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Graduate Student Composers Perform Original Works on April 26 
April 24, 2000 -- Graduate students from the Music Department at the University of Virginia will perform original works in a concert on April 26 at 8:15 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall. The concert will feature the world premieres of works by Allister Baldwin and Christopher Staefe working out of the composition studios of Professor Walter Ross and Professor Judith Shatin respectively. Performers will include members of the Albermarle Ensemble, Rivanna String Quartet, Guild Trio, and exceptional student performers. The show finale will feature The Experimental Percussion Ensemble performing a collaborative composition between Christopher Staefe and Liam Mooney entitled Number Explains Complete Eeriness. The program includes "Changing Rain" for Flute, Bassoon, French Horn, Percussion, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Computer Generated CD, composed and conducted by Christopher Staefe. It will also include Staefe's "Scene of Atrocity" and "Rapidity" for Computer Generated CD and "Under the Falling Leaves a Crane Wades Through the Sunlight reflected off of the Lagoon" for Flute and Bassoon. The concert will also include Baldwin's "Premonition: A String Quartet", which is the product of several months of random latent ideas and spontaneous thought processes, mixed with various popular influences into a nearly unified whole. It is the manifestation of the smallest part of a mental continuum, of a stable mind not content to settle for long, always looking for something new, and content to be so. Each movement represents one or more new discoveries and the contemplative process of grafting them into the continuum. The title "Premonition" warns that the apparent end is not so, but merely the beginning of whatever may follow. Baldwin was born in the Netherlands, and, while growing up in Germany, studied piano, violin, clarinet, and classical guitar extensively in the German Musikschulen system. In 1999, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from Cedarville College, Ohio, where he is continuing work on a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Baldwin is in his first year of the MA program, studying composition under Walter Ross. Staefe is a second year Graduate student due to complete his M.A. requirements this fall. Originally from Florida, he began his composition studies with Dr. Clare Shore while studying conducting and vocal performance. Since then, he has attended three Artists in Residency programs at the Atlantic Center for the Arts studying with Tania Leon, Stuart Saunders Smith, and Dan Welcher. Staefe came to the University of Virginia in the fall of '98, continued composing in the studios of Professor Alicyn Warren and Professor Walter Ross, and is currently with Professor Judith Shatin. The Recital begins at 8:15 p.m. on April 26, in Old Cabell Hall, and will have an intermission. Admission is free to all. Call 924-3984 for more information. |
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