Judith Zaimont's New Piano Sonata To Receive Washington DC Premiere -
Bradford Gowen Performs It This Sunday At Phillips Collection

On Sunday, May 28 - 5 PM at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.,
Bradford Gowen will perform the D.C.  Premiere of Judith Lang Zaimont's
Piano Sonata.  This major work, which was cited as the most important
solo piano piece of 1999 by Piano & Keyboard magazine in its great piano
compositions of the 20th Century timeline, is the composer's largest solo
statement to date for the instrument.  Mr. Gowen had also presented the
work on Saturday, February 5 at Atlantic State University in Savannah,
Georgia.

More information about this performance is available at the Phillips
Collection Sunday Concert webpage -

   http://www.phillipscollection.org/html/concerts.html

Ms. Zaimont has also completed a commission for PianoFest 2000 for a new
piano work to be premiered on June 9 at the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. The new work, Jupiter's Moons, in six movements, will be
premiered by Paul Stewart.

Other recent events concerning Ms. Zaimont's piano music have included
the Sunday, February 27's performance of Ms. Zaimont's Snazzy Sonata - An
Entertainment for Two (one piano, four hands) by Margo Garrett and Karl
Paulnack at Minneapolis/St. Paul's Weisman Museum.

The composer spoke on Sunday, March 26 at the Music Teachers National
Association National Convention in Minneapolis about her own music for
piano, in a talk titled "Zaimont on Zaimont - When the Composer is a
Pianist".  Ms. Zaimont is Professor of Composition at the University
of Minnesota School of Music.

Judith Lang Zaimont's website is located at

   http://www.joblink.org/jzaimont

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

Jeffrey James
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