King of Prussia, PA – Theodore Presser Company announces the publication of Shulamit Ran's Perfect Storm for solo viola (114-41510– Score – $9.99).
Melia Watras, a foremost performing violist and professor of viola, has commissioned a good number of composers for new works for her instrument. In her commission of Ran, she requested that a starting point be an excerpt from any established work in the viola's repertoire of Ran's choosing. Ran immediately turned to the haunting viola solo passage from Luciano Berio's Black Is the Color (from Folksongs). While the Berio is infused throughout Ran's Perfect Storm, she has crafted a sonic landscape of varied mood, using an array of the violist's skills and techniques in an impressive concert work.
Shulamit Ran's Perfect Storm is available now through Theodore Presser Company or your favorite music retailer.
Shulamit Ran rose quickly from composing songs to Hebrew poetry at the age of seven in her native Israel to a faculty position at the University of Chicago in 1973, where she is now the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and artistic director of Contempo, formerly the Contemporary Chamber Players. Along the way, she has created an award-winning career as a major composer of our time, including the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Symphony. Other awards, fellowships and commissions include those from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Philadelphia Orchestra (Symphony, first performed in 1990, Pulitzer Prize 1991, first place Kennedy Center Friedheim Award 1992), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Legends), the Baltimore Symphony (Vessels of Courage and Hope), and many, many more.
Ran has been lauded for works in a wide range of settings, from orchestral (such as Legends, a joint commission celebrating the centennials of both the Chicago Symphony and the University of Chicago), to concerti (Voices, commissioned by the National Flute Association for its year 2000 convention), to choral (And on Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass, commissioned and widely performed by Chanticleer, the noted 12-man vocal ensemble). For more information about Shulamit Ran, see her Composer Page.
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