| PAUL MORAVEC, recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, is the composer of over 100 works for the orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film, and operatic genres. His music has earned numerous other distinctions, including the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, as well as many prestigious commissions. His extensive catalog of recordings includes three Naxos American Classics CDs: Tempest Fantasy (Pulitzer Prize-winner), Mood Swings, B.A.S.S. Variations, and Scherzo performed by Trio Solisti and clarinetist David Krakauer; The Time Gallery performed by eighth blackbird, and Cool Fire with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia universities, he has taught at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Hunter College, and currently holds the special rank of University Professor at Adelphi University. From 2007 through 2009, he also served as Artist-in-Residence with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
Further information is online at www.paulmoravec.com
A note from the composer
Commissioned in 2004 by Marya Martin and her husband Ken Davidson for this project, Nancye’s Song is dedicated to the memory of Marya’s mother, Nancye Martin. It is conceived as a kind of song without words, exploring the special lyric qualities of the flute throughout its extensive range, with the piano providing complementary accompaniment. |
