DANA SCHOOL Composer to be guest

YOUNGSTOWN -- Johnterryl Plumeri will be the principal guest composer at this year's Dana New Music Festival XXII, Wednesday through Friday.
Plumeri played string bass in the National Symphony for five years and directed a jazz band in Baltimore for two years before moving to Hollywood to compose music for films. Since 1990 he has composed 55 film scores.
Plumeri, a jazz bassist, has his own trio, which just released a CD. He also serves as principal guest conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic.
Plumeri will give lectures on music for films, and master classes with composers, string bassists and jazz groups.
On Wednesday, he will guest conduct the Festival Chamber Orchestra in his "Two Poems for Dance," and also in a world premiere of a new work, "Romance" for clarinet and strings, written for and performed by Dana faculty clarinetist Robert Fitzer. Plumeri's "Night Forest" for chamber ensemble will be played at the Friday 11 a.m. convocation.
The festival will also host another Los Angeles composer, Kathy Henkel.
Henkel has been a guest at several Dana New Music Festivals. Her harp piece "Book of Hours" will be performed by local harpist Kirk Kupensky on Wednesday. Kupensky commissioned this piece and premiered it at an International Harp Society conference. Henkel's "Moorland Sketches" for English horn and string quartet will also be on the program and will be performed by Dana faculty English hornist Tedrow Perkins and members of the Festival Chamber Orchestra.
Dana faculty Member Robert Rollin directs the Festival Chamber Orchestra, and will premiere his "El Pajaro Errante" ("The Wandering Bird") in a new version for violin and string orchestra. Gwyneth Rollin, also on the Dana faculty, will play the solo violin part. The piece is in memory of the late Dr. Raoul Ronson, former president of Seesaw Music Corp., a landmark publishing house for new music, which continues under new management.
All festival events are free and open to the public.