for his upcoming debut CD on the new arrangement for SATB chorus & piano, Chicago, IL, 7/18/19. Snowy Night (SATB a Acis label. Piano commission (variation on a commissioned & premiered by Lansing Area cappella) commissioned by The Donald Sinclair theme by Diabelli) from Dr. Melvin Chen at Yale Community College choir and Lithuanian choir Sutherland Music Endowment, premiere University, to premiere in fall 2020. Finishing my DAINAVA, December 2019, available from scheduled for 3/1/20, Bradley Hills Presbyterian chamber Uncovered, due to premiere at Utah Kesselman Press. Church, Bethesda, MD. The Imaginary Photo State on 4/1/21. Finishing the editing for my PERFORMANCES: Tu Se Morta, after Album co-commissioned by The BBC and The next CD release. Monteverdi, for SATB chorus, multiple Royal Philharmonic Society for performances by the College of DuPage soprano Katharina Conrad, DAN LOCKLAIR •• Chamber Singers throughout Illinois. O Frondens premiere scheduled for PREMIERES: The Chapel Hill Service – virga, text by Hildegard von Bingen, for treble 10/25/20 at Wigmore Hall, Morning, commissioned by the Chapel of chorus, multiple performances in Illinois, Austria London, England. the Cross, Choir, organ and congregation of and . PERFORMANCES: The Ocean Chapel of the Cross, Joseph Causby, Organist/ PUBLICATIONS: Dear God, Be Good to Me, of Eternity for soprano, soprano Choirmaster, Subito Music Publishing, Chapel LAITMAN Breton Fisherman’s Prayer; for 2-part male or sax and piano, performed of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC, 11/24/19. female voices, Published by Boosey & Hawkes. throughout August 2019 at the Edinburgh Fringe Holy Seasons (Four Tone Poems for Organ), Sakura, arrangement of Japanese folksong, Festival, with Sally Carr, Calum Robertson, and commissioned by Bruton Parish Church, for soprano (or unison choir), clarinet & piano, Anna Michels. The Three Feathers (abridged Rebecca Davy, organ, Subito Music Publishing, published by Boosey & Hawkes. There is a Balm version), L’arietta Productions, Singapore. Bruton Parish Church, in Gilead, spiritual for SSA and piano, published [First production of an opera by a woman in Williamsburg, VA, 9/28/19. by Carl Fischer Music. Singapore.] Vedem (oratorio, semi-staged, Angels (Two Short Tone Poems RECORDINGS: https://soundcloud.com/ in double bill with Brundibar), 4/24-26/20, for Organ), commissioned by search?q=lee%20kesselman Indianapolis Opera, Indianapolis, IN. [First the 2019 American Guild of NEWS: I am nearing completion of a two-year production of a woman’s composition in Indy Organists Mid-Atlantic Regional project in collaboration with Vernon Hills High Opera’s history.] The Scarlet Letter (full version), Convention, Alan Morrison, LOCKLAIR School in Illinois, called Remember US. The 5/9-10/20, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA. The Three organ, St. Rose of Lima, Haddon completed work will premiere in March 2020. Feathers (full version), Opera Steamboat, Heights, NJ, 7/1/19. Sonata for Flute & Harp, A 25-30 minute work for high school choirs Steamboat Springs, CO 8/7-9/20. commissioned by the North Carolina Harp and high school string orchestra, Remember PUBLICATIONS: If I… (the last of my Four Ensemble for the 2019 American Harp Society’s US is a joint project among the choral and Dickinson Songs) included in The Royal Summer Institute, Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp, orchestra directors, American History and Conservatory 2019 Voice Series Anthology, July Debra Reuter-Pivetta, flute, Crawford Hall of the American literature teachers at Vernon Hills 2019. Lullaby (for alto saxophone and piano) University of North Carolina School of the Arts, High School. Remember US will be a multi- included in New Music Shelf’s Anthology for Alto Winston-Salem, NC,

