Stephen Chatman

Selected 2007 - 2008 Performances of Works (in approximate order of significance)

1. Tara’s Dream, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Jacques Lacombe, conductor, Salle Wilfred-Pelletier, Place de Arts, Montreal, February 5 & 7, 2008

2. Tour: Proud Music of the Storm, 250 performers-Orpheus Choir of Toronto, London Pro Music Choir, Amabile Boys Treble Choir, Orchestra London, Ken Fleet, conductor, paired with premiere of Sir Paul McCartney’s, Ecce Cor Meum, 2007, October 27-London, On., November 3-Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Toronto; November 4- Lake St. Armoury, St. Catherines, On.

3. Proud Music of the Storm, Grand Philharmonic Choir, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Howard Dyck, conductor, Centre in the Square, Kitchener, Ontario, October 13, 2007

4. Premiere: Concerto for Clarinet, Violin and Orchestra, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Walter Verdehr, members of Vancouver Symphony, Lonnie Klein, conductor, Canadian premiere-International Clarinet Association conference, Chan Centre, Vancouver, July 7, 2007, American premiere- Las Cruces Symphony, Lonnie Klein, conductor, Las Cruces, New Mexico, February 16,17, 2008.

5. Premieres: 6 separate works for SATB Chorus: On the Beach at Night Alone, Bitter for Sweet, The Voice of the Rain, Unseen Buds, Woodland Bells, Autumn Violets. 2 works for voice and piano: The Grass so Little has to do, Will there really be a Morning; Acadia Choral Society, Shirley Smith, director, “Stephen Chatman’s Nature Songs”, St. Saviour’s Church, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 5 & 6, 2007.

David Conte
David Conte's website now features audio samples from many of his ECS works, including selections from his operas, his contributions to the ECS Opera Anthologies, as well as assorted works. You can listen at: http://davidconte.net/audio.html.

Texas Music Educator's Association
All-state Men's Chorus; performance of "Student Song" from "Carmina Juventutis"
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX
for more information: http://www.tmea.org/Convention/index.html

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Dallas Arts District Chorale, Michie Akin, conductor
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Performance of "The Nine Muses" and other choral works. This event coincides with the DMA’s exhibition of works by “proto-impressionist” J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851).
for more information: http://www.artsdistrictchorale.org/documents/ADC2007-08-SeasonofLight-R1.pdf

USC, Los Angeles
Lecture: "America Tropical: Creating a New Opera"
with librettist Oliver Mayer
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Friday, May 9th, 8PM
Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Sixth Biannual Choral Composition Competition, SFCM students

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus 30th Anniversary Concert
Community Women's Orchestra
Kathleen McGuire, conductor
new work for Men's Chorus and Orchestra
Friday, May 16th, 2008 8PM

James Eakin III
The documentary The Power of Harmony, featuring James Eakin III’s original score as well as original songs, aired nationally on PBS during the month of June and had over 11,000,000 viewers. The film was met with rave reviews and aired in almost all markets except Louisiana.

Eakin has also been appointed Assistant Director of the Susan and Ford Schumann Film Scoring program at the Aspen Music Festival & School, where he taught side-by-side this year with John Corigliano and next year will do so with Philip Glass and Chris Young (Spiderman 3 and Ghost Rider).

Armonia, the 12-voice professional choir that Eakin sings with, has been invited to sing at the National ACDA convention in Miami and will perform a new work that he will compose for that occasion. 

Finally, the dates for the performance of Flowers on the Grave of War (forty-five minute work for the Turtle Creek Chorale, Texas Boy's Choir, three soloists - soprano, mezzo, tenor - and full orchestra) have been set: Friday, June 22, 2007 and Sunday, June 24, 2007 at the Meyerson Symphony Center. There is also a strong possibility of  a performance of the work with the Boston Gay Men's Chorus.

