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A "fresh, inventive, urbane, and keen-witted young composer" (Boston Globe) and "a splendid pianist" "with a born pianist's command of colors, textures, dynamics", John McDonald has earned international acclaim as a musician.
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John McDonald to be awarded The Waring Prize for 2010 by Western Reserve Academy, Ohio on June 12, 2010.
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Pianist Andrew Rangell has just completed a recording of McDonald’s Meditation Before A Sonata: Dew Cloth, Dream Drapery, a piece which can function as a preamble to either of the monumental Charles Ives sonatas (Bridge Records; May 2009 release).
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His compositions have been performed on four continents, and his work is frequently featured in the U.S.A. by such ensembles as Alea III, Arden Quartet, Boston Composers String Quartet, DaVinci Quartet, Hartt Contemporary Players, Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, Marimolin, Brave New Works, and by pianists Veronica Jochum and Andrew Rangell. In 2007 he received the MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010, 9 AM
The Chapel, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio.
Brief Solo Piano Performance: Tierniad, Op. 455, No. 22; Morning Practice Fom The School Of Appling, Op. 446, No. 3 (two original piano miniatures)
Sunday, June 13, 2010, 9 AM
Wordsong IV: Sarah Pelletier, soprano and John McDonald, piano.
Presenting settings of Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Howard Frazin, John McDonald, Thomas Schnauber, and Andy Vores
Concert, Discussion, and Recording
July 26-August 4, 2010
Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston.
Keyboardist & coach, pre-production of Tod Machover's opera "Death and the Powers,"
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