Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music, Brown University

Music Director and Conductor, Brown University Orchestra

Music Director and Conductor, Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus

PAUL’S LATEST NEWS

Chester Lane reviews A Clockwork Counterpoint in the article

“Chronicling Creative Legacies” at SymphonyNOW

Music for Great Films of the Silent Era was released on 31 August 2011 by Naxos. This CD, part

of the Film Music Classics series, contains three orchestral works composed by William Perry

performed by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under Paul’s direction.

The soloists are the Duo Albek from Switzerland and the American pianist Michael Chertock.

The producer is Tim Handley, winner of eight Grammy Awards.

On 16 June 2011 in Manchester, England, Paul was named an Honorary Patron

of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and presented a talk titled

“On Blooms of Dublin On Bloomsday”. With tenor Peter Kelly and baritone Dan Shelvey,

he performed a selection of songs and duets from Blooms of Dublin,

Burgess’s musical adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The 2011 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming was presented

to the Pioneer Valley Symphony on 9 June 2011 in Minneapolis at the

2011 Annual Conference of the League of American Orchestras.

On 3-5 June 2011, he conducted the Opera Providence production of

Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Park Theatre in Cranston, Rhode Island.

A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, published by

Manchester University Press in the UK and distributed by Palgrave Macmillan in the US,

was released in November 2010 internationally and in February 2011 in the US.

Kevin Jackson’s review.pdf appeared in the February 2011 issue of the Literary Review.

The Pioneer Valley Symphony’s involvement in EarShot is featured in the article

“First Hearings” by Frank J. Oteri in the current issue of Symphony Magazine.

For Opera Providence, he accompanied concerts throughout the 2010-11 season:

9 and 12 December 2010 – soprano Kathryne Jennings, tenor Fred Scheff,

and baritone Paul Soper in Providence;

28 January 2011 – mezzo-soprano Megan Roth and baritone David Kravitz

and

25 February 2011 – soprano Julianna Tauschinger-Dempsey and tenor Christian Figueroa

at the Blithewold Mansion in Bristol, Rhode Island;

14 May 2011 – soprano Diana McVey and tenor Michael-Paul Krubitzer at the

Edward King House in Newport, Rhode Island

On 4-5 January 2011, he served as one of the judges who awarded the

2010-2011 ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize in Composition.

The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange, published on 29 December 2010,

includes his essay “Burgess and Music” on musical aspects of the novel.

On 19 December 2010, he conducted Commonwealth Opera’s annual

Messiah Sing in Northampton, Massachusetts.

On 11 December 2010, he conducted the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus

in a Family Holiday Concert in Greenfield, MA, featuring soprano Diana McVey.

On 9 and 12 December 2010, he accompanied soprano Kathryne Jennings,

tenor Fred Scheff, and baritone Paul Soper in concerts presented by Opera Providence.

On 8 December 2010, he guest conducted at Manhattan School of Music,

leading an orchestra of students in the graduate Orchestral Studies Program 

in a reading of Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration.

On 3 and 5 December 2010, he conducted Wagner, Ravel, and Beethoven with

the Brown University Orchestra in Sayles Hall, Providence, RI.

On 19 and 20 November 2010, he conducted the first staged production of

Anthony Burgess’s Shakespeare ballet Mr W.S. These performances, at the Théâtre Chanzy in Angers, France, were played by the Orchestra of the Conservatoire du Rayonnement Régional d’Angers and danced by the Paris-based troupe Compagnie Marie-Laure Agrapart.

In August 2010, his reduced orchestration of Stravinsky’s opera Mavra, recently

published by Boosey and Hawkes, was performed at the Glyndebourne Festival.

The Journal of Music published “That Was Me”, his article on Anthony Burgess’s

dual career as a composer and author, in the June-July 2010 issue.

In May 2010, he was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors

of the American Music Center beginning in July.

In April 2010, he and the Pioneer Valley Symphony hosted EarShot, the National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network. Along with composers Lewis Spratlan and Derek Bermel,

he served as a mentor to the four emerging composers

whose works he conducted at two days of reading sessions.