Annual American Composers Update

William Doppmann

William Doppmann makes his home in Ann Arbor, MI. In 1998, Albany Recordings released his performance of the James Yannatos Piano Concerto (1997) with the Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra, Yannatos conducting. In Nov. 1999, Equilibrium produced a recording, Four American Piano Sonatas, with Doppman at the piano.

Premieres

Doppmann toured with the premiere of Toccata In Nomine (1997), for piano, at Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale MI; the Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA; Oregon State Univ., Corvallis; and Eastern Washington State Univ., Cheney, all in Oct. 1999, to be followed by performances at Southwest Texas State Univ., San Marcos; and Abilene (TX) Christian Univ., both in Feb. 2000. In Nov. 1999, the Marilyn Shotola Trio introduced Passacaille (1996), a song cycle for alto flute/piccolo, harp, and mezzo-soprano (text based on French poems by Samuel Beckett), at Portland (OR) State Univ. and at Oregon State Univ., in Eugene. In 2000, Doppmann presented Fantasy I: Winter Dreams (1995) at the Michigan Keyboard Convention in Ypsilanti (Jan.), with repeat performances scheduled for Feb. at West Texas Univ., in Amarillo; the University of Texas, Austin; and Heidelberg Coll, in Tiffin, OH. Fantasy II: Thaw: Shards to the Sea (1997), for piano, was played first by Beverly Backam Smoker at Nazareth Coll., Rochester, NY, Nov. 1999.

Performances

In Feb. 2000, as part of a Composer Residency at the University of Texas, Austin, Spring Songs (1981), a song cycle for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano, and percussion, will receive a performance.