2007

Working from his home in Gig Harbor, WA, William Doppmann is finishing the score for Sessions With Dr. Cyclops, MC, a work for clarinet, violin, piano, and percussion. Commissioned by Second City Chamber Series (SCCS) of Tacoma, Sessions is scheduled to premiere January 12, 2007. This performance is in conjunction with a residency co-sponsored by SCCS and the SAI Tacoma Alumnae Chapter. Included in the residency will be performances of several other compositions by members of the chapter. Other Doppmann works recently completed include the piano solo Pennies. Spring Songs, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, percussion, and piano, was recently released with the 21st Century Consort and Lucy Shelton (Innova CD). Transitions To The Twenthieth Century, a CD featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Liszt and Bartók, was released in June 2006 with help from a generous grant by the Mosaic Foundation (Ann Arbor). Doppmann is a member of ASCAP (recipient of Special Awards since 1987), AMC (recipient of 2003Composers Assistance Grant) and Phi Kappa Lambda. Other honors include the University of Michigan’s Alumni Award; a Guggenheim fellowship; two NEA chamber music consortium commissions, and winner of the Naumburg, Michaels, and Leventritt International competitions. You are invited to visit www.DiversInk.com.

2006

William Doppmann continues his dual career as recitalist and composer. The Doppmanns have recently returned to the Northwest where they are living in Gig Harbor, WA. Doppmann was the recipient of a Composer Assistance Grant from the American Music Center in 2004. Two works have recently been premiered: Seven Duets for Two Violins, by Ron Patterson and Ella Gray from Seattle, and Swordplay, tone poem for full orchestra, by Pacific Lutheran University Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Bell-Hanson. These works are published by Divers Publishing Inc. Since the release of Four American Piano Sonatas, Doppmann has added two recordings to his discography: a two-piano program performed with his wife Willa (a commemorative album sponsored by Second City Chamber Series) and the Divers Inc. release Goldberg Variations: A View From the 21st Century (“A marvelous explanation of this great work,” says Maurice Hinson, senior professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s School of Church Music in Louisville, Kentucky). Transitions to the Twentieth Century, a CD featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Liszt and Bartók, will be recorded in January 2006 and released later in the year by Divers Inc. with help from a generous grant by the Mosaic Foundation, Ann Arbor, MI. A complete catalogue of works is available online at www.DiversINK.com, along with sound-bites of live performances.