Chicago A Cappella Presents Judith Lang Zaimont's Sunny Airs and Sober
at Three Chicago-Area Concerts - February 8, 15 & 16 Concerts Feature
Choral Music Inspired by Shakespeare

Judith Lang Zaimont's Sunny Airs and Sober will be presented by Chicago
a cappella at their "Sonnets, Songs and Snakes" concerts on Saturday,
February 8 - 8:00 PM at Chicago Temple, 77 West Washington Street in
Chicago, Saturday, February 15 - 8:00 PM at Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street
in Oak Park, and Sunday, February 16 - 7:30 PM at Lutkin Hall, 700
University Place on the campus of Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois.

The concerts will feature works based on texts by Shakespeare from five
award-winning American composers from outside the Chicago area, including
Ms.Zaimont, Paul Crabtree, Matthew Harris, Martha Sullivan and Thomas
Turner, works of Chicago-area composers Robert Applebaum and Kevin Olson
and compositions by New Zealander David Hamilton, and Finland's Jaakko
Mantyjarvi. More information about these concerts is available at
http://www.chicagoacappella.org/

Sunny Airs and Sober was written for chorus SSATB. Three of its five
movements are based on Shakespeare texts. Commissioned by the Waldorf
Singers, its first performance was by the Gregg Smith Singers in August
1976. Since then, the work has been preformed by the Florilegium Chamber
Choir; Canticum Novum; the Early Music Ensemble of St. Paul and at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania; Georgia State University; and University of
Alabama - Huntsville. The piece has been recorded by the Choral Music
Society of Southern California, Nick Strimple, conductor, for 4Tay Records
(Radiance - CD4015) - http://www.classicalcds.net/4tay/

Judith Lang Zaimont's music is widely performed throughout the U.S.
and Europe and has been recorded for the Koch International Classics,
Arabesque, Milken Family Foundation, Albany, Jeanne, Leonarda, Northeastern,
and 4Tay labels. She was awarded First Prize in the international 1995
McCollin Competition for Composers (for "Symphony No. 1", performed by
the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1996) and the 1995 Recording Award - First
Prize awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music (for the
Arabesque CD "Neon Rhythm"). 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 2001 Eleventh Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition. 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.

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