Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2005/10
From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Albany Records to Release =?windows-1252?Q?=93Pure_Colors=94_?=
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:49:52 -0400
October 21, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-797-9166 or jamesarts@-----.net
Albany Records to Release “Pure Colors” CD Featuring Six Works by Judith
Lang Zaimont, Including A New Solo Clarinet Piece and Others for Solo
Instruments and Small Chamber Ensembles
New York, NY – Albany Records has announced the November 1 release of
“Pure Colors” (Troy 785) – a new CD featuring six works by Judith Lang
Zaimont for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles.
CD highlights include the first recordings of the required competition
piece for the 2003 International San Antonio Piano Competition, works
for solo clarinet, solo cello and solo flute, and two small-ensemble
works that are already recital ‘hits’ (2005 National Flute Association,
and National Association of Teachers of Singing). The performers are
primarily Minnesota-based artists.
The works included on the composer-supervised release are:
WIZARDS - Three Magic Masters (2003) - Young-Ah Tak, piano
ASTRAL … a mirror life on the astral plane (2004) - John Anderson, clarinet
Virgie Rainey - Two Narratives for Soprano, Mezzo and Piano (2002) –
Wendy Zaro-Mullins, soprano, Jean del Santo, mezzo-soprano, Timothy
Lovelace, piano
Valse Romantique (1974) - Immanuel Davis, flute
‘Tanya’ Poems (1999) - 1:Couplet - 2: Sestina - Tanya Remenikova, cello
‘Bubble-Up’ Rag - Concertpiece for Flute and Piano (2001) - Immanuel Davis,
flute, Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano
The composer has written the following about this disk, “When a new
piece really clicks with the musicians preparing it for first public
performance there is a splendid side benefit to composer and performer
alike, and a boost to the potential for the music’s healthy after-life.
I’ve been fortunate throughout my three-decades’ teaching career to have
experienced performance collaborations involving my music with a goodly
number of top-rate faculty colleagues including the past 14 years at the
University of Minnesota, where I taught composition amidst a group of
performance faculty many of whom are notable interpreters, and eager
proponents, of the newest notes. This disc celebrates several mostly
“Minnesota” collaborations, centering on more recent solo works. Several
of these pieces received their premières in vital interpretations by the
same artists heard here.” Publisher information for the works is listed
below.
“Pure Colors” will be available at all fine record outlets and also
through Albany Records at http://www.albanyrecords.com/.
This recording was made possible in part by Scholar of the College of
Liberal Arts award to Judith L. Zaimont in recognition of her creative
accomplishments at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.
Composer Judith Lang Zaimont is internationally recognized for her
distinctive style, characterized by its expressive strength and
dynamism. Recent accolades include a 2003 Aaron Copland Award, and a
2005-6 Artists Fellowship from the Bush Foundation, and the 2006-7
Kaplan Foundation wind ensemble commission; appointments as Commissioned
Composer of the California Music Teachers Association, Commissioned
Composer for the International San Antonio Piano Competition, and
Honored Composer at the 11th Van Cliburn International Competition
(2001). Among her many earlier honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship,
artist’s grants from both National Endowments (Arts and Humanities), and
First Prize in the international 1995 McCollin Competition for Composers
(for “Symphony No. 1”, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1996).
Her music is widely performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and has
been recorded for the Naxos, Koch International Classics, Arabesque,
Milken Family Foundation, Albany, Jeanne, Leonarda, Northeastern, and
4Tay labels. Her principal publishers are MMB Music, Inc., Galaxy/ECS,
Vivace, Jeanné, C. F. Peters, Lyra and Walton.
Her music has been widely documented (12 doctoral papers to date), and
her biography is found in most standard reference works (e.g., New
Grove’s). Zaimont works are cited on two “Best of the 20th Century
lists” (Chamber Music America; Piano & Keyboard Magazine), and she is
the subject both of individual chapters in specialist volumes and major
articles in professional journals. Judith Zaimont also brings
outstanding academic credentials to her musical activities, having
served for many years as a distinguished composition teacher at New
York’s Queens College and Adelphi University, Baltimore's Peabody
Conservatory, and Minneapolis’s University of Minnesota School of Music.
More information about Ms. Zaimont, including sound clips of many of her
compositions, is available at her website http://www.jzaimont.com/.
She is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be
contacted at 516-797-9166 or at jamesarts@-----.
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ASTRAL, Valse Romantique and ‘Bubble-Up’ Rag are published by Jeanné,
Inc., on the Web at http://www.jeanne-inc.com.
WIZARDS- Three Magic Masters is published by Vivace Press, on the Web at
http://www.vivacepress.com.
‘Tanya’ Poems and Virgie Rainey - Two Narratives are issued through
American Music Center’s NewMusicJukeBox, on the Web at http://www.amc.net.
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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
316 Pacific St.
Massapequa Park, NY 11762 USA
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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