RICHARD WILSON
Curriculum Vitae as of August 2006
Born: Cleveland, Ohio, May 15, 1941
Profession: Composer, Pianist, Lecturer, Teacher of Music
Present Positions: Professor of Music, on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair,
Vassar College; Composer-in-Residence, American Symphony Orchestra
Address: 27 Vassar Lake Drive, Poughkeepsie, New York 12603
Telephone: 845-471-4620 (home); 845-437-7326 or 437-7319 (college).
Fax: 845-471-6752 (home) E-mail: riwilson@vassar.edu
Web Site: www.richardwilson.org
Marital Status: married to Adene Stevenson Green, May 15, 1971
Children: Katherine Blanca Wilson, born May 21, 1976
James Graham Wilson, born April 17, 1980
Formal Education:
· Rutgers University 1964-1966 M. A. 1966 in Music Theory
Master's Composition: Fantasy and Variations
· Harvard University 1959-1963 A. B. 1963 magna cum laude in music
Honors Thesis: "Syncopation in the Works of Robert Schumann"
· Euclid Senior High School 1956-1959 Diploma in 1959
Applied Music Study:
· Piano
o 1963 Friedrich Wührer, Munich
o 1960 Leonard Shure, Aspen and New York City
o 1954-1959 Egbert Fischer and Leonard Shure, Cleveland Music
School Settlement
o 1948-1954 Roslyn Raish Pettibone, Timberlake, Ohio
· Cello
o 1953-1958 Ernst Silberstein (then Principal, Cleveland Orchestra)
o 1951-1953 Robert Ripley (then Cleveland Orchestra, later Boston
Symphony)
· Theory
o 1954-1958 Cleveland Music School Settlement
· Composition
o 1955-56 Howard Whittaker, Cleveland Music School Settlement
o 1962-66 Robert Moevs, Harvard University, American Academy
in Rome, Rutgers University
Positions Held:
· Chair, Department of Music,Vassar College, 1979-1982; 1985-1988; 1995-1998.
· Composer-in-Residence, American Symphony Orchestra, 1992-
· Professor of Music, Vassar College, 1976-(Mary Conover Mellon Chair,1988-)
· Associate Professor of Music, Vassar College, 1970-1976.
· Assistant Professor of Music, Vassar College, 1966-1970.
· Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, 1965-1966.
· Teacher of Music Theory, Chautauqua Institution, summers 1966 and 1967.
Awards, Prizes, Commissions, and Other Distinctions:
· 2006/07 Roger Sessions Memorial Bogliasco Fellowship in Music.
· ASCAP Award for professional distinction annually since 1970.
· Invited to contribute to Yale Oral History of American Music, Nov., 2004
· Academy Award in Music, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2004
· Commission from The Fromm Foundation for Piano Trio, 2000
· Member Visiting Committee, Department of Music, Duke University, 1998.
· Guest at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, Summer, 1997.
· Commission from Chicago Chamber Musicians,1997. (String Quartet No. 4)
· Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, 1996. (Triple Concerto)
· Stoeger Prize from Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, 1994.
· Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition in 1992-93.
· Member Visiting Committee, Department of Music, Wellesley College, 1992.
· Figuration chosen one of several equal winners in the national competition sponsored by the League of Composers/ISCM, January, 1990.
· Commission from Mae and Irving Jurow Foundation through the Library of Congress for Persuasions, premiered November 30, 1990.
· County Executive's Award for an Individual Artist from the Dutchess County Arts Council 1989
· Commission from Chamber Music America and the Pew Charitable Trust for Affirmations, for the Da Capo Chamber Players. Premiere given at 92nd St. Y, NYC, on March 7, 1991.
· Commission from the San Francisco Symphony for a major work,
· Articulations, for their 1988-1989 season. Premiere May, 1989.
· Appointed to three-year term on Visiting Committee, Harvard Music
· Department, beginning July 1, 1989. (Reappointed in 1992.)
· Awarded the 1988 Cleveland Arts Prize for creative achievement in music.
· Named to Mary Conover Mellon Chair in Music at Vassar in Spring, 1988.
· Commission from Dutchess Arts Council for a work honoring the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city of Poughkeepsie. (Jubilation, for wind ensemble)
· Commission from the Hudson Valley Philharmonic for Symphony No. 2.
· The Walter Hinrichsen Award given by The American Academy of
Arts and Letters, 1986.
· Commission from Margaret Mills for Intercalations, for piano solo.
