Judith Lang Zaimont Featured Composer at "Voices of Women in the Arts"
Conference at Jackson, Mississippi's Millsaps College - World Premiere
of "Virgie Rainey" and Other Works to be Performed

Judith Lang Zaimont is one of two featured composers at Millsaps College's
"Voices of Women in the Arts: the Sphere of Musical Composition" conference
being held at the school's Jackson, Mississippi campus from October 10th
through 12th, 2002. The other featured composer is Augusta Read Thomas.

This conference will explore the craft of composer and performer and
will showcase several public events, including three highly varied
concerts and several open forums.  Complete conference information can
be found at the Millsaps College website - http://www.millsaps.edu/

Several of Judith Lang Zaimont's compositions will be performed at the
conference, including the World Premiere of her "Virgie Rainey", scena
for soprano, mezzo and piano, a setting of texts by Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Eudora Welty, commissioned for premiere at the conference.  Other
works to be performed include "Impronta Digitale" from her Piano Sonata,
"From the Great Land: Women's Songs", fro mezzo soprano, clarinet, piano
and Eskimo Drum, the song cycle "Chansons Nobles et Sentimentale" and a
selection of the composer's individual songs.

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 is available at her website
http://www.jzaimont.com/ and at
http://www.jamesarts.com/artists/index.htm#COMPOSERS

She is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be contacted
at 516-797-9166 or at [log in to unmask]

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