Tanglewood’s Fellows will present a new work by Composition Fellow Gala Flagello at the July 7 program, which also includes four works by Charles Ives. Strauss’ Serenade, Op. 7, completes the lineup. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-chamber-july-7-2024
John Luther Adams’ latest work for chamber ensemble, Prophecies of Fire, will receive its world premiere on July 10. Sandbox Percussion will perform the piece, under the auspices of Chamber Music Northwest, which co-commissioned it. Gabriela Lena Frank’s Luciérnagas and Zapatos de Chincha are also on the program. https://cmnw.org/concerts-events/2024-summer-festival/special-event-world-premiere-of-prophecies-of-fire/2029/
Owls are an exciting new quartet collective that shatters all expectations and throws labels out the window with their unmissable, lively, and deeply personal performances. Their July 11 program at Caramoor spans centuries and styles, from François Couperin to Terry Riley, and from Franghiz Ali-Zadeh to Chick Corea. https://caramoor.org/event/owls-summer-2024/
While the main draw on July 12-13 may be Stewart Goodyear playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto under Giancarlo Guerrero at the Grant Park Festival, the world-premiere opener by Chicago-based composer Jim Stephenson will be worth showing up for too. And stay for Duruflé’s powerful Requiem sung by the Grant Park Chorus. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/beethoven-emperor-concerto
The world premiere of The Righteous will take place July 13-Aug. 13 at Santa Fe Opera. The opera, composed by Gregory Spears with a libretto by Tracy K. Smith, follows a Texas man on his journey from preacher to governor, with all its moral development and decay. The cast will include baritone Michael Mayes, soprano […]
On July 13-18, Des Moines Metro Opera presents the world premiere of American Apollo, by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer. The main character is Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black hotel worker who was also the model and muse for painter John Singer Sargent. Justin Austin and William Burden star, with stage director Shaun Patrick Tubbs […]
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton will give the Canadian premiere of Night Thoughts by Errolyn Wallen on July 16 at Toronto Summer Music. The recital also includes songs by Barber, Schoenberg, Berg, and Weill. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/connolly-middleton/
A new work by Augusta Read Thomas will receive its world premiere Sept. 19-21 when KenDavid Masur conducts a program curated by the musicians of New York Philharmonic. The eclectic lineup also includes Mahler’s arrangement of some movements by Bach, Duke Ellington’s Harlem, and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/masur-thomas/
Witness the future of classical music in the making as the New Jersey Symphony performs works by four emerging composers selected for the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Institute Director Steven Mackey hosts the culminating concert, and Christopher Rountree takes the podium for this July 20 program. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/new-scores-2024-edward-t-cone-institute-concert
Haitian-American composer Nathalie Joachim loves to use the musical concepts from her heritage to inform her works. The world premiere of her latest composition is sure to bring fresh energy to the Grant Park Festival on July 24. Eric Jacobsen also conducts Grieg Holberg Suite and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/beethovens-fifth-symphony
The July 26 program at Ottawa ChamberFest will feature four new commissions written for avant-garde string quartet Brooklyn Rider and soprano Ariadne Greif. Those five musicians will perform those new works by Clarice Assad, Gabriel Kahane, Giovanni Solima, and Tyshawn Sorey, as well as Schoenberg’s Quartet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10 and Colin Jacobsen’s Suite […]
To open the 40th season of Sun Valley Music Festival, Timothy Higgins has composed Fanfare, which will receive its world premiere on July 29. Then soprano Meechot Marrero returns to Sun Valley to sing a few of her favorite arias. The concert closes with Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/opening-night-with-meechot-marrero/
Opera Saratoga will present the world premiere of a new opera by Inti Figgis-Vizuenta on June 30-July 5. The opera, not yet named, will be developed during a summer residency by the composer. https://tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/tmEvent/tmEvent34373.html
Ottawa-based synth composer Nick Schofield’s latest release, Ambient Ensemble, was inspired by a series of concerts where special guests were invited to improvise. On Aug. 1, Ottawa ChamberFest will present a concert version of the album. Schofield will be joined by Philippe Charbonneau, Mika Posen (Merganzer), and Yolande Laroche (Orchidae) to explore the blissful interaction between […]
The Sun Valley Music Festival commissioned a new cello concerto from Andy Akiho, which will be given its world premiere on Aug. 2. The soloist will be Jeffrey Zeigler, the former cellist of the famed Kronos Quartet, for whom the concerto was written. Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks completes the program, conducted by Alasdair Neale. […]
