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Jan. 9, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu NCSA NEW MUSIC CONCERT TO FEATURE DEAN JOE TILFORD AS PAINTER Conducted by Ransom Wilson
WINSTON-SALEM – Ransom Wilson will lead ACME, a “new music” student ensemble at the North Carolina School of the Arts, in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, in Watson Chamber Music Hall on the NCSA campus, 1533 South Main St., Winston-Salem. Works on the program include “Music for Pieces of Wood” by Steve Reich, “Yo Shakespeare” by Michael Gordon, “My Twentieth Century” by Martin Bresnick and text by Tom Andrews, and “Confluences for fifteen players and live kinetic painting” by guest composer Huang Ruo. NCSA School of Design and Production Dean Joseph P. Tilford will be featured as the painter in the Ruo work.	Ransom Wilson Joe Tilford
Admission is free. For more information, contact the NCSA Box Office at 336-721-1945. Wilson, an internationally acclaimed flutist and orchestral conductor of growing reputation, was recently named the new director of the NCSA Symphony Orchestra and artist-teacher of conducting in the School of Music at NCSA. He is the founder and conductor of Solisti New York Orchestra, as well as the former artistic director of Oklahoma’s OK MOZART International Festival. He is also an NCSA alumnus. Tilford is an award-winning set and lighting designer whose credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, and Chicago’s Next Theatre. His design work has been featured in many design and gallery exhibits including the American Professional Exhibit at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic. He has been dean of “D&P” at NCSA since 2003. ###
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Jan. 9, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu

NCSA NEW MUSIC CONCERT TO FEATURE
DEAN JOE TILFORD AS PAINTER
Conducted by Ransom Wilson

WINSTON-SALEM – Ransom Wilson will lead ACME, a “new music” student ensemble at the North Carolina School of the Arts, in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, in Watson Chamber Music Hall on the NCSA campus, 1533 South Main St., Winston-Salem.

Works on the program include “Music for Pieces of Wood” by Steve Reich, “Yo Shakespeare” by Michael Gordon, “My Twentieth Century” by Martin Bresnick and text by Tom Andrews, and “Confluences for fifteen players and live kinetic painting” by guest composer Huang Ruo.

NCSA School of Design and Production Dean Joseph P. Tilford will be featured as the painter in the Ruo work.

Ransom Wilson

Joe Tilford

Admission is free. For more information, contact the NCSA Box Office at 336-721-1945.

Wilson, an internationally acclaimed flutist and orchestral conductor of growing reputation, was recently named the new director of the NCSA Symphony Orchestra and artist-teacher of conducting in the School of Music at NCSA. He is the founder and conductor of Solisti New York Orchestra, as well as the former artistic director of Oklahoma’s OK MOZART International Festival. He is also an NCSA alumnus.

Tilford is an award-winning set and lighting designer whose credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, and Chicago’s Next Theatre. His design work has been featured in many design and gallery exhibits including the American Professional Exhibit at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic. He has been dean of “D&P” at NCSA since 2003.

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