Summer of 1999 Composers Seminar:

What an exciting Summer Composers' Seminar !!! As part of it, we have produced six self portrait presentations of visiting and resident composers and nine full concerts, all virtually consisting of first performances, all in all ca. seventy one (71) new works premiered, out of which twenty six by our own participant student composers.

As usual, we have had in the same class students of every level of education, one fresh out of highschool, five undergrads (from Oberlin, Peabody, Boston Univ., USC and NYU), nine MA students (Boston Univ. and NYU), two doctoral candidates from NYU, one professional level composer, director of a music foundation, and six non students, two commercial composers, and a few who graduated from school at different levels and working full time. We had people from Germany, Iran, Argentina, Colombia, Equador, Venezuela, Korea and Taiwan. Stylistically, this was about the reachest selection of interests, from neo-romantic, to minimalist, atonal, improvizational, graphic and aleatoric scores, electro-acoutic pieces, multimedia presentations, music fro modern dance, film music, world music, etc.

Our resident ensemble worked day & night in six rehearsals, three dress rehearsals and three final productions and recordings. We have had the wonderful collaboration of ca. 28 sound engineers, taking the NYU parallel course, the Tonmeister Program, so well directed and taught by Dr. Ken Peacock and Prof. Paul Geluso. Where can be found a program in which each composer had their own assigned recording engineer !!!

Our final product - the production of a double CD - will definitely be a very interesting collection of outstanding new talent.

The lecture type self portraits - presented by Leo Kraft, Justin Dello Joio, Monique Copper, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Philip Johnston, Ron Mazurek - were held during the first three semesters of the seminar, while students were working on their new compositions.

My great gratitude for my very able assistant Chianan Yen, and the student coordinators, Carlos Delgado, Eric Foinquinos, Matt Vinson and Chris Freeman.

Below is the complete schedule of the events. Click on each event to see the critics produced by fellow participants and guest critics.

Dr. Dinu Ghezzo, Program Director

Complete Review of the Summer '99 activities

Schedule of Events, Summer of 1999 Composers Seminar:

• Tue., May 18th, at 6 PM, Room 779: Self Portrait 1: Leo Kraft, Distinguished NYU Composer in Residence

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• Wed., May 19th, at 8 PM, CONCERT 1:
  Frederich Loewe Theater, New York City
  New Works from THE COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE

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• Thu., May 20th, at 6 PM: Frederich Loewe Theater: CONCERT 2 Music from Germany, with Univ. of OLDENBURG faculty and students.

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• Tue., May 25th, Room 779, at 6 PM: Self Portrait 2: Justin Dello Joio,Composer in Residence, SELF PRTRAIT

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• May 25th, at 7:00 PM: Frederich Loewe Theater, CONCERT 3: Multimedia Recital: MONIQUE COPPER (Pianist - Holland)
  Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
  Illustrations (slides) by Wassily Kandinsky and text and poetry by Willem Wilmink

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• Thu., May 27th, Room 779, at 6 pm, room 779: Portrait 3: Monique Copper: Portraits of Dutch Composers

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• Thu., May 27th, 7.00 PM CONCERT 4: Frederich Loewe Theater.
  GIANCARLO SCHIAFFINI (Italy) Trombone and Composer

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• Tue., June 1st., at 6.00 PM: Self Portrait 4:Marc Antonio Consoli, Faculty Composer

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• Thu., June 3rd, at 6.00 PM, Room 779: Self Portrait 5:Philip Johnston - Faculty Composer

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• Tue., June 8th, at t 6:00, Room 779: Self Portrait 6: Ron Mazurek: Faculty Composer

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• Thu., June 17th, 8.00 PM, Frederich Loewe Theater: CONCERT 5 - CHAMBER MUSIC GROUP A (Recording Session)

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• Fri., June 18th, at 2.00 - 5.00 PM, CONCERT 6 FINAL CONCERT of the Conducting class,E85.2096

Igor Stravinsky - L'histoire du Soldat (Solger's March, March Royale, March du Diable)

Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (First segment of 7 movements)

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• Tue., June 22nd, at 8.00 PM: CONCERT 7 CHAMBER MUSIC Group B (Recording Session)

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• Wed., June 23rd, at 5.00 PM, Frederich Loewe Theater, CONCERT 8 EVENING OF RITUALS. Music of Carlos Delgado, Dinu Ghezzo, Ron Mazurek, Christine Ghezzo, the 3-2-1 Ensemble, also selected student composers of Dr. Ghezzo and Dr. Peacock's summer classes.

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• Thu., June 24th, at 5.00 PM CONCERT 9 Frederich Loewe Theater, New York City
  MULTIMEDIA & INTERACTIVE Premieres:
  Works by students in the Composition Seminar

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