D'Arcy Reynolds is a well known composer on the West Coast where her compositions have been premiered at numerous concert halls and music festivals. In recognition for her outstanding work D'Arcy has won several grants from such prestigious organizations as the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center and Meet the Composer.
She has written works for Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Chorus, Chamber Ensemble, Voice and Piano. She has completed three song cycles for soprano and chamber ensemble (The Past Keeps Changing, Beyond Dreaming, and Listening to Winter), all of which have been written in collaboration with living poets. Recent premieres include Cloven Dreams, performed by Tessa Brinckman & the East/West Continuo in Portland, Oregon, Elegy by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, 21 for piano, and The Past Keeps Changing, performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
In addition to her work as a composer and pianist, D’Arcy Reynolds is the founding Director of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum. The Chapter became an important arts organization for artists throughout Northern California, and as Director of the San Francisco Chapter, Ms. Reynolds developed an innovative Composer in the Schools Program, held salons with new works by Northern California Composers and administered interdisciplinary granting programs with composers, poets and choreographers.
She received a 2004 Meet the Composer Global Connections grant and is traveling to South Africa where the Sontonga String Quartet will perform her string quartet Cloven Dreams at the University of Cape Town.
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Monday, April 25, 2005
Concerts with the Sontonga Quartet
The next two concerts with Cloven Dreams are tonight in Grahamstown, and Sunday afternoon in Port Elizabeth. Then we'll be filming in Nieu-Bethesda during the week, and will have another concert next Saturday afrernoon, perhaps at the OwlHouse.
Sat 23 April 20:00
Beethoven Room, Grahamstown
Haydn Op. 77 no. 1
Reynolds Cloven Dreams
Schumann Piano Quintet with students from Rhodes University
Sun 24 April 16:00
UPE (University of Port Elizabeth) Auditorium
Port Elizabeth
Haydn Op. 77 no. 1
Peter Klatzow String Quartet no 3
Reynolds Cloven Dreams
Schumann String Quartet Op. 41 no.3
U C T C o n c e r t
The concert on 19 April at the University of Cape Town was attended by a warm mix of people affiliated with Owl House, students and faculty atUCT, the Jungian contingent, and those who heard our interview Sunday night on fine Music Radio (101.3). This concert was an 'all-Reynolds' concert performed by the Sontonga Quartet, Matthew Reid, clarinet, and the composeron the piano. The concert repertoire included the Preludes for viola and piano, Little Love Poem, Corazon del Verano for piano trio, Variations for Clarinet and piano, String Quartet, Cloven Dreams, 21 and Black Chinned Siskin for piano.
A moderated discussion followed the concert, and it turned out that there were people in the audience that grew up in the Karoo, near Helen Martins' Owl House. Mark Wilby, the curator of Owl House, and the documentary film crew for our upcoming film about Owl House were also there. This was a good time for everyone involved in the project to get a better feel for the music, and the corresponding imagery from Owl House.
Some of you may be wondering about the reference to the Jungians - there will be an international conference in Cape Town, August 2007 for the IAAP. We hope to present the documentary about the music inspired by Owl House at the conference.I'm also talking with someone at the National Gallery in Cape Town about their music program, also scheduled for 2007.
posted by D'Arcy Reynolds
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