Annual American Composers Update
Joel Feigin
Associate Professor of Music at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, Joel Feigin is a 1998-99 Senior Fulbright
Scholar at the Moscow (Russia) Conservatory. Speculum
Musicae, the New York, NY chamber ensemble, has announced
its selection of his
Veranderungen, for violin
and piano, as the winning composition in its 1998 composers
competition. In Saratov, Russia, an all-Feigin concert
of chamber and vocal works occurred on May 3, 1997.
Premieres
On May 25, 1998, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, under Mischa
Rachlevsky, introduced
Mosaic in Two Panels, for
string orchestra. On May 15, 1997,
Mosaic in Two Panels,
for string quartet, was heard first in Yerevan, Armenia.
Feigin's one-act opera
The Ferryman was commissioned
and premiered by Golden Fleece, Ltd., Nov. 20-23, 1997
(six performances), at New York's Sanford Meisner Theatre.
The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony comissioned and presented
Elegy -- In Memoriam Otto Luening, June 1, 1997.
Performances
In 1997,
Nexus, for flute and piano, was heard
at the Society for New Music, Syracuse, NY (Mar. 9); and
at the Long Island Composers Alliance, Huntington, NY
(Aur. 13). 1997 performances of
Veränderungen,
for violin and piano, took place at a NACUSA meeting in
New York, NY (Mar. 11); and at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, with Ronald Copes and Feigin (May 3). The
piano work
Variations on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg
was presented at a NACUSA meeting in New York, NY, Nov.
19, 1997, and at the ppIANISSIMO '98 Festival, in Sofia,
Bulgaria, Mar. 1998. As part of the University of California
at Santa Barbara Guest Artists' Series, Christine Schadeberg
and the Ensemble for Contemporary Music performed
Four
Poems of Linda Pastan, for soprano and chamber ensemble,
Apr. 16, 1998. A Riga, Latvia program included
14 Canonic
Variations by J. S. Bach, for two pianos, Apr. 28,
1998.
Publications
Transience; oboe and percussion; Frank E. Warren/Earnestly
Music.
Recordings
Vocal and chamber music;
North/South
Recordings N/S R1011.two-CD set.
