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Open Ears V:
Stony Brook Contemporary
Chamber Players
Wednesday November 3, 1999 11:00am
Suffolk County Community College
PROGRAM
Solo Sonata, for violin (1980)
I.
II.
III.
Edward Smaldone
(b.1956)
Dramatic
Scherzo
Dramatic
Xuan-Lan Ngo, violin
Stream (1999)
William Ryan
(b.1968)
Gabrielle Painter, violin
David Russell, cello
Clear (1987)
Daniel Allen Weymouth
(b.1953)
David Russell, cello
Du Huang, piano
Anna Povich de Mayor, flute/alto flute
Anthea Jackson, clarinet
Xuan-Lan Ngo, violin
Songs of Never and Again (1998)
I.
Instead (text by Richard Powers)
II.
Not Ever (Richard Powers)
III.
Western Wind (anonymous)
Joan Zimmerman, soprano
Ann Lavin, clarinet
Du Huang, piano
Perry Goldstein
(b.1952)
Composer Biographies
Edward Smaldone holds a Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York,
he now serves as an Assistant Professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens
College. Smaldone is the recipient of many awards for his music, including the Goddard
Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants
and awards from ASCAP, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo Corp., the Charles Ives Center
for American Music, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the American Music Center.
His music has been performed by the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Denver Chamber
Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Queens Symphony Orchestra and by soloists and
ensembles throughout the United States, in Canada and in Europe. His music is recorded
on New World Records, Gadfly and New Music Manitoba labels. Dr. Smaldone is
currently completing work on an all-Smaldone CD which will appear on New World
Records.
William Ryan is active as a composer, conductor, and educator. He received a BM in
music education from the State University of New York College at Potsdam, and MA and
DMA degrees in music composition from the University of Illinois. His compositions
have been presented at numerous venues across the country and in Brazil and Australia.
Awards for his compositions include an ASCAP Foundation Young Composers Grant,
five ASCAP Standard Panel Awards, a Meet the Composer Education Program Grant,
second prize in the Tampa Bay Composers' Forum chamber music competition, and
finalist in the First International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In addition to his own compositions, he has conducted several works performed by
ensembles including the University of Illinois Contemporary Ensemble, the Crane School
of Music Contemporary Group, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, and
North Shore Pro Musica. He has taught at the University of Illinois, the Aaron Copland
School of Music at Queens College, served as composer-in-residence in the Lawrence
School District, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Suffolk Community College.
Composer/conductor Daniel Weymouth writes for a wide array of ensembles, from
standard orchestra to computer-interactive "instruments." He has studied and worked at
several of the worlds leading computer-music facilities, including Stanford’s CCRMA,
Pierre Boulez's IRCAM and Iannis Xenakis' CEMAMu (both in Paris). His compositions
have been performed throughout Europe, Canada and the United States and appear on the
SEAMUS and New World Record labels as well as MIT Press (sound and programming
excerpted on CD-ROM). Commissions have come from numerous ensembles and
individual performers; grants from Meet the Composer and ASCAP. Weymouth is
currently on the Composition faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
where he is the Director of Computer Music and Co-Director of the Laboratory for
Technology in the Arts. A ten-year stint as an itinerant musician in popular genres may
have something to do with his fascination with gadgets, as well as the kinetic and
compact nature of much of his music, both acoustic and electronic.
Perry Goldstein studied at the University of Illinois, UCLA, and Columbia University,
with Ben Johnston, Herbert Brün, Chou Wen-chung, and Mario Davidovsky. He has
received commissions from, among others, Juilliard Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick and
pianist Gilbert Kalish, the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, Slagwerkgroep den Haag, Trio
Chiaroscuro, HET Trio, violist John Graham, the Guild Trio, and pianist Eliza Garth, and
his music has been performed throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and
Europe. His works appear on the New World and Vanguard recording labels. He serves
on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, from which he
received the President’s and Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997.
Acclaimed novelist and poet Richard Powers has received a MacArthur grant and Lannan
Award for his literary achievements. He is the author of six novels, including The
Goldbug Variations, Galatea 2.2, and Gain, and holds the prestigious Swanlund Chair at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.