· Commission from the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation for String Quartet No. 3., written for the Muir Quartet.
· Burge-Eastman Prize awarded to Eclogue, 1978.
· August 22 cited in Brown University Choral Competition, 1976.
· Eclogue chosen one of several equal winners in League of Composers/ISCM Piano Music Competition in 1976.
· Music for Solo Flute commissioned by Harvey Sollberger.
· Music for Solo Cello commissioned by Fred Sherry.
· String Quartet No. 1 a finalist in Le Concours de Composition de Quatour à cordes, Liège, 1969.
· George Arthur Knight Prize in Composition, Harvard, for Suite for Five Players, 1963.
List of Compositions:
· Gravitas for solo contrabass 2006
· Chamisha Tehillim for soprano, baritone, and orchestra 2006
· Three Songs on Poems of Paul Kane for mezzo-soprano and marimba 2006
· Visits to St. Elizabeths (E. Bishop) mezzo-soprano and piano 2005
· Brash Attacks, for trumpet and trombone 2004
· Diablerie for solo violin 2004
· Four Love Songs for soprano and orchestra 2004
· Senza Furore for flute, clarinet, viola and piano 2004
· Organicity for solo organ 2003
· Peregrinations for viola and orchestra 2002
· Revelry for full orchestra [becomes Silhouette with Revelry] 2002
· Piano Trio 2002
· Canzona for horn and string quartet 2001
· Three Songs on Poems by John Ashbery 2000
· Motivations for cello and piano 2000
· Intimations for piano and orchestra 1999
· Triple Concerto for horn, bass clarinet, and marimba 1999
· String Quartet No. 4 1998
· Transfigured Goat, for mezzo soprano, baritone, clarinet and piano 1996
· Two Interludes for violin and piano 1996; a Third Interlude added in 1998.
· “Lights on the River”, for high voice and piano (Katherine Anne Porter) 1996
· Pamietam—for mezzo soprano and orchestra 1995
· Five Love Songs, high voice and piano, on poems of John Skelton 1995
· Agitations—for full orchestra 1994
· Æthelred the Unready—opera in one act. 1993-4; rev. 2001
· Civilization and its Discontents—for tuba solo. 1992
· On the Street, for baritone and piano or baritone and strings. 1992
· The Second Law, for baritone and piano 1991
· Touchstone, for solo flute 1991
· Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 1991
· Persuasions—a setting of poems of Thomas Carew for soprano, flute, oboe, bassoon and harpsichord 1990
· Affirmations (for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano) 1990
· Intonations: Five Pieces for Solo Horn 1989
· Sonata for Viola and Piano 1989
· Articulations, for Full Orchestra 1989
· Tribulations, five songs for voice and piano, 1988
· Suite for Small Orchestra 1988
· Contentions, for chamber ensemble 1988
· Silhouette, for full orchestra 1988
· Music for Solo Viola 1988
· Lord Chesterfield to His Son, for solo cello, 1987
· Jubilation, for wind ensemble, 1987
· Symphony No. 2 1986
· Intercalations, for solo piano, 1986
· Fixations, for solo piano, 1985
· Flutations, for solo flute, 1985
· Symphony No. 1 1984
· Three Painters, (poems by Phyllis McGinley), voice and piano 1984
· A Child's London, six easy piano pieces, 1984
· Line Drawings, for two clarinets, 1984
· Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra 1983
· Suite for Winds 1983
· Dithyramb, for oboe and clarinet, 1982
· String Quartet No. 3 1982
· Character Studies, for oboe and piano, 1982
· Gnomics, for flute, oboe and clarinet, 1981
· Wiegenlied, arr. of Brahms song for chamber orchestra, 1981
· Short Notice, for clarinet and cello, 1981
· Eleven Sumner Place, for symphonic band, 1981
· A Theory, (poem by Musa Guston) soprano and vibraphone, 1980
· Figuration: Music for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano 1980
· Profound Utterances: Music for Solo Bassoon 1980
· Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra 1979
· In Schrafft's, new setting of Auden’s poem for mixed chorus, clarinet,
