Emma Lou Diemer

Emma Lou Diemer has released the following contact information: eldiemer@cox.net.

Premieres

Chumash Dance Celebration was first heard in an April 2004 Young Peoples Concert given by the Santa Barbara (CA) Symphony, under the direction of Gisele Ben-Dor, in Arlington Theatre. Indian Flute, for flute and narrator (after Dorothy Diemer Hendry), was presented during July by Nina Assimakopoulus and Sharon Neff, at the University of Buffalo (NY). Michael Finegold and the Essex Chamber Players performed Homage to Poulenc, Mozart, and MacDowell for flute, cello, and piano, November 2004, at the Library Conference Center, Haverhill Campus, Andover, MA. Requiem (Dectet for Woodwinds and Brass), a work written for Paul Simmons and Curv’d Aire, received its premiere during November from the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet and Curv’d Aire, at California State University, Sacramento. A version of the same work with strings was presented during the 2004-05 season by Max Lifchitz’s North/South Consonance, New York, NY.

Performances

Toccata for Piano was performed by Becky Bullock, March 2004, at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Festival of Women Composers; and in June by competitors at the Fourth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, in Austin, TX. Susan Marrier led the Dulcisono Women’s Choir in a May performance of An Emily Dickinson Suite, in Ontario, Canada. Three Madrigals was heard as performed by the Oberlin College Singers, under the direction of Hugh Ferguson Floyd, in May. Various organ works were performed during August 2004 by Joan DeVee Dixon (Westminster Abbey, Town Hall Oxford, Tewkesbury Abbey, and St. Dominic’s Priory, London); Frances Norbert (St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, CA); and the composer (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, CA). Organist James Welch also presented organ works at the Mormon Tabernacle in October. Before Spring was performed by violinist Laura Kobayashi and pianist Susan Gray in October at West Virginia University; they will perform the piece again in April 2005 at the Music Teachers National Association Convention in Seattle, WA.

Publications

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in One Movement; Concerto for Organ and Chamber Orchestra (“Alaska”); Santa Barbara Overture for Orchestra; Homage to Tchaikovsky for Orchestra; all by MMB Music. Chumash Dance Celebration for Orchestra; Toccata for Six for Mallet Percussion, edited by Cort McClaren; both by C. Alan Publications. Serenade for Flugelhorn and Piano; Ensemble Publications. Reaching Out, intermediate piano, edited by Helen Marlais; FJH Music Company. Holidays for Piano, edited by Barbara Harlow; Santa Barbara Music Company. On Christmas Night, published in Karen Leigh_Post’s “Anthology of American Art Songs for the Sacred Service.” Organ Works, edited by Carson Cooman and Sandra Gay; Zimbel Press.

Recordings

Concerto in One Movement for Organ (“Alaska”), Marilyn Mason and the Czech National Symphony, Paul Freeman, conductor; Albany Records. Poem of Remembrance for clarinet and chamber orchestra, John Russo; CRS Artists label. Six Songs (after Dorothy Diemer Hendry, James Joyce, Dorothy Parker); soprano Nanette Canfield and pianist Carla McChaney; CRS Artists.

Further Information

• 2002-2003 American Composers Update
• 2001-2002 American Composers Update
• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online
• SAI's Music for Young People section