New World Symphony premieres Project 305 Crowdsourced MIAMI IN MOVEMENTS, 10/21
Project 305, a nearly yearlong project to crowdsource a symphony and accompanying film about Miami by its residents, will culminate in a free concert celebrating the diversity of Miami-Dade County and the power of music on Saturday, October 21, 7:30 PM at the New World Center (500 17th Street). The project is a collaboration of the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy (NWS), Knight Foundation, the MIT Media Lab and Miami-Dade County.
Miller Theatre Announces Fall 2017 Season of POP-UP CONCERTS, 9/12"12/11
From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey: "I'm thrilled to continue the sixth year of our Pop-Up series with an amazing fall lineup. We welcome back two ensembles that received rave reviews from Miller audiences-Regional de NY and Genghis Barbie. The incredible clarinetists Joshua Rubin and Vasko Dukovski perform a program of works for bass clarinet, one of my favorite instruments for its vast range of color. And I'm honored to feature the Argus Quartet in their Miller debut-they are one of the most talented rising quartets in the field. I hope you'll join us often for these free and fun evenings of adventurous music." Genghis Barbie performing at Miller Theatre's Pop-Up series last year.
The Crossing presents World Premiere of Michael Gordon's Major New Choral Memoir ANONYMOUS MAN
Anonymous Man is Michael Gordon's first concert-length solo choral work. It was commissioned by The Crossing and written for the choir's 24 voices. Gordon merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power in his music, embodying, in the words of The New Yorker's Alex Ross, 'the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism.'
The Crossing presents World Premiere of Michael Gordon's Major New Choral Memoir ANONYMOUS MAN
Anonymous Man is Michael Gordon's first concert-length solo choral work. It was commissioned by The Crossing and written for the choir's 24 voices. Gordon merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power in his music, embodying, in the words of The New Yorker's Alex Ross, 'the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism.'
Eighth Blackbird Announces 30 Blackbird Creative Lab Fellows for 2017
Eighth Blackbird is pleased to announce that 30 early-career musicians have been chosen to receive Fellowships to the inaugural Blackbird Creative Lab, a two-week summer training program taking place June 11 - 24 at the Besant Hill School in Ojai, California. The Fellows comprise eighteen performers, six composers, and two ensembles. In addition to Eighth Blackbird, the Blackbird Creative Lab Faculty includes composers Jennifer Higdon and Ted Hearne, and director/filmmaker Mark DeChiazza. During the session, a stellar array of Guest Artists will rotate through The Lab: composer Steve Reich, composer/performer Pamela Z, flutist/composer Ned McGowan, and from the Ojai Music Festival, curator Tom Morris and producer Elaine Martone, who also serves as Director of the Blackbird Creative Lab.
SF Opera Lab Presents Soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci In Poulenc's LA VOIX HUMAINE
SF Opera Lab presents three performances of Francis Poulenc's 1958 monodrama La Voix humaine (The Human Voice) starring internationally acclaimed sopranoAnna Caterina Antonacci with pianist Donald Sulzen on March 11, 14 and 17, 2017. In these rare appearances outside of Europe, Antonacci will perform "Elle," the distraught character at the heart of the opera and one of the soprano's most celebrated portrayals, along with a program of French art songs in the intimate, 299-seat Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater at the Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera.
The New World Symphony Announces New Work Program Line Up
The New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy (NWS), will perform its sixth annual New Work program-dedicated to commissioning and premiering new pieces from high-profile and developing artists across a range of genres, intersecting music with theater, dance, poetry, video, lighting, and other art forms-on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. at the New World Center. The program will include a new Michael Tilson Thomas-led and -conceived stage production of Niccolo Castiglioni's Inverno In-Ver, the premiere performance of an orchestral version of Oscar Bettison's Lights in Ashes led by NWS Conducting Fellow Dean Whiteside, and the world premiere of a New World Symphony commission from John Supko, composed for viola and electronics.
SF Opera Lab Presents Pop-Up Event in Oakland, 3/23
SF Opera Lab pops up at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland on March 23, 2017 with Hands-On Opera, an interactive night of operatic fun and mischief. This SF Opera Lab event, the first to be held outside of San Francisco, will be curated by stage director and current San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Aria Umezawa and feature performances by Adler Fellows including sopranos Sarah Cambidge and Amina Edris; tenors Amitai Pati and Kyle van Schoonhoven; baritone Andrew G. Manea; bass-baritone Brad Walker; bassAnthony Reed; and pianists Jennifer Szeto and Ronny Michael Greenberg. Dancing will follow the performance with a live DJ.
C4 to Present Student Competition Winners and More in 'EMERGING' Concert
C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective will present Emerging - Winners of C4's First Student Competition and Other Works, the second concerts of its Collaboration 2016-17 New York season today, March 2 at Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street (south of Christopher St.), and Saturday, March 4 at Baruch Performing Arts Center, One Bernard Baruch Way (25th St. between & 3rd Aves) - both in Manhattan.
Photo Flash: First Look at Ted Hearne's Digital-Age Oratorio THE SOURCE at SF Opera Lab
SF Opera Lab presents composer Ted Hearne's universally acclaimed digital-age oratorio The Source, drawn from the contents of Chelsea Manning's WikiLeaks release and called 'some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory-from any genre' by Pitchfork. Previously performed in New York City and Los Angeles, the six performances of The Source this weekend, February 24-26, and March 1-3, 2017 at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater open Season Two of San Francisco Opera's SF Opera Lab programming. Scroll down for a first look at the production!
SF Opera Lab Presents THE SOURCE, Today
SF Opera Lab presents composer Ted Hearne's universally acclaimed digital-age oratorio The Source, drawn from the contents of Chelsea Manning's WikiLeaksrelease and called 'some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory-from any genre" by Pitchfork. Previously performed in New York City and Los Angeles, the six performances of The Source on February 24-26 and March 1-3, 2017 at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater open Season Two of San Francisco Opera's SF Opera Lab programming.
C4 to Present Student Competition Winners and More in 'EMERGING' Concert
C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective will present Emerging - Winners of C4's First Student Competition and Other Works, the second concerts of its Collaboration 2016-17 New York season on Thursday, March 2 at Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street (south of Christopher St.), and Saturday, March 4 at Baruch Performing Arts Center, One Bernard Baruch Way (25th St. between & 3rd Aves) - both in Manhattan.