Harold Schiffman

Harold Schiffman is Professor Emeritus of Composition in the Florida State University School of Music. He continues to reside in Tallahassee, FL (winter and spring) and Robbinsville, NC (summer and fall). He presently serves as a member of the Music Advisory Board of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where he delivered the School of Music’s commencement address on May 14, 2004.

Premieres

Wake: Twelve Preludes and an Epilogue (2003), for solo violoncello (incidental music for Kathryn Stripling Byer’s reading of her chapbook, Wake), was presented by Byer and cellist David Moore on August 26, 2004, at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.

Recordings

Alma, mezzo-soprano Mária Horváth, Budafok Chamber Choir, Gyõr Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Mátyás Antal; Prelude and Variations, chamber orchestra, Hungarian Philharmonic, conducted by Antal; Chamber Concerto No. 2: In Memoriam Edward Kilenyi, pianist Jane Perry-Camp, Accord Wind Quintet, Akadémia String Quartet, conducted by Antal; North/South Recordings, N/S R 1035. Wake, Kathryn Stripling Byer, reader; David Moore, violoncellist; Spring Street Editions. Concertino for oboe and chamber orchestra; oboist William Meredith, North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Max Lifchitz; North/South Recordings, N/S R 1037.

Further Information

• 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