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Recently Composed

GOVERNOR'S CUP MARCH for Concert Band

REMEMBRANCE for Flute and Piano

PASSAGES for String Quartet

REVERIES for String Orchestra

Upcoming Events

November 18, 2010
Performance of Metamorphic Fanfare by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 8:00 pm, Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN, Lucas Richman, Music Director

November 19, 2010
Performance of Metamorphic Fanfare by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 8:00 pm, Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN, Lucas Richman, Music Director

Past Events

July 17, 2010
Premiere of Governor's Cup March by the Two Rivers / McGavock High School Alumni Band, Hotel Preston, Nashville, TN, David Sartor conducting

June 27, 2010
Performance of Reveries by the Nexus Chamber Orchestra (inaugural concert), 4:00 pm, Brentwood United Methodist Church, Brentwood, TN, David Sartor conducting

March 21, 2010
Performance of Synergistic Parable by the Indiana Wind Symphony, 7:30 pm, Zionsville Performing Arts Center, 1000 Mulberry Street, Zionsville, IN, Charles Conrad, Music Director

March 9, 2010
Performance of Remembrance by Flutist Shelley Binder and Pianist Geneva Fung, 6:00 pm, Cole Concert Hall, Wright Music Building, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.

February 28, 2010
Premiere of Remembrance by Flutist Shelley Binder and Pianist Fay Adams, 8:00 pm, Alumni Memorial Building, Room 32, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

November 13, 2009
Performance of Synergistic Parable by the Middle Tennessee State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 7:30 pm, T. Earl Hinton Music Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, Reed Thomas, Director

October 10, 2009
Performance of Reveries by the Tidewater Intergenerational Orchestra, St. Bede Catholic Church, Williamsburg, VA, Guy Hayden, Conductor

July 25, 2009
World Premiere of Ascension at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival by the SSMF Festival Brass, Sewanee, TN

July 17, 2009
Premiere of Passages (Thor Johnson Memorial Commission) by the Atlantis String Quartet at the Delta Omicron Triennial Conference, Cincinnati, OH

May 30, 2009
Performance of Reveries (Winner, 2009 Composers Competition) by the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Music Building Recital Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Michael Hopkins, Music Director

May 29, 2009
Premiere of Reveries (Winner, 2009 Composers Competition) by the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, VT, Michael Hopkins, Music Director

November 19, 2008
Alleluja from Anthem VI-B for Brass Choir by the Malone College Brass Ensemble, Canton, OH

November 11, 2008
Step by Step, at the Kentucky New Music Festival, Lexington, KY

November 6, 2008
Step by Step, Salle de concert Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montréal, Canada

October 16-18, 2008
Step by Step, as part of the 60x60 Project at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

October 16-18, 2008
Convocation, as part of the 60x60 Project at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

October 4, 2008
Performance of Dies Irae at the Nashville Symphony's "Day of Music" by the MTSU Symphonic Brass, 12:00 noon, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN, Michael Arndt, Conductor.

September 19, 2008
Performance of Dies Irae by the MTSU Symphonic Brass, 7:30 pm, T. Earl Hinton Music Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, Michael Arndt, Conductor.

July 19, 2008
World Premiere of Dies Irae at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival by the SSMF Festival Brass, Sewanee, TN, David Brockett, Conductor.

April 13, 2008
Performance of Metamorphic Fanfare by the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, Santa Monica High School - Barnum Hall, 600 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405, Sean Newhouse, Music Director.

February 18, 2008
Guest Composer, Composition Seminar, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

May 20, 2007
Veni Emmanuel (world premiere), by the Indiana Wind Symphony, Indianapolis, IN, Charles Conrad, Music Director.

May 18, 2007
Concerto for Orchestra by the National Symphony, Philharmonic Hall, Kiev, Ukraine, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor.

March 21, 2007
Alleluja from Anthem VI-B for Brass Choir by the Malone College Brass Ensemble, Canton, OH

January 2007
Concerto for Orchestra (world premiere), by the Millennium Symphony, Palais Versailles, Paris, France, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor.

December 24, 2006
Thy Light Is Come at Midnight Mass, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, Great Falls, VA, Neil Weston, Director.

November 2006
Psalm 67, by the Clarendon United Methodist Church, Arlington, VA, J. Reilly Lewis, Music Director.

November 18, 2006
Polygon, by the Broad Street Brass Quintet, at the 2006 MTSU Brass Performance Clinic, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

November 8, 2006
Polygon, by the Broad Street Brass Quintet, 6:00 pm, Hinton Recital Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

October 26, 2006 - Polygon, at the Society of Composers Inc. Regional Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

October 12, 2006
Convocation, as part of the 60x60 Project at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

April 23, 2005
Black Ball Counts Double (world premiere) by the Mission Chamber Orchestra, San Jose, California, Emily Ray, Music Director.

April 8 and 9, 2005
Metamorphic Fanfare by the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne, Florida, Christopher Confessore, Music Director.

March 13, 2005
When Jesus Wept for organ at Centenary United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Ray Ebert, Organist.

March 13, 2005
When Jesus Wept for organ at Vine Street Christian Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Julia Callaway, Organist.

December 11,12, and 13, 2004
Thy Light Is Come by the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C., J. Reilly Lewis, Music Director.

June 5, 2004
Synergistic Parable for Concert Band at the Dore Theatre, Bakersfield, CA, by the California State University Bakersfield Concert Band, David Sartor conducting.

April 13, 2003
Alleluja from Anthem VI-B for Brass Choir at St. Fidelis Church, Manhattan, KS, by the Kansas State University Brass Ensemble, Gary Mortenson, Director.

April 6, 2003
When Jesus Wept for organ at Vine Street Christian Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Julia Callaway, Organist.

March 22, 2003
Alleluja from Anthem VI-B for Brass Choir at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Robert J. Werner Recital Hall, conducted by Paul Hillner.

January 19, 2003
Alleluja from Anthem VI-B for Brass Choir at Bethel Lutheran Church, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, Jayne Southwick Cool, Director.

September 15, 2002
Simple Blessing for organ (premiere) at Vine Street Christian Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Julia Callaway, Organist.


Sartor Wins Twenty-First Consecutive ASCAP Award

September 17, 2009 - David Sartor has been notified by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers that he is the recipient of an ASCAP Plus award for 2009-2010.

The ASCAP Plus awards, announced annually, serve to recognize and reward composers whose works have a unique prestige value. Award winners are selected each year by an independent panel of distinguished experts.

This is the twenty-first consecutive year that Sartor has received this award.


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