Lawrence Dillon's Amadeus ex machina To Receive Indiana Premiere with
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra - September 15 Performance is Season
Opening Concert

Lawrence Dillon's Amadeus ex machina will be given its Indiana Premiere
on Monday, September 15 at 7:30 PM by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra
under their Music Director Kirk Trevor.  This gala season -opening concert
will take place at Clowes Memorial Hall, 4600 Sunset Avenue on the campus
of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The concert will also feature 2002 International Violin Competition of
Indianapolis gold medalist Barnabas Kelemen and laureates Frank Huang
and Susie Park performing Vivaldi's Triple Violin Concerto along with
Sarasate's Ziguenerweisen, Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
and Ravel's Tzigane.

Tickets for the September 15 concert are $20 general admission or $12
for students.  Individual tickets are available at the Clowes Hall Box
Office, TicketCentral and all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers or charge-by-phone
at 317-239-1000.  For more concert information, call the Indianapolis
Chamber Orchestra at 317- 940-9607.

Lawrence Dillon's Amadeus ex Machina was written in 2001 and was
commissioned by the Carolina Chamber Symphony to celebrate its tenth
anniversary under founding Music Director Robert Franz.  The composer
has described the piece as "a whimsical re-imagining of Mozart's 40th
symphony from the perspective of a sophisticated - but somewhat disoriented
- machine." Read his complete program note and view score excerpts at
http://www.lawrencedillon.com/amadeus.php.

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, has been
a guest lecturer at institutions including Yale University and Indiana
University, and has been awarded grants from the American Music Center
and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.  His works have
been performed and broadcast throughout the Americas and Europe, and are
available on Albany Records
(http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/july02/LD_cd.htm), Channel Crossings,
and CRS.  Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Indiana's only fully professional
chamber orchestra, presents an annual concert series of masterworks from
four centuries of music featuring internationally recognized artists as
well as superior local talent.  The ICO is Orchestra-in-Residence at
Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University and regularly collaborates
with other musical artists and organizations whose performances require
professional orchestral accompaniment.  Internationally known conductor
and teacher Kirk Trevor was appointed Music Director of the Indianapolis
Chamber Orchestra in 1988.  A regular guest conductor in the world's
concert halls, he has also served as Music Director of the Knoxville
Symphony Orchestra since 1985 and the Missouri Symphony since 2000 and
was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
in Bratislava in 2001.  Visit the ICO online at http://www.icomusic.org/.

He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-797-9166 -
phone and fax, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
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