DINU GHEZZO

Concert Activities (partial list, continually updated)

1970-1985

under recovery efforts ……

I am in the process of reviewing the old archives

1985-86:

Jan. 9, Alice Tully Hall, Conducting NYU Orchestra, Romanian Music Days

January 13, Carnegie Recital Hall, concert of premieres

March 10, Forest Hills Ateneo

May 13, 1986, NYU Theatre, conduct the Washington Square Orchestra

May 28, NYU Theatre, present Music for Flutes and Tape

June 14, Guild of Composers, performance of “Sound Shapes I”

July 18, Chiusi della Verna, Italy Aphorisms

July 19, ibid. Letters to Walt Whitman

July 23, Villa Oscano, Perugia Letters to Walt Whitman

July 25, ibid. Aphorisms

July 26, 1986, Villa Oscano, Italy ANMC/NYU Contemporary Players

July 29, 1986 American Academy, Rome ANMC/NYU Contemporary Players

Oct. 11, Montreal, Canada, NYU Composers Enesmble

November-December: NYU Composers Forum Marathon, director

NYU Orchestra Concert, conductor

1986-87

Sept. 28, Torino, Italy Music for Flutes and Tape

Oct. 11, Montreal, Canada Letters to Walt Whitman

Nov. 20, 1986, NYU Theatre Washington Square Orchestra

Dec. 16, 1986, NYU Theatre NYU Orchestra

Jan. 9, Alice Tully Hall, Aphorisms

Jan. 13, Carnegie Recital Hall, Letters to Walt Whitman

March 10, Forest Hills Ateneo, Echoes of Brasil

April 18, Corcoran Library, Wash. Music for Flutes and Tape

Apr. 21, 1986, Queens College New Repertory Ensemble Inc.

April 22, Lehman College (CUNY) Three Pieces for Solo Violin

April 25, ANMC Festival, CUNY Sound Shapes II for Solo Trombone

April 28, 1986, Lehman College The Bronx Symphony and Lehman Choir

May 11, Rassegna Musicale, Italy Sound Shapes II

Aphorisms

1987-88

NYU Contemporary Players at Carnegie Recital Hall, 1988

CIPAM International Festival (had works performed in 4 consecutive concerts), 1988

Molfetta International Festival (3 concerts), 1988

Giornate Internazionale di Musica, Todi (8 Concerts), 1988

Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center, 1988

Week of Italian Music at NYU (7 concerts): Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick Cathedral and at NYU Loeb Center and at the ANMC-NYU Festival in New York, 1988

1988-89

Composer-In-Residence at Youngstown State University (8 works in 3 Days), 1989

Composer-In-Residence at the GIM Festival in Todi (Umbria), 1989

Composer-In-Residenceat the CIPAM Festival in Montevarchi (Tuscany), 1988

Youngstown State Univ., Nov. 1989

Glasborough College, Febr. 1990

W. Paterson College, March 1, 1990

NYU Theatre, Dec. 21, 1989

1989-90

Split Summer Festival (4 concerts), August 1989

US State Department, Zagreb, August 1989

National TV, Zagreb, August 1989

Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Budapest, August 1989

Madagan New Music Club, Paris, January 6th, 1990

Frèsnes Conservatory, January 7th, 1990

Paris Conservatory, January 8th, 1990

Tilburg Conservatory (Holland), January 1990

Akron University, Ohio, April 1990

Giornate Internazionale di Musica Festival in Todi (Umbria) July ‘90

Gubbio Festival Orchestra (Echoes of Romania)*, Summer 1990

Molfetta International Festival (Molfetta, Bari) July ‘90

Carnegie Recital Hall, in over 14 concerts with NYU Contemporary Players, (1986-90)

ANMC Festival in New York, in 26 concerts (1986 - 90)

Univ. of Illinois, Akron Univ., LSU, CalArts, Cal State Univ. Northridge, Tulane,

Georgia State, Louisiana College, etc.

