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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.