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February 28, 2007
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO PRESENT MUSIC BY FACULTY COMPOSERS
A New Music Series concert featuring works by members of the William Paterson University music faculty will be held on Monday, March 5, 2007 at William Paterson University in Wayne. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Shea Center on campus. Admission is free.
The William Paterson University Percussion Ensemble will be among the performers. Works will include “Bar Hopping,” a piece for solo vibraphone by John Link, professor of music; “Time Piece” for percussion quartet and trumpet by Timothy Newman, assistant professor of music; and “Four Plus Three” for drum-set solo by Peter Jarvis, who teachers percussion at William Paterson. The concert also includes the world premiere of “Pushing Inertia” for marimba quartet by William Paterson University music student Mark Richardson of Wantage.
Link is active as a composer, teacher, writer, and bass player. He has composed for diverse media including orchestra, chamber and jazz ensembles, rock bands, and electroacoustic instruments. He has received commissions from the Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music (for the Ames Piano Quartet), the Composers Guild of New Jersey, and the Lincoln Center Double Bass Quartet, and awards from the Centre Acanthes, ASCAP, and Meet the Composer. Link is a founding member of the composers group Friends & Enemies of New Music, which presents an annual series of new music concerts in New York City, and sponsors an annual composition competition.
Newman teaches jazz history at William Paterson. A regular member of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra for 10 years, he plays regularly with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. His Amosaya CD Altered Ego features his compositions and arrangements. He has recorded and appeared with such diverse artists as Slide Hampton, Mel Torme, Jack McDuff and They Might Be Giants. An active composer and scholar, his compositions and arrangements have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, among others.
Jarvis, director of the highly acclaimed New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, is active as a percussionist, conductor, educator, composer and administrator. He has premiered more than 100 works including pieces composed for him and the ensemble by Charles Wuorinen and Milton Babbitt, among others. His extensive touring has brought him to Asia, Russia, Canada, Mexico and throughout the United States presenting concerts and master classes.
For additional information, please contact the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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