The regional conference of Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC) held on November 5, 2011,
at Nyack College, Nyack, New York, featured three of Jerry Casey’s works, Mine Were the Hands for voice and piano, recording of Prelude from Seven (A Suite for Orchestra) paired with the photograph, “Forest Light” (Paul Kiler), and the hymn tune Circle of Thorn (hymnody of Richard Leach).

The Columbus Music Teachers Association (CMTA) (established 1930) numbers many fine central Ohio teachers among its membership including several Columbus Symphony Orchestra members. CMTA’s first program of the year, October 31, 2011, in a private home, featured works of Jerry Casey performed by members of the group and a few guests. These compositions included:

• Our Love Mirrored (Violin and Piano), a world premiere, David Niwa, violin, Mariko Kaneda, piano
• Celebrate 25! (Piano Trio): Leonid Polonsky, violin, Cora Kuyvenhoven, cello, Nina Polonsky, piano
• One, Yet Different (String Quartet): David Niwa; Mako McEldowney, Ken Matsuda, Ruruko Makino
• Seven (A Suite for Piano): Madeline Karn, piano
• Fiesta, (piano four-hand): Laura Flowers Benson and Nightengale Chen
• By Request (a collection of student pieces): Laura Flowers Benson, piano
• O, Death, Rock Me Asleep (Soprano and solo violin): Jessica Kahn, soprano, Henry Ma, violin
• Out of the Depths (2009 Marilynn Etzel Piano Commission by the Iowa Composers Forum), Kathleen Sadoff, piano
• Swingin’ Suite for Two Cellos, Renee Goubeaux and Cora Kuyvenhoven, cellos

Celebration 25! (1995) by Jerry Casey won the Composers Concordance competition for composers 70 or older. It was performed at the Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. See below for more details of the performance. This article appeared in the New York Times.

Composers Concordance (Tuesday) This enterprising new-music organization presents the ensemble Circadia, a woodwind, string and piano quintet, in a program that includes works by Derek Bermel, Louis Calabro, Dan Cooper, Joseph Pehrson and Gene Pritsker. The program, called “Generations,” will also include works by the winners of two Composers Concordance competitions: one for a composer 20 or under, the other for a composer 70 or over. At 8 p.m., Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral, 20 West 26th Street, Manhattan , (646) 522-9442, sequenza21.com/calendar/2011/05/composers-concordance-presents-generations/; $15; $10 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)

Celebration 25! (1995) by Jerry Casey won the Composers Concordance competition for composers 70 or older. It was performed at the Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. See below for more details of the performance. This article appeared in the New York Times.

Composers Concordance (Tuesday) This enterprising new-music organization presents the ensemble Circadia, a woodwind, string and piano quintet, in a program that includes works by Derek Bermel, Louis Calabro, Dan Cooper, Joseph Pehrson and Gene Pritsker. The program, called “Generations,” will also include works by the winners of two Composers Concordance competitions: one for a composer 20 or under, the other for a composer 70 or over. At 8 p.m., Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral, 20 West 26th Street, Manhattan, (646) 522-9442; $15; $10 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)

See article here.

The Parish Choir at Kenyon College commissioned Jerry Casey to write a duet arrangement of a Kenyon song, Kokosing Farewell, for two graduating seniors, Erin Ford and Lauren McNulty. The duet premiered May 8, at 10:30 a.m., at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

The Ministers’ Chorus of the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Conference commissioned Jerry Casey to write a composition in memory of Paul and Claire Halstead, the founders and longtime leaders of the Chorus. The Chorus premiered the work, Shine As a Light, on April 28, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at the Cochran Memorial United Methodist Church of Dawson, Pennsylvania.

Jerry Casey’s Psalm of Praise and Hope was presented at the 2011 Tutti New Music Festival at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. The performance was in Burke Hall; the performers were Belinda Andrews-Smith, soprano; Leslie Maaser, flute; and Sarah Ramsey, piano.