Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon in Italy on February 25 and 26, and Los Angeles on February 26th

Sat - February 25, 2012, 6:30 pm

 

Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon in Italy on February 25 and 26, and Los Angeles on February 26th

Lawrence DillonLawrence DillonThe European Premiere performances of Lawrence Dillon's
Terranean Meditation will be given in Italy by the Quartetto Sassofoni di
Accademia
on Saturday, February 25 - 6:30 PM at Teatro Savoia in Campobasso and
on Sunday, February 26 in Sulmona.

The February 25 and 26 programs will also include music
by Jean-Baptiste Singelee, Luca Salvadori, Jean Francaix, Aldemaro Romero and
George Gershwin.

The composer calls Terranean Meditation "a
meditation on the nature of the earth -- impervious, sensitive, perpetual,
fragile," and writes about working with the ensemble, "This group is
to Italian sax quartets what Prism is to American sax quartets. The same four
guys have been together for 26 years; watching them rehearse is a real
joy."

Also on February 26 at 3:00 PM, Dillon's Multiplicity
will be performed by renowned violinist Danielle Belen and five of her students
at Zipper Hall of The Colburn School, 200 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles,
California. This is part of Ms. Belen's Faculty Recital.

The composer writes about the piece, "Multiplicities
abound in our daily lives, countless duplications, each of which we strive to
personalize, to distinguish with our personal touch, our page, our device, our
moment. The sheer number of individualities at times seems to swallow all
distinctions into a burbling mass. But now and again a single voice emerges, is
heard and can be celebrated. We are what each of us does; we are what all of us
do."

For more about the February 25 concert, visit http://www.amicidellamusicacb.it/concerto15.html.
More about the February 26 event in Los Angeles at http://www.colburnschool.edu/.

The Quartetto di Sassofoni Accademia was founded 1984. The
have made concert tours of Canada, the U.S., Poland, Germany, France,
Switzerland, Venezuela, Brazil, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Malta,
Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Croatia and Czechoslovakia. Visit them at http://www.accademiasax.com/inglese/index.html.

Danielle Belen has recently performed as soloist with the
Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Nashville and San Francisco Symphonies, the Boston Pops,
and the Florida and Cleveland Orchestras and has worked with conductors such as
Franz Welser-Most, Robert Spano, Keith Lockhart, and Carl St. Clair.

Visit her at http://www.belenviolin.com/.

Lawrence Dillon is Composer in Residence at the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has had recent commissions
and performances by the Emerson String Quartet, the Mansfield (OH) Symphony,
the Boise Philharmonic, the Salt Lake City Symphony, the Daedalus String
Quartet, the University of Utah Philharmonia and the Idyllwild (CA) Symphony
Orchestra. He has won awards from ASCAP, the Juilliard School, the Ravinia
Festival, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, CRS and
many other organizations. His music is published by American Composers
Editions. Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644
- http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644),
featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand
Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. His other recent, critically-acclaimed
CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label - http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332.
Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.