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 6/19/19. All music published by Subito Music anniversary occurred on 24 February 2019 in (UCO) School of Music in Edmond,7 OK. Almost all Publishing. Pittsburgh at an Organ Artists Series concert of Samuel Magrill’s works are available through PERFORMANCES: (Ricordi), where Rubrics was performed by the British Lynn Morse Publishing, 1725 Westwood Lane, Anna Meyer, flute; Erik Meyer, organ, American organist and Master of Music of Westminster Edmond, OK 73013. He is an SAI National Arts Guild of Organists 2019 Mid-Atlantic Regional Cathedral, Martin Baker. My current commission Associate. Convention, Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic is for a five-movement secular choral cycle Church, Moorestown, NJ, 7/1/19. Windows of for the Charlotte, NC-based choral ensemble, MICHAEL MAULDIN •• Comfort (Two Organbooks) (Ricordi), Christine Caritas A Cappella Ensemble (Cathy Youngblood, PREMIERES: Pilgrimage: Tribute for Youth Moraal, organ, The Abbey of Lilbosch, The Artistic Director). Dan Locklair is Composer- Orchestra, commissioned by the Albuquerque Netherlands, 5/26/19. Lord Jesus, Think on in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Youth Symphony Program in memory of Dr. Dale Me (An Anthem for SATB Chorus and Organ) Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. His E. Kempter, Music Director Laureate, premiered (Subito), Choir of St. Philip’s Cathedral, Dale primary publishers are Ricordi and Subito and by the AYS, conducted by Sayra Adelmann, conductor, The Cathedral of St. his website is at: https://www.locklair.com. He Siverson, University of New Philip, Atlanta, GA, 4/7/19. Preces and is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Mexico, 4/28/19. Mysterious Responses (for priest and choir) (Subito), Choir in New York ([email protected]). River, a piano solo from “Senior of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Kent The popular American syndicated radio Pieces, Book 6,” was premiered Tritle, conductor), Diocesan Adult Choir Festival, program, Performance Today, broadcast on by Makenna Clovis, for whom Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, its April 18 edition the first two movements, the piece was a graduation gift, 3/2/19. Rubrics (A Liturgical Suite for Organ in Independence Day and Memorial Day, from Albuquerque NM, 5/15/19. MAULDIN five movements) (Ricordi), Lars Storm, organist, Dan Locklair’s Symphony No. 2 “America” PERFORMANCES: Mauldin Christinae kyrka, Alingsäs, Sweden, 2/9/19. from its World Premiere performance by the presented a Faculty Recital at the New Mexico PUBLICATIONS: All published by Subito Music Western Piedmont Symphony (John Gordon School of Music in Albuquerque on 10/7/18 Publishing: The Chapel Hill Service, Rite I, Ross, conductor). featuring piano solos written for his students Morning,Commissioned by the Chapel of the through the years, from intermediate level to Cross, Chapel Hill, NC. Holy Seasons (Four Tone SAMUEL MAGRILL ••• graduating high-school seniors. The Octava Poems for Organ), Commissioned by Bruton PERFORMANCES: Odyssey Chamber Orchestra, Johan Louwersheimer, Parish Church, Williamsburg, VA. Angels (Two Etude, Rosa Jang, flute, Hsin- Music Director, performed Phillip’s Tune Short Tone Poems for Organ), Commissioned Chiao Liao, piano, Lynn Morse 9/23/19 at Lynnwood WA as part of a tribute by Mid-Atlantic 2019 AGO Regional Convention- Publishing, Final DMA Recital to Joseph Dillon Ford. The Albuquerque Youth ca. Sonata for Flute & Harp, 3-movement work at the Staller Center for the Symphony, conducted by Sayra Siverson, commissioned by the North Carolina Harp Arts Recital Hall at Stony Brook performed Pilgrimage: Tribute for Youth Ensemble for the 2019 American Harp Society University, Stony Brook, NY, Orchestra, 6/20/19 on tour at the Sydney 2019 Summer Institute. 3/1/19. Cello Rag Rag, Pamela MAGRILL Opera House, Australia. Prayer of Mesas, for RECORDINGS: Dan Locklair Symphony No. 2 Richman, soprano, Junhong Large Orchestra and Chorus, will be performed – America, Naxos, August 2019 release, Slovak Zhou, violin, Doris Morris, violin, Ralph Morris, January 26, 2020 at Duane Smith Auditorium National Symphony, (KirkTrevor and Misha viola, Tess Remy-Schumacher, cello, Michael in Los Alamos, NM by the Los Alamos Choral Rohac, conductors, Peter Geib, double bass, Lynn Morse Publishing, Society and Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra on Mikula, organ): Features four Locklair orchestral Faculty Artist Concert Series at the UCO Jazz the Society’s 75th Anniversary Concert. works: Symphony No. 2 – America, Concerto Lab at the University of Central Oklahoma, PUBLICATIONS: Senior Pieces - Book 6, for Organ and Orchestra, Hail the Coming Day, Edmond, OK, 4/9/19. Edmond March, UCO Phillip’s Tune, for Strings and Pilgrimage: PHOENIX for orchestra. Salome’s Dance, Loft, Summer Band, Dr. Brian Lamb, director, Lynn Tribute for Youth Orchestra were published by June 2019 release, Robert Parkins, organ: Morse Publishing, 69th Annual UCO Summer MusicaNeo. Features two Locklair solo organ works: Noel’s Band Concert on the campus of the University NEWS: Mauldin’s composition student, William Psalm and In Memory – H.H.L. (organ solo of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, 6/27/19. Blind, won first-place nationally in the Junior version). Five Bagatelles, Mira Magrill, flute, Andy Liang, High division of the Music Teachers National NEWS: I was a resident composer at the 2019 violin, Nathan Chan, cello, Liz Dorman, piano, Association Composition Competition. Blind’s Summer Institute of the American Harp Society, Lynn Morse Publishing, Archipelago Collective’s Three Studies for Piano was performed at 16-22 June 2019, held on the campus of the Fifth Annual Chamber Music Festival on San the MTNA National Convention in Spokane University of North Carolina School of the Juan Island, The Brickworks, Friday Harbor, WA, WA,4/17/18. Arts, Winston-Salem, NC. My Rubrics for organ 9/7/19. celebrated its 30th anniversary the 2018- PUBLICATIONS: Destiny 31.89 for alto flute, KIRKE MECHEM ••• 2019 concert season. Commissioned by the written especially for Mira Magrill and her new PREMIERES: Pride & Prejudice, opera in 2 acts Pittsburgh Organ Artists Series of Pittsburgh alto flute, Lynn Morse Publishing. (G. Schirmer). First staged performances with in 1988 and premiered in 1989, Rubrics has NEWS: Samuel Magrill is a Professor of Music, orchestra, by Peabody Opera Theater, Joseph become one of the more popular organ works Graduate Coordinator for Music and Composer- Young, conductor; Samuel Mungo, director, by an American composer. A celebration of its Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma Baltimore MD, 11/20-23/19. The Jayhawk:

