FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 28, 2005

ARLINGTON, TEXAS - Metropolitan Classical Ballet artistic directors, Paul Mejia and Alexander Vetrov are pleased to announce that Lowell Liebermann will appear with the company for the season's Winter Repertory program to be presented at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on January 16th at 8:00 PM. Mr. Liebermann will play the piano accompaniment for a world premiere ballet by Paul Mejia set to Mr. Liebermann's composition Album for the Young.

Mr. Liebermann, one of today's most frequently performed and commissioned composers, began piano studies at the age of eight, and formal composition studies at fourteen. He made his performing debut two years later at Carnegie Recital Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, Op.1, which he composed when he was fifteen. He holds Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School of Music. Among his many awards is a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Orchestras worldwide have championed Mr. Liebermann's works, and many distinguished artists have performed them. In addition to his recent position as Composer-in-Residence to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Liebermann filled the same role for Sapporo's Pacific Music Festival and for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. In 2001, he was awarded the first American Composers' Invitational Award by the 11th Van Cliburn Competition after the majority of finalists chose to perform his Three Impromptus.

Mr. Liebermann maintains an active performing schedule as pianist and conductor. Metropolitan Classical Ballet audiences saw him in October, 2004 when he and violinist, Eric Grossman, played the D Minor Sonata by Camille Saint-Saëns for another world premiere ballet choreographed by Paul Mejia.

The unique Winter Repertory program also includes Songs of Mahler by choreographer Tanju Tuzer set to the music of Gustav Mahler and sung by Virginia Dupuy, one of the finest concert and recital singers in the United States, and Cross Winds by Anatoly Emelianov set to music by Frederic Chopin. Alexei Melentiev, distinguished pianist from the Bolshoi in Moscow, will play the piano accompaniment for Cross Winds.

Tickets range in price from $10 - $30 and are available through the Bass Hall Box Office at (817) 212-4280, toll free at (877) 212-4280, or online at www.basshall.com. Season, group and individual tickets may be purchased by calling Metropolitan Classical Ballet at (817) 275-0598 or (817) 465-4644 and in person at 500 West Abram Street in Arlington, Texas.

Season sponsors include American Airlines, WRR Classical 101, and the law firm of Hill Gilstrap.

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Media Note: Further information and photo of Lowell Liebermann may be obtained by contacting Judy Puder at (817) 465-4644.

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