World Premiere Performances of Lawrence Dillon's String Quartet No. 3:
"Air" - January 13 at East Carolina University and January 15 at North
Carolina School of the Arts

Lawrence Dillon's String Quartet No. 3: "Air", will be given its World
Premiere performances on Friday, January 13 - 8 PM at the A.J.  Fletcher
Recital Hall, located on the corner of 10th St. and College Hill, on
the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and
on January 15 - 2 PM at Watson Chamber Music Hall on the campus of North
Carolina School of the Arts, 1533 S.  Main St. in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina.

This 10-minute work was completed in 2004 and follows the composer's
2002 String Quartet No. 2, "Flight," which explored different aspects
of flying.

Performers for both of these concerts, which also feature music by Mozart
and Brahms, will be musicians of the Four Seasons Chamber Festival - Ara
Gregorian and Ivan Chan, violins, Ulrich Eichenauer, viola and Michael
Kannen, cello.  For more information about the Festival and the performers,
visit http://www.ecu.edu/music/fourseasons/.

Tickets for the January 13 concert are $20, with student discounts and
can be ordered online at
http://ev1.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/evenue/ev65/se/Main.d2w/report?linkID=ecupa&.
For more information, please call 252-328-6851.

Tickets for the January 15 concert are $12, with student discounts,
and can be ordered online at
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21800&schedule=list.
For more information, please call (336) 734-2872 or (336) 721-1945.

Hailed by the Louisville Courier-Journal for his "compelling, innate
soulfulness," Lawrence Dillon has produced an extensive body of work
characterized by a keen sensitivity to color and a mastery of traditional
forms.  A student of Vincent Persichetti, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter,
David Diamond, and Roger Sessions, Dillon became at the age of 26 the
youngest composer to earn a doctorate at the Juilliard School (1985),
also winning the Gretchaninoff Prize and an ASCAP Young Composers Award.
Currently Composer-in-Residence at the North Carolina School for the
Arts, Dillon holds residencies at numerous summer festivals, and has
been awarded grants from the American Music Center and National Endowment
for the Arts, among others.  His works have received special commendation
from the 2003 Masterprize of London, been chosen for the 2002 Jordania
International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine and been performed
and broadcast throughout the Americas and Europe.  His lively Sequenza
21 blog "An Infinite Number of Curves" can be read at
http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon.html.

He is the subject of the January 2006 American Composer feature by Kyle
Gann in Chamber Music Magazine.  Visit his website at
http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.

For more information about Lawrence Dillon, please contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel: 516-586-3433
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com