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