[Voxnovus] COMPOSER'S VOICE CONCERT FEATURING 15 MINUTES OF FAME WITH ALYSSA REIT HARP

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May 29, 2011 (NEW YORK, NEW YORK) Vox Novus in collaboration with the
Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Hus Church is proud to present the
Composer’s Voice chamber concert series Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:00 PM. 

This concert will feature the new contemporary music initiative,
15-Minutes-of-Fame performed and specifically written for harpist Alyssa
Reit. For more than 30 years Alyssa Reit has worked as an independent
performer, composer and arranger. She completed

her Bachelors and Master's degrees at the Juilliard School as a student of
the late Marcel Grandjany.  This 15-Minutes of Fame will feature the
composers: Douglas DaSilva, Murray Gross, Anton Killin, Fionna Linnane,
Charles N. Mason, Robinson McClellan, Richard Pressley, Malcolm Rector,
Alyssa Reit, Bob Siebert, Greg A. Steinke, Nolan Stolz, Gregoria Karides
Suchy, Luca Vanneschi, and Joshua Wise

The Composer’s Voice concert will present performances from the musicians
Mary Elizabeth Thompson and Cory Hills  playing the works of contemporary
composers: Malcom Dedman and Cory Hills, Carson Cooman, and Jorge Sosa

Carson Cooman is an American composer with a catalog of works in many forms;
his music has been performed on all six inhabited continents. Cooman's music
appears on over thirty recordings, including twelve complete CDs on the
Naxos, Albany, Artek, Altarus, and Zimbel labels. He serves as an active
consultant on music business matters to composers and performing
organizations.

Born in London Malcolm Dedman was initially self- taught, having started to
compose when he was 12. He has gained several composition awards, including
the Stroud Festival and the Recontres Internationales de Chant Choral.  He
has recently had a piece for two cellos and piano, written for Polina
Burdukova, performed in 2010 in South Africa, and he has written a Trio
Sonata for flute, cello and piano, again for Polina, which has been promised
a performance in 2011.

An advocate of new music, Hills has commissioned and premiered over 50 works
for solo percussion. He is the creator of The Percussive Art of
Storytelling, a percussion outreach program that brings classical music to
underserved communities. As a member of SI2, an interdisciplinary arts duo
with Matthew Coley, Hills has performed throughout the United States,
Mexico, and Eastern Europe. In addition, Hills sponsors the Con/un/drum
Composition Competition designed to increase repertoire for solo percussion.

Jorge Sosa is a contemporary classical music composer and Assistant
Professor of Music at Elmhurst College in the Chicago Suburbs. His
compositions have been performed in venues in Europe, the United States, and
Mexico. Jorge received his Doctorate of Music from the conservatory at the
University of Missouri, Kansas City, and his Masters of Music in Composition
from Mannes College of Music. Additionally, he has just released his first
album of works, entitled Plastic Time.

Flutist Mary-Elizabeth Thompson performs frequently as a solo and chamber
music artist, with recent performances in Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, New
York, South Carolina, and at the XXXI Foro Internacional de Música Nueva
Manuel Enríquez in Mexico City, Mexico. She is a strong advocate for new
music and has commissioned and premiered five works with more in progress.

Composer's Voice Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers
to express their musical aesthetic and personal "voice" created in their
compositions. Started in 2001, the "Composer's Voice" concert series has
presented over 60 concerts to date.  

 
Composer's Voice concert
Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:00 PM
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
351 E 74th St
New York, NY 10021-3798
Free Admission


www.janhus.org

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