FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2006
Contact: Eugene Marlow, NYCC Director, Media Relations
New York Composers Circle
646-312-3924
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2004 PULIZER PRIZE WINNER PAUL MORAVEC
JOINS NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE (NYCC)
AS HONORARY COMPOSER-MEMBER
(New York, November 3, 2006) The New York Composers Circle (NYCC) is pleased to announce that Paul Moravec, Ph.D., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for music, has joined the NYCC as its newest honorary composer-member as of September 2006. He joins Ezra Laderman, Tania León, and John Eaton as prior honorary composer-members. Dr. Moravec received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his chamber work “Tempest Fantasy.”
As the composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and lyric compositions, Dr. Moravec has been sought out by leading performing artists and ensembles. Awards and fellowships include the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an NEA Composer Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, the Charles Ives Award and the Goddard Lieberson Award. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities, Moravec is currently a University Professor and Music Department Chair at Adelphi University (New York City).
Dr. Moravec will give a talk on his work Sunday, November 12, 2006, at 2 p.m. as part of the NYCC’s monthly salons. The presentation will take place at Manhattan Plaza, 400 West 43rd Street (just off Ninth Avenue) in the Ellington Room (2nd Floor).
For more information on Paul Moravec, please visit www.paulmoravec.com.
In addition to monthly salons, the NYCC will present three concerts in its 2006-2007 season. The first of these concerts will be held on December 8, 2006 at Baruch College’s Engelman Recital Hall, starting at 8 p.m. Baruch College is located at 55 Lexington Avenue (corner of 24th Street and Lexington Avenue). Suggested donation is $15. The NYCC is a 501(c)(3) (pending) not-for-profit New York State Corporation.
The mission of the New York Composers Circle (now in its 5th season) is to provide a platform and forum for composers of new concert music of all genres, for the development and performance of composer-member works, and for the development and education of new audiences for new music.
For additional information on the New York Composers Circle, please contact Eugene Marlow, NYCC Director, Media Relations at nycomposers@aol.com, or John de Clef Piñeiro, NYCC Executive Director at inyuan@nyc.rr.com.
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