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| • ATLANTA FAITH PARTNERS RESIDENCY –
Curtis Bryant has been chosen as the Composer-in-Residence for the
Atlanta Faith Partners project sponsored by the American
Composers Forum. Beginning in September, he will work with
three Atlanta congregations – Cathedral
of Christ the King, First
Presbyterian Church, and Lutheran Church of the
Redeemer – to write new works unique to each congregation, as well
as several pieces that all three will share. The participating
congregations were chosen on the basis of their interest in and
commitment to performing new music, their diversity, and their
potential congruence. Established in 1992, the Faith Partners
residencies are emblematic of the American Composers Forum's efforts to
build bridges between composers and already existing audiences that
have lacked exposure to contemporary music but are highly receptive to
it. Several congregations that participated in the program have
continued to commission new works with their own funds following the
conclusion of the residency period, indicating that the program has
sparked a durable enthusiasm for new music. • June 20, 2008, 7:30 PM – The opening scene from Curtis Bryant's  opera "The Anarchist"
was featured
Friday on a program of the Harrower Summer Opera Workshop at Georgia
State University. The scene was directed by David
Grabarkewitz with musical direction by Nina Shuman. Baritone
Stephen McCool and tenor Wesley Morgan were the featured
soloists.
The libretto of "The
Anarchist" by Allen
Reichman is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's
1907 novel "The Secret Agent."
• May 8, 2008 – Bryant's "Ragtime" for string orchestra received a performance by the Lovinggood Middle School orchestra, directed by Barbera Secrist. The performance was given at Hillgrove High School in Powder Springs, Georgia. Ragtime is published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company in San Diego. • March 30, 2008, 3:00 PM – Cantare Youth Choirs of Atlanta directed by Paulette Sigler will perform Bryant's Jubilate Deo on their Spring Concert at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, 1770 Johnson Ferry Road in Marietta, GA. An encore performance will be given on Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00 PM at Sandy Plains Baptist Church, 2825 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta, GA. • March 23, 2008 – Easter Sunday – The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett (UUCG) Adult Choir directed by Kevin McKinney will be performing Curtis Bryant's "The Lamb," an a cappella setting of the William Blake poem from "Songs of Innocence." Bryant composed "The Lamb" in 2003 for the Gregg Smith Singers after attending the Adirondack Festival of American Music. The score is published by Lux Nova Press. • March 1, 2008 – PERFORMANCE IN AVERY FISCHER HALL. Curtis Bryant's "Fantasy on American Themes" will be performed at the National Orchestra Cup Festival held in New York's Lincoln Center. The White Pine Middle School 8th Grade Orchestra of Saginaw, Michigan, Directed by Iris Haynes will feature Bryant's "Fantasy" on their program at this prestigious event. • February 23, 2008 – PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF SCHEDULE! – Bryant's Sonata for Violin and Piano will be featured on the closing concert at the SCI National Conference in Atlanta at Georgia State University School of Music, Kopleff Recital Hall (8:00 PM). Violinist Christos Galileas will be joined by pianist Brandt Fredriksen in the performance of the three movement work. • January 25, 2008 – Curtis Bryant's "Fantasy on American Themes" was one of the featured works on a program at the 2008 Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids. The White Pine Middle School 8th Grade String Orchestra of Saginaw, Michigan, directed by Iris Haynes was guest performing group at the conference. The young musicians will be giving a second performance of "Fantasy" on March 1 in Avery Fischer Hall in New York at the National Orchestra Cup Festival. • January 13, 2008 – Bryant completed the musical score for a new short film "A Dark Gift" produced and directed by Nicholas Lance for the Georgia Tech Campus Movie Fest. The dark drama features several arrangements of Bryant's Nocturne for piano. To view this film and another short by Nick Lance click the mini-projector:  • April 24, 2007 – The Department of Music at the University of West Georgia performed Curtis Bryant’s cantata "The Builders" on a centennial choral concert at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts with the UWG Concert Choir & Chamber Singers and the UWG Wind Symphony, directed by Kevin Hibbard. Bryant’s setting of "The Builders" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was commissioned in 1989 for the dedication of the Performing Arts Center. • ATLANTA PREMIERE: April 17, 2007 – The Atlanta premiere of Curtis Bryant’s "The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity," a song cycle based upon poems from the collection by award winning Atlanta poet Stephen Bluestone was featured in a piano and voice only performance on the neoPhonia Concert Series at Georgia State University. The cycle is also scored for soprano with a chamber ensemble of flute, clarinet & alto sax, percussion, violin, cello and piano. Former GSU School of Music faculty member Chery Brendel sang the challenging soprano part in this cycle with Lisa Leong taking on the equally challenging piano part. The text depicts some of the legendary film comedians, including Laurel and Hardy, Lou Costello, the Three Stooges and Charles Chaplin. The program, directed by Dr. Nickitas Demos, was performed in the Kopleff Recital Hall on the Music for Our Time series.  •
March 18, 2007 – Dr. Michael R.
