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March 24, 2011: At 7:00pm in Buckley recital hall at Amherst College, Amherst Massachusetts, members of the University of Massachusetts Wind Ensemble will give the world premiere of Light, a work commissioned by the ensemble's director, James Miller and dedicated to Brain Messier who will direct this performance. | |
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February 12, 2011: At 7:00pm in St. Luke's Church, Oviedo, FL, Laszlo Marosi will direct the UCF Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Te Rerenga as part of the Central Florida Festival of Contemporary Music. | |
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November 27 and 28: 8:00pm in All Saints Churches in Howick and Devonport respectively, in Auckland NZ, the Auckland Welsh Choir, directed by Diana Rhodes will give the world premiere of Cançó del Mar. For tickets please contact Diana Rhodes. | |
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October 30 and 31: In West Chester, PA, at 7:30 and 2:00pm respectively, in a venue yet to be announced, Kate Mikijanic will direct the Masterworks Choir in a performance of I Hold Your Hand In Mine. | |
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October 24: In Holley Hall, Sarasota at 4:00pm, Joseph Holt will direct Musica Gloriae in a performance of I Hold Your Hand In Mine. | |
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July 5 2010: At 9:00am and 2:00pm in the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington DC the Woodley Ensemble directed by Frank Albinder performed A Voice From Heaven from O Fragile Human as part of the American Guild of Organists 2010 National Convention. Both performances were well received, the second earning a standing ovation. | |
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July 2: Friday at 7:30pm - in St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn, London, Paul Ayres conducted the City Chorus in a performance of Pusi Nofo from Songs of Samoa to a great reception. | |
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June 24: In Christchurch NZ, clarinettist Philip Green, violinist Anne Loeser and pianist Rachel Thomson, members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra gave the New Zealand premiere of Three Aspects of Spring alongside works of Milhaud and Khatchaturian. It was 'received with enthusiasm' (Phil Green). | |
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June 20: Sunday 20 at 5pm - in St Peter's Ealing, London W5 Paul Ayres conducted the Walbrook Singers in a performance of Pusi Nofo from Songs of Samoa as part of a programme entitled All Creatures Great And Small. | |
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June 13: Sunday, 4pm in San Francisco; June 19: Saturday, 8pm in Palo Alto; June 20: Sunday, 4pm in Oakland San Francisco Choral Artists directed by Magen Solomon gave warmly received world premiere performances of Emily's Songs commissioned by the Association for Music In International Schools in an arrangement for the SFCA. | |
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June 1: At 8:00pm in Buckley recital hall at Amherst College, Amherst Massachusetts, Emma Markham on guitar gave the successful world premiere of Reflection, a work she commissioned. | |
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May: A concert tour of Denmark, Sweden and Finland by the Anderson University Chorale, from Indiana under the direction of Richard Sowers and with alto saxophone soloist Rebecca Chappell included High Flight on the programme. April 25: Sunday, April 25, 7:00 pm St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Carmel, Indiana May 11: Tuesday, May 11, 19.00 Tampereen tuomiokirkko (Cathedral), Tampere, Finland May 12: Wednesday, May 12, 17.00 Lakeuden risti, Seinäjoki, Finland May 14: Friday, May 14, 19.00 Vaasa International Choir Festival, Vaasa, Finland May 15: Saturday, May 15, 19.00 Temppeliaukion kirkko (Rock Church), Helsinki, Finland May 16: Sunday, May 16, 18.00 Vihti Kirkko, Vihti, Finland May 19: Wednesday, May 19, 12.00 Maria Magdalena kyrka, Stockholm, Sweden May 20: Thursday, May 20, 19.00 Sofiakyrkan, Jönköping, Sweden May 22: Saturday, May 22, 15.00 Trinitatis Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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April 15: At 12:10 in the whare wananga in the Auckland Central Library, New Zealand, soprano Susan Elliot with David Kelly on piano performed three songs from Flights of Fancy. | |
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April 10: Tuesday at 3;30 pm on BBC R4 in the UK a programme called Smash Hit of 1453 received its first broadcast. This programme deals with the history of the L'homme armé theme as used by composers from the 14th to 21st centuries. Interviews feature Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, myself and Karl Jenkins, and excerpts from L'homme armé: Variations. | |
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March 28: 7.30pm in the Visual Arts Building Auditorium, Michael Garasi will direct the UCF Wind Ensemble in Rondorlando [performance postponed till February 2011] | |
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March 25: In performances at Oak Ridge High School and Edgewater High School in Orlando, the Knight Winds (a flute, saxophone and clarinet ensemble) directed by Nora Lee Garcia performed Reflection from Alafaya Suite, a work jointly commissioned by Nora Lee Garcia and George Weremchuk. | |
