Beata Moon and Alex Shapiro are the guest composers for this concert in the Music Recital Hall, Capistrano Hall, CSU, Sacramento. There will be a brief pre-concert discussion with the guest composers and performers at 7:30; the concert will begin at 8:00 pm.

Program

Guest artists are Teresa McCollough, professor at the University of Santa Clara, performing Alex Shapiro's recently published Piano Sonata; and Beata Moon performing her own new piano works. Other featured performers include violinist Mark Tammes, pianist Kathleen Poe, clarinetist Gayl Lohse, soprano Sheryl Coulter bass Kenneth Woods, and members of Curvd Aire.

Special event: Composers' discussion session. Beata and Alex will both meet with composition students on Friday afternoon at 1:15 pm, in Capistrano Hall at CSUS. Other interested students of music and composition are invited to attend.

Alex
Shapiro

Alex Shapiro was born in New York City in 1962 and was educated at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, where she was a composition student of Ursula Mamlok and John Corigliano. Her award-winning chamber works are heard weekly in concerts across the U.S. and abroad, and she is the recipient of honors and grants including a 2000 Artist Fellowship Award from The California Arts Council.

Ms. Shapiro is Vice president of the Board of The American Composers Forum of Los Angeles, and has also served as an officer of NACUSA, The College Music Society, and The Society of Composers & Lyricists. Her works are published by Activist Music Publishing and can be heard on the Cambria Master Recordings and Innova labels. She resides in Malibu and Santa Barbara, California.

Beata
Moon

Korean-American composer, performer, educator Beata Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana where she began studying piano at age five. She made her orchestral debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at age eight, and concertized throughout the Midwest, giving recitals and appearing with various orchestras in the region. Moon graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School where she was a student of Adele Marcus.

After completing a semester of the Masters Degree Program at Juilliard, she took a break from playing to reflect on what music meant to her personally. It was at this time that she discovered composing and teaching, which eventually resulted in her return to performing. The role of the composer as performer and educator is an important one in Moon's life. She performs her own works in addition to those of both traditional and contemporary composers, and is actively involved in aesthetic education.

Teresa McCollough