World Premiere of Lawrence Dillon’s Broomstick for Violin and Piano May 6 at Carnegie Hall

Mon - May 6, 2013, 8:00 pm

 

World Premiere of Lawrence Dillon’s Broomstick for Violin and Piano May 6 at Carnegie Hall

The World Premiere of Lawrence Dillon’s Broomstick for
violin and piano will be performed on Monday, May 6 at 8:00 PM by violinist
Piotr Szewczyk and pianist John Callahan at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie
Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. This will be part of Violin
Futura – 21st Century Music for Violin, presented by The Florida State
University College of Music.

Dillon writes about the new piece, “To illustrate the
first of his six artistic principles – Lightness – Italo Calvino recalls the
weight of the domestic life borne by women through the centuries. In a leap
that conveys the power of the imagination, these women took the tool of their
servitude – the broom – and transformed it into an extraordinary symbol of
lightness and power, donning their steep-peaked hats and soaring off to the
moon.”

Other composers on the program are Kari Henrik Juusela,
John Kennedy, Marc Mellits, Gary Smart, Adam Schoenberg, Richard Belcastro,
Sydney Hodkinson
, Clifton Callender (World Premiere), Moritz Eggert, Piotr
Szewczyk and Ethan Wickman.

Tickets link here.

Piotr Szewczyk says about Violin Futura, “I
created the Violin Futura project because I wanted to expand the contemporary
violin repertoire with pieces that are exciting to play and listen to while
bringing something new and unique to the repertoire. Violin Futura is currently
in its 3rd edition and I have over 40 pieces written for me by composers from
United States, Germany, England, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.”

Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has had recent commissions
and performances by the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony,
the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String
Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild (CA) Symphony
Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Juilliard School, the Ravinia
Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and
many other organizations.

Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue
No: 8.559644 - http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644),
featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand
Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. His other recent, critically-acclaimed
CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332.
His music is published by American Composers Alliance - http://composers.com/. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.