World Premiere of Judith Lang Zaimont's "Stillness - Poem for Orchestra"
To Be Performed by Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Music Director Steven
Larsen To Lead January 22 Performance

New York, NY - The World Premiere of Judith Lang Zaimont's "Stillness -
Poem for Orchestra" will be presented by the Rockford Symphony Orchestra,
Steven Larsen, Music Director, on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 8 PM at
the Coronado Theater, 314 North Main Street, Rockford, Illinois.  Other
works on the program will be Villa Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
and Sibelius' Violin Concerto with violinist Rachel Barton.

Ticket prices range from $15 to $38, with discounts for students.  For
more ticket information, directions or other information, contact the
Rockford Symphony at 815-965-0049 or visit them online at
http://www.rockfordsymphony.com/.

Judith Lang Zaimont's "Stillness - Poem for Orchestra", a single 16-minute
movement in three panels, slow-fast, slow, was conceived and completed
in sketch-score during a Spring 2004 residency at Copland House - a
magical environment providing utter quiet and long stretches of available
time in which to ponder and focus intensely.  Only is such a place could
a work of such specific and fragile nature as this be realized.  It was
jointly commissioned by the Rockford Symphony Orchestra with Maestro
Steven Larsen, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Crafton
Beck and the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Michael
Griffith.

Judith Lang Zaimont is internationally recognized for her distinctive
style, characterized by its expressive strength and dynamism.  Most
recently she has been Featured Composer for the National Federation of
Music Clubs, Commissioned Composer of the California Music Teachers
Association, Commissioned Composer for the International San Antonio
Piano Competition, and recipient of an Aaron Copland Award.  Her music
is widely performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and has been recorded
for the Koch International Classics, Arabesque, Milken Family Foundation,
Albany, Jeanne, Leonarda, Northeastern, and 4Tay labels.

Ms. Zaimont was awarded First Prize in the international 1995 McCollin
Competition for Composers (for "Symphony No. 1", performed by the
Philadelphia Orchestra in 1996).  Her biography is found in most standard
reference works (e.g., New Grove's), and she is the subject both of
individual chapters in specialist volumes and major articles in professional
journals, including Clavier and Chamber Music magazine, the latter of
which can be read at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/dec03/JLZ_121903.htm.
An Electronic Dialogues interview with Ms. Zaimont can be read at
Sequenza 21 - http://www.sequenza21.com/Zaimont.html.  Her music also
appears on two Best of the 20th Century lists (Chamber Music America;
Piano & Keyboard Magazine).  More information about Ms. Zaimont, including
sound clips of many of her compositions, is available at her website
http://www.jzaimont.com/.

She is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be
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