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 1 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate 7Magical Bird Overture (G. Schirmer) orchestral PERFORMANCES: Red Dragonfly (for trombone choruses, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Boston work transcribed for concert band by Dale and piano), Megumi Kanda with Priscilla Yuen, MA, Lorelei Ensemble, 4/14/19. Ramsey, Kansas University, Lawrence, Sharon Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, PUBLICATIONS: In the Night Air, Air Texture Lee Toulouse, conductor, 2/20/19. 7/28/19; also Megumi Kanda with Allie Su, label, 11/19. PERFORMANCES: Songs of Interlochen, MI, 6/16/19; also Megumi Kanda RECORDINGS: In the Night Air; Touch; the Slave, suite from the opera with Ana-Maria Otamendi, Louisiana State Immersion (Bay Area Soundscape). John Brown, Manchester Choral University (LSU), 11/16/19. New Dancing Shoes NEWS: Immersion—Bay Area Soundscape is Society, Manchester NH, Dan (woodwind quintet), Sapphire Woodwind Quintet, an 8-channel fixed media installation at the Perkins, conductor, 5/15/19, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 12/19/19; Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza, Berkeley, CA, 6/7/19; also, Symphony of also Arlington Memorial Heights Library, The installation ran from 7/18/19-10/18/19. the Mountains, Kingsport, Arlington Heights, IL, 3/15/20. TN, Cornelia Laemmli Orth, MECHEM PUBLICATIONS: Amy Riebs Mills’ first education SCOTT PENDER conductor; Dr. Matthew V. piece, Arise! for Grade 1 Band, will be available PREMIERES: Capital City Symphony, led by Potterton, choral director, 2/15/20. Seven from Excelcia Music Publishing in late May Conductor & Artistic Director Joys of Christmas (ECS) six Michigan youth 2020. Victoria Gau, premiered a new choirs with Ann Arbor Symphony, 12/14/19; NEWS: Golden for trombone and piano, work for orchestra, Oedipus also Bridgeport, CT, Symphony and Chorus, commissioned by Megumi Kanda, principal the King, 3/17/19, at Atlas Eric Jacobsen, conductor, 12/21/19. Winging trombone, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, will Performing Arts Center, Wildly cycle for mixed chorus, by Sacred & be premiered at the International Trombone Washington, DC. The piece was Profane Chamber Chorus, Dr. Rebecca Seeman, Festival in Tokyo, Japan in July 2020. The commissioned by Capital City conductor, San Francisco CA, 5/16/20; also, music will be available at Subito Music Symphony. This six-movement PENDER Berkeley, 5/15/20. Island in Space, Oriana Distribution after the premiere the first week suite for large orchestra is based Consort, Walter Chapin, director, Cambridge, in July. A consortium of great trombonists on material written in 1990 for a theatrical Brookline, Boston MA, Dec. 8, 13, 15, 2019. has commissioned the orchestra version of production of Oedipus the King. A YouTube Blow Ye the Trumpet, Chiaroscuro Chorus, Susan Amy Riebs Mills’ popular piece Red Dragonfly. video of the premiere is available at: https:// Matych-Hager, director, Adrian MI, 5/20/19. Originally for trombone and piano, the band bit.ly/2kpL56u Composer’s full website at: NEWS: Dissertation, June, 2019, by Kirstina version is available, and the orchestra version www.scottpender.net Rasmussen Collins for DMA, University of will be complete in 2020. It will be available for South Carolina,: Communicative Language in players outside the consortium in 2022. Red EUGENIE ROCHEROLLE the Compositional Output of Kirke Mechem. Dragonfly will be on the competition list for the PERFORMANCES: Many of my (This is the 9th dissertation written on KM’s International Trombone Festival 2020 in Japan. pieces are being performed on music.) Londinium Choir, London UK, Andrew Amy Riebs Mills is delighted to be working recitals, among those sponsored Griffiths, conductor, performed KM’sIsland in on a string quartet for the SAI 2021 National by the National Federation of Space in a celebration of the 50th anniversary Convention! Music Clubs; Young Musicians of the Apollo 11 landing, 10/11/19. Honorary Festival, The Schubert Club MAGGI PAYNE (CT); Trinity College London; Composer, Golden Gate International Choral ROCHEROLLE Festival, Piedmont CA, July 8-14, 2018. Sing PREMIERES: Touch, fixed Practicing the Piano Online All Ye Joyful, was sung by all 500 singers from media, collaboration with visual Academy. Sonata for Flute and Piano, Brijette countries around the world. Gesangverein artist Amy Rathborn, Land Tubb, flute, David Mibus, piano; also,Un Giorno Harmonie Daubringen (Germany) won first prize and Sea Gallery, Oakland, CA, a Roma, Carmel Klavier International Piano in the Baiertal Choral Competition, April 6, 2019 5/10/19. Immersion (Bay Area Competition. singing KM’s Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord Soundscape) 8 channel fixed PUBLICATIONS: Meaningful Moments (ECS). Unless otherwise listed, all music G. media, Downtown Berkeley BART (piano collection), Hal Leonard; featured at PAYNE Schirmer publications. Plaza, Berkeley, CA ,7/18/19. HL publishers’ showcase at the Texas Music PERFORMANCES: TBD, CNMAT, UC Berkeley, Teachers Association, 3/24/19; reviewed in AMY RIEBS MILLS • CA with Jeff Lubow and Cullen Miller 11/09/19. American Music Teachers magazine. Beatles PREMIERES: Catharsis, Concerto for Bass Black Ice, Coronal Rain, Heatwave, SFEMF arrangement, in Hal Leonard Pop Anthology, Trombone and Orchestra, US Army Orchestra, (San Francisco Electronic Music Festival), Book 2. Washington, DC, Brian Hecht, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA, 9/13/19. NEWS: Meaningful Moments marks 108 bass trombone, 3/8/19. Immersion (Bay Area Soundscape), Downtown collections comprising 678 pieces. Most are for Journey One, Concerto for Berkeley BART Plaza, Berkeley, CA, three month piano, but there are a few for piano trios, a flute Trumpet, Band Version, Don 8-channel installation 7/18/19-10/18/19. sonata, several band works. Sipe, trumpet, Mike Krofta, Theremin Morph, interactive installation, conductor, Oconomowoc Garden of Memory Walk-Through Event #22, ROBERT XAVIER RODRÍGUEZ ••• High School, Oconomowoc, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA 6/21/19. PREMIERES: Romance with a Double Bass, WI, 10/22/19. 