Molfetta International Festival (6 concerts)

Giornate Internazionale di Musica, Todi (8 Concerts)

May 15th, 1987, Concert of George Enescu International Competition

September 30th, 1987, Music International at NYU (with winner of Enesco Competition)

November 10, 1987 with NYU Orchestra

December 14, 1987 with NYU Orchestra

Jan. 9,1987 Alice Tully Hall, NYU Orchestra

Concerts 1990-91

Director of Gubbio Festival, Summer of 1990 (4 lectures on new music, two RAI TV programs)

Univ. of Illinois (OSTROM, Three Pieces for Solo Violin), Oct. 1990

Merkin Hall (FREEDOM, revised version)*, Nov. 27th, 1990

Miller Theatre, Columbia Univ. (Prayer)*, Jan. 22, 1991

Smithonian Institute (ibid), January 1991

M. Taper Theatre, Los Angeles (Doina; In Memoriam), February 13th, 1991

Guest Composer, Sorbonne, Paris, April, 1991

Guest Composer, Fresnes Music Festival, April 1991

Split Summer Festival (Yugoslavia), in 3 concerts

US State Department Sponsored Concert in Zagreb (YU)

National Yugoslavian TV Program about NYU Contemporary Players (60 Minutes)

Merkin Hall, Sept. 27th, 1989

Carnegie Recital Hall, March 5th, 1990

NYU Loeb Center, March 6th, 1990

NYU Theatre, March 7th, 1990

NYU Top of the Park, March 10th, 1990

ANMC-NYU Festival in New York

1991-92

Concert for 50th Birthday Gubbio, Italy: Doina: In Memoriam

July 30th, 1991 OSTROM

Voices of Freedom

Nov. 22nd, 1992 at NYU Two Rituals

Concert for 50th Birthday, New York Doina: In Memoriam

December 16th, 1992 Kajaani Nights

Two Rituals

December Epitaphs

The International Week of New Music December Epitaphs

Bucharest - Romania, May 25th, 1992 Multimedia Production

-May 23, 1992 at The International Week for New Music: Bucharest: "December Epitaphs" with the Romanian Opera Balet Co.

-July 18, 1992 at the Society of Composers of Romania: Radio Concert: "OSTROM"

1992-93

-May, 1992 OSTROM, at EPTA Romania, The Lyric Theater, Constanta, Romania

-May 1992 December Epitaphs Romanian Opera, The International Week of New Music, Bucharest, Romania

-October 12, 1992, at NYU Composers Forum, premiere of "The Sun Light Poems" for chamber ensemble, computers, and narrators, on poems of Lucian Blaga

-October 29th, 1992: conducted Constanta Symphony Orchestra with works by NYU Composers: Robert Sirota, Robert Rowe and Dinu Ghezzo (Doina: In Memoriam and December Epitaphs)

-November 1st, 1992: conducted Constanta Symphony Orhcestra in a Romantic program: Puccini Arias and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5.

-November 30th, 1992: The Cultural Center of Romania at UN: First Performance of

OSTROM II, for ethnic flutes, saxophone, piano, synthesizers, narrator and tape.

-December 5th, 1992: at NYU Composers Forum performance of Prayer and Meditation, for Trogato, Flutes, Prepared Piano and Tape

-January 8th, 1993 at the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.: performance of December Epitaphs, and OSTROM II.

-Guest Composer with the Guild of Composers in a series of six concerts in the state of New Jersey, presenting the premiere of OSTROM III, for Tarogato, Synthesizers and Tape:

November 21, 1992 at the Planetarium, Trenton, New Jersey.

January 25th, 1993, at W. Paterson College.

Febryary 4th, 1993, at W. Paterson College.

March 12th, 1993, at Stockton College.

April 20, 1993 at Glassborough College.

April 22, 1993, at Rutgers Univ.

-May 3rd, 1993, performance of Sun Light Poems, with NYU New Music Ensemble, at NYU Greenberg Auditorium.

-May 16 - 23, 1993: In-Residence composer and conductor: Constanta Symphony Orchestra. Performance of: OSTROM II, Aphorisms. Conductor of works by American composers: Copland - Rodeo, S. Barber - Adagio for Strings, Hubert Howe Jr. - New Work (Commissioned by the orchestra).

