here - Music-COMP

A Performance of Student ComposiAons
from Music-­‐COMP
www.music-­‐comp.org
January 6, 2014
Elley-­‐Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College
home of the VYOA
Colchester VT
Program Order
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Brass Quartet in G Minor!
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The Journey! !
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March of the Elephants! !
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A Bugatti in Paris!
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Stars! !
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Upon a Golden Morningtide!
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Fly!!
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The Burning City!
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Persistence!
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The Possessed Piano! !
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Jihad Bis Saif! !
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Briana Grimm, Grade 12
North Country UHS, Newport
Adele Woodmansee, Grade 12
North Country UHS, Newport
Rian Fried and John Gaston, Grade 8
Barnet School
Garrett Weil, Grade 6
The Grammar School, Putney
Alex Wick, Grade 5
Champlain Elementary, Burlington
Molly Durling, Grade 8!
The Grammar School, Putney
Johna Saltsman, Grade 12
North Country UHS, Newport
Ella Warner, Grade 6
The Grammar School, Putney
David Fischer, Grade 12
Homeschooled and VYOA
Daelan Roosa, Grade 8
Barnet School
Max Aifer, Grade 12
George Mason HS, Falls Church, VA
Saigelyn Green, Grade 11
North Country UHS, Newport
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Red Sky at Night!
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Echoʼs Lament! !
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Newen! !
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French Horn Duet!
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Morning Fanfare!
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Bouncy Man! !
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Duet for Trumpet!
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The Old Man of the Sea!!
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Serenata!
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Nathan Watts, Grade 12
Essex High School
Annie Beliveau, Grade 12
Essex High School
Nik Hokaj, Grade 12
George Mason HS, Falls Church, VA
Anna Halladay, Grade 7
Edmunds Middle School, Burlington
Sammy Beste, Grade 6
Edmunds Middle School, Burlington
Oscar Felcan, Grade 8
Edmunds Middle School, Burlington
Colin Fennelly, Grade 9
Harwood Union School, Duxbury
Eileen Kocherlakota, Grade 11
Burlington High School
Ethan Duncan, Grade 7
Williston Central, Independent Study
Performers
Inora Brass
Chris Rivers and Jason Whitcomb, trumpet
Joy Worland, French horn
Lori Salimando Porter, trombone
Bill Keck, tuba
David Feurzeig and Matt Podd, piano
Nicola Cannizzaro and Andrew Gagnon, percussion
Grace Chris and Stefanie Weigand, Soprano
Sarah Kervin, alto Erik Nielsen, tenor Eric Brooks, baritone
Composer Biographies
Nanalo - Briana Grimm, Grade 12, North Country Union High School.
“I have been in chorus all throughout school. I am in women's ensemble
for all four years of high school and select choir for the last three years. I
have been in the Northeast Music Festival throughout high school and I
have been in the All State Music Festival for one year. I play the clarinet
and have been in band for two years.” Brass Quartet in G Minor - Adele Woodmansee is a senior at North
Country Union High School. She has been playing violin for 11 years and
currently studies with Julie Baker Goldberg in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
She has participated in VYO as well as the All State and All New England
music festivals. She has had pieces performed for the Opus 24, 25, and
26 concerts and the Burlington Strnig Quartet Project. Adele is also interested in foreign languages, especially Spanish and Arabic. She speaks
Spanish fluently and has studied abroad in Mexico and Morocco. She
enjoys running and nordic skiing as well.
The Journey - Rian Fried and John Gaston. “My name is Rian and I
am in the 8th grade. I play clarinet in band and jazz band. I also like
sports, especially soccer. I have composed in Noteflight and Sibelius.”
“My name is John, I am also an 8th grader and play trombone in band
and jazz band. I love sports, especially soccer. This is our second attempt at Opus.”
March of the Elephants - “Hi, My name is Garrett Weil and I am a 6th
grader at The Grammar School in Putney, VT. I play piano, soccer and I
like to play video games. I'm eleven years old. I have one sister and I live
in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. When I grow up I intend to become an
inventor. I'd like to invent a machine that can play five instruments at
once in a miniature orchestra. Music has always been and always will be
a big part of my life.”
