FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November, 2011, Verona, New Jersey
Subito Music Corporation is pleased to announce it has entered into an exclusive publishing agreement with its newest composer, Leanna Primiani. "We're delighted to welcome Leanna to Subito Music," shares Stephen Culbertson, Founder and President of Subito Music Corporation. "Her accomplishments as a composer who writes in several idioms, coupled with her active conducting career, give her a deep understanding of how to musically communicate to players as well as to audiences. We look forward to working with her to expand her profile in the concert world and to cultivating new audiences for her music."
"It's a composer's dream to be represented by a publisher with a stellar reputation such as Subito's," Primiani comments, "and I'm honored to be part of the Subito Music family. Known for their professional services, dedication to contemporary music, and supportive environment for young composers, this is the perfect place for me and my music and I'm grateful for this opportunity. I'm thrilled to be here and am looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship together."
Primiani's career -- as a composer and conductor -- has garnered her recognition as a unique, wide-ranging musical voice who writes for orchestra, ensemble, chorus, voice, multimedia, film, and sound installation. A native of California, and a DMA graduate of USC's Thornton School of Music, Primiani studied with noted composers and conductors Steven Stucky, Christopher Rouse, Howard Shore, Leonard Slatkin and Peter Eötvös.
Primiani's music has been performed in the US and abroad by: the Nashville Symphony in its world premiere of Sirens led by Leonard Slatkin; the Cabrillo Music Festival which premiered Searching for M with Help from a Large Orchestra; the American Composers Orchestra's annual Underwood New Music Readings in New York; the Virginia Opera Festival's reading of her opera Truman; the Aspen Music Festival; June in Buffalo; the Ensemble Aventure Freiburg (at Herrenhaus Edenkoben artist retreat (Germany) and recorded for SWR German radio), and at the Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis in Paris.
Primiani's many honors include: a recent commission from the National Flute Association which premieres next summer at 2012 NFA Convention; an ACCBDA Emerging Composers Grant; first prize in the St. Paul Choral Competition, and the USC Leonard Bernstein Music Scholar Award. On the conducting front, Primiani is the first woman to receive a Ford Foundation Conducting Talent Grant, and has been recognized by the Kiril Kondrashin Masterclass (Netherlands), and the Peter Eötvös International Institute and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's SYNERGY! Composer-Conductor programs. Future projects include a new work for orchestra and a solo percussion piece for Evelyn Glennie.
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