Choral music by American composer Dan Locklair will be heard in five performances by two different groups at Christmas concerts in the next few days:

Friday. December 1 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, December 2 at 3:00 PM - the Piedmont Chamber Singers, Dr. William Osborne, Music Director, will perform Lockalir's Three Christmas Motets (a cappella), along with settings of Latin texts by Poulenc, Palestrina, Richard Deering and, Luca Marenzio, Three Flute Noels by Jon Washburn as well as sets of carols by Colin Bumbry and John Rutter as part of their Festival of Carols concert at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 2575 Parkway Drive in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Tickets for these concerts are $18 in advance, with discounts for seniors and students. For more information, please contact the Piedmont Chamber Singers at 336-722-4022 or visit them online at http://www.piedmontchambersingers.org.

Saturday, December 2 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, December 3 at 2:30 PM and 7:00 PM - The Choral Arts Society, Robert Russell, Conductor and Artistic Director, will perform the composer's Gloria (for SATB, brass and percussion) which they commissioned in 1978, along with seasonal music, a cappella motets -- including Gabrieli's "Jubilate Deo" and Rachmaninoff's "Cherubic Hymn" -- and music for chorus, organ and brass as part of their 17th annual Christmas at the Cathedral concert at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 317 Congress Street in Portland, Maine.

Tickets for this performance range from $15 to $25 and are available by calling the Choral Arts Society at 207-828-0043. For more information, visit them at http://www.choralart.org.

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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