Under the Pomegranate Tree for Alto Flute and Baritone Saxophone, from a recording of the World Premiere by Chenoa Anderson and Allison Balcetis will be played on the Radio programme The Rites of Spring, Tuesday April 30th. Listen live or afterwards in the archives at: https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/630/64376.html
The Rites of Spring Hosted by: Jason Fuerst Airs: Every Tuesday from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM EST
Programme: George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F Major, Coreen Morsink: Under the Pomegranate Tree, Kelly-Marie Murphy: Give Me Phoenix Wings To Fly
Grateful to have my composition Eos and Tithonus for chamber orchestra chosen for the finals in the Unanimes! Composition competition which will take place in Toulouse, France in September 2024. The Orchestre national du Capital de Toulouse will play the works in the finals under the baton of Bruno Mantovani. https://france-orchestres.com/unanimes/concours-de-composition/
With thanks to the ACWC/ACC (Association of Canadian Women Composers) who have accepted and supported my concert proposal for programme of works by Canadian and Greek Women Composers.
A special educational concert featuring compositions of Canadian and Greek Women composers will take place at St. Catherine’s British School, Kifissia (Athens), Greece played by violinist Argyro Seira, pianist Penny-Sue Joyce and cellist Leslie Jones. The concert will feature the work of five composers who are members of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, (ACWC/ACC) Linda Catlin Smith, Sophie Dupuis, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Stella ter Hart and Coreen Morsink (who is also Greek). Greek women composers featured will be Fani Kosona, Roxani Chatzidimitriou, Stella Koutselou and Xenia Konstantinidou. The concert will explore the background of women composers in ancient Greece leading up to a discussion of our present-day group of Greek and Canadian women composers on the programme. Also in the concert, the St. Catherine’s Year 5-6 Choir will premiere two works from the composers. The concert is free of charge and will be live streamed for world-wide viewing.
Happy to be part of this extravaganza of piano miniatures in celebration of the 70 year anniversary of the Friends of Music Society, Greece. Organised by pianist Lorenda Ramou, two concerts featuring 70 piano miniatures will be presented, November 23rd at the Megaron Mousikis, Athens, Greece. I am grateful to pianist Maria Vassileiadou who will play my ‘6+7 Prelude’ at the concert at 20:30. For tickets and more info: https://www.megaron.gr/en/event/piano-miniatures/
With gratitude to Chenoa Anderson (alto flute) and Allison Balcetis (baritone saxophone) for their generosity in allowing me to post their wonderful recording of my composition about life under the Pomegrante tree in reference to Persephone and Demeter and other characters from Greek mythology.
With thanks to Chenoa Anderson and Allsion Balcetis who will give the World Premiere of my composition Under the Pomegranate Treefor alto flute and baritone saxophone at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, October 1st. Both musicians collaborated on the work and gave valuable insight into sounds and techniques of their instruments which made it possible for me to write this piece.
Stars Zone Concert
Join Chenoa Anderson and Allison Balcetis for an afternoon of music for flutes and saxophones (everything except piccolo). Solo and duet repertoire by: Marcos Balter, Diana Rotaru, Salvatore Sciarrino, Hong-Da Chin, Coreen Morsink, Pranav Sivakumar, Franco Donatoni, Lili Tobias. 2 PM, Studio 2-7, FAB, Edmonton, University of Alberta. Free admission.
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