Judith Lang Zaimont

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Queens College, Columbia University. Performances world-wide. Professor of Composition, University of Minnesota School of Music (1992-present), Music Department Chair, Adelphi University (1989-1992); Fellowships: Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, Maryland Arts Council, NEA, Presser. Commissions: Connecticut Opera, Greenville Symphony, Baltimore Dance, Exxon, Gregg Smith, Florilegium, Huntingdon, Vox Nova, Arleen Auger, American Guild of Organists. Profiled: American Groves, others. Recordings on Koch, Arabesque, Leonarda, 4-Tay, Albany.

Stillness (tone poem for large orchestra)

Year: 2000

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Sonata for Piano Solo

Year: 1999

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: SONATA for Piano Solo Publisher:

Remember Me: Symphony No. 2 for Symphonic Strings

Year: 1999

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: REMEMBER ME : Symphony NO 2 for Symphonic Strings - I: Ghosts; II: Elegy; III: Dancin' over my grave. Arabesque SYMPHONIC MUSIC

Hesitation' Rag

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: 'Hesitation' Rag commissioned by Virginia Eskin. This piece is recorded on 'Spring Beauties - the Ragtime Project', Koch International Classics CD 3-7440- 2H1 (Spring 1998)

Elegy for Symphonic Strings

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: First Performance: New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Raffael Adler, cond. - March 1998. Other performances: Women's Philhamornic ( San Francisco), Kremlin Chamber Orchestra (Moscow, Russia), Czech Radio Orchestra, East Texas Symphony. Arabesque - SYMPHONIC MUSIC. Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by

Folk-Song Fantasy

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any low voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, clarinet

Publisher: Jeanne, Inc.

Parallel Play

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: alto, alto saxophone, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, baritone saxophone, baritone voice, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice

Description: PARALLEL PLAY for Saxophone Quartet - I: Fanfare; II: Folksong; III: Folderol. Commissioned by University of Wisconsin - River Falls; " 1999 Commissioned Composer". First Performance: Resident sax quartet - Univ. of WI; Other performances: Fiuggi Festival 1999 ( Italy); Adolphe Sax Quartet - NY. Sounds Alive!

Tanya - Three Poems for Cello

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Commissioned by Tanya Remenikova

3: 4, 5 ..."

Year: 1997

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, viola, violin

Publisher: Jeanne, Inc.

Description: " ... 3: 4, 5 ..." - I: Blend; II: Brio: The Mad Dance; III: Elegy. Commissioned by Jeann‚, Inc. for the International Double Reed Society. First performance: International Double Reed Society annual conference, Chicago - June 1997. JEANNE CD titled BLEND

MEDITATIONS at the Time of the New Year

Year: 1997

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: tubular bells MEDITATIONS at the Time of the New Year(1997) - I: Dawn; II: Hope. For SSATB choir, SA choral soli, glockenspiel and tubular bells. Text: written and compiled by the composer, from portions of "Gates of Awe" the Reform prayer book for Jewish High Holy Days. Commissioned by Skidmore College (for appointment as Filene Artist in Residence). First performance: Skidmore College Vocal Ensemble, David Janower, director - April 1997. Other performances: Florilegium Chamber Choir, Concert Choir of Univ. of Wisconsin - River Falls; Choral Society of Southern California. Recording on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor.

Keyboard Cousins

Year: 1996

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Keyboard Cousins (1979, 1996); Suite for Young Pianists. "The Harp"; "The Guitar"; "The Cymbalom"; "The Celeste"; "The Organ"; "The Harpsichord".

Voices

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 31'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: brass nonet Text: Compiled and written by the composer, using poetry from around the world. Commissioned by Fairfield University (Connecticut). First Performance: Fairfield University.

Miracle Of Light

Year: 1995

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Miracle Of Light - A Festival Place. Commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers. First performance: December 1995, Ted Mann Hall (MN).

Friends

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 41'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by American Choral Directors Association. Text D. Kosoloff.

Suite Impressions

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: Suite Impressions: "Folk Song"; "Jazz Waltz"; "Pop Song". Recording on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997)

Symphony No. 1

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bass clarinet, contrabass, piccolo

Description: timp, 3 perc, harp, pn/cel, strs. Commissioned by Central Wisconsin Symphony for 45th Anniv. First Prize - 1994 Int'l McCollin Competition. performed CWSO, Phildelphia Orch, others. Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" ARABESQUE CD Z 6742 (August 2000) Czech Radio Symphony - Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

Meme

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, violin

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by Sigma Alpha Iota.

