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Annual American Composers Update
Dinos Constantinides
Dinos Constantinides was guest composer at the Porto
Heli (Greece) International Festival; and at the Mobile
(AL) Greece 2000 Celebration, October 2000, with performances
including the commissioned Millennium Festival II.
In 2001, festivals of his works occurred with the English
Chamber Orchestra in the United States, in Fortalezza,
Brazil (May), and in Thessalonika, Greece (December).
Articles about him have appeared in the spring 2000
Composers USA and Jazz + Jazz (Athens,
Greece).
Premieres
Recollections for Theofilos for Solo Saxophone,
with Theofilos Sotiriades, premiered at the Thessalonika
festival. Works introduced in Athens in March 2000 were
Trio for Violin, Sax, and Piano; Music for Violin
and Clarinet, with The Verdehr Duo; Oracle at
Delphi for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano; and Olga's
Songs, with soprano Olga Tamrakos. In 2000, his
Violin Concerto was played first at the Porto Heli Festival
(August) and in Baton Rouge, LA (September). The premiere
of Millennium Festival II, for trumpet and orchestra,
occurred at the Mobile Greece 2000 Celebration. Heard
first in Baton Rouge were Lazy Jack, for storyteller,
violin, and chamber ensemble, spring 2001, with the
Louisiana Sinfonietta; Concerto for Alto Saxophone
and Orchestra, with Athanasios Zervas and the Louisiana
Sinfonietta, September 2001; Voices of the Millenniums
(text by Pinkie Gordon Lane and Ava Haymon) for reader,
SATB soloists, two SATB choirs, piano, celesta, organ,
percussion, and string orchestra, with the Louisiana
Sinfonietta, November 2000; Elegy for K for String
Quartet, with the Sinfonietta String Quartet, September
2001; Antigone Fantasy, with the Louisiana State
University Symphony, February 2001; Lazy Jack and
his Fiddle for Solo Violin, March 2001; The Singing
Cucaracha, for storyteller, soprano, flute, and
string quintet; Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra,
May 2000; and Four Irish Songs, for soprano and
chamber orchestra. The Harid Festival, in Boca Raton,
FL, featured the debut of Music for Bassoon Quartet,
April 2000. Concerto for Sax Quartet and Orchestra
premiered in New Orleans and Baton Rouge in April 2001.
Also presented were the Flute Quartet, at the
University of San Paulo (Brazil), May 2001; and Millennium
Festival Overture at the International Festival
of New Music for Orchestra in Olomouc, the Czech Republic,
June 2000.
Performances
Performed in Greece in 2001 were Rhapsody for Flute
and Piano, in Athens; Trio for Violin, Sax, and
Piano, in Athens (January); Concerto for Flute
and Orchestra, with the Patras (Greece) String Orchestra
(May); and Saxophone Quartet, with the Athens
Saxophone Quartet, in Crete (September). At the Florida
International Festival at Daytona Beach in January 2001,
Constantinides led William Bennett and the English Chamber
Orchestra in Homage - A Folk Concerto for Flute
and Orchestra. In 2001, China II was played by the symphonies
of the University of Alabama and Arizona State University
(April); and by the Fortalezza Symphony (May). In September
2001, Athanasios Zervas soloed in Impressions II
for Sax and Piano at Western Michigan University,
Chicago State University, Butler University, and Northwestern
University; and in Fantasia for Solo Sax, in
Baton Rouge. Works heard with the Louisiana Sinfonietta
in 2001 included The Singing Cucaracha (February);
Concerto of Psalms, with The Verdehrs (April);
and Mutability Quintet (September).
Publications
Encore for Piano Trio and String Orchestra; Landscape
I for String Orchestra; Landscape II for Percussion;
Landscape III for Saxophone or Euphonium or Tuba and
Brass Ensemble; Landscape IV "Designs for Strings
II"; Landscape V for Violin and Piano; Recollections
for Theofilos for Solo Saxophone. 40 works; Magni
Publications.
Recordings
Millennium Festival Overture for Orchestra;
Vienna Modern Masters. Oracle at Delphi; The
Verdehr Trio; Crystal Records. Vestige Records The
Dancing Turtle and Other Works and Music for
Soloists and Orchestras CDs.
Further Information
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