harpsichord and marimba 1979
· Deux pas de trois: Pavane and Tango, for flute, oboe and harpsichord 1979
· Sour Flowers: Eight Piano Pieces in the Form of an Herbal, 1979
· Serenade: Variations on a Simple March, for clarinet, viola, and bass 1978
· String Quartet No. 2 1977
· August 22, a setting of John Unterecker's poem for mixed chorus, piano and percussion, 1976
· The Ballad of Longwood Glen, a setting of Vladimir Nabokov's poem for tenor and harp 1975
· Eclogue, for solo piano, 1974
· Wind Quintet, 1974
· Music for Solo Flute, 1972
· Hunter's Moon, a setting of Stephen Sandy's poem for mixed chorus, 1972
· Elegy, a setting of Stephen Sandy's poem, "Thanksgiving in the Country," for mixed chorus 1971
· Music for Solo Cello, 1971
· Home from the Range, setting of Stephen Sandy's poem,mixed chorus, 1970
· Initiation: Music for Full Orchestra 1970
· Quartet for Flutes, String Bass, and Harpsichord 1969
· Soaking, a setting of Stephen Sandy's poem for mixed chorus 1969
· Music for Violin and Cello 1969
· String Quartet No. 1
· Light in Spring Poplars, setting of Stephen Sandy's poem, mixed chorus, 1968
· Can, a setting of Stephen Sandy's poem for mixed chorus 1968
· A Dissolve, a setting of Stephen Sandy's poem for women's chorus, 1968
· Concert Piece for Violin and Piano, 1967
· In Schrafft's, a setting of Auden's poem for men's chorus and piano four-hands 1966
· Fantasy and Variations for Chamber Ensemble 1965
· Trio for Oboe, Violin and Cello 1964
· Three Short Pieces for Piano 1964
· Suite for Five Players 1963
Publications (music):
· Diablerie, for violin solo—Peermusic Classical 2006
· Flutations, for flute solo—Peermusic Classical 2006
· Organicity, for organ solo—Peermusic Classical 2006
· Piano Trio—Peermusic Classical 2006
· Brash Attacks, for trumpet and trombone—Peermusic 2006
Note: the following six titles, originally issued by Boosey and
Hawkes, were reissued by Peermusic Classical in 2002:
· Eclogue
· Sour Flowers
· The Ballad of Longwood Glen
· August 22
· Profound Utterances
· Music for Solo Flute
· Three Interludes for Violin and Piano, Peermusic, 2000
· A Child’s London, for piano, Peermusic, 1996
· Three Short Pieces for Piano, Peermusic, 1996
· Civilization and Its Discontents, for solo tuba, Peermusic, 1996
· Touchstones, for solo flute, Peermusic, 1996
· Five Love Songs on Poems of John Skelton, Peermusic, 1996
· Lord Chesterfield to His Son, Peermusic, 1996
· Silhouette for Orchestra, Peermusic, 1996
· Eight Comic Songs for high voice and piano Peer-Southern, 1995
· The Second Law, in AIDS QUILT SONGBOOK. Boosey and Hawkes. 1994.
· Flutations, solo flute, in NFA FLUTE ANTHOLOGY. Oxford Press. 1993.
· Intercalations, for piano solo. Peer-Southern, 1991.
· Fixations, for piano solo. Peer-Southern, 1991.
· Figuration: Music for Clarinet, Cello and Piano. Henmar (C. F. Peters), 1989
· Gnomics: Music for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet. Peer-Southern, 1989
· String Quartet No. 3. Peer-Southern, 1989
· Line Drawings, for two clarinets, Peer-Southern, 1987.
· Dithyramb, for oboe and clarinet. Peer-Southern, 1987.
· Elegy, for SATB chorus a cappella. G. Schirmer Inc., 1985.
· Profound Utterances: Music for Solo Bassoon. Boosey and Hawkes, 1984.
· The Ballad of Longwood Glen, tenor and harp. Boosey and Hawkes, 1983.
· Sour Flowers: 8 Pieces in the Form of an Herbal. Boosey and Hawkes. 1982.
· August 22, mixed chorus, percussion and piano. Boosey and Hawkes,1981.
· Eclogue, for solo piano. Boosey and Hawkes Inc., 1980.
· Music for Solo Flute. Boosey and Hawkes Inc., 1977
· Can, for mixed chorus, J. Fisher/Belwin Mills, 1973.
· Home from the Range, for mixed chorus, G. Schirmer Inc., 1971.
· Soaking, for mixed chorus. G. Schirmer Inc., 1970.
· Light in Spring Poplars. G. Schirmer Inc., 1970.
· A Dissolve. G. Schirmer Inc., 1970.
