Choral music by American composer Dan Locklair will be heard in four performances by two different groups at concerts and church services in the next few days:

Saturday, December 16 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 17 at 3:00 PM - the Providence Singers, Andrew Clark, Artistic Director. The December 16 concert will be given at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, 30 Fenner Street in Providence, Rhode Island and the December 17 concert at St. Mary's Church, 330 Wood Street in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Concert selections will include Mr. Locklair's en natus est Emmanuel (for SSAATTBB and SA, a cappella), as part of these Joyful Gifts concerts along with selections from Handel's Messiah, Poulenc's Gloria and works by Morton Lauridson, John Rutter, Marcel Dupre, Healy Willan and many others. The Rhode Island Children's Chorus, Christine Noel, Conductor, and organist Andrew Galuska will also perform at these concerts.

Tickets for these concerts are $20 in advance, with discounts for seniors and students. For tickets or more information, please contact the Providence Singers at 401-621-6123 or visit them online at http://www.providencesingers.org.

Sunday, December 17 at 9:30 and 11:00 AM - The Choir and Tower Brass of Fourth Presbyterian Church, John W. W. Sherer, Director of Music and Organist, will perform the composer's Gloria (for SATB, brass and percussion), along with Amen by Vincent Persichetti and other works by Eric Thiman and Iain Quinn as part of their Sunday morning worship at Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut Street in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information, call the Church at 312-787-4570 or visit them at http://www.fourthchurch.org/index.html.

Internationally recognized composer Dan Locklair, a native of Charlotte, NC, is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. His compositional output, influenced by a wide variety of traditions, ranging from Medieval to modern music, includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera, and numerous solo, chamber, vocal, organ and choral compositions. His music has been performed throughout Europe and North America by many major orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles and soloists. Several of these works have received major awards, including the top award in the 1989 Barlow International Competition for "changing perceptions & Epitaph" and the 1996 American Guild of Organists Composer of the Year Award. Among his other honors are consecutive ASCAP Awards since 1981 and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award. His latest CDs, "Dan Locklair Orchestral Music" (Albany Records Troy 517), and "Dan Locklair Chamber Music" (Albany Records Troy 701-02) have been released to great critical acclaim.

For more information about composer Dan Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit the newly redesigned http://www.locklair.com. You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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