1993-94

Presented Lecture on American Music at the American Romanian Music Days, Constanta, Romania, July 1993

Lecture on Past and Present Impact Edgard Varese, at Cooper Union School, January 1994

Masterclass on Improvisation Techniques, at the American Romanian Music Days, Constanta, Romania, July 1993

Lecture - Concert: New Music from New York, with Oradea Philharmonic, Romania

Lecture on own music, at the Hungarian Academy of Arts & Letters, Budapest, March 1994

Coordinated and Presented 28 NYU Composers Forum Lectures and Concerts (Sept., 1992-May 1993), an three fold increase from last year.

Invited as coordinator for music activities at the Cultural Center of Romania at the U.N. in New York: Presented 4 concerts and lectures.

Concerts 1993-94:

Date Location Performer Title of work

Oct. 15th Romanian Cult. Center Sherban Lupu Balade/Book of Songs

OSTROM

Nov. 8th NYU Interactive Music NYU Manifesto *

Nov. 12th Romanian Cult. Center Corrado Canonici Four Corrado Songs *

Nov. 13th SOHO Loft (t)Ethnika Manifesto

Nov. 15th NYU Comp. Forum Corrado Canonici Four Corrado Songs

Tour of Italy and Switzerland as composer/conductor: November 20- 26, 1993 for work commissioned by the Italian Flute Orchestra. Also recorded by Tirreno G.R. (Lugano), for a CD of these concerts.

Nov. 23rd Milan Conservatory Italian Flute Orch Poemele Luminii

Nov. 23rd Sala Livorno Italian Flute Orch Poemele Luminii

Nov. 24 Sala Belveglio ibid ibid

Nov. 24 Sala Asti ibid ibid

Nov. 24th Church Vighera ibid ibid

Nov. 25th Concert Pavia ibid ibid

January

January 7th Paris Conservatory French Flute Orch. Poemele Luminii

January 20 & Manhattan Linda Wetherhill Music for Fl. & Tape

February

Febr. 7 New School Lecture on Varese/Cage at 11 AM

Febr. 7 NYU Comp.F Sever Tipei (Pno) Ritualen for Pno & Comp.

Febr.12 Manhattan Linda Wetherhill Music for Fl. & Tape

Febr. 21 Tulane U/LA Spectri Sonori OSTROM

March Tour as guest conductor and composer of Oradea Philharmonic (Romania)

March 14 Oradea Oradea Philharmonic Lecture Demonstration

March 16 Oradea ibid Echoes of Tomis & Ostrom II

March 19 Oradea ibid December Epitaphs

April

April 9th SOHO Studio ANMC Players 2 Fragments from Checkmate for J. Cage

April 15th Washington D.C. Ethnika OSTROM II & Echoes of Tomis

April 16th Paris Corrado Canonici Five Corrado Canti

April 25th NYU Theatre NYU N.M. Ens. Lerului...Bradului...

May

May 2nd NYU Loft NYU Cont.Pl.

May 12 - 24 Musica 2000 Canonici Five Corrado Songs

Solingen (G) Constanta Symph December Epitaphs

Grants & Awards:

1993 ASCAP Composition Award

July 1993, Composer & Conductor in Residence, Constanta Symphony, Romania

July 1993, Citizens Exchange Council Award (Arts Link Program)

1994-95

June 10, Concert Loeb Center Checkmate for J. Cage Guggenheim commission

June 17, Concert Romanian C Center Homage to E. Ionescu

July 7 Lecture NYU Lecture on Own Works

Performances in Germany, Italy

by Ulrich Krieger Wind Rituals Berlin June 29th

by Corrado Canonici Cinque Corrado Canti Roma, May 16th, Salone dei Piceni

Erhurt, July 31, Haus Dacheröden

Ancona, Aug. 2, MUSICA 2000 Festival 94

Ancona, Dec. 5th (Recording CD)

Director, Conductor, Composer, Constanta, Romania, 1994:

August 3 Conduct: Copland Constanta Symphony Orchestra

August 6 OSTROM ibid

August 7 Lerului Bradului Berlin Composers Ensemble

August 8 Legends of Fir Tree Constanta Symphony

Attachment A Dinu D. Ghezzo page 2 of 2

Other Performances:

