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T":':" University at Buffalo ~ The State Ulliversity of New York

June 4-10, 2007

David Felder, Artistic Director

Resident Composers David Felder

John Harb ison Steve Reich

Roger Reynolds Cbarles Wuorinen

Resident Ensembles Arditti String Quartet

Buffalo Philbarmonic Orcbestra New York Virtuoso Singers

red fish blue fish Percussion Ensemble Slee Sinfonietta

Presented by the Department of Music, June in Buffalo, a festival and conference dedicated to composers, will take place from June 4- 10,2007 at the University at Buffalo. An extraordinary opportunity to work wi~l professional musicians and a distinguished facul ty, June in Buffalo offers an intensive schedule of seminars, lectures, master classes, panel discussions and open rehearsals as well as afternoon wo rkshop/performances, and evening concerts open to the general public and critics. Each of the invited composers has one piece read or performed in an afternoon workshop presentation and receives a recording for future study and demonstrati on purposes. Performances featu re resident ensembles and solOists renowned internationally as interpreters of contemporary music.

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Lecture Schedule

Monday, June 4

Tuesday, June 5

Wednesday, June 6

Th ursday, June 7

Friday, June 8

Saturday, June 9

Sunday, June 10

Resident Senior Artist Bi ographies

Resident Ensemhle Biographies

Guest Composer Biography

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r Lectures will take place in Baird Recital Hall (Baird Hall , room 250)

Monday, June 4 lOam-12pm

David Felder

Tuesday, June 5 IOam-12pm

Steve Reich

Wednesday, June 6 IOam-12pm

John Harbison

Thursday, June 7 lOam-12pm

Roger Reynolds

Friday, June 8 JOam-12pm

Charles Wuorinen

Saturday, June 9 lOam-12pm

American Music Center 1:30pm-3:30pm

American Music Cellter

Sunday, June 10 10am-12pm

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Orbiting the Singularity five pieces for string quartet 'STYX'

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Trevor Bjorklund Aaron Helgeson

Fusun Koksal

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Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, 8pm

Kath~rjne Dain, Melissa Kelley, julie Morgan, jennifer Sgroe, sopranos Phyllis jo Kubey, Mary Mara/he, Michelle Oesterle, Nancy Wertsch, altos

Sleven Fox, Alex Guerrero, john Kawa, Mukulld Marathe, tenors Stephen Black.]ames Grego1JI, Aaron larson.]ohn Rose, basses

But Mary Stood John Harbison Calvin Weirsma, Deborah Wong, violins; l ois Marlin, viola

Chris Fillkel, cello;jared Egen, COll/ra Bass

Absorbing Wounds Mallhew Barnson 1\vo Adoration Motets Christian Baldini

I. Ubi Caritas

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Alleluia ... habet vocis A piece of coffee

Michael McBride David Hanner

Patrick Castillo

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Eric Roth

John Aylward

Jane Stanley

Paolo Cavallone

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Iro;1l Arditti, lJiolill; Asbot Sarkissjan, violin; Ralf Eblers, v;ola; lucas Fels, cello

String Quartet No.5

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SII-ing Quartet No.3 Grido

Pascal Dusapin

Roger Reynolds

David Felder

Helmut Lachenman

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Irvill Ardilti, violin; Asbot Sarkissjan, violin; Ralf Eblers, viola; Lllcas Feis, cello

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Bert Van Herck

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Lee Weisert Aubrey Byerly

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Liley Sheltoll, soprano; Cltrtis Macomber, violin; Nina Lee, cello; Alan Feinberg, piano, Nicholas Isherwood, baritone/bass

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Charles Wuorinen John Harbison

SENIOR COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES

David Felder has long been recognized as a leader in his genera lion of American composers. His works have been featured at many of the Jcad ing international festivals for new music i ncluding Holland, Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Ars Elec tronica, Brussels, ISCM. North All1cric:l{l New Music , Geneva , Ravinia , Aspen, Music Factory, Bourges, Vienna Modern, and many others, and earns continuing recognition through performance and commissioning programs by such organizat ions as the New York New Music Ensemble, BBC Orchestra, Arditti Quartet, American Composers Orcllestrol , Buffalo Philharmonic, American Brass QUinte t, Ensemble InterContemporain and many others. Felder's work has been broadly c harlcrcrized by its highly energe tic p rOfi le , through its frequent e mployme nt of technological extension and elaboration of musical mate rials (including his Crossfire video series) , and its lyrica l qualities.

Felder has received numerous grants and commissions including many awards from the National EndowmclH for (he Arts. twO New York State Council Commissions, a New York Foundation fo r [he Arts Fe llowsh ip , Guggenheim , KoussevilZky, and two Fromm Foundation Fellowships, two awards from the Rockefeller Foundation , Meet the Composer "New ReSidencies" ( 1993-1996) wirh the Ouffalo Philharmonic, two commissions from the Mary flagler Cary Trust , :lnd many more. Recently completed commissions inc lude 1997's a pressure triggering dreanlS, a premiere by the American Composers Orcheslra in Carnegie Hall , I n Between for solo elec tro nic pe rclission and chamber orchestra for a 2000 premiere by percussionist Danie l Druckman; Inner Sky (1999) for nutist (doubling picc., alto and bass) and chamber st ring orchestra wi th percussion and piano plus computer cues; and Sbredder and Incelldio , two works for vi rtuoso brass e nsemble in 2001. Curre nt commissions include a sexret , partial {d;stjt·es{sjtora!.ioll for the New York New Music Ensemble (commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, and pre miered first in June 2002, with revisions to rhe electronics in 2003), a work for flut e plus ensemble, Di0l1),stacs , commissioned by the Brannen· Cooper Fund and "whoosh " for Cheryl Gobbetti·Hoffman (premiere in fall 2003), and a Cary Trust commission for the New York Virtuoso Singers, Memento mort (Winter 2004 premiere). New projects for 2004 and 2005 will inclllde a second quartet for the Arditti Quarret, and a work for chamber o rchesrra with soprano and bass voices on texts of Neruda and Daumal.

Curre mly, Felder is Professor of Composi tion at the University at Buffalo , w he re he hlS held the Birge-Cary Chai r in CompOSition s ince 1992, and has been Artis tic DireclOr ofthcJunc in Buffalo Festival from 1985 lO [he present. In 2002, he received onc of the first awards from the SUNY-system wide Chancellor's Offi ce fo r Excellence in Research and Creative Act ivity. From 1992 to 1996 he was Meet the Composer "'New Residencies," Composer-inResidence ( 0 the fluffalo Philharmonic Orchesrra and WBFO-FM. In 1996, he formed [he professional chamber o rchestra , the Slee Sinfonietta, and has been Artistic Director since that time. He has taught previously at the Cleveland

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Institute of Music , the University of Cali fornia, San Diego l :md Califo rnia State UniverSity, Long Beach, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, S:tn Diego in 1983. His works are published by Theodore Presser, and a first full CD of his works was released [Q international acclaim ( including "disc of the year" in c hambe r music from [he American Record Guide) on the Bridge labe l (Bridge .(049) during 1996. A second disc containing o rchestral wo rk was released by Mode Records (Mode #89; "Edi tor 's Best of the Year" selection, Fan/are MagaZine, 2002) in Spring 2000, and EMF #033 was released in July 2001 , containing premiere record ings of orchestral works by MorlOn Feldman and David felder (two works for each composer) to very e nthusiastic critical review. A fourth fu ll length disc of his music featuring works with electron ics was released in 2003. and will be followed by a fifth reco rding project , a DVD-multi-chaonel disc in 2004 .

