Louisville Orchestra's September 28 Concert Features Music Of Lawrence
Dillon And Steven R. Gerber
The Louisville Orchestra's ASCAP Award-winning New Dimensions Series
will have its first performance of the season on Saturday, September 28,
2002 at 8:00 p.m. in Margaret Comstock Concert Hall at the University
of Louisville School of Music, Louisville, Kentucky. Associate Conductor
Robert Franz will lead a program including Lawrence Dillon's exciting
and witty "Amadeus ex machina", and the American premiere of Steven R.
Gerber's beautiful and moving "Symphony No. 1", along with music by
Aaron Jay Kernis, and Daniel S. Godfrey. A pre-concert lecture by
Composers-in-Residence Gerber and Godfrey will be held at 7:15 p.m.
in Bird Hall.
Recognized nationally for being at the forefront of new music, the
Louisville Orchestra has recently been presented with its eighteenth
ASCAP Award for the Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
For more information about the orchestra and its season, visit
http://www.louisvilleorchestra.org.
Tickets for this concert may be purchased via the web at
http://www.louisvilleorchestra.org or through the Kentucky Center for the
Arts Box Office at (502) 584-7777 or (800) 775-7777. Tickets are also
available at any Ticketmaster outlet.
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 just short of 26 years
of age, 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, his works have been performed and broadcast throughout the
Americas and Europe, and are available on Albany Records (information
about his new CD - Chamber Music by Lawrence Dillon -
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/july02/LD_cd.htm), Channel Crossings,
and CRS. Dillon's music is familiar to Louisville audiences; in 2001,
his educational piece "Snegglish Dances" was premiered by the Louisville
Orchestra on the Making Music Concert Series. Visit his website at
http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
Steven R. Gerber's music has gained international attention as a result
of two recent CD releases (on Chandos and KOCH) featuring several of
his major orchestral works, including the "Symphony No. 1. Gerber has
achieved also great success in the United States and in his ten tours of
the former Soviet Union, perhaps becoming the most often-played living
American composer in that area. Of the "Symphony No. 1", Evening Moscow
declares, "Gerber could serve as an example of American musical
professionalism ...he stands out with the highest of temperaments and
musical taste." Mr. Gerber has written for a number of fine soloists
including Yuri Bashmet for the viola concerto, Kurt Nikkanen for the
violin concerto and Carter Brey for the cello concerto. His work has
been performed by groups such as the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra, the Fine
Arts Quartet, the National Chamber Orchestra and the Russian Philharmonic.
Steven R. Gerber is the subject of a recent Electronic Dialogue interview
in Sequenza 21 web magazine. Read the interview at
http://www.sequenza21.com/index.html. Visit his website at
http://www.stevengerber.com.
Lawrence Dillon's "Amadeus ex machina" and Steven R. Gerber's "Dirge and
Awakening" have both been selected as contemporary compositions for the
2002 Vakhtang Jordania Conducting Competition in Ukraine this September.
Both Lawrence Dillon and Steve R. Gerber are represented by Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting. For further information, contact them at 516-797-9166 or
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