Annual American Composers Update
Dinos Constantinides
Dinos Constantinides lives in Baton Rouge, LA, where he
is Head of Composition and Boyd Professor of Music at
Louisiana State Univ. and directs the Louisiana Sinfonietta.
Recent commissions are from the Armonic Brass Quintet,
for
New Orleans Divertimento for Brass Quintet and
Orchestra; the AGO and Professor Richard Webb, for
Dreams, Earth, and Heavens; the Rossini Duo, for
Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra; the Duo
Verdehr, for
Concerto for Violin, Clarinet, and Orchestra;
Lisa McCullough and Ivan Lalev, for
Music for Two,
for oboe and cello; and the Athens Saxophone Quartet,
for
Quartet for Four Saxophones. In Taiwan, The
Fu Jen Univ. published the Chinese version of
Antigone
-- A Bilingual Opera. The Living Music Foundation
issued his 1999 University of Hawaii SCI conference paper.
Vestige Records plans a release of works for soloists
and orchestra, and for flute. Besides his 23rd ASCAP award,
his students have won awards including the national MTNA
prize. A festival of his music occurred in Athens, Greece,
fall 1999.
Premieres
In 1999, the Louisiana Sinfonietta introduced
Concerto
for Violin, Clarinet, and Orchestra, with the Duo
Verdehr (Nov.); and
Transformations for Clarinet and
Orchestra (Jan.). An all-Constantinides program, June
1999 at Weill Recital Hall, New York, NY, repeated in
Baton Rouge, featured the premiere of
Music for Two,
for oboe and cello, with McCullough and Lalev.
Performances
The same program and a May 1999 Weill Hall concert included
Sappho Songs, Homage, A Folk Concerto for Flute, China
I -- Shanghai -- Songs of Departure, Two Movements for
Flute and Strings, Ballade for John and Samantha,
and
Transformations for Oboe, with the Louisiana
Sinfonietta, Sarah Beth Hanson, flute; Kelly Smith Toney
and Lauren Davis, violin; McCullough, oboe; Jan Grimes
and Rosemary Caviglia, piano; Lalev, cello, Lori Bade,
mezzo-soprano, and Esther Lamneck, clarinet. In Oct. 1999,
Griffin Campbell played
Impressions II, for saxophone
and piano, in London, England. Heard in Greece were
Ballade
for the Hellenic Land, with cellist Marcel Spinei,
and
Midnight Fantasy III, for saxophone and orchestra,
with A. Zervas and the Athens Radio Orchestra, both Dec.
1998; and
Dedications for Sax Quartet, with the
Athens Sax Quartet, Jan. 1999. Works played in 1999 in
Romania included the Craiova Philharmonic in
Concerto
for Bassoon and Orchestra and
Dedications for Strings,
(Feb.);
Kaleidoscope for Solo Cello, with Spinei
(Mar.), and
Reflections VI for Horn and Strings
(May). 1999 performances in Baton Rouge were
Brass
Quintet, with the LSU Faculty Brass Quintet (Mar.);
Mountains of Epirus, with the composer on violin
(Jan.);
Storytelling for Solo Flute, with Hanson
(Sept.);
The Dancing Turtle, with the Louisiana
Sinfonietta (June); and
Flute Concerto and
Transformations
for Clarinet (Sept.).
Publications
Family Triptych; for flute/oboe/violin and strings/autoharp;
Conners Publications.
Mutability; clarinet or alto saxophone and strings;
Music for Two; Music for Cello Quartet; Music for Four
Bassoons; Music for Saxophone Quartet; Concerto for Two
Cellos and Orchestra; all by Composer's Library.
Recordings
:
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra; Miltiade
Nonoiu; Thulassa Records.
Rhapsody, for flute and
piano, and
Fantasia, for solo flute; Grzegorz Olkiewicz,
flute, and Gerald Ranck, piano; both by
Capstone
Records.
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