Elena Ruehr collaborated with the San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet to create her fifth string quartet. Named after the book which served as the work’s inspiration, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, this 10-movement piece receives its world premieres September 20 (San Francisco) and 24 (Saratoga). Bel Canto is based on the Japanese embassy hostage crisis (1996-1997) inContinue reading “Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” inspires new string quartet by Elena Ruehr”
Category Archives: Classical
Human rights prize ceremony features music of Kareem Roustom
In a concert and awards ceremony for the Nürnberg Human Rights Prize 2017, Marcus Bosch conducts the Nürnberg State Philharmonic Orchestra on a program that includes the German premiere of Ramal for orchestra and Dabke. The 2017 Nürnberg Human Rights Award will honor the “Group Caesar,” who published photos of people tortured to death in Syrian prisons. “Caesar” is theContinue reading “Human rights prize ceremony features music of Kareem Roustom”
Chamber Music on the Fox presents film score by Daron Hagen
On September 23, pianist Yana Reznik joins Chamber Music on the Fox in a live performance of Daron Hagen‘s Piano Concerto, No. 2: Chaplin’s Tramp. The performance occurs alongside a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s silent film, The Tramp, as part of the Elgin Short Film Festival. Hagen wrote the new score for the centennial of the classic film.Continue reading “Chamber Music on the Fox presents film score by Daron Hagen”
SF Opera Orchestra Members, Lowell Trio, release new CD featuring David Conte & Juliana Hall
San Francisco’s Lowell Trio just released Volume II of its “Music to Save Our Endangered Lands” CD series, which includes Juliana Hall‘s Rilke Song for English horn and piano, and David Conte‘s arrangement of Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child for oboe, cello, and piano. The Lowell Trio consists of oboist/English horn player JanetContinue reading “SF Opera Orchestra Members, Lowell Trio, release new CD featuring David Conte & Juliana Hall”
Su Lian Tan: Oberlin Music recording includes world premiere of work for cello & orchestra
Cellist Darrett Adkins released Myth & Tradition, a new album of music that he commissioned. The recording includes Su Lian Tan’s Legends of Kintamani. Adkins partnered with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Timothy Weiss, to premiere this work. Tan writes, “Legends of Kintamani was inspired by travels to Southeast Asia and specifically Bali. The five movement storytellingContinue reading “Su Lian Tan: Oberlin Music recording includes world premiere of work for cello & orchestra”
Julian Wachner – Time’s Arrow Festival performs complete works of Anton Webern
Deemed as the New York Classical Review’s “Critic’s Choice for the 2017-18 season” the annual Time’s Arrow Festival is a celebration of music and arts in the new world. This highlight of New York’s musical season features The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY, under the direction of Julian Wachner. The 2017-18 andContinue reading “Julian Wachner – Time’s Arrow Festival performs complete works of Anton Webern”
REV. 23 premiere: new opera from Julian Wachner & Cerise Jacobs, the sequel to Revelations
On September 29, a new opera from Cerise Jacobs and Julian Wachner, Rev. 23, premieres at Boston’s John Hancock Theater. The premiere kicks off the Boston New Music Festival and features White Snake Projects production company, who shares new, relevant opera based on the stories of Cerise Jacobs. Rev. 23 will be available soon from E. C. Schirmer.Continue reading “REV. 23 premiere: new opera from Julian Wachner & Cerise Jacobs, the sequel to Revelations”
Duo YUMENO premieres third chapter in commissioning project – Daron Hagen
Duo YUMENO (Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto; and Hikaru Tamaki, violoncello) commissioned American composer Daron Hagen to create four large-scale works for koto and cello based on characters and stories from the great Japanese epic, The Tale of Heike. The project is titled “Songs of Heike,” the third installment of which is called Misterioso. The world premiere performanceContinue reading “Duo YUMENO premieres third chapter in commissioning project – Daron Hagen”
Interview with Composer of the Month: Daron Hagen
Daron Hagen (b. 1961) is a prolific composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music for the concert hall and stage. He is also a stage director, conductor, librettist, essayist, clinician, and collaborative pianist. Described as a “composer born to write operas” (Chicago Tribune) whose music is “dazzling, unsettling, exuberant, and heroic” (The New Yorker), his opera Amelia was described asContinue reading “Interview with Composer of the Month: Daron Hagen”
The Finisterra Trio revisits work premiered & recorded for Naxos Records — Daron Hagen
Seattle-area residents enjoy the First Sundays Concerts series hosted on Bainbridge Island across the bay. On Sunday, September 10, the renowned Finisterra Trio shares Daron Hagen‘s Piano Trio No. 3: Wayfaring Stranger which was originally commissioned and recorded by the ensemble. Daron Hagen explores his introduction and relationship with the American folk spiritual Wayfaring Stranger, which servesContinue reading “The Finisterra Trio revisits work premiered & recorded for Naxos Records — Daron Hagen”
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