John Corigliano: Talk and Performance July 19, 2012

Oscar, Pulitzer, and Grammy Award winning composer John Corigliano (composer of the score for The Red Violin) will be the featured guest artist at a free concert of his works presented by California Summer Music on July 19th at 8pm at Sonoma State University's Green Music Center. Mr. Corigliano's compositions have been performed by the world's most prominent musicians, including Joshua Bell, James Galway, Sharon Isbin, the New York Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Symphony, and the Cleveland Quartet. The California Summer Music concert will feature works by Mr. Corigliano and CSM faculty composer David Tcimpidis performed by CSM faculty and talented young artists and will feature pre-performance talks by Mr. Corigliano and Mr. Tcimpidis. The audience is inivited to meet the composers and performers at a gala post-concert reception.

About John Corigliano
John Corigliano continues to add to one of the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of work any composer has created over the last forty years. Corigliano's numerous scores- including three symphonies and eight concerti among over one hundred chamber, vocal, choral, and orchestral works-have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. One of the few living composers to have a string quartet named for him, Corigliano serves on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York, which has established a scholarship in his name; for the past fourteen years he and his partner, the composer-librettist Mark Adamo, have divided their time between Manhattan and Kent Cliffs, New York.

This concert is part of a series of free concerts and master classes California Summer Music will present this July at Sonoma State's Green Music Center.

Official Website: http://www.csmusic.org/calendar.php