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MISSY MAZZOLI MAJA S K RATKJE Maestro Riccardo Muti has named Missy Edition Wilhelm Hansen signed the Norwegian Mazzoli as the new Mead Composer-in-Resi- composer Maja S K Ratkje in spring 2018. dence with the Chicago Symphony Ratkje works across a broad spectrum, NICO MUHLY for the next two seasons. The residency from music to performance, instal- The Marnie by Nico Muhly receives includes ­performances of her existing work, lation and noise music. Her music has been its Metropolitan Opera premiere October new commissions, curatorial work for their performed worldwide by Ensemble Intercon- 19–November 10, along with a cinecast MusicNOW series, and a role as advocate temporain, Klangforum Wien, BBC Scottish on November 10 with all performances for the orchestra. Her opera Proving Up Symphony Orchestra, Cikada and many more. conducted by Robert Spano. Yannick Nézet- opens the 30th-anniversary season of New Ratkje has received a number of awards Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra York City’s Miller Theatre September 26-28 ­including the Arne Nordheim prize in 2001. in the premiere of the Marnie Suite in in James Darrah’s production. The European She is also active as a singer and performer, September, with a further performance premiere of Breaking the Waves is featured with visual art and text ­material often being at Carnegie Hall. In November Ballett am at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival in a new part of her work. Rhein present choreography by Robert Binet ­production from Opera Ventures and Scot- with new arrangements of Four Studies and tish Opera, directed by Tom Morris. Dark Honest Music, and a new with Excessive Bright, Mazzoli’s concerto Joan Tower begins her 80th birthday season commissioned by University of South for double and strings is given its with a portrait concert on September 9 at Carolina School of Music also premieres. European premiere in London on April 5 ’s DiMenna Center for Classical On December 1 two new choral pieces with Aurora Orchestra. Music, to be repeated at Bard College. The are performed by and All-Star Orchestra also includes her music in VocalEssence. Stephen Petronio Company ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR its September broadcasts across the US. returns to The Joyce Theater with the second Following its premiere in New York, At the end of September, 50 saxophonists run of Hardness 10 in January 2019. In ­META­COSMOS, the latest orchestral work by will concurrently premiere her solo work, addition Muhly will compose a new work for Anna Thorvaldsdottir receives its Euro- Second Flight, around the world. Portrait , chorus and orchestra commissioned pean premiere by the continue into 2019, as do by National Children’s Chorus and American and Alan Gilbert on January 24-26. This is performances by the American Composers Youth Orchestra; music for a production of followed by performances by the Iceland Orchestra and the Grand Rapids Symphony, Britten’s Death in Venice at The Royal Theatre Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daníel Buffalo Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Carré in Amsterdam, plus works for Omega Bjarnason on January 31 and Helsinki Arkansas Symphony, Detroit Symphony Ensemble and Gondwana Choir. Philharmonic Orchestra with Peter Rundel Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of at the Musica Nova festival on February 1. Lincoln Center. JOCELYN POOK AERIALITY has received over 30 performanc- As part of 14-18 NOW, the Barbican and es since its premiere in 2011 and will have OLIVER DAVIS Brink Productions present the UK premiere its 11th country premiere October 17-20 The chamber and orchestral works by of Memorial by Jocelyn Pook, a theatrical given by the Belgian National Orchestra and British composer Oliver Davis are attracting adaptation of an Alice Oswald poem that Hugh Wolff. Her music features at ZeitGe- ­attention in the dance world following two reimagines Homer’s Iliad. Helen Morse is nuss in Karlsruhe, Germany, when 15 of ­recent collaborations. Choreographed by joined on stage by a 215-strong community her works will be performed by members Peter Walker, dance odyssey premiered in Feb- chorus and a vocal and music ensemble. of International Contemporary Ensemble ruary 2018 as part of New York City Ballet’s Conceived and directed by Chris Drummond and local ensembles from October 18 to New Combinations