John Harbison is one of America's most distinguished artistic figures. Among his princip~ 1 compositions are four string quarrets, four symphonies, the cantat:l Tbe FUgbllll'O Egype , which earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and three operas including Tbe G'reat Gatsby, commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera :lnd premiered to great acclaim in December 1999.

Harbison's music is distinguished by its except ional resourcefulness and expressive range . He has written for every conceivable rype of concert performance, ranging from the grandest to the most intimate, pieces Ihat embrace jazz along with the pre-classical forms . He is considered to be "o riginal , varied, and abso rbing - relatively easy for audiences to grasp and ret fo rmal and complex enough to hold our interest through repeated hearings - llis style boasts both lucidity and logic" (Fan/are 1993). Harbison is also a gifted commenta[Qr on the art and craft o f composition and was recognized in his student years as an outstanding poel ( he wrote his own libretto for Gatsby). Today, he continues to convey, through the spoken word, (he multiple meanings of contemporary composition.

lWo major new works will anchor the 2005-06 seaso n, Mllosz Songs, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic (o r lo ng-time Harbison ch3 mpion Dawn Upshaw, and a Concerto /01' Bass Viol commiSSioned by The (nternational Society o f Double Bassists for a consortium o f maj or orchestras. Also premiering thiS season :tre Canon';ca l American Sougbook for the Albany Symphony. three motets for the Cantata Singers o f HOston , and chamber works for eeHo and piano, ho rn quartet , and percussion ensemble.

In the 2004-05 season Harbison composed an overture for the Boston Symphony, Darkbloom, celebrating James l e .... ine 's first season :IS musiC director, and Songs America Loves to SIn.g for the Atlanta Chamber players and Da Capo Chamber Players. Rece nt premieres indude Sympbon.y No.4 for

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the Searue Symphony. a Plano Trio for theAmeliaTrio,and the moter Abrabam. commissioned fo r the PapaJ Concert of Reconciliation in Rome in 2004, w hich was held in the presence of Pope John Paul II and televised inte rnationally. Other recent w orks include his Requiem for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Piano SOllma No.2 for Robert Levin , String Quartet No.4 for the Od on String Quartet , TIle Violists' Notebook , Four Psalms (commissioned by the Israeli Consulate fo r the Chicago Symphony to celebrate the 50th :lnniversary of the founding of the State of lsrael), and Parti/a , a Minnesta Orchestra centennial commission. Major revivals of Tbe Great G'atsby rook place at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in October 2000 and at the Metropolitan OperJ in May 2002.

Harbison has been composer-in-residence with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tanglewood, Marlboro, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals, and theAmericanAcademy in Rome. His music h;JS been performed by m;Jny of the world 's leading ensembles, and more than 30 of his compositions have been recorded on the Nonesuch, Naxos, Northeastern, Harmonia Mundi, New World, Decca, Koch , Albany, Musica Omni:J., Centaur, Archetype, and eRJ labels. Recordings o f his Cello Concerto, Four Psalms , and Em erson in 2004, :md Ulysses and Pa-rtlla have recently been recorded for futu re release.

As conductor. Harbison hns Jed a number of leading orchestras and chamber groups. From 1990 to 1992 he was Creative Chail" w ith the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducting music from Mo nteverdi to the present. In 1991, at the Oj3i FestivaJ , he led the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Former music direc tor of the Cantata Singers in Boston, Harbison has cond ucted miU1Y othe r ensembles , among them the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BoSlO tl Symphony, and the Handel and Haydn Society. For manyycars he has been pri.ncipa l guest conductor of Emmanue l Music in Roston, leading performances of Bach cantatas, 17thcentury motets, and new music.

Harbison was born in Orange, New Jersey on 20 Deccmber 1938 into a musical f.J.mily. He was improvising on the piano by five years of ~ge and started a jazz band at age 12. He did his undergraduate work at H~rvard University and earned an MFA from Princeton University. Following completion of a junior fellowship at Harvard, Harbison joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology w here, in 1984, he was named Class of 1949 Professor of Music , in 1994, .f(jllian Award Lecturer tn recognition of ~ e-x(raordin::lf)' professional accomplishmcnts;" and in 1995 named Institute Professor. He has also tauglu <If CalArts and Bosto n University, and in 1991 he was me Mary Biddle Duke Lecturer in Music al Duke University.

In 1998, Harbison was named winner of the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities, a prize established in honor of the late Senator John Heinz by his wife Teresa to recognize five leaders annually for significant and sustained contributions in theArts and Humanities,the Environment, the Human Condition, Public Policy and Technology, and the Economy and Employmenr.Among other awards Harbison has received are the Distinguished Composer award from


the American Composer's Orchestra (2002), the Harvard Arts Medal (2000), the American Music Center's tener of Distinc tion (2000), the Kennedy Center Friedheim First Prize (for his Piano Concerto), and J. MacArthur FeUowship in 1989. He also ho lds four honorary doctoi.ltes. Much of his violin music has been composed for his wife, Rose Mary, and with her he serves JS a rtistic director of the Token Creek Chamber Music Fe~1:ival on the family fa rm in Wtsconsin.

Furthering the work of younger composers is one of Harbison's prime imerests, and he serves on the boards of directors of the Copland fund (as president) and the Koussevitzky Foundation. His music is published exclusively by Associated M1 LSic Publishers.

Steve Reich was recently called " ... our greatest living composer"Cthe New York Times), .. ... America 's greatest living composer."(TllcViJlageVOICE), .. ... the most original musicaJ thinker of our time" (fhe New Yorker) l nd " ... among the great composers of the cenrury" (The New YorkTimes). Fro m his early taped speech pieces It 's Gonna Rain ( 1965) and Come Out(1966) to hh; and Video artist Beryl Korot 's digilal video o peraThreeTales (2002) , Mr. Reich 's path hns embraced not oO-ly aspects of Weste rn ClassicaJ music , but (he st ruc tures, harmo nies, and rhythms o f nOll-Western and Americ:l.n ve rnacular music, partic ularly jazz. "There 's just a handful of living composers w ho can legitimately claim to ha ve alte red the direction of musical history and S[eve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian ( London).

Performing organizations around the wo rld marked Steve Reich's 70thbinhday year, 2006, with festivals and special concerts . In the composer's hometown of NcwYork, the Brooklyn Academy o f Music (BAM), Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center joined forces to present complementary programs of his music, and in London, rhe Barbican mounted a major retrospective. Concerts were also presented in Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, Baden-Baden, Barcelona, Birmingham, Budapest, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen , Denver, Dublin, freiburs , Graz, Helsinki, Los Angeles, Paris, Pono, V:1l1couver,Vienna and Vilnius among others. Tn addition, Nonesuch R('cords released its second box set of Sieve Reich 's works, Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospec rive, in September 2006. The f1ve-CD collec tio n comprises fourteen o f rhe composer 's best-known pieces, spanning (he 20 years o f his time on the label.

In October 2006 inTokyo,Mr.Reich was awarded the Preamium Imperial award in Music.This important internatio nal award is in areas in ,he arts not covered by the Nobel Prize . Fo rmer winners of the prize in various fields include Pierre Boulez, Luc ian Berio, Gyorgy Ligcti, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Richard Serra and Stephen Sondheim.

In May 2007 Mr. Reich will be awardedThe Polar Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of music. The prize is presented by His M3jesry King Carl XVI


Gustaf of Sweden . The Swedish AGldemy said:" .. . Steve Reich has transferred questions of faith , sociery and philosophy into a hypnotk sounding music fhar has inspired musicians and composer s of all genres." Former winners of Ule Polar Prize have included Pierre Boulez, Bob Dylan, Gyorgi Ligeti and Sir Paul McCartne y.

