Annual American Composers Update
Nancy Van de Vate
In 2000, Nancy Van de Vate spoke at the New Methods of
Music Analysis conference, in Samorin, Slovakia (May);
at a Salzburg (Austria) Kulturspur Musikverein panel (Oct.);
and at the College Music Society (CMS) Millennium Conference,
in Toronto (Nov.). Also in 2000, she won the Wellesley
College Alumnae Achievement Award and received Austrian
Foreign Ministry travel grants. During 1999-2000, broadcasts
of her work aired on the Austrian National Radio. She
was the only composer from Austria invited to compose
a work for the Vatican Jubilee 2000. President of
Vienna
Modern Masters and
Vienna
Masterworks, she teaches composition for the Indiana
University School of Music's Junior Year in Vienna program,
and is a nominator for the Kyoto Prize in Music.
Premieres
The
Concert Suite from "Nemo," was heard first
in June 2000, in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, with the
Moravian Philharmonic, Toshiyuki Shimada, conductor; Andrea
Kotulanova, soprano; Zoltan Korda, tenor; Marek Olbrzymek,
baritone; and Adriana Hlavsova, mezzo-soprano. In Oct.
2000, Italy's Orchestra Nuova Scarlatti di Napoli, Daniele
Moles, conductor, presented
The Four Moods of Mechthild:
Suite for String Orchestra at Rome's Basilica di Santa
Maria sopra Minerva, and at the Naples Cathedral. Ensemble
MW2, Adam Kaczynski, director, introduced
Music for
MW2, Mar. 2000 in Krakow, Poland. At the CMS Millennium
Conference, the premiere of
Venal Vera: Ode to a Gezira
Lovely, a music theater piece for soprano, bass clarinet
and percussion, featured soprano Michelle Vought.
Performances
Other works heard at the CMS Millennium Conference were
A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum, for soprano
and tape, and
Cocaine Lil, both with Vought; and
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, with the Louisiana
State University Piano Trio.
A Night in the Royal Ontario
Museum, sung in 2000 by Barbara Pietrzak in Krakow
(Mar.), and in Seoul, Korea (Oct.); and by Vought at Mercer
(GA) University (Feb.) and at Illinois State University
(Mar.); will be heard Mar. 2001 at Eastern Kentucky University,
with Vought. In 2000,
Gema Jawa had performances
in Austria in Salzburg, with Die Junge Philharmonie, Elisabeth
Fuchs, conductor (Oct.); and in St. Pölten, with
the First Women's Chamber Orchestra of Austria (Nov.).
Mar. 2000 performances in Krakow included
Teufelstanz,
with the Krakow Percussion Ensemble; and
String Quartet
No. 1, Music for Viola, Percussion and Piano, Sonata for
Harpsichord, Fantasy for Harpsichord, and
Trio
for Strings, with Ensemble MW2 members. In Mar. 2001
at Eastern Kentucky State University, Vought will present
Cocaine Lil and
Venal Vera: Ode to a Gezira
Lovely.
Publications
The Four Moods of Mechthild: Suite for String Orchestra,
Venal Vera: Ode to a Gezira Lovely, Concert Suite from
"Nemo," and
Twelve Pieces for Piano on One to Twelve
Notes, Vol. II; all by
Vienna
Masterworks.
Recordings
Nemo: Jenseits von Vulkania; four-act opera;
Opera
and Music Theater, Vol. II VMM
4002, two CD's;
The Death of the Hired Man; Venal Vera:
Ode to a Gezira Lovely; In the Shadow of the Glen;
all on
Opera and Music Theater, Vol. III VMM
4003;
Divertimento for Harp and String Quintet; Seven
Fantasy Pieces for Violin and Piano, Two German Songs;
Twelve Pieces for Piano on One to Twelve Notes, Vol. II;
VMM 2034;
all by
Vienna
Modern Masters.
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