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September 2008 brought the premiere of Unstuck, commissioned by The International Orpheum Music Festival for Young Soloists, to be performed by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under the baton of Michael Sanderling. As recipient of a New York Youth Symphony “First Music” commission, Mr. Norman’s Sacred Geometry was premiered in 2004 and earned him the Nissim Prize from ASCAP and the Jacob Druckman Prize from Aspen. He has also received commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, the California State University Stanislaus Symphony, the Hoff-Barthelson School, and the Cascade Head Music Festival in Oregon. Mr. Norman was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, and his association with the Festival has continued with educational residencies and family concerts in the M.O.R.E. Music Program in the Roaring Fork Valley Schools during the winter and spring of this season, a concert of his works in the summer of 2008 on the Inside Music series, and the premiere of a commissioned chamber work in 2009. Mr. Norman’s music has been performed at the 2006 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, the MATA Festival in New York and the Chicago Chamber Players’ Composer Perspectives Series. He was a composition fellow twice at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East in Bennington, Vermont, and has held residencies at the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Copland House. Mr. Norman is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2009 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, five Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and the Leo Kaplan Prize from ASCAP, as well as a BMI Student Composer Award and top honors in the National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition, the Music Teachers National Association Composition Competition, the New England Philharmonic Call for Scores, and the USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. As pianist, Mr. Norman is an avid performer of contemporary music and a committed educator. He has performed in the Los Angeles-based Ensemble Green and served on the faculty of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. Born in 1979 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mr. Norman is a graduate of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he studied composition with Donald Crockett and Stephen Hartke and piano with Stewart Gordon, and was twice named the Thornton School's most outstanding graduate. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Aaron Jay Kernis. |
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| Instrumental – Large
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Unstuck
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orchestra (10 minutes) 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timpani, 3 percussion, piano, strings Commissioned by The International Orpheum Music Festival for Young Soloists Premiered by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich with Michael Sanderling conducting, September 2008 |
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| Sacred Geometry
for orchestra (10
minutes) 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timpani, 3 percussion, piano, harp strings Commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony Premiered at Carnegie Hall on December 7, 2003 with Paul Haas conducting Revised 2004 |
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| Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow
Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash for orchestra (5 minutes) 3.2.3.2 – 4.3.3.1 – timpani, 3 percussion, piano, strings Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra for Young People’s Concerts Premiered at Orchestral Hall, Minneapolis on November 2, 2005 with Bill Schrickel conducting |
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| River of Mercy for orchestra,
wordless chorus and narrator (22 minutes) 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – 3 perc, timp, piano, harp, strings, narrator, chorus Commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony Premiered at the Paramount Theater, Oakland, April 20, 2007 |
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| Instrumental - Solo and
Chamber |
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| Alabaster Rounds for string trio
(8 minutes) Commissioned by the Janaki Trio, 2007 |
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| Farnsworth: Four Portraits of a House
for flute, four clarinets, violin, piano and percussion (8 minutes) Premiered at Newman Hall, University of Southern California, November 2, 2003 |
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| Garden of Follies
for alto
saxophone and piano (12 minutes) Commissioned by the Society of Composers, Inc. and ASCAP, 2006 |
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| Gran Turismo for eight violins (8
minutes) Premiered at Newman Hall, University of Southern California, April 1, 2004 |
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| Light Screens
for flute, violin,
viola and cello (10 minutes) Premiered at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East, Bennington, Vermont, July 31, 2002 |
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Lost Time
for piano (10 minutes) Commissioned by Young Concert Artists, Inc., premiered by Wonny Song on the Young Concert Artists Series at Zankel Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in February 2009 |
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Sabina
for viola (5 minutes) Premiered by Nokuthula Ngwenyama on the Young Concert Artists Series at Merkin Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in December 2008 |
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| Sync Up for piano (5 minutes) Premiered at William Kapell Piano Foundation Recital, Beverly Hills, October 19, 2002 |
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| Lullaby for mezzo-soprano and
piano (12 minutes) Commissioned by Young Concert Artists, 2007 |
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