Featured Composer: Tison Street
November 19 and 21, 2004

Composer Tison Street was born in Boston and received degrees from Harvard University. His honors include the Naumberg Recording Award, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, among many others. He has taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley and Boston University. His music has been programmed by many of the country's leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. A performing violinist, Tison Street is a member of the Boston Ballet Orchestra and was a founding member of the Boston Classical Orchestra. Tison Street has been commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Foundation Inc. of New York to write "Symphony No. 5 (Colonial Scenes)" for the Boston Classical Orchestra [see press release].

The BCO performed the world premiere of Mr. Street's composition, "Symphony No. 5 (Colonial Scenes)" on November 19 and 21, 2004.

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