In December 2006 Mr. Reich was awarded membership in the franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and inApril 2007 he was awarded the Chubb Fellowship at Yale University.

Born in New York and raised there and in California , Mr. Reich graduated with honors in philosophy from Cornell University in 1957. For rhe next two years, he studied composition with Hall Overton, and from 1958 to 1961 he srudied at the )uilliard School of Music with William lkrgsma and Vincent Persich~Ui. Mr. Reicb recelved his M.A. in Music from Mills College in 1963 , where he worked with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhalld.

During the summer of 1970, with the he lp of a grant from the InstHute (or Internationa l Education, Mr. Reich studied drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accfl . In 1973 and 1974 he studied Balinese Gamelan Semar Pegulingan and Gamel3J1 Gambang at the Ame rican Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle and Berkeley, California. From 1976 to 1977 he studied tbe traditional forms of cantHlat io n (chanting) of the He brew sCriptures in New York and Jerusalem.

In 1966 Steve Reich founded his own ensemble of three musicians, which rapidly grew to 18 members or morc. Since 1971, Steve Reich and Music ians have frequendy toured the world, and have the distinction of performing to so ldout houses at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and the Bottom Line Cabaret.

Me Reich 's 1988 piece ,DifferenrTrains, marked a new compositional method, rooted in It's Gonna Rain and Come O ut , ln whicll speech recordings generate Ihe musical materia l for musical instruments. The New York Times hailed Different Tnlins as ~ a work of such asto nishing originality that breakt hrough seems the only possible description ... possesses an absolutely harrowing emotio nal impacC In 1990, Mr. Reich rece ived a Grammy Award for Best Contempo rary Composition for Different Trains as recorded by rhe Kronos Quarte l o n the Nonesuch labe l.

In June 1997, in cclebra,{ion of Me Reich's 60rh binhday, Nonesuch re leased a lO-CD retl"Ospec tive box Set of Mr. Reich 's compositions, featuring seve ral newly-recorded and re-mastered works. He won a second Grammy award in 1999 for his piece Music for 18 Music ians, also on the Nonesuc h label. IoJuly 1999 a major ret rospective of Mr. Reich's work was presented b y the Lincoln Cente r Festival. Earlier, in 1988, the South Bank Centre in Lo ndon, mounted a similar series of retrospec tive concerts.

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Tn 2000 he was awarded the Schuman Prize from Columbia Universit y, the Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth College, the Regent's Lectureship at [he University of California at Berkeley, an honorary dot:torate from the California Insti tute of rhe Arts and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America magazine.

The Cave , Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's music [heater video piece exploring the BiblicaJ story of Abraham , Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac, W:lS hailed by Time Magazine as "a fascina ting glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21s t centur y.~ Of the Chicago premiere,John von Rhe in of the Chicago Tribune wfQre ,"The techniques embraced by this work have the potential to enrich opera as living art a thousandfo ld ... The Cave impresses , ultimately, as a powerful and imaginative work of high-tech music theater (hat brings the troubled present into resonant dialogue w ith the ancient past, :lOd invites all of uS to consider anew o ur shared c ultural heritage."

ThreeTales,a three-part digita) doclimentaryvideoope ra, is a second collaborative work by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot about three well known evenrs f(Om the twentieth centu.ry, reflecting on the growth and implications of technology in the 20th century: Hindenburg, on the crash of the German zeppelin in New Jersey in 1937; Bikini. on the Atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll in 1946-1954; and Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1997, on the is.'iues of genetic engineering and robotics. Three '['ales is a three act music theate r work in which hiStorical film and video tootage, video taped inte rviews, photographs, text, and special ly constructed st ills are recreated on computer, transferred to video mpe and projected on one large screen. MUSicians and singers take their places on stage along with the screen, presenCi.ng the debate about the physical, ethical and religio lls nature of technological development. Three Tales was premiered at the Vienna Festival in 2002 and subsequently toured all ove r Europe,America,AusrraJia and Hong Kong. Nonesuch is releasing a DVO/CD of the piece in CaU 2003.

Over the years, Steve Reich has received commissions from the Barbican Centre London, the Holland Festival; San Francisco Symphony; the Rothko Chapel; Vienna Festival , Hebbel Theater, Berlin, the Brooklyn Academy of Music for guitarist Pat Metheny; Spoleto Fe~tival USA, West German Radio , Cologne ; Sen embre Musica, Torino, the Fromm Music Fo undntion for clarine tist Richard Stoltzman; the Saint Louis Symphony OrcheslJ"a ; Betty Free man for the Kronos Quartet; and the Festival d'Automne, Paris, for the 200lh anniversary of the Frenc h Revolution.

Steve Reich 's music has been peJformed by ma.jo r orchestras and ensembles around the world , including the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson 111omas, New York Philharmo nic conducted by Zubin Mehta; the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; TIle Ensemble Mode rn conducted by Bradley Lubman, The Ensemble Intercontemporain conduC[ed by David Robertson, the London SinfonieCta conduc ted by Markus Stenz and Martyn Brabbins, the Theater of Vo ices conducted by Paul Hillier,

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the Schoenberg Ensemble conducted by Rcinbert de Leeuw, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano; the Saint Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatk in; the Los Angeles Philh armonic conducted by Neal Stu(berg; rhe BBC SymphoIlY conducted by Peter EOtv6s; and the Boston Symphony Orchesl ra conducted by Michael Tllson Thomas.

Several no ted choreographers have created dances to Steve Reich's mUSiC,

includjngAnne Teresa de Kecrsmaeker (~ fase ," 1983, sec to fOllf early work::; 3...'i

well as" Drumming,~ 1998 find " Rain ~ set to "Music fo r 18 Mllsici:tns~),) iri Kyllan C FaJling Angels ," sct (0 ~Drummjng Part 1").Jerome Robbins for the New York City Balle t ("Eight Lines n

) and Laura Dean, who commiSSio ned "Sextet." That ballet, entitled " Impact," was premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 's Next Wave Festival , and earned Steve Reich and Laur:I Dean a Bessie Award in 1986. Other major choreographers using Mr. Reich 's music include Eliol Feld, Alvin Ailey, Lar Lubovitch, Maurice &jart, Lucinda Childs, Siobhan D;tvi~s and R.ichard AJston.

In 1994 Steve Reich was elected to the American Academy ofAns am.l Letters, to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Art's in 1995, and, in 1999, awarded Commandeur de I'ordrc desArts ec Lettres.

Roger Reynolds was educated in mu-',ic and science at the University of Michigan . His compositions incorporme elements of thea ter, digital signal processing, dance, video, and real-time computer spatiJ.l iz.-llion, in a signature multidimensionality of engagementThe central thread woven through Reynolds' uniquely varied career entwines language with the spatial aspects of music. This cenler first emerged in his notorious music-thea ter work. Tbe Emperor of lee Cream (1961-62; 8 singers, 3 inslt1.1menta.lists; teXT Wallace Stevens), and is carried forward in the VOICES PACE series (quadrlphonic tape compositions on tex ts by Coleridge, i3eckett , Borges and others), Odyssey (an unstaged opera for 2 singers, 2 recitants, large ensemble, muJtichannel computer sound; bilingual text: Beckett), and JUS'IlCE (1999; soprano, actres...", percUSSionist , computer sound and re~l-tjme spatiaJization, wirh st<Jging; text:Ae.<;chylus).