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• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 piano, Mary-Margaret Pyeatt, NEWS: At this writing, completing Phantom April 2019. The Illusion of Invincibility7, Kelly narrator, University of Texas, Dance for string orchestra with harp, co- Sohyoung Lee, violin, Julian Grabarek, piano, Dallas, 2/8/19; also, Atlanta commissioned by the Fort Settlement Middle Oberlin College, April 2019. Jukai: the Mt. Fuji Opera, Sandy Springs Performing School Orchestra (FSMSO), Sugar Land, TX, Suicide Forest, Thomas Piercy, hichiriki, and Arts Center, 10/5, 9, 11, 13/19. and the Maine South High School Orchestra, ensemble (percussion, harp, doublebass, piano, PERFORMANCES: Frida, Florida Park Ridge, IL. FSMSO to premiere the work in accordion), EDRH, Indianapolis, 3/19/19. Grand Opera, various venues January 2020, date TBA. PERFORMANCES: The End of Al Capone, RODRIGUEZ in Miami & Fort Lauderdale; Warsaw Chamber Opera - Chopin University 3/16-3/19 (7 performances). Above All, Women: JEANNE ROWLEY BURULL • Modern Ensemble, Warsaw, . Ignacy Four Images of Gustav Klimt, Amernet Quartet, PREMIERES: Scheduling a 2020 premiere for Zalewski, music director, Jacek Szponarski Florida International University, Miami, FL, Blue Sky, for flute and piano. (tenor, Al Capone), Mateusz Żaboklicki, stage 3/18/19. Monkey See, Monkey Do, Opera PUBLICATIONS: Several publications of director, May 2019. Say Goodnight, Gracie, in the Ozarks, various venues in and around selected compositions are in the works for early Jonathan Snyder, horn, and ensemble, UNLV, Eureka Springs, AR, June-August 2019 (14 2020. Las Vegas, 5/5/19. Chords That Rhyme performances). Chronies, Orion Ensemble, With Your Eyes, for clarinet and piano, New various venues in and around Chicago, 11/10, JAMES PAUL SAIN Hampshire New Music Festival (July 2019), 13, 17/19, plus a live broadcast on WFMT Fine PREMIERES: Endopsychosis, University and Chicago Ensemble, Inc. (March 2019). Arts radio,98.7 FM in Chicago. of Iowa Center for New Music Sinfonietta, The End of the World, University of Connecticut PUBLICATIONS: (G. Schirmer) Tango Hambre David Gompper, director, University of Iowa Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Vu Nguyen, for guitar solo; (All works above published by G. Voxman Concert Hall, Iowa conductor, Storrs, CT, 11/14/19. The Eisenstein Schirmer, Inc.) City, IA, 9/22/19. Flash Point, Mummers, for three accordions, and large NEWS: Please see website at www. Christopher Newport University chamber ensemble (the “Bang on a Roomful of RobertXavierRodriguez.com Wind Ensemble, Mark Reimer, Teeth All-Stars” ensemble), Indianapolis, IN, May director, Christopher Newport and September, 2019. University Ferguson Center NEWS: Guest Composer/Visiting Professor in STEVEN L. ROSENHAUS for the Arts, Newport New, VA, 2019: Indiana University, 3/27/19; Cincinnati PREMIERES: Compassion for dancer(s), SAIN 3/21/20. College Conservatory of Music, 4/1/19; Chopin clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, PERFORMANCES: Polestar, Kim University of Music (Warsaw, Poland), May 1-7, percussion (1 player), violin, and double bass. Cassisa, clarinet, Karina Glasinovic, piano, 2019; Kraków Academy of Music (Kraków, Commissioned by conductor Keith Johnston, University of Iowa Concert Hall, Iowa Poland), May 8-12, 2019 Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, 12/10/18. City, IA, 9/22/19. Polestar, Keith Con El Viento (“With the Wind”) for string Northover, clarinet, Brian Hargrove, piano, JUDITH SHATIN orchestra. Fisher Middle School Orchestra, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 11/1/19. PREMIERES: Respecting composer conducting, Ewing, NJ, 1/17/19. Aliov, Katie Taylor, viola, Whitespace, Atlanta, the First (Amendment), string Celtic Impressions (aka, Folk Song Suite No. 2) GA, 11/17/19. Syllogism No. 3, Teresa Sánchez, orchestra & electronics for string orchestra. Premiere by Pickerington flute, Irons Recital Hall, University of Texas- fashioned from readings of/ High School North Orchestra, Pickerington, OH, Arlington, Arlington, TX, 3/27/20. Polestar, about the first amendment, 5/8/19. Duo Etude for 2 guitars, Cheyenne Cruz, clarinet, Irons Recital Hall, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, New York University Youth Music University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX, conducted by Barbara Day Festival, October 2019. SHATIN 3/27/20. Turner, St. Francis Episcopal, PERFORMANCES: Celtic San Jose, CA, 3/29/20. Patterns (soprano & Impressions (aka Folk Song MICHAEL SCHELLE ••• piano, monodrama, with poem by Amy Lowell), Suite No. 2) for string orchestra, PREMIERES: The Tragic Paradigm of Miss soprano Amy Johnson and pianist Kathleen Paradigm Charter School ROSENHAUS Mi$-T’s Misguided Expectation, Thomas Piercy, Kelly, Patricia Corbette Theatre, Cincinnati Orchestra, South Jordan, UT, clarinet, Chen Yihan, piano, Miho Sasaki, College Conservatory, 9/10/19. Ruah (flute Diane Hansen, conductor; Reynoldsburg High accordion, Michael Schelle, percussion, concerto, new version with added percussion), School Orchestra, Reynoldsburg, OH; Waterford Bargemusic, Brooklun, NY, 10/25/19. Fünf flutist Mehrdad Gholami, Aspen Contemporary Kettering High School Orchestra, Waterford, MI, Halluziationen von Beethoven, Jim Loughery, Players, Timothy Weiss conductor, Harris Merlyn Beard, conductor. piano, multiple 2019 Hall, Aspen, CO, 8/3/19. Cinchronie (Wind PUBLICATIONS: Celtic Impressions (Folk performances in New York, Quintet), participants, Bennington Chamber Song Suite No. 2) for string orchestra, to be Indianapolis, Cincinnati, et al. Music Conference, Bennington, VT, 8/8/19. published by Excelcia Music, 2020. Best Foot Virus, Dayton Philharmonic Zipper Music (2 zipper players and interactive Forward (March) for concert band, published Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, electronics), Old Cabell Hall, University of by Northeastern Music Publications, 2019. conductor, 10/20/19. Hesitation Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 4/18/19. Tournament Galop for concert band by Louis M. Killed the Cat, Studio in Bloom, PERFORMANCES: Grito del Corazon, Fulcrum Gottschalk, arranged by Steven L. Rosenhaus, Indianapolis Arts Center, Point New Music Project; : published by Grand Mesa Music, 2018. SCHELLE

