Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2010/02

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Music for Clarinet Choir by James Cohn on February 12 and 13 at Texas
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:57:26 -0500

February 10, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Music for Clarinet Choir by James Cohn on February 12 and 13 at Texas
Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio

Four works by New York City-based composer James Cohn will be presented
by the Belgian-based Claribel Clarinet Choir on Friday, February 12 and
Saturday, February 13 at the Texas Music Educators Association
Convention, to be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San
Antonio, Texas.

On February 12, Claribel will present Mr. Cohn’s Texas Suite
commissioned by their conductor, Maestro Guido Six, and God Bless
America, transcribed for the Choir by Mr. Cohn. This concert will
celebrate the composer’s 82nd birthday.

The February 13 concert will feature Caprice, again commissioned by
Maestro Six in 1999 for the International Clarinet Convention in Ostend,
Belgium, and an arrangement of Arkansas Reel, a quodlibet of Arkansas
Traveler and the Blue Mountain Boys Reel.

For more information about these performances and the TMEA Convention,
call 512-452-0710 or visit them at
http://www.tmea.org/Convention/index.html.

New York-based James Cohn has written solo, chamber, choral and
orchestral works. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for
his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for
his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). Paul
Paray and the Detroit Symphony introduced the composer's Symphony No. 3
and Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger", and his opera The Fall of
the City received its premiere in Athens, Ohio after winning the Ohio
University Opera Award. Naxos has released internationally a CD of his
Symphonies No. 2 and No. 7, along with his Variations on “The Wayfaring
Stranger” and Waltz in D -
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559376.

He has had many performances of his choral and chamber music, and
world-wide use of his music commissioned for television and cinema.
Commissions for other works have come from The McKim Fund in the Library
of Congress (for the Concerto da camera for Violin, Piano and Wind
Quintet), Pennsylvania's "Music At Gretna" festival (for the Mount
Gretna Suite, for chamber orchestra), Jon Manasse (for the Concerto No.
1 for Clarinet and Strings), Mirian Conti (for the Concerto for Piano
and Orchestra) and Jeffrey Silberschlag (for the Concerto for Trumpet
and Strings) and Claribel (the Belgian 30-piece clarinet ensemble) (for
the 3-movement suite Caprice). You can find more of his music on XLNT
Music at http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Label?&label_id=1257. Visit
him at http://www.jamesarts.com/CohnBio0202.htm.

For more about James Cohn, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at
516-586-3433 or 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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