The Luna Nova Music Ensemble will be presenting a program of music compositions by members of the Iowa Composers Forum at three different venues following Labor Day:

Friday, September 8, 5:00pm — Casual Classics at Saint Ambrose University, Davenport, IA. (Free admission)

Saturday, September 9, 7:00pm — Porter House Museum, Decorah, IA. ($10 admission fee)

Sunday, September 10, 3:00pm — Cedar Rock Frank Lloyd Wright House, Quasqueton, IA. (Free admission)

Congratulations to all of our selected composers!

Selected compositions are:

Road Trip for English horn, horn, piano, and cello by Paul Dice

Monodies for cello and piano by Warren Gooch

Wick Dialog for solo horn by Jerry Owen *

“On the Clearwater, Camas Meadows,” “Henry’s Lake, and Wallowa,” and “Never to Return” from MEMORIES II of Chief Joseph (Image Music XI-B) for oboe and piano by Greg Steinke

Trio for Oboe, Horn and Cello by Alan Schmitz

Ashes and Oil for horn and cello by Denise Knack *

Plastic Structures for solo piano by James Romig *

Palouse for oboe, horn, and piano by Lisa Neher

Unexpected Encounters: Fantasy Conversation for horn and cello by Robert J. Martin *

A Soundtrack Without Film for oboe, horn, cello, and piano by Jonathan Wilson

The four works listed above with a * will not be included on the short, 50-minute program for the Casual Classics program on Friday, September 8 at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport.

ICF composers selected for the program are encouraged to attend one of more of the three concerts but must do so at their own expense.

For 20 years, Luna Nova has been performing, recording and promoting 20th and 21st -Century masterpieces along with the music of living composers. The organization now bases its artistic operations in Memphis, Tennessee as the featured ensemble of the annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival. Directed by Patricia Gray, Luna Nova has a large recording discography of contemporary music and a marvelous series of educational, interactive learning objects on its website. Out of the instrumentation of the larger ensemble, this project will feature chamber music works for oboe, horn, cello and piano. The musicians will be oboist Michelle Vigneau who teaches at the University of Memphis, Robert Patterson on horn who studied composition with George Crumb and plays with the Memphis Symphony and the ICF’s own Craig Hultgren on cello and Perry Mears II on piano.

Contact Craig Hultgren at chultgre@gmail.com with any questions regarding this opportunity.