Classics 2012-2013 Biographies - The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

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Trombone Times Three Fri, Nov. 16, 10:30am Sat, Nov. 17, 8pm Sun, Nov. 18, 2:30pm JoAnn Falletta, conductor Jonathan Lombardo, tenor trombone Timothy Smith, tenor trombone Jeffrey Dee, bass trombone PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” ERIC EWAZEN Triple Trombone Concerto (World Premiere) BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 http://www.ericewazen.com/new/index.php Eric Ewazen is an important American composer active in the latter twentieth and early twenty first centuries. He has demonstrated considerable versatility in his output, producing orchestral, piano, vocal, chamber, and various other works. He has favored brass and wind instruments in many of his compositions, however, and exhibits a unique style often tinged with the spirit of Copland, Creston, and other iconic American composers, and a melodic facility one critic compared to Prokofiev's, not that there is anything particularly Russian about his music. Ewazen was born in Cleveland on March 1, 1954. He enrolled at the Eastman School of Music in 1972 and after graduating went on to Juilliard, where he earned a doctorate degree. Among his teachers were Milton Babbitt, Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Gunther Schuller. He was active in composition even in his student years, turning out such works as Dagon for 5 cellos (1973), Psalm 90 for baritone, horn and piano (1977), and Kronos for brass quintet and tympani (1979). After receiving a BMI Award for Dagon, Ewazen continued with a string of composition prizes, his harvest including a Louis Lane Prize (1974) and Howard Hanson Prize (1976). Ewazen joined the faculty at Juilliard in 1980 and serves as professor of composition there. He remained active in composition with highly successful works like the Colchester Fantasy for brass quintet and Ballade for clarinet, harp, and strings, both from 1987, and the American Indian-‐inspired 1996 work Shadowcatcher for brass quintet and orchestra, regarded by many critics as one of his finest compositions. From the 1980s onward Ewazen extended his ties to education and to actively promoting serious music in general by accepting numerous invitations to appear at universities in the United States and abroad, including Curtis, Peabody, Boston Conservatory, the Santa Cruz Conservatory, and the Birmingham Conservatory in England. In addition, in 1992 Ewazen became a lecturer for the New York Philharmonic Musical Encounters program. Ewazen has garnered numerous prestigious commissions in the new century, including a pair on patriotic subjects: Legacy (2000), for the Bi-‐Centennial of West Point, and Flight (2001), for the U.S. Air Force Band in Langley, VA. His later works include Rhapsody for trumpets and orchestra, whose successful 2005 premiere he attended in Bangkok, Thailand. Eric Ewazen was born in 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio. Receiving a B.M. At the Eastman School of Music, and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from The Juilliard School, his teachers include Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner and Gunther Schuller. He is a recipient of numerous composition awards and prizes. His works have been commissioned and performed by many soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras in the U.S. and overseas. His works are recorded on Summit Records, d'Note Records, CRS Records, New World, Clique Track, Helicon, Hyperion, Cala, Albany and Emi Classics. Two of his solo CD's featuring his chamber music are available on Well-‐Tempered Productions. Three additional solo CD's, one featuring his orchestral music, another his music for low brass instruments, and a third, his music for string orchestra, are available on Albany Records. A sixth solo Cd of his music for percussion is available on Resonator Records. New World Records has released his concerto for brass quintet, "Shadowcatcher" with the American Brass Quintet and The Juilliard Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mark Gould of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Individual works of Eric Ewazen have recently been released by the Ahn Trio, Julie Giacobassi of the San Francisco Symphony, Charles Vernon of the Chicago Symphony, Koichiro Yamamoto of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Ronald Barron of the Boston Symphony, Doug Yeo of the Boston Symphony, Steve Witser of the Cleveland Orchestra, Joe Alessi and Philip Smith of the New York Philharmonic, the Horn Section of the New York Philharmonic, the Summit Brass Ensemble and the American Brass Quintet. His music is published by Southern Music Company, International Trombone Association Manuscript Press, Keyboard Publications, Manduca Music, Encore Music, Triplo Music, and Brass Ring Editions. Recent works include "Legacy" commissioned for the Bi-‐Centennial of West Point and performed by the USMA Band in Carnegie Hall and "Flight", commissioned
y the USAF Heritage of America Band at Langley AFB, VA, celebrating the 100th anniversary of powered flight. Recent premieres of his Orchestral and Wind Ensemble works have been given by the Charleston (SC) Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife in Spain, Orquesta Sinfonica Carlos Chavez in Mexico City, Orchestre de la Garde Republicaine in Paris, the Jeju Music Festival Wind Ensemble in Korea and the Moment Musicale Orchestra of Taiwan. Recent Wind ensemble premieres include his Bassoon Concerto for the University of Florida, a Euphonium Concerto (for Robert Grechesky and the Butler University Wind Ensemble), “Visions of Light” for Joseph Alessi and the Indiana University Wind Ensemble. He was also commissioned to write a Trumpet Concerto, "Danzante", for Allen Vizzutti by CBDNA which was premiered in Reno, NV in March, 2004 by the Intercollegiate Wind Ensemble. In January “Southern Landscapes” was premiered by the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble at the GMEA in Savannah. Orchestral performances of Mr. Ewazen's music have recently been given by the Juilliard Symphony, Stow Chamber Orchestra (OH), Flower Mound Chamber Orchestra (TX), Birmingham (UK) Philharmonic, Illinois Symphony, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Le'Zion, Honolulu Symphony, Mankato (MN) Symphony and the Everett (WA) Symphony. He has been a guest at almost 100 Universities and colleges throughout the world in recent years including, Curtis, Eastman, Peabody, Indiana U., UCLA, U. of Texas, U. of Hawaii, Birmingham (UK) Conservatory, the Conservatory of Santa Cruz (Spain) and Boston Conservatory. During the past season, he has been a guest at Appalachian State U., Tenn. Tech. U., Murray State, U. of MI, Emory University, Laval University in Quebec, U. of GA, U. of Washington in Seattle, Rutgers, Butler U., University of Northern Iowa, Brevard College, U. of MI and Cal. Poly Tech. Also during the past season, his music has been performed by the Orchestre National de Lille in France, the Milano Classica Sinfonica in Italy, the Brisbane Philharmonic in Australia, South Arkansas Symphony, Stow Chamber Orchestra, the Midland-‐Odessa Symphony, and in June he will be a guest at the 2005 International Trumpet Guild Festival, held at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, where his Rhapsody for trumpets and orchestra will be premiered by the Bangkok Philharmonic. In July he will be a guest at the WASBE (World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles) in Singapore, where his music will be performed by the University of Florida. During the 2005-‐2006 season, the Alabama Symphony will be premiering a song cycle for Soprano and Orchestra, the U. of NC-‐Pembroke will be premiering a new work for chorus and wind ensemble, and there will be concerts of his music in the Loire Valley in France in April, 2006. He has been lecturer for the New York Philharmonic's Musical Encounters Series, Vice-‐President of the League of Composers-‐-‐International Society of Contemporary Music, and Composer-‐In-‐Residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City. He has been a faculty member at Juilliard since 1980.
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