Jeraldine Herbison's 'Concertino for Viola' Premiered in Inglewood by Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra, Sunday, February 17, 3 PM

Janise White, Conductor of The Afro-American Chamber Music Society, writes:

The Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra will premiere  "Concertino for Viola" by Jeraldine Herbison, performed by Stefan Smith, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Violist and Symphony No. 1 by Jeraldine Herbison on February 17, 2013 at 3pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Inglewood, 100 N. Hillcrest, Inglewood, CA.  The public is invited to a Pre-Concert Lecture to meet Music Laureate of Virginia, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison.  Listed in  "Black American Music" by Hildred Roach and  "The International Dictionary of Black Composers" by Samuel Floyd.

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Jeraldine Sanders Herbison

b. 1941

Jeraldine Saunders Herbison is a native of Richmond, Virginia. She earned her bachelor's degree from Virginia State College (now Virginia State University) where she studied theory and composition with Undine Smith Moore. She also attended the University of Michigan division of the National Music Camp, University of Alaska, Central Connecticut State University and Hampton University. She is a retired teacher of orchestral music in the secondary schools of Virginia and Maryland. A violinist, she has performed with several college and community orchestras. Her compositions include many instrumental chamber works, orchestra pieces, and vocal works. Several of her cello works have been performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. Her Cello Concerto No. 1 was commissioned and performed by the Afro-American Chamber Music Society. Saltarello is from Five Short Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 30.

National Association of Composers/USA Mid-Atlantic Member Biography

Jeraldine Saunders Herbison (b. January 9, 1941) is a native of Richmond, Virginia. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Virginia State College in 1963. She majored in Violin and minored in voice and piano. Teachers who greatly influenced her compositional techniques were Undine Smith Moore, of Virginia State University, and Dr. Thomas Clark of the the University of Michigan division of the National Music Camp at Interlochen. From 1963 to July, 1998, she taught and directed string orchestra music in the public schools of Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. In the summer of 1979, she was elected Honorary Composer at the National Music Camp at Interlochen. Her first cello pieces were performed on the Composers Forum of The National Black Colloquium Competition at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in 1980. Cello Concerto No. 1 was commissioned and performed by the Afro-American Chamber Music Society in California, and her Concertino for Viola and Chamber Orchestra commissioned by the same group, was performed by Beverly Baker and the Richmond Philharmonic in 1996. In 1997 her Promenade was performed by Richmond Symphony in their Harmony Series. In 1997, the Hampton University, Department of Fine and Performing Arts featured Jeraldine's works on the Symposium of Black Women Composers. Her string music is published by Velke Publishing Company, in Glen Echo, Maryland. Her piano and chamber works with piano are listed in books by DeLermo, Selma Epstein and Helen Walker Hill. Jeraldine is a member of the National Association of Composers USA, the Society of Composers Inc. and the American Composers Forum. In addition to composing, she currently plays violin with the HICO String Quartet, and the Norfolk State University Orchestra. She plays viola in the York River Community Orchestra.