In addition to his composing, Reyno.l ds' writing, lecturing, o rganiza tion of musica l events ;'Ind teaching h~ve prompted numer ous residencies at inrern:uional festiva ls. He was a co-di rector of the New York Philharmonic 's Horizons '84., has been a frequent parricipant in the Warsaw Autumn fesrivals. and w as commiss ioned byToruTakemirsu to crea te a p rogram for the Sum ory Hall Internat iona.l Series. Reynolds ' regular masterclass ac tivity i n America n universi ties also exte nds ourward : to the SibeliusAcadcmy in Helsinki, Ircam in PHis, the Central Conservarory of Music in Beijing, to L1tin America and ASia , to ThessaJonik i. His e.'(tensive orchestra.l catalog includes commissions from the Philadeiphia, Los Angeies and BBC Orchestras.


In 1988, perplexed by a John Ashbery poem, Reynolds responded w ith \Vblspers Out Of Time , a SIring orchestra w ork which earned him the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Cri ric Kyle Gann has noted (hat he was the fi rst experimentalist to be so honored since Charles Ives. Reyno lds' writing -beginning with the influential book, MIND l\>lODELS (1975), and conti nuing, most rccenUy, w ith FORM AND METH O D: Composing Music (2002) - has also ~ppeared w idely in ASian, American and Europeao journals. Reyno lds' music, recorded onAllvidis/Montaignc, Lovely, New World, POgllS, and Neuma, among others, is published exclUSively by c.r: Peters Corporation, New York.

In 1998. Mode Records released WATERSHED, the firsr DVO in DoJby Digital 5. 1 to fea ture music composed expressly fo r a multichannel medium." i\S in all an making, there is a k ind of'alchemy ' going on [producing) a richly nuanced and authentic result ," wrOfe Richard Zvonar in Surround Professional. In Ihe sam e: year, T he Library of Congress established the Roger Reynolds Special Collection. Writing in l'be New Yorker, Andrew Porter ca lled him War once an explorer and a visionary composer, whose works Cln lead l ist eners to follow him into new regions of emotion and meaning.n

Charles Wuorinen (b. 9 June 1938, NcwYork City) has been composing since he was five and he has been a forceful presence 0 11 the American musica l scene for mOrC than four decades.

In 1970, Wl1orin~n became the youngest composcr to wi n the Pulitzer Prize in music for Tim e's Encomium, an electronic composition written on commission from Nonesuch Records. The Puli tzer and the MaCArthur Fellowship are jUS( rwo among many awards, fellowships and other honors ro have come his way.

Wuorinen has written more than 240 compositions to date . His newest works include hi s Eighth Symphony and Fourth Pian o Conce rto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (and p ianist Peter Serkin), 'fbeologownenon a tone poem for James Levine and the MET Orchestra and Asbbe1'Ya1la, chambe r se ttings o f poems by John Ashber y. His opera , Haroun and tbe Sea oj Sto"(es based 0 11 the novel of Salman Rushdie w as premiered by the New York Ci t y Opera in F::t.ll 2004 .

An indication of Wuorinen's historical impor tance ca n be seen in the f3et that in 1975 Stravinsky 's w idow gave \X/uorinen the composer 's last skerches fo r use in A Reliquary for Ig01' Stravinsky. Wuorinen was the first composer commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnanyi (Movers mId Shakers); and likewise the first to compose fo r Micbael Tilson Thomas ' New World Symphony ( Bamboula Beacb) . Fractal geometry and the p ioneering work of Benoit M andelbrot have played a crucial ro le in severa l of his works including Bamboul£, Squared and the l'Va t.urai Fantasy, a work fo r o rgan .

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His works have been recorded on nearly a doze n labe ls includ ing sever;)1 re leases on Naxos, Albany Records (Charles Wuo rinen Series) and rwo recent discs o n Jo hn Zorn'sTzadik Labe l, and a CD of piano works perfo rmed by Alan Feinberg on col Iegno.

Wuorine n 's wo rks are published exclusivety by C.f Peters Co rpo ratio n. He is the autho r o f Simple Composillo H, used b y composition students thro ugho ut tbe wo rLd .

An eloquent writer and speaker, Wu o rine n has lectured at universities througho llt the United States and abroad , and has served o n the faculties of Columbia, Princeton, and Yale Univers ities, the University of Iowa, University of California (San Diegu), M:lI1hattan School of Music . New England Co nservatory, State University o f New York at Buffalo, and Rutgers Unive rsity .

Wuorinen has also been active as perfo rmer, an excellent pianist and a distinguished conductor of his own wo rks as well as other twentic:th century repertoire . His orchestral appearances have included the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmo nic. San Francisco Sympho ny, Los Angeles Philharmo nic , and the Ame rican Composers Orchestra.

Tn 1962 he co-fo unded the Group for Conlemporary Music, one of America 's most prestigious ensembles dedicated to performance of new chamber music . In addition to cu ltiva ting a new generat ion of performe r~ , co mmissioning and premiering hundreds of new works, the Group has been a model (o r many sim ilar organizat io ns which have appeared in the United Stares since its fo unding.

Wuo rinen is a membe r of both the American Academy o f AflS and Le tters and the American Acade m)' of Arts and Sciences.

RESIDENT ENSEMBLE BIOGRAPHIES

The Ardini Quarte t enjoys a wo rld-wide reputatio n fo r their spirited and technicall y refined interpretations o f conte mporary :lIld earlie r 20th century mUSic . Several h undred st ring quartets and o ther chambe r wo rks have been w(itren for the e nsemble sillce its fo undalion by first vio linist Irvine Arditti in 1974 .These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Ardilti Quarte t a firm place in music history. World p remieres o f quartets by composers such as Birtwistle, Cage , Carter, Dillon, Ferne}rhough , Gubaidulina, H:trvey, Hosokawa, Kagel , Kurtag , lac henmann, Lige ti . N:lOcarrow, Reynolds, Rihm, Scelsi , Stockhausen and Xe nakis show the wide range of music in the Arclitti Quartet 's repertoire .

RESIDENT ENSEMBLE BIOGRAPHIES, CONT.

The ensemhle believes that close collabora tiOn with composers is vital to the process of imerprcling modern mu~jc aod therefore 3nempts lO work with every composer it plays.

The player~ ' co mmitment to educational work is indicated by their masterclasses and workshops for young performers and composers all over the world . from 1982 to 1996 the q1.1artet's members were resident string tutors at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.

The Ardiui Quartet 's ex tensive discography now featllres over 150 CDs. 42 discs have been re leased as part of the ensemble 's continuing series on the Frc:: nch label Na"ive Montaigne. The series presents numerous contemporary composer features as well ;]5 the first digitaJ recordings of (he complete Second Viennese School's string quartet music. SlOckhausen 's infamolls Helicopter Quartet is 10 be found here.As w ell as m:lIly composer ponraits recorded in their pre~ence , the complete quartets of Luciano Berio were recorded shortly before his death. Latest releases include music by Ades, Cage, Fedele, Finsrerer, Frith, Ingolfsson, Neuwirth and Pan::des

Over (he p:1st 25 years, Ihe ensemble h as recei.ved many prizes for its work.They have won the Deutsche Schallpi3lten Preis several times and the Gramophone Aw:mJ fo r the best recording of contemporary music in 1999 (fUion Carrer) and 2002 ( Harrison l3irtwislle).The prestigiolls Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to them in 1999 for ' lifetime achievement· in music.

The world-renowned Buffalo Philhannonic was founded in 1935. Since 1940, the O rchestra's permanent home has been Kleinhans Music Hall,:1 N:1tion:11 Historic Site with :.In international reputation as one of the finest co ncert h:111s in lhe United St:ttes. It was designed by Elie! and Eero Sa<lrincn with F.J. and W.A Kidd , architects.

