Meira Warshauer to Speak at Coastal Carolina U. in Conway, SC - February 13

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net

Composer Meira Warshauer will be giving a lecture titled My Life in Music on Friday, February 13 at 11:30 AM at Edwards Recital Hall of Coastal Carolina University, 1270 Atlantic Avenue in Conway, South Carolina. She will be a plenary speaker for the Celebration of Inquiry symposium.

This will be the first event of Ms. Warshauer’s residency at the University. Other events in the residency will include a Faculty Chamber Concert featuring her compositions on March 31, 2009, and another talk, which is scheduled for April 1 for the school’s Women's Studies Dept. The residency also includes two commissions for performing ensembles at Coastal Carolina--the concert band and the chorus, which will be presented in Spring 2010. The composer will spend the Fall in collaboration with the ensembles, writing the music and lecturing for the Music Department during the Fall semester.

The February 13 lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit http://www.coastal.edu/inquiry/2009/speakers.html.

Meira Warshauer is a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia College in Columbia, S.C. Her Bracha for violin and piano has been recorded for the new Feminissimo CD on Albany Records. You can hear podcast interviews with Meira about her Streams in the Desert CD of Torah-inspired music for orchestra, chorus and soloists at http://www.meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/streams.html. Other releases include Yes! for clarinet and orchestra on Perspectives with MMC Recordings, and Revelation for orchestra, included on the MMC CD Robert Black Conducts. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, Hildegarde, Keiser Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications and her website is at http://www.meirawarshauer.com.

Press inquiries can be directed to Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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