World Premiere of Lawrence Dillon's Revenant: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra - February 25 Performance by Hornist David Jolley and the Carolina Chamber Symphony Lawrence Dillon's Revenant: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra will premiere on Friday, February 25th at 8:00 in Crawford Hall on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts, 1533 S. Main Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The composer will conduct the Carolina Chamber Symphony, with David Jolley as soloist. The performance will be part of the 2005 International Horn Society's Southeast Workshop. For information about Revenant, please visit the composer's Sequenza 21 weblog "Lawrence Dillon: An Infinite Number of Curves" at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon.html. The program will also include Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and Haydn's Symphony No. 31, featuring horn players from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Charlotte Symphony. Tickets for this concert are $12, with discounts for students and seniors, and can be obtained by calling 336-770-3255. For more information, visit http://www.southeasthornworkshop.org/. David Jolley has been acclaimed as one of his generation's most notable horn players. The New York Times described him as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician of "remarkable virtuosity," and Gramophone magazine has hailed him as "a soloist second to none." His recital appearances throughout the United States include performances at New York's 92nd St. "Y" and Alice Tully Hall. He is a frequent guest artist with the musicians from Marlboro, Guarneri Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, and the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center. Recent orchestral engagements include the Detroit Symphony, The Phoenix Symphony, The Memphis Symphony, The Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Kamerata Chamber Orchestra of Athens. 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 music is on Albany ("Chamber Music by Lawrence Dillon" - http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/july02/LD_cd.htm), Channel Crossings, and CRS. Read his latest Cadenza Newsletter online at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/oct04/LD_nws_100704.htm and visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/. For more information about Lawrence Dillon, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask] Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com