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The Children of the
Keweenaw,
An American Opera
Music by Paul Seitz
Libretto by Kathleen
Masterson
"...it [The Children of the Keweenaw] also , I think, demonstrates the enduring power of opera to connect with great stories."
William Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, after attending the premiere, in an interview with Tamar Charney, Michigan Public Radio.
For more information about the opera and the world premiere production,, including AUDIO and VIDEO excerpts,
please visit the "Opera" page.
Selamiut: The Sky Dwellers, commissioned by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wind Orchestra, Thomas G. Leslie, director, was premiered by the ensemble on March 3. This piece has also been recorded by the UNLV Wind Orchestra for their upcoming CD, "Spiritual Planet," on the Klavier label. In addition, Selamiut: The Sky Dwellers is available from Cambium Music Publications/Subito Music, publisher.
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For an MP3 audio sample from this piece, click on this
link:
Excerpt: Selamiut: The Sky Dwellers.
In Beauty, for Symphony Orchestra, was premiered on February 10, 2008, by the Henderson Symphony Orchestra, Taras Krysa, music director, which commissioned the work. For more information on the piece, visit the Current Projects page, or read the announcement of the commission and premiere in the League of American Orchestras newsletter, From the Field.
Click on the link to hear a brief excerpt from the piece:
In Beauty
(MP3)
Please also visit:
My Page on the American Music Center Site
The American Music Center
The Living Composers Project
Subito Music(Rental Catalog)
A new piece completed in June, Party Mode Mixture, was premiered on July 15 by the Bergonzi String Quartet (shown above) at the Pine Mountain Music Festival and was performed again one week later at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Erin Aldridge and Teresa Campbell, violins, Paul Seitz, viola and Matt Turner, cello.
Click on the link, below, to listen to an audio sample (MP3):
Party Mode Mixture Excerpt
ASCAPLUS AWARD: A Thank You
The ASCAPLUS award is granted by an independent panel of the ASCAP Concert Division and recognizes activity, in the form of recent live concert and recital performances in venues outside of commercial broadcast media, suggesting value in the composer's catalog (for which he/she would not, otherwise, be compensated). Having received ASCAPLUS award for 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2008-2009, I'm glad of this reminder of the fundamental role of collaboration, which provides a composer with new opportunities to learn about music, creative life and the human spirit from all the musicians one is lucky enough to work with. So I'd like to thank, once again, all the artists who have performed and/or recorded my music!
More MP3 Audio Samples...
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excerpts from selected pieces can be found on the Compositions page.
For more information:
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Several recent and current projects are in progress with Duo Hevans (Eleri Ann Evans, saxophones and Henri Bok, bass clarinet). Three Stories for alto saxophone and bass clarinet), recently premiered by the duo, was also performed during a special two day event at the Theatre Lanteren/Venster in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, November 28 and 29. Also included was the world premiere of In Now for solo bass clarinet and a brand new work, In a place of deep color, for tenor saxophone and bass clarinet. (Listen to a one minute MP3 Audio Sample from this piece.) The latter two pieces are included on a forthcoming DVD, "In a Nutshell," by Shoepair Productions (Netherlands). This is a live concert DVD of a special two-day event presented in celebration of Henri Bok's twenty-five years as professor of bass clarinet at the Rotterdam Conservatoire and bass clarinet activist. For more information, visit: www.henribok.com.
For information about a new project and a new CD to be recorded soon by Duo Hevans, visit the Current Projects page on this site.
Relevant Dialogues, for saxophone and viola, and Five Witnesses for woodwind quintet, will receive their Kennedy Center premieres on November 17, 2006, in a concert of new music and improvisations performed by the Peiffer Ensemble featuring musicians from the National Opera Orchestra: John Peiffer, horn, Stephani Stang-McCusker, flute, Carole Libelo, oboe and English horn, David Jones, clarinet and saxophone, Christopher Jewell, bassoon, Zino Bogachek and Xi Chen, violins, Uri Wassertzug, viola, Elizabeth Davis, cello and John Previti, bass. Also featured will be premieres by John McGinn and John Peiffer. This concert was BROADCAST LIVE via INTERNET (streaming video) at 6:00 p.m. EASTERN Standard Time on November 17. This broadcast is still available for viewing by visiting: Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Broadcast Archives
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Relevant Dialogues, for saxophone and viola (commissioned by The Irrelevants -- the duo of Carrie Koffman and Tim Deighton), and premiered at the 4th Annual International New Music Festival, in Las Vegas, has been performed as part of the Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, with additional performances at the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Wyoming, the Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, on the Museum Concert Series, and the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand, at the Festival Internationale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy, and in New York City in a concert sponsored by the New York Viola Society.
Click below to hear excerpts from the first and second movements:
Movement 1 (excerpt).
Movement 2 (excerpt).
Featured Composition: Animas (There is a wild river...)
for Viola Ensemble
As a violist, writing for many violas is a joy. This piece was composed for the Penn State Viola Ensemble, shown below in New York City on the day of their performance in a concert sponsored by the New York Viola Society on which they premiered this piece. Use this link to view the Concert Program. Use the link below to listen to an audio excerpt from the premiere performance.
Excerpt: Animas (There is a wild river...) MP3 format
NEW CHAMBER MUSIC at the
I very much enjoyed coordinating and hosting the 2007 New Chamber Music program of the Pine Mountain Music Festival on July 14 in
Michigan's beautiful upper peninsula near Lake Superior.
The 2007 program featured a performance by the Bergonzi String Quartet of Different Trains, by Steve Reich (which they recently performed for the composer). World premieres of music by Steve Ingle, Paul Seitz and Nathan Barber, and Michigan premieres of music by Carlo Dean and Doug Lofstrom, were also included in the program. Performers included Leelo Basham, flute, Jennet Ingle, oboe, Scott Quackenbush, trumpet, Nick Tavani, Corina Lobont and Cristina Ciubancan, violins, Paul Seitz, viola, Anders Dahlberg, bass, Jessica Schaeffer, harp, Steve Ingle and Bernice Harbaugh, piano. To listen to an MP3 audio sample from the 2007 concert, click on this
link:
Excerpt, movement 1: Imaginary Dances, by Paul Seitz.
Excerpt, movement 2: Imaginary Dances. Paul Seitz, viola, Anders Dahlberg, bass.
For another brief MP3 audio sample from the an earlier concert in this series, click on this
link:
Excerpt: Five Witnesses, for woodwind quintet, by Paul Seitz
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