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HOMMAGE A B.B. can be heard on "Dreamscape," a Koch International Classics CD featuring Heidi Grant Murphy and Aureole.
FIELD MUSIC: SPIRAL, commissioned for Aureole by the American Composers Forum and the Jerome Foundation, was premiered at
the Currier Gallery, Manchester NH, in February, with subsequent performances in Baltimore, The Raritan River Music Festival,
and NYC's Bargemusic in the 1999-2000 concert season. CIRCLE, for piano and digital tape, was premiered at the Kunen Theater
in Washington DC as part of the CROSSCURRENTS concert series on April 6, 2000. ODD PRELUDES, commissioned by saxophonist
Jonathan Helton, was premiered at the 2000 World Saxophone Congress, University of Quebec, Montreal, on July 7, 2000. ODD
PRELUDES has received numerous performances throughout the US since its premiere. Elliott has received a 2000 Individual
Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for work on the score of the film GIVEN FISH. FRISS, for flute and
guitar, was commissioned by the duo of Laura Gilbert and Antigoni Goni and premiered at the Harid Conservatory, Boca Raton,
Florida, on 13 February 2001. FRISS received its NYC premiere at the Onassis Foundation in May 2001. I DREAM (I HEAR) NEFERTITI,
commissioned by Vassar College in honor of composer Annea Lockwood, was premiered on 6 April 2001 at Skinner Hall with the
composer performing. ODD PRELUDES has been performed numerous times this season. A JOYFUL NOISE--commissioned by Saint
Ann's School for the 2001 Convocation--for mixed chorus, winds, strings, piano and percussion, was premiered in June 2001
in Brooklyn by the Saint Ann's Singers. FRISS was performed in March at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as part
of the Guitar Masters series. The Greek guitar virtuoso Antigoni Goni was joined by Laura Gilbert, flutist.
New movements of A HISTORY OF SENSATION include ONOYOKONO for voice and recorded sounds. SEVEN PRELUDES, commissioned
by award-winning pianist Kevin Sharpe and dedicated to the American Liszt Society, will be premiered at the University of
Florida, Gainesville FL, in late March 2003. Soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, Aur?ole, and guests, have recorded three new arrangements
of Spanish and Brazilian music for a new CD slated for release in spring 2003 on Koch International Classics. Jonathan Elliott
has signed with LUX NOVA PRESS, music publishers, effective January 2003. EPIPHANY will be recorded by saxophonist Jonathan
Helton in summer 2003.
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HOMMAGE A B.B. was lauded by Paul Griffiths of the NEW YORK TIMES, who called it "excellent...darkly and lusciously scored..."
This work, for soprano, alto flute and viola, has been called "haunting and ethereal..." (Amazon.com) and is available
on DREAMSCAPE (Koch International Classics).
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