Paul Gibson
Gibson's new setting of a medieval carol text, It Fell Upon the High Midnight, was one of two winners in the 2005 Christmas Carol Composition Competition, co-sponsored by VocalEssence and the American Composers Forum. The outstanding choral group VocalEssence, led by Philip Brunelle, will perform the piece four times at their traditional "Welcome Christmas!" programs. The solo cellist will be Anthony Ross, principal cellist of the Minnesota Orchestra. These concerts will be recorded by Minnesota Public Radio for future broadcast. See performance details at this site: http://www.vocalessence.org/concerts/4christmas.php.

Joel Hoffman
Joel Hoffman is currently working on three new commissions: a new work for the premiere new music ensemble eighth blackbird, commissioned by the University of Cincinnati; a new work for the Amernet String Quartet, commissioned by the Caramoor Festival of New York and a new work for men's choir and two harps to be performed by the Washington (DC) Camerata, commissioned by James Pinkerton.

Stanley Hoffman
Stanley Hoffman's unpublished 1985 composition Anim Zemiros (A Hymn of Glory), an original setting of a traditional Hebrew Shabbat prayer for SATB chorus (divisi) unaccompanied, has won a third place prize in the 2008 Choral Composition Competition sponsored by The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor. In addition to a cash award to be presented to the composer, Anim Zemiros will receive its world premiere performance on January 11, 2009, in New York City.

Karel Husa
April 2008
7 CHEETAH for Wind Ens.,E.Corporon Conductor,UNT Wind Ensemble “ CONCERTINO for Piano,Mei-En Chou,soloist “ “ “
8 AL FRESCO for Wind Ens.Lisbon Conservatory.F.Hauswirth,Cond.Portugal
8- LANDSCAPES for Brass Quintet, Western Brass Quintet, on tour,Texas
12 CHEETAH for Wind Ens.,S.Peterson,Arizona St.Univ.,Tempe AZ
25 FIVE POEMS FOR WIND QUINTET,Imani Winds, Westport CT
28 MUSIC FOR PRAGUE 1968, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Tatsua Shimono, conductor, Japan

MAY 2008
1,2,3 CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA, Ilja Gringolts, soloist, N.C. Symphony, Grant Llewellyn, Cond., Duke Univ. and Raleigh,NC
10 CHEETAH for Wind Ensemble, M. Crompton, Cod. Pacific Symph.Wind Ens., Delta,BC,Canada
8-14 THREE STUDIES for solo clarinet, “International Clarinet Competition, Prague 60th Spring Fest.”, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Rep.
12 LES COULEURS FAUVES Mallory Thompson, Cond. Northwestern Wind Sy &
16 MUSIC FOR PRAGUE 1968 Mallory Thompson, Cond., Northwestern Univ. Wind Wind Ensemble,Chicago, IL
18 CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA, Luis Morales, soloist, Orquesta Filarmonica Nacional de Venezuela,Mtr German Caceres,Cond.,XV Latin American Festival, Caracas, Venezuela
23 CHEETAH for Wind Ens., Robert Reynolds,National College Wind Ens. Carnegie Hall, New York NY

JUNE 2008
20-21 MUSIC FOR PRAGUE 1968, Sendai-shi Philharmonic Orchestra Yuzo Toyama Cond. Sendai, Japan

James Hopkins
His Deux Danses is featured on the new CD Gifts from Above by Yoon-mi Lim, organist; available on Pro Organo CD 7205. For more information, please see page 49 of the April 2006 issue of The American Organist.

Leo Nestor
On 5 July 2006, Randall Swanson and the Choir of St. Clement presented the première performance of O Be Joyful in the Lord from the commissioned set Four Anthems on Gregorian Themes for chorus and organ (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Tantum ergo sacramentum; Godhead Here in Hiding; O Be Joyful in the Lord) at the AGO 2006 Chicago national convention.  Were Your There? from Two Spirituals (2000)  and Arise and Shine, Jerusalem from A Jerusalem Triptych (2001) will be offered on the same program.

