American composer Tom Myron was born November 15, 1959 in Troy, NY. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by the Kennedy Center, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, the Topeka Symphony, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Bangor Symphony and the Lamont Symphony at Denver University.
He works regularly as an arranger for the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, writing for singers Rosanne Cash, Kelli O'Hara, Maxi Priest & Phil Stacey, the Young People's Chorus of New York City, the band Le Vent du Nord & others. His film scores include Wilderness & Spirit; A Mountain Called Katahdin and the upcoming Henry David Thoreau; Surveyor of the Soul, both from Films by Huey.
Individual soloists and chamber ensembles that regularly perform Myron's work include violinists Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, Elisabeth Adkins & Kara Eubanks, violist Tsuna Sakamoto, cellist David Darling, the Portland String Quartet, the DaPonte String Quartet and the Potomac String Quartet.
Tom Myron's Violin Concerto No. 2 has been featured twice on Performance Today. Tom Myron lives in Northampton, MA. His works are published by MMB Music Inc.
FREE DOWNLOADS of music by TOM MYRON
Symphony No. 2
Violin Concerto No. 2
Viola Concerto
The Soldier's Return (String Quartet No. 2)
Katahdin (Greatest Mountain)
Contact featuring David Darling
Mille Cherubini in Coro featuring Lee Velta
This Day featuring Andy Voelker
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
A Contradicting Magic
Elisabeth Adkins rehearsing my Violin Concerto #2 with the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, May 13, 2006
"In any art there is a Higher Regularity which seems to conventional people arbitrary and to unconventional people commonplace: Irene's singing was of this sort. And of all the singers I have ever heard she was the most essentially dramatic: she could not have sung a scale without making it seem a part of someones life, a thing of human importance. Yet when the song and her voice said: 'We are all dying' something else about her voice- a quality that could not be localized, that all the sounds possessed together and none possessed apart- said to you also: 'Whoever dies?' Over feeling and act, the human reality, her voice seemed to open out into a contradicting magic of speculation and belief, into the inhuman reality men discover or create. Her voice pushed back the boundaries of the world."
Randall Jarrell
"Pictures From An Institution"
posted by Tom Myron
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Up Next
Who: Eclipse Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Sylvia Alimena
Soloist: Elisabeth Adkins, violin
Program:
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau De Couperin
Tom Myron: Violin Concerto #2 (world premiere)
Florian Gassmann: Overture "A House In The Country" (North American Premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1, Op. 11
What: Final concert of the 2005-2006 season
When: May 14, 2006 at 3 pm
Where: George Washington Masonic National Memorial 101 Callahan Drive, Alexandria, VA
Ticket Price $20 general; $15 seniors; $5 full-time students
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Eclipse Chamber Orchestra
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Eclipse Chamber Orchestra's finale of the 2005-2006 subscription season boasts a world premiere violin concerto written for Eclipse's concertmaster,Elisabeth Adkins. The concert, conducted by Eclipse Music Director Sylvia Alimena, will be held at the auditorium of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, VA on May 14, 2006 at 3 pm.
Award-winning American composer Tom Myron, whose Viola Concerto Eclipse premiered to great accolades in 2003, will be present for this first-ever performance. "I found the confidence and bravura of Elisabeth Adkins' playing to be an inspiration," says Myron, "A new violin concerto, my second, suddenly seemed like a great idea." Adkins is also the Associate Concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra.
This Eclipse Chamber Orchestra concert will also feature the group's stellar wind section in Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, an achingly beautiful suite based on dance tunes of a by-gone era.
Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1, Op. 11 deserves more exposure in the concert hall, says Eclipse Music Director Alimena. Modeled on Mozart's style, but showing plenty of romantic-era drama, this symphony reflects the carefree spirit of the young composer who would go on to write such masterpieces as A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Continuing Eclipse's exploration of the music of Florian Gassmann (a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn), we'll hear his A House in the Country overture. Newly published in the modern age, this composer is enjoying renewed interest in both the concert hall and in recordings. This is the North American premiere performance of the overture.
Tickets are $20 for adults; $15 for seniors, $5 for students, and may be purchased at the door on the day of the concert with check or cash only.
Ticket holders are invited to a free discussion with composer Tom Myron led by NPR's Gail Wein prior to the concert at 2:20 pm. A free reception after the concert will allow concertgoers and performers to mingle.
Washington's Classical Station WGMS 104.1 FM is Eclipse Chamber Orchestra's media sponsor.
For more information, contact Eclipse Chamber Orchestra at 703-256-2956 or eclipsecho@aol.com, or visit www.eclipseco.com.
posted by Tom Myron
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