Composer-in-Residence Events
As Canisius College Composer-in-Residence, Persis Parshall Vehar promotes the college as a center for creativity by providing public lectures on the art of composing and by offering opportunities for area high school and college age students to compose and premiere their compositions each year. This year the Amberg Quartet will perform these premieres in concert in the Montante Cultural Center on March 23, 2010 at 7:30 P.M.
Thursday, November 5
2:30 P.M./ MCC
Composer-in-Residence
“The Making of an Opera, Part I”
Persis Vehar, composer
Thursday, February 25, 2010
2:30 P.M./ MCC
Composer-in-Residence
“The Making of an Opera, Part II”
Persis Vehar, composer
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
7:30 P.M./ MCC
Composer-in-Residence
Eighth Annual WNY Student Composers’ Workshop
Persis Vehar and Michael Colquhoun, clinicians
“The Amberg Quartet Presents New Music”
John Fullam, clarinet
Betsy Reeds, flute
Paul Schlossman, oboe
Persis Vehar, piano