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Breaking Heaven 破天 DONALD REID WOMACK ドナルド・リード・ウォマック WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1517 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 WORKS FOR JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS 邦楽器のための作品 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2014 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. A faculty member at the University of Hawai‘i since 1994, Dr. Womack has chaired the music The Composer department and presently serves as professor of composition and theory and head of the composition Donald Reid Womack is the composer of more than 90 works for orchestra, chamber program, which he has helped guide to a position of world leadership in the burgeoning field of ensembles, solo instruments, and voice. His music has been performed and broadcast extensively intercultural composition. He also serves as a faculty member of the Center for Japanese Studies. throughout the United States, as well as Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America, and is recorded on the Albany, Equilibrium, Tokyo CMC, and Akdang Iban labels. His major works include a symphony, a violin concerto, a double concerto for shakuhachi, koto, and orchestra, and an oratorio for chorus and chamber orchestra. Performers of his music include the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, Asia The Music Ensemble, the Salzburg Mozarteum String Quartet, Kyo-Shin-An Arts, the Cassatt Quartet, conductors An American in Tokyo Naoto Otomo, Kazuhiro Koizumi, Samuel Wong and David Stock, and renowned virtuosi Yang Jing Japanese instruments have been a major part of my musical world since 2003, when I was invited (pipa), Ji-young Yi (gayageum), Parry Karp (cello), I-Bei Lin (cello), Ignace Jang (violin), Thomas to write a piece for Asia Ensemble, a group founded by the eminent late composer Minoru Miki.
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