series. For San Francisco and Yaron Lifschitz, Memorial is at Barbican 21. On March 30 the Bavarian Radio Choir Ballet’s ambitious Unbound Festival, Davis Theatre from September 27-30. Battersea and Munich Chamber Orchestra present a was the only composer commissioned to Arts Centre stages the London premiere of portrait concert of her vocal and instrumen- write a new work. In his collaboration with Adam from September 18-24. This production tal works. A new 40-minute work ­premieres BalletMet’s choreographer and director, features a digital choir of trans individuals with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Edwaard Liang, Davis wrote a concerto, from across the globe. From September 20- Santtu-Matias Rouvali on May 26 in concert Infinite Ocean, which has been selected by 29, Sadler’s Wells revives the English National with dance choreographed by Erna Ómars- San Francisco Ballet for their tour repertoire Ballet’s triptych Lest We Forget, featuring dóttir. A recording of ­Thorvaldsdottir’s music for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, ’s Dust. September also brings is released on the Sono Luminus label in October 23-28. Davis will work on his fifth the UK release of The Wife by Picturehouse early 2019. album for Signum Classics in 2019. with an original score by Pook. OPERA OPERA

IAIN BELL Premieres of two new as well as a song cycle and a new concerto are in store this season for British composer Iain Bell. His fourth opera, Jack the Ripper: The LA Opera will present the West Coast Women of Whitechapel, is a co-commission premiere of the one-man opera the loser by and co-production by ENO and Opera North. David Lang at the ACE Hotel February 22-23. Directed by Daniel Kramer, conducted by BO HOLTEN Lang’s meditation on perfectionism features Martyn Brabbins and with a libretto by Emma Schlagt sie tot! (Slay them!), by Bo Holten baritone Rodney Gilfry and the pianist Conrad Jenkins, the cast includes Dame Josephine with a libretto by Eva Sommestad Holten, Tao. On June 6-8, the New York Philharmonic Barstow, Susan Bullock, Lesley Garrett will premiere at Malmö Opera on May 11, will premiere prisoner of the state, a and Alan Opie. It runs at London Coliseum directed by Peter Oskarsson and conducted by contemporary look at Beethoven’s Fidelio. It from March 30–April 12. Bell’s fifth opera, Patrik Ringborg. The title of the opera refers will then travel to De Doelen, the Barbican, Stonewall, commissioned by New York City to Luther’s reaction to the great peasant Barcelona’s l’Auditori, Bochum Symphony Opera, will premiere in June. Aurora, a rebellion. The music is based on Luther’s hymn Orchestra, and Bruges’ Concertgebouw. new concerto for coloratura soprano and tunes, deeply immersed in his own soul, On New York City’s Highline, 1000 singers orchestra, was written for Diana Damrau, and here symphonically expanded. will gather for the premiere of the mile long who will perform the work with the Royal opera October 3-7. true pearl, a site-specific Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted POUL RUDERS opera for the vocal group Roomful of Teeth, by Vasily Petrenko at the BBC Proms on On July 27 Santa Fe Opera will give the will premiere at Boston’s Isabella Stewart August 29, then at Liverpool Philharmonic premiere of the fairy-tale opera The Gardner Museum on October 4. Theatre of Hall on September 23. On March 31, Thirteenth Child. Built on a story by the Voices will premiere the full version of Lang’s Damrau will sing The Hidden Place with the Brothers Grimm and with a libretto by Becky the writings at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on London Symphony Orchestra conducted by and David Starobin the production is directed March 20, and the whisper opera, featuring Gianandrea Noseda. by Darko Tresnjak and conducted by Paul the International Contemporary Ensemble, Daniel. Boston Lyric Opera premieres a new travels to Festival Ars Musica Brussels on DESSNER & MApplethorpe production of The Handmaid’s Tale, directed November 26-28. A new work integrating the work of by Anne Bogart on May 5. David Angus photographer Robert Mapplethorpe will conducts at Lavietes Pavilion at Harvard TARIK O’REGAN premiere in March 2019. An admirer of Athletics Complex. The opera also receives Mozart’s librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is the Mapplethorpe’s work, Bryce Dessner is its Australian premiere at the Yarra Valley subject of a new, full-length opera