Over the decades, tJle BPO has matured in stature under the batons of some of the leading Slars of tile podium.William Steinberg,Josef Krips, Lukas Foss, Michael Tilson Thomas, Maximjano Valdez, Semyon Bychkov and Julius Rudel are among the lumin~ries who h:lve served as music directors of the BuffaJo Philharmonic.

As Buffalo 's cultural ambassador, the SPO has tOllred widely across rhe United States and Canada, including concerts at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, noston 's Symphony Hall , San Francisco's Davies Halt, Montreal 's Place des Arts , and twenty-two appearances in Carnegie Hall.The Buffa lo Philharmonic also made (Wo national tours under famed Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, as well as a highly successful Eu ropean tour under Semyon Bychkov. Currently, Ihe Orchestra presents more than one hundred Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year in Western New York.


During the tenure of current music director JoAnn l ;aUetta, the Buffalo Philharmonic has rekindled irs distinguished history of PBS broadcasts and recordings, including the release of eight new CDs of a highly diverse repcnoire on the NAXOS and Beau Fleuve l:1beJs.

f ounded in 1988 by conductor Harold Rosenbaum, The New York Virtuoso Singers has become this country 's leading exponent of contemporary chorn music. Although the chorus performs music of uU periods, its emphasis is on commissioning, performing and recording the music of A..mt;rican <.:omposers.

From its ea rly days in 1988, as an offshoot of a chorus-in-residence created expressly for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, until the present day, with selfproduced concerts, recordings , commissions and tours, NYVS has carved a unique niche for itself in the musical world , NYVS is a twelve to sixteen·member professionaJ choral ensemble (sometimes expanded to 24 or more) dedicated CO presenting both seldom-heard works by past and contemporary masters, as well as premieres by today's composers. Harold Rosenbaum has placed a special emphasis on supporting American composers. NYVS has been featured twice on Channel 2 \VCB5-1V and Channel J I WPIX·Tv, performed 17 10 date radio broadcasts, and been featured on two Voice of America worldwide broadcasts. In August 1993, the group appeared as the fi.rst-ever guest chorus atTangiewood Music Center's :.Il1nual Festival of Conrempomry Music, and in January 1995, NYVS made its second appearance at the Juilliard School.

NYVS has rwice received the prestigio lls ASCAP-ChorllS Americ:l ~Award for Adventuresome Programmjng of Contempor3ry Music," and has been given Chorus America 's "American Choral Works Performance Award."The group's first CD of contemp0r3ry choral music on CRJ Records in 1993 was played on over 250 radio stat ions w orldwide. Its second CO of music by Charles Wuorinen was reJeased in the Fall of"] 995 on Koch hllernat ional Records. Another CRI CO, on which NYVS performs the music of Leo Kraft, was subsequently rele:tsed. In June 1999,Bridge Records produced a CD containingAndrew Imbric·s Requiem, performed by the Riverside Symphony (George Rothman conductor) ancl NYVS. 111is CD became a Grammy AW:1rd finalist. Since then, numerous other CD's w ith performances by NYVS have been rele:lsed. In the FaU of 2004 0] CD of Thea Musgrave's music, w ith actor Michael York narrating, was rele:lSed on Bridge Records. NYVS is also featured on Bridge Records, released in tbe faU of 2006, in a 90 th birthday tribute to composer George Perle. O ther performers 0 11 this CD include pianist Richard Goode, and conductor Gerard Schwartz. In addition, the group will ~ppear on a soon-to-bc released CO produced by ORG Records with legendary actress-singer Barbara Cook, Singing Make our Garden Grow from Leonard &rnstein'~ Candide.

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commissioned 17 works by composers including Michael Cordon, David Felder, David Winkler, George Tsontakis, and Tristan Keuris. The New York Virtuoso Singers has premiered dozens of works by composers such as Ludano Berio, John Harbison, HansWerner Henze, Lou..isAndriessen,ShuJamit Ran , George Perle, Ernst Krenek:111ea Musgrave,Jonathan HarveY,Arvo Part and Andrew Imbrie.

The New York Virtuoso Singers collaborates regularly with New York's leading orchestras and ensembles, including The Brooklyn Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra,The Orchestra of St. Luke's,TheAmericm Symrhony,The Bard Festival Orchestra,The Mark Morris Dance Group,The Bang on a Can Festival, Parnassus, and The Riverside Symphony. Collaborations include 111e American Composers Orchestra, The American Symphony, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, and The Glynbouroe Opera Company. RecentlyTIle New York Virtuoso Singers performed ten contemporary works in one day at Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music, and performed five works in Czech, Polish and Russi:..n at the Bard Music Festival. In December, 200;, The New York Virtuoso Singers collaborated once again with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in three performances of John Adarru; ' opera TIle Death of KJinghoffer, conducted by Roben Spano at the Brooklyn Ac:.uJemy of Music.

red fish blue fish is the resident ensemble of percllssionists of the University of caJifornia, San Diego. The group serves as a labora tory for the exploration of new work for percus..o;;;ion and tours this work regularly. red fish blue has played in New York on the Bang on a Can Festival (at Lincoln Center and the Henry Street Settlement), the Agora Festival (P'driS), the Centro des Bellas Artes (Mexico City), the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt,3nd as a regll.hlrly featured ensembl<:: on fhe Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series. In its 2004-05 season the ensemble has been invited to present a featllred concert at the Percussive: Arts Society International Convention in Nashville and will perform with percussionist Evelyn Glennie in the Disney Hall in LosAngeles.

The Slce Sinfonietta was formed in 1996 by composer David Felder and conductor Magnus Martensson. This en~emble , the professional chamber orchestra in reSidence at UB, performs a series of concerts each year devoted to lesser known repenoire. partic uJarly that of the pre-classic er.l and the most recc:m contemporary lllusic.Advanced students in performance are invited to p<lrtic ipatt: along with faculty artisls, soloists, and regional pro fessionals in the production of these unique concens designed to contribute new possibiJities for concertgoers within the University and the Western New York region. We h ope to introduce new repe rtoi re to audiences of all kinds performed at the highest level, and we invi te listeners to join with liS in the explorat ion of these newer musical worlds available to liS at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

GUEST ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES

Pianist Alan Feinberg has forged a remarkable career based on musical exploration. His intelligence,intcgrity, and affinity for an lillUSUally wide ra.nge of repertoire place him among those few artists who are able to build a bridge between the past :md the present. From Bach to Babbitt, feinberg's creative approach to programming has placed him in an LUlllsual position. With over 300 premieres to his credit (by such composers as John Ad:uns, Ollfies (ves, Steve Reich,John Harbison, Milton Babbiu and CharlesWuorine n) he is welllol0wn for recitals that pair old and new music and put a fresh and p rovocatiVe perspective on born.

Alan Feinberg has toured several tUnes with the Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Oohnanyi,first pcrfonningShubm.it Ran 'sConcertPtece(inciudinganappearance in Carnegie HajJ). He has also performed tile Brahms Second Piano Concerto on tour with the Cleveland On:::hesua, and his m ost recent collaboration with it featured the world premiere of Chartes Ives'Emerson Concerto, and subsequent performances in London, Paris, and Amste rdam were hailed as a majo(" achievement by Ives scholars.

