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Lawrence Dillon’s The Voice for Violin and Piano Performed by Atlantic Ensemble October 26 at The American Church in Paris, France

October 24, 2014
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net

Lawrence Dillon’s The Voice for violin and piano will be presented by members of the Atlantic Ensemble on Sunday, October 26 – 5:00 PM at The American Church, 65 Quay d'Orsay in Paris, France.

The Voice was written in 2008 and has been recorded by violinist Danielle Belen for Naxos. It is Dillon's melancholic, dramatic embellishment of a transcribed aria for a soprano, from his own 2001 opera Buffa.

This program will also feature Intimate Recollections by Charles Ruggiero, written for the Ensemble in 2008, and two piano quartets by Aaron Copland and Brahms.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.acparis.org/music-a-arts/concerts-a-recitals/atelier-concerts.

Lawrence Dillon, a recent recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, is Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He has had commissions and performances by the Emerson String Quartet, the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild (CA) Symphony Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Juilliard School, the Ravinia Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and many other organizations.

Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644), featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. His other recent, critically-acclaimed CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label. His music is published by American Composers Alliance - http://composers.com/ and his website is at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.

He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.

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