Shenandoah for chorus, string orchestra and woodwind quintet received its first performance on 5 April 2006 as part of New Old American Songs on the CUA President’s Festival of the Arts, a six-day festival and symposia celebrating the legacy of Aaron Copland’s America, the works he composed and inspired of American composers.

Come, Risen Lord for unaccompanied divisi chorus was released by Oxford University Press at the ACDA Eastern Division Conference in New York, February, 2006.

On 19 February 2006 The Catholic University of America Chamber Choir gave the première performance of Soli Deo Gloria for divisi unaccompanied chorus (2005) at the in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in a program entitled Beautiful Music, the Best of Rooms.

CUA Chamber Choir and Players presented the inaugural performance of the Christman work Adagio and Villancico  for chorus, 2 oboes, bassoon and string orchestra (2005) on 10 December 2005 at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, DC.  The work is texted in Spanish and in English. Doctoral student Kevin O’Brien conducted the première.

The CUA University Chorus presented the première of How Good It Is to Sing Praises (1999/2004)  the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington DC on 22 October 2005 in a concert celebrating the conclusion of The Year of the Eucharist.

There Will Come Soft Rains for mezzo soprano, violoncello and piano on the poem of Sara Teasdale was received with critical notice from The Washington Post in its first performance on 16 April 2005 as part of the cycle Songs of the Forgotten War in the CUA President’s Spring Festival of the Arts, Waging Peace: Music in Time of War, a six-day festival of concerts and symposia. The work was reprised at the John F. Kennedy Center by The Korean Cultural Service at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, the Korean-American Association of the Washington Metropolitan Area, and the Asian American Musical Society on 14 August 2005. 

Leo Nestor is currently completing Four Conrad Aiken Lyrics for unaccompanied chorus and revising the manuscript What Is This Fragrance? (Variations on Quelle est cette odeur agréable) for chorus, soli, string orchestra and organ obbligato for December première.

George Perle
A new CD is now available entitled: George Perle: A Retrospective.
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Gwyneth Walker

March 7
Performance of To Sing Is to Fly (2003) for SSAA chorus and piano by the Covenant Women's Ensemble, ACSI Choral Competition, Clearwater, Florida

March 8
World premiere of Full Circle (2007) for flute, clarinet, and piano by Palisades Virtuosi, Ridgewood, New Jersey

March 15
World premiere of I've Known Rivers (2007) for SATB chorus and piano by the Holland Chorale, Holland, Michigan

April 4
World premiere of Lessons from the Sea (2006) for SSA chorus and piano by the Bella Voce Chorus of Vermont with Reeve Lindbergh, narrator, Montpelier, Vermont

April 5
Performance of Lessons from the Sea (2006) for SSA chorus and piano by the Bella Voce Chorus of Vermont with Reeve Lindbergh, narrator, St. Johnsbury, Vermont

April 6
Performance of Lessons from the Sea (2006) for SSA chorus and piano by the Bella Voce Chorus of Vermont with Reeve Lindbergh, narrator, Burlington, Vermont

April 13:
Performance of The Golden Harp (2005) for SATB chorus and string orchestra, Grand Rapids Cantata Choir, Calvin Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan

April 24
Performance of To Sing Is to Fly (2003) for SSAA chorus and piano by the Covenant Women's Ensemble, Covenant Christian School, Palm Bay, Florida

May 18:
Performance of Chester (2006) for SATB chorus and piano, When Jesus Wept (2006) for SATB chorus and piano, Feathers and Frogs (2006) for chorus and piano, More Love (2006) for SATB chorus and piano, Let Evening Come (2006) for SATB chorus and piano, and The Tree of Peace (2006) for SATB chorus and piano by the Stow Festival Chorus and the Master Singers of Worcester, Stow, Massachusetts

Judith Lang Zaimont
The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music and Naxos American Classics have announced the November 15 release of a new CD (#8.559444) featuring Sacred Service for the Sabbath Evening for baritone soloist, chorus and orchestra and three other major works by Judith Lang Zaimont for solo voices, choirs and small chamber ensembles.