Major works from Dan Locklair's orchestra, choral, organ and chamber music catalogues will be performed throughout the Eastern United States in the coming weeks.

Marilyn Keiser, one of America's finest organists, will perform Locklair's "Phoenix Fanfare and Processional" for organ, brass and percussion on January 15, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. in Byrnes Auditorium on the campus of Winthrop University, 112 McLaurin in Rock Hill, South Carolina. For more information, call 803-323-4267 or visit http://www.winthrop.edu/culturalevents/default.htm.

Dan Locklair will be performing an organ recital on January 23 at 8:00 p.m. in Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University, Wake Forest Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Featured works will be his "Constellations" (Concerto for Organ and Percussion) with percussionist John Beck, along with the solo work "In Mystery and Wonder" (The Casavant Diptych). For more information, please call 336-758-5364 or visit http://www.wfu.edu/music/index.html.

The composer's "Lairs of Soundings" (for soprano and double string orchestra) will be performed in Greensboro, North Carolina on Feb. 5 by the Fibonacci Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Troy, conductor.

February 18 will bring a performance of the composer's "From East to West" by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Eric Stark, Conductor at the 9:30 AM closing concert of the 2006 American Choral Directors Association Central Division Convention, being held at the Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. For more information, contact ACDA at (405) 232-8161 or visit them at http://www.acdaonline.org/. From East to West was commissioned in 2003 by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and premiered by them in December 2003. Visit them online at http://www.indychoir.org/.

Internationally recognized American 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 1989 Barlow International Competition Award 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. His principal publisher is Subito Music Corporation at http://www.subitomusic.com/.

For more information about composer Dan Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.locklair.com. He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting - 516-586-3433, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.

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