Ithaca College Digital Commons IC All Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs 11-14-1998 Special Event: Ithaca College Nineteenth Annual Choral Composition Contest Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler Ithaca College Choral Union Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Ithaca College Choir; Doebler, Lawrence; and Ithaca College Choral Union, "Special Event: Ithaca College Nineteenth Annual Choral Composition Contest" (1998). All Concert & Recital Programs. 7882. https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/7882 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons IC. ITHACA COLLEGE NINETEENTH ANNUAL CHORAL COMPOSITION CONTEST SPONSORED JOINTLY BY ITHACA COLLEGE AND THEODORE PRESSER COMPANY The goals for this project are to encourage the creation and performance of new choral music and to establish the Ithaca College Choral Series. To achieve these objectives, scores from the United States, Canada and Europe were received. Five were chosen for performance this evening. This year Ithaca College commissioned Robert Maggio to write a choral piece for the festival. This composition Aristotle will be premiered by the Ithaca College Choir. Previously commissioned works: 1979 Vincent Persichetti Magnificat and NuncDimittis 1980 Samuel Adler Two Shelley Songs 1981 KarelHusa Every Day 1982 William Schuman Esses 1983 Dan Locklair Break Away 1984 Eugene Butler Eternity and Time 1985 Iain Hamilton The Convergence 1986 Ellen Taafe Zwilich Thanksgiving Song 1987 Richard Wernick The Eleventh Commandment 1988 Peter Schickele Songs I Taught My Mother 1989 Thomas Pasatieri Three Mysteries for Chorus 1990 Norman Dello Joio The Quest 1991 Augusta R. Thomas Sanctus 1992 Norman Dello Joio Songs of Memory* 1993 Ronald Caltabiano Metaphor 1994 Thea Musgrave On The Underground 1995 Daniel Pinkham Passion Music 1996 Daniel Asia purer than purest pure 1997 Chen Yi Spring Dreams ( *Centennial Commission ) ITHACA COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION President-Peggy Williams Provost-James Malek Dean, School of Music-Arthur E. Ostrander Associate Dean, School of Music-Jamal Rossi Coordinator of Music Admissions-Graham Stewart PRELIMINARY JUDGES LAWRENCE DOEBLER-Professor of Choral Music JANET GALVAN-Professor of Music Education and Choral Conductor FINAL JUDGES JANET GALVAN ARTHUR E. OSTRANDER-Dean, School of Music WILLIAM PELTO-Associate Professor of Theory DANA WILSON-Dana Professor of Music Theory and Composition GREGORY WOODWARD-Professor of Music Theory and Compostition VOICE FACULTY Randie Blooding Deborah Montgomery Angus Godwin David Parks Jean Loftus Patrice Pastore Carol McAmis Beth Ray Richard McCullough CHORAL FACULTY Lawrence Doebler Choir, Madrigals Janet Galvan Women's Chorale Jeffrey Gemmel Chorus Lauri Robinson-Keegan Vocal Jazz Ensemble CHORAL STAFF Bill DeMetsenaere Choral Secretary Jennifer Haywood Graduate Coordinator BIOGRAPHIES Robert Maggio was born in New Jersey on January 8, 1964. Robert Maggio began piano studies at age 7, started composing at 15, and completed a one-act musical comedy the following year. He began private study of music theory and composition at 17, graduated magm• cum laude with honors in music from Yale University in 1986, and subsequently received Master's and Doctorate degrees in Music Composition from the University of Pennsylvania. His teachers included Jonathan Berger, George Crumb, Michael Friedman, Jay Reise, Chinary Ung and Richard Wernick. Published by Theodore Presser Company, Maggio's music has been commissioned and performed by musicians and organizations including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Oakland East Bay Symphony, New York Festival of Song, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Aspen Music Festival, American Dance Festival, New York Youth Symphony, Lincoln Center Out-of- Doors Festival, Detroit Chamber Winds, Meridian Arts Ensemble, National Orchestral Association, Yale Repertory Theater, Philadelphia Drama Guild, New York Theater Workshop, Villanova Theater, NYU Theater Program, Stephen Pelton Dance Company, 'I violinist Scott St. John, cellist John Koen and flutist Bart Feller. ~ Maggio has received awards, grants, and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, BMI, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Barlow Endowment, American Music Center, the Beams Prize, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerasst Resident Artists Program, West Chester University, and the Pennsylvania State System of higher Education. In March 1998, Maggio received a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation for 1998-99. During this time, he will be collaborating on a new