Activities of Cogan & Escot

COMUNIQUE
ROBERT COGAN, POZZI ESCOT
SPRING/SUMMER 2013,
SELECTED EVENTS

COMUNIQUE
ROBERT COGAN, POZZI ESCOT
SPRING/SUMMER 2012,
SELECTED EVENTS

RECEIVED: "Profs. Cogan and Escot may we extend
a warm invitation to you to visit Dundalk Institute
of Technology-Ireland as Distinguished Visiting Faculty
for one of the weeks in the Autumn 2012 term."

Invitation by the University of Macerata/ltaly

EUROPEAN PREMIERE: Escot's Symphony V, Sands, 1965, (world premiered by the New York Philharmonic 11/1975)
Palermo Festival, Palermo, Italy, Fall, 2011.
Conductor, Tonino Battista

2012 HALL OF FAME AWARD: Cogan selected to be the recipient of the 2012 Hall of Fame Award/ University of Michigan, 10/12, established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to society and their profession.

SONIC DESIGN: THE NATURE OF SOUND AND MUSIC
(Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976) to be published in French by Editions Hermann-Paris, translated by Ines Lacroix, available 2013 SDSM, reviewed all over the world, has been named the music theory book of the 20th century.

PROF. ALLEN SHAWN will lecture on Leonard Bernstein
(he is currently writing Bernstein's biography)
9/20, New England Conservatory Williams Hall,
in connection with Escot's graduate seminar on American Composers at NEC. Shawn is a celebrated composer currently teaching at Bennington College. He graduated from Harvard and studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. His latest book "Twin: A Memoir" (Harvard Univ. Press, 2011) was highly praised as was also "Wish I Could Be There: Note From a Phobic Life" (Viking Press, 2007)

ESCOT: continues as Editor-in-Chief of the successful journal SONUS founded in 1980 and published twice a year

PERFORMANCES

COGAN: E. Mac Adam performing Aflame in Flight for solo violin, New England Conservatory, 4/15; William Malone, Gulf Coast Bound, University of Colorado/Colorado Springs, 3/23

ESCOT: Pianist David Holzman performs Sonatina V at SMA Art Museum/ Tenafly, New Jersey; Cube Contemporary Ensemble, Sherwood Community Music School, Chicago; Columbia College-Chicago; reviewed by Steve Smith (New York Times) "A program full of challenging works by some of the 20th century's more formidable musical thinkers - Sessions, Shapey, Escot, Wolpe."

Pluies performance by saxophonist William Malone, North American Saxophone Symposium, Arizona, 3/16; University of Colorado/Colorado Springs, 3/23; Pikes Peak Community College/Living Composer's Concert, 4/5

SPECIAL EVENTS/HONORS

Interview by Alyson Payne (University of California-Riverside), 12/19

Saphir Productions-Paris, CD released including the Violin Concerto with violinist Michael Appleman

Saint Xavier University Prof. Avis Clendenen publishing an essay on Hildegard von Bingen by Escot in her book

As President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies organizer of the Hildegard Session at the 48th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 12

Earler Performances

"FIERCE SINGLENESS" ROBERT COGAN & POZZI ESCOT

Performing artists:
Guest String Quartet: Arthur Moeller, Keats Diffenbach, Rose Hashimoto, Karen Ouzounian
Christie Finn, Soprano
Jon Sakata, Piano
Christopher Bush, Clarinet
Carol Minor, Piano
Michael Norsworthy, Clarinet
Eric Hewitt, conducting a guest new music ensemble

Robert Cogan: Fierce Singleness (1988-), String Quartet "America Is" (1995), Celanportrat/Celan Portrait (2001)

Pozzi Escot: "Mirabilis IV", Natsumi Malloy, Organ Recital, Church of Our Saviour, Brookline, MA

Pozzi Escot: "Your Kindled Valors Bend", Trio II (1989), Concerto for Clarinet and Ensemble (2004), Virelai II (2009)

New CD Release Review (Albany Records)

"Pozzi Escot's five-minute plus Clarinet Concerto is a gorgeous blend of clarinet and soprano, an anti-Shepherd on the Rock, mysterious, sometimes vampire-movie creepy, a song you might hear sung by a siren near a rocky coastline, ending abruptly, like a silent crashing wave." David Wolman, Fanfare Magazine, NY "Great recording. I have never heard the Escot piece before. I love how the voice is used as an instrumnet. It is like a soundtrack to a nightmare. Definitely cool." Adam Price, Magazine33, LLC, Charlottesville, VA

"An absolutely stunning Clarinet Concerto! Stellar performance here." Prof. Helen de Zubicaray, Everton Park, Qld., Australia

Lecture

Prof. Diane Luchese (Towson University/Maryland) invited to give a lecture on Pozzi Escot's Mirabilis IV for organ at the joined meeting of the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society, 11/6, Indianapolis

Publication

Escot's essay "Josef Albers Homage the Square: Night Shades, 1957", published in the book Josef Albers, Minimal Means, Maximum Effect, Taiwan; a collaboration of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation with the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine arts to realize the first ever retrospective exhibition of Albers work to travel the Asian region.

Sonus Journal, Escot, Editor-in-Chief
Vol. 33/1, Fall 2012, Ireland - Music Past and Present IX; features Daithi Kearney, Patricia Flynn, Helen Lawlor, and Adele Commins (all from Dundalk Institute of Technology) and Patricia Flynn, (St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra/Dublin City University)

Vol. 33/2 Spring 2013, Music Theory - New Horizons VIII, featuring Robert Cogan, (New England Conservatory), Michael Smith, (Purdue University/Indiana), David Rahbee, (University of Montreal, Canada), Peter Evans, (Longy School of Music/Bard College), and Younggyo Lee, (New England Conservatory)