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] Jeffrey James <[log in to unmask]>