Mr. Feinberg is often on the cuning edge, He was featured on opening night of the San francisco Symphony's Maverick Festival, at the New Horizons Festival of the New York Philharmonic, the 10th anniversary concen of the American Composers Orchestra, the 92nd StreetY's Berio Sequenza Maradlon, rhe first performance of Act 1 ofjohnAdams' Nixon In China for the Guggenheim'sWorks in Progre&'i SerieS,and the Ou-negie Hall birthday celebration of George Gershwin with Dick Hyman. He has perromled as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, the Los Angeles Philhannonic, the BRC Scottish, the American Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the NewWorld Symphony, and many o thers.

Alan Feinberg has recorded four solo CDs fo r Decca that survey American music'nle American Romantic,111eAmerican VUTuoso,TIleAmerican lnnovawr,and Fascinating Rhythm-American Syncopation. In addition he has recorded piano coneem by: Mel Powell, Milton Rabbitt, Andrew Imbrie, Kamran Inee, Mon on Feldman, Pdul Bowles,Amy Beach, Charles lves, Don GiJJes, and Robert Helps. He recently received his founh GrdfllffiY noITtin.1lion for k8est Insrnunentalist ~ith Orchestra" for the recording of the Amy (leadl Piano Concerto w ith the Nashville Symphony. Recent reciul programs have h.ighlighted his interest in bridging the old and [he new; these indllde:a program ofBlch and Ustvolskay..;"' Reconsidering Haydn"(works of Haydn, Schubert, Weir a.nd Kagel);"DasicaUy BulJ ~ , a program featuring works of Bull, Byrd, G-ibbons, Mortey and Wuorinen; and a program feanlring Chopin, Bach and lves.

Mr. Fei.nberg also enjoys an outstanding reputation abroad. He has appeared at the festivals of Edinbtlrgh, Bath, Cambridge, Huddersfield , Geneva, Budapest, &rlin, Brescia and Bergamo, and he was the first pianis invited by the Union of Soviet Compsers to represent American contemporary mUSiC with perronnances in Moscow and Leningrad.

Alan Feinberg lives in New York City with his wife and two c hildre n .

GUEST ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES, CONT.

Nichola" Isherwood is one ofthc leading s lnge rs of ea rly music and contempora ry music in the world today. He has worked with Joel Cohen, William Chris tie , Peter Eotvos, Paul McCreesh. Nicholas McGegan, Kent Nagano, Zubin Mehta and Gennadi Rozhdestvensk-y as weU as composers Sylvano BussQ[ti , Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Hans We rner Henze, Mauric io Kagel , Gybrgy Kurtag, Olivier Messiaen. Giacinta Scels i, Karlhe inz S(Qckh:msen and lanDis Xenakis in prestigious venues around the world ( La Scab , Covent Garden, the Theatre des Chnmps Elysees, Salzburg Festival , Concengebouw, Berlin Staatsoper, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tanglewood). Operatic roles include "Amlnoo" in Monteverdi's n Riton70 di Ulisse in Patria with Boston Baroque,"Claudio" in H:iodel'sAgnpplna with Nicholas McGegan,"Satiro"in ROSSi's Orjeo and"Pan" in Marais 'Alcione with LesArts Florissants,"Joas"in Porpora's "Tl Gedeone" with Manin Haselbbck,"Frere teon" in Saint Franrois d'Assise in rhe last composer supervised production, ~De rTod" in the two productions of Ullmann 's Der Ka iser vonAtiantis with the Bach Akademie in Stuttgart and 2e2m, "Romeo" in Dusapin's Romeo el Juliette at the Avignon Festival, "Lear~ in Hosok:lw:l 's Vision oJ Lear for the Munich Biennale, "II Testimone in Bussotti's Tl'este at tbe Rome Opera, "Micromegas" Mefano's Micromegas and "Lucifer" in the world premieres of Stockhausen'S Montag, Dlenstag, and Freitag from Liebl at La Scala and the Leipzig Opera and in Donnerstag aus Licht at Cove nt Garden. He has improvised w ith Steve L'lcy, Joelle Leandre, Sainkho Namtchilak and David Moss,recorded 48 cd's and appeared in three films. He has publishe d an article o n Scels i the jo urnal of the Sce1si Foundation. His article on the vocal vibrato wiU be publishe d neXl yea r in t he Jo urnal of Singing in 2007 and his book The Techniques oJ Singing w ill be published in 2008 by Barenreiter Verlag. He has bee n visiting professor of Singing at SUNY at BuffaJo, Notre Dame and the Ecole No rmale de Musique and taught maste r classes in venues such as the Paris Conservatoire, SaJ zburg Mozartewn, Milan Conservatory and Stanford.

An -:lctive c hamber musiCian , Nina Maria Lee has collaborJted with manyanists such as Felix Galimir, Jaime Laredo, David Soyer, Nubuko Im,ti, Isidore Cohen, Mitsuko Uchida and Andras Schiff, and has perfo('med at the Marlboro ancl Tanglewood Music Festivals. She has toured with MUSiCians from Marlboro and has participated in the EI Paso International Chamber Music Festival.As a strong advoc:He of education, she has also appeared on programs to introduce music to childre n as part of a program at the Kaplan Space at Carnegie Hall .

Ms. Lee is the cellist o f the Brentano String Quartet, which e njoys a distinguished concert ca reer in rhe United States and abroad. Winne rs o f the inaugural Cleveland Quartet Award and the 1995 Naumburg Chamber Musie Award , the Quartet was also the inaugural group for the Chamber Music Socie t)' at Lincoln Center'S new program, Chamber Music Society 11.

Ms. Lee began studying the ce1lo at age 12 in St . Lou.is.At age 16. Ms.l..ee was accepted at the C urtis Institute o f Music, where she studjed cello with David


Soyer and chamber music with Karen Tuttle and Felix Galimir. In 1992, Ms. Lee attended Boston University as a biology major, where she studied cello wirn Michael Reynolds.

She has been 3w::trded top prizes in such competitions as the St. Louis Symphony YoungArtisls CompclHion and the NationaJ Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts TaJem Search. She is the recipient of Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music from the )uilliard School, where her teacher was Joel Krasnick.

Conductor/composer Orad Lubman has played a vita] role in modern music fOf two decades . He was a:;sistant conductor to Oliver Knlls..~en at the Tanglewood Music Center from 1989-94 and has since e merged as an unusuaUy versatile conduccor of orchestras and ensembles all over the world. He has worked with a great variety of illustrious musical figures inc1l1ding,John Adams, Pierre DouJez, Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Elvis Costello, Steve Reich , OJ Spooky, MichaelTl.lson Thomas, Charles Wuorinen, and John Zorn.

Lubm:ln has appea red with the Los Angeles Philharmonjc New Music Group, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, Steve Reich Ensemble, Saaroruecken Radio Orchestra , Deutsches-Symphonie-Orchester Benin, New World ~'ymphony, Frankfurl Radio Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, ASKO Ensemble, and the New MilJenniulll Ensemble amongst o thers. He has recorded For Auvidis MOlltaigne, BMG!RCA. Brldge,collegno. CRl, Centaur, Koch, and Nonesuch.

Lubman is Assoc iare Professor of Conducting and Ensembles at the Eastman School of Music in Roches(er, NY (www.rochester.edu/Eas[man,) . He is represented by Karsten Witt Musik Management, www.k:u stenwitl .com.

TIle only artist to receive the International Walter W. Naumburg Award twice, as a soloist and as a dl,unber musician, soprano lucy Shelton has performed repertoire from Badl to Boulez in major recital, chamber and orchestral venues throughout the world .

