Annual American Composers Update
James Mobberley
James Mobberley, of Liberty, MO, recently named Curators
Professor of Music at the University of Missouri Kansas
City Conservatory of Music, continues as Composer-in-Residence
with the New Ear Ensemble, in Kansas City. For fall semester
1998, he served as Visiting Adjunct Professor of Composition
at Indiana Univ. He was Worldwide Honor Composer at the
Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Composers Workshop and Resident
Composer at the Bennington (VT) Chamber Music Conference
and Composers Forum of the East. Currently, he has been
working on a work for bass clarinet, saxophone, cello,
percussion, and piano, to premiere with the New Ear Ensemble,
Mar. 23, 2000; and a percussion-quartet piece to premiere
with musicians of the Merit Music Project, Apr. 2000 in
Chicago, IL.
Premieres
Works written for and played first at the Composers Forum
of the East were
Two Studies in Perpetual Motion,
for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin,
cello, and piano; and
Elegy for Littleton, Colorado,
for clarinet, violin, and cello. In St. Louis, MO, a Metro
Theater Company production included the premiere of
Music
for ICEMAN, Jan. 21-22, 2000, followed by shows in
Vidalia, GA, Jan. 25; Charlotte, NC, Jan. 28; and St.
Louis, Feb. 3-4.
Performances
1999 performances of
Caution to the Winds, for
piano and electronic tape, occurred with Anthony De Mare
at the Ultima Festival, Oct. 4 in Oslo, Norway; and with
Audrey Andrist on the CBC Galleria Concert Series, May
7 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Choreographed by Todd
Bolender, the State Ballet of Missouri danced to
Arena
(ballet for orchestra), with the Kansas City Symphony,
Oct. 2-10 and 26, 1999.
Publications
A Hint of Mischief, flute, clarinet, saxophone,
violin, piano, percussion, and cello solo;
Two Studies
in Perpetual Motion, flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass
clarinet, violin, cello, piano;
Elegy for Littleton,
Colorado; all by Cautious Music.
Recordings
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Richard Cass,
piano;
Concerto for Marimba (Eight Hands) and Orchestra,
Laurence Kaptain and Marimba Yajalon, marimbas;
Arena
(ballet for orchestra); all with the Czech National Symphony
Orchestra, Paul Freeman, conducting;
Albany
Records Paul Freeman Introduces the Music of James
Mobberley Troy 335.
Into the Maelstrom, for
piano and tape; Barry Hannigan;
Music from SEAMUS,
Vol. 9 EAM-9901.
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