Recent performances across the globe included David Conte‘s choral, vocal, and orchestral repertoire. August 13, 2017: Inspirare, Wellington, New Zealand’s professional choir, premiered Invocation and Dance by Conte under the direction of Mark Stamper. Based on a text drawn from Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Invocation and Dance is a hymn to nature andContinue reading “Recent David Conte performances: New Zealand premiere, California, & Indiana”
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SF Opera Orchestra Members, Lowell Trio, release new CD featuring David Conte & Juliana Hall
San Francisco’s Lowell Trio just released Volume II of its “Music to Save Our Endangered Lands” CD series, which includes Juliana Hall‘s Rilke Song for English horn and piano, and David Conte‘s arrangement of Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child for oboe, cello, and piano. The Lowell Trio consists of oboist/English horn player JanetContinue reading “SF Opera Orchestra Members, Lowell Trio, release new CD featuring David Conte & Juliana Hall”
David Conte – Composer-in-residence at Caritas International Composer’s Competition
The renowned Caritas Chamber Choir invited David Conte to serve as composer-in-residence and adjudicator for the 2017 International Young Composer Competition. The final concert took place July 9, 2017 at the Canterbury Cathedral in England. This inaugural competition is presented by Music Director Benedict Preece and the Caritas Chamber Choir. Young composers from the UK andContinue reading “David Conte – Composer-in-residence at Caritas International Composer’s Competition”
David Conte – world premieres of American Death Ballads
David Conte‘s award-winning American Death Ballads received its European premiere, performed for the first time ever, with voice and orchestra. (June 30, 2017, London). The piece later received its French premiere in its original version for voice and piano. (July 4, 2017, Paris) Performers for each venue: London House, London, England: Goodensemble Michael Poll, Conductor Brian Thorsett,Continue reading “David Conte – world premieres of American Death Ballads”
News from SongFest 2017: David Conte and Juliana Hall
SongFest provides the United States’ premier art song festivals and training programs: our summer institute held each June at The Colburn School in Los Angeles and a new winter intensive at Hidden Valley in Carmel Valley. SongFest attracts an internationally distinguished roster of artist teachers as well as students from some of the nation’s topContinue reading “News from SongFest 2017: David Conte and Juliana Hall”
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