2023 Album Release

Fugitive Footsteps: Remembrance Music
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Global Music Awards Gold Medal winner – Album Composer, Album Concept

Professional Highlights

Laurence Sherr's compositions have been performed in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean, including in 35 states across the U.S. An array of awards recognize his work.

His expertise in music and the Holocaust is manifest through the creation of Holocaust remembrance compositions, the production of Holocaust remembrance events, and through international lecturing, research, and teaching. These activities are synthesized in his Music of Resistance and Survival Project. Other areas of creative work include pieces for solo performers and music inspired by nature. Several studies examine his contributions, including the Florida State University doctoral treatise Laurence Sherr: Chamber Music for Flute.

Sherr is the founder and clarinetist of the Atlanta band Oy Klezmer!.

2022 highlights

• EIMI performed at College Music Society National Conference at California State University–Long Beach (photo above)
• From Another Realm: World premiere of the bassoon–cello version, Schortens, Germany; the Edelmann-Rust Duo also performed Elegy and Vision and Khayele's Waltz at events in Annweiler and Steinbach, Germany
• Nocturne for piano 1 of 5 works chosen for the Society of Composers Journal of Music Scores, published by SCHOTT MUSIC CORPORATION

2021 highlights

• Fugitive Footsteps and Elegy and Vision featured in the Kristallnacht Commemoration produced by Sherr: Event video
• In the Free Forests for oboe and piano, world premiere – concert for the opening of the exhibit Words, Music, Memory: (Re)presenting Voices from the Holocaust
• Sherr's Holocaust remembrance compositions featured in the Words, Music, Memory "Gallery Guide" sections on Shmerke Kaczerginski and Nelly Sachs
• Three compositions for the Edelmann-Rust Duo–Elegy and Vision, Khayele's Waltz, and From Another Realm featured in the German film MUSIKEN Jüdischer Komponisten – MUSICALE of Jewish Composers, an official contribution of the FESTIVAL YEAR 2021: 1700 JAHRE JÜDISCHES LEBEN IN DEUTSCHLAND (1700 YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE IN GERMANY)
• Flame Language for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, cello, percussion, and piano performed and recorded in Atlanta, USA: Video

2020 highlights

• Elegy and Vision and Khayele's Waltz featured at memorial event in Neustadt, Germany (article above); the Edelmann-Rust Duo also performed the works at multiple events in California and Germany
• Khayele's Waltz: World premiere of the bassoon–cello version at an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event, Holocaust Museum LA, Los Angeles, CA
• CD releases include Nocturne for piano and Elegy and Vision for cello
• Capriccioso for flute and guitar performed by Duo SoliPse in Skopje, North Macedonia

2019 highlights

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• Performances, lectures, and recordings: New Zealand three-city tour
• Capriccioso for flute and guitar, world premiere; Blue Ridge Frescos French premiere – Paris, France
• Featured composer on Performance Today with broadcast of the cello sonata – Sherr segment heard by an estimated 1 million listeners in five 2017–2019 Performance Today broadcasts
• Music of Resistance and Survival concert including the cello sonata, National Day of Memory, Republic of San Marino
• Lectures in Bologna and Cesena, Italy
• feature article: Music: Remembering the Holocaust

2018 highlights

• Music of Resistance and Survival concert including the cello sonata, and "Suppressed Music and Art during the Nazi Era" lecture, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland (poster above)
• Fugitive Footsteps for baritone and chorus performed in Hamburg, Germany
• Blue Ridge Frescos for guitar performed at Scriabin Museum, Moscow, Russia, and Forfest Festival, Czech Republic (6th video)
• Cello sonata: national broadcast on Radio New Zealand; performance in Hong Kong, China
• Premiere of Khayele's Waltz for clarinet and cello, Atlanta, GA