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By Joanna Chang
The
Cleveland Chamber Symphony performed a work written by Conservatory composition
student Brandon Pettit '04 on Thursday, December 6 at 11:00 A.M. at Drinko
Recital hall on the campus of Cleveland State University. Pettit's work,
Two Pieces For Orchestra, was selected as part of the Young
and Emerging Composers Concert by the Cleveland
Chamber Symphony, the professional new music ensemble-in-residence
at Cleveland State University.
Pettit, from Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, started composing Two Pieces
For Orchestra last spring and continued this summer while attending the
Aspen Music Festival. "This piece was originally going to be a nouveau
baroque piece in the form of a Concerto Grosso," says Pettit. "But,
for this competition the pieces submitted had to be under 6 minutes, so
I only submitted the last two movements and called them Two Pieces
for Orchestra."
Assistant Professor of Composition Jeffrey
Mumford approved the work before submission to the Cleveland Chamber
Symphony. Says Pettit. "I was extremely excited for this wonderful
opportunity to have my piece played by such a great orchestra."
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony's Young and Emerging Composers Concert
series, now in its seventeenth year, dedicates two concerts per season
exclusively to the music of young composers. Andrew Rindfleisch, associate
conductor and head of the composition department at CSU, notes that these
two concerts provide young composers with "a remarkable opportunity"
to have their works actually played by a symphonic ensemble.
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony is founded and directed by Edwin London
'52.
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