NEWS


A recording of Winter Concerto, a concerto for trumpet, piano, and strings has been released on the RMA label in London supported by the European Union Culture Fund and others.

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Plenty of snow outside, but fireworks inside Glinka Hall at the world premiere of Waschka's Piano Concerto.

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Horizons, a film project with director Zlatko Cosic continues to be screened around the world and continues to bring home prizes.

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The London Schubert Players chamber orchestra gave a warm summer welcome to Waschka's Winter Concerto.

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The Radio Television Symphony Orchestra of Serbia presented the Premiere of Waschka's Belgrade Overture as part of the 17th International Review of Composers.  

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WASCHKA WORK FEATURED ON WNYC RADIO PROGRAM

Looking, from Waschka's large-scale computer music work Help Me Remember  was a featured selection on the WNYC (New York) radio program "New Sounds". Billboard Magazine called "New Sounds", hosted by John Schaefer, "The #1 radio show for the Global Village."

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NEW PIANO WORK AT NC STATE AND MIT

Dr. Elaine Chew of the University of Southern California has premiered Rodney Waschka's new piano piece, A Simple Gift for Elaine, at North Carolina State University and she has subsequently performed the work at MIT.

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A review of the concert appears in September/October, 2008 issue of Technology Review magazine.


NEW ALL-WASCHKA COMPACT DISC RELEASED

Music For Strings a CD of Waschka's music performed by the Nevsky String Quartet, has just been released on Capstone Records. The disc contains recordings of two string quartets and solo works for violin, viola, and cello.

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A review of the CD appears in CVNC.


SUMMER CONCERTO RECORDING RELEASED ON COMPACT DISC 

Waschka's composition, Summer Concerto for alto saxophone and Symphony Band, recorded by Phillip Barham and the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band directed by Joseph Hermann, has a commercial release on Arizona University Recordings.

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BOOK PUBLISHED WITH WASCHKA RECORDING AND CHAPTER

Waschka's composition Singing in Traffic has been published as part of the book Evolutionary Computer Music. Waschka wrote a chapter for the book describing his use of genetic algorithms in the composition of some of his music.

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A PREMIERE IN GERMANY

Gregory Wiest premiered Rodney Waschka's song cycle Trains, for voice and piano, in Munich, Germany on March 25, 2007.

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