Brown, trumpet joined organist John Coble in a performance of Curtis
Bryant's Introit and Recessional
for Trumpet and Organ in the 11:00 AM service at Covenant
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. The team of Brown and Coble
performed the Georgia premiere of Bryant's Introit and Recessional last
year at the American Guild of Organists Members' Recital on March 14,
2006 at First Presbyterian Church, Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Brown is
head of the Department of Music Education and Professor of Music at The
Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. John
Coble is Organist and Director or Music at Covenant Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta.• Feb 18, 2007 – Feature Article in Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Atlanta composers (including Curtis Bryant) by Pierre Ruhe. • November 30, 2006 – Dr. Tom Gibson led members of the GSU Pep Band and GSU Brass and Jazz ensembles in a recording of a new basketball theme song by School of Music part-time instructor Curtis Bryant. Bryant composed the song, entitled "Go Panthers!" for use as title and credits music for upcoming game broadcasts. The song is scored for live performances by the Pep Band at Panthers games. Digital audio editing was completed by GSU School of Music student Michael Reddick in the Center for Audio Recording Arts facilities. It is anticipated that Bryant's new theme song will be used for the 2007-2008 season broadcasts on CSS (Comcast Sports South), produced by Chris Davis. • OPERA NEWS: "The Anarchists" November 17, 2006 – A new scene from Curtis Bryant’s opera-in-progress "The Anarchists" received a performance by students of Georgia State University School of Music on the Fall Opera Scenes showcase in Kopleff Recital Hall. Soloists included Katie Baughman, Maria McDaniel and Melanie Czaykowsky. The scene was directed by W. Dwight Coleman, coordinator of voice and opera studies, and Peter Marshall provided musical direction. The libretto, by New York forensic psychiatrist Allen Reichman, is based upon the 1907 novel “The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad. Two additional scenes from "The Anarchists" received staged performances at the Harrower Summer Opera Workshop, June, 2005 and in the Opera Scenes Recital at Georgia State University, November, 18, 2005, directed by W. Dwight Coleman. Click here for a sample aria  "Stevie, My
Darling," sung by soprano Sindhu Chandrasekaran with pianist Peter
Marshall. More samples can be heard on the Opera Page. • PREMIERE OF "In a Dream"March 26, 2006 – Curtis Bryant's "In a Dream" for chorus SSA(B), band and orchestra received a world premiere at Ridgeview Middle School located in Sandy Springs, Georgia. The 6-minute composition was commissioned for the celebration of the school's 20th anniversary. The work is a setting of an original text by Bryant highlighting the school's strengths in its diversity. • "A Peasant's Hope" at WYSIWYG Film Fest Bryant scored this medieval tale produced by Pet Project Films with an ensemble of Atlanta based musicians. It was recently featured in a San Francisco film festival.  •
CURTIS BRYANT RECEIVES 7th EMMY
NOMINATIONAtlanta, Georgia - May 6, 2005 - "Briars in the Cottonpatch" received two regional EMMY nominations as part of the annual Southeast EMMY competition. The nominations were announced in May by the Southeast Chapter of NATAS (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences). "Briars" received nominations in two individual categories: • WRITING -
Michael Booth
• MUSIC
COMPOSITION – Curtis Bryant
"Briars" also aired nationally on
PBS in February, 2005 as part of Black History Month.
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