2008 |
May |
Premiere - Commission for Blue Mountain School District Elementary Band (Man's Best Friend, Grade 1), with Watson guest conducting.
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March |
Premiere - Lehigh County Band premieres original commissioned work (The Golden Legacy, Grade 3.5) to celebrate the organization's 50th Anniversary, with Watson conducting.
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March |
Guest Conductor - Allentown School District "Bands-in-the-Round" featuring music by Scott Watson.
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2007 |
November |
Commission - Blue Mountain School District Elementary Band, Joseph O'Melia, Director. For combined district wide 4th and 5th grade bands. Made possible with a grant from the Blue Eagle Foundation. Watson will conduct the premiere, as well as several other of his works, at Blue Mountain High School on May 16, 2008.
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October |
Commission - Lehigh County Bandmasters Association. Celebratory work to commemorate their 50th Anniversary. Watson will conduct the premiere at the 50th annual Lehigh County Band concert, March 2008.
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April |
Guest Conductor - Middle Grades Music & Arts Festival. Delaware Valley Middle School. Mollie Wilson, Host.
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March |
Commission - Massachusetts Instrumental & Choral Conductors Association, (MICCA). Work for Grade 3 Concert Band & Chorus, to be premiered March 2007 at the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Annual Conference in Boston. Watson will present a lecture/demonstration about the commissioned piece, Night Journey (text by Theodore Roethke) and conduct the Algonquin High School Concert Band & Chorus in the premiere.
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2006 |
Spring |
Commission - International Horn Society (Meir Rimon
Commissioning Program). Work for solo horn and concert band.
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May |
Commission - Holy Trinity R. C. Church Choir (Egypt, PA), Christine Lerew, Director. Anthem for choir and organ or piano.
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April
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Performance - Magic Valley, originally commissioned by the American Composers Forum, the Magic Valley Arts Council, and the Twin Falls Municipal Band for the centennial of Twin Falls, ID, will receive a follow-up reading by the West Chester University Wind Ensemble, Ken Laudermilch, Director at their 2006 Spring concert (Swope Hall, WCU).
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2005
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April
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Guest Conductor - PMEA District 10, West, Elementary
Band Festival. Shenandoah Valley Jr./Sr. High School. Dale Schimpf, Host. Concert includes Slam Jam! and the premiere of On Holiday.
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2004
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Fall
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CD Recording - Celestial Sounds for Harp and Flute
by Patricia Davila, flute and Elaine Christy, harp (Twinz Records). Includes
several movements from Five Carols for Flute and Harp. Order
online.
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July
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Guest Conductor - Twin Falls Municipal Band, Twin Falls, Idaho. Conduct the premiere of Magic Valley in a series of concerts sponsored by the Magic Valley Arts Council and the American Composers Forum.
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January
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Honorable Mention – 2004 Truman State University/Macro
Analysis Creative Research Organization Composition Competition, for Figurations
for wind ensemble.
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2003
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October
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Presenter - West Chester University Wind Ensemble,
West Chester, PA. Rehearsal of my music for band; question/answer session.
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July
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Residency - Community of Twin Falls (Magic Valley Arts Council), Idaho. American Composers Forum Continental Harmony project commission for the Twin Falls Municipal Band and College
of Southern Idaho Wind Ensemble.
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February-May
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Visiting Artist Residency - Southern Lehigh Middle
School, Coopersburg, PA. Nancy Beitler, Director. 4-day residency working
with students on the compositional process, and writing a piece for the
7th/8th Grade Band.
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April
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Commission – Church Farm School, Exton, PA. Gary
Gress, Music Director. Choral introit based on a Psalm, for spring 2004
tour of Germany (Sing to the Lord).
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April
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Premiere - Figurations (#1, #2, #3) for Wind
Ensemble. Commissioned by the West Chester University Wind Ensemble, Kenneth
Laudermilch, Director. Swope Hall, West Chester University (April 1, 8:00
p.m.).
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April
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Commission – Far Hills Country Day School Band,
Far Hills, NJ. Amy Burns, Director. Piece for Spring 2004 concert (Country
Dance).
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February
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Commission/Residency - American Composers
Forum Continental Harmony Project. Year-long collaboration
with Magic Valley Arts Council; residency activities and composition
of a 15 minute piece for concert band (Magic Valley). See www.continentalharmony.org.
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January
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Commission – Southern Lehigh School District, for
the Southern Lehigh Middle School Band, Nancy Beitler, Director. Work
for performance in May concert (The Siege of Badon Hill).
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2002
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July
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Commission – from West Chester University Chamber
Winds and Percussion, Kenneth Laudermilch, Director (Figurations #1,
#2, #3).
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2001
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October
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Premiere - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra,
Temple University Symphony Orchestra, Luis Biava, Music Director, Terell
Stafford, Trumpet. Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA.
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January
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Visiting Artist - CFS The School at Church Farm, Exton,
PA. Lecture/Demonstration.
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2000
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September
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Commission – Church Farm School, Exton, PA. Gary
Gress, Music Director. Work for Men's Chorus, Piano and Trumpet (The
Mystic Trumpeter), with text by Walt Whitman.
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April
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Commission – Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra,
Donald Spieth, Music Director, premiered April 8, 2000 (Hymn and Declaration).
Lecture - Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra "Classical Conversations" series
pre-concert lecture. Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA.
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January
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Recipient - Margaret Fairbanks Jory Copying
Assistance Grant from the American Music Center for Hymn and
Declaration for chamber orchestra.
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1999
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November
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Finalist – 1999 Young American's Band Competition,
sponsored by G. Schirmer/Associated Music Publishers for Aesop's Fables.
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