New American Works: 1992

Notes on the Program and the Composers

Robert Maggio studied composition at Yale University with Jonathan Berger and Michael Friedman, at the University of Pennsylvanicia with George Crumb, Jay Reise, and Richard Wernick, and at the Aspen School of Music with William Bolcom, Earle Brown, Jacob Druckman, and Earl Kim. He is currently on the composition and theory faculty at the School of Music at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He has received grants, scholarships and fellowships form the MacDowell Colony, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the National Orchestral Association, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Music School, and the University of Pennsylvania. His compositions for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, dance, and theater have been awarded by ASCAP, BMI, the Bearns Prize, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University, his music is published by Halliley Music Works.

Richard Wilsonwas born in Cleveland, Ohia where he studied piano and cello at the Music School Settlement. After graduation from Harvard in 1963 he lived in Munich and Rome, working on piano with Friedrich Wuhrer and composition with Robert Moevs. He earned a Master’s degree from Rutgers in 1966 and, later that year, joined the faculty of Vassar College, where he now occupies the Mary Conover Mellon Chair in Music. Mr. Wilson’s approximately sixty works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Da Capo chamber Ensemble, the Muir Quartet and many other groups and individuals. Recent commissions include the Library of Congress, Chamber Music America and the San Francisco Symphony. Richard Wilson has just been named Composer in Residence for the American Symphony beginning in its 1992-93 season.

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