Eric Sessler
Eric Sessler is an American composer and educator. Among his collaborations are works written for Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux; Philadelphia Orchestra principal flutist Jeffrey Khaner; organist Alan Morrison; the Dover Quartet; and the flute & guitar duo of Bonita Boyd & Nicholas Goluses. Also a composer of educational works, he has written music for youth orchestra, wind ensemble, narration and voice for young minds and musicians. Sessler teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, Pre-College and he is a trained classical guitarist. Reception. "Sessler's 2013 String Quartet, whose first movement was full of  reverberations and refractions on optimism and sincerity, and the same kind of American vibe that infused Barber" was written by Peter Dobrin in the "Philadelphia Inquirer". While Victor L. Schermer added, "Sessler achieved a delicate balance between the rounded romantic development of mood and motif and a post-modern sense of music that’s paradoxically linear in its non-linearity and constant in its change— a song without a singer." For the release of the recording of Organ Concerto, Phil Muse of Sequenza 21 wrote, "The main reason for excitement on the release of this new album is that it  is the recording debut of Eric Sessler’s scintillating new (2006) Organ concerto. The work itself is a stunning conception, being both a display piece for the organ and a solid concert work for the orchestra, which remains an equal partner with the soloist throughout the 18-minute piece, so that it is an organ concerto in every sense of the word"