HighJy acclairned as an interpreter of new mUSiC, Ms. Shelton continues to bring new audiences into tile sound world of new wOrKs,often composed for her. Notable among numerous world premieres are Elliott Carter's Of alallimge and Of Love and llis Tempo e Tampi; Olive r Knu'iSCn 's Whitman Selllngs; Stephen Albert's Flower q{ (be MOllnlaln;)oseph Schwantne r's Sparrows and his Talo Poems Of Agneda pizarro and Magabunda ;Alo:ander Goellf's Sing, Ariel and 17Je Mouse Melam01pbosed /1/(0 a Maid; David Del Tredic-i 's Quaint Evenls; PouJ Ruder's nJe .BeIL<;; Gerard Griscy 's C/cone Paradoxiale; Ned Rorem 's Scbuyller Songs; saUy Beamic;h 's Mons(e1~JamesYann:ltos's Trlni~v Mass; l...ewi!; SpratJan 's Of Time Clnd the Seasons; and Rob Zllidam'sjolJannas Lament.

Since her fe.tum to the llSA from England in 1997, Shelton has had five recordings rele.-wed on Deutsche Grammophon and KOCH International with repertoire of


Carter, Stravinsky, Crawford Seeger and Messiaen. ~ive additionaJ CO's arc in the works, with repertoire of Del Tredici , Rands, Adolphe , Kim, and Cmer. She also has recordings on Bridge Records, Urucom-Kanchana andVtrgin Cla..o;sics WitJl music of Goehr, Knllssen and Schoenberg.

In the season 2001·2002 abroad,Shelton premiered Rob Zuid.un'sjobm11lG's Lament at the Concertgebollw in Arnscerd.1m, and gave the Dutch and UK premieres of Zuidam's McG01U1gaflllecter. In the USA she gave the world premieres of LeWL"i SprntJan's Of Time and the Seasons in Boston and a work by Gheorghe CoStine5Cu in New York. In the city she aJso sings Ferneyhough's Fourtb Sln·ng Quartet, joined Oa Clpo for a recording of Shltin and a concen of Kemis, Previn and BirtwistlC.1l1C season also induded some ofhcr"standard" repenoi.re: Belio's Folk Songs, Babbitt's PlJilomei,Knussen 's Hums al1dSongso[lVinnie tbe A:Job, carter·s OICballenge and Of Love and TemfXJ e Tempi, Dmdonan 's Lamia and Schoenberg's Pierrol Lunain?

Some hig.hlights of previous seasons include ~taged performances of Berio·s Passaggio with the Ensemble lntcrcontempor:tin, Schoenberg's Pie-nut Lunaire with D"d camera of Houston and the role of )enifer in Tippen's 1be Midsummer Marriage forTI"13mesTclevision.Shelton made her BBC Proms debut in OaUapiccoJa's R Ptiglo1JI(!1'O and her Vienna and Ikrlin debms singing Kurtag's n.Je Sayings of Pete,- Bomeml~~sza with Andras Schiff. Among notable conductors with whom Shelton has worked are Barcnboim, Boulez, De Leeuw, KnllSSen, Metzmacher, Nott, Oetvos, Rattle. Rilling, Rostropovich, Salonen, Slatkin, and \Volff.

A native Gilifornja.n, Ms. Shelton's mw"ical traioing began early with the study of both piano a.nd flute. After graduating from PomoIU CoUege she pursued singing at the New England Conservatory and at the Aspen Music School where she studied with Jan de Gaer:ani. Shelton has taught at tJ1C Cleveland lnstirute of Music, the New England Conservatory and tJle Eastman School. She is c urrently on the fuculty of Ule Tanglewood Music Center and coaches privately at he r srudio jn New York City.

"In m e forefront was Lucy Shelton, a new-music diVot if there ever was o ne, performing with tire, sensitivity, astounding surety of pitCh, and what seemed like love abolUld ing."(17Je BostOI1 Globe, May 2(0)

The playing of violi llist Curtis Macomber has been praised by Fanfare magazine as "remarkable fo r its depth of feeling as well as for tectulical excellence ." M~comber is considered to be one of the mOSt versatile soloists and chamber musid3ns before the public today. equally at home with and committed to works ranging from Bach to Babbin, and with a discography r:lnging fro m the complete Brahms s tring quartets [Q the Roge r Sessions solo sona ta e TIlis is one of the best recordings of20th-cenrury solo violin music ever made.n - American Record Guide) and the comple te Grieg sonatas (released in the fail of 2002 on the Arabesque label).

Mr. Macomber has for many years been recognized as a leading advocate of the music of our time. He bas p erformed in hundreds of premieres, commissions,


and first recordings of solo violin and chamber works by, among others. Outer, Davidovsky, Perle, Wuorinen, and Mackey.

As first violinist of the a ..... Ol rd-winning New World String Quartet for 11 years ( 1982- 1993), Mr. Macomber performed the standard repertoire as well a,.<;

numerous contemporary works in performances in major halls th roughout the United StItes and Europe and , with the Quarte t , was appoin ted artist in residence at Harvard from 1982- 1990. He aJso recorded 14 discs and performed numerous times with the same group on public radio and television in this coumry and the BBC in Great Britlin.

A founding member of the Apollo Piano Trio :lnd a member of the 20th -century music ensemble SpeClaJum Musicae since 1991, Mr. Macomber has also ~ppearcd with the New York New Music Ensemble, {he Group fo r Conte mpo rary Music, and [he Sea Cliff Chamber Players, as well as in chamber music se ries across this country and in Emope. He is a regu lar participant al l.!1 Musica in Sarasota and at the Monadnock Music Festival . He has also recorded for Nonesudl, Koch , Vanguard, Pickwick , and Mus ical Heritage; and CRr has juSt released his Ihi rd solo reco rding, Casting Ecstatic. The previous disc, Songs oj Solitude, was named by the New York Observe,. as one o f 1996's best instrumental solo discs: '" Macomber's tensely human fiddle ... seems an e ntire univerSt:, sufficient untO itself .... A CD of sonatas of Amy Beac h and john Corigliano is available o n Koch .

Mr. Macomber is a me mbe r o f the c hamber music faculty o f juil liard :md the violin fac ulty o f Man hattan School of Music and has aJso [nughr at the Tanglewood Music Cente r, the Taos School o f Music, and the Ye Uo w Barn Music SchooL He ho lds his B.M. , M.M., and D.M .A. degrees from juill iard , where he was a scholarship student of joseph Fuchs and winner of t he Mo rris Loeb and Walter NaumbLLfg prizes.

Harold Rosenbaum is one of the most accomplished ami critically acclaimed clloral concJllCtors of our time.A vital force in American ch01.1.l music for 34 years, J\.1r. Rosenbaum is founder and artistic director ofrwo major cho ral groups:The Canticwn NOVlun Singers now celebrating its 34d season, and 111e New York Vut uoso Singers, now marlOng ils 19 th. Me: Rosenb:llun has conducted over 1.300 concerts with these choirs and with olhers. including Westchester Qrnlo tio Society, and his university choi("S. ln additio n, he has coUaborated over 100 times wiLh leading orche!)1J"as such as The New York Philharmonic with james ConJo n,The Brooklyn PhilhannorUc (over S5 times) w ith Robert Spano ,Lukas Foss,Dennis RusseU Davies.M.ichael Christie,and Grant UeweUyn, The America.n Symphony with Leo n 8otSl(:in, The American Composen; OrchestrJ with Steven Sloane,1l1c Riverside Symphony with George Rothman: n lC Orchestra ofSl.Luke 's with Sir Charles Mackerms,plusThejuilliard Orchcstra,'fllc Bard Festiv:1..l Orchestrn, and others. He has also collaborated with PD.Q. B.1ch in Carnegie HaJJ and Avery Fisher Halls, with 'nle Mark Morris Dance Group, Bang on a Can,'Ihe Glyndebourne Open Company, andTI1e Bel Canto Opcra Company.


