Donald Reid Womack**

Donald Reid Womack received commissions from Trio Xia, Ensemble Asia, the Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort, and the Hawaii Contrabass Festival. Womack also received a commission from the University of Hawaii to compose a processional to be used permanently for the university’s five annual graduation ceremonies. Currently Womack is living and working in Honolulu, HI, where he is professor and chair of composition/theory at the University of Hawaii.

Premieres

Line Drive for shakuhachi, pipa, and koto received premiere performances by the Ensemble Asia in Honolulu, HI, on January 26 and 28, 2004, with a repeat performance by the same ensemble on November 8, in Tokyo, Japan. Rumble Machine for contrabass ensemble was premiered March 27 at the Hawaii Contrabass Festival in Honolulu. The Nature of Things for viol quartet was premiered November 26 by the Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort , Tokyo, Japan.

Performances

Womack’s arrangement of Aloha ‘Oe was played several times by cellist I-Bei Lin on June 2004 recitals in Taipei, Taiwan. Blue Two for alto/soprano saxophone and piano was performed September 13 in Honolulu by Todd Yukumoto and HyeKyung Lee; the piece was also broadcast over radio station KHPR. Psalm 131, from Three Psalms, and I Corinthians 13 were sung by soprano Karen Leigh-Post on a September 17 recital in Texas. Once the Sky Unfolds was presented September 18 by violist Anna Womack and pianist Thomas Yee in Honolulu, HI.

Publications

Psalm 131, from Three Psalms, and I Corinthians 13 were published in the “Singer’s Anthology of Contemporary Songs for the Sacred Service,” edited by Karen Leigh-Post.

Recordings

“Blue: New Music from Hawaii;” includes 3D and Blue Two as performed by saxophonist Todd Yukumoto and pianist HyeKyung Lee; Equilibrium Records. “Trio Manoa;” Three Blues, violin, violoncello, and piano; Trio Manoa; University of Hawaii Music Department. “Music for Wind Ensemble, Choirs, Orchestra; O magnum mysterium, University of Hawaii Chamber Singers conducted by Karen Kennedy; University of Hawaii Music Department.

**Sigma Alpha Iota Friend of the Arts

Further Information

• 2002-2003 American Composers Update
• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online
• SAI's Music for Young People section