Eric Nathan, composer, and friends

This is a bit early, but I'm leaving for France Friday for five weeks and wanted to send this before I left.  I hope  you can run this announcement and picture the Friday before (March 25, 2011).  
Meredith Salisbury
The Hudson Valley Music Club presents a composer portrait concert on Monday,March 28, 2011 of works by Eric Nathan for violin, piano and soprano including “Three by Three,” “Wing Over Wing,” “Sands Flowing,” and“Remembrances” at 54 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, NY at 1 .
Here is a short bio of Mr. Nathan.  You may use anything you want, but he really is an up-and-coming young composer and should be of interest to many in our Rivertowns communities.
Works by Eric Nathan (b. 1983) have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia and at music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Tanglewood, Composers Now Festival at Symphony Space, and the Banff Centre, among others.

Performances of his music include those by the Aspen Concert Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Yale Symphony, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Tanglewood New Fromm Players, Damocles Trio, Society for New Music, and the Mirari Brass Quintet. Nathan’s “Cantus” for trumpet and electronics is commercially available on CD, released on Origin Classical Records.

Nathan’s music has been recognized with awards including the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival and School, Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center, American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings, William Schuman Prize in the BMI Student Composers Awards, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, First Prize in the SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition, Brian Israel Prize from the New York Federation of Music Clubs, Dean’s Prize from Indiana University, and the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize from Yale.  

Nathan is a currently a doctoral student at Cornell University where he studies with Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra and Kevin Ernste.  He has studied at Indiana University (M.M.), Yale College (B.A.), and The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and has received fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival and the Wellesley Composers Conference. His past teachers include Kathryn Alexander, Claude Baker, Jeffery Hass, Sven-David Sandström, Ira Taxin and George Tsontakis.