Annual American Composers Update

Eugenie R. Rocherolle lives in Wilton, CT. She was featured composer or convention clinician at the National Piano Pedagogy Conference Publishers Showcase, Oct. 16, 1997, in Cherry Hill, NJ; at the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association meeting, Nov. 9, 1997, in Slippery Rock, PA; and at the Music Teachers National Association convention Publishers Showcase, March 29, 1998, in Nashville, TN. In the 1998 National League of American Pen Women Biennial Music Contest, her piano solo Cuatro Rumores Hispanicos won third place. She appeared in print in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians and as featured composer in the May/June 1998 issue of Piano Explorer magazine. The Darien (CT) Community Association awarded her a commission to compose a suite of two-piano pieces to commemorate its 50th year in 1999. On a program at the First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, CT, Nov. 23, 1997, the Schubert Club Duo-Pianists performed her two-piano eight-hand arrangement of Workin' on the Railroad. Her piano arrangements Christmas Joy were published by Neil A. Kjos Music Co. She received a 1998-99 ASCAP Standard Award.

On March 29, 1998, the piano trio version of On Eagles' Wings was heard first at the Music Teachers National Convention in Nashville, TN, with the Baton Rouge Chamber Music Players. At the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, Rita Lapcevic and Rocherolle premiered Blues Concerto in C for two pianos.

Rocherolle and Lapcevic played Waltz for the Pianos and Blues Concerto in C at the Connecticut Pioneer Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, April 24, 1998, in Wilton, CT.

Cuatro Rumores Hispanicos and Romancing in Style; both collections for piano by Neil A. Kjos Music Co. Masters' Medley, piano; Warner Brothers Publications.

Julie Rivers, piano; Aureus Recordings Romancing the Piano - The Music of Eugenie Rocherolle.

• 1996-1997 American Composers Update