by Tarik working with director Daniel Fish and Korde Opera Festival in October 2018, performed O’Regan to be premiered by Houston Grand A Tuttle to create a piece that captures the by Gertrude Opera. The Danish National Opera on April 26 and 28 and May 4, 7 and examinations of classification found in the Symphony Orchestra commissioned SOUND 10. The Phoenix tells the story of da Ponte’s photography, through music, large-scale and ­SIMPLICITY – Seven Pillars of Music for rise to the upper echelons of European projection and lighting. Roomful of Teeth and Accordion and Orchestra which will receive its society and his ensuing crash, bankruptcy Brad Wells will perform a concert version on premiere on April 4 with Bjarke Mogensen as causing him to flee to New York, where he March 5 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and soloist. establishes the city’s first opera company. then stage it at UMS on March 15. It will be The libretto is by John Caird, who directs produced by ArKtype/Thomas O Kriegsmann L’ENIGMA DI LEA the production. The cast is led by Thomas and Gill Graham, in partnership with Robert The opera L’Enigma di Lea, by Benet Hampson and Luca Pisaroni. Mapplethorpe Foundation. Written for Casablancas and librettist Rafael Argullol, duo Katia and Marielle Labèque, Concerto will premiere in Barcelona on February SHOSTAKOVICH in for Two will tour extensively across 9. The story tells of Lea who has been A new production of Shostakovich’s Lady Europe from October 2018 to June 2019. The possessed by God because of her beauty and Macbeth of Mtsensk will be performed in Singapore Symphony Orchestra will present sensuality. She is the carrier of God’s secret: April 2019 at the Opéra de Paris. This iconic Dessner’s concerto for two guitars, St Carolyn immortality. This is a love story in which work will be staged in a brand new produc- by the Sea, and Imagining Buffalo from his passions, an enigma and faith are revealed. tion by Krzysztof Warlikowski. The orchestra film score to Alejandro Gonzáles Iñarvitu’s The production is directed by Carme Portaceli and the choirs of the Opéra de Paris will be The Revenant, on January 31. and conducted by Josep Pons. conducted by Ingo Metzmacher. DANCE CHAMBER

DONNACHA DENNEHY Seán Curran Company celebrates its 20th anniversary with Everywhere All The Time, CELEBRATING PREVIN whose choreography incorporates a live, Marking his 90th birthday in March 2019 Third Coast Percussion performance of Sir André Previn is writing a monodrama, Surface Tension by Donnacha Dennehy; the Penelope, for Renée Fleming, with a libretto premiere takes place at the The University by Sir Tom Stoppard. Joined by the Emerson of Alabama in , on October Quartet, Fleming will present the work in 5, with further performances at Brooklyn 2019. The LA Phil celebrates its centenary in Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, WORLDS OF INFINITE SHIFTS 2019, and Previn – Music Director of the LA on October 24-27. Dennehy’s opera The ANNNA³. The Worlds of Infinite Shifts is the Phil from 1985-1989 – will write a new work Second Violinist is at London’s Barbican fourth collaboration of Volker Bertelmann co-commissioned by the LA Phil, Pittsburgh Centre September 6-8 and the Opera with Alexandra Waierstall, which premieres on Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Forward Festival in Amsterdam on March September 14 at Beethovenfest Bonn with Philharmonic Orchestra. 7 and 9. On June 1 a new work for the LA the composer playing the prepared piano. Phil’s Green Umbrella series scored for 18 As part of a triple bill at the Royal Swedish DANIEL WOHL musicians and conducted by Ballet, Totality in Parts by Lukáš Timulak will December 5 marks the world premiere of will take place at Walt Disney Concert premiere on November 2. Timulak and État by Daniel Wohl at the Barbican and it will Hall. Nonesuch and Cantaloupe Music will designer Peter Bil’ak explore organisational also be released on Nonesuch in 2019. État release The Hunger and The Last Hotel, and principles of nature by looking closely at furthers Wohl’s exploration of the relationship New Amsterdam will release chamber works relationships between elements defined between humans and technology, through performed by Third Coast Percussion and both by mathematical algorithms as well as the dichotomy of acoustic and electronic Crash Ensemble. seemingly free expression. music. A vocalise for soprano Eliza Bagg and the Ciompi Quartet will