East, west coasts represented at upcoming Living Composers Concert

Campbell University's Department of Music will host its Living Composers Concert - part of the department's Artist Performance Series - at 7 p.m. on March 19 in Scott Concert Hall.

The free concert will feature the music of five composers from North Carolina, Virginia and California, representing both coasts this year.

The concert will include two pieces by William Toutant of California - "Three Character Pieces" for clarinet, cello and piano; and "Trolls" for clarinet and marimba (a light-hearted depiction of a "tipsy troll," "pensive troll" and capricious troll."

Greensboro composer and bassist Steve Landis will perform "As the Hostas Return" and will be joined later by Campbell University professor William Beach to perform "Secondhand Glitter" for tuba and bass.

Campbell Director of Piano Studies Dr. Hexi Qiao will perform "Phatasmagoria" with music faculty member Betty Wishart and will also premiere Wishart's "Ballade."

Violist Jochen Gress and Benjamin Garner will perform the last movement of "Sonata for Viola and Piano" by Hampton University Professor Harvey Stokes. And John Winsor and cellist Dionne Smith will premiere Winsor's "Three Inventions for clarinet and cello (Quinten Robinson on clarinet and Alvin Taylor on marimba).

"The Living Composers Concert not only presents new music, but it also gives people the opportunity to meet the composers who created it," said Wishart.

For more information, contact Wishart at (910) 489-7635 or [email protected]or contact Chris Hodgins at (910) 893-1495 or [email protected].

Featured photo: Greensboro composer Steve Landis