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  Music for Clarinet Choir by James Cohn at Texas Music Educators Convention

  February 10, 2010

  For Immediate Release
  Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
  516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
  
  Four works by New York City-based composer James Cohn will be presented by the Belgian-based Claribel Clarinet Choir on Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13 at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, to be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.
  
  On February 12, Claribel will present Mr. Cohn’s Texas Suite commissioned by their conductor, Maestro Guido Six, and God Bless America, transcribed for the Choir by Mr. Cohn. This concert will celebrate the composer’s 82nd birthday.
  
  The February 13 concert will feature Caprice, again commissioned by Maestro Six in 1999 for the International Clarinet Convention in Ostend, Belgium, and an arrangement of Arkansas Reel, a quodlibet of Arkansas Traveler and The Blue Mountain Boys Reel.
  
  For more information about these performances and the TMEA Convention, call 512-452-0710 or visit them at http://www.tmea.org/Convention/index.html.
  
  New York-based James Cohn has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony introduced the composer's Symphony No. 3 and Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger", and his opera The Fall of the City received its premiere in Athens, Ohio after winning the Ohio University Opera Award. Naxos has released internationally a CD of his Symphonies No. 2 and No. 7, along with his Variations on “The Wayfaring Stranger” and Waltz in D - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559376.
  
  He has had many performances of his choral and chamber music, and world-wide use of his music commissioned for television and cinema. Commissions for other works have come from The McKim Fund in the Library of Congress (for the Concerto da camera for Violin, Piano and Wind Quintet), Pennsylvania's "Music At Gretna" festival (for the Mount Gretna Suite, for chamber orchestra), Jon Manasse (for the Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet and Strings), Mirian Conti (for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) and Jeffrey Silberschlag (for the Concerto for Trumpet and Strings) and Claribel (the Belgian 30-piece clarinet ensemble) (for the 3-movement suite Caprice). You can find more of his music on XLNT Music at http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Label?&label_id=1257. Visit him at http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm.
  
  For more about James Cohn, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
  
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