Annual American Composers Update

Judith Lang Zaimont resides in suburban Minneapolis, MN. The all-Zaimont Zones CD was selected as one of five of the Year's Best/Want to Buy in Fanfare Magazine (Dec. 1997, critic John Story). At Copeland Elementary School in Houston, TX, Zaimont completed a year-long cyber-residency as Composer of the Year, including access to her Internet web site and contact through e-mail with students and teachers. Several of her short works were on the district-wide 1997-98 listening list. Katherine Boyes, of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, gave presentations on Zaimont's books of piano preludes, A Calendar Set and Calendar Collection, at the College Music Society regional conference (Mar.) and at Millsaps (MS) College (Nov.). In 1999, her scheduled residencies include Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Mar.); and 1999 Commissioned Composer at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls (Apr.), including the commission and premiere of a saxophone quartet, Parallel Play.

Zaimont's string orchestra work Elegy, commissioned by a consortium of chamber and string orchestras, is scheduled to be introduced by those groups, including an Apr. 3, 1999 performance with the Women's Philharmonic, in San Francisco.

From Dec. 1997 through June 1998, the Nevelson Duo, faculty members at Marshall University, in West Virginia, toured with Grand Tarantella, for violin and piano, in Pennsylvania, Boston, Rhode Island, Washington DC, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In 1998, Lori Bade, mezzo-soprano, and Steven Cohen, clarinet, played From the Great Land, for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, and piano, at the Louisiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, in Baton Rouge (Mar. 18); at Louisiana State University (Sept. 9); and at Tulane University (Oct. 14). K. Romey conducted the Minnesota Chorale in "Thou Shalt Love the Lord", from Sacred Service, Mar. 29, 1998 in Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall. Violinist Curtis Macomber, cellist Marion Feldman, and pianist Joanne Polk performed Zones -- Piano Trio No. 2, Apr. 2, 1998 in Merkin Hall, New York, NY. On Nov. 2, 1998, a Choral Society of Southern California all-Zaimont evening included choral works The Chase, Sunny Airs and Sober, and Meditations at the Time of the New Year; and Voices, for brass ensemble, percussion, synthesizer, choir, and soloists.

Snazzy Sonata -- An Entertainment for Two; piano four-hands; Hesitation Rag; piano solo; both by Vivace Press, Feb. 1998. ...3: 4, 5 ...; oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, bass viol; Jenné Music, Jan. 1998. From the Great Land; mezzo-soprano, piano, clarinet; Dance/Inner Dance; flute, oboe, cello; both Mar. 1998; Elegy; string orchestra; June 1998; all by Sounds Alive!.

Hesitation Rag, for piano; Virginia Eskin; Koch Spring Beauties -- Ragtime Project CD 3-7440-2H1.

• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• Composers Bureau Online.
• Judith Lang Zaimont's website.
• IAMA Series for Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc..
• SAI's Music for Young People section.