We are delighted to announce Carlos Simon and Kevin Puts have been honored with 3 Grammy nominations for their recent work. Best Classical Instrumental Solo Puts Contact (Time for Three, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Letters for the Future) Best Contemporary Classical Composition Puts Contact (Time for Three, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Letters for the Future) Simon/Pave Requiem […]
New Boyer CD instantly hits the top of the charts
Naxos Releases Recording of Composer Peter Boyer with the London Symphony Orchestra Boyer’s fourth album features Balance of Power, commissioned by the Kennedy Center; Fanfare for Tomorrow, commissioned for President Biden’s inauguration; and other premiere recordings, conducted by the composer On July 8, 2022, Naxos releases American composer/conductor Peter Boyer’s newest recording, with the London […]
Boyer’s ELLIS ISLAND 20th Anniversary
20 years after its premiere performance, Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America has established itself as an enduring tribute to the foundation of America and its multi-national roots. With text compiled by Boyer from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, Ellis Island is a 45 minute work for 7 actors and orchestra, with […]
Fuchs Receives Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer Award
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Announces Kenneth Fuchs As Recipient of 3rd Annual Composer Award Rockland, ME – The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation is pleased to announce Kenneth Fuchs is the recipient of its 3rd annual $20,000 Composer Award. With the Award, Fuchs will create a new work to be performed in 2023 by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Fuchs, a Grammy Award-winning composer and professor of composition […]
Silent Night recording released
The Minnesota Opera has released the first recording of the Pulitzer prize winning opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell. Order your copy here:
Torke PSALMS AND CANTICLES
Following up on the incredible success of his recording of Being Michael Torke has released a new work on Ecstatic Records, Psalms and Cancticles. Featuring the talented singer Lydia Brown, this promises to be a new major work in Torke’s catalogue. The study score is available for purchase here.
New Bunch work about the Japanese Internment Camps
America’s great reckonings continue. The late-blooming LGBTQ activist and Trekkie icon George Takei (a/k/a Ikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise) bears witness to a legacy of national shame in Lost History: A Memory, drawn from his personal recollections as a Japanese-American “enemy alien” in World War II under Executive Order 9066. Though Takei’s family was […]
Ursula Oppens on Laura Kaminsky
Pianist Ursula Oppens discusses the music of Laura Kaminsky and her new CD of Kaminsky’s works: Read the article here.
Boyer Fanfare for Tomorrow at Biden/Harris’ inauguration
Fanfare for Tomorrow, was performed as part of the one-hour Prelude music of the Inauguration ceremony, conducted by the Marine Band’s Director, Colonel Jason K. Fettig. “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, America’s oldest continuously active musical organization, is believed to have made its inaugural debut in 1801 for Thomas Jefferson, the first President to […]
The Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Ibis is an opera that fuses singers, puppetry and multimedia stagecraft to tell the story of Doodle, a remarkable, disabled boy whose older brother pushes him to be “normal.” Set in rural North Carolina a century ago, the story contrasts notions of physical wholeness versus mystical otherness. Episodic and expressionistic, the narrative draws on […]
