Dan Locklair**

Dan Locklair is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. He was featured in several 2005 radio broadcasts, including a Locklair profile on “In Person,” WDAV-FM, April 9; an all-Locklair chamber music concert on “Carolina Live” WDAV-FM, May 29; and on two different nationally-syndicated editions of NPR’s “With Heart and Voice,” which featured the composer’s choral works during the weeks of June 20 and July 4. He was the recipient of several prestigious commissions including Concerto for Harp (commissioned by Mary Bartlett, Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, and Appalachian State University), The Gift of Music (commissioned for the Tenth Anniversary of the Winston-Salem Children’s Chorus), Spreckels’ Fancy (commissioned by The Spreckels’ Organ Society for the 90th Anniversary year of the Spreckels’ Organ, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA), Chautauqua Soliloquy  (commissioned by David Levy for flutist Kathy Levy), and The Isaiah Canticles (commissioned by the South Bend Chamber Singers). Locklair’s primary publisher, Subito, has released a new issue of “Dan Locklair: Catalogue of Works,” which may be obtained free of charge from Subito: mail@subitomusic.com. You are invited to visit the composer’s website: www.locklair.com. Dan Locklair is representated by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, NY: James.arts@verizon.net.

Premieres

Harpist Jacquelyn Bartlett and the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of John Gordon Ross, gave the world premiere of Concerto for Harp and Orchestra on the April 16, 2005, subscription series concert performed at the First Baptist Church in Hickory, NC. The Gift of Music (for SSA chorus and piano, poetry by Fred Chappell) was first heard in a May 8 performance by the Winston-Salem Children’s Chorus, conducted by Barbara Beattie, at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC. San Diego Civic Organist Carol Williams premiered Spreckels’ Fancy on June 20 at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA on opening night. Chautauqua Soliloquy for flute and piano received its premiere July 3 by flutist Rick Sherman and pianist Scott Rednour, at Chautauqua (NY). The South Bend Chamber Singers, directed by Nancy Menk, presented The Isaiah Canticles (Three Canticles for SATB chorus, divisi, a cappella) on December 18, 2005 at the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, IN.

Performances

changing perceptions & EPITAPH, a six-movement choral cycle, was presented May 30, 2005, by the Carolina Voices Festival Singers conducted by Donna Hill, Spoleto USA, St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Charleston, SC. Organist James Kibbie performed Voyage on June 21 at the American Guild of Organists Great Lakes Regional Convention, St. Andrews Cathedral, Grand Rapids, MI. Jubilo for organ was heard in a July 9 performance by Quentin Faulkner at Schlosskirche, Wittenberg, Germany. The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, under the direction of John Scott, performed Brief Mass on November 24 at the St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Gloria (for SSAATTBB chorus, brass octet, and percussion), was heard at the 2005 Festival performed by the First Church Choir, conducted by James Cook, First United Methodist Church, Birmingham, AL.

Publications

The Gift of Music, SSA and piano; Ave Maria, SATB chorus, a cappella; Concerto for Harp and Orchestra; Spreckels’ Fancy, organ; Chautauqua Soliloquy, flute and piano; The Isaiah Canticles, SATB chorus; all by Subito. Dance the Joy appears in a British anthology for organ; United Music Publications, U.K., licensed by Subito.

Recordings

Mass for a Sacred Place, “Pater Noster;” Cathedral Choral Society conducted by J. Reilly Lewis, conductor); Arsis CD. My spirit sang all day…, “Pater Noster” and “Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God;”  Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham conducted by Rodney Wynkoop, Arsis CD. Sounds Phenomenal, “Rubrics,” organist Thomas Trotter; Birmingham Symphony (U.K.) CD.

***Sigma Alpha Iota National Arts Associate

Further Information

• 2003-2004 American Composers Update
• 2002-2003 American Composers Update
• 2001-2002 American Composers Update
• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online
• SAI's Music for Young People section