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Music Alive Round VI Short Term Residencies:
(2005-2006)

Jennifer Higdon (6 weeks) Website
Pittsburgh Symphony

Listen (excerpt): Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra (MP3)

Jennifer Higdon photo: Jeff Hurwitz

Ms. Higdon has been commissioned to write Trombone Concerto for the orchestra which will premiere December 2005. The PSO will also perform several other works by Ms. Higdon throughout the season.

During her residency, she will teach master classes at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and Duquesne University music schools. She will also mentor composition students at Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and establish a reading session for young composers with a national call for scores hosted by the PSO.



Joan Tower (2 weeks)
Utah Symphony

Joan Tower

Listen (excerpt): Joan Tower's Duets for Chamber Orchestra(MP3)

Ms. Tower's residency will take place during the orchestras 2005 Deer Valley Music Festival. The orchestra will perform a work by Tower and the Muir Quartet will also perform a piece as part of the Festival's Chamber Series.

Ms. Tower will also participate in reading sessions and open rehearsals with the orchestra, and take part in other residency activities involving the general public, local composers, and the orchestra's musicians, staff and Board of Directors.



David Dzubay (3 weeks) Website
Green Bay Symphony

David Dzubay

Listen (excerpt): David Dzubay's Snake Alley (MP3)

Both the Green Bay Symphony and Green Bay Youth Symphony will perform works by the composer. During the residency Mr. Dzubay will also work with local elementary school music classes, high school orchestra and band programs, as well as music and composition students at several local colleges.







Gabriela Lena Frank (2 weeks)
Seattle Symphony

Gabriela Lena Frank

Ms. Frank has been commissioned to write a new work for the orchestra, and will work closely with Seattle's Latino community throughout her residency.

She will also work with public school bands, orchestras, choral groups, and with music and composition students at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts.







Michael Daugherty (2 weeks) Website
West Shore Symphony

Listen (excerpt): Michael Daugherty's Raise the Roof (MP3)

Michael Daugherty

The residency will expand the orchestra's commitment to new music by including the US premiere of a joint commission by Mr. Daugherty, the performance of a second work by the orchestra, and the inauguration of a chamber music series featuring the composer's chamber works.

During the course of his residency, Mr. Daugherty will also work with the West Shore Youth Symphony, with the music departments of Grand Valley State University and Muskegon Community College, and with local high school music students.



Michael Schelle (4 weeks)
Albuquerque Youth Symphony

Michael Schelle

Listen (excerpt): Michael Schelle's Wright Flight (MP3)

The residency will offer Mr. Schelle the opportunity to work directly with the five ensembles that make up the AYS program as he creates a newly commissioned work for each ensemble.