A Bugatti in Paris - Alex Wick is ten years old and lives in Burlington,
Vermont. Alex is in fifth grade at Champlain Elementary School. When he
was about three years old his dad taught him guitar and ukulele. When
he was five years old he got a piano. When Alex was six years old he
started taking piano lessons. Alex's other interests include sports, pop
music, and website building. He plays baseball, hockey, tennis, and
sometimes for fun, basketball, soccer, and football. Three of Alex's
compositions were performed in Opus. Minuet in C Major in Opus 24,
Entertainment in F Major in Opus 25, and Concerto in G Major in Opus
26. Alex was featured on VPR Classicalʼs Student Composer Showcase
as the student for December.
Composer Biographies continued
Stars - “Hello, I'm Molly Durling, a eighth grade student at The
Grammar School in Putney, VT. I live in Dummerston, VT with my mom,
three contented cats and a dog. I love all types of music and have played
violin since I was five. I study traditional fiddle with L. Schneckenburger
as well as Keith Murphy and Becky Tracey at the Brattleboro Music
Center. I also play a bit of mandolin, guitar, ukelele, and piano. I've
been very proud and overjoyed to have four previous pieces chosen for
past Opus projects. So many people have helped me with my music. I'd
like to thank all of them; my family, my teachers, my mentors and the
people with the Music-COMP program.” Upon a Golden Morningtide - “Hello! My name is Johna Saltsman,
and I have been composing music since I was a little girl of only six years
old. I also play seven different instruments, even though I am only taking
lessons on two. I had my first lesson on the piano when I was four, and
have been playing ever since. I am a senior at North Country High
School.”
Fly! - “My name is Ella Warner, I live in Putney, VT. I am eleven years
old and I am a sixth grader at The Grammar School. I am a competitive
gymnast and a circus performer. As well as being an athlete, I am a
student of music. I study voice, guitar and recorder at school. I also enjoy
theater and have performed at New England Youth Theater. I intend to
keep pursuing these interests throughout my life.”
The Burning City - “My name is David Fischer. I am a sixteen (soon to be
seventeen) year old boy who finds passion in all of its forms to be the most powerful, the darkest and the most fickle force of nature. The endlessly shifting colors
of passion are hard to see; they only become clear when excess is stripped away
and the raw innermost being of the world is laid bare. This bare backbone to the
world has cornerstones in all of the senses: sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste.
Only through these cornerstones can the essence of the world be touched, and
any who uses these cornerstones must automatically provide insight into the
world and into the nature of passion. Indeed, the cook is an artist who provides
some of the very best revelations into the world as he sees it. However, I have
found the world of sound, and music, to be endlessly fascinating. All of human
interaction is coupled with sound. It permeates the natural world at least as much
as does light, and the emotions they can inspire hold life and death in their
hands. I try to create music, to create sounds, out of which human life and interaction can flow. Some pieces are meant to invoke silence and wonder, others are
intended to be background to the music of human interaction. I try to create them
all. On a less personal note, I have been playing cello for eight years, and composing on an on-off basis since elementary school. I am homeschooled, which
gives me a lot of time to think about life, and there are quite a few things which I
love.” David was VPR Classicalʼs November Student Composer Showcase.
Composer Biographies continued
Persistence - “My name is Daelan Roosa (pronounced Rosa) and I am
a eighth grader at Barnet School. I have been playing piano for five
years, violin for two years, and trumpet for a four years. I am learning
from Jason Bergman, who I am taking private music lessons from, and
my school music teacher Ms. Persson. I have been composing music
since second grade, but I hadn't had a composition selected until Opus
22, and then again in Opus 23, 24, 25 and 26. I play 1st violin in the
Northeast Kingdom Community Orchestra. My other interests are reading, building things and designing things.” Daelan was featured on the
Student Composer Showcase with VPR Classical in October.
