Student Composer Francesca Hilditch Premieres New Work at The Crane School of Music

2017 Nov 3

Eight music composition students from SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music are set to premiere their latest new works in a student composers forum concert, on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall.

The line-up of student composers includes Francesca Hilditch of Bay Shore, NY.

The concert will open with "Doubleth Joy," a piece for viola and fixed media by Thom Avella, followed by "Favorite Kind of Music" by Loren Monet, and "Trepidations," an oboe piece by Liam M. Zaffora-Reeder. The concert will also include "Whispers and Screams," a saxophone composition by Maxime Gilles Esformes and a second piece by Avella, "intersperse," performed by the Crane Saxophone Ensemble.

The performance will continue with two piano works, including "An Abstract Progression" by Tyler Mazone and "Prelude in Two Moods" by Sofia Galadriel Coyle. Likewise, the program features two trios written for piano, clarinet and saxophone, including Brooke D'Aprile's three-movement piece, "Liminal Spaces," and Esformes' new work, "Les Couleurs Translucides." The concert will conclude with Francesca Hilditch's "Suspended Regulation," written for woodwinds, strings, horn, percussion and piano.

This event is free, and the public is invited to attend. The concert will also be broadcast live on the Crane School of Music YouTube channel at the performance time. To view the program and see other upcoming streaming performances, visit http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit http://www.potsdam.edu/crane.