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Annual American Composers Update
Elizabeth R. Austin**
Elizabeth R. Austin has received a residency in Bellagio,
Italy, for September 2001 through The Rockefeller Foundation;
her main project will be the composition of a commissioned
piano sonata. An interview and broadcast of selected works
was heard on WNIB, Chicago in January 2001 directed by
Bruce Duffie. Her music also was featured in a broadcast
and in the journal of the MDR (Mittel Deutsche Rundfunk),
Leipzig, Germany in May 2001. She has been elected President
of Connecticut Composers for another two-year term.
Premieres
On November 11, 2000, A Triadic Tribute, for
brass quintet and organ, commissioned by the Connecticut
State Music Teachers Association, received its first
performance from Thread City Brass and David Spier,
November 11, 2000, in Manchester, CT. Frauenliebe
und -leben ("A Woman's Love and Life,"
poetry by Adelbert von Chamisso), for mezzo-soprano
and piano, premiered at the College Music Society International
Conference, June 6, 2001, in Limerick, Ireland, with
Sylvia McClain and the composer.
Performances
A GEDOK concert included Gathering Threads,
for solo clarinet, March 11, 2001, in Mannheim, Germany.
At a New York Women Composers program at Manhattanville
College, in Purchase, NY, cellist Christopher Oldfather
and pianist Lisa Bressler performed Circling,
March 11, 2001. Accompanied by pianist Estrid Ekloff,
soprano Denise Walker sang Three Sandburg Songs,
March 14, 2001, at Hampshire College. Part of the Hartford
(CT) Copland Celebration, a Connecticut Composers concert
featured Showings (13th-century texts by Julian of Norwich),
for soprano, trombone, and piano, with Stella Roden,
George Sanders, and Austin, May 13, 2001, at Bushnell
Memorial. J. Michele Edwards conducted Homage for
Hildegard, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and chamber
ensemble, with soloists Judy May and Randall Bennett,
June 10, 2001, at an International Alliance for Women
in Music concert at the National Museum of Women in
the Arts, in Washington, DC.
**Sigma Alpha Iota Laureate Member
Further Information
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