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05/15/2013
Gerald Barry Wins 2013 RPS Award
We are delighted to announce that Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has won the 2013 RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Barry's audacious operatic approach to Oscar Wilde's masterpiece triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: 'The play's bones ...
05/15/2013
World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's Ultraviolet
On May 19, the Hoff-Barthelson School presents the premiere of Pierre Jalbert's new work for ensemble, Ultraviolet , in Scarsdale, NY. Performed by Jered McInerney, violin; Emma Berry, clarinet; Issei Herr, cello; Charlotte Hill, piano, the work is performed as part of the school's 24th annual ...
05/15/2013
Gavin Bryars in Residence at Canberra International Music Festival
The 19th annual Canberra International Music Festival features the music of Composer-in-Residence Gavin Bryars, May 10-19. Hosted by the Australian National University School of Music, the festival presents selections from Bryars’s Second Book of Madrigals as well as The Porazzi ...
05/15/2013
Bernard Rands's Concertino & Ceremonial in Performances in Oberlin, Rochester, and Toronto
In anticipation of the composer's 80th birthday year in 2014, performances of Bernard Rands’s music continue to dot this season’s calendar around the country. This month Timothy Weiss leads the Oberlin Sinfonietta in a performance of Rands Concertino for oboe and ensemble, featuring Oberlin faculty ...
05/15/2013
In honor of its impending grand opening in 2015, The Opera San Antonio hosts an inaugural gala concert on May 23 at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, featuring performances from Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy . Tobias Picker, Artistic Director of The Opera San Antonio, has curated a ...
05/15/2013
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Debuts Andrew Norman’s Play
Fresh off his most recent premiere with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Norman switches coasts this month for the world premiere of his newest orchestral work for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), conducted by Gil Rose. On May 17, BMOP premieres Play , a new work for chamber ...
05/07/2013
We are very sad to announce that Steve Martland, one of the outstanding voices in British music since the mid-eighties, died in his sleep on the night of 6 May 2013. He was born on 10 October 1959 in Liverpool and studied composition in Holland with Louis Andriessen. His lifetime preoccupation ...
04/25/2013
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2013 online
ULTIMATE WAGNER 2013 marks the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth, with performances of his music in virtually every opera house around the world. For over 150 years, Schott has been considered the leading publisher for Wagner editions; from 1859 onwards, the composer entrusted his stage ...
04/23/2013
The 2013 BBC Proms season, running from 12 July to 7 September, holds plenty of opportunity to hear works from the Schott catalogue. The music of Sir Michael Tippett features prominently, with performances by BBC Symphony Orchestra of his Symphony No. 2 (Oliver Knussen) and first opera The Midsummer ...
04/11/2013
Barry Opera Shortlisted for RPS Music Award
Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has been shortlisted for an RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Given annually by the Royal Philharmonic Society, the RPS Music Awards are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. The awards are independent and peer-judged, ...
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