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Claire Chase's Presser Project Expands to Include More New Music and Performers
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Claire Chase Wins 1999 Presser Music Award, Launches Project to Expand Flute Repertory in 2000
About the Composers
Harvey
Sollberger is the conductor for SONOR, the faculty new music
ensemble, and for SIRIUS, the graduate student new music
ensemble. He co-founded (with Charles Wuorinen) the Group
for Contemporary Music in New York and directed that
ensemble for 27 years. He has been Composer-in-Residence at
both the American Academy in Rome and with the San Francisco
Contemporary Players. Sollberger's work in composition has
been recognized by an award from the National Institute of
Arts and Letters, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and by
commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation, the San
Francisco Symphony, the Fromm Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation,
Music from Japan and the New York State Council for the
Arts. Before joining the UCSD faculty, Sollberger taught at
Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music and
Indiana University.
John
Fonville is dedicated to the extending the language and
technique of the flute. Toward that objective, he is a
master of all the recent technical developments and an
explorer in their use in various musical contexts:
microtonal music, improvisation and new compositions that
push the boundaries. He performs on a complete set of
quarter-tone flutes from bass flute to piccolo and was
instrumental in their development. His numerous premieres
include composers such as Ben Johnson, Sal Martirano, Joji
Yuasa, Roger Reynolds, Hiroyuki Itoh, Paul Koonce and
numerous others. He is a member of the TONE ROAD RAMBLER,
the EOLUS QUINTET and SONOR, the resident contemporary music
ensemble at the University of California at San Diego where
he is chairman of the music faculty. Widely recorded, he can
be heard on CRI, New World, Neuma, OO Discs, Advance, TR2,
Orion, and Opus One. A solo flute CD featuring the
compositions of Ferneyhough, Fonville, Johnston, Martirano
and Yuaso is on Einstein Records.
Pauline
Oliveros, composer, performer, author and philosopher has
influenced American music extensively through her works with
improvisation, electronic music, teaching, myth, ritual and
meditation. Her recent commissions include Ghost Dance in
collaboration with Boston-based choreographer Paula Josa
Jones and commissioned by Lincoln Center 1995, music for the
Mabou Mines' production of Lear, and Contenders for the
Susan Marshall Dance Co. (Bessie Award for the music from
Dance Theater Workshop in 1991). She has performed at the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, DC, New Music America Festivals, and in
countless concert halls and performance spaces worldwide.
Oliveros received a $25,000 award for her work in 1995 from
the Foundation for Contemporary Performance&emdash;New York
City. In 1985 she founded the Pauline Oliveros Foundation,
Inc., to support all aspects of the creative process for a
worldwide community of artists. The foundation, under her
direction (along with Co-Artistic Director and playwright
Ione) most recently produced a music theater work, Njinga
the Queen King, with Pauline's original music and sound.
From her early years as the first Director of the Tape Music
Center at Mills College to her fourteen-year term as
Professor of Music at the University of California of San
Diego, and from Sonic Meditations to Deep Listening, her
compositions, performances and innovations have already
established her place in music history.
In
his native China, Huang's work has been broadcast on
numerous occasions at the annual Spring Festival of
Shanghai. In Switzerland, the young composer was awarded the
1995 Henry Mancini Award at the prestigious International
Film and Music Festival. His work has been spotlighted on
Radio-Canada and Radio-Shanghai, honored by the American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and
presented at noted conferences and symposiums in Boston, Ann
Arbor, Aspen, Tempe and Cleveland.
Matthew Quayle graduated in 1998 from Oberlin Conservatory with a double major in Composition and Piano Performance. A native of Waterville, NY, he is now working towards his Masters of Composition at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Quayle has received commissions from the Almeida Theater (London) and the New London Children's Choir. His musical comedy "Chances" was premiered in Oberlin in 1998. That same year he performed his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, as a winner of the Oberlin Conservatory Concerto Competition.
Claire Rose Chase, flute
At age 21, Claire Chase serves as Principal Flute of the Orquestra Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City. She has won top prizes in numerous national and international competitions, among them the National Foundation For Advancement in the Arts Competition, America's International Ambassadors Wind Competition, the California Young Artist Competition, and the International Chamber Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Chase has appeared as soloist with over a dozen orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony, with whom she made her debut at age 15, the United States Air Force Band and the International Chamber Orchestra. In 1996 she was one of four instrumentalists selected nationwide as Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and subsequently gave her solo debut in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has given solo performances in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall, the California Center for the Arts, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of Los Angeles, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the Cultural Centers of Tijuana and Ensenada, Mexico. Chase is currently a devoted student of Michel Debost at the Oberlin Conservatory, where she is a founding member of the Elan Trio, the Amber Sextet, and has served as Principal Flute of the Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra and the Oberlin Orchestra. Her past teachers include Damian Bursill-Hall and John Fonville.
Tony Arnold, soprano
Clarity,
depth, imagination and breadth of experience mark the
performances of soprano Tony Arnold, whose dedication to
contemporary repertoire is gaining notice in Chicago and
around the country. After having spent a decade as an
orchestral conductor, Ms. Arnold made her return to the
vocal scene last year in three concerts with the acclaimed
new music ensemble eighth blackbird in Lukas Foss' 13 Ways
of Looking at a Blackbird. Other appearances include the
Cincinnati Symphony Chamber Players (Crumb: Madrigals), Arts
Viva Ensemble (Grier: Three Portraits), and Chamber Music at
Rodef Shalom Pittsburgh (Schoenberg: Pierrot
Lunaire).
Ms. Arnold has twice been featured on WFMT's syndicated "Live from Studio One," with the Orion Ensemble in Messiaen's Poemes for Mi, and with Duo Atipica in works of Stravinsky and a Rami Levin world premiere. She has also been heard on Chicago's WNIB and WBEZ. Ms. Arnold is a frequent collaborator with the Ad Hoc String Quartet, and with them has commissioned new works for soprano and strings. She has performed extensively with the Contemporary Music Ensembles of Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University in works of Berio, Cage, Crumb, Dallapiccola, Foss, Harbison, Hindemith, Schoenberg and numerous Chicago-area composers.
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