Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra On Tour

Lawrence Dillon's Amadeus ex machina will be given its Austrian Premiere
and several performances in the next 10 days as part of a tour of Austria
by the Utah Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, Dr. Robert Baldwin, Director.
The schedule of concerts is:

Sunday, March 12 - 7 PM - St. Nicholas Church, Salzburg

Tuesday, March 14 - 7 PM - Parish church of Grosseklein, Graz

Thursday, March 16 - 4 PM - Orangerie, Vienna

Friday, March 17 - 7 PM - LDS Church, Vienna

The tour concerts will be presented as part of the Mozart Orchestra
Festival and the 2006 American Celebration of Music in Austria and will
also include music by Mozart, Ives, Copland, Grainger and Henry Wolking.

Dr. Robert Baldwin is Director of Orchestral Activities at the
University of Utah where he conducts the Utah Philharmonia, the
University of Utah Symphony, and teaches conducting.  He is also Music
Director of the Salt Lake Symphony and conductor of 'It's a Grand Night
for Singing,' in Lexington, Kentucky.  During his tenure at the University
of Utah, the orchestral program has grown dramatically in size and
quality, with noted performances at the 2003 Utah Arts Festival and the
2005 Utah Music Educators' Association Conference.  Much more about him
and the Utah Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra at
http://www.music.utah.edu/index.html.

Premiered by the Carolina Chamber Symphony in 2002, Amadeus ex machin=
a
has already gone on to international recognition, winning a special=

commendation from the Masterprize Panel in London and serving as
contemporary competition piece for the Vakhtang Jordania Internationa=
l
Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine. It has also been performe=
d
by the Louisville Orchestra, Russia's St. Petersburg Chamber
Philharmonic, the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra and the Indianapoli=
s
Chamber Orchestra. The composer has described the work as 'a whimsi=
cal
re-imagining of Mozart's 40th symphony from the perspective of a=

sophisticated - but somewhat disoriented - machine.' Read his c=
omplete
program note and view score excerpts at
http://www.lawrencedillon.com/amadeus.php.

Hailed by the Louisville Courier-Journal for his 'compelling, innat=
e
soulfulness,' Lawrence Dillon has produced an extensive body of wor=
k
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 t=
he
age of 26 the youngest composer to earn a doctorate at the Juilliard=

School (1985), also winning the Gretchaninoff Prize and an ASCAP Youn=
g
Composers Award. Currently Composer-in-Residence at the North Carolin=
a
School for the Arts, Dillon holds residencies at numerous summer
festivals, and has been awarded grants from the American Music Center=

and National Endowment for the Arts, among others. His works have=

received special commendation from the 2003 Masterprize of London, be=
en
chosen for the 2002 Jordania International Conducting Competition in=

Kharkov, Ukraine and been performed and broadcast throughout the
Americas and Europe. His lively Sequenza 21 blog 'An Infinite Numbe=
r of
Curves' can be read at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon.html.

He is the subject of the January 2006 American Composer feature by Ky=
le
Gann in Chamber Music Magazine. Visit his website at
http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.

He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433 -=

phone and fax, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.

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