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Solo Piano Music by Judith Shatin Premiered on October 17 by Jerry Kuderna at Berkeley Arts Festival in Berkeley, California
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Judith Shatin’s To Keep the Dark Away for solo piano will be given its California Premiere by Jerry Kuderna on Friday, October 17 - 8:00 PM at 2133 University Avenue in Berkeley, California as part of the Berkeley Arts Festival.
The composer writes, “To Keep the Dark Away is a set of five brief movements, whose piece and movement titles are drawn from five poems by Emily Dickinson, a favorite of the composer, pianist and commissioner. It was written during a dark period when I was struggling with health issues, and the process of composing indeed helped ‘to keep the dark away.” Read her complete program notes at http://judithshatin.com/to-keep-the-dark-away/.
This performance is presented in memory of the recently deceased David Wessel, a faculty member at UC-Berkeley, and someone Judith Shatin greatly admired.
This performance will also feature the debut of the Berkeley Arts Festival Trio (Jerry Kuderna, piano, Elzbieta Polak, violin, Silas Patlove,clarinet), and includes music by Stravinsky, Bartok, Ravel and Steve Reich.
Suggested donation for this concert is $10-$20. For more information, visit http://www.berkeleyartsfestival.com/.
Called “highly inventive...hugely enjoyable and deeply involving” by the Washington Post and "exuberant and captivating" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Judith Shatin's music is renowned for its dramatic shape and imaginative blending of acoustic and digital media, as well as her work in each. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Virginia, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Her chamber and choral music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals throughout North America and Europe. She has been commissioned by organizations and ensembles including the Barlow Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Kronos Quartet, Library of Congress, National Symphony, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus and the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus.
Innova Records has issued Judith Shatin's Time to Burn CD (http://www.innova.mu/albums/judith-shatin/time-burn), with a combination of chamber and electroacoustic music performed by the Cassatt Quartet, violist James Dunham, pianist Margaret Kampmeier and others. Her music can also be heard on the Ravello, Etcetera, Capstone, Centaur, Neuma, New World and Sonora labels. She is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Visit her online at http://www.judithshatin.com.
For press inquiries about Judith Shatin, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Judith Shatin’s To Keep the Dark Away for solo piano will be given its California Premiere by Jerry Kuderna on Friday, October 17 - 8:00 PM at 2133 University Avenue in Berkeley, California as part of the Berkeley Arts Festival.
The composer writes, “To Keep the Dark Away is a set of five brief movements, whose piece and movement titles are drawn from five poems by Emily Dickinson, a favorite of the composer, pianist and commissioner. It was written during a dark period when I was struggling with health issues, and the process of composing indeed helped ‘to keep the dark away.” Read her complete program notes at http://judithshatin.com/to-keep-the-dark-away/.
This performance is presented in memory of the recently deceased David Wessel, a faculty member at UC-Berkeley, and someone Judith Shatin greatly admired.
This performance will also feature the debut of the Berkeley Arts Festival Trio (Jerry Kuderna, piano, Elzbieta Polak, violin, Silas Patlove,clarinet), and includes music by Stravinsky, Bartok, Ravel and Steve Reich.
Suggested donation for this concert is $10-$20. For more information, visit http://www.berkeleyartsfestival.com/.
Called “highly inventive...hugely enjoyable and deeply involving” by the Washington Post and "exuberant and captivating" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Judith Shatin's music is renowned for its dramatic shape and imaginative blending of acoustic and digital media, as well as her work in each. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Virginia, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Her chamber and choral music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals throughout North America and Europe. She has been commissioned by organizations and ensembles including the Barlow Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Kronos Quartet, Library of Congress, National Symphony, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus and the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus.
Innova Records has issued Judith Shatin's Time to Burn CD (http://www.innova.mu/albums/judith-shatin/time-burn), with a combination of chamber and electroacoustic music performed by the Cassatt Quartet, violist James Dunham, pianist Margaret Kampmeier and others. Her music can also be heard on the Ravello, Etcetera, Capstone, Centaur, Neuma, New World and Sonora labels. She is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Visit her online at http://www.judithshatin.com.
For press inquiries about Judith Shatin, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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