Doubles

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano

Description: Commissioned by Artists International through Minnesota Composers' Forum. Selected for The Century List - Chamber Music America. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Spirit Of The Lord

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by American Guild of Organists for 1992 Biennial Convention.

Prelude

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, oboe

Description: Commissioned by Huntingdon Trio.

I Seek the Lord

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: First Performance: Agnes Scott College, April 1995. MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION RECORDINGS

Vessels: Rhapsody For Mezzo And Piano

Year: 1991

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Text by Rosaly Roffman. Commissioned by Indiana U. of PA.

Will's Words

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): Will'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Scena to Shakespeare texts; Commissioned by David Arnold.

Pentatone

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Monarchs

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bass clarinet, piccolo

Description: timp, 2 perc, pn/cel, strs Commissioned by Emrys Foundation for Greenville Symphony, SC, 1987. "Persuasive eloquence...wide range of orchestral colors...masterful."- Greenville News (SC). Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" ARABESQUE CD Z 6742 (August 2000) Czech Radio Symphony - Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

When Angels Speak

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet

Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe

Description: Commissioned by Artists International for Vox Nova Quintet. Recorded by NY Wind Quartet on Centaur Records. "Lyric...heavenly gossip." - NY Times. "When Angels Speak - Fantasy for Wind Quintet" ALBANY RECORDS CD Troy 246 (Summer 1998) Manhattan Wind Quintet

Hidden Heritage: A Dance Symphony

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 27'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet

Instruments: alto, alto flute, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone, tenor voice

Description: elec. pn, amp, vc, perc (5 players) Commissioned by Gordon Trust Fund, Baltimore Dance Theater. "Excellent work...remarkable skill." - Baltimore Sun. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Dramatic Fanfare

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: brass ensemble, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players

Instruments: any brass, horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba

Description: Commissioned by Queens College, City University of NY.

Tarantelle: Overture

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: timp, 2 perc, strs performed Harrisburg & Baltimore Symphonies; Commissioned by J. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMIR

Chroma: Northern Lights

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe, percussion

Description: 1st prize Westchester Chamber Orch, 1986; Commissioned by Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. "Broad orchestra palette...sensitive symphonic colorist."- Newsday. Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" ARABESQUE CD Z 6742 (August 2000) Czech Radio Symphony - Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 20'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Description: Libretto by Doris Kosloff; comm Connecticut Opera. "Superb...significant contribution...it delighted and enchanted..." - Farmington Valley Herald.

Parable: A Tale Of Abram And Isaac

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: quintet, harpsichord Grants for Commissioned by IBM & NYSCA; commissioned/recorded Leonarda & Florilegium Chamber Choir. "Powerfully theatrical...vivid images." - NATS Journal; "Steamrolling rush of emotion." - NY Times. HILDEGARD Recording on LEONARDA CD: LE 328

Dance/Inner Dance

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, oboe

Description: Commissioned by Huntingdon Trio. Prize winner Ireland ILWC Competition, 1989, Friends & Enemies of New Music - First Prize 1990. "High-voltage...glittering scherzo...completely satisfying." - Washington Post. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Sky Curtains

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 22'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, viola

Description: Premiered by North/South Consonance in 1984. "Kaleidoscopic color...highly effective wind writing." - Atlanta Constitution. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Nattens Monolog-Night Soliloquy

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Commissioned by A. Auger & D. Baldwin. Text by Dag Hammerskjold. "Elegant...intensely interesting...quite beautiful." - NY Times.

New-Fashioned Songs

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice

Black-Velvet Waltz

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Sacramento, California 1989

In The Theatre Of Night

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Commissioned by 1st International Art Song Fest 84; Presser Award; 1989 Rockefeller/Carnegie AMC; dream songs on poems by Karl Shapiro. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMIR

Lamentation

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by Gregg Smith, I. Cantori, D. Warland, Phil. S. & NEA. "Atmospheric...darkly eloquent." - Atlanta Constitution.

From The Great Land

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 22'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, mezzo soprano, piano

Description: 3 perf; Recoring on LEONARDA CD: LE 329 (February 1992) American Chamber Ensemble; Commissioned by North Star Consort, grant from Exxon. "Dramatic, theatrical, and very effective." - Baltimore Sun.

