|
February 13, 2006
WAYNE PETERSON IS GUEST FOR ANNUAL "COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE DAY" AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY
Wayne Peterson, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for music, will be the guest for the ninth annual “Composer In Residence Day” as part of a Midday Artist Series concert at William Paterson University in Wayne on Thursday, March 2.
Peterson will participate in a day of events devoted to his music, beginning with an open rehearsal at 10 a.m. The concert, featuring the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and Friends, directed by Peter Jarvis, will be held at 12:30 p.m. in Shea Center; a panel discussion with the composer will immediately follow the performance. Admission is $3.
The concert will include selections from “Four Preludes for Solo Piano” (2000) featuring Margaret Kampmeier, piano. Also on the program will be “Mallets Aforethought” (1990) and “Monarchs of the Vine” (1998), both for percussion quartet.
Peterson’s works have been performed by the San Francisco, Oakland and Minnesota orchestras, the Group for Contemporary Music, Speculum Musicum, the Washington Square Players, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He recently completed compositions for the American Composers Orchestra in New York City and the San Francisco Symphony, as well as a piece for the Alexander String Quartet, commissioned by the Gerbode Foundation, and a work for the Earplay Ensemble of San Francisco, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation. Other honors include a Composer's Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1986) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989-90). His music is published by C. F. Peters, Boosey and Hawkes, Lawson-Gould and Seesaw Music. Peterson is a professor emeritus of music at San Francisco State University.
Kampmeier has performed across the United States, in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia, and is active as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral keyboardist and teacher of piano. She is a founding member of the New Millennium Ensemble, a mixed chamber group which won the 1995 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and released its debut CD in 1998. Kampmeier has appeared as guest artist with the Kronos Quartet, performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and appears frequently with New York area groups such as Speculum Musicae and the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. She has recorded extensively and can be heard on the Centaur, CRI, Koch, Nonesuch and Bridge labels. Active as an educator, Kampmeier teaches at Princeton University.
For additional information, please call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
###
www.wpunj.edu
|
|
