Crane Faculty Composition Recital Includes New Works by David Heuser

SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music Presents Concert Featuring Two World Premieres Next Week

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Four works by Crane School of Music composer Dr. David Heuser will be featured in a recital on Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

POTSDAM, NY (01/29/2015)(readMedia)-- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will present a concert featuring works by Associate Dean and Professor of Composition Dr. David Heuser next week. The Crane faculty composition recital will be offered on Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

The concert will feature two world premieres and two works from 2006, performed by Crane faculty members David Pittman-Jennings, Robert Young, Rosemarie Suniga, Shelly Tramposh, Julianne Kirk-Doyle, David Heinick, Matt Wexler, Carol Lowe and Alexandra Shatalov, as well as Crane students Brandon Bromsey, Alex Durr and Molly Jones.

The performance will open with Heuser's "borne by constellations of green birds," a three-movement work for saxophone and piano. The title and inspiration for this piece came from Olga Cabral's poem "Tree Full of Birds."

The world premiere of "October," a work for viola, vibraphone and marimba, will follow. Heuser's second new work, titled "...recalculating...," will be performed by a woodwind quartet, with oboe, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon.

The concert will conclude with the 2006 work "Arrows," which sets three poems by Tony Hoagland for baritone, clarinet, cello and piano.

This event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

This concert will be broadcast live on the SUNY Potsdam website at the performance time. To view the program and see other upcoming streaming performances, visit www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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