SOUNDS – Commissions, Premières, Publications, Podcasts

Headline Update for 2009-2010

♦  Videos

Zaimont Suite
Four movement art/music video suite based upon the works of husband and wife -- artist Gary Zaimont and composer Judith Lang Zaimont; videography by Michael Bregman.

Posted widely on the internet, Fall 2009.  Shown at Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 2010.

  • Mvt. 1 “The Joy of Dance” Sets Verlaine’s ‘Clair de lune’.

  • Mvt. 2 “Borealis” Mysterious night visions.

  • Mvt. 3 “Beasts” Menacing growlers and howlers.

  • Mvt. 4 “Serenade” Slow shifting colorfield artworks, with troubled currents hinted at beneath.


    • ♦  Recordings

  • Naxos American Classics    8.559619    Released April 2010

    • Judith Lang Zaimont
    Chroma - Northern Lights;   Ghosts;   Elegy;   Stillness - Poem for Orchestra

    Slovak National Symphony Orchestra - Kirk Trevor, conductor

  • MSR Classics    For release in 2011

    • Judith Lang Zaimont - Chamber Works
    String Quartet - The Figure;   ZONES  Piano Trio No. 2;   Serenade;   ASTRAL ...a mirror life on the astral plane...

    The Harlem Quartet with pianist Awadagin Pratt

    ♦  Premières / Performances; Composer Residencies

    2009-2010: premières/performances; masterclasses; lectures

  •  Peabody Conservatory, October 2009
    • Concerto ‘Solar Traveller’ world première
  •  Indiana State University, December 2009
    • ‘Solar Traveller’ state première
  •  University of Alabama, Huntsville, February 2010
    • Serenade (duo) world première; ZONES weekend seminar
  •  Slippery Rock University, April-May 2010
    • ‘Solar Traveller’ state première
  •  University of Southern Mississippi, November 2010
    • ‘Solar Traveller’ state première
    Central Composer for contemporary festival “Intégrales”


    Also: Performances (Selection)

  • WIZARDS - Busan Festival, Korea : Young-Ah Tak, pianist, summer 2009, and tour 2008-2009
  • “Bubble-Up” Rag, Prescott Summer Festival ( Arizona), 2009
  • Snazzy Sonata - Germany, Fall 2009
  • From the Great Land, Tennessee, November 2009- January 2010
  • Snazzy Sonata - Italy, Germany, January 2010
  • ZONES - Bern, Switzerland, February 2010
  • From the Folk - Chandler Symphony Players (Arizona) , April 2010
  • Snazzy Sonata - Maryland, Virginia, April-May 2010
  • ZONES - Jacksonville, Mississippi, March 2010
  • Serenade - New York City, April 2010

    • ♦  Composer Residencies; Premières

  •  March 23-26, 2009  --  Central Composer at the 2009 Women in MUSIC Festival at the Eastman School of Music
    • Lenox Athenaeum, Lenox, Massachusetts

    Zaimont's music and commentary featured during the 3-day Festival: Lectures, masterclasses, open rehearsals, radio, community intersections, a full concert of Zaimont's music plus other performances.
    == Events included two world premieres.

  •  March 15, 2009  --  Composer Lecture on the music of Fanny Hensel and Judith Zaimont
    • Lenox Athenaeum, Lenox, Massachusetts

  •  March 10-13, 2009  --  FEATURED COMPOSER at the biennial ATHENA FESTIVAL
    • Murray State University, Kentucky

    Lecture, masterclasses, full concert of Zaimont compositions. Seminar on her style, and delivery of the Festival Keynote Address.

    ♦  Publications

    Zaimont Works Now Published Exclusively by Subito Music Corporation www.subitomusic.com

  •  New Titles in 2009-2010

    • Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra ‘Solar Traveller’
    Sonata-Rhapsody for Violin and Piano
    Serenade (violin, cello, piano)
    American City - Portrait of New York
    From the Folk - clarinet quartet (in connection with Jeanné, Inc.)
    Astral ... a mirror life on the astral plane ... violin solo (in connection with Jeanné, Inc.)

    Headline Update for Fall 2007-Spring 2008

    ♦ Publication:
    Zaimont Works Now Published Exclusively by Subito Music Corporation
    www.subitomusic.com

    ♦ Podcast: November 2007
  • Half-hour Composer Interview "On the Mic"
    • listen at http://www.jabezpress.com/features/podcast/index.html

    ♦ Première: April 26, 2008 NYC
    The Spirit Moves In Me (three movements)
    Text assemblage: composer. For SATB, and chamber orchestra.
    Conducted by Harold Rosenbaum New York, NY
    Commissioned by the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music

    Premièred in Fall 2007

    ♦ String Quartet - The Figure (Two movements, 16:00)
  • Commissioned by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
    • premièred by Harlem Quartet, September 15-17, 2007 New York State
    Syracuse University, Eastman School, Cornell University

    ♦ REMEMBERANCE
  • Commissioned by the Portland Symphonic Choir
    • Text assemblage: composer. For SSAATTBB, choral soli, organ, percussion, cello and cor anglai
    premièred October 26,27 2007 Oregon

    ♦ Hitchin’ – a travellin’ groove
  • Commissioned by Nicola Melville for new recording / publication project
    • premièred September 28 2007 Minnesota

    ♦ SERENADE for Violin and Piano
  • Première Syracuse University September 15, 2007 New York



    • ♦ Two New CDs
  • Parallel Play, recorded for AUR by
    The Presidio Saxophone Quartet
    -- Disc released February 2008

  • Hitchin’ – a travellin’ groove, recorded for Innova by
    commissioner, pianist Nicola Melville
    -- Disc released March 2008

    • ♦ ISRAELI RHAPSODY for Concert Band
    Chosen for Performance/Workshop and Recording by the Intercollegiate Honor Bands of both Virginia and Minnesota – February 2008

    ♦ Goldilocks and The Three Bears - March 15-16, 2008
    Hartt College – University of Connecticut graduate opera studio winter production.

    ♦ ELEGY for Symphonic Strings
    to be performed by Chinese National Orchestra at new Dome Theatre in Beijing - April 20, 2008

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