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 Theodore Presser is pleased to announce that James Matheson is joining its roster of distinguished composers.
Matheson has rapidly emerged as one of the most distinctive, vital, and creative musical voices of his generation. In September of 2009, James became Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s innovative Composer Fellowship Program. Upcoming projects include a new work for orchestra, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, a Violin Concerto, co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (with soloists Baird Dodge, Martin Chalifour, in Chicago and Los Angeles respectively), a piano quintet commissioned by the Cheswatyr Foundation for the Borromeo String Quartet and pianist Judith Gordon, and a new work for soprano and chamber ensemble for Sequitur.
For more information, please visit James Matheson’s page in the Presser Composer Gallery |
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Happy Birthday to Peter Schickele, who turns 75 on July 17th. Please enjoy our special birthday tribute Composer Portrait:
 Coincidentally, we are reliably informed that this year also marks the 50th anniversary of the first discovery of manuscripts by P.D.Q. Bach (1807 – 1742?), and the unleashing of those works upon an unsuspecting public.
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 Daniel Dorff
An all-Dorff children's concert takes place at the Aspen Music Festival on July 20th, with performances of The Bear Went Under the Mountain (narrator, mixed quintet), Take the Orchestra Out to the Ballgame (narrator, mixed quintet), The Year of the Rabbit (flute ensemble), The Three Little Pigs (narrator, violin, cello). |
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 A busy month for Melinda Wagner as she attends various events in New England. On July 11th, she is guest speaker at the Monadnock Music Festival in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where there will be a performance of Pan Journal (for harp and string quartet). She will then be guest composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and will be in residence July 18th- 25th; Scritch (for oboe and string quartet) will be performed on the 22nd. Finally, she travels to Danville, Vermont, where she is in residence at the Walden School and Music Festival, enjoying a performance on the 23rd of Wick (for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion) |
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 Margaret Brouwer’s Violin Concerto, in a performance by soloist Michi Wiancko with the South Carolina Philharmonic, will be broadcast and archived on www.performancetoday.com. Steven E. Ritter of Fanfare describes the concerto as “simply a marvel to hear, combining phenomenally difficult solo passages with some of the most ingratiating melodies I have heard in a recent composition...” |
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 Jason Eckardt [Carl Fischer] has just been commissioned by the JACK Quartet and Chamber Music America for a new string quartet, to be completed next year. Also, Eckardt enjoys several performances of his music this summer in Darmstadt, Germany: 16 by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Equilibrium by Fabienne Seveillac and Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, and Rendition by the Dal Niente Ensemble. Additionally, ICE’s recent performance of 16 on June 29th at Le Poisson Rouge in New York was broadcast live on WQXR New York. |
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 Marta Ptaszynska’s Bagatelles for Solo Harp has been chosen as part of the mandatory repertoire for this year’s International Harp Competition held in Bloomington, Indiana from July 7-17. |
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 Huang Ruo has a residency at the MacDowell Colony during July and August. Also during July, the world premiere takes place of water is wet, a Visual and Sound Installation (a collaboration with Greek visual artist Christina Mamakros), at Chelsea Art Museum in New York July 1st – 24th; it is also being staged concurrently at Siakos Hanappe House of Art, Athens, Greece. Additionally, China Moves for modern dance, a collaboration with the Michael Mao Dance Company, is performed on July 9th and 16th at Bryant Park in New York. The musical material for this presentation is derived from Huang Ruo’s Shifting Shades. |
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| additions to the presser youtube channel |
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| • Shulamit Ran Inscriptions for Solo Violin |
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| • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Lament for Cello and Piano |
| • Martin Bresnick Willie’s Way for Solo Piano |
• Vahn Armstrong and Beverly Baker, the two soloists who premiered Behzad Ranjbaran’s
Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, discuss the piece in an interview |
| • Adolphus Hailstork Go Down, Moses |
| • Stacy Garrop discusses her Mythology Symphony in an interview |
| • Robert Maggio is interviewed about his compositional process in a segment produced by WHYY Philadelphia |
| http://www.youtube.com/theodorepresser |
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| newly published |
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 Ricky Ian Gordon
The Grapes of Wrath
Solo Aria Collection
VF19 |
 Peter Schickele
Four Pieces
for Solo Piano
160-00222 |
 Daniel Dorff
Old New Borrowed Blue
A collection of fun duets for Flute and Bb Clarinet
494-02866 |
 Katherine Hoover,
Lita Grier,
Melinda Wagner,
Chen Yi,
Germaine Tailleferre,
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich,
and Eugenie R. Rocherolle
Seven Muses
A contemporary anthology for flute and piano
414-41202 |
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