Klarinet Archive - Posting 000206.txt from 2009/03

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Chamber Music of Joelle Wallach Featured on April 1 at Women Composers
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:41:34 -0400

March 30, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Chamber Music of Joelle Wallach Featured on April 1 at Women Composers
Concert in Jersey City, New Jersey

Joelle Wallach’s After Alcyon's Dream for clarinet, viola and piano will
be featured at the Concert of Music by Women Composers on Wednesday,
April 1 – 7:30 PM at Ingalls Recital Hall of New Jersey City University,
2039 Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City, New Jersey. The concert is
sponsored by the Sisters of Sigma Alpha Iota.

The piece will be performed by Joseph D'Auguste, clarinet, Jordan
Tarantino, viola and Gary Hammond, piano. It is based on the myth of
Ceyx and Alcyone, first recorded by Ovid, the Roman poet born in 43 B.C.
Complete program notes can be read at
http://www.joellewallach.com/after_alcyons_dream.html.

The program will also feature works by Marianne Von Martinez, who
performed with W.A. Mozart in one of his four-hand piano sonatas; Fanny
Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Teresa Carreño, Cécile Chaminade,
Amy Marcy Beach, Lili Boulanger and Faye-Ellen Silverman. These will be
performed by NJCU music students and faculty.

The April 1 concert is free and open to the public. For more information
about this concert, call (201)674-4923 or visit NJCU at
http://web.njcu.edu/perlcal/calendar/.

Joelle Wallach composes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo
voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers
Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York
Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys,
written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral
Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for
200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season in
Carnegie Hall. Wallach’s early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon
and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division. In 1984
the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano,
granted her its first doctorate in composition.

Joelle Wallach is currently composing Runes and Ritual, a commission
from the James Piano Quartet. A new orchestral project is underway with
a consortium of six orchestras spearheaded by California’s Napa Valley
Symphony, Asher Raboy, Music Director, as well as the Champaign-Urbana
and Rockford Symphony Orchestras, both led by Music Director Steven
Larsen. Read The Dream of Now, Wallach’s newsletter at
http://jamesarts.com/releases/feb09/JW_nws_021509.pdf. More about her at
http://www.joellewallach.com/.

Ms. Wallach is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be
contacted at 516-586-3433 or at jamesarts@-----.

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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com

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