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Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon at Wintergreen Summer Music Festival
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s Furies and Muses for bassoon and string quartet will be performed by the Wintergreen Chamber Players on Thursday, July 21 – 7:30 PM in the Theater of the Jefferson Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway in Monticello, VA.
Other composers on this program are Mozart and Nikos Skallatos. Complete program notes and more about Furies and Muses at http://www.la wrencedillon.com/furies.php.
The performance will be repeated by the Wintergreen Chamber Players on Friday, July 22 – 7:30 PM at Evans Center of the Wintergreen Resort, 39 Mountain Inn Loop in Wintergreen, VA. Other composers on this concert include Mozart, Saint Saens and Faure.
Performers will be Cynthia Cioffari, bassoon, Rachel Rudoi Hart, violin, Andrea Schultz, violin, Anne Lanzilotti, viola and Sara Sitzer, cello.
Tickets for these concerts are $25 and $10 for students. For tickets and more information, call 434-325-8292 or visit http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/event- calendar/wfo-cm-other-and-seminars/. For more about Wintergreen Performing Arts, visit http://www. wintergreenperformingarts.org/.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer-in-Residence at Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy from July 11 through 22. This has included the World Premiere of his Terranean Meditation, given by the Quartetto Sassofoni di Accademia on July 14 and 15. He will also be leading classes and lessons during his stay. Read Dillon’s entries about his residency as part of his An Infinite Number of Curves blog at http://www.sequenz a21.com/dillon.
He is also Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has had recent commissions and performances by the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, 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. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Naxos has issued a new CD, Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644 - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.a sp?item_code=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 – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php? call=9332. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedill on.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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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Lawrence Dillon’s Furies and Muses for bassoon and string quartet will be performed by the Wintergreen Chamber Players on Thursday, July 21 – 7:30 PM in the Theater of the Jefferson Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway in Monticello, VA.
Other composers on this program are Mozart and Nikos Skallatos. Complete program notes and more about Furies and Muses at http://www.la wrencedillon.com/furies.php.
The performance will be repeated by the Wintergreen Chamber Players on Friday, July 22 – 7:30 PM at Evans Center of the Wintergreen Resort, 39 Mountain Inn Loop in Wintergreen, VA. Other composers on this concert include Mozart, Saint Saens and Faure.
Performers will be Cynthia Cioffari, bassoon, Rachel Rudoi Hart, violin, Andrea Schultz, violin, Anne Lanzilotti, viola and Sara Sitzer, cello.
Tickets for these concerts are $25 and $10 for students. For tickets and more information, call 434-325-8292 or visit http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/event- calendar/wfo-cm-other-and-seminars/. For more about Wintergreen Performing Arts, visit http://www. wintergreenperformingarts.org/.
Lawrence Dillon is Composer-in-Residence at Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy from July 11 through 22. This has included the World Premiere of his Terranean Meditation, given by the Quartetto Sassofoni di Accademia on July 14 and 15. He will also be leading classes and lessons during his stay. Read Dillon’s entries about his residency as part of his An Infinite Number of Curves blog at http://www.sequenz a21.com/dillon.
He is also Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has had recent commissions and performances by the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony, 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. His music is published by American Composers Editions. Naxos has issued a new CD, Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644 - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.a sp?item_code=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 – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php? call=9332. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedill on.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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