Lexington composer Hayg Boyadjian and Boston Symphony members to be featured Nov. 16

Published: Wednesday October 28, 2009

Hayg Boyadjian. Andrea Joliat

Lexington composer Hayg Boyadjian's works will be featured at a concert on Monday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Rd., on the Battle Green, Lexington Center. A reception will follow.

The program will present three works of Boyadjian: Lumiere Noir, for double bass and flute; Odessas 1-13, birthday pieces for the composer's granddaughter Odessa, for piano; and De Profundis (U.S. premiere), a three-song cycle on German text for soprano and piano.

Two very well known musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be featured: principal double bass Edwin Barker and former principal flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer. Also performing will be John McDonald, pianist director of graduate music studies at Tufts University; soprano Jodi Hitzhusen; and pianist Karen Sauer from the faculty at Wellesley College.

Double bassist Edwin Barker is associate professor at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, where he teaches double bass, orchestral techniques, and chamber music. He has recorded and premiered a number of works featuring the double bass in chamber music and concerto. Mr. Barker has given the premieres of concertos by composers James Yannatos of Harvard University, Theodore Antoniou of Boston University, Gunther Schuller, past President of the New England Conservatory, among others. He premiered two years ago with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood John Harrison's Concerto for Bass Viol and Orchestra.

Doriot Anthony Dwyer was principal flutist, and the first woman principal, of the Boston Symphony for 38 years before retiring in 1990. Like Edwin Barker she has also premiered works written for her such as Halel by Leonard Bernstein, and a concerto by Ellen Taafe Zwilich, among others. Ms. Dwyer has received doctorates and honorary degrees from Harvard University, University of Rochester, the New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, Regis College, Yale University, and Simmons College.

Hayg Boyadjian, a long time resident of Lexington, is a composer whose works are performed internationally. A number of his chamber and orchestral works are recorded on CDs. His Armenian Suite, based on Armenian folk melodies, is due to appear soon on the Opus One CD label, a label that already includes several of his orchestral compositions.

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