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 1 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate 7Cries for the Heart; Allen Recital Hall at DePaul guest composer for the International American PERFORMANCES: Protected University, Chicago, IL, 3/18/20. Ice Becomes Music Festival at the Sichuan Conservatory in Sleep, Gabrielle Pho, horn, Water (string orchestra and electronics), River Chengdu, China from December 8-16, 2018. Christine Comer, marimba, Oaks Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Mei-Ann Performances of her works included Libro D’Ore Music Academy of the West, When, Miller Outdoor Theatre and the Church (Book of Hours) for violin and orchestra; Within Santa Barbara, CA, 7/31/19, of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX, 9/27- the Wall for chamber ensemble; Quiet Hearts:A 8/6/19. Layered Lament, 28/19. Piping the Earth (orch), Charlottesville Kaddish for solo alto saxophone; and Within Jacqueline Leclair, English horn, SILVERMAN Symphony, conducted by Benjamin Rous, Old Silence for violin, saxophone and piano. Shrude International Double Reed Cabell Hall and Martin Luther King Auditorium, attended performances and rehearsals of her Society (IDRS) Conference 2019 ,Tampa, FL, Charlottesville, VA, 8/27-28/19. Ockeghem music, delivered two lectures on American 7/16/19. Edinboro Sonata, Steven Maxwell, Variations (wind quintet + piano), Bennington music, and gave a master class for composers. tuba, Overlooked Tuba Solos, International Chamber Music Conference, Greenwall Within the Wall for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC) 2019, Auditorium, Bennington, VT, 8/10/19. Dust & piano was performed by Alia Musica Pittsburgh, Tempe, AZ., 5/24/19. Dialogue Continued and Shadow (organ), Gail Archer, Golden Anniversary Federico Garcia-De Castro, conductor, West From Sorrow, eGALitarian brass ensemble, Organ Recital, St. Bede’s Church, Menlo Park, Virginia University, 2/19/19, Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY, 3/24/19. Interval CA, 4/19/19. and Slippery Rock University, Untamed, Kaitlin Smith, alto saxophone, Public PUBLICATIONS: Wendigo Music: Zipper Music 2/21/19. Trope, John Sampen, Library of Johnston County and Smithfield, (2 amplified zipper players and interactive saxophone, April 2019 at Smithfield, NC (RDU electronics). Ruah (flute concerto, new version). Northern State University (SD), Chapter of SAI), 3/9/19. All compositions Subito Patterns (monodrama for soprano & piano). Montana State University, Music Corporation. Cinqchronie (wind quintet). Brigham Young University, PUBLICATIONS: All Subito Music Corporation. RECORDINGS: Penelope’s Song, version for and the University of Nevada. SHRUDE Green Ink Serenade, guitar duo. Musicians of clarinet and electronics (Somewhere CD of Lacrimosa, Kantada, River Song, the Air, solo violin. clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman on Ravello). and Continuum, John Sampen, saxophone, NEWS: I chaired the Composers Panel at the For the Fallen, version for soprano sax and Marilyn Shrude, piano, April 19 and 21, 2019, at IWBC Conference 2019 in Tempe, AZ. I have electronics (In Lights Starkly Different CD of the International Saxophone Festival in Larissa, continued my service on the Board of Directors saxophonist Drew Whiting on Innova). Chai Greece. Marilyn Shrude was a guest at the of the IWBC. I have continued as Secretary Variations on Eliahu HaNavi (Poets of the Piano; Snow Pond Music Festival of the New England of the Board of Directors of New York Women Acts of Faith CD of Nathan Carterette). Music Camp June 2019, where the following Composers. Pregnant Pauses was streamed live NEWS: Judith Shatin is now William R. Kenan, works were performed by members of the on Classical Discoveries with Marvin Rosen on Jr. Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. Frederick L. Hemke Saxophone Institute: Avanti!, August 28, 2019. Recipient of ASCAPlus award. She is composing full time and currently working Caritas, Quiet Hearts: A Kaddish, and Renewing on Kassia’s Song, commissioned by the Kassia the Myth. HALIDE SMITH • Ensemble for their entire roster (clarinet, harp, RECORDING: Crosswind: Tower Duo, Parma PERFORMANCES: A Rose, Vicki Hedger, solo and string quintet). Her piece is inspired by their Records RR8003, includes Marilyn Shrude’s piano; Melody in G Minor, Karen Puckett, violin, namesake, the 9th century Byzantine abbess, Notturno: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu. Vicki Hedger, piano; Coconut poet, composer, and hymnographer. She has Members of the Tower Duo are flutist Erin Man, Penny Citro, mezzo- also just completed a commission from YIVO, Helgeson Torres and saxophonist Michael Rene soprano, Pam Pendergast, the Jewish Research Institute in NY, for Unter Torres. piano, all members of the Soreles Wigele, a setting of traditional folk NEWS: Marilyn Shrude received the Kansas City SAI Alumnae song lyrics in the original Yiddish for mezzo Outstanding Partnership Award from the BGSU Chapter, John Knox Village, Lee’s and piano that will premiere on June 18, 2020. Center for Public Impact for “EAR|EYE. Listening Summit, MO, 3/11/19. I Am, She continues to create acoustic, digital, and and Looking. Contemporary Music and Art.” also New Star, Yvonne Walker, SMITH electroacoustic pieces, and is continuing her The concert series, now in its 5th season, is a Sensory Friendly Concert, Queen Quotidian Series, using everyday objects and partnership with the Toledo Museum of Art and of the Holy Rosary Church, Overland Park, KS. creating performance pieces accessible to those features students in the DMA in Contemporary This annual event is sponsored by the Kansas without traditional musical training. She is also Music degree program at BGSU. City Metro Music Therapist organization and KC creating electronic pieces from these sources, Alumni Chapter of SAI. some of them in surround-sound. FAYE-ELLEN SILVERMAN PREMIERES: All Subito Music Publishers: DR. GREG A STEINKE MARILYN SHRUDE • Green Ink Serenade, Francisco Roldan and PREMIERES: RANDOM BLACKOUTS IV (Image PREMIERE: Récit 2, Maria Sampen, violin, Daniel Lippel, guitars, The New School, New Music XLIV) for Tenor and Guitar, at Hahn Recital and Ricardo de la Torre, piano, SAI Nu Province York, NY, 3/17/19; also, Colored Tones, Robbie Hall, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, Rory Day, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Harvey, soprano saxophone. Musicians of the Wallace, Tenor & Paul Reilly, Guitar, 3/19/19. 9/28/19. Air, Darragh Morgan, violin, Estonian House, SANTA FE TRAIL ECHOES, for Violoncello and PERFORMANCES: Marilyn Shrude served as New York, NY, 5/10/19. Ensemble for These Times Concert, Angelico