Publications (prose):
· Letters to the editor, the NY Times, published on October 12, 2003 and February 27, 2005.
· Liner notes for CD of orchestral works by Aaron Copland, George Perle, Roger Sessions and Bernard Rands on New World Records, performed by the American
Symphony, Leon Botstein, conducting. 2005.
· Liner notes for Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 28, 30 and 32 (2004)
performed by Blanca Uribe on MSR Classics MS1117
· Liner notes for Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, and 31 performed by Blanca Uribe on MSR Classics label.
· Liner notes for Brahms Concerto in Bb performed by Francois-Frederic Guy with London Philharmonic on naïveclassique label. (2003)
· Liner notes for works by George Szell and Robert Heger on Arabesque 6752. Conducted by Leon Botstein. (2003)
· Essays on Piano Concertos in D minor and Bb major in The Compleat Brahms, ed. Leon Botstein. Norton. (New York, 1999).
· Program notes for “Tchaikovsky: The Virtuoso”, (including Symphony No. 4, Concert Fantasia in G and Valse-Scherzo). Lincoln Center Stagebill, October 31, 1998.
· Program notes for Mozart Concerto No. 26, K. 537. May 1/2, 1998. American Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
· Liner notes for “Of Challenge and of Love: Complete Songs for Solo Voice and Piano by Igor Stravinsky and Elliott Carter.” Koch International CD with Lucy Shelton, soprano, and John Constable, piano. October, 1997.
· Program notes for Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 8 and Schubert Symphony No. 2. September 5/6, 1997. American Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
· Program note on Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha, Lincoln Center Stagebill, November 1993, 20L.
Recordings:
· Piano Trio, Motivations, Figuration, Interludes, Lord Chesterfield to His Son, Diablerie released by Albany Records (TROY 773) in July, 2005
· Three Painters, performed by Georgine Resick, soprano, and Warren Jones, piano, by Bridge (9152) released in 2004
· String Quartets 3 and 4 with Canzona released by Albany Records, (TROY 573) in 2003
· Æthelred the Unready, released by Albany Records (TROY 512) in June, 2002.
· Affirmations, Transfigured Goat, Intercalations released by Albany Records (TROY 389) in 2000.
· A Child's London, released by Ongaku Records in 1999; CD entitled 'Once Upon a Time'. Haskell Small, piano, Robert Aubry Davis, narrator.
· Symphony No. 1 by New Zealand Symphony, James Sedares, conducting; Sonata for Viola and Piano, Misha Amory and Blanca Uribe; Tribulations, Mary Ann Hart and Richard Wilson; Gnomics. Koch International. Released in November, 1999.
· Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom: The Choral Music of Richard Wilson Includes: In Schrafft’s, Poor Warren, August 22, and seven a cappella choruses on poems by Stephen Sandy. The William Appling Singers. Albany Records (TROY 333). Released in May, 1999.
· The Second Law on Heartbeats: New Songs from Minnesota for the AIDS Quilt Songbook. Tony Holt, baritone; John Jensen, piano. Innova No. 500. (1994)
· Persuasions, Lord Chesterfield to his Son, Fixations, Sonata for Viola and Piano. Albany Records TROY 074. (1993)
· Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Blanca Uribe, piano, Leon Botstein,
conducting, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. of Boston. CRI CD 618. (1992)
· Rerelease on CD of String Quartet No. 3, Ballad of Longwood Glen, Eclogue, Concert Piece for Violin and Piano, Music for Solo Flute, Music for Violin and Cello. CRI CD 602. (1991)
· Three Painters. Paul Sperry, tenor, Irma Vallecillo, piano. Albany Records. TROY 058. (1991)
· Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra, Suite for Small Orchestra. Robert Wagner, bassoon, Leon Botstein, conducting; Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston on CRI CD-575. (1990)
· Intercalations, Margaret Mills, piano, on NCD 60048 (1988)
· Line Drawings, Gnomics, Dithyramb, and Serenade on Opus One No. 130. (1987)
· String Quartet No. 3. The Muir Quartet, on CRI SD-526. (1986)
· Figuration. David Krakauer, clarinet; Warren Lash, cello; and Blanca Uribe, piano; on Opus One No. 92. (1984)
· Eclogue. Blanca Uribe, piano; and The Ballad of Longwood Glen. Paul Sperry, tenor and Nancy Allen, harp, on CRI SD-437
· Music for Solo Flute. Harvey Sollberger, flute; and Concert Piece for Violin and Piano. Rolf Schulte, violin, and Ursula Oppens, piano, on CRI SD-315.
