Lawrence Dillon Amadeus ex machina To Be Performed on June 4 at Spoleto Festival USA Lawrence Dillon's 'Amadeus ex machina' will be performed by the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra under their Conductor John Kennedy on Sunday, June 4 - 5:00 PM at Grace Episcopal Church, 98 Wentworth Street in Charleston, South Carolina. This concert is being presented as part of Spoleto Festival USA's Intermezzi series of hour-long concerts, which offer another perspective on the work of various composers performed throughout the Festival. Sponsored by Ginn Clubs & Resorts, this program will counterpoint Dillon's Amadeus ex machine, Michael Nyman's short work for soprano and chamber ensemble Mozart on Mortality and other works with Mozart's own Masonic Funeral Music. Tickets for this concert are $25 general admission. For tickets and information, call the Spoleto Festival USA box office at 843-579-3100 or visit them online at http://www.spoletousa.org. Premiered by the Carolina Chamber Symphony in 2002, 'Amadeus ex machina' 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 International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine. It has also been performed by the Louisville Orchestra and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. The composer has described the work as 'a whimsical re-imagining of Mozart's 40th symphony from the perspective of a sophisticated - but somewhat disoriented - machine.' Read his complete program note and view score excerpts at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/amadeus.php. Hailed by the Louisville Courier-Journal for his 'compelling, innate soulfulness,' Lawrence Dillon has produced an extensive body of work 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 the age of 26 the youngest composer to earn a doctorate at the Juilliard School (1985), also winning the Gretchaninoff Prize and an ASCAP Young Composers Award. Currently Composer-in-Residence at the North Carolina 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, been 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 Number of Curves' can be read at http://www.sequenza21.com/dillon.html. He is the subject of the January 2006 American Composer feature by Kyle 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. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting 45 Grant Avenue Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA