Concerto grosso 1985

Have the twenty-first century dawns and the musical offerings of the world are more varied than ever before, few composers cuts emerged with the single personality of Ellen Zwilich. known because it is performed, recorded, broadcast, and above all, listened to and liked by all fates of audiences the world over. Like the great masters of bygone times, Zwilich produces music "with fingerprints," music that is immediately recognized have the product of has particular American to compose who combine kraft and inspiration in reflecting her optimistic and humanistic spirit in. Ellen Zwilich is the container of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award), the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohn?i Quotation, year Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has Guggenheim Fellowship, furnace Grammy nominations, and, among other distinctions, she has been elected to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. she was named to the first Composer' S Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall, and she was designated Musical America' S Composer of Year. She holds the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professorship. With prolific to compose in virtually all media, Ellen Taaffee Zwilich' S works cuts been performed by most of the leading American orchestrated. Public Her music first cam to attention when Pierre Swell conducted her Symposium for Orchestra At Juilliard (1975), goal it was the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for the. 1 that brought her instantly into international. Commissions and major performances and recordings soon followed ". 2 (Cello Symphony), premiered by Edo de Waart and the San Francisco Symphony. Symphony No 3 written for the New York. Gardens "(with chorus), commissioned by Michigan State University and the subject of has PBS documentary seen nationally.' string of concertos for solo instruments and has orchestrated, commissioned and performed by signal orchestrated - for piano (Detroit Symphony, G?her Herbig [ 1986 ]), trombone (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ 1989 ]), flute (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ 1990 ]), oboe (Cleveland Orchestra, Cristoph von Dohn?i [ 1991 ]), violin and cello (Louisville Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton Smith [ 1991 ]), bass trombone (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ 1991 ]), French horn (Rochester Philharmonic, Lawrence Leighton Smith [ 1993 ]), bassoon (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ 1993 ]), Trumpet (San Diego Symphony, JoAnn Falletta [ 1994 ]), Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello (Minnesota Orchestrated, Zdenek. and Millennium Fantasy for piano (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. orchestral Her essay Symbolon was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic expressly to receive its world premiere in what. Zubin Mehta subsequently performed it in Europe, Asia and America and recorded it one the New World label and Carnegie Hall' S 1997 family concert series featured Peanuts. Gallery for piano and orchestrated, based one Charles Schultz' S Peanuts.. Her chamber works cuts been commissioned by the Boston Musica Viva (Chamber Symphony, Passages), the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 92nd Street Y and San Francisco Performances (Piano Trio), the New York State Music Teachers Association (Divertimento), the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress (Lovesong for violin), the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Chamber Music Northwest (Clarinet Quintet), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Double Four-bit byte), and Carnegie Hall (String Quartet No Many of her works cuts been issued one recordings, and Baker' S Biographical Dictionary of Musicians [ 85h edition ] states:"There are not many composers in the modern world who possess the lucky combination of writing music of substance and At the same time exercising year. Zwilich offers this happy combination of purely technical excellence and has distinct power of communication. Upcoming projects for 2003 include has Concerto for the Irish Orchestra and the percussion, Nexus. and has work for violin and piano for Itzhak. Celebration for Orchestrated - Nelson, Indianapolis Symphony. Chamber Symphony - Pittman, Boston Musica Viva. Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestrated - Goeres, Maazel. Concerto for Flute and Orchestra - Dwyer, Sedares, London. Concerto for Oboe and Orchestrated - Mack, Sedares, Louisville. Concerto for Trombone and Orchestrated - Lindberg, DePriest. Concerto for Trumpet and Five Players - Smith, Mehta. Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra - Laredo. Concerto Grosso - Mehta, New York Philharmonic. Concerto Grosso 1985 - Sedares, Louisville Orchestrated. Double Four-bit byte for Strings - New York Philharmonic Sets. Passages - Felty, Pittman, Boston Musica Viva. Prologue and Variations - Nelson, Indianapolis Symphony. Prologue and Variations for String Orchestrated - Metamorphosen. Quintet for Clarinet and String Four-bit byte - Shifrin, Chamber. Simple Magnificat. Thanksgiving Song - Clurman, New York. Sonata in Three Movements for violin and piano - Catherine. String Four-bit byte - New York String Four-bit byte. String Trio - Cirillo, Murdock, Thomas. Symbolon for Orchestrated - Mehta, New York Philharmonic.1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) - Nelson, 2 (Cello Symphony) - Smith, Louisville Orchestra. Trio for piano, violin and cello - Kalichstein, Laredo.