Marcus Karl Maroney - Composer
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Copland House Residency
I've been awarded my second Aaron Copland Award for residency at the Copland House. I'll be up there for six weeks in summer 2012 to work on some new and exciting projects!
Upcoming Concerts and Commissions
The Iridium Quartet (Paul Nolen, Marcos Colon, Paul Forsyth and Eric Lau) will premiere my new Saxophone Quartet on their tour of Puerto Rico at the end of 2011. The quartet will also present the work at the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference in Tempe, Arizona.
Andrew Sheranian played an exquisite premiere of my Trio Sonata in Methuen, MA in August and will be performing it twice more in October.
Paul Forsyth and Malena McLaren are giving excellent performances of Chamaeleon II and will play it at the NASA Region 6 Conference in Jacksonville, FL in March.
Other upcoming events:
24 Sep 2011 - Musiqa Miniature (World Premiere) - Musiqa cond. Robert Franz - Zilkha Hall, Houston, TX
08 Oct 2011 - Saxophone Quartet (World Premiere) - Iridium Quartet - Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico - San Juan, PR
09 Oct 2011 - Saxophone Quartet - Iridium Quartet - Primera Iglesia Bautista de Caguas - Caguas, PR
11 Oct 2011 - Saxophone Quartet - Iridium Quartet - Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico - San German, PR
19 Oct 2011 - Trio Sonata - Andrew Sheranian - Grace Church, White Plains, NY
21 Oct 2011 - Trio Sonata - Andrew Sheranian - Emmanuel Church, Chestertown, MD
08 Nov 2011 - Saxophone Quartet - Iridium Quartet - FeNAM (Festival of New American Music) - Sacramento, CA
20 Nov 2011 - The Ever-fixed Mark - Cornell Symphony Orchestra - Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2012
21 Mar 2012 - Introduction & Barrage - Music from Copland House - Zilkha Hall - Houston, TX
Iron Composer Finalist!
I have been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Iron Composer competition held by the Analog Arts Ensemble at Baldwin-Wallace College. This looks like an exciting, unique event. The finals will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 and online at their website. Wish me luck!
Suspiria wins Longfellow Prize
Suspiria, my setting of Longfellow's poem for chorus and orchestra, has won the 2009-10 Longfellow Chorus International Composers competition. The work was given its world premiere and encore performances at First Parish Church in Portland, ME (Longfellow's childhood church) on Feb. 27-28, 2010. An excerpt of the premiere performances is available on the Music page of my website.
CODA Winner
I am honored to have been chosen as the winner of the inaugural College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) Composition Competition. The Ever-Fixed Mark was presented in an anonymous reading session on Sep. 5, 2009 by the Baylor Symphony Orchestra alongside four other finalists. A distinguished panel of judges selected The Ever-Fixed Mark as the winner. The piece will be featured (in its world premiere performance!) at the CODA National Conference at Kennesaw State University, Feb. 4-6, 2010.
CD Release:
Pantheon has been released on Albany Records' Not Here, But There, a recording of all new music by the University of Houston Percussion Ensemble conducted by Blake Wilkins.
Learn about Houston's composer-led new music ensemble: Musiqa
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