premiere at Duke LIFE IS A DREAM PROKOFIEV’S CINDERELLA University on November 17. Wohl’s latest film Rambert will tour Life is a Dream with music In celebration of the 30th anniversary of score is for Morgan Neville’s documentary on by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski the opening of Opéra-Bastille, Cinderella Orson Welles, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, in the UK from September 2018 to Febru- by Sergei Prokofiev will be performed with coming soon to Netflix. ary 2019, choreographed by Kim Brand- Rudolf Nureyev’s choreography and staging. In strup. The Rambert Orchestra perform addition Matthew Bourne’s spectacular WW2 A HARPSICHORD x4 Lutosławski’s works live, including Dance version of Cinderella will feature at Kennedy A single harpsichord played live, immersed Preludes, Musique Funèbre, plus Chain II and Center’s Opera House in January 2019. in the sound of three other harpsichords Symphony No 4, both of which are heard This production will be heard in surround emerging from loudspeakers around the hall in reduced orchestration by composer and sound with a recording played by a 60-piece will be heard at the Barbican on January 17. arranger Christopher Austin. The perfor- orchestra. The Kennedy Center performances Quadroforone by the Faroese composer mance also features recordings of 1950s are part of an international tour which ends Sunleif Rasmussen is performed by Mahan pop songs, fox-trots and tangos by ‘Derwid’, on March 2019. Cinderella will also be Esfahani as soloist and is Lutosławski’s pseudonym and post-war alter performed in Frederick Ashton’s 1948 version co-commissioned by the Barbican and ego. by Boston Ballet in May 2019. Nordisk Hus in Thorshavn. CHORAL ORCHESTRA

SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER Something for the Dark by Sarah Kirkland Snider will receive its European premiere by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Andreas Delfs at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg on August 23. Snider is Composer-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music this season; to mark the occasion, Devin Hughes conducts performances of Something for the Dark on November 3 and Hiraeth November 17. Snider’s breakout song cycle Penelope is staged March 30-31 by Lyric Opera of Kansas City, in a new production by Alison Moritz.

FIRE IN MY MOUTH AVNER DORMAN A new work for chamber choir, orchestra and Nigunim, the third by Avner multimedia by will be premiered Dorman, and winner of the 2018 Azrieli Prize, by the New York Philharmonic and The will premiere on October 15 in Montreal, Crossing on January 24-26. Fire in my mouth with Lara St John and the McGill Chamber commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Become Desert, a 40-minute spatial work Orchestra under Yoav Talmi. On October 20 Factory fire of 1911, in which over a hundred for chorus and orchestra with five separate in Hamburg, percussionist Simone Rubino immigrant workers perished. Anthracite ensemble groups by John Luther Adams, will and the NDR Elbphilharmonie under Stefan Fields, her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, receive its European premiere at De Doelen Geiger premiere Eternal Rhythm, Dorman’s will be presented by choruses in Kansas in Rotterdam on April 25. The performance third percussion concerto. Dorman’s double City, New York City, Warsaw, and London this forms part of a season-long perspective with concerto for violinist Pinchas Zukerman season. five further programmes featuring a range and cellist Amanda Forsyth will have its first of his works. In 2019 Cantaloupe Music will performance with the Adelaide Symphony MICHAEL GORDON release recordings by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in Australia, June 27-29, before On August 9 Michael Gordon and filmmaker and Ludovic Morlot: Become Desert and travelling to the Tanglewood Music Festival, Bill Morrison present a portion of Montaña Become River alongside there is no one, not for its US Premiere with the Boston with The Crossing in Big Sky, MT. This work- even the wind. On October 31 UK audiences Symphony Orchestra. in-progress when completed will last for 24 can hear Become Ocean performed by the hours, and highlights Gordon’s proclivity London Contemporary Orchestra with Robert PETER GREGSON for transcendent, durational works. Paul Ames at the Barbican. Cellist and composer Peter Gregson has Hillier and Theatre of Voices will premiere ‘recomposed’ the Bach Suites, A Western in January 2019 at Hamburg’s PAUL MEALOR following an invitation from Deutsche Elbphilharmonie, followed by a performance Requiem: The Souls of the Righteous by Paul Grammophon to reinterpret iconic works in by Coro Casa da Música in Portugal in March. Mealor will premiere on September 22 in the classical canon for their Recomposed At the Cello Biennale Amsterdam on October Edinburgh with the National Youth Choirs of series. Gregson’s tribute adds a new 21, Cello Octet Amsterdam presents the Scotland conducted by Christopher Bell. It will instrumental dimension, reimagining them latest in Gordon’s series of hour-long works receive its US premiere at Carnegie Hall in for a five-person cello ensemble, analogue for like instruments, including Timber, Rushes New York performed by a massed choir under synthesizers and his own solo cello. and Amplified; Ashley Bathgate premieres the baton of the composer on November Recomposed by Peter Gregson: Bach – The a new work for solo cello and the Biennale 11, with a further performance in Warsaw in Cello Suites will be released on October 19. will also feature the world premieres of new March 2019. In November 2018 Mealor’s The music will tour live across Europe in the concerti by Bang On A Can co-founders David Symphony No 3 will be premiered by BBC lead up to and following the release, dates Lang and Julia Wolfe. National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff. to be announced. ORCHESTRA

HANS ABRAHAMSEN The 18-19 season for begins with a premiere on September 21 with the Bavarian State Orchestra presenting SCHIRMER THEATRICAL Drei Märchenbilder aus der Schneekönigin, Schirmer Theatrical has developed new three instrumental scenes from his opera symphonic experiences, including Revolu- The Snow Queen to be shown in its entirety in BETSY JOLAS tion: The Beatles, Dancing in the Street: The and Munich in 2019. let me tell On September 18 Håkan Hardenberger, Music of Motown, The Paul Simon Songbook, you will be performed extensively throughout Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Lise Berthaud Prohibition, Lush Life, and Unforgettable. Film Europe with as soloist. and Andreas Brantelid will premiere Quatuor with live orchestra productions now include Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Christian VII with , Afterthoughts by Betsy Ghostbusters, The Pink Panther, The Red Violin Eggen will give a portrait concert on March 7, Jolas at Malmö Chamber Music Festival and The General. including Left, alone with Tamara Stefanovich, alongside Episode Sixième and Episode Nacht und Trompeten, and his transcriptions Septième. Her Side Roads HELEN GRIME of Nielsen and Debussy. On April 26 he will premieres in Örebro on October 18 with Colin Currie will premiere a percussion receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in cellist Anssi Karttunen and the Swedish concerto by Helen Grime on January 16 at Copenhagen with performances of works Chamber Orchestra with Gérard Korsten. London’s Royal Festival Hall with the London including Left, alone and let me tell you. The Paris Reid Hall will present a portrait Philharmonic Orchestra and Marin Alsop. concert on December 12 including the Later that month, Currie and Alsop will give WHAT DO WE MAKE OF BACH? premiere of Femme le Soir. A Little Summer the US premiere performances with the John Harbison marks his 80th birthday on Suite, commissioned by Stiftung Berlin Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on January December 20. His new work for orchestra and Philharmoniker, will receive its UK premiere 31 and February 1-2, with a performance by obbligato organ, What Do We Make of Bach?, on February 17 with the London Symphony the Swedish Chamber Orchestra to follow. premieres on October 12-13 with organist Orchestra and Sir . The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Paul Jacobs and Osmo Vänskä Simon Rattle will tour Woven Space to Japan, the Minnesota Orchestra. Co-commissioned JOBY TALBOT giving its country premiere at Suntory Hall, by Northrop at The University of Minnesota LA Opera has commissioned Joby Talbot to Tokyo, on September 25. Her music will also and the Seattle Symphony, the West Coast create a score to be performed live with a feature at Nordic Music Days in Helsinki from premiere takes place at Seattle’s Benaroya rare screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first November 7–11, and in the Chamber Music