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He has since given more than 50 perfor- OF FIRE: Homage to Poul Ruders mances of featured clarinet works with orchestra. Hawkins’ first teaching position, at the Interlochen Arts Academy, George Sakakeeny, bassoon launched a new career direction in 1993: a dedication to Amanda Dame, flute • Ryan Toher, clarinet educating the world’s finest young clarinetists. He has simul- Julia Suh, violin • Rachel Halvorson, viola taneously led an active performing career and pursued his Joshua Morris, cello • Caitlin Mehrtens, harp passion for instrument design. Shihui Yin, piano Hawkins performed for five seasons as principal clarinet of the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and served as artist faculty at the Hot Springs Music Festival each June from Sparkle (1992) Chen Yi (b. 1953) 1997-07. His work in the arenas of contemporary, chamber, and orchestral music have included performances with the Amanda Dame, flute/piccolo • Ryan Toher, E-flat clarinet Bogota Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Tucson Hunter Brown, Dan King, percussion Winter Music Festival, and Medellín Festicámara, as well as Hattie Ahn, violin • Joshua Morris, cello recitals and master classes throughout the United States and Casey Karr, bass • John Etsell, piano Europe. His adjudication of the Youth Orchestra of Colombia took him to Bogota, where he coached the orchestra on its first South American tours in 2012 and 2013. After several years at Interlochen, and a brief tenure at Fabian Fuertes, personnel & operations manager DePaul University, Hawkins joined the faculty of the Oberlin Michael Roest, librarian Conservatory of Music in 2001. His former students now hold leadership positions in orchestras and teaching institutions worldwide. Hawkins designed instruments for the G. Leblanc Corporation and developed his own line of clarinet mouth- Please silence all cell phones and refrain from the use of video cameras pieces that have become some of the most widely favored unless prior arrangements have been made with the conductor. products in the industry. He is now an artist and representa- The use of flash cameras is prohibited. Thank you. tive for Légère Reeds LTD. and Backun Musical Services. Hawkins proudly performs on the Backun MOBA clarinet made of cocobolo with an R Model Richard Hawkins mouth- piece and Légère Signature reed. A place toward other places, Hawkins’ 2013 CD release on the Oberlin Music label, features the works of Elliott Carter, William Albright, Benjamin Broening, and Aaron Helgeson. 4 5 Zhou Long is internationally recognized for creating a unique currently Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of body of music that brings together the aesthetic concepts Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. and musical elements of East and West. Deeply grounded in In 2012, Zhou composed two orchestral works: University the entire spectrum of his Chinese heritage, including folk, Festival Overture and Beijing Rhyme – A Symphonic Suite, philosophical, and spiritual ideals, he is a pioneer in transfer- commissioned by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, premiered ring the idiomatic sounds and techniques of ancient Chinese and recorded on EMI in 2013; a solo piano work Pianobells, musical traditions to modern Western instruments and commissioned by Dr. Susan Chan and premiered at the ensembles. His creative vision has resulted in a new music Musica Nova concert in the UMKC Conservatory of Music that stretches Western instruments eastward and Chinese and Dance; and a chamber work, Cloud Earth for chamber instruments westward, achieving an exciting and fertile com- ensemble, commissioned by The New York New Music mon ground. Ensemble and premiered on its 35th anniversary celebration Zhou was born into an artistic family and began piano at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. In 2013, Zhou lessons at an early age. During the Cultural Revolution, he composed his epic evening-length symphonic work Nine was sent to a rural state farm, where the bleak landscape Odes on poems by Qu Yaun (ca. 340 BCE - 278 BCE) for four with roaring winds and ferocious wild fires made a profound solo vocalists and orchestra, commissioned by the Beijing and lasting impression. He resumed his musical training in Music Festival Arts Foundation and premiered in October 1973, studying composition, music theory, and conducting, as 2013 as a tribute to his 60th. well as Chinese traditional music. In 1977, he enrolled in the 2014 has seen the completion of a new chamber first composition class at the reopened Central Conservatory work, Tales from the Nine Bells, co-commissioned and pre- of Music in Beijing. Following graduation in 1983, he miered by the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in New was appointed composer-in-residence with the National York and Wigmore Hall in London for their 2014 seasons, Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra of China. Zhou travelled and a new piano concerto, Postures, co-commissioned by to the United States in 1985 under a fellowship to attend the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and BBC Proms, which Columbia University, where he studied with Chou Wen- was premiered on July
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