EAMA | Who We Are | Our Alumni

Here EAMA provides information on news and events related to graduates of the EAMA's Summer Composition Program (formerly known as La Schola Cantorum Summer Composition Program).

If you have an event or news you'd like to see posted please email us.

Athena Adamopoulous (2006) will have a work performed by Festival Chamber Music at Weill Recital Hall in New York City on October 11, 2007. This work was commissioned by Festival Chamber Music and won an ASCAP award. For More information, visit their website www.festivalchamber.org

Amy Kirsten (2006)(doctoral candidate) is one of 9 finalists chosen to participate in the American Composer's Orchestra 16th Annual Underwood New Music Readings and Commission. *Strange Angel*, completed in November 2006, will be read by the renowned orchestra on May 8-9, 2007 at Skirball Center for Performing Arts in New York City. One of the 9 finalists will be awarded a $15,000 commission to write a new work to be performed by the ACO."

Orianna Webb ('97) Receives Sackler Prize
Orianna Webb, acting composition department head at the Cleveland Institute of Music has received the 2004 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize. The prize, $20,000, will permit Webb to write a chamber orchestra work for strings, winds and brass to be performed at the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts in Spring 2005.
visit website

Cynthia Lee Wong (2003) Commissioned by Musica Viva
Cynthia Lee Wong is to compose a 15-20 minute work, "Three Portraits," for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, to be premiered with conductor Paul Zukofsky on Friday, March 11, 2005 at 8:00 PM at the Herkulessaal der Residenz in Munich, Germany. Lee's "Fates and Furies" (2003) won the 2004 Bearns Prize. A piece she worked on with Dr. Lasser in Paris.
visit website

Robert Hamilton (2004) participates in University of Minnesota Panel:
"The Polarized Composer: Addressing the Conflict of the Musical Upbringings of Todays Newest Generation of Composers".

Sergio Martinoli, EAMA violinist (04) will be premiering, "i have four pictures of you sleeping" for solo violin at the Salerno Contemporary Music Festival in Italy.
visit website

Andrew Horowitz (2003) wins the BMI John Lennon Scholarship.

Raphael Fusco (2003)
commissioned by Mark Shapiro to complete his "Lamentations of Jeremiah" an oratorio for Mezzo-Soprano solo, Chorus, Strings, and Harpsichord.

Saturday, May 21, 2005 8 PM
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street
New York, NY

Other performances of Fusco's work include "Work for double chorus and organ on the Walt Whitman text", "Proud Music of the Storm".

Saturday, May 7, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Christ Church Cathedral
45 Church Street
Hartford, CT

His solo piano works will be performed March 9th at the Algonquin Arts Theater in Manasquan, NJ.

Robert Rival (2004)
On January 24, 2005, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra will perform, "Overture" at the National Arts Centre in Canada's capital.

In August 2005, the Barrington Stage Company (Massachusetts, USA) will present a staged reading of the Gogol-inspired one-act musical, The Overcoat, that in 2002 received full productions at the NY International Fringe Festival and Bridewell Theatre (London).

On September 24, 2005, the Oare String Orchestra (Faversham, UK) reprises Red Moonrise over Lac Rhéaume, a work short-listed in the ensemble's 2003 juried composing competition.

Lane Harder ('01,'02,'03)
Lane Harder's work "circus plenus clamor ingens ianuae tensae" is now in publication through KPP. Performed fall 2004 The Rutgers University Percussion Ensemble in Nashville, TN and will be performed in March by the University of Pennsylvania Percussion Ensemble.

Harder's Percussion octet "the place of the hanging stones" will be performed in April by the Southern Methodist University Percussion Ensemble.

Mr. Harder's transcription of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" will be performed by the Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra in New York in March 2005.