Laurence Sherr

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Laurence Sherr is Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta. Honors and awards include top prizes in the Delius Composition Contest and the composition competition of the Association for the Promotion of New Music in New York City. Recordings include Jeri-Mae Astolfi's interpretation of his solo piano Nocturne on Chroma: New Music for Piano, released by Capstone Records, and Piotr Szewczyk's performance of his Four Short Pieces for solo violin on his Navona Records Violin Futura CD set. EIMI for violin, saxophone, percussion, and piano, in a live recording by the German group “ensemble Intégrales”, was released on the Ein-Klang label in Europe, and cellist Theresa Villani included his Elegy and Vision on her recording Patterns of Eloquence. Laurence Sherr is active as a composer of Holocaust remembrance music, lecturer on Holocaust music topics, producer of remembrance events, and Holocaust music educator. Performances and lectures have been given in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, England, Norway, San Marino, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. His Music of Resistance and Survival Project features his Sonata for Cello and Piano–Mir zaynen do!, a composition that integrates Holocaust songs from the partisans, ghettos, and camps with newly composed material. The poetry of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs is featured in his compositions Fugitive Footsteps and Flame Language. Dissemination of his wo

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