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    Date: 2/14/00
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Editors: photos (Suber, Evenson) accompany release
SLU'S SUBER RELEASES CD
     HAMMOND -- "Enchantments: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" by Southeastern
Louisiana University composer-in-residence and professor Stephen Suber has been released on
compact disc by MMC Recordings.
     The CD features David Evenson, head of Southeastern's music department, as piano
soloist performing with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz. 
     The CD will be distributed internationally and is available locally at Tower Records
outlets and online at the recording company web site (mmcmusic.com) and from amazon.com.
     An internationally renowned trumpet solist, Schwarz is music and artistic director of the
Seattle Symphony Orchestra and founded the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City. 
     The recording also features works by Ruth Lomon, a faculty member at Radcliffe college,
James Whipple, a professional bassoonist and composer from the Pittsburgh area, and William
Thomas McKinley, former professor of music composition at the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston.
     Suber, a native of Albuquerque, N.M., has been a member of the Southeastern music
department faculty since 1982. Among the growing number of awards for his compositions are
prizes from the Louisville Orchestra International Composition Contest and the National Music
Theaters Association. Suber's "Symphony: Of Wind and Light (1981)" was first recognized at
the 1982 Indiana State University Orchestral Composition Contest, which led to a performance
with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Two years later, the same work received the fourth
prize in the Louisville competition, and was subsequently performed and recorded on the First
Edition label by the LSO under Lawrence Leighton Smith. 
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     Suber describes his concerto as "a musical response to feelings I associate with the land
of my birth, New Mexico, and other important things in my life." He began working on the piece,
commissioned by the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, in 1989 while in residence at the
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Colony in Taos, N.M. It premiered in October 1992 by the
Southeastern Chamber Orchestra with Evenson as soloist. Suber received the National Music
Teachers Association 1993 Composer of the Year, third prize, for "Enchantments."
     Evenson has taught at Southeastern since 1979.  A student of Jorge Bolet at Indiana
University and of Ozan Marsh at the University of Arizona, Evenson has been heard as a soloist
with the Louisiana Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Mississippi
Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Wellesley Symphony in Boston. He also has appeared on
chamber music programs throughout the United States and Latin America, on broadcast
performances in the United States and Europe and on CD recordings on the Crystal and Opus
One labels.
     In 1992, Southeastern honored Evenson with its prestigious President's Award for
Excellence in Artistic Activity.
     "David turned in a breath-taking performance of my work!" Suber said.
     For additional information, call Suber at 504-549-2196.
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