dance work with choreographer Leah Stein and Network for New Music in Philadelphia, to be premiered in Spring 1999. Robert Maggio lives in Media, Pennsylvania and is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition in the School of Music at Chester University. His music can be heard on the CRI label. THOMAS BROIDO is currently president of Theodore Presse. Company. ); ARNOLD BROIDO Currently chairman of the board at the Theodore Presser Company, Mr. Broido is a graduate of Ithaca College and Teacher's College, Columbia University and was recently granted an honorary doctorate degree from Ithaca College. LAWRENCE DOEBLER Mr. Doebler is the Director of Choral Activities and a Professor of Music at Ithaca College. He formerly taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Smith College. He has received awards for research and teaching excellence from the University of Wisconsin and Ithaca College. As an active clinician and guest conductor, Mr. Doebler has appeared throughout eastern and mid-western states. RAY BONO was born in Brooklyn in 1953 and received his B.A. in French from the University at Albany. In upstate New York he has worked in a variety of capacities for performing arts companies, from stage manager, operations director and librarian for the Albany Symphony Orchestra to Public Relations Director for the Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts, and he has acted in several plays, most recently in the Manhattan premiere of John Linley's Bruised. In music he has been a copyist, lyricist and arranger, has composed a few choral pieces (one of which placed second at Ithaca in 1990) and chamber works and has provided incidental music to a few stage productions. BRIAN HOMLES received a PhD in experimental low temperature physics from Boston University. He has been a member of the Physics Department of San Jose State University since 1983. His research interests included the physics of music, physics and sports, and science education. He has served as president of the Northern California section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He studied horn with Harry Shapiro in Boston, and has performed with the San Jose Symphony and Opera San Jose. He is active as a composer and arranger. Many of his arrangements for chorus and brass have been performed and recorded by Revel, Inc. His voice and piano arrangements are featured in I Have a Song to Sing, 0, by John Langstaff, published by MacMillan. His carol I Saw a Fair Maiden was recently published by Thorpe Music of Boston. He has composed a variety of additional works, including the opera One Shepherd Stayed Behind and The Trumpet and other songs, a song cycle for tenor and orchestra. KEVIN OLSEN teaches theory, electronic music, and classical and jazz piano at Elmhurts College near Chicago, Illinois. In addition to being an active composer, pianist, and teacher, Kevin maintains a large piano studio with students of all ages and abilities. A native of Utah, Kevin began composing at age five. When he was twelve, his composition, An American Trainride, received Overall First Prize at the 1983 national PTA Convention at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then he has written, among other things, a piano concerto, music for three short films, and a big band jazz piece which was featured at the Rich Matteson Jazz Camp in Telluride, Colorado. He was named one of the Composers in Residence at the 1992 National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, an award he received for two piano compositions. Kevin has published pieces with Frederick Harris Company and Kjos Music. He is currently an exclusive writer for the FJH Music Company in Miami, Florida. He has taught at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California and was a graduate instructor at Brigham Young University, where he received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Composition. JONATHAN SANTORE is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. Before moving to New England, he held teaching positions at Occidental College, California State University, Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota. He holds degrees from Duke University, The University of Texas at Austin, and UCLA, and has studied composition with Stephen Jaffe, Eugene Kurtz, Donald Grantham, and William Kraft. Santore has won several scholarships, fellowships, and awards for his compositions (including a finalist performance in the 1995 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest), and has conducted performances of his own works in the United States and Europe; his work has been recorded by California's Octagon New Music Ensemble. His commissions list