Sunday, May 15 @ 4 PM, Caritas a Cappella Ensemble, Cathy Youngblood, Artistic Director, will Premiere Dan’s Sing to the World: A Choral Cycle in Five Movements in Celebration of Music at Myers Park United Methodist Church, 1501 Queens Rd. in Charlotte, NC. For more information and tickets…
“…’Hallelujah’, has been restored…” the first movement of Dan’s Rubrics, in a performance by renowned organist Marilyn Keiser, opened the January 24 broadcast of National Public Radio’s With Heart and Voice. Hear the program at https://www.wxxiclassical.org/program-highlight-0/2022-01-24/with-heart-and-voice-hymns-and-anthems-of-prayer-praise and learn more about the piece at https://www.locklair.com/compositions/organ/rubrics-a-liturgical-suite-for-organ.
Dan’s Concerto for Organ and Orchestra will be part of the nationally syndicated radio program Pipedreams. Hear it beginning November 15 at https://www.pipedreams.org/episode/2021/11/15/with-orchestra and read the composer’s notes.
The World Premiere of Dan’s Angels (Two Brief Poems for Organ) was presented on Monday, July 1 @ 8:00 PM by organist Alan Morrison as part of his concert at St. Rose of Lima Church, 300 E. Kings Highway in Haddon Heights, NJ. This event was part of the 2019 American Guild of Organists (AGO) … Read more
Dan Locklair’s Sonata for Flute and Harp will be premiered on Wednesday, June 19 @ 7:30 PM by flutist Debra Reuter-Pivetta and harpist Jacquelyn Bartlett as part of History in Harmony, a concert at Crawford Concert Hall at the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, as part of the American Harp … Read more
Two of Dan’s major choral works, Requiem and Gloria will be performed on Friday, November 2 @ 6 PM by the St. John’s Episcopal Church choir and guests as this year’s All Saints Memorial Concert at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Roanoke, VA (seen below). The performance will be conducted by the composer. Concert info … Read more
On October 14, 2018, the Society of Musical Arts Orchestra (SOMA), Stephen Culbertson, Conductor and Musical Director, performed Dan’s “Independence Day,” the first movement of his Symphony No. 2, “America,” at Maurice Levin Theater in West Orange, NJ. The complete Symphony, published by Subito Music, features three movements that individually reflect a quintessential American holiday. … Read more
Dan’s Gloria, for SATB choir, divisi, brass octet and percussion was performed by The Garleton Singers on March 17 at St. Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh and March 18 at St. Mary’s Parish Church in Haddington, Scotland as part of the ensemble’s Sound the Trumpet concerts. Visit the Singers at http://www.garletonsingers.co.uk/.
The World Premiere of Dan’s Noel’s Psalm (A Sonata for Organ) was performed by Dr. Robert Parkins on March 25 at Duke University Chapel in Durham, NC. Dr. Parkins presented the piece along with Dan’s organ transcription of In Memory – H.H.L. for string orchestra.
The World Premiere of Dan’s Symphony No. 2 “America” will be presented by Maestro John Gordon Ross and the Western Piedmont Symphony on Saturday, October 7 @ 7:30 at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 625 7th Ave NE, in Hickory, North Carolina. Dan writes, “My Symphony No. 2 “America” unabashedly celebrates America: “The Land of the Free”. Begun … Read more