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I've been included in the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's new commissioning initiative, Project 440, which will eventually select four composers to write works for the orchestra's 2010-2011 season. It started with 60 nominations from established composers and industry experts, and you can view profiles, listen to excerpts and leave comments for all of us at www.wqxr.org/series/project440/2. A big thank you to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Artistic Programming Advisor Gerard McBurney for his nomination.
Skywriting for alto flute was performed by Peter Sheridan at California State University Northridge on April 28 and Portland State University on May 1.
Percussionist Jeremy Craycraft has commissioned a concerto for percussion and wind ensemble to be premiered on Friday, October 8, 2010 with the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory Wind Ensemble, led by music director and Professor of Conducting Dwight Oltman. Jeremy had previously commissioned Akom in 2008 and the wind ensemble at Baldwin-Wallace gave the premiere of Up with Maestro Oltman in 2005.
Peter Sheridan, professor at the University of Melbourne, founder of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet and one of the world's few experts on the low (and I mean low) flutes has commissioned a work utilizing the alto, bass, contrabass and sub-contrabass flutes, to be premiered in 2010.
Skywriting for solo alto flute has been slated for publication by Falls House Press and distribution by Theodore Presser. Falls House Press specializes in music for flute and represents many contemporary composers including Elliott Schwartz and Allan Blank.
Watch a video of the premiere of Akom, a work for percussion ensemble based on ceremonial music of Ghana. It is performed by the excellent hand drum ensemble of the College of St. Scholastica. The group is led by director and soloist Jeremy Craycraft, who commissioned the piece.
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