"Note"-Worthy Accomplishment
C.W. Post Music Professor David Holzman Wins ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

David Holzman (left) accepts the Deems Taylor Award.

Brookville, NY–Pianist David Holzman, New York City resident and adjunct music professor at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, has been awarded the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor Award for the liner notes for his CD: "Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano (1920-1952)" released on Bridge Records.

Holzman shares the honor with Austin Clarkson, who wrote a historically-based article on Wolpe to complement Holzman’s more personal essay, which focuses on his discovery of Wolpe and his efforts to master the challenges of the music. Earlier this year, Holzman received an AFIM Indie Award from the Association for Independent Music in the Best Classical Album of the Year category for the same CD, as well as a Grammy Award nomination in the category of Best Classical Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra).

The ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, which are in their 36^th year, honor outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music. The winners were honored at a special reception on December 4, 2003 at the Walter Reade Theatre in New York City.

Holzman has earned international acclaim for his recitals, recordings and writings. Among his honors and awards have been recording grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reader's Digest-Meet the Composer and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Holzman has premiered hundreds of keyboard compositions by twentieth century composers from around the world and has made first recordings of many of them. Among his recordings are masterpieces by composers from Schoenberg and Bloch to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the younger generation of American composers.

Holzman has given lecture-performances at universities and concert halls throughout the world, most recently at the Schoenberg Center in Vienna, Museum of the Diaspora in Jerusalem, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Among his future engagements are the Festival Internacional de Musica Nueva Siglo 21, organized by the University of Veracruz, as well as multiple concerts in San Francisco, Palo Alto and other California cities with repertoire encompassing the 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st centuries.

Born in New York in 1949, Holzman received his BM magna cum laude from Mannes College of Music where he studied with Paul Jacobs and completed his studies with Nadia Reisenberg at Queens College. He was a finalist in the Carnegie Hall American Music Competition and the International Piano Competition at St. Germaine-En-Laye in France. As a chamber musician, he has played with most of New York's major ensembles under conductors such as Gerard Schwarz, Arthur Weisberg and Charles Wuorinen. An active lecturer, performer and writer, his essay "On Performing Battle Piece" is included in a new book, On the Music of Stefan Wolpe, published by Pendragon Press. A CD included with the book includes complete performances of Battle Piece by Holzman and David Tudor. Holzman’s introductory essays to Wolpe’s piano works appear in editions published by PeerMusic Classical.

Holzman was the organizer of a day-long celebration of the life and music of Stefan Wolpe at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the C.W. Post Campus. The event was part of a series of commemorations being held around the world by the Stefan Wolpe Society in celebration of the centennial of Wolpe’s birth.

For additional information, call the C.W. Post Office of Public Relations at (516) 299-2333 or visit David Holzman’s web site: www.battlemuse.com.