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Composers BureauDr. Dan LocklairBiography The music of Dan Locklair is widely performed throughout the U.S., Canada and abroad, including performances in England, Germany, France, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Korea, Japan, Finland and Russia. His prolific output includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera and numerous solo, chamber, vocal and choral compositions. Dr. Locklair's many awards have included consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981, a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, an Aliénor Award, the New Music Award from the Omaha Symphony Society, two North Carolina Composer Fellowship Awards and the top Barlow International Competition Award for 1989. In 1992, he became the first American composer ever to be invited to and have music performed at the thirty-five year old Czech Festival of Choral Arts in Jihlava, Czech Republic and, again at the invitation of the Czech government, was invited to return to be a part of this Festival during 1997. In its Centennial Year, Dr. Locklair was named 1996 AGO Composer of the Year by the American Guild of Organists, a distinguished honor awarded yearly to an American composer who has not only enriched the organ repertoire, but who has also made significant contributions to symphonic and concert music. His 1995 composition, Since Dawn (A Tone Poem for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra based on Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"), is the first musical setting of Maya Angelou's well-known and important poem commissioned for the 1993 Inauguration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Dan Locklair's music has been premiered and/or performed by such ensembles as the Helsinki Philharmonic (Finland), the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Gregg Smith Singers, the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys (New York City), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Paul Hill Chorale, the Chicago Ensemble, the Omaha Symphony, as well as by solo performers Igor Kipnis, Jukka Tiensuu, and Marilyn Keiser. His commissions have included works for the Knoxville Symphony, the North Carolina Dance Theatre, the Binghamton Symphony, two American Guild of Organists' National Conventions (1992, 1996), the Choral Art Society (Portland, Maine), an IBM commission for the Binghamton Youth Symphony, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Mallarmé Chamber Players, the Bel Canto Company and a Barlow Endowment Commission. In addition to performances of Dr. Locklair's music in such halls as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center, his music has been programmed on major festivals throughout the world, including the Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto U.S.A., the Chautauqua Festival, Interlochen, the Brevard Music Center (Composer-in-Residence, 1989, 2002 seasons), Southern Cathedrals Festival (England), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Vendsyssel Festival (Denmark), the Bergen Festival (Norway) and the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg Musica Sacra festival (Germany). Broadcasts of his music have been heard world-wide over Voice of America, Vatican Radio, Finnish Radio, the BBC, Czech Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and the Public Radio International programs "St. Paul Sunday Morning", "Pipe Dreams" and "With Heart and Voice." Dan Locklair's music is commercially available on the Naxos, Ondine, Albany, Gasparo, Capstone, Titanic, Pro Organo, Gothic, ACA Digital, Pro Arte Fanfare, Orion and Opus One labels. His primary publishers are Ricordi [Boosey & Hawkes and Hal Leonard, U.S. agents] and Subito [Theodore Presser, agent]. He is listed in numerous biographical dictionaries, including the INTERNATIONAL WHO'S WHO IN MUSIC, CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMPOSERS, DICTIONARY OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS, DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY and BAKER'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MUSICIANS (1996 ed.). A professional organist at the age of 14, Dan Locklair's past organ recitals have included New York City performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Thomas Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Prior coming to Winston-Salem, from 1973 to 1982 he was Church Musician of First Presbyterian Church in Binghamton, New York, and an Instructor of Music at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. His former teachers have included Joseph Goodman, Ezra Laderman, Samuel Adler and Joseph Schwantner (composition), as well as Donna Robertson, Robert Baker and David Craighead (organ). Dan Locklair lives in Winston-Salem with his wife, Paula Welshimer Locklair, Vice President of Old Salem, Inc. Recordings
Compositions Unless otherwise indicated, perusal scores and tapes for those works listed may be obtained from Boosey & Hawkes, 35 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010-6212. Phone: 212/358-5300. Orchestral materials may be obtained from their Rental Department - Phone: 212/358-5379. Sales materials (*) are distributed by Hal Leonard.
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