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Midwinter Echoes: February 7 at 3 PM!
North/South Consonance, Inc. continues its 30th consecutive season with a special concert featuring first performances of five new works for chamber orchestra by American composers.
The event will feature the North/South Chamber Orchestra conducted by Max Lifchitz. It will be held on Sunday February 7 at 3 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free -- no tickets necessary.
Information about the composers whose works will be performed follows:
Active as composer and conductor, Victoria Bond has written works for the Houston, Shanghai, and Richmond Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the American Ballet Theater, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and the Audubon String Quartet. She recently received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Walter Hinrichsen Award.
A native New Yorker, Allan Crossman now resides in the Bay Area and teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory. His Millennium Overture Dance, written in 1999 to mark North/South Consonance’s 20th anniversary was described by the press as a “brilliant and fleeting work of beguiling, melodic character and supple rhythmic life. It dances between a variety of festive episodes with élan and robust invention.”
Robert Martin recently returned to composing full time after a successful career in the world of finance. Upon graduating from the Peabody Conservatory, he received a Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Vienna. As the 1999 recipient of the Japan-U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship in music composition, he spent six months traveling throughout Japan. Theodore Presser Company publishes his music.
The press has described Thomas Whitman’s music as “lyrical, beautiful, sensuous and genuinely magical.” Upon completing his composition studies with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, Whitman spent a year in Indonesia studying traditional music and culture of Bali. He teaches at Swarthmore College where he also co-directs the Balinese Gamelan Semara Santi.
Nils Vigeland made his debut as pianist with the Buffalo Philharmonic under the direction of Lukas Foss with whom he later studied composition at Harvard University. After earning a doctorate at SUNY Buffalo under the direction of Morton Feldman, Vigeland moved to New York City to conduct the Bowery Ensemble. He has taught at the Manhattan School of Music since 1984 and has recorded for the HAT ART Mode and Lovely Music labels. His works are published by Boosey and Hawkes.
Active as composer, pianist and conductor, Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in Holland. Robert Commanday, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "a young composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist." The New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn praised Mr. Lifchitz for his "clean, measured and sensitive performances” while Anthony Tommasini remarked that he “conducted a strong performance.” Payton MacDonald writing for the American Record Guide remarked, “Mr. Lifchitz is as good on the podium as he is behind the piano.”
The artists will be available for interviews and other media related events. They may be contacted through our office at (212) 663-7566 or via e-mail at ns.concerts@att.net
North/South Consonance’s 2009-10 season is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support comes from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University in the City of NY; the Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music; the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians; and contributions from many generous individuals.
For further information about its activities, including concerts and recordings, please visit http://www.northsouthmusic.org/
The event will feature the North/South Chamber Orchestra conducted by Max Lifchitz. It will be held on Sunday February 7 at 3 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free -- no tickets necessary.
Information about the composers whose works will be performed follows:
Active as composer and conductor, Victoria Bond has written works for the Houston, Shanghai, and Richmond Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the American Ballet Theater, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and the Audubon String Quartet. She recently received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Walter Hinrichsen Award.
A native New Yorker, Allan Crossman now resides in the Bay Area and teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory. His Millennium Overture Dance, written in 1999 to mark North/South Consonance’s 20th anniversary was described by the press as a “brilliant and fleeting work of beguiling, melodic character and supple rhythmic life. It dances between a variety of festive episodes with élan and robust invention.”
Robert Martin recently returned to composing full time after a successful career in the world of finance. Upon graduating from the Peabody Conservatory, he received a Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Vienna. As the 1999 recipient of the Japan-U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship in music composition, he spent six months traveling throughout Japan. Theodore Presser Company publishes his music.
The press has described Thomas Whitman’s music as “lyrical, beautiful, sensuous and genuinely magical.” Upon completing his composition studies with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, Whitman spent a year in Indonesia studying traditional music and culture of Bali. He teaches at Swarthmore College where he also co-directs the Balinese Gamelan Semara Santi.
Nils Vigeland made his debut as pianist with the Buffalo Philharmonic under the direction of Lukas Foss with whom he later studied composition at Harvard University. After earning a doctorate at SUNY Buffalo under the direction of Morton Feldman, Vigeland moved to New York City to conduct the Bowery Ensemble. He has taught at the Manhattan School of Music since 1984 and has recorded for the HAT ART Mode and Lovely Music labels. His works are published by Boosey and Hawkes.
Active as composer, pianist and conductor, Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in Holland. Robert Commanday, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "a young composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist." The New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn praised Mr. Lifchitz for his "clean, measured and sensitive performances” while Anthony Tommasini remarked that he “conducted a strong performance.” Payton MacDonald writing for the American Record Guide remarked, “Mr. Lifchitz is as good on the podium as he is behind the piano.”
The artists will be available for interviews and other media related events. They may be contacted through our office at (212) 663-7566 or via e-mail at ns.concerts@att.net
North/South Consonance’s 2009-10 season is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support comes from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University in the City of NY; the Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music; the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians; and contributions from many generous individuals.
For further information about its activities, including concerts and recordings, please visit http://www.northsouthmusic.org/
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