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A List 8/29/05 LECTURE/RECITAL ON J.S. BACH SET AT ST. LAWRENCE CANTON – Composer and pianist Don Freund is the James W. Hutchison guest recitalist at St. Lawrence University for 2005, and will present a lecture and recital on the keyboard music of J.S. Bach on Friday, September 9, at 8 p.m. in Gilbert Recital Hall, Griffiths Arts Center. The event is open to the public, free of charge. The title of the event is "Composition Lessons with J.S. Bach -- A Lecture-Recital by Don Freund: Three Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I." A professor at the Indiana University School of Music, Freund has composed over 100 performed works, ranging from solo, chamber and orchestral music to pieces involving live performance with electronic instruments, music for dance and large theatre works. Earlier this year, he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In addition, he has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; 30 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards; and a Macgeorge Fellowship from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Freund has appeared as a guest composer at the Saint Louis Symphony Discovery Series, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Syracuse University, University of Melbourne, Australian National Academy of Music, the Royal Conservatories in Brussels and the Hague, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Prague Conservatory and the Hochschule in Vienna. For more information, contact the music department at 315-229-5192. -30- Don Freund's Web site |
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