as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Samuel Adler***

Premieres

SAI National Arts Associate Samuel Adler's Piano Quintet premiered at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, June 24, 2002.  Hans Graf led William VerMeulen and the Houston (TX) Symphony in the first performance of Concerto for Horn and Orchestra.

Performances

In Houston, the Rice Festival included Adler's Nuptial Scene, Piano Quintet, Canto XIV, and French Horn Sonata, October 22-31, 2002.  The Baldwin-Wallace Trio played Trio No. 1, for violin, cello, and piano, October 8, 2002, in Cleveland, OH.  Harlan Parker led the Peabody Chamber Winds in Music for Eleven, December 11, 2002, in Baltimore.  Under Stephen Davis, the University of Michigan Band performed Dawn to Glory, October 9, 2002.  The Amion Quartet presented String Quartet No. 4 in Birmingham, AL, October 7, 2002.

Publications

Concerto for Horn and Orchestra; Divertissement for Violin and Marimba; In Praise of Bach; organ; all by Theodore Presser.  The Organ is King; organ; Wayne Leupold Editions.

Recordings

Viola Concerto; Randolph Kelly and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandris Vilumenis, conductor; Concertino No. 3 and Time in Tempest Everywhere; the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and the Plymouth Trio; all by Albany Records.

***Sigma Alpha Iota National Arts Associate

Further Information

• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online.
• SAI's Music for Young People section