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Composers BureauRichard WilsonBiography RICHARD WILSON is the composer of over seventy works in many genres, including opera. He has received such recognition as the Hinrichsen Award (from the American Academy /Institute of Arts and Letters), the Stoeger Prize (from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), the Cleveland Arts Prize (from the Women's City Club of Cleveland), and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent Commissions have come from the Chicago String Quartet and the Koussevitsky Foundation. His orchestral works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the American Symphony, the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Residentie Orkest of The Hague, and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. This spring, Albany Records released a CD of Mr. Wilson's complete choral music, conducted by William Appling. In February of 2000, Koch International Classics will issue a disk that includes his Symphony No. 1, conducted by James Sedares, and three additional chamber works. Already available on CRI are his piano concerto, with Blanca Uribe, and bassoon concerto, with Robert Wagner, in performances by the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Leon Botstein conducting, as well as all-Wilson disks of chamber music on both Albany and CRI. Also active as a pianist, Mr. Wilson will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto K 466 (d minor) with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra this season and a concert at Vassar with Jeff Lang and Rolf Schulte which will include the Brahms Horn Trio. Mr. Wilson holds the Mary Conover Mellon Chair in Music at Vassar; he is also Composer-in-Residence with the American Symphony Orchestra, for which he gives pre-concert talks. Further Information For more information about Richard Wilson, please visit his website at www.richardwilson.org
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