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March 14: Sunday, 4pm in San Francisco; March 19: Friday, 8pm in Palo Alto; March 20: Saturday, 8pm in Marin; March 21: Sunday, 4pm in Oakland San Francisco Choral Artists directed by Magen Solomon gave the acclaimed world premiere performances of This Big Moroccan Sea commissioned by the choir. See review. | |
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March 12: 7 p.m. at Journey Pointe Church of God, 1267 Middle Tennessee Blvd. Murfreesboro, TN 37130 |
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March 5: 7:30pm
at Central Bucks West High SchoolDoylestown, Pennsylvania March 7: 2:00pm at John M. Greene Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts March 8: 8:00pm at Houghton Memorial Chapel, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts March 9: 8:00pm Madison Ave Presbyterian Church, New York, New York March 10: 8:00 pm in collaboration with the Washington Men's Camerata, New York Ave Presbyterian Church March 11: 7:30 pm at Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg, Virginia March 12: 7:00 pm, St. John's Episcopal Church, Roanoake, Virginia as part of the Music on the Corner Series March 13: 8:00 pm, in St. Thomas The Apostle Catholic Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan On their 'Songs of Virginia Tour of the Northeast' the Virginia Glee Club, under the baton of Frank Albinder performed Four Virginia Student Songs, arrangements commissioned by the Virginia Glee Club. |
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March 5: At 4:00pm in Hodgson Hall at the University of Georgia the UGA Concert Choir directed by James Henderson and with George Weremchuk on alto saxophone gave a fine performance of High Flight as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance 2010 Biennial Conference. | |
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March 1: At 4:00pm at Starlake Recording Studios Alafaya Suite was recorded in performance by The Knight Winds directed by Nora Lee Garcia. | |
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February 28: (Sunday) at 4:pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 St. Pauls Avenue, Staten Island |
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February 21: At Dartmouth College, New Hampsire alongside works by Karel Husa, David Del Tredici and Ron Nelson L'homme armé: Variations received a powerful performance by the Dartmouth Wind Symphony under its director, Matthew Marsit in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center "Blazing, brilliant, hugely varied, and moving.... definitely the star of the program." Timothy Price. This was preceded by a discussion focussed on the theme "In Our Time: Struggle, Courage and Hope". | |
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February 18: At 12.00 noon, in St. Luke's Episcopal Cathedral in Orlando, The Knight Winds (a flute, saxophone and clarinet ensemble) gave a glowing account of the Alafaya Suite, a work jointly commissioned by Nora Lee Garcia and George Weremchuk. | |
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February 16: I was interviewed by BBC Radio, Richard Bannerman, for a programme on the history of the ancient L'homme armé' theme. Reference will be made to my wind ensemble piece: L'homme armé: Variations.See above for broadcast times and channels. | |
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January 30: At the Florida Flute Association's Florida Flute Fair, at 10:30 in the Capri Room of the Orlando Airport Marriot Hotel the Knight Winds, directed by Nora Lee Garcia will give the world premiere of the entire Alafaya Suite, a work jointly commissioned by Nora Lee Garcia and George Weremchuk. | |
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January 10: At 7.30pm in Benoit Glazer's "White House" in Orlando, the Knight Winds ensemble directed by Nora Lee Garcia performed three movements of the Alafaya Suite to a very warm reception. | |
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January 7: At 9:30 in the Tampa Convention Center, second floor stage area, the Knight Winds ensemble performed three movements of the Alafaya Suite, as part of the Florida Music Educators Annual State 2010 Conference. "The original composition by Mr. Marshall was a most pleasant combination of contrasts." Wiliam Reinecke. Top | |
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December 5: Saturday, 8pm in Palo Alto, December 12: Saturday, 8pm in San Francisco, December 13: Sunday, 4pm in Oakland, San Francisco Choral Artists directed by Magen Solomon gave the world premiere performances of Golden Carol specially commissioned by the choir. "It went really well this weekend! We got lots of compliments on it", Magen Solomon. | |
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December: Aue!, performed by the University North Texas Wind Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Corporon will be released on the GIA label as part of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. The piece was included in Volume 7 of the series and will be released at the Mid-West Conference in Chicago this year. | |
