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- Nissim's vocal piece, Rising, has been chosen to be included on The SCI Chapter of the composition division of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America's New Voices festival. As a result, Nissim will be in Washington, DC, for the performance on September 11, 2010. More details will follow as they become available.
- Nissim's new Trio (see below) is also slated for a tentative US premiere by Shawn Galvin and New Music Raleigh in Raleigh, North Carolina, as part of SparkCon (not sure about this NC thing with sticking "con" at the end of events??), sometime between September 16th and 19th. Like I said, tentative... But I can say it'll be at the Flanders Art Gallery! (The Trio, in a revised form for three flutes and percussion, is also tentatively scheduled for a performance in November!)
- Nissim is reentering the academy. He will be pursuing another bloody masters degree at Paris 8 this fall where he will research the combining of electronic means with period instruments like harpsichord.
- Nissim has just returned from two summer courses - Music10, in Blonay, Switzerland, and Acanthes in Metz, France. In Blonay, he had the pleasure of working with cellist Agnieszka Kolodziej, percussionist Yu-Chun Kuo, and, on violin, Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, to prepare for the extremeley successful premiere of his Trio. In Metz, the Orchestra National de Lorraine read Scratching the Ice, Nissim's orchestral sketchbookfor the upcoming Glace, being written very soon for the Triangle Youth Philharmonic. Nissim had a great time hanging out with all the other amazing "student" composers and performers, as well as Stephen Hartke, Joel Hoffman, Martin Bresnick, Lisa Moore, the rest of eighth blackbird, Tristan Murail, Hanspeter Kyburz, and the incomparable and incomparably-named Beat Furrer.
- By the way, audio is up for both of those pieces, so go listen! The Trio and the orchestra piece...
- Nissim's arangement of the Algerian song, Yelha Wourar, for chamber orchestra and traditional Algerian percussion instruments, was recorded in concert on June 4 at the Maison de la Radio in Paris for the France Musique program, Couleurs du Monde. An excerpt of the recording was broadcast, with insufficient attribution, on June 16.
- On the blog, hurdy-gurdy time!, John Cage's Roaratorio and public art, and a good quote.
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