White Mares of the Moon - Chamber Music Of Dan Welcher

Mark Griffith, percussion; Marc Damoulakis, percussion; Erica Wise, cello; Michael Linville, piano; Joshua Nemith, piano; Bharat Chandra, clarinet; Jason Horowitz, violin; Kimberly Penrod, horn; Shalini Vijayan, violin; Deanne van Rooyen, harp; Valerie Chermiset, fluteDan Welcher has won numerous awards and prizes from institutions such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Reader’s Digest/Lila Wallace Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Meet The Composer, the MacDowell Colony, The Corporation at Yaddo, the American Music Center and ASCAP. From 1990 to 1993, he was composer-in-residence with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. His orchestral music has been performed by more than fifty orchestras, including the Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas Symphonies. His recent large works include two new wind ensemble pieces completed in 2000; an orchestral work commissioned by the Utah Symphony Orchestra entitled Zion, premiered in Salt Lake City in September 1999;