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November 29: Sunday, 1pm in St. Paul's Cathedral, Wellington New Zealand, the Cathedral choir under the leadership of Michael Fulcher gave a 'wonderful, moving' Wellington premiere of The Desert Shall Blossom, a work commissioned in 1992 by St. Peter's Cathedral in Hamilton. | |
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November 15: At 3:00 pm at the Fisher Auditorium on the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus in Indiana, PA, the IUP Wind Ensemble directed by Jack Stamp gave a creditable performance of An Emily Dickinson Suite. This work was commissioned by Amherst Regional High School and Brian Messier. | |
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November 12: At 12.00 noon, in St. Luke's Episcopal Cathedral in Orlando, UCF Flute choir and UCF Saxophone Quartet will together perform two movements of the Alafaya Suite, a work jointly commissioned by Nora Lee Garcia and George Weremchuk. | |
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October 31 & November 1: Saturday and Sunday at 5.30pm both days, in the Centennial Theatre, Auckland Grammar School, Epsom, in Auckland New Zealand, GALS, the Gay and Lesbian Singers of Auckland will perform Faleula E! from Songs of Samoa. | |
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October 30: At 6.30pm the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand directed by David Burchell will perform Earth Song at the official opening of the Orokonui Wildlife Sanctuary.. | |
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October 26: 6:00pm, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL October 27: 11:00am, Georgia State University: Kopleff Recital Hall Atlanta, GA October 28: 7:30pm, Tennessee Technological University: Wattenbarger Auditorium Cookeville, TN October 29: 7:30pm, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: School of Music Recital Hall, Greensboro, NC October 30: 10:00am, University of North Carolina at Pembroke: Moore Hall Auditorium, Pembroke, NC November 1: 2:00pm, Lakota Hills Baptist Church, West Chester, OH December 1: 7:30pm, Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, MD On these dates, at these venues, SYMBIOSISDUO, (Gail Robertson and Stacy Baker) will perform Orlando Lakes. |
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October 24: 7:00pm in the Rehearsal Hall of the University of Central Florida, bass Lesly Dumé with Kelsey Hickson on clarinet and Brandon Clinton on piano will present the American Premiere of Destination. | |
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October: Release of CD, SYMBIOSISDUO containing Orlando Lakes, a work jointly commissioned by Gail Robertson and Stacy Baker. You may buy this delightful CD and soon, copies of my score at the SYMBIOSISDUO website. | |
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October 18: At 3:00 pm in the Aotea Chapel, Auckland Methodist Mission, Auckland New Zealand, the Auckland Wind Orchestra directed by Ryan Youens performs Aue!. | |
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September 20: At the RSCM Festival service at 8.00pm, and also at evensong the following Sunday the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand directed by David Burchell performed Consider The Lilies, bolstered on the first occasion by members of the RSCM Southern division choir. | |
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August: Appointed Adjunct Professor in Composition at the University of Central Florida in addition to retaining the position of Composer-in-Residence with the university. | |
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August: Appointed Composer-Not-In-Residence for 2009-10 with San Francisco Choral Artists. | |
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July 25, 2009: On Saturday at 3pm in the Adrian Boult Hall of the Birmingham Conservatoire, as part of the International Double Reed Society Conference, members of the Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Ensemble directed by Guy Woolfenden gave the warmly received European premiere of Raptures a work commissioned by UCF as a tribute to Prof. Woolfenden. | |
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June 6, 2009: Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the packed Terrace Theatre of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, the Washington Men's Camerata directed by Frank Albinder gave Alas, For Those Who Never Sing a very successful world premiere. This work was commissioned by the Camerata and is dedicated to Frank Albinder. | |
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June 1: On Monday at 7:30pm, in Amherst College's Buckley Recital Hall (Amherst MA), the Amherst Regional High School Wind Ensemble under director Brian Messier gave An Emily Dickinson Suite a very fine world premiere. The long standing-ovation was among the warmest reactions to my music I have ever experienced. This work was commissioned by Amherst Regional High School and Brian Messier. | |
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May 30: In Wesley United Methodist Church in Hadley MA at a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Hampshire Young People's Chorus, conductor KC Conlan led the choir in a heart-warming and accomplished performance of Pusi Nofo from Two Samoan Folksongs. | |
