– Celestial Dancers

– Guest Composer

– Guest Conductor

2007 Guest Composer – Eric Ewazen

Eric Ewazen was born in 1954, in Cleveland Ohio. He received his Bachelors of Music Degree from the Eastman School of Music and Masters and Doctorate degrees from The Juilliard School. His teachers include Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Warren Benson, Gunther Schuller and Joseph Schwantner. His music for orchestra, wind ensemble, chorus,
chamber ensembles, and soloists has been performed throughout the world. His music for brass instruments has become standards of the repertoire. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the St. Lukes Chamber Ensemble in NYC and the Kalamazoo Symphony.

There are upwards of 50 commercially released CDs of his music, including 6 solo CDs on labels including EMI Classics, Albany, Hyperion, Helican, New World, Well Tempered Productions, d’Note, Cala and Resonator records. Southern Music Company is the exclusive publisher of his music for wind ensemble. Among his wind ensemble works are “Shadowcatcher”, a concerto for brass quintet and wind ensemble, written for the American Brass Quintet and recorded by them with the Juilliard Wind Ensemble, “Legacy”, written for the Bi-Centennial of West Point, and premiered by the USMA Band at West Point, “Flight” and “A Hymn for the Lost and the Living”, commissioned by the Heritage of America Air Force Band at Langley Air Force Base, and over a dozen concerti for soloists and wind ensemble. He has been Vice-President of the League of Composers-International Society of Contemporary Music, and a faculty member of the Juilliard School since 1980.