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The 2005 American Composers Updateas published in PAN PIPES, Volume 97, Number 2 Samuel JonesSamuel Jones will serve for his eighth year as Composer in Residence of the Seattle (WA) Symphony Orchestra during the 2004-2005 season. He was honored by the Conductors Guild at its National Conference in January 2004, with a session devoted entirely to his music. He was a faculty member of the Conductors Institute of South Carolina in June 2004. His next commission is for a tuba concerto for Christopher Olka, to be performed by the Seattle Symphony during the 2005-2006 season. PremieresThe revised edition of The Seas of God was premiered November 4-6, 2004, by the Seattle (WA) Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, under the direction of Gerard Schwarz. PerformancesThe Junior Mendelssohn Choir and Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Page, presented The Trumpet of the Swan on March 7 and 13, 2004, in Pittsburgh, PA. A Symphonic Requiem (Variations on a Theme of Howard Hanson) was performed August 1 by the World Youth Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz, Interlochen, Michigan. Janus was heard in a June performance at the Conductors Institute of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, Donald Portnoy, director. Sonata for Cello and Piano, Piano Sonata, Spaces for Unaccompanied Cello and Narrator, Aurum Aurorae, Two Movements for Harpsichord, and A Parliament of Owls were all performed on February 10, 2005, by the faculty and ensembles of the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX. Machines (Suite No. 2 from Roundings) and Janus, were presented February 11 and 13 by the Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra and Shepherd Chamber Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conducting, Rice University. PublicationsThe Seas of God (text Walt Whitman), revised edition; Campanile Music Press/Carl Fischer. RecordingsEudora’s Fable: The Shoe Bird, Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conductor. Further Information
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