Samuel Adler***

During the summer of 2006, Samuel Adler again taught a composition course at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Germany, and at the Bowdoin International Summer Music Festival, where his work Aeolis, God of the Winds was also performed. During the 2006-07 season, he will be guest composer at the University of South Florida and for the Florida Symphony Orchestra, as well as at Wayne State University (MI), Alcala University in Spain, and the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim, Germany. His work, Five Sephardic Choruses, was featured on the April 23 edition of the NPR radio program “Sacred Classics,” heard on over 50 stations across the United States. Adler’s book The Study of Orchestration has now been published in Spanish, Korean, French, and Italian.

Premieres

Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano, was premiered on May 28, 2006, by Ray Iwazumi and Saori Bya at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Carol Wincenc and Jean Ferrandis performed the premiere of Caccia for two flutes on August 11 at the National Flute Convention in Pittsburgh (PA). Organist Paul Jacobs presented Partita in January 2007 in New York City. Long May She Prosper, for large wind ensemble, will be introduced in a March 25 performance by the Mannheimer Bläserphilharmonia in Mannheim, Germany.

Performances

Sonata, for solo organ, received performances on April 22, 2006, in Münster, Germany, and on October 22, in the Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC. Members of the Continuum ensemble presented Song of Song Fragments on April 30, in Brooklyn, NY. Sonata for flute and piano was performed by Wincenc and Ferrandis on June 11 in New York City and again on August 11, 2006, in Pittsburgh, PA. Organist Gretchen Longwall played Wind Songs on August 2 in Mathuen, MA. Choose Life; A Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, was first heard on January 12, 2007, in a concert in Taipei, Taiwan.

Publications

Sonata, flute and piano; Caccia, flute duo; both by Theodore Presser. Wind Songs, organ solo; Wayne Leupold Editions.

***SAI National Arts Associate

Further Information

• 2005-2006 American Composers Update
• 2003-2004 American Composers Update
• 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
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online
• SAI's Music for Young People section