· Music for Violin and Cello. Yoko Matsuda, violin, Fred Sherry, cello; on CRI SD271.
Selected Listing of Performances of Compositions:
· July 23, 2006 Rochester Christian Reformed Church, Rochester, NY, Carsoon Cooman performs selections from Organicity.
· July 15, 2006 Trinity Cathedral, Pittsburgh, PA, Carson Cooman performs selections from Organicity.
· June 22, 2006 Mannes College, Diablerie performed by Rolf Schulte.
· January 27, 2006 Vassar College, World Premiere of Senza Furore for flute, clarinet, viola and piano.
· January 24, 2006 Gettysburg College, Three Painters by Jeffrey Fahnestock and Jocelyn Swigger.
· October 2, 2005 Merkin Concert Hall, Visits to St. Elizabeth by Mary Nessinger
· July 3, 2005 Vassar College: Diablerie by Rolf Schulte.
· May 8, 2005 Boston Conservatory: Three Painters by Amanda Forsythe, soprano.
· March 27, 2005 Vassar College: Diablerie by Rolf Schulte.
· February 6, 2005 Merkin Concert Hall: Transfigured Goat, with Mary Nessinger, Robert Osborne, Allen Blustine and Richard Wilson.
· January 30, 2005 Vassar College Modfest: Transfigured Goat, with Mary Nessinger, Robert Osborne, Allen Blustine and Richard Wilson.
· Sept. 7, 2003 Merkin Concert Hall, Lord Chesterfield to His Son by Sophie Shao
· March 30, 2003 Merkin Concert Hall, String Quartet No. 4 by Chicago String Quartet
· February 2, 2003 Vassar Lord Chesterfield to His Son by Sophie Shao.
· January 31, 2003 Vassar; March 15, 2003 at Reading, PA; March 17, 2003 at Mannes Piano Trio by The Mannes Trio.
· May 5, 1999 AUGUST 22 at Mannes College of Music, NYC, Mark Shapiro,
conducting.
· Mar. 17, 1999 TRIPLE CONCERTO FOR HORN, BASS CLARINET AND MARIMBA Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, the American Symphony, Leon Botstein, conductor. Jeffrey Lang, horn, Dennis Smylie, bass clarinet, William Moersch, marimba.
· Feb. 28, 1999 THREE INTERLUDES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College; by Rolf Schulte and Richard Wilson.
· Sept. 11, 1998 THE BALLAD OF LONGWOOD GLEN Cornell University by Paul Sperry and Nancy Allen. Part of Nabokov centennial.
· June 6, 1998 INTERCALATIONS at Olin Aud., Bard College, by Blanca Uribe
· June 5, 1998 SOUR FLOWERS on Rhine Cruise Ship “River Cloud” by Richard Wilson
· May 21, 1998 STRING QUARTET No. 4 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, by The Chicago String Quartet.
· Mar. 29, 1998 INTERCALATIONS at Skinner Hall, Vassar College, by Blanca Uribe
· Feb. 21, 1998 SUITE FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA at Bardavon Opera House, by Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Randall Craig Fleischer, conducting.
· Feb. 20, 1998 SUITE FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA in Newburgh, NY by Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Randall Craig Fleischer, conducting.
· Feb. 15. 1998 STRING QUARTET No. 4 in Sedona, AZ, by The Chicago String Quartet.
· Jan. 20, 1998 STRING QUARTET No. 4 at Skinner Hall, Vassar College, by The Chicago String Quartet.
· Jan. 17, 1998 STRING QUARTET No. 4 at 92nd Street YMHA, NYC, by The Chicago String Quartet (premiere).
· Nov. 23, 1997 THREE INTERLUDES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO Skinner Recital Hall, by Joseph Genualdi and Richard Wilson.
· Mar. 9, 1997 A CHILD’S LONDON, orchestrated and with narration, Millbrook, NY, by Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Luis Garcia-Renart, conducting.
· Mar. 8, 1997 A CHILD’S LONDON, orchestrated and with narration, Kingston, NY, by Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Luis Garcia-Renart, conducting. (World Premiere)
· Nov. 8, 1996 TRANSFIGURED GOAT, Skinner Recital Hall, by Mary Ann Hart, Richard Lalli, Larry Guy, and Richard Wilson. (World Premiere)
· July 25, 1996 TWO INTERLUDES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College; by Joseph Genualdi and Richard Wilson.
