UC Riverside Department of Music presents:

Getting Your Music Performed

Lorna Katz

My presentation will be about how to get your compositions more exposure. Not many students know that there are competitions and events where their compositions can be workshopped and performed professionally.  There are also hidden opportunities that can come up which can blossom into multiple opportunities.

I would have never dreamed that my choral work, “Peace,” would have been performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. But, on Sunday, August 18, 2024, I was fortunate enough to have the Los Angeles Korean-American Music Association’s Chorale and Philharmonic Orchestra (LAKMA) give me the opportunity of a lifetime. “Peace,” written for choir and string orchestra, was performed and I made my debut as a composer at this venue. 

I will discuss these events, conferences, competitions, and other possible hidden opportunities to have your music compositions performed. It will highlight my experiences working with the Choral Arts Initiative’s PREMIERE|Project Festival and Operation Opera, both of which are events in California. I will close by presenting the a cappella version of “Peace” by the Choral Arts Initiative and the orchestra version by LAKMA

Part of the 2024-2025 Florence Bayz Music Series

The Florence Bayz Music Series offers online concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars.

Paulo Chagas, coordinator.

Events are free and open to the public.

Bio:

Lorna Katz is a second-year Ph.D. student in Digital Composition at the University of California, Riverside. She has been a singer and performer for most of her life. She is a professional actor and twenty-three-year member of the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. She has an IMDB page and has appeared in various TV shows, feature films, and commercials. 

Lorna earned her Master of Music degree in Theory and Composition at the California State University, Fullerton, where she was a student of Dr. Pamela Madsen. She graduated from CSUF in May 2023 and was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Composer award during the school’s 2023 convocation ceremony. She is a fellow in the California State University’s Chancellor Doctoral Incentive Program. Lorna was awarded the 2023 Ellen Jane Lorenz Grant for Graduate Composition from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, which funded her attendance at Operation Opera in 2023 as an Art Song participant in composition. Most recently, Lorna had been selected as one of twelve composers for the Choral Arts Initiative PREMIERE|Project Festival 2024, held at the University of California, Irvine. Lorna made her composer debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall this past August, where the LAKMA (Los Angeles Korean-American Music Association) Chorale and Philharmonic Orchestra performed her choral work “Peace.

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