Dan Locklair's "Spreckels' Fancy" for organ will be given its World Premiere by Dr. Carol Williams on Monday, June 20 - 7:30 PM at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion of Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

The work, commissioned by the Spreckels Organ Society to celebrate the 90th birthday of this, one of the world's largest outdoor organs, will be presented along with works by Wagner, Franck, Gershwin, John Rutter and others to open the 18th International Summer Organ Festival. Performers will include Dr. Williams, Robert Plimpton and Jared Jacobson. For more information about this concert, please visit the Society at http://www.sosorgan.com/, Balboa Park online at http://www.balboapark.org/ or call 619-702-8138.

This is Dan Locklair's third major organ commission in the past 18 months.

During the weekend of November 13-14, 2004, organists from around the world � including Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Australia, Japan and many other countries, and from California to Texas to New York� who play Casavant organs performed his "In Mystery and Wonder: The Casavant Diptych", which celebrated 125 Years of Canadian Organ Builders Casavant Fr�res.

On March 19, 2004, Locklair's "Salem Sonata" was given its World Premiere by the renowned organist Peter Sykes at Old Salem Museums in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This recital highlighted three days of events to celebrate the restoration of the large historic pipe organ built by David Tannenberg of Lititz, Pennsylvania, in 1799-1800 for the Moravian Church, Salem, North Carolina. This was the first hearing of the instrument in 93 years.

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.

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 - phone and fax, to whom inquiries about his music can be directed.

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