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February 9, 2005
HIGH MOUNTAIN SYMPHONY TO PRESENT WORLD PREMIERE
OF WORK BY COMPOSER BROOKE JOYCE ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 AT 8 P.M.
—Pianist Orion Weiss joins ensemble as guest soloist
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The High Mountain Symphony at William Paterson
University in Wayne continues its 2004-2005 concert season on Saturday,
February 26, 2005 with a performance featuring pianist Orion Weiss
as guest soloist and the world premiere of a work for orchestra
by composer Brooke Joyce. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Shea Center
on campus.
The program, titled “Genius of Past and Present,” includes
the premiere of watersmooth-silver by Virginia composer Brooke Joyce.
The work is based on the e.e. cummings poem, “Buffalo Bill.”
Weiss will join the symphony for a performance of Mozart’s
Concert for Piano No. 20, K.466. Rounding out the concert will be
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Suite by Strauss. Mark Laycock, music
director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, will conduct.
Weiss, only 23, has already established himself as an extraordinary
young talent. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and
the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award, Weiss has appeared with
the San Francisco Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,
among numerous others, and has performed recitals across the United
States. Also keenly interested in chamber music, Weiss was a member
of Chamber Music Society Two, a program of the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center, from 2002 to 2004. A native of Ohio, Weiss attended
the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Paul Schenly.
He recently graduated from The Juilliard School, and continues to
study with pianist Emanuel Ax.
Joyce holds degrees in theory/composition from Lawrence University
and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has composed music for
a variety of chamber ensembles, orchestras, and soloists, but his
first love is music for the theater. Among his music-theater collaborations
is An Imaginary Line, a chamber opera based on the book Into the
Wild by Jon Krakauer. Joyce, who recently completed his doctorate
at Princeton University, is a faculty member of the Walden School
in New Hampshire and the organist at First Presbyterian Church in
Waynesboro, Virginia.
Laycock is currently in his 19th year as music director of the Princeton
Symphony Orchestra, which recently was awarded a Citation of Excellence
by the New Jersey State Arts Council for “exhibiting the highest
standards of excellence in its artistry.” He is also the newly
appointed artistic director of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, and
served previously as associate conductor of the New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra and music director of Orchestra London Canada. Also a
published composer, Laycock’s works have been performed by
the Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Alabama
Symphony Orchestra, Canton (OH) Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton
Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Tickets for the concert are $30, $27 for senior citizens, William
Paterson faculty, staff and alumni, and $8 for William Paterson
students and those ages 17 and younger. The concert will be preceded
by a pre-concert with the conductor and guest artist beginning at
7 p.m. in Shea 101.
The High Mountain Symphony is underwritten, in part, by William
Paterson University. It is also funded, in part, by the Passaic
County Cultural and Heritage Council at Passaic County Community
College through the State/County Block Grant Program of the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner
Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information on subscriptions or individual tickets, call
the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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