Please join us for short presentations and performances at 5PM each day. The Zoom link is available in the Fine Artists at Five forum of the Keep Teaching Sakai site. Today's artist is composer Dana Wilson.
Fine Artists at Five is hosted by the Center for Faculty Excellence.
Dana Wilson is an award-winning composer whose works have been commissioned and performed by such diverse ensembles as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Buffalo Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Washington military bands, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Syracuse Symphony, and Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. He has written solo works for such renowned artists as hornist Gail Williams, clarinetist Larry Combs, trumpeters James Thompson and Rex Richardson, and oboist David Weiss. Wilson has received grants from many foundations, and he has been a fellow at several institutes. His compositions have received important international awards, and have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and East Asia. They can be heard on 12 different recording labels.
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