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness • • Friend of the Arts st • • • National Arts Associate ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • • Honorary Member • • • • • Member Laureate COMPOSERS UPDATE 1 Hall, Dominican University of CA, San Rafael,CA, (iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Kansas City • Minnesota Opera7 Anne Lerner-Wright, violoncello, 9/13/19. Civil Play, Deezer), 07/05/19. Release of Sarabande • Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Wars for Baritone and Piano at Radius Center, for Alto Flute on Phasma-Music Foundation CD - •San Francisco Opera • Santa San Antonio, TX, Andrew White, Baritone & John Two Minutes Solo Flute (Iwona Glinka, flute) (via Fe Opera • Sarasota Opera McGinn, Piano, 9/28/19. West Coast premiere NAXOS), 7/15/19. • Seattle Opera. This project of LIFSCHEY CARDS II (Image Music XLI) for NEWS: ASCAP Plus Award December 2019. is made possible by generous Oboe, Viola, and Piano, Cascadia “Shades Served as judge for SCI/ASCAP 2019 Student funding from the Melville THOMAS of Autumn” Concert, Lincoln Hall, Catherine Composition Commissions, May 2019. Hankins Family Foundation Lee, oboe; Julie Asparro, viola; Colleen, and The Andrew Mellon piano,11/15/19. MARY JANE TASHIRO Foundation, 10/26/19. The Auditions, a new PERFORMANCES: From ARMGART for PREMIERES: Forever Music, ballet commissioned by PEAK Performances at Soprano, NACUSAsor “Songs for a Winter Night” Op. 68, Timeless Piano Solos, Montclair State University in New Jersey, Concert at Ashland First Congregational Church, Op. 70, Nos. 1-3, and Surge Jedediah Wheeler, Executive Director; performed Ashland, OR by Jeffri Carrington, Soprano, of Spring 2 from the set titled, by Dance Company, Janet Nic Temple, Piano, 1/12/19. Waiting, Op. 53, Nos. 1-3, by Eilber, Artistic Director, Troy Schumacher EXPRESSIONS for String the composer, Grace Episcopal Choreographer, and the ICE Ensemble, Quartet at NACUSA Cascadia Church, Scarsdale, NY, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, 11/14-17/19. “Founders” Concert, Lincoln 6/30/19. TASHIRO Premiere of New Work for large chorus and Hall, PSU, Portland, OR, Fear PERFORMANCES: Pourquoi? Op. 71, Trio for orchestra commissioned and premiered by the No Music Quartet, 3/22/19. violin, cello, and piano, Kathleen Thomson, Cathedral Choral Society of Washington, D.C., FOUR DESULTORY EPISODES violin, Mary Wooten, cello, Marcia Eckert, piano, conducted by Steven Fox in the Washington STEINKE for Oboe and Fixed Media at Hudson Music Club, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 1/27/20. National Cathedral, made possible by the NACUSA Cascadia “All Wired Up” Concert, The PUBLICATIONS: Children’s Piano Course: William Remsen Strickland Endowment Fund “to Old Church, Portland, OR, Catherine Lee, oboe, Angels We have Heard on High, Op. 84 (Arr., remember the concerts of the Cathedral Choral 4/20/19. Mvmnt 1 from EXPRESSIONS for 2018). Advanced Works: 1. Forever Music, Society during World War II,” 3/22/20. String Quartet at NACUSAsf “Friction Quartet” Op. 68 (2019). Book includes Piano Solo Aureole, Fabio Luisi, conductor, Dallas concert, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, with words, Soprano and Alto Solo with piano Symphony Orchestra, The Morton H. Meyerson Friction Quartet, 6/8/19. RANDOM BLACKOUTS accompaniment 2. Crossroad, Op. 44, Nos. 1-3 Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, 9/12-15/19. I (Image Music XXXIII) for Baritone and Piano 4 (Rev. 2019), Publisher: MJT Music. Hands, Luella Bennack Music Center, UIW San NEWS: The year 2019 just happened to be DAVID EVAN THOMAS ••• Antonio, TX, Chiawei Lee, Baritone, Ara Koh & the 40th year of composing since my 1st book, PREMIERES: River Dreams, Southwest Jean Park, Piano, 9/27/19. Magical Moving Moments, was published in Metro Chorale, Mark Bilyeu, cond., Minnesota PUBLICATIONS: 13th Edition of Basic Materials 1979. On the same program that I premiered Masonic Center, 6/14/19. There is a Yearning in Music Theory by Greg A Steinke & Paul O. 6 of my works, a Korean pianist accompanied Hymn in Honor of Philip Brunelle, Plymouth Harder, Pearson Education, January 2019. a flautist with sensitivity to make the ensemble Congregational Church, Minneapolis, 5/12/19. RANDOM BLACKOUTS III (Image Music XL) playing beautiful. After I finished performing, PERFORMANCES: Trio da Camera, Carrie for Tenor/Mezzo, Flute and 2 Perc., Tierra del this pianist surprised me by saying that she Vecchione, oboe, Sarah Schmalenberger, Mar Music, 12/31/18. RANDOM BLACKOUTS remembered my name because when she was horn, Gail Olszewski, piano, Antonello Hall, IV (Image Music XLIV) for Baritone and Guitar, 10 years old, I had signed her book in 1984 MacPhail School of Music, Minneapolis, MN, Tierra del Mar Music, 12/31/18. RANDOM after she was chosen to perform my work, 3 4/26/19. One Fair Summer BLACKOUTS II (Image Music XXXVIII) for Tenor/ Dances at a Music Teachers Convention in Eve, Minnesota State Band, Mezzo and Piano 4 Hands, Tierra del Mar Sacramento, CA. How unlikely that this meeting davidevanthomas.com Keith Music, 12/13/18. RANDOM BLACKOUTS I would happen to any composer after 35 years Liuzzi, cond. Minnesota (Image Music XXXIII) for Tenor/Mezzo and Piano made my celebration unforgettable. The Trio performances in Litchfield, 4 Hands, Tierra del Mar Music, 12/21/18. Della Luna performed my work, Pourquoi? (The MN 5/18/19; Northfield, MN Sarabande for Alto Flute, Tierra del Mar Music, Perpetual Question, Why?), a most riveting 8/4/19; Como Pavilion, Saint 12/18. Civil Wars for Baritone and Piano, Tierra performance especially after Kobe Bryant’s Paul, MN, 8/14/19. To Live in THOMAS del Mar Music, 7/14/19. A Whitman Sampler tragic accident the day before. Website: This World, Tori Adams, sop., for Baritone and Piano, Tierra del Mar Music, mjtashiromusic.com Daria Adams and Mari Lee, violins, Jonathan 10/25/19. Vinocur, va., Josh Roman, cello, Music in the RECORDINGS: Release of Inquietude Revisited •••• Vineyards: Hess Collection, Napa, CA, 8/23/19. II for Alto Flute on Phasma-Music Foundation PREMIERES: Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, PUBLICATIONS: O Lord of Life: SATB, piano. CD, Iwona Glinka, flute, (via NAXOS), 5/3/19. libretto by Leslie Dunton-Downer, commissioned To Live in This World, 3 Poems of Mary Oliver: Release of FOUR DESULTORY EPISODES for by a consortium of opera companies, led Soprano, string quartet. Calon Lân, Welsh song Oboe and Fixed Media for recording on a RMN by Santa Fe Opera in association with San for piano solo. Valse Brunelle: piano solo. Joplin Classical CD, Electroacoustic & Beyond, Vol. 4 Francisco opera, that includes: • Lyric Opera Of for Three: arrangements for flute, violin, cello.

