Douglas has recently been named the recipient of the Presser Music Award by the Peabody Institute. The award is made possible by the generosity of the Presser Foundation and will be used to fund a concert tour of Douglas' work for piano solo, Colonnades.
Colonnades is a concert-length composition linked with poetry and paintings by the composer. The tour will take Douglas across the East Coast, through the Midwest and into the Southwest as well. Tour venues are slated to include the following locations (please visit the Calender page for more detailed information):
Texas
January 3 - Fort Worth - The Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art
Oklahoma
December 4 - Tulsa - The University of Tulsa
Virginia
May 16 - Alexandria - The Lyceum
February 26 - Winchester - Shenandoah University
Maryland
October 23 - Baltimore - The Peabody Institute
Towson - Towson University
New Jersey
New Brunswick - Mason-Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University
Ohio
March 26 - Wooster - The College of Wooster
New York
NY - TBA
Syracuse - The Society for New Music
Connecticut
November 8 - Danbury, Connecticut
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury
Massachusetts
November 9 - Marblehead - The Church of St. Andrew
The first five movements of Colonnades, along with the accompanying texts,
are available here.
