Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2005/03

From: TBPiercy@-----.com
Subj: [kl] NYC Concert Invitation
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:29:56 -0500

Below is information about a NYC concert featuring works for clarinet, woodwind quintet and piano with qoodwind quartet.

I have a few more complimentary tickets available for this concert. If you would like a ticket (or 2), please e-mail me before Monday evening, March 21, and I can add your name to the guest list.

Mr. Lees will be in attendance and we look forward to seeing some of the Klarinet peeps at the concert.
Tom Piercy

This concert will be the culmination of a series of New York performances of Benjamin Lees’ music, including a March 10 performance by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a March 17 all-Lees recital by pianist Judith Olson, and a March 20 performance by the American Chamber Ensemble.

"Premieres and Reintroductions" - a concert of the music of Benjamin Lees.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 8 PM
Faust Harrison Pianos
205 West 58th Street in Manhattan
(For complimentary tickets, please contact me directly at tbpiercy@-----.com)

"Premieres and Reintroductions" - a concert of the music of Benjamin Lees.
Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Judith Olson, piano
Barbara Ann Martin, soprano
Mirian Conti, piano
Intrepid Quintet
Maureen Keenan flute
Sarah Loveland, oboe
Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Daniel Liao, bassoon
Kristin Mozeiko, horn

Two Miniatures for woodwind quintet (1974; World Premiere)

Sonata for clarinet and piano (2005; World Premiere)

Paumanok for soprano and piano (1979)

Tableau for two pianos (2003; New York Premiere)

Three Variables for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano (1955; New York Premiere)

Grammy-nominated composer Benjamin Lees attended the University of Southern California; later he began four years of private study with the composer George Antheil. In 1953, he was the first recipient of the Fromm Foundation Award; that award, and the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships, took him to Europe, where he remained for seven years. He taught at the Peabody Conservatory, the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and Queens College, New York.

His works have been performed by orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra. Major soloists have included Ian Hobson, Emanuel Ax, Gary Graffman, Henryk Szeryng, Elmar Oliveira, Maureen Forrester, Tokyo String Quartet, Juilliard String Quartet, Budapest String Quartet and Cypress String Quartet, with the latter group involved in a project of recording all the composer's quartets.

His recorded works include the Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel; Passacaglia for Orchestra with the Oregon Symphony; the Violin Sonatas 1,2 & 3 with soloist Ellen Orner; Piano Sonata #4,Mirrors, and Fantasy Variations are on Albany Records featuring pianist Ian Hobson; the Piano Concerto #2 with pianist Ian Hobson and the Albany Symphony Orchestra; the newly-released two-CD album containing the Symphony nos. 2,3 & 5 with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz; the Symphony #4 "Memorial Candles" is on the Naxos label with the Orchestra of the Ukraine and mezzo Kimball Wheeler while the Violin Concerto has been recorded by Vox with soloist Ruggiero Ricci and the American Symphony Orchestra.

His honors include two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fromm Foundation Award, Sir Arnold Bax Medal, (London), Fulbright Fellowship, Copley Foundation Award, and a 2004 Grammy Nomination for his Symphony No.5.

You can find more information about Benjamin Lees at www.benjaminlees.com.

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