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Featuring works for Choral Ensemble, String Quartet, Chamber Orchestra, woodwind ensemble, & Symphony Orchestra

NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS:

PREMIERE

June 2020 -- postponed to June 2021

         Summer Night, Riverside (SSAATTBB)

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premiered by The Lake Erie Choral Artists

of Erie, PA

 

COMMISION

November 2020

arrangement for strings

Suite of 3 Harry T. Burleigh

baritone vocal solo spirituals

 

premiered by the Erie Philharmonic

televised premiere video

 

 

PREMIERE

April 2018

         arrangement of Nightfall (SSAA)

for Flute Ensemble + Prerecorded Track

 

premiered by Flutasia

of State University of New York - Fredonia

 

 

PREMIERE  (European)

December 2017

   performance of Constellation

(SATB+pre-recorded track)

 

Eruopean premiere by Kamerkoor JIP

The Hague, Amsterdam, & Utrecht

NETHERLANDS

 

 

COMMISSION

April 2017

         The Songsmith Collective

                    A music composition collaboration with

students of Perseus Charter School and

the Erie Chamber Orchestra

for work written for string quintet, soprano & bass-baritone,

flute, & percussion

based on selected motifs from

the students' in-class song writing.

To be premiered in the 2016-2017 season.

 

Quick feature of the premiere concert

in The Erie Reader here

Christina will be featured on Classics with Brian Hannah on WQLN, Friday, April 21 at 11am

NOMINMATION

Decmeber 2016

 Nominated for

The Pulitzer Prize 

 

 

 

 

 

for Stars Alone

SSAATTBB and Chamber Orchestra

 

Many exciting projects coming soon

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Stay tuned!

---------- through the pandemic, the music lives on ---------

 

COMMISION

April 2020 -- postponed to 2022

original composition based on

Nova Scotia Island Folklore

for full Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

 

premiered by the Erie Philharmonic

 

 

COMMISION

March 2018

         suite arrangement for full Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

 

premiered by the Erie Philharmonic

 

 

PREMIERE

November 2017

       Collaboration with the

David Matthews Composition School of

Downtown YMCA, Erie, PA

and the Erie Philharmonic

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Orchestrator of the students' original song, Our Erie

for symphony orchestra

 

PREMIERE

October 2017

         arrangement of Silence (SSAATTBB)

for Flute Ensemble

 

premiered by Flutasia

of State University of New York - Fredonia

 

 

    WINNER 
    January 2017

          2nd Place for the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award 

for Performance of American Music

(Professional division)

based on composition and quality of performance

for Stars Alone for SSAATTBB and string orchestra

commissioned by the Erie Chamber Orchestra 

featuring the Erie Renaissance Singers

 

                    The American Prize 2016

                  

FEATURED

January 2021

guest virtual performance 

by Edward Pleasant, baritone

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arrangement for strings

Suite of 3 Harry T. Burleigh

baritone vocal solo gospel songs

 

video debut on youtube

premiered by the Erie Philharmonic

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FEATURED

January 2022

performance of arrangement for strings

Suite of 3 Harry T. Burleigh

baritone vocal solo gospel songs

 

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Hartford, CT

 

COMMISSION

April 2016

by the Erie Chamber Orchestra

for larger-scale work for chamber orchestra and choral ensemble

  featuring the Erie Renaissance Singers

   to be premiered in the 2015-2016 season

COMMISSION

May 2016

         by The Vocal Art Ensemble

                    Davis, CA

featured in summer concert tour

of US and Canada

 

FEATURED

  January 2016
       On the Choral Music by Women Composers database

   furnished by the Orange County Women's Chorus

  

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FINALIST -- awarded HONORABLE MENTION
November 2015

           for The American Prize 2015

        in the professional choral composer category

WINNER

  May 2015
   2015 Vox-Sing Composition Contest

                    for Vox Musica, Sacramento, CA

 

      preimiere at VOX-SING: a community project

                       May 31, 2015, Sacramento, CA

 

   

FEATURED

    June 2015

            and featured at the 2nd annual

                   Sacramento Choral Festival: SacSings 

                                       June 13-14, 2015

ACDA

  February 2015
   work (sheet music) to be displayed at the

      2015 ACDA Convention, Salt Lake City

 

     Ave Maria for SSAATTBB on display

           at the C7Prize booth

PREMIERE

January 2016
by The Chautauqua Chamber Singers

                         Jamestown, NY 

 

May 2015 review:

"Dolanc's STARS ALONE was absolutely BRILLIANT!! Lovely, intense, soothing...  so many emotions.  The [singers] and [orchestra] breathing together...  Dolanc didn't compose a piece for voices and strings, but instead invented a new type of ensemble! It was a joy to experience... "

-- Classics with Brian Hannah, WQLN Radio

PREMIERE

November 2015
by The Erie Renaissance Singers

                        Erie, PA 

 

FEATURED

  May 2015
     The Lincoln High School Chamber Choir, Stockton, CA 

                            will participate in the

          2015 Golden State Choir Competition in Napa, CA

              performing Absence for SATB + Piano 

PREMIERE  (commission)

December 2014

COMMISSION by Davis Chamber Choir

(University of California) Davis, CA

 

May 2015 review:

" This is lean-forward-and-listen, not sit-back-and-listen music. "

-- Sacramento Choral Calendar

PREMIERE  (commission)
October 2014

COMMISSION by Lincoln High School Chamber Choir

Stockton, CA

 

PREMIERE
November 2013

by The Vocal Art Ensemble

Davis, CA 

 

Awarded as "Recommended Work"

March 2014
                for the C7Prize 2014

 

WORKSHOP
 
Friday, March 6, 2015

               by Musica Intima -- renowned vocal ensemble 

of Vancouver, BC

 A new work featured in the workshop, Novum Musica

WINNER

November 2014

2014 Mary Bussman Emerging Female Choral Composer Competition

                 for the Twin Cities Women's Choir

                             Minneapolis, MN

                   PREMIERED 

                     Nov & Dec 2014

SEMI-FINALIST
June 2014

           for The American Prize 2014

        in the professional choral composer category

PREMIERE
April 2014

by The Vocal Art Ensemble

Davis, CA -- April 2014

UK premiere -- May 2014

May 2014 review:

" ... a sophisticated composition worth consideration by any mixed choir in America (or beyond)."

-- Sacramento Choral Calendar

Christina Brice Dolanc - composer
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