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  • February 7, 2007

    Iowa State music professor returns to Russia for performance


  • Jeffrey Prater, professor of music at Iowa State University, will continue his association with Russia when he travels back to the country later this month.

    Prater, who spent the fall of 2005 as a Fulbright Scholar at the Immanuel Kant Russian State University, has been invited to judge a week-long international choral festival competition in Saratov, Russia, about 500 miles southeast of Moscow.

    "The honor of being chosen as an adjudicator for this important international competition would be reason enough for me to travel to Russia, but additionally, the organizing committee of the festival has asked to feature my hour-long original musical competition on the festival's closing concert," Prater said.

    Prater's composition, Veni Creator Spiritus, will be performed by the Chorus of the Governor's Theater, whom Prater describes as the "best music students from all over Russia." Two American soloists, soprano Amy Wager, an Iowa State vocal music alumnus, and Kimberly Helton, a flutist and piccolo player with the Cedar Rapids Symphony, will also be featured on the composition.

    Composed between 1996 and 2000, Veni Creator Spiritus is a large musical work for solo flute, solo soprano, mixed chorus and symphony orchestra. It has been performed three times in Europe and was nominated in 2003 for the prestigious Gravemeyer Award, one of the most important international awards for new major works that have receive a live audience. The work is in three large movements and the materials of the composition are all derived from the famous 8th century Gregorian tune of the same name.
Jeff Prater in office with computer, music and keyboard behind him

Jeffrey Prater
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