Mr: Rosenbawn'$ cllOirs have perfonned many limes o n lincoln Cemer 's Great ~rtbrmers Series, and have appeared o n TIle David Lel1erman Show, al TIle TangJewood Festival , and in concerts With James GalwJy,Tony R.1.odaU,Tony DenJ)ett. Licia Albanese, M::ui:::ume faithful,Lconaro SL1tkin ,TIle lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Uana Vered, Ned Rorem, F. Murray Abra.h:un, Peter Schichele and many others.

As a consultant 10 G. Schirmer, Tnc. and Hal Leo nard Corporation, Mr. RosenhamTI performs seve1.1.l important roles. He composes, recommends scores for publication, gives w orkshops and clinics, and shares hi., broad knowledge of the choral field with Schinner's edirorial and marketing team. Recently be uncovered and edited a major dl0raJ work by Samuel Harber, which G. Schirmer has recently published. TIllS f:ill G. Schirmer Music Publishers released the Harold Rosenbaum Choral Serics, designed 10 promote the music of contemporary American composers. In this new series, Mr. Rosenbaum edits tlle music lnd o ffers performance suggestions fo r singers and conductors. The series presents previously unpublished works by e mCIgingAmerican composers as weU as established o nes like Samuel Barber.At the annual convention o f lhe American Ch0 1.1.l DirectorsA.ssociatio n in Miami in March, 2007, Mr. Rosenbaum will present one of thcse works: Samuel Barber's "Motctto o n Words o f j ob" in three "interest sessions." Mr. Rosenbatun has held profes..<;()rsllips .1.1 four universities, including The Ju.illiard School; he is currently a professor at University at Bu.ffJ.lo, where he directs the cho irs, and teaches conducting and other courses. He has created a commissioning program fo r young composers, an annuaJ choral composition competition, and has prerrtiered over 100 works, including compositio ns by Ravel (in Paris) , Sc.hninke, Henze, Serio, Perle, Harbison, and Blbbin. Otller hjghI.ights in his distinguished career include over 80 concens on 17 Europea.n tOurs, w here he has conducted the Rudapest Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre d' Europe, the New Prague Colle.gium, :and the Madeira Bach Festival Oochestra, and has appeared in Festivals in Po rtugal, (uly, and Englmd. He bas been heard o n dozens of radio and television broadcasts, induding Voice of America w orldwide, in multiple live broadcasts from Sympho ny Space and on WNCN,and on 13 commercial CD's for SONY Classical,A1bany Records, CRI, Bridge Reco rds, Koch Inte m ation.'lI and Capstone Records. In December 2005. Mr. nosc..:nbatun conduc ted rhe C.'U1ticum Novum Singers ::md Canticum NOVlUll Yo uth Choir throughout a speCial episode o fCBSlVs "48 Hours". Entitled "TIle Mysteries of [he N~tivity; it was rebroadcast in December of 2006. Recent highlights included:conductingll1eWal.la Walla Symphony, multiple collaooralions with The Brooklyn Philharmo nic, another withThe American Composers Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, and his performances o f Bach's Stjohn Passion ,Monteverdi'sVespers with Baroque Orchestra,Rachmaninoff's Vespers perfOnned in Church SllvOniC, and premieres by Krenek, Imbrie, Harbison , Ran, Musgrave, Conti, and Kingswood . In early r-ebruary 2007, Mr. Rosenbaum and rus dlOirs collabormed with legend::uy film composer Ennio Morricone and The Ro ma Sinfo nietta in concens in Lhe GeneraJ Assembly of {he United Nations, and at Radio Ciry.'lhe lalterconcen was mpcd fo r furu.re broadcast o n worldwide television, ulcl llding PBS in tillS country.

Also recently Mr. Rosenooml:1 once again conduc ted TIle New York VlrtliOSO Si ngers atTanglewood 's Festival ofComemporary Music , and returned loThe Bard


Music FesLivaJ With his expanded (ninety-voice) New York VIltUOSO Singers, w hid l

perfonned works in Czech, Polish and RussiafL Othe r recent concerts lnclude Bac h 's St. John Passion in the Cathedral Church of S1. John the Divine, Nathan Currier's ornto rio Gaian Variations inAvery Fisher Hall with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and Verdi's Requiem in Carnegie HaJJ with the Brooklyn Phill1.trmonic and aU five of rus cholrs. ll1C New York Virtuoso Singers performed JOIUl Ad1ms' opera The Death of K1inghoffcr at the Brooklyn Academy of Music .

In addition, TIle New York Vutuoso Singers returned to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in a perfotmance of Lost Objects by D:lvid Lang, Midlael Gordon,a.ndJulia Wolfe. Olher highlights induded :t benefit concert in'Ibwn Hall for Broadway C.areS/Equity FighcsAids on the the me of s..'Une sex love ,and a performance of:.ill of Samuel Barber·s chamber choral music , both published and unpublished.

Consistently glowing press reviews praise the quality of his inte rpretations and perfo l.l11ances, attesting ro his [Q£a.I devotion to the highest st.1ndards of chornl mll'iic expression.

SCeven Sch.ick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past thirty years he has c hampio ned comemporary percussion music as a performer and teache r. He studied at the Unive rsity of Iowa and received the Soloists Diploma from the Staatl ic he Hochschule fiir Musik in Freiburg, Germany.

He has commissio ned and premiered more than o ne hu ndred new works for percussio n and has performed these pieces in major concert series such as Lincoln Cente r's Grea t Pe rfo rmers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Pro ms, Ihe Jerusalem Festival, the Holland festival , the Stockholm Inte rnationaJ Pe rc ussio n Event and the Budapest Spring Festival among many olhers . He has recorded many of those works for SON)' ClassicaJ , Wergo, Point, e RI , Neuma and CantaJ oupe Records. He has been rcguJa r guest lecturer at the Rotterdam Conservatory, and the Royal College of Music in London.

Schick is Professor of Music at the:: University of Californi a, San Diego and Lecturer in Pe rcussion at the Manhattan School of Music . Schick was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can AJJ·Stars of New York City from 1992-2002. From 2000 [ 0

2004, he served as Art istic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland. Steven Schick is the founde r andArtislic Director of the percussion group, "red fish blue fish."

David Fddc:r, Artl.\-lIc l )frector June in Buffa lo is made possible by the generous suppOrt o( the

fo llowing organizations: Eilecn Fcldr:r, Adminislrallw As.'wclale fOl" J)ew/opmel/l

Cam eron Baird Founda(ion

A:tron Copland Fund fo r l\tlusic

BMI Found'llion

Birge-Cary Chair in Music

Alice M. OitSO il Fund o f Columbia University

The New Yo rk State Music fund , established by th e New York

State Atto rn ey Gen era l at

Rockefeller Phi lanthro py Adv isors

Roberr G. Morri s :llld Carol L. Mo rris

Dust; Dean, Flf.t;LII 0lfiC:ltr

JT Rinkcr, MumlRing JJl1l!cWr

jessica Yacovoni , Adm{" f_~tmtIVlt Ass/. .. tant

Christopher jambs, Audio Tltlclmlc(11 J)1I"ec:WY

James Soare~ and Sa m Tymorek, AlUlio Assisttlllts

Gary Shipe, Plano Tecbnlclan

Philip Hellard, Cllllcert Manager

Alana Jagodzinski, Asslslant COll cert /I1(,mogcl"

Universiry at Buffal o Department o f Music, Charles]. Smith , Ch:tirman and Bruce O. McCombe, Dean for

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