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Annual American Composers Update
Edmund Cionek
Edmund Cionek lives in New York, NY, and composes for
both the concert hall and the theater. He teaches at
New York University and SUNY College at Purchase. In
May 2001, his woodwind-quintet arrangement of William
Grant Still's Rising Tide was played by the Quintet
of the Americas.
Premieres
Heard first at the Bar Harbor (ME) Music Festival was
Serenade for String Orchestra, with the Festival
orchestra, Francis Fortier, conductor and artistic director,
on July 24, 27, and 29, 2001. In New York, NY, The Accidentals
presented Re:genesis, for SATB choir and piano
(or orchestra), with Gerald Steichen at the piano, April
10, 2001; and Tribute to the 25th Anniversary of
the Gerald Ford Presidential Administration and
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, for SATB a cappella
choir, March 2000.
Performances
Percussion Symphony was played at the Bar Harbor
Music Festival in July 2000 by the Stusart Marrs Percussion
Ensemble. In October 2000, The Michele Brangwen Dance
Ensemble and Arthur Gottschalk included Whale-Tronica,
for saxophone quartet and electroacoustic environment,
featuring soprano saxophone soloist Scott Plugge, on
their Dance-Multi-media concert in Houston. Cionek's
New York performances included TRI-SCI-FI: A Chillogy
(The Five Faces of Horror", Henry David Thoreau:
One Step Beyond, Ed Wood: The Sinister Urge,"
and SPACE: an Opera in Capsule Form), at the
Laurie Beechman Theatre, April 2000; Boogie Woogie
Woogie, with pianist John Murphy, April 17, 2001;
and Jazz Fantasia, for SATB a cappella
choir, with The Accidentals, May 2001.
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