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• SAI Alumna/Patroness st • • Friend of the Arts ANNUAL AMERICAN • • • National Arts Associate • • • • Honorary Member 1 COMPOSERS UPDATE • • • • • Member Laureate 7Available: www.davidevanthomas.com CHRISTOPHER WEAIT ••• music, books and DVD publications. Please RECORDINGS: The World’s Highway: Sahar PREMIERES: Estampie for 8 Double Reeds, direct inquiries to: trevcovarnermusic@gmail. Hassan & Ladyslipper on Centaur TAMUK Double Reed Ensemble, Weait Music, com or to visit TrevCo-Varner Music website at: With DET’s chamber music arrangements of Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX, 4/2/19. www.trevcomusic.com music by Falla (7 Popular Spanish Songs) and Passacaglia I (Premiere of earlier 2018 Ives (3 Ives Song). revision), The FiVe woodwind quintet, Weait JOHN WINSOR NEWS: The first dissertation on my music: Of Music, Heron Road Seniors’ Centre, Ottawa, NEWS: In January, John’s Chamber Symphony (1995; Things Hoped For: The Organ Works of David Ontario, Canada, 5/1/19. Estampie for Reed rev. 2009) for woodwind Evan Thomas, by Katie T. Moss. 2019 DMA Quintet, Cosa Nostra Reed Quintet, Weait Music, quintet, piano, and strings dissertation, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana Otterbein University Westerville, OH, 6/3/19. was performed on a North/ University. Two Thomas piano works appear Discourse V for bassoon ensemble, 2019 New Bassoon Institute, Weait Music, Columbia, SC, South Consonance chamber on the repertoire list of the Minnesota Music orchestra concert in New Teachers Association for its 2020 Competition: 6/7/19. Chaconne and Charade for clarinet quartet, Prestige Clarinet Quartet, Weait Music, York. The 1995 version was WINSOR Calon Lån on the Intermediate (Ages 15-16) previously performed and International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest, category; Night Echoes on the Senior B (Ages broadcast by members of the Cologne Radio Knoxville, TN, 7/24/19. Divertimento for 19-20) category. Symphony. This will be a world premiere of the Strings (Revised) Central Ohio Symphony, newer version. John’s Caribbean Sunset won the Jaime Morales, conductor, Weait Music, Ohio HOLLIS THOMS 2019 MTNA/VMTA Commissioned Composer Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, 10/26/19. NEWS: See new and previous works at: www. Competition. This is his sixth time winning that Zugger Pieces for clarinet & bass trombone, hollisthoms.com particular award. The commissioned piece, Gail L. Zugger, clarinet, Thomas W. Zugger, bass Dolphins, will be performed at the 2019 annual trombone, Weait Music, NOW Festival, Capital PERSIS PARSHALL VEHAR • VMTA conference in October. In addition, an University, Columbus, OH, 2/5/20. PREMIERES: Infinite all-Winsor concert will be performed at Scherzo PERFORMANCES: Passacaglia II, saxophone Dance, commissioned by music club in November. quartet, Hyperion Saxophone Quartet, Ohio Northeastern State University of State University, Columbus, OH, 4/19/19. Oklahoma, NSU Brass Faculty, STEPHEN YARBROUGH Amazing Grace for 3 , Trio Botanica, Dr. Benjamin Hay, solo trumpet/ PREMIERES: Resonet in Laudibus, Antiphonal flugelhorn/piccolo trumpet, Weait Music, International Double Reed Society Strings. Lyricwood Orchestra, Abbey of the NSU Wind Ensemble, Dr. Bryan 2019 conference, University of Hills, Marvin, South Dakota, 8/4/19. Psalm Raya, conductor, 2/20/20; VEHAR South Florida, Tampa, 7/14/19. 100, Choir and Piano, premiered during the also, John Ellis, trumpet/ Fanfare for Solo Horn, Bruce Consecration of Bishop-Elect Johnathan Folts flugelhorn/piccolo trumpet, Crane School of Henniss, horn, Weait Music, Ohio by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. Episcopal Music Wind Ensemble, Brian Doyle, conductor, State University, Columbus, OH, Diocese of South Dakota, Pierre, 11/2/19. SUNY Potsdam, 3/25/20. String Quartet #3: 9/9/19. Suite of Early American A Psalm Cycle for Baritone and Orchestra, Nature Walk, Syracuse Society for New Music Tunes for 4 bassoons, Chicago Dr. Nicholas Provenzale, Baritone, Dr. Luis String Quartet, Cazenovia Counterpoint Series, Bassoon Quartet, Weait Music, WEAIT Viquez Conductor, University of South Dakota Cazenovia, NY, 7/11/20. Chicago State University, Sypmphony, 12/6/19. PERFORMANCES: Pushed Aside, Chicago, 10/10/19. Chaconne and Charade for PERFORMANCES: Pastorale, commissioned by Syracuse Society for New clarinet quartet, Prestige Clarinet Quartet, Weait Donna Deloy, flute, Deanna Music & New York State, Society for New Music Music, Wright State UniversityWinds Festival, Wehrspann, piano, Colton (Syracuse), Heather Buchman, conductor, 11/23/19. Recital Hall, University of South Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 4/13/19; also, PUBLICATIONS: Pan’s Reed for soprano, Dakota, Vermillion, 10/12/19. Empire Theater at the New York State Fair, baritone, flute, and piano (E.B. Browning). Alleluias for Orchestra, Hannah Syracuse, NY honoring “equality and social Eight Inventions for Piano. Shenandoah Schendel, conductor, Festival of justice,” 8/26/19. American Chantey for Orff Ensemble. Christmas, Bensen Great Hall YARBROUGH NEWS: Received her 36th consecutive RECORDINGS: Four selections by C. Weait: Bethel University St. Paul MN, ASCAPLUS Award for excellence in composition. Eight from Quebec narrated by the composer, 12/5/19–12/7/19. Commission: In The World We Leave Our Ohio Tunes, Golden Oldies, Suite No.1, With PUBLICATIONS: All Stephen Yarborough, Children, a song cycle based on poems by Gratitude. Album “With Gratitude the Village Sycamore Press. Resonet in Laudibus. Psalm African-American poet Lucille Clifton, by 100. A Psalm Cycle. Love Unbidden. A Prayer Soprano Louise Toppin, Brass 2019” Village Brass Recordings. Blessings by Mark Flugge, arranged by Christopher Weait before Any Act. Voice Faculty & Head of University of Michigan RECORDINGS: Pastorale, 10/12/19. Planning for woodwind quintet, QuintEssential Winds of African-American Song Project, Ann Arbor, to record Psalm 100, A Psalm Cycle, and Capital University Conservatory of Music, Around MI. Commission: Infinite Dance, Consortium Alleluias for Orchestra. Every Corner Records, UPC 88295 8656. members include University of Arkansas, Texas NEWS: 5 concert events at the Festival of NEWS: As of August, 2019 TrevCo-Varner Music State, and State University of New York College Christmas in Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, will be the sole distributor of Weait Music sheet at Potsdam. playing Alleluias for Orchestra