The Possessed Piano - Max Aifer is a senior at George Mason High
School, and this is his first composition. He has been playing piano for
over ten years, and french horn for the last four. Max enjoys a wide
variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, rock, classical, and
rap. When Max is not performing or composing music, he enjoys
working on math and science, and is also a wrestler.
Jihad Bis Saif - Saigelyn Green is a junior at North Country. “I play the
saxophone in band, and I am in the chorus at my school, along with the
select choir, women's ensemble, and jazz band. I've participated in the
Northeast Music Festival for 2 years now, and I was a part of the Vermont All State Choir last year. I spend a lot of my time listening to and
composing many different kinds of music.” Saige is featured on the Student Composer Showcase with VPR Classical for January.
Red Sky at Night - Nathan Watts: “I am currently a senior at Essex
High School. I enjoy writing music, both instrumental and electronic.
My family was never very musical, but Iʼve always loved music. It fascinates me how its elements come together and create such a profound
emotional impact. In sixth grade, I wrote my first real piece, a woodwind
quartet. It wasnʼt my first composition, but it was the first I really put care
and love into. It was accepted to VTMIDI (now Music-Comp) opus 16
and played by a professional quartet in a live concert, along with compositions by other young composers around the state. That experience
really solidified my love of composition. It was in-credibly fulfilling to see
and hear my vague ideas and intense emotions profoundly touch the
audience. Iʼve been writing music ever since. A more recent example is
an orchestral piece called Time Immemorial which Iʼve been working on
perfecting for two years. Itʼs based on a piano piece I wrote when I was
trying to explain my complex frustration about a recent event. Unable to
fully express it with words, I sat down at the piano and started improvising. Once I had finished, they understood how I felt, had experienced it
themselves through the music.”
Composer Biographies Continued
Echoʼs Lament - Annie Beliveau is a senior at Essex High School. She
is a longtime singer, pianist, and composer and has had several of her
compositions performed in public. In 2012 she performed her solo piano
piece Leaves in the Wind, the Vermont All State 2012 Composition
Scholarship winner. After writing many piano pieces, she is starting to
branch out and write for other instruments and voice.
Echoʼs Lament
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
Yet slower, yet, O faintly, gentle springs!
List to the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.
Droop herbs and flowers;
Fall grief in showers;
Our beauties are not ours.
O, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since natureʼs pride is now a withered daffodil.
Newen - Nik Hokaj is a 12th grader at George Mason High School in
Falls Church, Virginia. He had no previous composition experience before composing this fall and plays piano.
French Horn Duet - Anna Halliday - “I am eleven years old. I play
cello, a little bit of piano, french horn, and I do some double bass. I love
to swim competitively. This my second time posting for an Opus event. I
starting composing in my 4th grade music class. I liked it, and I figured if
I play four instruments, I could probably do some good composing.”
Morning Fanfare - Sammy Beste: “I am a 6th grader. I like to run, play
baseball, and soccer. I play the piano and the viola. I sing in a church
choir and I am in the school chorus. I am very good at reading music. I
enjoy playing and composing music. I started playing and composing
music when I was about 7 years old. My favorite thing to do in my free
time is to play outside or play and compose music.”
Bouncy Man - “Hello, my name is Oscar Felcan from Burlington, Vermont. I am 13 years old, in the 8th grade, and I attend Edmunds Middle
school. I really like to compose music. Some of my hobbies are reading a
good book and messing around with random things on the computer.
This is my seventh or eighth Opus submission. I have been chosen three
times before but I still like to compose no matter what. I play the Alto
Saxophone. I have been playing it since sixth grade and I have progressed far. I like to play in the Jazz Band (which is the type of music
that I like to play) and I am also currently am in the VYO. I have one sister, a dog, and a frog. My dog always howls while I play my saxophone
which is annoying but funny. Enjoy the piece!”
Composers Biographies Continued
Duet for Trumpet - “My name is Colin Fennelly and I am presently a
9th grader at Harwood Union School. I play the trumpet and play in Band
and in Jazz Band. I also really like to ski.”
