Donald Crockett returns for his fifteenth summer as Senior Composer in Residence at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College, Vermont, for three weeks, July 24 - August 14.  In addition to working with Resident Composers Jesse Jones, Sean Friar and Amy Williams, he will work with the composition fellows, coach conference participants, and work with the performance faculty.  

On July 30 at 8:00 pm, the CMC faculty will perform Donald Crockett's piano quartet, 'The Ceiling of Heaven,' in Greenwall Auditorium on the Bennington College campus as part of the Faculty Concert Series.  'The Ceiling of Heaven' was the first Jacob Glick Memorial Commission (2004) from the Bennington Chamber Music Conference.  Other Glick commissions to date are by Gabriela Lena Frank, Paul Moravec and John Fitz Rogers.