Stone

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Stone (1981) for piano keyboard and piano strings. First Performance: Clinton Adams, Peabody Conservatory, November 1984; Other Performances: New York University; Columbia, S. C.; Polaris Ensemble (Baltimore, MD)

Serenade: To Music

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Rec Leonarda by Florilegium; Commissioned by Western Wind. "Shimmering filigree setting." - NATS Journal. Recording on LEONARDA CD: LE 328

Three Choruses From The Sacred Service

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: Galaxy/

Tragickal Ballad Of Sir Patrick Spens

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

De Infinitate Caeleste (Of The Celestial Infinite)

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Deceit

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Cami Hall, NY 1984

Magic World (Ritual Music For Three)

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 23'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, percussion, piano

Description: Leonarda by David Arnold. Recording on "The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont" LEONARDA CD LE 343 (June 1999)

Nocturne: La Fin de SiŠcle

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: Nocturne: La Fin de SiŠcle. Chosen for repertoire list for 1988 General Motors/Seventeen Magazine Competition. First Performance: New York City, March 1979; Other Performances: Around the World. Recording on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997) "Nocturne, a 'valentine' to composer-pianists of the Gilded Age, is full-bodied and voluptuous" - Stereo Review. "A beautiful and original evocation of the romantic nocturne." - The Piano Quarterly. "Evokes the harmonic language of an earlier time effectively brought up to date through the use of complex rhythms and occasionally biting dissonances." - St.Louis Globe-Democrat. "A distinguished and highly effective work." - Notes. "This contemporary character piece will be effective for recital and competition performances." - Clavier. Galaxy/

Calendar Set

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 26'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: A Calendar Set (1972-78) 12 virtuosic preludes for solo piano First Performance: New York City, March 1979 Other Performances: Around the world; also broadcast on Voice of America; recording on ZONES - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6686 (June 1997) "Exquisitely crafted, vividly characterized and wholly appealing" -- The New York Times "Twelve preludes written for (and during) the twelve months, emerges as a colorful and even witty set of miniatures." -- The Detroit News "A nicely varied collection of diverse musical moods and images, each suggested by a particular month of the year. The piano writing is masterfully fluent and virtuosic, [with] satisfying, expressive variety...moods and emotions range from delicate reflection through joyful exuberance. With some exposure a collection like this could have a wide range of applicability for piano recitals of many degrees of sophistication, and could win easy acceptance." -- Fanfare Leonarda Productions, Inc.

Psalm 23

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;15'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, cello, flute, piano, violin

Description: Premiered Aviva Players, 1980.

Solitary Pipes

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Yorktown Music Press

Woman Of Valor

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, viola, violin

Description: Commissioned by Cantica Hebraica. Rec American Society for Jewish Music. MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION RECORDINGS

Calendar Collection

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: Calendar Collection (1976) 12 preludes for the developing pianist. Chosen for 1990 and 1993 repertoire lists for the National Federation of Music Clubs. First Performance: March 1977 Other Performances: Around the World; Recording on Character Sketches Solo Piano Works by 7 American Women LEONARDA CD LE 334 (August 1994) "Uncommonly attractive music." -- Fanfare "Twelve programmatic sketches, one for each month of the year: They are delightful." -- Pan Pipes (SAI) "Superb. . . . Each piece is totally different, and Zaimont has a personal musical language that is instantly accessible, but intriguing in its complexity." -- Women of Note Quarterly

Sacred Service For The Sabbath Evening

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, piano

Description: Commissioned by Great Neck Choral Society. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMER. Excerpts recorded on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Moses Supposes

Year: 1975

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any voice

Description: Two Songs For Soprano And Harp (1978) 10'10", hp, sop

Greyed Sonnets: Five Serious Songs

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: 1st song published in "American Artsong Anthology", Galaxy/

Two Piano Rags: "Reflective Rag", "Judy's Rag"

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 34;Judy'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: First Performance: February 1975; Other Performances: Around the World. "Noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet." - TIME Magazine. "Judy's Rag sustains the quality of that remarkable second side, with its dreamily Brahmsy Neapolitans. I'd almost put it at the top of its special little genre...This is a disc I'll treasure." - Richard Taruskin in OPUS Magazine. Also recorded on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997). Judy's Rag recorded on NORTHEASTERN RECORDS: NR 900 3-CD

