UPCOMING EVENTS

Spring/Summer 2010

Jan. 7: the meltdown incentive and rare degree, Hope Central Church Concert Series

Jan. 14: Ibis Camerata performs brutal arithmetic

Jan. 31: Guest conductor, Dana Hall School of Music Honors Concert

Feb. 13: Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra: Winter Concert

Feb. 21: Composition Faculty Recital, Longy School of Music

Mar .7: the meltdown incentive, children’s concert, Crane Public Library. Quincy

Mar. 14: The Prioress’s Tale, First Church Congregational, Cambridge, Mass.

Mar. 21: The Prioress’s Tale, Christ Church Performing Arts Series, Brockton, Mass.

Mar. 26: Dance Currents, Inc., performs Dayspring, choreographed by Kathy Hassinger, at The Dance Complex, Cambridge.

Mar. 27: Composers in Red Sneakers presents Ibis Camerata, performing Dayspring and brutal arithmetic, Swedenborg Chapel, Cambridge.

Apr. 10: brutal arithmetic, D’Anna Fortunato, Musica Eclectica Concert Series

May 9: ENC Choral Union: Haydn’s Creation

June 7: NACUSA Eastern Division Conference, Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, NYC

(Gemini Variations)

July 2: Guest composer, Vortex  Series for New and Improvised Music,

The Outpost, Somerville

Fall 2009

Oct. 21: Faculty Artist Recital, Longy School of Music

Oct. 25: The Meltdown Incentive: Longy Modern American Music Concert Series

Nov. 14: Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra: Fall Concert

Dec. 5 & 6: ENC Choral Union: Messiah

2008-2009 Season Highlights

Composition

Gemini Variations awarded Honorable Mention in 2009 Audio Inversions Composition Competition, Austin

Siciliana performed by Freon Ensemble, Rome, Italy

The Prioress’s Tale performed at First Presbyterian Church of New Haven, Sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music

The Prioress’s Tale performed at  Andover-Newton Theological School, Sponsored by the Mass. Council of Churches

Rocket Sleigh performed by the  Quincy Symphony Orchestra

Dayspring performed by the Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston

Dayspring performed by Dance Currents, Inc., in  Brookline, Mass., Choreographed by Kathy Hassinger

Cityscape performed by Billy Bargetzi, bass trombone, University of Alabama-Huntsville New Music Festival

No Secret Hidden performed by Andrew White, baritone, Marilyn Musick, piano, New Music VI Festival,

      University of Nebraska, Kearney

Conducting

Brahms: A German Requiem, Eastern Nazarene College Choral Union

Handel: Messiah, Eastern Nazarene College Choral Union

Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra, debut concert (Haydn and Mozart concertos)

Quincy Summer Singers, decut concert

Teaching

Teaching Excellence Award, Eastern Nazarene College

Delvyn Case (b. 1974) is Boston-based musician who is active as a composer,  orchestral and choral conductor, and college educator. He also maintains an active career as a writer and lecturer on a variety of musical topics, from sacred music to hip-hop, and pursues numerous musical outreach projects in his home city of Quincy, Massachusetts, and beyond.

He is currently Visiting Professor of Theory/Composition at the Longy School of Music and an adjunct faculty member at Boston College and Northeastern University. He also serves as Music Director of the Eastern Nazarene College Choral Union, the Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra (a professional orchestra he founded in order to provide outreach and educational concerts), the Quincy Summer Singers (a community choir he founded in 2009), as pianist in the avant-garde improvisation ensemble the meltdown incentive, and as composer-in-residence for Cambridge’s Dance Currents, Inc.

2009-2010 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS and Other News

Appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., and conductor of the Great Woods Chamber Orchestra.

Performances by the Louisville Orchestra, Northwest Florida Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony (Iowa), North Shore Philharmonic (Mass.), Greater Fall River Symphony, and University of Rhode Island Symphony.

Grammy-winning quintet Chestnut Brass Company performs Perichoresis, March 2010

Perichoresis chosen for recording in the inaugural call for scores by The Brass Initiative.

Commissioned by the Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra for  an educational outreach piece  for the 2010-2011 concert season.

Tour performances of The Prioress’s Tale at two locations in Massachusetts.

Mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato performs brutal arithmetic, April 2010.