Hall on March 21 and 23, with soloist Wayne sound film Vampyr. The premiere is at Ace Society of Lincoln Center’s new music series Marshall and Ludovic Morlot conducting. On Hotel in Los Angeles on October 27 and in New York. She has been commissioned October 20 Boston Musica Viva premieres 31, 2018. In November, the National Ballet by Tanglewood Music Center and Boston IF, a monodrama for soprano and ensemble of Japan will present Alice’s Adventures in Symphony Orchestra to write a new work co-commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Wonderland and it will be revived for the Summer 2019. Music Festival and the Chamber Music Society third time by National Ballet of Canada in of Lincoln Center. Violist Sally Chisholm and March, and in April The Winter’s Tale will be BRITTA BYSTRÖM pianist Timothy Lovelace premiere his presented by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. The concerto Games Without End by Sonata in February in Madison, WI. In Boston, Commissioned by Independent Opera, A Britta Byström will premiere in Sundsvall, MA, the Cantata Singers will perform But Mary Sheen of Dew on Flowers is a new cantata Sweden on October 18, conducted by Stood, Supper at Emmaus, and The Flight into taking its inspiration from Queen Victoria’s Simon Crawford-Phillips. Her song cycle, Egypt, on November 3. The Boston Symphony diamond and sapphire coronet. Talbot has Notes From the City of the Sun, written for Orchestra celebrates Harbison this season sourced ancient texts translated by Jane soprano Malin Byström, will premiere on with performances of Remembering Gatsby Hirshfield in her books Women in Praise November 22 at Malmö Live Concert Hall under Ken-David Masur in October, Symphony of the Sacred and The Ink Dark Moon. The with Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Eun No 2 under Sir Andrew Davis in January, premiere will take place at the Barbican Sun Kim. Norrköping Symphony Orchestra will and a Boston Symphony Chamber Players on April 11 performed by Britten Sinfonia, perform the work on November 29 with Anja program, also in January. Further tributes Britten Sinfonia Voices, mezzo-soprano Bihlmaier. Byström’s orchestral work Segelnde to Harbison will come from Boston Modern Kelley O’Connor and baritone Tobias Stadt will feature at Nordic Music Days in Orchestra Project, the Massachusetts Institute Greenhalgh, conducted by Natalie Murray Helsinki with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra of Technology, and the Tanglewood Music Beale. and conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Festival. ORCHESTRA

SALONEN 60 Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen turned 60 in June 2018. A birthday concert at Finnish National Opera in August included the Finnish premiere of Pollux followed by the Swedish premiere of his BENT SØRENSEN Cello Concerto at the Baltic Sea Festival with The Ultima Festival will mark the 60th Truls Mørk and the Swedish Radio Symphony ROLF WALLIN birthday of Bent Sørensen with a concert on Orchestra conducted by the composer. Mørk Rolf Wallin delves into the avian world in his September 18 at the University Aula in Oslo will join Salonen’s Philharmonia Orchestra latest work Large Bird Mask. Cikada will give featuring La mattina and Serenidad presented at London’s Southbank Centre in February the premiere at Donaueschinger Musiktage by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, pianist 2019 before touring the US, performing at in Germany on October 20 before performing Leif Ove Andsnes and clarinettist Martin David Geffen Hall in New York on March 11, it at Tonkunst in Rockenhausen on November Fröst. The two soloists will also perform his Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor on March 12 and 2 and Sound of Stockholm on November 24. trio Schattenlinie with the violist Lars Anders Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley on March 15. They will also perform a larger, hour-long work Tomter on September 17 in Oslo. On May by Wallin in spring 2019. At this year’s Ultima 25, Sørensen will present a programme of festival, bass guitarist Ida Nielsen performs his works as part of the Munich Chamber In honour of his 80th-birthday year, Sympho- with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conduct- Orchestra’s Composer Portrait series, ny No 1 by John Corigliano, written as a ed by Karen Kamensek in a new version of including a new orchestral version of Schreie response to the AIDS