Sunny Airs And Sober

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Rec Golden Crest by Gregg Smith Singers; Commissioned by Waldorf Singers. WALTON MUSIC. Recording on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Songs Of Innocence

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;45'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, harp, soprano, tenor voice

Description: Winner 1978 Los Alamos Competition Juror's Award. Commissioned by Gregg Smith. Rec Goldencrest. FLEISHER LIBRARY COLLECTION. Recording on "The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont" LEONARDA CD LE 343 (June 1999)

Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Comm: Michael Trimble. "Haunting settings."-Stereo Review. "Vocal line of great beauty and lyricism." - American Music. Recording on "The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont" LEONARDA CD LE 343 (June 1999)

Snazzy Sonata

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: Snazzy Sonata for piano four-hands: "Moderate Two-Step"; "Lazy Beguine"; "Be-Bop Scherzo"; "Valse Brilliante". Winner of Delius Competition Prize. First Performance: Radio Station WQXR (New York), June 1972. Other Performance: Jacksonville State University; CAMI Hall, New York City; Queens College; California Music Teachers Association; San Francisco Conservatory. Recording on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997)

Concerto For Piano And Orchestra

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 32'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: concertos

Description: tpt, 3 tbn, tu, timp, perc, pn, strs FLEISHER LIBRARY COLLECTION

Chase Canata

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Text by comp; Commissioned by Great Neck Choral Society. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMIR. Recording on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Valse Romantique

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Valse Romantique for solo flute. First Performance: Great Neck Library, NY - May 1975; Other Performances: CUNY Graduate Center; Univ. of Wisconsin - Steven's Point; Eau Claire; Adelphi University; Agnes Scott College

Capriccio

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Capriccio for solo flute. Winner Pittsburgh Flute Club Competition Prize. First Performance: American Center - Paris, France; Other Performances: CUNY Graduate Center; Univ. of Wisconsin - Steven's Point; Eau Claire; Adelphi University; Agnes Scott College.

Ages Of Love

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Premiered 1974, Queens College.

Grand Tarantella

Year: 1970

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, viola

Description: Delius Competition Prize, 1971.

Scherzo

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Columbia University, May 1969

Three Ayres

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by Great Neck Choral Society; recorded Gregg Smith Singers. "Lovely" - American Music Teacher; "Delightfully different settings" - Choral Journal. BROUDE BROS

Toccata

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Columbia University, May 1969

Man's Image And His Cry

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): Man'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: percussion, satb chorus

Description: strs 1st Prize Gottschalk Centenary Competition 1970.

Four Songs For Mezzo-Soprano And Piano

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Winner BMI Prize, 1966.

Imprompta Digitale

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Recording on Harmonia Mundi CD performed by Olga Kern, Gold Medal winner, 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Piano Trio

Duration (in minutes): 24'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Description: pn, vn, vc - Commissioned by Skaneateles Festival. "Exceptionally well written...full of variety and engaging ideas...Zaimont has enriched the literature." - Syracuse Post-Standard.

Russian Summer

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Description: Recording on ZONES - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6686 (June 1997)

Prestidigitations

Contemporary Concert Rags by
Judith Lang Zaimont
Featuring
American Ragtime Ensemble
David Reffkin, Director
Immanuel Davis, flute; Doris L. Kosloff, piano; Elizabeth Ann Owens, flute; Joanne Polk, piano; Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano; and Judith Lang Zaimont, piano

Composers: Judith Lang Zaimont.

Label: MSR Classics

Product ID: MS1238

Serenade

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont

Description: Composer Judith Zaimont , performs her own piano solo composition. Colorfield artworks are drawn from paintings by Gary Zaimont.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkhcZzv3DE

"Folderol" from "Parallel Play" for Sax Quartet

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont

Description: Live 2006 performance by the Presidio Saxophone Quartet.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze28ut2BGso

Nocturne- La Fin de Siècle

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont

Description: Performance by pianist Elizabeth Moak.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGVrIzdQu8

BIOGRAPHY
Queens College, Columbia University. Performances world-wide. Professor of Composition, University of Minnesota School of Music (1992-present), Music Department Chair, Adelphi University (1989-1992); Fellowships: Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, Maryland Arts Council, NEA, Presser. Commissions: Connecticut Opera, Greenville Symphony, Baltimore Dance, Exxon, Gregg Smith, Florilegium, Huntingdon, Vox Nova, Arleen Auger, American Guild of Organists. Profiled: American Groves, others. Recordings on Koch, Arabesque, Leonarda, 4-Tay, Albany.
COMPOSITIONS

