Judith Lang Zaimont's Wizards - Three Magic Masters For Solo Piano to Be
Premiered at 2003 San Antonio International Piano Competition - New Work
Was Commissioned as Competition Showpiece
Judith Lang Zaimont's Wizards - Three Magic Masters for solo piano will
be the featured contemporary work for the 2003 San Antonio International
Piano Competition. The piece, commissioned for this year's competition,
will be performed by all of the pianists who advance to the Semifinals,
which will take place between October 28 and 30, 2003 at the Ruth Taylor
Concert Hall of Trinity University, One Trinity Place in San Antonio,
Texas.
On Friday, October 31, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Judith Zaimont will
offer a Composer Seminar on her music in the Parker Chapel Choir Room
(Bushnell Ave. at Oakmont Court) of Trinity University. She will also
visit three other area colleges and universities to offer seminars and
critiques of student music and will be featured in an interview on Texas
Public Radio.
On Saturday, November 1, at 7:30 PM, she will discuss the commissioned
composition in Ruth Taylor Concert Hall before the 8:00 PM Winners Recital
& Award Ceremony.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information about
the competition and its events, call (210) 655-0766.
Held every three years, the San Antonio International Piano Competition
was founded in 1983. It is a world-class competition that recognizes
and rewards young musicians of exceptional talent from around the globe.
It is equally an enriching musical experience for San Antonio and South
Texas audiences while offering a challenging yet inspiring opportunity
to promising young artists between the ages of 20 and 32. Visit them
online at http://www.saipc.org/.
Every three years the Competition commissions a new piano work which all
contestants must memorize and perform. Judith Lang Zaimont was chosen
for this year's commission.
Judith Lang Zaimont, a Tennessee native who grew up in New York, and now
teaches at the University of Minnesota, is an internationally recognized
composer whose music is characterized by its expressive strength, dynamism,
and rhythmic vitality. Her musical language is coloristic, and she has
contributed significant works to virtually every genre.
Her Impronta Digitale for solo piano (from her Piano Sonata) was honored
by the 11th Van Cliburn International Competition as one of their four
selected competition pieces. The selection came as a result of their
American Composers Invitational and Zaimont's work was selected and
performed by both of the competition's Gold Medalists.
This Fall will bring the Albany Records CD "CALLISTO - Solo Piano Music
by Judith Lang Zaimont", a release of Joanne Polk's recordings of Ms.
Zaimont's Sonata for Solo Piano, Jupiter's Moons and other major solo
piano works.
Among her many composition awards are a just-announced 2003 Aaron Copland
Award, joining earlier awards of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and commission
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Minnesota Composers
Forum; First Prize Gold Medal in the Gottschalk Centenary Composers
Competition, First Prize in the Chamber Orchestra Composition contest
to honor the Statue of Liberty Centennial; and First Prize in the
international 1995 McCollin Competition for Composers (for Symphony No.
1, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in season 1995-96). She has
offered masterclasses at many institutions, and has also been featured
Composer at the 1995 Society of Composers International American meeting;
Scholar in Residence with a consortium of Atlanta-area colleges (1995),
and Filene Artist in Residence at Skidmore College (1997-98). Her music
appears on two Century lists (Chamber Music America; Piano & Keyboard
Magazine), and is the subject of many articles, book chapters and several
dissertations. In addition to being the 2003 Commissioned Composer for
the San Antonio International Piano Competition, Ms. Zaimont is also
the 2002 Composer for the National Federation of Music Clubs, and 2002
Commissioned Composer for the Music Teachers Association of California,
and the National Board Member for Composition for the College Music
Society (2003-2005).
Ms. Zaimont's music is widely performed (Connecticut Opera, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Women's Philharmonic, Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Czech Radio
Symphony) and has been recorded for the Koch International Classics,
Arabesque, Milken Family Foundation, Albany, Jeanne, Leonarda, Northeastern,
and 4Tay labels. She was awarded the 1995 Recording Award - First Prize
awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music (for the Arabesque
CD Neon Rhythm). "All American Appeal", an article about her piano
music, was featured in the November/December 1998 issue of Piano &
Keyboard magazine, and a composer profile appeared in the April 2003
Clavier. Several other Zaimont compositions have been honored by selection
for competition repertoire lists, including works for the Carnegie -
Rockefeller competition for interpreters of American vocal music, and
the General Motors-Seventeen Magazine competition.
An Electronic Dialogues interview with Judith Lang Zaimont can be
read at the Internet Classical Music Magazine Sequenza 21 -
http://www.sequenza21.com/Zaimont.html. You can read "Reflections on
an Undescribable Art - Being A Composer," Ms. Zaimont's February 2002
Keynote Speech to the Minnesota Listening List Competition at
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/feb02/JLZ_021202.htm.
More information about Ms. Zaimont, including sound clips of many of her
compositions, is available at her website http://www.jzaimont.com/.
She is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be
contacted at 516-797-9166 or at [log in to unmask]
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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