The Old Man of the Sea - Eileen Kocherlakota lives in Burlington,
Vermont and is a 16 year old junior at Burlington High School. She has
been composing for Music-COMP since she was in the fifth grade. This is
Eileen's eighth concert with Music-COMP. She had a composition, Jill
and the Beanstalk, played by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra two
years ago. This past summer she participated in the String Quartet Project with Erik Nielsen and composed Summer in Shelburne which has
been performed twice by the Burlington Ensemble in concert. In addition
to composing music, Eileen enjoys singing and playing the violin. She
also likes reading, math, and learning new things.
Serenata- Ethan Duncan is 11 years old and lives in Williston. Ethan is
currently a 7th grader at Williston Central School. He plays piano,
euphonium and is just beginning to play trumpet. Ethan has been studying piano for 4 years and euphonium for 3 years. For two years, Ethan
played in the chamber winds program at the Vermont Youth Orchestra in
the brass group and also accompanied a flute group on the piano. In addition, he played keyboard for one year with a youth jazz band in Williston. The group performed in the 2012 Jazz Festival on Church Street.
In addition to music, Ethan enjoys geography, travel, drawing, soccer and
TaeKwonDo. He has two dogs named Beamish and Gingko.
Fall 2013 Composer Mentors
Mike Close, Vermont
Andy Gagnon, Vermont
Jennifer Jolley, Illinois
Jake Lester, Massachusetts
Matt Podd, NYC
Erik Nielsen, Vermont
Zach Sheets, Vermont/NY
Soovin Kim's Johannes String Quartet,
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Performer Biographies
A native of Vermont, Chris Rivers, trumpet, attended The Crane School
of Music and The Florida State University earning degrees in Music
Education. His teachers include Anthony Maiello and James Croft. Chris is currently in his 23rd year as Band Director at Harwood Union
High School in Moretown, Vermont where the program was awarded a
prestigious Grammy Signature School Award. He is also part-time adjunct faculty at UVM. The Harwood Music Program will be completing its
10th Recording Project in May of 2014. Chris has earned honors as
Teacher of the Year, and has served as District IV Chair, Treasurer and
liaison to the VMEA Executive Committee. Chris is an active performer,
conductor, and educator - performing throughout Vermont with many organizations including Inora Brass, Constitution Brass Quintet, Bach
Winds, Mozart Festival and the VSO.
Jason Whitcomb, trumpet, was born and raised in South Burlington,
VT where he graduated South Burlington High School in 2001. He has a
degree in music education from The Crane School of Music and a performance certificate after studying with Dr. John Ellis. In 2007 he graduated from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati with his Masters in Trumpet Performance, studying with Phil Collins,
former Principal Trumpet of the Cincinnati Symphony. Jason currently
teaches trumpet privately to over 40 students throughout Chittenden
County, as well as at Harwood Union High School. He performs with the
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Opera Company of Middlebury Orchestra, Lyric Theatre Pit orchestra, as well as with his brass Quintet, Inora
Brass, to name a few.
Joy Worland horn, was Associate Principal Horn of the Nashville Symphony until 2009 and before that spent three years as Principal Horn of
the Mexico City Philharmonic. During her twenty years in Nashville she
performed in hundreds of concerts, national tours, and earned six
Grammys for recordings with the symphony. She also taught at Vanderbilt University, had a private teaching studio and was active in Nashville's
commercial music scene, playing jingles, soundtracks and backup for
many kinds of pop artists. In 2009 she and her husband Paul decided
they had deprived themselves, their two sons and their Golden Retriever
of snow for long enough, and they moved to Montpelier. Since then she
has performed with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Green Mountain Opera Festival, the Burlington Jazz Festival, the Orchestra of Northern New York and other groups in the area, as well as the Gothenburg
(Sweden) Symphony under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel. She studied horn at Interlochen Arts Academy, Northwestern University and the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to a Bachelor of Music in
Horn Performance from the University of Wisconsin, Joy also has a Master of Library Science from the University of North Texas. She is the Director of the Joslin Memorial Library, which gives her the distinct pleasure of spending her days in a gorgeous 100 year old building coming up
with fun new projects for the library, talking to smart, creative people
about what theyʼre reading, and getting to pick the books that go on the
shelves. She is a member of the Vermont Library Association and cochair of the Amelia Bloomer Project, a national book selection committee
for the American Library Association.
