Adolphus Hailstork, of Norfolk State University, and Judith Shatin,
of the University of Virginia, are the featured speakers at a composers
forum, sponsored by Old Dominion University Libraries, to be held in the
Diehn Composers Room on the Old Dominion University campus June 24.  The
Southeast Composers Symposium is a gathering of composers for an open
discussion and exchange of practical information.  The all-day Symposium
is geared primarily to the interests of composers.  It will conclude with
a concert of winning compositions from a Southeastern Composers Competition
for which Hailstork and Shatin were the judges.  Both symposium and concert
are free and open to the public.

Over sixty chamber music compositions were submitted by forty different
composers representing Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, West
Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.  Instrumentation
varies from solo flute to full chorus, and includes a wide range of styles
and interests, as well as a wide range of individuals from independent
musicians to university faculty to student composers.  Winners of the
competition will not be officially announced until the day of the concert.

Dr. Shatin is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music at the
University of Virginia, where she has taught since 1979.  She received her
Ph.D. from Princeton University, a Masters of Music from The Juilliard
School, and her B.A. from Douglass College where she graduated Phi Beta
Kappa, with honors.  She is the recipient of numerous awards and
commissions and is known both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Hailstork, Composer-in-Residence at Norfolk State University, is
well-known in the Tidewater area and was recently featured in a concert and
exhibition produced by the Diehn Composers Room in February.  He received
his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was
a student of H. Owen Reed.  He had previously studied at Manhattan School
of Music under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American
Institute of Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University
with Mark Fax.

This is the first composers forum sponsored by Old Dominion University's
Diehn Composers Room.  The event is part of a series of events funded by
the Norfolk Foundation and organized to highlight the contemporary music
collections of the F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room.

The Diehn Composers Room is located in the F. Ludwig Diehn Fine &
Performing Arts Center, at the corner of 49th Street and Elkhorn Avenue on
the ODU campus.  For more information, contact Karen Meizner, (757)
683-4175, or e-mail her at [log in to unmask]

Elizabeth M. Hogue
Humanities Reference Librarian/Music Bibliographer
Perry Library at Old Dominion University