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The 2003 American Composers Update

as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

John H. Corina

John H. Corina was awarded second place for the signature anthem Cantate, for SSA choir and keyboard, for the Cantate Children’s Chorus, in Lynchburg, VA, to be premiered May 4, 2003.>  He also was the 2001 MTNA/GMTA Commissioned Composer.

Premieres

The work written for his MTNA/GMTA commission, Three Shakespeare Soliloquies for Soprano, Oboe, and Piano, had its first performances, with Ellen Ritchey, Woodwind Quartet with In Memoriam” Theodore premiered with the University of Georgia Woodwind Quartet, Year="2002" Day="27" Month="10">October 27, 2002.>  Psalm 46 for Chorus and Orchestra was introduced at the Charleston (SC) School of the Arts, Susan Johnson and Robin Rogers, conductors, December 12, 2002.

Performances

Heard at the University of Georgia, in Athens, in 2002 were Divertimento for Contrabassoon and Piano, with Bruce Gbur and Liana Embovica Revkin, at a guest recital, January 9; and Concerto for Symphonic Band, with the University of Georgia Wind Symphony, H. Dwight Satterwhite, conductor, April 24.>  The Baptism of Jesus, for SATB choir and organ, was presented at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, in Arlington TX, with Kathy Fox Powell, Choirmaster, and Linton Powell, organist, January 13 2002.  The College Music Society Southern Chapter meeting, held at Union University, in Jackson, TN, March 1, 2002, included Songs of Simms, for soprano, oboe, and piano, with Ritchey, Corina, and Stefanie Crumbley Dickenson.  In 2002, Four Sonatinas for Bassoon and Organ was played by William and Jolene Davis at Gordon College, in Georgia, April 5, and at an American Guild of Organists Northeast American Chapter program at Central Presbyterian Church, in Athens, August 11.  The Mystic Trumpeter, for bass-baritone, choir, two trumpets, percussion, and piano, was performed by Robert Holquist, the Western Carolina Community Chorus, James Dooley, director, Brad Ulrich, JeVone Primus, Mario Gaetano, and Barbara Dooley, at Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, NC, April 7, 2002.

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