16 Winter 2020 Digital Exclusive • sai-national.org Presented by SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES, INC. IAMAINTER-AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS A TRIENNIAL COMPETITION FOR COMPOSERS COMPOSER-JUDGES Andrea Clearfield SAI Honorary Member, member of the SAI Composers Bureau, and composer of music for opera, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance and multi-media collaboration and Amy Riebs Mills SAI initiate of Beta Chapter, Northwestern University, former affiliate of the Washington, D.C. Alumnae Chapter, and a member of the SAI Composers Bureau who is known for her vibrant conducting and compositions in all genres

PRIZE $2,500 cash award and work published by C. F. Peters Corporation Premiere performance of work at Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, July 29-August 2, 2021.

THE COMPOSITION 2021 Cycle - Instrumental Solo with Piano

ELIGIBILITY Open to any established composer residing in North, Central, or South America*

ENTRY DEADLINE Postmarked no later than September 1, 2020

For complete guidelines and application forms, please go to: www.sai-national.org For further information, contact: Sara A. Bong, Director E-mail: [email protected]

*Prior winners and students of current Composer-Judges are ineligible. Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. does not discriminate in matters of nationality, race, creed, or sex.

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SAI Philanthropies, Inc. is pleased to announce the Composer/Judges for the 2021 Inter-American Music Awards cycle of Instrumental Solo with Piano: Andrea Clearfield and Amy Riebs Mills.

2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and fellowships of Aquascalientes, Mexico and the US Army at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Band, and at the International Women’s Brass American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, MacDowell Conference, the International Trombone Festival, Colony, Ucross, Wurlitzer Foundation, and the the American Trombone Workshop. She has guest Copland House. Her music is published by Boosey conducted orchestras on four continents, has & Hawkes, G. Schirmer, Hal Leonard, and Seeadot, served on the faculty of the Conductors’ Institute and recorded on the Bridge, Sony, MSR, Albany, at Bard College, and frequently serves as an Crystal, and Innova labels. She served on the adjudicator and clinician. Composition and Interdisciplinary Arts faculty In a Mexican debut, Ms. Mills conducted the at The University of the Arts from 1986–2011. world premiere of her five movement orchestral Andrea Clearfield Passionate for building community around the work, Ha Shamayim, (based on images from An SAI Honorary Member and member of the arts, she is founder and host of the renowned Salon the Hubble telescope) with the Aguascalientes SAI Composers Bureau, Andrea Clearfield is an featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, Symphony, in a concert broadcast on television award-winning composer of music for orchestra, dance, and world music since 1986. She sits on the and radio. Megumi Kanda, principal trombonist opera, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance, and Board of Directors of the Recording Academy/ of the Milwaukee Symphony, commissioned multimedia collaborations. Clearfield creates deep, Grammy’s, Philadelphia Chapter. and premiered Ms. Mills’ trombone sonata, Red emotive musical languages that build cultural A native of Philadelphia, she received a D.M.A. Dragonfly, at the 2013 International Trombone and artistic bridges. She has been praised by the in composition from Temple University, was a two- Festival. And in 2015 Ms. Kanda premiered New York Times for her “graceful tracery and time winner of the John Heller Memorial Award the band version at the American Trombone lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia for Excellence in Composition, and was the first Workshop with the US Army Band. After hearing Inquirer for her “compositional wizardry” and composer to receive the prestigious University- Red Dragonfly, Brian Hecht, bass trombonist with “mastery with large choral and wide Presidential Fellowship. She received an M.M. the Atlanta Symphony, commissioned Catharsis for instrumental forces”, the L.A. Times for her “fluid in Piano from The University of the Arts and a bass trombone and piano, and premiered the piece and glistening orchestration”, and by Opera News BA in Music from Muhlenberg College, where she at the University of Texas, Austin in 2016. for her “vivid and galvanizing” music of “timeless graduated with first prizes in Performance and Ms. Mills founded and served as Music beauty”. Her works are performed widely in the Musicianship. Director of the National Women’s Symphony www.andreaclearfield.com U.S. and abroad. Among her 150 works are eleven in Washington, D.C., a professional orchestra large-scale cantatas, including one commissioned featuring the music of women composers along and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra. with recognized masters. After founding this Recent works are inspired by Tibetan music ensemble in 1992, they performed world and fieldwork that she conducted in the Nepalese American premieres of works by Libby Larsen, Himalaya. Her first opera, MILA, Great Sorcerer, Pulitzer Prize winner Melinda Wagner, Jennifer was presented at the acclaimed NYC Prototype Higdon, and Augusta Read Thomas. The orchestra Festival in January 2019. Praised by the press also collaborated with the Norwegian and as “mystical and dramatically compelling” and Canadian embassies in presenting American “the most accomplished and mature of this year’s premieres of women composers of their countries. compositions”, the opera focuses on the life of the Ms. Mills holds a doctorate in conducting great Tibetan sage, Milarepa, who transformed from Catholic University, and a bachelor’s and from mass murderer into Tibet’s most venerated master’s degree in music from Northwestern teacher. Lung-Ta (The Windhorse) was presented Amy Riebs Mills University, where she was the School of Music’s to His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama as an initiative An SAI initiate of Beta Chapter at 1995 commencement speaker. She continued her for world peace. Northwestern University, former affiliate of studies at the Conductors’ Institute, Tanglewood, She was appointed the Steven R. Gerber Composer the Washington, D.C. Alumnae Chapter, and a and the Oregon Bach Festival, studying with in Residence with the Chamber Orchestra of member of the SAI Composers Bureau, Amy Riebs Gustav Meier, Harold Farberman, Daniel Lewis, Philadelphia for their 2018-19 season and is 2020 Mills is increasingly in demand as a composer, and Helmut Rilling. She has served on the faculty Composer-in-Residence with National Concerts writing in all genres, including orchestra and band, of the Conductors’ Institute at Bard College and at Carnegie Hall. Dr. Clearfield was awarded a winds and strings, voice, chorus and piano. Her frequently serves as an adjudicator and clinician. www.amymillsmusic.com 2017 Independence Foundation Fellowship, a music has been performed by the state orchestra

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