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Annual American Composers Update
John Hilliard
John Hilliard, Resident Composer at the James Madison University (JMU) School of Music, received a summer grant to begin work on an operatic/melodramatic version of Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian.
Premieres
Hilliard conducted the JMU Madison Singers and the JMU Symphony Orchestra in the premiere of his Mass for Chorus and Orchestra, for SATB choir, soloists, and orchestra, February 13, 2001, during the school's annual Contemporary Music Festival. On February 11, 2000, Eric Ruple and the JMU Wind Symphony, conducted by J. Patrick Rooney, presented the piano concerto Okeanos at the same festival, followed by performances at the 2000 College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro on February 24, 2000, and at the Virginia Band and Orchestra Clinics on February 26, 2000. Partita Michangiolesca, for piano, was played first by Carsten Schmidt, at the Staunton (VA) Summer Music Festival, August 26, 2001.
Performances
The Portland (OR) Symphonic Brass played Sunrise Fires, November 12, 2000. In 2001, Kado Partita I, for piano, was performed at the Regional SCI Conference at Old Dominion University by Leah Hokanson, January 20; and at the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Conference, held at JMU, March 22. A March 1, 2001, program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington by Koch label recording artist Barry Salwen featured Sonata for the Sun. Fanfare for Two Trumpets was heard at the 21st Annual Contemporary Music Festival, February 12, 2001, at JMU.
Publications
Okeanos; concerto for piano, two antiphonal wind ensembles and bass viols, Gitchi-Mukwa Music, 2000.
Further Information
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