Concerto For Bassoon & Chamber Orchestra / Clarinet Concerto

About the ArtistRichard Wilson was born in Cleveland m where he studied piano with Roslyn Raish Pettibone, Egbert Fischer, and Leonard Shure, and cello with Ernst Silberstein. After graduation from Harvard, he received the Frank Huntington Beebe Award which allowed him to study with Austrian pianist Friedrich Wuhrer in Munich. Back in the United States he studied compositiong with Robert Moevs at Rutgers University and then joined the music faculty of Vassar College.The composer of over seventy works in many genres, including opera, Mr. Wilson has recieved such recognitions as the Hinrichsen Award (from the American Academy/ Institute of Arts and Letters), the Stoeger Prize (from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), the Cleveland Arts Prize (from the Women's City Club of Cleveland), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a major commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. His orchestral works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the American Symphony, the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Oquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Residentie Orkest of The Hague, and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.Mr. Wilson holds the Mary Conover Mellon Chair in Music at Vassar; he is also Composer-in-Residence with the American Symphony Orchestra.Product DescriptionOne of Leon Botstein's earliest recordings, this rare CRI CD features two concertos by American composers Richard Wilson and Meyer KupfermanReviewThe music is interesting, the recording well produced, the product fully recommendable. --Fanfare Magazine, January 1, 1991

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