Publishing Works with Calabrese Brothers

I want to inform everyone about my efforts to find a publisher for my music. I submitted several of my most recent works to Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC. They are publishers of contemporary classical music. Finding a publisher is important for making valuable contributions to the discourse in one's field and to the culture of all creative fields. One has many options for widely disseminating one's work by having it published. Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC is an independent music publishing company founded to provide a publishing resource for contemporary composers and was launched in January 2003. It resulted in the creation of a team of professionals who implement the production of the highest quality of printed music. They have recently agreed to publish the following works of mine: Eros and Psyche: Choreographic Symphony for Orchestra, Quartet for Alto Saxophone and Strings, Tableaux d'une petite fille (7 pieces for solo piano), "The Crew That Never Rest" (2 mvnts. for alto sax and piano), Two Love Songs (for soprano solo and piano), and Two Noumenist Poems (duets for soprano and alto with piano accompaniment). They publish quite a number of composers. For example, they publish the music of Milton Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011; American composer, music theorist, and teacher) who was raised in Jackson, MS, the very place where I was born! At the moment Calabrese Brothers is in the process of transferring their files to the music distributor Subito Music Corporation. However, as soon as this is done, they will begin the work of getting my music in their catalog. Check them out at http://www.calabresebrothersmusic.com/

ZANE GILLESPIE

After six years as Minister of Music at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church (UMC) in Holly Springs, MS, I was recently called to continue to work to address public engagement in music participation as Director of Music Ministries at First UMC in Water Valley, MS. I am a Composer, Theorist, and member of both The College Music Society as well as The Poe Studies Association (PSA). I am also an active pianist and vocalist, specializing primarily in church music. My paper entitled ““Mesmeric Revelation”: Art as Hypnosis” has been published by the international, peer-reviewed journal Humanities. In addition, another paper of mine entitled “A Model of Triadic Post-Tonality for a Neoconservative Postmodern String Quartet by Sky Macklay” has been submitted to the peer-reviewed Music Theory journal Perspectives of New Music. At the end of February 2015, I served as Chair for the session entitled “Aesthetics and Philosophy” at The Fourth International PSA Conference in New York City. On June 21, 2014, my Quartet for Alto Saxophone and Strings, a commission from concert saxophonist Walter Hoehn, was performed as part of Concert V of the Eighth Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival held at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Memphis, TN. Characteristically neo-romantic (in the original sense of the word), my music earned me the Nancy Van de Vate Award for Composition three times from the University of Mississippi Department of Music. A native of Pontotoc, MS, I hold degrees from the University of Mississippi (BM; MM), and the University of Memphis (DMA) where I was the 2011 recipient of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music's Smit Composition Award. I live in Memphis, TN.