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October 5, 2008 4:00: The Art Complex
Museum, Duxbury, MA
Composers from the Living Composers: AnythingPiano Project (LCAPP) featured on the program Beth Anderson, Belgian Tango (1984) Beth Anderson's music has been described as having "a refreshing simplicity without naiveté" and as -"deeply felt, direct, and yes, beautiful" and "charming and deeply felt to the point of romanticism". Her latest CDs are a new recording by Nancy Boston of September Swale as part of American Women: Modern Voices in Piano Music and Quilt Music, a CD of chamber music for smaller ensembles. Ana Isabel Vargas Dengo, Oropéndolas: Theme and Variations Op. 275 (2006) Ana Isabel Vargas Dengo is a musical educator and a composer from San José, Costa Rica and is an active member of Asociación Mujeres Costarricenses en la Música, an association of women musicians (composers, performers, educators, and musicologists) in Rosta Rica. She comes from a musical family; her grandfather and her father both received their musical training in the United States. She has written more than 200 children's songs and about 60 piano pieces. The last few years she has been composing four-hand piano pieces. Por los senderos de Costa Rica is inspired by the wonderful nature you can see as you walk in the fields and woods from her land of Costa Rica. ana can be reached by email at: anaivd@hotmail.com. Donna Gross Javel, Fire Dance Duo (2007) Donna Gross Javel's Fire Dance Duo received its first performance on February 2, 2007, just a week or two after its completion. It was performed by Mary Jane Rupert and Tom Zeman at Madalen College, in New Hampshire, where Tom Zeman was acting as a visiting professor. Graham Howard, Short Piece No. 1(2003) Graham Howard was born in Penrith, Australia in 1973. In 1990 and 1991, he co-won the Sydney Symphony Orchestra School Composer's Competition. Graham completed a Bachelor of Music (Hons) at The University of Sydney in 1996, majoring in composition, studying with Anne Boyd, Ross Edwards and Peter Sculthorpe. Graham taught and lectured composition at The Australian International Conservatorium of Music in 2003, brass and composition at The King's School, Parramatta, from 2003 to 2005, and Organisational Psychology at The University of Western Sydney in 2006 and 2007. He is active as a freelance composer, conductor, trumpeter, teacher and photographer throughout NSW. Graham has been the photographer for The Nature Conservation Council of NSW since 2005, as well as a contributing photographer for The Wilderness Society since 2006. Edmund Jolliffe, Pagan Dance No. 3 (2002) Edmund Jolliffe is a British composer of music for the concert hall, television and theatre. His music has been performed in many prestigious venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Old Vic Theatre, Westminster Abbey, Jermyn Street Theatre, the National Portrait Gallery, the Red House at Aldeburgh and the Tate, Liverpool. It has also been performed as far afield as Michigan, Dallas and France. He has written television music for all the terrestrial channels in the United Kingdom and many of the Satellite Channels. His music for the Imagine programme 'Fantastic Mr Dahl' is now an added extra on the DVD to 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and is an in flight movie on American Airlines. He studied music at Oxford University and completed a Masters in Film Composition at the Royal College of Music under Joseph Horovitz. He also studied on the Advanced Composition Course at Dartington International Summer School under Pavel Novak in 2004 (supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust). Charles Smith, Samba in F-sharp Minor (1999) Charles Smith has a M.M. in Piano Performance and D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana. In 1988, he won first place in the Society of American Musicians (SAM) competition at Roosevelt University, in Chicago. In the same year, he won first place in the Classical Music and Composition categories in the ACT-SO competition in Chicago (African-American Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics). He then represented ACT-SO in the national Competition in Washington D.C. and won second place in Classical Music. In 1989, he took first place in the local competition in the same categories and represented ACT-SO in the National Competition in Detroit, Michigan. In 1990, he won the ACT-SO First Place Award in Musical Composition at the local level, and represented ACT-SO in the national competition in Los Angeles. Edson Zampronha, Composicão para Piano a Quatro Mãos (1985) Edson Zampronha has received two awards from the São Paulo Association of Art Criticism, Brazil. In 2005 he won, together with SCIArts Group, the 6th Sergio Motta Award, the most outstanding prize on Art and Technology in Brazil, for the installation Poetic Attractor. He has worked as a guest composer at LIEM-CDMC (Madrid), Phonos (Barcelona), the University of Birmingham (England). His compositions have been performed in many well known concerts and festivals: BEAST Concerts in Birmingham, Bourges Festival, Sonoimágenes in Buenos Aires, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella, JIEM-Madrid, and Brazilian Contemporary Music Biennial at Rio de Janeiro among others. He is Professor of Musical Composition at the São Paulo State University, Brazil and he is a Guest Professor at the Valladolid University, Spain. He has a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics - Arts - by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. His compositions are included in ten CDs released by different record labels and institutions. |