Heukeshoven composition featured at New Music Festival

Music Department faculty member A. Eric Heukeshoven’s composition, “Music and Other Sounds for Horn Soloist,” was selected to be performed at the three-day La Crosse New Music Festival, held Nov. 11, in La Crosse, Wis.

Saint Mary’s freshman Regina Barbosa performed the piece, which Heukeshoven describes as, “a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ essay for, and about, horn players.” The work was composed in 1981 and has been performed numerous times over the past three decades.

Heukeshoven is currently writing a new piece commissioned for the Saint Mary’s Chamber Singers’ 2011 tour of Italy.

More information on Heukeshoven’s compositions can be found on the American Composers Forum website at www.composersforum.org/member_profile.cfm?oid=2509.