Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon To Be Performed in Texas on January 31 and Los Angeles on February 1 New York, NY - Chamber music of Lawrence Dillon will be performed in Texas on January 31 and Los Angeles on February 1: Saturday, January 31 - 12 noon - The Premiere of Lawrence Dillon's Blossom for Triple Quartet will be performed by the Cassatt Quartet with the Permian High and Odessa High student string quartets as part of chamber music concert at Bonham Junior High School, 2201 E 21st Street in Odessa, Texas. The composer will be in Odessa as part of a three-day residency. Dillon has said, 'It's great to see young musicians have this opportunity to perform side by side with seasoned professionals.' The commission and residency were funded by the Cassatt in the Basin Project, with support ??66rom the Education Foundation of Odessa, Texas. Visit the quartet at http://www.cassattquartet.com/. Sunday, February 1 - 4 PM - an all-Dillon Concert by violinist Danielle Belen Nesmith featuring performances of the composers' Facade, Mister Blister, Fifteen Minutes, Sonata: Motion, The Voice and Bacchus Chaconne at Mayman Hall of the Colburn School of Music, 200 S. Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Other performers will be violist Juan Miguel Hernandez, pianist David Fung and marimbist Stan Muncy. In February, Ms. Belen Nesmith, Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Sphinx Competition, will record a CD of these works for Naxos. The disk will be available later in 2009. More about her at http://www.belenviolin.com/. For more information about the February 1 concert, call 213-621-2200 or visit http://www.colburnschool.edu/. Hailed by the Louisville Courier-Journal for his 'compelling, innate soulfulness,' Lawrence Dillon, Composer in Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts, 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. Read his latest Cadenza newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/dec08/LD_nws_121708.pdf. Lawrence Dillon's music is published by American Composers Alliance. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/. He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 - to whom inquiries about his music can be directed. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting E-mail: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.jamesarts.com *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html