· May 3, 1996 SOUR FLOWERS, Richard Wilson, piano, Vassar Club of Chicago, Three Arts Club.
· Mar. 30, 1996 TOUCHSTONES—for solo flute, Skinner Recital Hall, by Margit Dijkstra.
· Mar. 12, 1996 SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO, Misha Amory, viola, Blanca Uribe, piano, Menill Collection, Houston, TX.
· March 22, 1996 CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS—for solo tuba; Skinner Hall, Vassar College; by Stephen Johns.
· Dec. 11, 1995 AGITATIONS, Sau Paulo Symphony, Sau Paulo, Brazil, Leon
Botstein, conducting.
· Nov. 12, 1995 THREE SHORT PIECES, in NYC, by Peter Vinograde, piano.
· Oct. 30, 1995 PAMIETAM Merkin Hall, NYC, the American Symphony Chamber Orch., Leon Botstein, conductor, Mary Ann Hart, mezzo soprano.
· Aug. 30, 1995 FIVE LOVE SONGS on Poems of John Skelton; Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College; Three songs performed by Mary Ann Hart and Richard Wilson
· June 6, 1995 THREE PAINTERS, Mary Ann Hart, at Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center
· April 23, 1995 ECLOGUE, by Mary Frantz, Weidner Center, Green Bay, WI.
· Mar. 31, 1995 SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO, Walter Trampler, viola, Blanca Uribe, piano, Skinner Hall Vassar.
· Mar. 28, 1995 POOR WARREN, Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College; The Vassar Madrigal Singers, William Appling, conductor.
· Feb. 10, 1995 CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA, Residentie Orkest, The Hague, G. Ostkamp, conductor, B. Uribe, piano.
· Sept. 10, 1994 ÆTHELRED THE UNREADY, Scenes II-VI, at Vassar College. American Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conducting, Jan Opalach as Æthelred, Karen Holvik as Emma, Judith Malafronte as Clio, Tom Bogdan as William of Malmesbury.
· July 17, 1994 AGITATIONS by American Symphony, at Stokowski Conducting Competition, Avery Fisher Hall
· May 22, 1994 ARTICULATIONS, by the American Symphony Orchestra,
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. Leon Botstein, conductor.
· May 12, 1994 FIGURATION, by Flax, Wyrick and Wilson, Vassar College.
· April 4, 1994 SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO, by Trampler and Uribe,
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade
Theatre, Lincoln Center.
· Feb. 26, 1994 MUSIC FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO, Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society.
· January, 1994 SILHOUETTE, by the American Symphony, in Nogoya,Okayama, Fukuoka,Tokyo, Sendai, Koriyama, Osaka, on tour of Japan.
· June 4, 1993 THE SECOND LAW. Jan Opalach, bass, Wm. Huckaby, piano. AIDS QUILT SONGBOOK in Jordan Hall, Boston.
· May 7,8 1993 ÆTHELRED THE UNREADY: Scene One. Jan Opalach, bass,
Karen Holvik, soprano, American Symphony Chamber
Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conducting. Bard and Vassar.
· Nov. 24, 1992 MUSIC FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO, CHARACTER STUDIES FOR OBOE AND PIANO, PERSUASIONS, THREE PAINTERS, AFFIRMATIONS. Skinner Hall.
· Oct. 8, 1992 FIGURATION, by Gotham Chamber Ensemble, Greenwich House Music School, NYC.
· June 4, 1992 THE SECOND LAW, with Will Parker and Alan Marks, AIDS QUILT SONGBOOK in Tully Hall.
· March 22, 1992 THREE PAINTERS, with Amy Burton, soprano, John Musto, piano, at the NY Fest. of Song. Greenwich House Music School
· March 6, 1992 PERSUASIONS, with Diane Ragains, soprano, Ralph Shapey,
conducting, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble at the
· University of Chicago.
· Feb. 16, 1992 CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA, Blanca Uribe, piano, and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Leon Botstein,
conducting, Sanders Theater, Harvard.
· Jan. 26, 1992 STRING QUARTET NO. 3, by Juilliard performers, in FOCUS!, Juilliard Theater.
· Nov. 14, 1991 FIXATIONS, LIGHT IN SPRING POPLARS, SOAKING, CAN, LORD CHESTERFIELD TO HIS SON, SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO, INTONATIONS at Greenwich House Music School by Uribe, Sherry, Trampler, Purvis, and Vassar Madrigal Singers.
