Chapter on Judith's work in Women of Influence in Contemporary Music by theorist Judith Lochhead
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New and Recent Commissions
The Deering Estate Chamber Players has commissioned Shatin to compose Sounding Biscayne Bay for amplified piano quartet and electronics made from the sounds of Biscayne Bay, to be premiered on April 22, 2012.
Scottish Voices, conducted by Graham Hair, commissioned Selah, for female vocal quartet plus harp, in a setting of excerpts from four Hebrew Psalms, and premiered the piece at the University of Glasgow's chapel on 8/30/11.
The Fromm Foundation has commissioned for a piece for amplified string quartet and electronics for the Cassatt Quartet that was premiered on 10/13/11 at the Thalia Theatre of Symphony Space in NYC.
Four orchestras commissioned Jefferson, In HIs Own Words, for narrator and orchestra. The orchestras include the lead Charlottesville and University Symphony, the Illinois Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, and the Virginia Symphony. The premieres started in the spring of 2010, starting with the Illinois Symphony on March 12, 2011, and are continuing with the Richmond Symphony on 11/13-14, 2010, and the Virginia Symphony during the 2011-12 seson. The piece is dedicated to Richmond-based Mr. Gerald Morgan, a great friend to musicians, and a descendent of Thomas Jefferson.
The Peninsula Women's Chorus, conducted by Martin Benvenuto, commissioned a setting of The Jumblies, by Edward Lear, for SSA+ piano, premiered on 12/4/10 in honor of Mary Ager, who was a wonderful singer and a section leader in the chorus.
Conversations and interviews with Judith
Come take a listen at The Naxos Blog on Sequenza 21
Or catch her here:
Interview with Judith on Contemporary Music at Pytheas
Shatin lectures
Music Perception and Timbral Transformation:
A Composer's Journey at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, Belgium
Shatin presented her research and its application to her own work in both acoustic and digital media.
View an excerpt from Shatin and Arnold's Rotunda
CD's!
Etcetera Records just released Ockeghem Variations on The Dutch Connection, a CD of Dutch-related and Dutch music recorded by the Hexagon Ensemble.
Innova Records recently released Tower of the Eight Winds a CD of Shatin's music for violin, piano and electronics, performed by the Borup/Ernst Duo.
Innova Records has also released In Two Worlds, a CD of music for saxophone and electronics performed by the noted Susan Fancher, featuring Shatin's Penelope's Song
North/South Records released Spin (fl, cl, bssn, vln, vla, vc) on Reflections, Music for Mixed Ensembles by American Composers, (N/S R 1046). Commissioned by the Chamber Music and Composer Conference of the East at Bennington, Spin is a short, snappy piece that plays with the meaning of the word "spin" at both the macro and micro level. I'm delighted by the fine performance on this recording!
Summer residencies:
2011 at California Summser Music
Judith gave daily classes and lectures for compostion students, who also heard several of her pieces in performance.2010 at Wintergreen Performing Arts
Judith gave masterclasses for compostion students at Wintergreen Performing Arts during July, 2010.Project News
Rotunda
This film collaboration with Robert Arnold is now completed! The fifteen minute film, based on 300,000 + images of the Lawn and sound collected in and around the Rotunda over an entire year, is now complete. The form of the film maps a trajectory of one day, from dawn to dusk, to the traversal of one year. The film was premiered
at Sweetwater Sound's Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as part of the national meeting of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US. It will be available soon on DVD.
© Copyright 2011 Judith Shatin