October 10, Romanian CC Lecture about Romanian Composers

Oct. 19, AM, Northridge Lecture on own works CalState Northridge

Oct. 19, Northridge Poemele Luminii CalSt. Northridge Cont Pl

Nov. 18th Dejon's Loft OSTROM II Berlin Composers Ensemble

Nov. 10, NYUCF Trio Blonk Jaap Blonk Trio

Nov. 12, Smith College Legends of Fir Tree Tape Presentation

Feb. 2, Leipzig, Recording Aphorisms for Cl & Piano (for the German Radio)

Feb.14, Merkin Hall Five Village Scenes American Korean Music

Composer/Conductor Oradea Philharmonic, Romania

March 8th Perform Wind Rituals, Five Village Scenes

March 9th Conduct own Legends of the Fir Tree & Copland

Hungarian Academy of Arts & Letters, Budapest, Hungary

March 11 Lecture on own music

Guest Composer: Rubin Academy, Jerusalem

March 13 -Lecture: Music by NYU Composers Robert Sirota

Leo Kraft

Mary Inwood

Steve Rosenhaus

Ron Mazurek

-Workshop: Connections between Improvisation and Composition

-Evening Concert of own compositions: Echoes of Tomis

Wind Rituals

Five Village Scenes

Checkmate for John Cage

Other Performances:

March 29 NYU Loeb Center: Five Village Scenes

April 17 Oradea Trio: Wind Rituals

Five Village Scenes

April 21 Romanian Cultural Center: Five Village Scenes

April 23 N.J. Guild of Composers Checkmate for J.Cage

May 19th Conduct Constanta Symphony Orchestra Ecoes of Tomis

May 23rd International Week of New Music, Buch. Manifesto

1995-96

-July 1st, 1995, with Korean Society for New Music, Seoul, Korea

Concert of NYU and Seoul Univ. Composers:

Dinu Ghezzo Aphorisms for Clarinet and Piano

-July 6th Music2000 Ancona NYUNME Five Village Scenes

-July 20th KCC D. Ghezzo Lecture Recital: Cage, Babbitt, Berio,Ghezzo

(fragments Orpheus)

Constanta International Music Days, Romania

-July 28th, 1995, at 7 PMm, Symphony Orchestra, Radu Ciorei, Serban Lupu, Violin

-Sun, July 30th, 1995, at 7, Cluj Academy of Music Percussion Ensemble

Grigore Pop, Director

-Mon, July 31st, at 7.00 PM Recital S. Lupu - Violin, A. Deleanu - Piano

-Wed. Aug. 2nd, 1995, at 7.00 PM Recital Lupu (Violin), Tegzesiu (Cello) & Zodieru (Piano)

-Thu., Aug 3rd, 1995, at 7.00 PM Constanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Tomaro, Conductor

-Fri., Aug 4th, 1995, at 7.00 pm, Lecture & Panel Discussion with Mr. Vitcu:

-Sat., Aug. 5th, 1995, at 7 pm, 1995 Recital Emil Sein, Andrei Deleanu & Friends

Dinu Ghezzo ... Wind Rituals, for Sax & Pno Emil Sein, Dinu Ghezzo

-Mon., Aug.7th, at 12 noon, Composers Panel II: Discussion on New Music Directions,

-Mon., Aug 7th, 1995, at 7 pm, An Evening of Dinu Ghezzo, & Friends: From Jazz to World Music & Contemporary Music

Dinu Ghezzo ...........Five Village Scenes All + Cristina Oprean, Mary Chen

-Tue., Aug. 8th, 1995, at 4.00 Composers Panel III: Discussion on New Music Directions, with guest musicians

-Tue., Aug 8th, 1995, at 7 pm, Recital Emil Sein, Esther Lamneck, Mary Hong Yu Chen and musicians

-Wed., Aug. 9th, 1995, Lyric Theatre Constanta Symphny Orchestra, Radu Ciorei, director, Conductors: Radu Ciorei and Dinu Ghezzo

(part 1 Dinu Ghezzo, Conductor)