Stillness (tone poem for large orchestra)

Year: 2000

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Sonata for Piano Solo

Year: 1999

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: SONATA for Piano Solo Publisher:

Remember Me: Symphony No. 2 for Symphonic Strings

Year: 1999

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: REMEMBER ME : Symphony NO 2 for Symphonic Strings - I: Ghosts; II: Elegy; III: Dancin' over my grave. Arabesque SYMPHONIC MUSIC

Hesitation' Rag

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: 'Hesitation' Rag commissioned by Virginia Eskin. This piece is recorded on 'Spring Beauties - the Ragtime Project', Koch International Classics CD 3-7440- 2H1 (Spring 1998)

Elegy for Symphonic Strings

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: First Performance: New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Raffael Adler, cond. - March 1998. Other performances: Women's Philhamornic ( San Francisco), Kremlin Chamber Orchestra (Moscow, Russia), Czech Radio Orchestra, East Texas Symphony. Arabesque - SYMPHONIC MUSIC. Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by

Folk-Song Fantasy

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: alto, any female voice, any low voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, clarinet

Publisher: Jeanne, Inc.

Parallel Play

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: alto, alto saxophone, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, baritone saxophone, baritone voice, soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice

Description: PARALLEL PLAY for Saxophone Quartet - I: Fanfare; II: Folksong; III: Folderol. Commissioned by University of Wisconsin - River Falls; " 1999 Commissioned Composer". First Performance: Resident sax quartet - Univ. of WI; Other performances: Fiuggi Festival 1999 ( Italy); Adolphe Sax Quartet - NY. Sounds Alive!

Tanya - Three Poems for Cello

Year: 1998

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Commissioned by Tanya Remenikova

3: 4, 5 ..."

Year: 1997

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, viola, violin

Publisher: Jeanne, Inc.

Description: " ... 3: 4, 5 ..." - I: Blend; II: Brio: The Mad Dance; III: Elegy. Commissioned by Jeann‚, Inc. for the International Double Reed Society. First performance: International Double Reed Society annual conference, Chicago - June 1997. JEANNE CD titled BLEND

MEDITATIONS at the Time of the New Year

Year: 1997

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: tubular bells MEDITATIONS at the Time of the New Year(1997) - I: Dawn; II: Hope. For SSATB choir, SA choral soli, glockenspiel and tubular bells. Text: written and compiled by the composer, from portions of "Gates of Awe" the Reform prayer book for Jewish High Holy Days. Commissioned by Skidmore College (for appointment as Filene Artist in Residence). First performance: Skidmore College Vocal Ensemble, David Janower, director - April 1997. Other performances: Florilegium Chamber Choir, Concert Choir of Univ. of Wisconsin - River Falls; Choral Society of Southern California. Recording on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor.

Keyboard Cousins

Year: 1996

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Keyboard Cousins (1979, 1996); Suite for Young Pianists. "The Harp"; "The Guitar"; "The Cymbalom"; "The Celeste"; "The Organ"; "The Harpsichord".

Voices

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 31'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: brass nonet Text: Compiled and written by the composer, using poetry from around the world. Commissioned by Fairfield University (Connecticut). First Performance: Fairfield University.

Miracle Of Light

Year: 1995

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Miracle Of Light - A Festival Place. Commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers. First performance: December 1995, Ted Mann Hall (MN).

Friends

Year: 1995

Duration (in minutes): 41'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by American Choral Directors Association. Text D. Kosoloff.

Suite Impressions

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: Suite Impressions: "Folk Song"; "Jazz Waltz"; "Pop Song". Recording on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997)

Symphony No. 1

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bass clarinet, contrabass, piccolo

Description: timp, 3 perc, harp, pn/cel, strs. Commissioned by Central Wisconsin Symphony for 45th Anniv. First Prize - 1994 Int'l McCollin Competition. performed CWSO, Phildelphia Orch, others. Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" ARABESQUE CD Z 6742 (August 2000) Czech Radio Symphony - Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

Meme

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, violin

Publisher: C.F. Peters

Description: Commissioned by Sigma Alpha Iota.

