Laurence Sherr

Laurence Sherr

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About Laurence Sherr

Laurence Sherr is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta. Honors and awards include top prizes in the Delius Composition Contest and the composition competition of the Association for the Promotion of New Music in New York City. Recordings include Jeri-Mae Astolfi's interpretation of his solo piano Nocturne on Chroma: New Music for Piano, released by Capstone Records, and Piotr Szewczyk's performance of his Four Short Pieces for solo violin on his Navona Records Violin Futura CD set. EIMI for violin, saxophone, percussion, and piano, in a live recording by the German group “ensemble Intégrales”, was released on the Ein-Klang label in Europe, and cellist Theresa Villani included his Elegy and Vision on her recording Patterns of Eloquence. Laurence Sherr is active as a composer of Holocaust remembrance music, lecturer on Holocaust music topics, producer of remembrance events, and Holocaust music educator. Performances and lectures have been given in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, England, Norway, San Marino, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. His Music of Resistance and Survival Project features his Sonata for Cello and Piano–Mir zaynen do!, a composition that integrates Holocaust songs from the partisans, ghettos, and camps with newly composed material. The poetry of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs is featured in his compositions Fugitive Footsteps and Flame Language. Dissemination of his work includes: Music of Resistance and Survival events in Europe, Australasia, Israel, and the US; a Keynote Address and composition performances at the Recovering Forbidden Voices international conference in New Zealand; a lecture and performance at the Continuities and Ruptures international conference in Leeds, England; lectures at the Jewish Museum and a Holocaust Remembrance Concert in Prague; and a workshop on teaching music and the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. His concert and educational activities in Germany, produced in collaboration with the children of the generation who persecuted his mother and her family, led to reconciliation and healing. He developed the global-citizenship course Music and the Holocaust at Kennesaw State University. The purpose of this work is to foster greater understanding and tolerance. Commissions for new works have come from ensembles such as Thamyris and the Atlanta Chamber Players, and from organizations such as the [Jimmy] Carter Center and Georgia Music Teachers Association. Soloists who have commissioned Sherr include Atlanta Symphony Orchestra flutist Paul Brittan and guitarist Mary Akerman. Flutist Christina Guenther commissioned his Duo Concertante, and her Florida State University doctoral treatise Laurence Sherr: Chamber Music for Flute is one of several studies that examine his work. Dr. Sherr studied at Duke University, the Vienna International Music Center, the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder and clarinetist of the Atlanta klezmer band Oy Klezmer!

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