crisis and winner of the Spirit on September 4. Alina Ibragimova will und Melancholie. for Music Composition, give the Norwegian premiere of Whirld with will be presented by the Nashville Symphony the Bergen Philharmonic and Edward Gardner under Giancarlo Guerrero September 13-15; on November 22. Meanwhile, Wallin’s live A portrait concert for Kaija Saariaho on the Oregon Symphony under Carlos Kalmar site-specific work The Otheroom continues September 13 at Stavanger Konserthus April 6-8; and by Jaap van Zweden, leading the to tour and will be performed at the Zagreb in will be given by violinist Peter Hong Kong Philharmonic May 10-11, and the Music Biennale on April 11. Herresthal and Stavanger Symphony New York Philharmonic May 30 and June 1. Orchestra and Clément Mao-Takacs. The Other events include the Czech premiere of GABRIELA LENA FRANK season also includes territory premieres Mr Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Gabriela Lena Frank begins four composer of Trans in the Netherlands, the US and Dylan with Brno Philharmonic and Dennis Rus- residencies this season. As the next Com- Norway. Saariaho’s music will return to NTR sell Davies on May 9-10, and 50th anniversa- poser-in-Residence with the Philadelphia ZaterdagMatinee in May with Ciel d’Hiver ry celebrations of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, her role is co-creator of an immer- by Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and Osmo Orchestra, with pianist Philip Fisher at both sive community project, which will include Vänskä. the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music performances of her works and culminate Teatro Real in Madrid will present the on August 11 2018, and the Albany Sympho- in an orchestral commission to premiere in Spanish premiere of Only the Sound Remains ny’s American Music Festival on June 1. Spring 2021; as Visiting Artist-in-Residence on October 23, followed by the US premiere Beginning on October 16, the New York at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, she will on November 17 at Lincoln Center’s White Philharmonic and violinist Joshua Bell will work with the Blair School of Music students Light Festival. Marking the end of her present four subscription performances of and perform selections of her chamber term as Composer-in-Residence with the Corigliano’s score to The Red Violin, live to music; at the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, film in a Schirmer Theatrical production. Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra will be heard in three days of festivities will take place in The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra will April; finally, Frank will be featured composer Nantes on 7-9 October with performances of give concerts including Three Hallucinations for the Orchestra of St Luke’s Music in Color La Passion de Simone, Vers toi qui est si loin during its Under the Influence Festival on initiative, March 20–April 4 in partnership for violin and orchestra and a new version May 3-4. His season will conclude with two with Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: The Making of Graal Théâtre with actor and video. This productions of The Ghosts of Versailles at the of America Festival. Future commissions season Saariaho will also be honoured by Chautauqua Music Festival on July 27 and include the April 2020 premiere of her first the BBC Philharmonic with a portrait concert nine performances the Glimmerglass Festival opera, El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The on October 2018. The programme will in July and August 2019. Last Dream of Frida and Diego). include Laterna Magica and Maan Varjot. Lennox Berkeley Richard Rodney Bennett Iain Bell Jeff Beal Matthew Aucoin Malcolm Arnold Craig Armstrong George Antheil Louise Alenius Stephen Albert John Luther Adams John Adams Adamo Mark Hans Abrahamsen Some of our composers... Donnacha Dennehy Richard Danielpour Paul Creston Creed Martin Cowell Henry John Corigliano Chávez Carlos Daniel Catán Elliott Carter Benet Casablancas Britta Byström Geoffrey Burgon Eivind Buene Peter Bruun Bloch Ernest Bliss Arthur Volker Bertelmann Jorge Grundman Helen Grime José Luis Greco Gould Morton Mikolaj Górecki Henryk Michael Gordon Philip Glass Gabriela Lena Frank George Fenton Manuel de Falla Duke Ellington Brian Elias Ludovico Einaudi Søren Nils Eichberg Henri Dutilleux Avner Dorman Dessner Bryce

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