L. Bernstein Suite from West Side Story

Mozart Alleluia from Exultate Jubilate (D. Ghezzo - Cond)

Chinese Folk Song The Mountain Stream Mary Hong Yu Chen, Soprano

(part 2, Radu Ciorei, Conductor)

William Toutant Peregrinations II

Barbara Jazwinski Phantasy on Jazz (R. Ciorei-conductor)

Esther Lamneck - Solo Clarinet

-Thu., Aug. 10th, 1995, at 7 pm, Lyric Theatre Multimedia Evening:

Dinu Ghezzo Orpheus: The great return of Euridice

-Aug. 11 National Arts Museum Bucharest, INMC Quartet Five Village Scenes

Wind Rituals

-Sep. 26 Univ. of Wisconsin Milwakee Players Yehuda Yannay, Steve .....

-Oct. 9 NYU CForum Ulrich Krieger Incantations (Wind Rituals)**

-VOX MARIS I: Lecture, presentation of Music from Constanta:

Monday, Nov. 13th, at 6.10 PM

Recital Room, Education Building, 7th Floor (rm.779)

William Toutant - Peregrinations II, Constanta Symphony Recording, Radu Ciorei, Director

Martin Rokeach - Piece for Clarinet and Piano

Robert Tomaro - New Orchestral Work, Constanta Symphony, Mr. Tomaro, Conductor

Also a Book and Records Exhibit will be displayed before, during and after the program

-VOX MARIS II: Constanta Internartional Music Days:

Thu., Nov. 16th, at 7.00 PM

Romanian Cultural Center

200 East 200 Street/at 3rd Ave

A music program with NYU New Music Ensmble, Esther Lamneck, director

The MTV Television Documentary of the 3rd edition of Constanta International Music Days

-Nov. 26th, The American Academy in Rome, Italy, with Corrado Canonici

Dinu Ghezzo Five Corrado Songs

- NOV. 27, International Release (NY, Rome, Milan), CAPSTONE CD RECORDS

To include: D. Ghezzo - Five Corrado Songs

-Nov. 16 NJ Guild of Comp Ron M/DGhezzo Lecture Recital/Recruitment

-Fri., Dec. 1st, 1995, with Composers Concordance, at Kosciusko Foun., Solo Piano/Synth, Comp

Dinu Ghezzo In Search of Euridice (Part 1)

-Mon., Dec. 11th, 1995, at 8 PM, NYU NME, at NYU F. Loewe Theater

Dinu Ghezzo In Search of Euridice III

Esther Lamneck - Cl/Tárogáto,

Ron Mazurek - Synth

Dinu Ghezzo - Piano, Synth, Computer

-Sat., Dec. 16th, at 8.00 pm, Dejons Loft, Solo Version

Dinu Ghezzo In Search of Euridice I

-Dec. 20th, New York Capstone Records Corp.

Natioanl release & distribution TONUS TOMIS CD

-Sat. Dec. 30th, at 8.00 PM, Dejons Loft, Duo version

Dinu Ghezzo In Search of Euridice II

-Jan. 2, Berlin, Germany

D. Ghezzo Wind Rituals

-Fri., Jan. 26th, Lincoln Center Library, INMC Quartet

Dinu Ghezzo In Search of Euridice III

Dinu Ghezzo Five Village Scenes

Ron Mazurek Romanian Songs

Mon. Jan 29, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, Guest Composer Series

D. Ghezzo Wind Rituals

Breezes of Yesteryear

-Tue., Jan. 30th, at LSU, Baton Bouge

D. Ghezzo Wind Rituals

Breezes of Yesteryear

- Feb. 5, 1996, NYU CF, with Archaeus Ensemble

D. Ghezzo In Search of Euridice

- Mar. 6, Chamber Music from New York

Trio CONTRASTE

DINU GHEZZO - Piano, Synth, Percussion, Computer

Dinu Ghezzo Wind Rituals* 15’ (duration)

Marc A. Consoli Counterpoint (?) 9’

Ron Mazurek Rituals * 12’

Dinu Ghezzo In Search of Euridice* 12’