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BENJAMIN C.S. BOYLE CHOSEN AS NEWEST
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE

May 20, 2005 — A panel of Young Concert Artists “alumni” musicians has selected 25-year-old American composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle as the 2005-2007 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence.  As part of his two-year residency, Mr. Boyle will write two commissioned works to be premiered by two new members of the Young Concert Artists roster. 

         The first work will be written for cellist Efe Baltacigil, who will premiere the work in his debut recitals in the Young Concert Artists Series next season at Zankel Hall at Carnegie in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington , DC .  Mr. Boyle will also receive management services, publicity, and career development from Young Concert Artists. 

         To One in Paradise, Mr. Boyle’s most recent work, was commissioned and premiered by the Bachanalia Festival Orchestra at Merkin Hall in New York on May 18, 2005.  In December, the pianist Magdalena Baczewska performed Mr. Boyle’s Ballade at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.

         Mr. Boyle is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and is on the faculty of the European-American Musical Alliance’s (EAMA) summer program at L’Ecole Normale in Paris .  He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of South Florida , a Master of Music from the Peabody Conservatory, and has studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris .  His teachers have included David del Tredici, Christopher Theofanidis, Samuel Adler, Lukas Foss, Nicholas Maw and Narcis Bonet. 

            The members of the Young Concert Artists Alumni panel that selected Mr. Boyle were Kenji Bunch (composer), Jeremy Denk (pianist), Eugene Drucker (violinist), Paul Dunkel (flutist), Ani Kavafian (violinist), Ida Kavafian (violinist and violist), Christòpheren Nomura (baritone), Ursula Oppens (pianist), Todd Palmer (clarinetist), and Hiroko Yajima (violinist).

         The Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence Program was started in 1994 as an initiative of the YCA Alumni Association.  It receives support from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Alumni musicians of Young Concert Artists.

         Young Concert Artists, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has developed and launched the careers of extraordinary musicians including Emanuel Ax, Murray Perahia, Dawn Upshaw, Richard Goode, Paula Robison, Carter Brey, Pinchas Zukerman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the Tokyo and St. Lawrence Quartets.  YCA’s four previous Composers-in-Residence, still members of the roster, are Mason Bates, Kenji Bunch, Daniel Kellogg and Kevin Puts.

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Ann Binder, Publicity Manager, YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS, Inc.
Telephone: (212) 307-6655 ext. 201
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