March 29, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, March 24, 2011--The
Cliburn at the Modern series welcomes
award-winning, American composer Joan Tower with
flutist Eugenia Zukerman to the Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth on Saturday,
April 2, 2011 at 2:00
p.m. Widely considered one of the most important and
influential living composers, Ms. Tower will discuss her career and
works during this concert featuring performances by Zukerman and
members of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are $25 for
general admission seating and can be purchased from Central Ticket
Office at 800.462.7979 or online at Cliburn.org.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Joan
Tower has made lasting contributions to musical life in
the United States as a composer, performer, conductor, and
educator. She received her early musical training in Bolivia before
returning to the United States and completing a doctorate degree at
Columbia University in 1969. That same year, Ms. Tower became a
founding member and pianist of the Naumberg Award-winning ensemble,
the Da Capo Chamber Players. She recently completed a 10-year
tenure as composer-in-residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's
and also serves as the Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard
College.
Ms. Tower's extensive catalogue reflects a stunning versatility
and eclecticism. Her first orchestral work Sequoia was a
fast addition to the symphonic repertory and her tremendously
popular Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, a response to
Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, has been
played by over 500 different ensembles. In 1990, Ms. Tower became
the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, and in
2005, she became the first composer commissioned for the "Ford Made
in America" program. In 2008, the recording of her work
Made in America with the Nashville Symphony, under the
direction of Leonard Slatkin, won three Grammy® Awards.
Performing Tower's For Marianne and Valentine
Trills will be acclaimed flutist Eugenia
Zukerman. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Ms.
Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at music
festivals across the globe for more than three decades.
Additionally, she has served as the classical music correspondent
for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1980, and has
contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington
Post, Esquire, and Vogue. Ms. Zukerman is currently
on faculty at New York University's Department of Music and
Performing Arts and also works as the artistic director for the
Vail Valley Music Festival.
The complete program will include:
Joan Tower Trio Cavany (2007)
Michael Shih, violin
Karen Basrak, cello
Shields-Collins Bray, piano
Joan Tower Valentine Trills (1996)
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Joan Tower For Marianne (2010)
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Joan Tower Dumbarton Quintet (2008)
Michael Shih, violin
Swang Lin, violin
David Hermann, viola
Karen Basrak, cello
Shields-Collins Bray, piano
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 in every corner 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 over
30,000 elementary school students annually with the education
programs of Musical Awakenings®. In 1999, it established
the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™,
which The Boston Globe proclaimed "a celebration of music,
and the people who have to make music, no matter what." The
sixth Amateur Competition will be 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.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of
the Van Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines;
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, Bank of America,
Trustee; Steinway & Sons; and
XTO Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors.
Official Sponsors are the Amon G. Carter
Foundation, Arts Council of Fort Worth &
Tarrant County, Beaumont Foundation of
America, the Burnett Foundation, the
Sid W. Richardson Foundation, and the T.
Boone Pickens Foundation. Star-Telegram
is the exclusive print media sponsor, and WRR 101.1
FM is the official radio station of Cliburn Concerts.