Doubles

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano

Description: Commissioned by Artists International through Minnesota Composers' Forum. Selected for The Century List - Chamber Music America. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Spirit Of The Lord

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by American Guild of Organists for 1992 Biennial Convention.

Prelude

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, oboe

Description: Commissioned by Huntingdon Trio.

I Seek the Lord

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: First Performance: Agnes Scott College, April 1995. MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION RECORDINGS

Vessels: Rhapsody For Mezzo And Piano

Year: 1991

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Text by Rosaly Roffman. Commissioned by Indiana U. of PA.

Will's Words

Year: 1990

Duration (in minutes): Will'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Scena to Shakespeare texts; Commissioned by David Arnold.

Pentatone

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Monarchs

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bass clarinet, piccolo

Description: timp, 2 perc, pn/cel, strs Commissioned by Emrys Foundation for Greenville Symphony, SC, 1987. "Persuasive eloquence...wide range of orchestral colors...masterful."- Greenville News (SC). Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" ARABESQUE CD Z 6742 (August 2000) Czech Radio Symphony - Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

When Angels Speak

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet

Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe

Description: Commissioned by Artists International for Vox Nova Quintet. Recorded by NY Wind Quartet on Centaur Records. "Lyric...heavenly gossip." - NY Times. "When Angels Speak - Fantasy for Wind Quintet" ALBANY RECORDS CD Troy 246 (Summer 1998) Manhattan Wind Quintet

Hidden Heritage: A Dance Symphony

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 27'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quintet

Instruments: alto, alto flute, any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any saxophone, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone, tenor voice

Description: elec. pn, amp, vc, perc (5 players) Commissioned by Gordon Trust Fund, Baltimore Dance Theater. "Excellent work...remarkable skill." - Baltimore Sun. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Dramatic Fanfare

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: brass ensemble, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players

Instruments: any brass, horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba

Description: Commissioned by Queens College, City University of NY.

Tarantelle: Overture

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: timp, 2 perc, strs performed Harrisburg & Baltimore Symphonies; Commissioned by J. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMIR

Chroma: Northern Lights

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe, percussion

Description: 1st prize Westchester Chamber Orch, 1986; Commissioned by Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. "Broad orchestra palette...sensitive symphonic colorist."- Newsday. Recording on "reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" ARABESQUE CD Z 6742 (August 2000) Czech Radio Symphony - Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 20'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Description: Libretto by Doris Kosloff; comm Connecticut Opera. "Superb...significant contribution...it delighted and enchanted..." - Farmington Valley Herald.

Parable: A Tale Of Abram And Isaac

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: quintet, harpsichord Grants for Commissioned by IBM & NYSCA; commissioned/recorded Leonarda & Florilegium Chamber Choir. "Powerfully theatrical...vivid images." - NATS Journal; "Steamrolling rush of emotion." - NY Times. HILDEGARD Recording on LEONARDA CD: LE 328

Dance/Inner Dance

Year: 1985

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, oboe

Description: Commissioned by Huntingdon Trio. Prize winner Ireland ILWC Competition, 1989, Friends & Enemies of New Music - First Prize 1990. "High-voltage...glittering scherzo...completely satisfying." - Washington Post. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Sky Curtains

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 22'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, contrabass, flute, viola

Description: Premiered by North/South Consonance in 1984. "Kaleidoscopic color...highly effective wind writing." - Atlanta Constitution. Recording on Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6667 (June 1996)

Nattens Monolog-Night Soliloquy

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Commissioned by A. Auger & D. Baldwin. Text by Dag Hammerskjold. "Elegant...intensely interesting...quite beautiful." - NY Times.

New-Fashioned Songs

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice

Black-Velvet Waltz

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Sacramento, California 1989

In The Theatre Of Night

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Commissioned by 1st International Art Song Fest 84; Presser Award; 1989 Rockefeller/Carnegie AMC; dream songs on poems by Karl Shapiro. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMIR

Lamentation

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by Gregg Smith, I. Cantori, D. Warland, Phil. S. & NEA. "Atmospheric...darkly eloquent." - Atlanta Constitution.

From The Great Land

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 22'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, mezzo soprano, piano

Description: 3 perf; Recoring on LEONARDA CD: LE 329 (February 1992) American Chamber Ensemble; Commissioned by North Star Consort, grant from Exxon. "Dramatic, theatrical, and very effective." - Baltimore Sun.

