The Southern Great Lakes Symphony with Charles Greenwell conducting, presents Michigan-born clarinetist Ramon Wodkowski in concert on Sunday, Oct. 28th at 3pm in Flatrock Auditorium. The concert features The Pied Piper by Walter Mourant, performed by Wodkowski and the orchestra in the same version as the well-known recording of this work as performed by Reginald Kell on Decca in the 1950s. Trenton welcomes their hometown hero, acclaimed clarinet soloist, chamber musician and instrument mouthpiece maker, currently residing in London.

Out of the Vivid Air is an octophonic electroacoustic work that grew out of another closely-related work, Vivid Air, an extended thirty-two minute work for solo percussionist, real-time sound processing, and electroacoustic sounds. Both Vivid Air and Out of the Vivid Air, by composer Robert Scott Thompson, have been released on CD by Aucourant Media with percussionist Stuart Gerber.

These works owe much to the collaboration between the composer and percussionist Dr. Stuart Gerber, to whom the score of Vivid Air is dedicated.  Out of the Vivid Air utilizes sounds drawn from the solo percussion part of the parent work, as performed by Dr. Gerber. Product details - order now on Amazon.  Live perf version on Soundcloud 

This work was originally composed by invitation for premiere during the 30th Annual New Music Festival of the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, Bowling Green, Ohio in 2009, and is presented on this recording in a stereo realization.

Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of electroacoustic and computer music as well as music for chamber ensemble and orchestra. A student of Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, F. Richard Moore and Joji Yuasa, he earned the Ph.D. in composition in 1990 from the University of California at San Diego, where he was a research assistant at the Center for Music Experiment (CME), Computer Audio Research Laboratory (CARL) from 1984 to 1989.

Gary PhiloHosted once again by Equilibrium Concert Series, Transient Canvas opens its second season with a concert of music that ranges from personally introspective to violently extroverted.  Continuing in its mission to bring new music to the people, the group will be premiering works by Marti Epstein, Gary Philo, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, John Murphree and Keith Kusterer.  

Philo's work, Duo for Clarinet and Marimba, will be performed by Amy Advocat, clarinet, and Matt Sharrock, Marimba.

George Edwards (1943-2011)The Department of Music at Columbia University and the Edwards family invite you to a memorial celebrating the life of MacDowell Professor of Music George Harrison Edwards (May 11, 1943-Oct. 23, 2011), on Friday Sept. 28, from 5-7PM - at the Italian Academy at Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York City, 10027. The event will feature the pierrot ensemble work "The Isle is Full of Noises" and the piano solo "Suave Mari Magno".

Hubert Howe's electronic work, Emergence, will be programmed at the 2012 ICMC conference this year taking place at various venues in Ljubljana. Other works at the festival, which includes live concerts, papers, posters, listening galleries, etc, will include music by Takuto Fukuda, Christopher Burns, Igor Likar, Peter Batchelor, Nora Ponte, Alice Eldridge, Robert Thompson, Elizabeth Hoffman, and many others. The composer notes: Emergence is based upon the fascinating thing that happens when a group of independent tones are played together and tuned so that they are in a harmonic relationship.

David Adam Moore, baritonePianist Inna Faliks and special guests are featured at the Music/Words 5th Season opening at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday, September 23rd. Program includes the world premiere of John Eaton’s “Songs of Nature and Beyond”, with baritone David Adam Moore; Fantasia on an Ostinato by John Corigliano; and Beethoven’s Sonata in C minor. Corigliano’s poetic shimmering composition uses Beethoven’s Ostinato from the 7th Symphony, and explores its rhythmic and harmonic elements in a hypnotic, colorful fantasy.

Sharon Harms, Soprano, third from left: performing a work by Charles Wuorinen at the Guggenheim 2012John Eaton's setting of Elegy for Jane a poem by T. Roethke, will be performed in Boston at Cathedral of St. Paul (138 Tremont St. near the Boston Common), and also on September 22nd at St. Luke in the Fields at 487 Hudson St. in New York City. Performers include Soprano Sharon Harms, harpist Jane Yoon, and conductor Karl Kramer.

Beth Wiemann: composer, clarinetistMusic by Beth Wiemann in concert at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn in Brooklyn on Oct. 20th, with friends Geoff Burleson and Maria Tegzes.  Works by Beth on the progam will include:

Sharp Nostalgia, for bass clarinet and piano; The Primary Tool is Soup, for soprano, piano and video projections, with texts from "Horizon Note" by Robin Behn; The Star Theatre, for clarinet, piano and video. "The Star Theatre" uses digitally processed historic footage of early 20th-century theatrical performances, as well as photographs of old theaters and stages, within a contemplative work for clarinet, piano and electronic sound. 

Her works have been performed by the New York New Music Ensemble, Continuum, Ensemble 21, Earplay, the Motion Ensemble, Opera Vista, saxophonist John Sampen, singers Paul Hillier, Susan Narucki, D'Anna Fortunato, and others. Her compositions have won awards from Copland House, the Orvis Foundation, Colorado New Music Festival, American Women Composers, and Marimolin as well as various arts councils, and have been featured on the Capstone, Americus, innova and Albany record labels. She teaches composition and clarinet at the University of Maine.

On Oct. 24, Beth's music will be performed by the University of Maine Low Brass.

Visit Beth's Soundcloud and Vimeo pages for more samples of her work.