October 20, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing
mestes@cliburn.org, 817.738.6536
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, October 19, 2011-The Cliburn at the Modern
series welcomes award-winning American composer John Corigliano to
the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Saturday, October 29, 2011,
at 2:00 p.m. Widely considered one of the most prolific and
influential living composers, Mr. Corigliano will discuss his
career and work during this concert featuring a selection of his
pieces as performed by members of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
and Colleen Mallette, soprano. Tickets are $25 for general
admission seating and can be purchased by calling the Performing
Arts Fort Worth Box Office at 817.212.4280 or online at
Cliburn.org.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Corigliano has established
himself at the forefront of modern American music. He has written
successfully for every major genre and continues to add to one of
the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of
work of any composer in the last 40 years. His scores, now
numbering over 100, include three symphonies, eight concerti, one
opera, and countless other chamber, vocal, and orchestral works.
They have won him numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize,
the Grawemeyer Award, three Grammy® Awards, and an Academy Award,
and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent
orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world.
Mr. Corigliano earned a Bachelor's Degree in composition from
Columbia University in 1959 and later studied at the Manhattan
School of Music. He first came to prominence as a composer in 1964,
when his Sonata for Violin and Piano won the chamber music
competition of the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy.
Following this success he was awarded support from Meet the
Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim
Foundation, and he also received many important commissions. An
eclectic and versatile composer, Mr. Corigliano employs a wide
variety of styles, sometimes even within the same work, but aims to
make his work accessible to a large audience.
The complete program will include:
Three Cabaret Songs
Dodecaphonia (1997)
Marvelous Invention (2001)
End of the Line
Colleen Mallette, soprano
Shields-Collins Bray, piano
A Black November Turkey (2003)
Michael Shih, violin
Adriana DeCosta, violin
Laura Bruton, viola
Karen Basrak, cello
Voyage (1988)
Jan Crisanti, flute
Michael Shih, violin
Adriana DeCosta, violin
Laura Bruton, viola
Karen Basrak, cello
William Clay, bass
Winging It: Three Improvisations for Piano (2008)
Shields-Collins Bray, piano
Stomp (2011)
Ertan Torgul, violin
Leadership support for Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative
Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation.
Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy
Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary
Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.,
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine
Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National
Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and launches and nurtures young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, and a syndicated radio series
dedicated to the competition and its most memorable performances.
By making the competition available in its entirety on the
Internet, the Foundation has extended its outreach to listeners
across of the globe.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches 33,000 elementary school
students annually with the education programs of Musical
Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the International Piano
Competition for Outstanding AmateursT, which The Boston Globe
proclaimed "a celebration of music, and the people who have to make
music, no matter what." The sixth Amateur Competition was held May
23-29, 2011 at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn as it approaches
the 50th anniversary of the first Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition.
