Annual American Composers Update

Judith Lang Zaimont* resides in suburban Minneapolis, MN. Chamber Music America, which named her Doubles, for oboe and piano, to its "Century List," has awarded her a Millennium Commission for a string trio for Ensemble Capriccio to premiere at the Walker Art Gallery, in Minneapolis. In 1999, her essay, "Being a Composer -- Ruminations on an Undescribable Art," appeared in the American Composers Forum journal, Sounding Board (July), and a radio interview was recorded in San Francisco (May) to be published in Mississippi Rag.

Elegy, for symphonic strings, has its world premiere in Mar. 1999 with the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of Raffael Adler, and was heard in June 1999 in Moscow, Russia with the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra under Misha Rachlevsky. Parallel Play (Fanfare, Folksong, and Folderol), commissioned by the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, was heard first there in Apr. 1999, followed by its European premiere at the Fiuggi (Italy) Donne in Sax festival, Sept. 1999, and at a Merkin Hall, New York, NY performance in Feb. 2000. Conducted by Nick Strimple, La Vie Ensemble gave the first West Coast performance of Meditations at the Time of the New Year, for choir and two percussion, in May 1999.

Zaimont's music is heard across the United States and Europe.

Parallel Play; Folk-Song Fantasy; clarinet quartet; both from Jeanné, Inc. Remember Me -- Symphony No. 2 (Ghosts, Elegy, and Dancin' Over my Grave); string orchestra; Sounds Alive! Jupiter's Moons (The Moons Swim in Orbit, Europa, Leda, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto); piano; Vivace Press.

Symphony No. 1, Elegy, and Monarchs; all with the Czech Radio Orchestra, Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors; on Arabesque reSOUNDings: Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont CD, spring 2000. Three choruses from Sacred Service (Meditations at the Time of the New Year, The Chase, and Sunny Airs and Sober); Choral Society of Southern California, Nick Strimple, conductor; 4-Tay Recordings Radiance: Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont CD 4013, Oct. 1999.

• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• Pan Pipes' 1996-1997 Annual Composer Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online
• SAI's Music for Young People section.