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TEMPO Call for Scores Selection
TEMPO New Music Ensemble has selected Oliver’s trio Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night (violin, cello, piano) in their recent Call for Scores. The ensemble will perform Illuminated March 5, 2017 in Northbridge, California.
July 11-28: VCCA Fellowship
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts has invited Oliver for a fellowship at their artist colony on 400 acres of Blue Ridge farmland. While in residence Oliver will be working on a new choral composition, setting poetry by Ruth Kessler.
Veridian Symphony Orchestra Competition Winner
The Veridian Symphony Orchestra has named Oliver a winner of its 2016 Composers Competition. The ensemble will perform his work Lunastella Fuga on its concerts April 30 and May 1 in Yuba City California.
American Prize Special Citation
Oliver was awarded a special citation for the American Prize in orchestral composition, “celebrating the variety and vitality of American Composers of works for orchestra. The recognition is for his work “Journey the West,” co-commissioned by Chinese Symphonic Masterpieces at Harvard University and the Bronx Arts Ensemble.