· May 5, 1991 CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA, by Blanca Uribe, piano, and Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conducting. Alice Tully Hall. (World Premiere)
· May 5, 1991 SYMPHONY NO. 2, by Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber
· Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conducting. Alice Tully Hall.
· March 7, 1991 AFFIRMATIONS, for chamber ensemble, by Da Capo Chamber Ensemble. 92nd St. YMHA, New York City. (World Premiere)
· January 8, 1991 SYMPHONY NO. 1, by London Philharmonic, Leon Botstein, conducting. Barbican Centre, London.
· Nov. 30, 1990 PERSUASIONS, by Judith Nelson and instrumentalists. The
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (World Premiere)
· Dec. 5, 1990 FIGURATION, by ISCM/League of Composers, Weill Hall, NYC.
· July 13, 1990 THREE PAINTERS, by Paul Sperry, tenor, and Arlene Shrut,
· piano Natl. Assoc. of Singing Teachers' Summer Workshop,
Albuquerque, NM
· June 14, 1990 SILHOUETTE, Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, Luis Biava,
conducting. Bogota, Columbia. (South American Premiere).
· May 29, 1990 THREE PAINTERS, by Paul Sperry, tenor, and Robert Spillman, piano. Festival of American Song. U. of Colorado, Boulder.
· March 26, 1990 A THEORY, by Pamela Jordan at Catholic University, Wash. DC
· Feb. 2-3, 1990 SUITE FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA, by Hudson Valley Phil.
· Chamb. Orch. Leon Botstein, conducting, at Bard and Vassar.
· Oct. 22, 1989 LINE DRAWINGS, by Robert McAllister and Robert Hill, in
memorial concert for Howard Whittaker, at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, Cleveland.
· Oct. 6, 1989 SILHOUETTE, Akron University Symphony Orch., Joel Ethan
· Fried, conductor (American Premiere).
· Oct. 5, 1989 FLASHBACK (from FIXATIONS), by Peter Vinograde, Iowa
· State Univ.
· Oct. 3, 1989 TRIBULATIONS, by Dawn Upshaw, soprano, and Margo Garret, piano, at Miller Hall, Columbia University.
· Sept. 27, 1989 FLASHBACK (from FIXATIONS), by Peter Vinograde, Univ. of Chicago.
· Sept. 26, 1989 FLASHBACK (from FIXATIONS), by Peter Vinograde, Winnipeg.
· Sept. 24, 1989 TRIBULATIONS, by Dawn Upshaw, soprano, and Margo Garret, piano, at Illinois Wesleyan University. (World Premiere).
· Sept. 15, 1989 THREE PAINTERS, by Paul Sperry, tenor, and Irma Vallecillo,
· piano at Bard College.
· Aug. 16, 1989 PROFOUND UTTERANCES, by Arthur Weisberg, bassoon, at convention of the International Double Reed Society, Manchester, Eng.
· May 11, 1989 ARTICULATIONS, by the San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor. Davies Hall, S.F. (World Premiere)
· April 30, 1989 STRING QUARTET NO. 3 by Luis Biava and other members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Academy of Music
· Mar. 22, 1989 CHARACTER STUDIES, by Steven Taylor, oboe, Alec Karis, piano. Speculum Musicae at The Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City. (NYC Première)
· Jan. 22, 1989 FLUTATIONS, by John Solum, flute, at Merkin Hall, New York City. (New York Première)
· Nov. 12, 1988 SILHOUETTE, by the London Philharmonic, Leon Botstein, conductor. Barbican Centre, London. (World Premiere)
· Sept. 10, 1988 SUITE FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA, by the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Leon Botstein, conductor. Great Barrington, MA. (World Premiere) CONCERTO FOR BASSOON AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, by Robert Wagner, bassoon, and the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Leon Botstein, conducting. Great Barrington, MA.
· July 14, 1988 THREE PAINTERS, by Paul Sperry, tenor, Irma Vallecillo, piano, in American Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein.
· May 22, 1988 THE BALLAD OF LONGWOOD GLEN, Paul Sperry, tenor, and Susan Jolles, harp, at P.S. 1, Long Island City.
· Apr. 20, 1988 ECLOGUE, by Mary Frantz, at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. FIGURATION, by Frantz, Downs, Paprocki, at Univ. of Wisc.-Madison.
· Apr. 15, 1988 INTERCALAT