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Suite from Razumov recorded by Kiev Philharmonic for "Masterworks of the New Era" CD series Greg Bartholomew's Suite from Razumov was awarded the Masterworks Prize by ERM Media and was recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic for release on the "Masterworks of the New Era" CD series. The work, for clarinet and string quartet, was premiered October 21, 2003, at Seattle's Town Hall by the odeonquartet and Sean Osborn, clarinet, and received its second performance on the Syzygy new chamber music series in Ashland, Oregon, on January 15, 2005. From the Odes of Solomon released on CD by Capstone Records The Ars Brunensis Chorus's recording of Bartholomew's three settings for unaccompanied choir of text From the Odes of Solomon has been released on CD by Capstone Records. The work was premiered by the Ars Brunensis Chorus on June 2, 2002.

Greg Bartholomew, b. 1957, earned degrees from the College of William & Mary in Virginia and the University of Washington. He has participated in composition workshops, seminars and symposia with Krzysztof Penderecki, George Crumb, Bob Chilcott, Steven Sametz, Robert Kyr, R. Murray Schafer, Tan Dun, Gregg Smith, Hummie Mann and Brent Michael Davids, and he currently studies with David Paul Mesler (composition) and Teo Benson (violin). His music has been performed across the United States and in Canada, Europe and Australia. Bartholomew's choral works have been premiered by the Oregon Repertory Singers, the Ars Brunensis Chorus, The Esoterics, the William & Mary Choir, and the American University Chamber Singers. His choral music has also received performances by Seattle Pro Musica and the Briar Cliff University Chamber Singers, as well as readings by the Gregg Smith Singers at the Adirondack Festival of American Music and by the Princeton Singers at the Oxford Summer Institutes at Lehigh. Bartholomew's String Trio for George Crumb, commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival Composer's Symposium in celebration of George Crumb's 75th birthday, was premiered by Third Angle on July 3, 2004. His instrumental work The Far North Land: Passages for violas in six parts was selected for performance at the 30th International Viola Congress in June 2002. A version of the same work for string quartet was premiered by the odeonquartet at Seattle's Town Hall on October 21, 2003. That concert also featured the premiere of Bartholomew's Suite for Razumov (Act One) for clarinet and string quartet. His Fanfare for Santa Barbara Harbor (2005) has received four performances in its first year, and his new Voyageur Suite (2006) for brass quintet will receive its world premiere in February 2007 by the Alaska Brass of the United States Air Force Band of the Pacific at the Canadian consulate in Anchorage. Bartholomew has sung since 1991 with Seattle Pro Musica, an award-winning critically-acclaimed choral ensemble under the direction of Karen P. Thomas.

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