Stone

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Stone (1981) for piano keyboard and piano strings. First Performance: Clinton Adams, Peabody Conservatory, November 1984; Other Performances: New York University; Columbia, S. C.; Polaris Ensemble (Baltimore, MD)

Serenade: To Music

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Rec Leonarda by Florilegium; Commissioned by Western Wind. "Shimmering filigree setting." - NATS Journal. Recording on LEONARDA CD: LE 328

Three Choruses From The Sacred Service

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: Galaxy/

Tragickal Ballad Of Sir Patrick Spens

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

De Infinitate Caeleste (Of The Celestial Infinite)

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Deceit

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Cami Hall, NY 1984

Magic World (Ritual Music For Three)

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 23'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, percussion, piano

Description: Leonarda by David Arnold. Recording on "The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont" LEONARDA CD LE 343 (June 1999)

Nocturne: La Fin de SiŠcle

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: Nocturne: La Fin de SiŠcle. Chosen for repertoire list for 1988 General Motors/Seventeen Magazine Competition. First Performance: New York City, March 1979; Other Performances: Around the World. Recording on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997) "Nocturne, a 'valentine' to composer-pianists of the Gilded Age, is full-bodied and voluptuous" - Stereo Review. "A beautiful and original evocation of the romantic nocturne." - The Piano Quarterly. "Evokes the harmonic language of an earlier time effectively brought up to date through the use of complex rhythms and occasionally biting dissonances." - St.Louis Globe-Democrat. "A distinguished and highly effective work." - Notes. "This contemporary character piece will be effective for recital and competition performances." - Clavier. Galaxy/

Calendar Set

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 26'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: A Calendar Set (1972-78) 12 virtuosic preludes for solo piano First Performance: New York City, March 1979 Other Performances: Around the world; also broadcast on Voice of America; recording on ZONES - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6686 (June 1997) "Exquisitely crafted, vividly characterized and wholly appealing" -- The New York Times "Twelve preludes written for (and during) the twelve months, emerges as a colorful and even witty set of miniatures." -- The Detroit News "A nicely varied collection of diverse musical moods and images, each suggested by a particular month of the year. The piano writing is masterfully fluent and virtuosic, [with] satisfying, expressive variety...moods and emotions range from delicate reflection through joyful exuberance. With some exposure a collection like this could have a wide range of applicability for piano recitals of many degrees of sophistication, and could win easy acceptance." -- Fanfare Leonarda Productions, Inc.

Psalm 23

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;15'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, cello, flute, piano, violin

Description: Premiered Aviva Players, 1980.

Solitary Pipes

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Yorktown Music Press

Woman Of Valor

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, viola, violin

Description: Commissioned by Cantica Hebraica. Rec American Society for Jewish Music. MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION RECORDINGS

Calendar Collection

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: Calendar Collection (1976) 12 preludes for the developing pianist. Chosen for 1990 and 1993 repertoire lists for the National Federation of Music Clubs. First Performance: March 1977 Other Performances: Around the World; Recording on Character Sketches Solo Piano Works by 7 American Women LEONARDA CD LE 334 (August 1994) "Uncommonly attractive music." -- Fanfare "Twelve programmatic sketches, one for each month of the year: They are delightful." -- Pan Pipes (SAI) "Superb. . . . Each piece is totally different, and Zaimont has a personal musical language that is instantly accessible, but intriguing in its complexity." -- Women of Note Quarterly

Sacred Service For The Sabbath Evening

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, baritone voice, piano

Description: Commissioned by Great Neck Choral Society. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMER. Excerpts recorded on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Moses Supposes

Year: 1975

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any voice

Description: Two Songs For Soprano And Harp (1978) 10'10", hp, sop

Greyed Sonnets: Five Serious Songs

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: 1st song published in "American Artsong Anthology", Galaxy/

Two Piano Rags: "Reflective Rag", "Judy's Rag"

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 34;Judy'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: First Performance: February 1975; Other Performances: Around the World. "Noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet." - TIME Magazine. "Judy's Rag sustains the quality of that remarkable second side, with its dreamily Brahmsy Neapolitans. I'd almost put it at the top of its special little genre...This is a disc I'll treasure." - Richard Taruskin in OPUS Magazine. Also recorded on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997). Judy's Rag recorded on NORTHEASTERN RECORDS: NR 900 3-CD

