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Daedalus Quartet NY Premiere of The Infinite Sphere by Lawrence Dillon
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s The Infinite Sphere will be given its New York Premiere by the Daedalus String Quartet on Sunday, May 2 – 2 PM as part of the Islip Arts Council Chamber Music Series. The performance will be at the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street in Bay Shore, New York. Other composers on the program include Beethoven and Stravinsky.
Commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet in conjunction with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, Dillon’s fourth quartet takes Pascal’s reference to “an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” as the inspiration for a virtuosic wheels-within-wheels journey. The fourth quartet in Dillon’s Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle -- a set of six quartets that explore connections between Classical forms and contemporary experience -- The Infinite Sphere not only takes the form of a Classical rondo, it also adopts the rondo spirit, using popular dance music as material.
This concert is the culminating event of the Quartet’s 3-year residency program on Long Island sponsored by Chamber Music America. They worked with students in Bay Shore, North Babylon and Bellport High Schools to develop their skills, introduce them to a wide range of chamber music literature, and in this final year of their residency, to focus on music of our time. The May 2 concert will feature student performances and collaborations between Daedalus and all of the students. Winner of the 2007 Guarneri String Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, the Daedalus String Quartet is the resident quartet for the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Visit them at http://daedalusquartet.com/.
Tickets for the May 2 concert are $30, and are available at 631-224-5420. More information about the performance at http://islipartscouncil.org/.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, The Juilliard School (where he was the youngest composer to earn a doctorate, subsequently joining the faculty), the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Read his Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april10/LD_nws_040610.pdf and his Sequenza 21 blog An Infinite Number of Curves at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s The Infinite Sphere will be given its New York Premiere by the Daedalus String Quartet on Sunday, May 2 – 2 PM as part of the Islip Arts Council Chamber Music Series. The performance will be at the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street in Bay Shore, New York. Other composers on the program include Beethoven and Stravinsky.
Commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet in conjunction with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, Dillon’s fourth quartet takes Pascal’s reference to “an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” as the inspiration for a virtuosic wheels-within-wheels journey. The fourth quartet in Dillon’s Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle -- a set of six quartets that explore connections between Classical forms and contemporary experience -- The Infinite Sphere not only takes the form of a Classical rondo, it also adopts the rondo spirit, using popular dance music as material.
This concert is the culminating event of the Quartet’s 3-year residency program on Long Island sponsored by Chamber Music America. They worked with students in Bay Shore, North Babylon and Bellport High Schools to develop their skills, introduce them to a wide range of chamber music literature, and in this final year of their residency, to focus on music of our time. The May 2 concert will feature student performances and collaborations between Daedalus and all of the students. Winner of the 2007 Guarneri String Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, the Daedalus String Quartet is the resident quartet for the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Visit them at http://daedalusquartet.com/.
Tickets for the May 2 concert are $30, and are available at 631-224-5420. More information about the performance at http://islipartscouncil.org/.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and currently has commissions from the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, The Juilliard School (where he was the youngest composer to earn a doctorate, subsequently joining the faculty), the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Read his Infinite Curves newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april10/LD_nws_040610.pdf and his Sequenza 21 blog An Infinite Number of Curves at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.
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