World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer’s Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra in Wilmington and Brevard, NC, and Columbia, SC
Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
Composer Meira Warshauer’s Tekeeyah (a call) – Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra, will be given its World Premiere performances with shofar/trombone virtuoso Haim Avitsur on the following dates.
October 24 at Kenan Auditorium of University of North Carolina in Wilmington, NC. The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra will be led by conductor Dr. Steven Errante – http://www.wilmingtonsymphony.org/.
November 15 at Porter Center for the Performing Arts of Brevard College in Brevard, NC. The Brevard Philharmonic will be led by their Conductor and Artistic Director Donald Portnoy – http://www.boamusic.org/bp.htm.
November 17 at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, SC. The University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra will be led by their Conductor and Artistic Director Donald Portnoy – http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra/index.html.
Tekeeyah (a call) is the first concerto ever written for shofar/trombone soloist and orchestra and was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras that also includes the Western Piedmont Symphony (Hickory, NC), John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, Music Director.
The composer, who began work on Tekeeyah (a call) during a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Spring of 2008, has written this about the piece, “I believe our time calls for an awakening to our true essence as human beings. The shofar (ram’s horn), with its natural power and centuries of service in calling Jews to awaken, can be an important instrument in this collective renewal of purpose. The trombone’s breadth of range and dynamics complements and extends the expressive capacity of the shofar.”
Read an online article about the new work at http://www.readthebeatmagazine.com/Oct09-Warshauer-Classical.htm.
Ms. Warshauer’ Like Streams in the Desert video is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OqrQV8z1U&feature=related. The piece is featured on her critically acclaimed Albany Records Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works. Her website is at http://www.meirawarshauer.com.
Entries (RSS)