Bel Canto Company Presents Break Away by Dan Locklair on October 13 and
14 in Greensboro, North Carolina

American composer Dan Locklair's 'Break Away' for SATB chorus and piano
will be presented by the Bel Canto Company, Welborn Young, Artistic
Director & Conductor, on Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14 -
7:30 each evening, as part of their 'Innovation & Convention' concerts
at Christ United Methodist Church, 410 N.  Holden Road in Greensboro,
North Carolina.

This performance will also include selections by Josef Rheinberger, Lili
Boulanger, Henk Badings, Morten Lauridsen, Hugo Wolf, Sarah Hopkins, R.
Murray Schafer, Jack Jarrett, Eric Whitacre, Hall Johnson, and Mark
Butler.

From its beginning in the 1982-1983 season until now, the Bel Canto
Company has been praised for its uniquely beautiful interpretation and
sensitive tonal quality.  Over the years Bel Canto Company has released
8 CDs and has performed for many prestigious music festivals and conferences
throughout the Southeast including Washington Cathedral's Summer Music
Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and the American Choral Directors
Association Southern and NC Division Conferences.  The Company has
performed with the American Boychoir, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra,
the North Carolina Symphony, and the Carolina Chamber Symphony, and has
been featured on National Public Radio on Chorus America's The First Art
and NPR's Performance Today.  Visit them online at
http://www.belcantocompany.com/.

Tickets for the October 13 and 14 performances are $18, with discounts
for seniors and students.  To purchase tickets online or for more
information, visit http://www.belcantocompany.com/ or call them at
336-668-1020.

Internationally recognized composer Dan Locklair, a native of Charlotte,
NC, is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem, NC.  His compositional output, influenced
by a wide variety of traditions, ranging from Medieval to modern music,
includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera, and numerous solo, chamber,
vocal, organ and choral compositions.  His music has been performed
throughout Europe and North America by many major orchestras, choral
groups, chamber ensembles and soloists.  Several of these works have
received major awards, including the top award in the 1989 Barlow
International Competition for 'changing perceptions & Epitaph' and the
1996 American Guild of Organists Composer of the Year Award.  Among his
other honors are consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981 and a Kennedy Center
Friedheim Award. His latest CDs, 'Dan Locklair Orchestral Music' (Albany
Records Troy 517), and 'Dan Locklair Chamber Music' (Albany Records Troy
701-02) have been released to great critical acclaim.

For more information about composer Dan Locklair, including a bio, list
of works, discography and much more, please visit the newly redesigned
http://www.locklair.com.  You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts
Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]

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