Redefining Tradition: The Music of Joel Feigin at http://www.joelfeigin.com/transience_ln.html

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February 2011

Joel Feigin’s Echoes from the Holocaust for oboe, viola and piano was performed by Ensemble I & D on February 11 at the Hard Club Cultural Animation Centre, Mercado Ferreira Borges in Porto, Portugal. This performance was part of the Intercontinental #2 project, which involves the Composition Department of Portugal’s ESMAE School of Music and Performing Arts and the Composition Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Joel Feigin’s Lament for viola ensemble was performed by Helen Callus and accompanying violists on  February 26 and 27 at Karl Geiringer Hall on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. This was part of the New Works for Viola Festival. Lament is 3 interconnected works - Lament for solo viola, Ghosts for 6 violas and Lament with Ghosts for solo viola with complement of 6 violas.

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November 2010

Joel Feigin presented Variations on a Theme of Arnold Schoenberg – An American Composer’s View on November 24 at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, China.

During his visit to the school, Mr. Feigin also offered a master class for
composition students and took part in two informal classes in the practical
application of Schoenberg's "Theory of Harmony" in progression writing. Sichuan
Conservatory is one of the main music conservatories in China, with some 14,000
music students. More about them at http//www.sccm.cn/english/index.asp.

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September, 2010

The Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University awarded Joel Feigin a commission to write a work for piano and chamber concerto for the American-Israeli pianist Yael Weiss. The premiere was held on Thursday, September 30, 2010, 8:00 PM

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Yael Weiss, Piano
Indiana University New Music Ensemble
David Dzubay, Conductor
Auer Hall, Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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April, 2010

Five Ecstatic Poems of Kabir has been awarded 1st prize in the Third Millennium Ensemble Composers' Competition as well as Third Millennium's Cheryl A. Spector Prize for the best piece by a GLBT composer.