Performer Biographies - continued
Lori Salimando-Porter, trombone, returned home with her husband
Joe to Chazy, NY on Lake Champlain after retiring from the United
States Military in 2005. She served as Principal Trombonist with the US
Military Academy Band, West Point, NY, the US Marine Band, El Toro,
CA, and the US Naval Academy Band, Annapolis, MD. Lori has also performed with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Colorado
Springs Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Hudson Valley Symphony and
substitute Lead Trombone with the Miss Saigon Orchestra on Broadway.
Currently Lori performs with Fanfare, the VSO Brass Trio, Inora Brass
and Constitution Brass Quintet and substitutes with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Vermont Symphony, VT Chorale Society Orchestra and VT Jazz
Festival Orchestra. Lori received her B.M. from the Eastman School of
Music and her M.M. from the Catholic University of America. Lori has
been blessed to have the following people influence her life and trombone playing: John Marcellus, Dick Cryder, Bob Wigness, Terry Cravens,
Joe Alessi and Marion Salimando.
Bill Keck, tuba, received his undergraduate degree in Music Education
from the Eastman School of Music with a Performerʼs Certificate in
Tuba. He performed and recorded with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. In
1977 he toured internationally with the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Orchestra followed by the Mexico City Philharmonic (1978-80). Bill has
been the tubist with the New England Wind Symphony and the Constitution Brass Quintet since 1992.
Nicola Cannizzaro is a percussionist living in Essex. He recently
moved back to Vermont with his family after 15 years of freelancing in
NYC. He has toured with the National Company of Lion King, Performed
with the New York Philharmonic on numerous occasions, played many
Broadway shows including West Side Story, In The Heights, and Phantom of the Opera. His playing spans many genres as he is equally comfortable on latin percussion and drumset as he is on classical percussion.
Nic has recorded with Itsaak Perleman, Absolute Ensemble and, Vermont Symphony to name a few.
Andrew Gagnon, percussionist, was raised in Hardwick and recently
graduated from UVM with a degree in music education with a concentration on composition. He studied percussion with Jeff Salisbury and Dr. D.
Thomas Toner. His Jazz Band toured Colombia, teaching masterclasses
and presenting workshops. Gagnon is a private percussion instructor and
has worked with the Governorʼs Institute on the Arts, Vermont Jazz
Camp and Green Mountain Youth Symphony summer camp. He was the
recipient of the 2012 Thomas L. Read Prize in Composition. He also
travelled to China with a focus on composition in a collaboration with college students there. He is a composer mentor with Music-COMP.
The music of David Feurzeig, piano, has been performed throughout
the United States as well as in New Zealand, Asia, and Europe. Since
moving to Vermont, he has written for and performed with area groups,
including the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble (where he played
pieces by Music-COMP students), Bella Voce, and the the Vermont
Symphony Orchestra. David is currently associate professor of composition and theory at UVM. While he is “from away” and knows he will never
be a “Vermonter,” he plans to grow old and die here.
Performer Biographies continued
Matt Podd is a pianist, composer, arranger, and music director based
in Brooklyn, NY. He holds degrees from The Eastman School of Music
and Ithaca College. Matt Podd's versatility as a musician keep in demand as a jazz, gospel, and pop pianist, arranger and orchestrator, accompanist, church organist, and music director. Mattʼs compositions
and arrangements have been widely performed throughout the United
States. Matt is a frequent arranger and accompanist for the Young
Peopleʼs Chorus of NYC, directed by Francisco Nunez. His arrangements for choirs and jazz ensembles have been performed at Carnegie
Hall, St. Patrickʼs Cathedral, The White House, Town Hall, Symphony
Space, and throughout the world. Mattʼs original musical Nightfall on
Miranga Island, was featured in the 2012 NYC Fringe festival as well as
the NYC Fringe Encore Series.