Sunny Airs And Sober

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Rec Golden Crest by Gregg Smith Singers; Commissioned by Waldorf Singers. WALTON MUSIC. Recording on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Songs Of Innocence

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;45'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, harp, soprano, tenor voice

Description: Winner 1978 Los Alamos Competition Juror's Award. Commissioned by Gregg Smith. Rec Goldencrest. FLEISHER LIBRARY COLLECTION. Recording on "The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont" LEONARDA CD LE 343 (June 1999)

Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Comm: Michael Trimble. "Haunting settings."-Stereo Review. "Vocal line of great beauty and lyricism." - American Music. Recording on "The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont" LEONARDA CD LE 343 (June 1999)

Snazzy Sonata

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Vivace Press

Description: Snazzy Sonata for piano four-hands: "Moderate Two-Step"; "Lazy Beguine"; "Be-Bop Scherzo"; "Valse Brilliante". Winner of Delius Competition Prize. First Performance: Radio Station WQXR (New York), June 1972. Other Performance: Jacksonville State University; CAMI Hall, New York City; Queens College; California Music Teachers Association; San Francisco Conservatory. Recording on SUMMER MELODIES - A Piano Album 4-TAY CD (June 1997)

Concerto For Piano And Orchestra

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 32'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: concertos

Description: tpt, 3 tbn, tu, timp, perc, pn, strs FLEISHER LIBRARY COLLECTION

Chase Canata

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Text by comp; Commissioned by Great Neck Choral Society. GALAXY/E.C.SCHIRMIR. Recording on "Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont" 4-Tay CD (February 2000) Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Valse Romantique

Year: 1972

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;40'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Valse Romantique for solo flute. First Performance: Great Neck Library, NY - May 1975; Other Performances: CUNY Graduate Center; Univ. of Wisconsin - Steven's Point; Eau Claire; Adelphi University; Agnes Scott College

Capriccio

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Publisher: Sounds Alive!

Description: Capriccio for solo flute. Winner Pittsburgh Flute Club Competition Prize. First Performance: American Center - Paris, France; Other Performances: CUNY Graduate Center; Univ. of Wisconsin - Steven's Point; Eau Claire; Adelphi University; Agnes Scott College.

Ages Of Love

Year: 1971

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Premiered 1974, Queens College.

Grand Tarantella

Year: 1970

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, viola

Description: Delius Competition Prize, 1971.

Scherzo

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Columbia University, May 1969

Three Ayres

Year: 1969

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: Commissioned by Great Neck Choral Society; recorded Gregg Smith Singers. "Lovely" - American Music Teacher; "Delightfully different settings" - Choral Journal. BROUDE BROS

Toccata

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: First Performance: Columbia University, May 1969

Man's Image And His Cry

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): Man'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: percussion, satb chorus

Description: strs 1st Prize Gottschalk Centenary Competition 1970.

Four Songs For Mezzo-Soprano And Piano

Year: 1965

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Winner BMI Prize, 1966.

Imprompta Digitale

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Recording on Harmonia Mundi CD performed by Olga Kern, Gold Medal winner, 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Piano Trio

Duration (in minutes): 24'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Description: pn, vn, vc - Commissioned by Skaneateles Festival. "Exceptionally well written...full of variety and engaging ideas...Zaimont has enriched the literature." - Syracuse Post-Standard.

Russian Summer

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Description: Recording on ZONES - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont ARABESQUE CD Z6686 (June 1997)

CDs

Prestidigitations

Contemporary Concert Rags by
Judith Lang Zaimont
Featuring
American Ragtime Ensemble
David Reffkin, Director
Immanuel Davis, flute; Doris L. Kosloff, piano; Elizabeth Ann Owens, flute; Joanne Polk, piano; Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano; and Judith Lang Zaimont, piano

Composers: Judith Lang Zaimont.

Label: MSR Classics

Product ID: MS1238

VIDEOS

Serenade

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont

Description: Composer Judith Zaimont , performs her own piano solo composition. Colorfield artworks are drawn from paintings by Gary Zaimont.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkhcZzv3DE

"Folderol" from "Parallel Play" for Sax Quartet

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont

Description: Live 2006 performance by the Presidio Saxophone Quartet.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze28ut2BGso

Nocturne- La Fin de Siècle

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont

Description: Performance by pianist Elizabeth Moak.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGVrIzdQu8

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