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NEWS 01.30.2012

On February 4^th 2012 at Symphony Space in New York City the annual Composers Now marathon concert will take place featuring the world premiere of a new work for solo violin, Ribbon by composer Timothy Dunne. The work was written in the memory of the Estonian violinist, Liisa Suuster (1983-2005) and will be performed by Madalyn Parnas. Ribbon is a one movement work exploring the harmonic and thematic trajectories of a rotational, intervallic sequence based on a fixed central pitch. The pitch sequence and its transpositions are the result of a transliteration from the alphabetic letters which, re-arranged, spell out the name of Liisa Suuster.

In August of 2005 the young violinist’s life ended as the result from an aerial disaster over of the Baltic Sea.

Timothy Dunne

Currently a doctoral candidate at the State Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Timothy Dunne studied composition with Sergei Slonimskyand counterpoint with Anatoly Milka. Apart from his compositional activity Dunne has been an active artistic advisor, translator and supporter for new music during his 6 years in Russia working with the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, the cultural foundation Art Modern, the publishing house Kompozitor, the Society of Composers and for the contemporary music festivals Soundways and Fin de Siècle. Returning to the United States in 2009 Timothy Dunne has taught Music Theory, Music History, Solfège, Piano and Composition at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York.

His compositions include works for large orchestra, chamber orchestra, voice, solo piano, solo instruments and various ensembles. He has been awarded the Prize for Composition from the University of Vienna in 2006. As a pianist Timothy Dunne has given the Russian premieres of Luciano Berio’s Sonata per Pianoforte in 2005, György Ligeti’s third book of Études in 2006 as well as works by Boulez, Ferneyhough and others. He has been concerto soloist with orchestras in both America and Russia and has concertized throughout Europe and Brazil. He is co-founder and co-director of The Mostar Fund, a non-for-profit organization supporting cultural rehabilitation projects in Bosnia Herzegovina since 2000.

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