Grace Chris, soprano, is the general music and choral teacher at Orchard Valley Waldorf School in East Montpelier, VT. She graduated in
2011 from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Music
Education. Throughout her years at UVM she taught instrumental, vocal, and general music throughout grades K-12. Outside of school she
has directed the St. Paul's Youth Chorus in Burlington, was president of
UVM's Music Education National Conference club, and taught general
music at a local preschool. Grace also plays many instruments and has
performed in numerous ensembles around Vermont, including Bella
Voce and Northern Bronze Handbell Ensemble. Stefanie Maas Weigand, soprano, received her BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College. There, she appeared in The Mystery of Edwin
Drood (Rosa Bud), BatBoy (Ruth), Parade (Monteen), SideShow and A
Little Night Music, among others. She was also the musical director/
pianist for The Last 5 Years and The Pirates of Penzance at the Kitchen
Theatre in Ithaca. In NYC, Stefanie played Amelia Bedelia in a national
childrenʼs theatre tour of Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor. Stefanie was also a
member of the New York Choral Society, performing at Lincoln Center
with the Met Orchestra and Soloists, at Carnegie Hall, and in Madison
Square Garden for Andrea Bocelliʼs Concert Tour. In Vermont, Stefanie
has directed, musical directed and performed for Café Noir productions,
the Mad River Chorale, the Green Mountain Opera Festival, Stowe
Theatre Guild, Green Mountain Performing Arts, the VT Philharmonic,
and is the chorus teacher at Harwood Union Middle/High School.
Sarah Kervin is a Brooklyn-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, educator and composer/arranger. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia,
Sarah attended the University of South Carolina, where she received a
Bachelor of Music Jazz Studies degree in saxophone and voice. She
went on to receive a Masters degree in Vocal Jazz Performance at the
University of North Texas, studying with Jennifer Barnes and Rosana
Eckert. Sarah is a six-time Downbeat student music award recipient and
winner of the first ever Jazz Education Network student composition
competition. She has been honored to perform in venues ranging from
jazz clubs, to the Kennedy Center, to the Olympic Ceremonies, with
artists such as Ben Folds, Jon Hendricks, and the Manhattan Transfer.
Sarah is currently compiling her second solo album for release soon.
Performer Biographies continued
Erik Nielsen, tenor, is better known as a composer with recent commissions by the Boston-based string orchestra, A Far Cry; Voices in the
Wind. Other compositions include a set of duets for flute and viola; The
Crane Maiden for chamber ensemble, narrator and three actors; two
song cycles, Trajectory of Flight for mezzo-soprano and strings and
The Falling of Trees for baritone and piano quartet; his Quartet for
Strings #2; and Cinque Amici, a work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and
piano, and many more. Erik has won awards from ASCAP, the Vermont
Arts Council, and in 1991 was chosen Vermont Composer of the Year
by the Vermont Music Teachers Association. Mr. Nielsen is Senior
Composition Mentor with Music-COMP. He also teaches music theory
and composition with the Vermont Youth Orchestra, the Monteverdi
School and privately. Mr. Nielsen lives in Brookfield, Vermont.
Eric K. Brooks, baritone, is a native of Montpelier. A founding member of the professional vocal ensemble Counterpoint, Eric has performed as soloist and chorister with many other groups, including the
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Oriana Singers, Voces Dulcissimis and the Burlington Choral Society. Eric has recently been a featured soloist with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall under
the direction of Robert DeCormier. Eric also plays clarinet in the Vermont Symphonic Winds, Waterbury Community Band, and at the University of Vermont. Eric makes his home in Waterbury Center, Vermont
and is employed as a library professional at the University of Vermont.
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Since 1995 a community of professional composers, teachers, pre-service
educators, and students have engaged in mentoring with online discussion
of student work, development of resources, and teacher training.
Students tell us they listen differently, perform differently and think differently about any musical experience once they’ve had a chance to compose music themselves.
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