Professor Paul Glass and a World Premier Concert

08/29/2007

The world premiere concert of “Corale II per Margaret, per quartetto d’archi e orchestra d’archi” composed by Professor Paul Glass will be performed by the Stradivari-Quartette with orchestra and conducted by Christof Escher in Zurich, September 18, 2007.

The concert will take place at 8 pm at the Tonhalle, grosser Saal (large hall), Zürich. There will be an aperitif reception beforehand at 7 pm in the foyer, with an opportunity to meet Paul Glass, Christof Escher and the Stradivari-Quartett (Bartek Niziol, Lisa Harringer,David Greenlees, Maja Weber).

Together with the work of Paul Glass, the Stradivari-Quartette with orchestra will also perform works of Béla Bartók, Erwin Schulhoff, Antonín Dvorák and Julius Röntgen.

For more information and tickets, please consult the website:
http://www.s-o-z.ch/konzerte/a1.php

Biography of Paul Glass

Paul Glass was born in Los Angeles in 1934 and received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California in 1956, having studied with Boris Blacher, Ingolf Dahl and Hugo Friedhofer. He pursued his studies with Geoffredo Petrassi in Rome, Roger Sessions at Princeton University and Witold Lutoslawski in Warsaw.

In 1962 he returned to the United States, where he composed both film and concert music. Whilst in England in 1965 he wrote the music to Otto Preminger's film, "Bunny Lake is Missing." He later spent four years in France, where he made a concentrated study of the works of Anton Webern.

He subsequently returned to America once again and wrote a large quantity of music for the concert stage and television. In 1973 he settled in Carona, Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland, obtaining Swiss citizenship in 1995. He currently teaches theory and composition at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano) and music at Franklin College Switzerland (Sorengo), as well as continuing with his own compositional work.

He has won a number of prizes, among them from the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony, Broadcast Music Incorporated, the Warsaw Department of Culture, SME and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Recent commissions have come from: WDR (Cologne), the Musica Mendrisiotto Association, Settimane Musicali di Ascona and Pro Helvetia.

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