About the Artists
Daniel PerlongoDaniel Perlongo, emeritus professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he taught Theory and Composition, received his musical education at the University of Michigan, studying with George Balch Wilson, Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee Finney. With a Fulbright Fellowship, he continued his studies for two years in Rome at the Academy of Santa Cecilia with Gofreddo Petrassi. Mr. Perlongo and his music compositions have received numerous awards, including the American Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy-National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been resident composer at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. A CD of his Concerto for piano and orchestra is released on Master Musicians Recordings (MMC), with pianist, Donna Coleman and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava, Slovakia. Also on MMC is Mr. Perlongo's Sunburst for clarinet and orchestra, commissioned by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and recorded by clarinetist, Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Windhover for piano duo is recorded on Ravello Records by Sang-Hie Lee and Martha Thomas. His Symphony No.1, Millennium Voyage, was premiered by the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, En Shao, conductor. Mr. Perlongo has had works performed at College Music Society (CMS) International Conferences in Spain-2005, Gallery Set; Croatia-2009, Thai Souvenir; South Korea-2011, Five Pieces On Korean Zen Poems; Argentina-2013, Tango Around Cape Horn; Helsinki-2015, Earth Soundprints. His works are available through American Composers Alliance (BMI).
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Susan WheatleySusan Wheatley, pianist, has been invited as performer and music educator throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Wheatley has an active interest in research about women in music and received a Fulbright to transcribe Gunild Keetman's dance pieces at the Orff Institute in Salzburg. She co-founded Indiana University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Festival of Women Composers, performing the music of Libby Larsen, Judith Zaimont, Katherine Hoover, Cecile Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, Louise Talma, Germaine Tailleferre, Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford, and Marian McPartland, among others. Dr. Wheatley holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of Michigan and has served on the faculties of Oakland University in Michigan and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has received grants from the American Association of University Women, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to sponsor her performances and research on the music of women composers. Internationally, her piano performances include premieres of Daniel Perlongo's piano works in Salzburg, Madrid, Zagreb, South Korea, Buenos Aries, and Helsinki as well as her performance of Germaine Tailleferre's two-piano works in Beijing, China.
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