Paul Moravec Composer Residency
March 3-5, 2005
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec will join the VCME for a three day composer residency March 3-5. The composer will attend both performances of his Vermont premiere and engage in an intensive program of outreach activities for both the concertgoer and public alike. Paul will give lecture/demonstrations prior to each concert and for the public, and interact with students of Burlington High School and school districts all over Vermont through the VT MIDI Project (on-line composer mentoring program). Except for the concert performances, all residency events will be free and open to the public.
In stark contrast to the hard-edged, over-complicated atonalists, Paul
Moravec and the other new tonalists are younger American composers writing
classical music that is at once unmistakably contemporary and firmly
rooted in the techniques of the past. Speaking of Paul's music, critic
Terry Teachout of Commentary and The Wall Street Journal writes: "…these
powerfully moving pieces make sense. Their harmonies are lucid and logical,
their melodies indelibly noble. They are, literally, eloquent, the painstakingly
wrought utterances of an artist who believes with all his heart in the
possibility of beauty. I know no other music written today that moves
me more."
Paul Moravec
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Recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, the music of composer
Paul Moravec has been described as "openly and ebulliently attractive,
flowing with an effortless lyric pulse" (Fanfare), "assured,
virtuosic" (Wall Street Journal), and "resourceful but idiomatic…
richly melodic." (Commentary Magazine). The composer of orchestral,
chamber, choral, and lyric compositions, as well as several film scores
and electro-acoustic pieces, Moravec's work has been sought out by world-class
musicians such as eighth blackbird, Trio Solisti, The Dessoff Choirs
& Orchestra, St. Ignatius Loyola Orchestra, Albany Symphony, clarinetist
David Krakauer, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Awards
and fellowships include the Prix de Rome, an NEA Composers Fellowship,
the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, and the Charles
Ives Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, Moravec is currently Music
Department Chair at Adelphi University.
Residency Itinerary
Thursday, March 3
3:30: Mr. Moravec works with students of the Vermont Midi Project -
detals TBA
Friday March 4
1:30: Lecture/Demonstration at Burlington High School with the Vermont
Contemporary Music Ensemble performing Tempest Fantasy
7:15: Pre-concert talk - Unitarian Church, Main Street, Montpelier
Saturday, March 5
7:15: Pre-concert talk - St. Michael's College, McCarthy Arts Center
Recital Hall
For information on how you may help support this exciting educational
opportunity, please contact
Roxanne Vought, Manager at 802-859-9009 or vcmerox@together.net.