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May 20: At Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, Eric Hawk on viola played Elegy as part of his Master's degree recital to a very positive response from jury and audience. | |
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May 14: Thursday, at 12:30 Center City Chorale, directed by David Schelat, sang Sau La'u Teine Samoa, and Minoi, Minoi from Songs of Samoa. | |
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May 8: At 4pm in the Grand Concert Hall of Hénán Provincial Center of Art in Zhengzhou, Luke Chih directed the Hénán Symphony Orchestra in the China premiere of 'Hikurangi Sunrise' - a warmly received performance. | |
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May 7: AMIS Middle School Honors Choir, directed by Keith Montgomery, will perform the world premiere of To Hear An Oriole Sing, (a work commissioned by AMIS) in the American International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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April 27: At 8:00 pm at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus in Indiana, PA, the IUP Wind Ensemble directed by Jack Stamp with Sarah Hager as piano soloist performed the second movement of Renascence - described as the highlight of the concert. The IUP WE was one of 36 groups that commissioned this work. Top | |
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April 26: Sunday, 5.00pm in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber, John Rosser directed Viva Voce choir with Yvette Audain on alto saxophone in the overwhelmingly successful New Zealand premiere of High Flight. This work was commissioned by The Orlando Chorale in honour of John Perkins. | |
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April 25: At 8:00pm in Bailey Hall, Cornell University Tim Reynish directed the university's wind ensemble in a well received performance of L'homme armé: Variations. This work was commissioned by Timothy and Hilary Reynish in memory of their son William. | |
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April 18: At 3:30 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium the Virginia Glee Club along with alumni gave a very successful world premiere of Four Virginia Student Songs. These arrangements, commissioned by the Virginia Glee Club will be released on CD in the fall. | |
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March 27: At 8pm in St. Paul's Cathedral on Symond St., Auckland, New Zealand, the choir of Aorere College directed by Douglas Nyce performed Pusi Nofo from Songs of Samoa at the AUT Chancellor's Dinner. | |
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March 22: at 4pm in Kawaiaha'o Church, Honolulu |
Stephen Sano led the Stanford Chamber Chorale on its Hawai'i tour in performances of Moemoe Pepe and Sau La'u Teine Samoa from Songs of Samoa. |
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March 20: Friday, at 8:00 PM in St. John’s United Church of Christ, Lansdale, PA March 21: Saturday, at 8:00 PM in First Presbyterian Church March 22: Sunday, 10:00 AM at Main Road Southold, NY and at 1:30 PM, Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, Shelter Island, NY March 28: Saturday, at 7:30 PM in Rosenberger Auditorium, Huntingdon, PA |
The Juniata College Concert Choir (from Huntingdon PA) directed by Russell Shelley performed La'u Lupe from Songs of Samoa. |
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March 24: At 8.00pm in the UCF Music Rehearsal Hall Keith Koons, clarinet, Ayako Yonetani, violin and Yun-Ling Hsu on piano, gave a sensitive and successful Orlando premiere of Three Aspects of Spring. Top | |
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March 14: 7:30pm at First United Methodist Church of Orlando, The Orlando Chorale directed by Gregory Ruffer with distinguished saxophonist George Weremchuk on alto saxophone gave High Flight a skilled and emotionally charged world premiere. This work is commissioned by the The Orlando Chorale. | |
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March 7-14: Between these dates, at various venues around Lille in France, the Juniata College Concert Choir directed by Russell Shelley performed La'u Lupe from Songs of Samoa. The first of these performances was a French premiere for this song. |
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March 6: Friday, 8:00pm in Stanford Memorial Church, Stephen Sano led the Stanford Chamber Chorale in warmly received performances of Moemoe Pepe and Sau La'u Teine Samoa from Songs of Samoa. |
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February 27: In the Visual Arts auditorium of the University of Central Florida, as part of the College Music Society 2009 conference, UCF professor Gail Robertson on euphonium with Stacy Baker from Morehead University on tuba gave a fine Florida premiere to Eola Stroll, a work they commissioned in 2008. | |
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February 16: At 7.30pm in Benoit Glazer's "White House" in Orlando, Richard Greenwood directed the Orlando Chamber Players in the well received world premiere of two movements from Raptures commissioned by UCF as a tribute to Guy Woolfenden. Also the world premiere of the first of the Dickinson Miniatures Charles Édouard Glazer on violin, Camille Glazer on viola, and Jean-Marie Glazer on cello. This work was written for them. Top | |