American Music Festival Staff: Hubert Howe, ACA President Jasna Radonjic, ACA Executive Director, Festival Producer Idith Meshulam, Festival Artistic Advisor Jeffery Wildey, Administrative Assistant Richard Szpigiel, Lighting Director The American Composers Alliance (ACA) serves the contemporary music community as a music publisher, concert presenter, and advocate for composers. Founded in 1937 by Aaron Copland to protect the rights of its members and to promote the use and understanding of their music, it is the oldest national organization of its kind. It offers emerging and established composers a network of connections and a supportive community. We are here to promote, protect, preserve, present and publish the concert music of American Composers. ACA recently incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization and is now a tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation in the State of New York. 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Presents The two founders and directors of the Second Instrumental Unit are violinist and composers, David Fulmer and 2007 American Music Festival conductor Marc Dana Williams. David Fulmer was recently presented the prestigious Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007). He is the recipient of several other honors, including the 2005 Dorothy Hill Klotzman Grant from the Juilliard School, and the highly coveted 2004 George Thursday, June 21st at 8pm Whitefield Chadwick Gold Medal from New England Conservatory. David graduated last spring from the Juilliard School pursuing studies in composition with Milton Babbitt and violin with Robert Mann in the Masters program, and he is currently resuming his studies at Juilliard as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow. As Music for the Solstice violinist, he has appeared this season throughout Lincoln Center, most recently in the “Great Performers” series, as well as Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, amongst other places. Marc Dana Williams is a native of Los Angeles but resides in Paris where he works with the French conductor Pierre Boulez. He conducts various Lewis Nielson Iskra * ensembles regularly on the East Coast of the United States, making his Carnegie Hall debut last season leading Echoi: the Second Instrumental Unit. He is currently on the conducting staff at the Spoleto Festival USA, where he Alice Teyssier, flute recently completed his fourth season as associate conductor. Mr. Williams has served as music director of Jonathan Hepfer, percussion l'Orchestre de Sciences-Po (Paris) and Ventura College Opera (California) and has served as principal guest Gabrielle Athayde, cello conductor of l'Ensemble Musique Contemporaine Brésilienne (Bordeaux, France) and the Colorado Britten Society (Denver.) He has been an assistant or associate conductor with l'Opéra national de Paris, the Santa Raoul Pleskow On Lines form the Latin * Barbara Symphony and Opera Santa Barbara. He continues to garner acclaim with performances in New York, Patricia Sonego, soprano Christopher Oldfather, piano including concerts at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Miller Theatre, The Stone, and Symphony Space. Mr. Williams regularly guest conducts the Wet Ink Ensemble, Queens College New Music Group and the Columbia Composers Collective, among others. He also serves as a frequent guest with the American Carmel Raz Iola for Solo Flute * Composers Alliance. He has been a conducting fellow at the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Barry Crawford, flute Darmstadt and has earned degrees in music and law from the University of California, Bard College, and The Juilliard School. Anthony Cheung Enjamb/Infuse/Implode The Second Instrumental Unit Patricia Sonego, soprano is appearing with ACA for the second year, having given the New York premier of David Buck, flute Carol McGonnell, clarinet award winning composer John Melby’s 3 Wordsworth Songs for voice and computer generated playback on last Nathan Schmidt, violin Victoria Bass, cello year’s Festival of American Music. Patricia made her operatic debut in New York City in the world premiere of Alex Lipowski, percussion Molly Morkoski, piano American composer Jack Beeson's Sorry, wrong number with the Center for Contemporary Opera under the Marc Dana Williams, conductor baton of Richard Marshall, for which she received an enthusiastic review from Robert Prag of Opera News. A champion of new music, particularly electro-acoustic and chamber, Ms. Sonego is in demand to premier new works, many of which have been composed for her. In a new arrangement dedicated to her by the award INTERMISSION winning American composer Terry Winter Owens she recently gave the world premier of Owens’ Messages for Raoul Wallenberg at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, with the Alaria Chamber Ensemble. The piece was recently ACA presents The Laurel Leaf Award to Fred Sherry for recorded for Capstone Records featuring Reizen Ensemble, a new music group for which Patricia is the soprano “distinguished achievement in fostering and encouraging American music.” member, co-founder and Artistic Director. Elizabeth Bell Soliloquy Loren Dempster, cello Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy Spirit Man † Laura Campbell, flute 11 Fall. Jonathan Hepfer studied percussion with Mike Rosen at Oberlin and now studies with Steven Schick at Christopher Adler Signals Intelligence † UC San Diego. Jonathan was selected for the Lucerne Festival this Summer. Gabrielle Athayde studies cello Alexander C Lipowski, marimba with Darrett Adkins at Oberlin. Also selected for Lucerne, she has been involved in many premieres at Oberlin and elsewhere. Iskra was written at her request. Rolv Yttrehus Sextet II † Second Instrumental Unit An advocate of contemporary music, Alex Lipowski has performed in ensembles such as the Second Instrumental Unit, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Janus Trio, Alarm Will Sound, and the David Buck, flute Carol McGonnell, clarinet East Coast Composers Ensemble. As a soloist and chamber musician he has premiered works by Denisov, Nathan Schmidt, violin Victoria Bass, cello Malpica, Aylward, and Lunsqui. Recently, he gave a recital in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the State University of Alex Lipowski, percussion Molly Morkoski, piano Campinas featuring works by Globokar, Hurel, and Xenakis. After performances at Harvard University, New Music Connoisseur labeled him, “...remarkably demonstrative and pleasing.” Other recent collaborations * world premiere include working with the Columbia Composers Ensemble, Latin American composers group, altaVoz and † New York premiere premiering new works with dance at the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute. In 2007, he premiered a new work of choreography with dancers of the New York City Ballet set to the music of Milton Babbitt. This festival has been made possible through funds from Lipowski recently gave guest lectures at the University of Virginia Commonwealth on the topics of “Composing LMCC’s Fund for Creative Communities/NYSCA, for Percussion,” as well as “The Physical Phrase.” In the past, Lipowski has served as the director of the the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Juilliard Pierrot Ensemble and Duo Maintenant with whom he commissioned works extensively for french horn and percussion. In 2006, he was featured with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble on NPR’s “Performance Save the Music, Inc. Today.” During the summer of 2007, he will attend the Lucerne Festival and Academy. The City University Research Foundation and many individual donors. Christopher Oldfather has devoted himself to the performance of twentieth-century music for more than thirty Thank you! years. He has participated in innumerable world-premiere performances, in every possible combination of instruments, in cities all over America. He has been a member of Boston’s Collage New Music since 1979, New York City’s Parnassus since 1997, appears regularly in Chicago, and as a collaborator has joined singers The American Composers Alliance is delighted to announce that Fred Sherry will be this year's recipient of and instrumentalists of all kinds in recitals throughout the United States. In 1986 he presented his recital debut the prestigious Laurel Leaf Award. The Laurel Leaf Award has been presented annually since 1951 to in Carnegie Recital Hall, which immediately was closed for renovations. Since then he has pursued a career as individuals and organizations in recognition of "distinguished achievement in fostering and encouraging a free-lance musician. This work has taken him as far as Moscow and Tokyo, and he has worked on every sort American music." Among the recipients of the Laurel Leaf have been the Juilliard String Quartet, Leonard of keyboard ever made, including, of all things, the Chromelodeon. He is widely known for his expertise