Barbara York Lecture/Recital - April 27
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:34 pm
Composer Barbara York will present a lecture/recital featuring some of her compositions for the tuba on Tuesday, April 27 at 7:30pm in the Ford Atrium (McComsey Hall) at Millersville University, Millersville, PA.
Joining Barbara will be Matthew K. Brown (tuba), Jason Ham (euphonium), and Maria Thompson Corley (piano). Works presented will include Barbara's Sonata for tuba and piano, Concerto for tuba and piano, "Arioso Gloria", "How Beautiful", and "Suite for tuba, euphonium, and piano".
This event is free and open to the public.
Directions to McComsey Hall: http://www.millersville.edu/directions/index.php
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1 ... 891&ref=nf
For more information, contact Matthew K. Brown at: tubahawk "at" gmail "dot" com.
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Barbara York has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 35 years as a concert accompanist, choral and theatrical music director and composer. Her score and lyrics for the Canadian musical Colette won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981. She has received commissions from two Canadian symphony orchestras, the Boise State University Symphonic Winds and the BSU Symphony Orchestra, plus numerous private groups and soloists in both the US and Canada.
She has presented pieces at three World Saxophone Congresses and at the 2003 International Double Reed Symposium. Her 50-minute scripted, children’s piece, A Butterfly in Time, was recently recorded to CD and was nominated for a Juno Award in 2006. Her first tuba piece, Sea Dreams, was on the required repertoire list for the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s 2004 Young Artists Competition. Conversations, for euphonium and alto saxophone, won the Harvey Phillips Award for euphonium in chamber music at the 2006 International Tuba – Euphonium Congress.
As an accompanist, Barbara has played at universities and concert venues throughout the United States and Canada, has recorded for CBC Radio, and has premiered numerous works for other composers at International congresses. Barbara lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Joining Barbara will be Matthew K. Brown (tuba), Jason Ham (euphonium), and Maria Thompson Corley (piano). Works presented will include Barbara's Sonata for tuba and piano, Concerto for tuba and piano, "Arioso Gloria", "How Beautiful", and "Suite for tuba, euphonium, and piano".
This event is free and open to the public.
Directions to McComsey Hall: http://www.millersville.edu/directions/index.php
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1 ... 891&ref=nf
For more information, contact Matthew K. Brown at: tubahawk "at" gmail "dot" com.
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Barbara York has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 35 years as a concert accompanist, choral and theatrical music director and composer. Her score and lyrics for the Canadian musical Colette won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1981. She has received commissions from two Canadian symphony orchestras, the Boise State University Symphonic Winds and the BSU Symphony Orchestra, plus numerous private groups and soloists in both the US and Canada.
She has presented pieces at three World Saxophone Congresses and at the 2003 International Double Reed Symposium. Her 50-minute scripted, children’s piece, A Butterfly in Time, was recently recorded to CD and was nominated for a Juno Award in 2006. Her first tuba piece, Sea Dreams, was on the required repertoire list for the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s 2004 Young Artists Competition. Conversations, for euphonium and alto saxophone, won the Harvey Phillips Award for euphonium in chamber music at the 2006 International Tuba – Euphonium Congress.
As an accompanist, Barbara has played at universities and concert venues throughout the United States and Canada, has recorded for CBC Radio, and has premiered numerous works for other composers at International congresses. Barbara lives in Kansas City, Missouri.