Pianist Eliza McCarthy performs the music of John Luther Adams and Mica Levi as part of Meltdown. Nunataks (Solitary peaks) for piano and Among Red Mountains for piano will be performed at the Central Bar at Royal Festival Hall.
Hailed in New York as “brilliant and searching” (New York Times) and “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” (The New Yorker), Lisa Moore’s concerts are always a gripping display of fierce energy and musical mastery. In her two ANAM concerts for 2015, American Hustle and American Bustle, Moore celebrates old and new America with repertoire ranging from Copland to the present day.
The Tanglewood Music Center presents the world premiere of David Lang's 'where you go' on their Chamber Music Concert.
ICE brings The Whisper Opera, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s compelling work of lyric theater, to a very small audience at beautiful Mount Tremper Arts, in Mount Tremper, NY. The piece premiered at MCA Chicago and the Mostly Mozart Festival, where the New York Times praised the work’s “contemplative allure … which comes from its pervasive softness, stillness, intimacy.”
This one-of-a-kind work is performed with the musicians, singer, and audience enclosed in an intimate onstage set. Scored for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, and cello, the libretto of The Whisper Opera is performed almost entirely in whispers, audible thanks to director Jim Findlay's innovative design. As he developed the work, David Lang wondered: “what if a piece were so quiet and so personal to the performers that you needed to be right next them or you would hear almost nothing? A piece like this would have to be experienced live. The only way this piece can be received is if you are there, listening very very closely.”
The Meidän Festivaali features Maria Ylipää, voice; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Bryce Dessner, Guitar; and Emil Holmström, piano performing David Lang's death speaks with works by Kaija Saariaho and Joni Mitchell on the program as well.
The best emerging musicians from across Canada and around the world play alongside special guest faculty members.
We are thrilled to welcome back the celebrated John Luther Adams, a composer whose music is rooted in the natural world. Join us for a celebratory evening of his work.
PNME Cellist, Norbert Lewandowski's enormous stylistic diversity will be on full display as will his well-reviewed "mahogany tone". Repertoire will include David Lang's A World To Come, and works by Phillip Glass and Andy Akiho.
John Luther Adams’s “Inuksuit” will open the rejuvenated Outside the Box festival on Boston Common alongside many other free performances.
Ludovic Morlot conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra featuring works by John Luther Adams, Mozart and Dvořák with violinist Pinchas Zukerman
San Francisco Symphony’s Director of Summer Concerts Edwin Outwaterleads the Orchestra in a free outdoor concert in the grassy plaza in front of the James R. Herman Cruise Terminal at Pier 27, located on the Embarcadero at the foot of Lombard Street. The Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, David Lang’s mountain and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Guitarist/composer Bryce Dessner from the indie rock band The National will also join the Symphony to perform his work St. Carolyn by the Sea. Dessner’s orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Center, Edinburgh Festival, eighth blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others. He has also worked with composers Sufjan Stevens and Nico Muhly.
A remarkable evening with two masterpieces by one of classical music’s greatest composers and two premieres from today’s. Experience Mozart, the world premiere of Bunch’s Ralph’s Old Records, and a West Coast premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang.
The beautiful gardens and grounds of Cambo Estate are the setting for musical magic! The performance opens dramatically at the heart of the garden, then, as you move between stunning locations, you’ll discover different kinds of music to suit the different spaces.
It all culminates in the world premiere of a new work by John Luther Adams. In 2013, ENF presented his epic Inuksuit for 30 percussionists on a glorious summer day at Cambo – people still talk about that day as a magical memory. This year, Adams is creating a new work especially for us, From A Distance, which features a huge number of horns ringing out through Cambo’s woodlands.
Amadrums performs David Lang's the so-called laws of nature with the National Polish Radio Orchestra.
In and around the main auditorium, a full-size Slagwerk Den Haag will play Inuksuit by the Alaskan composer John Luther Adams. The audience is free to walk around amongst the percussionists who are spread out across the auditorium and the lobbies, allowing them to influence their experience of this overwhelming spatial work.
David Lang's the National Anthems is performed by Yale Choral Artists at the second Yale International Choral Festival.
El Centro de Experimentacion performs the Argentina preimere of David Lang's "the little match girl passion"at Teatro Colon.
Lukas Ligeti has been a vitally creative contributor to NYC’s experimental and avant-garde music scene in all it facets since arriving here in 1998. On the occasion of his 50th birthday, the Austrian Cultural Forum presents an unprecedented overview of Ligeti’s work as a composer. The festival will culminate in this concert, presented jointly with Roulette, and featuring Lukas’ music for chamber orchestra. Ensemble mise-en will perform the world premiere of a new, extensive work commissioned by ACFNY; several other works on the program are US or NYC premieres.
Michael Gordon's Timbre is played by red fish blue fish for an exclusive donor's concert at the Ojai Music Festival in Ojai, CA.
John Luther Adams, a musical poet of nature’s wonders; Aaron Copland, the singer of a nation’s spirit – are joined together in a concert celebrating the flow of living things.
The world premiere string orchestra arrangement of Julia Wolfe's "Four Marys" is presented at the Ojai Music Festival.
David Lang's the anvil chorus is performed by Steven Schick as a part of the Ojai Music Festival.
Ojai reimagines the concert experience with Sila: The Breath of the World by Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, who continues his ongoing exploration of sound in an outdoor environment. Inspired by the Inuit concept of the spirit that animates the world, Sila places 80 musicians throughout Libbey Park while listeners are welcome to roam, creating an absorbing and mystical experience.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars debut in Miami at the Miami Light Project.
Cellist Ashley Bathgate joins bandoneon player JP Jofre at the Hill Center Concert Series.
Constructed of found footage, visionary filmmaker Bill Morrison’s Decasia is a 2002 film that assembles and meditates on the age and decay of silent films. The only 21st century film to be declared part of the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, Decasia includes original footage largely obtained through the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collection. The film features a soundtrack by composer Michael Gordon with a detuned orchestra playing out of phase with itself, performed live by the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra under the direction of John Kennedy.
Signal performs Shelter by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The Ictus Ensemble performs Michael Gordon's Timber.
Shara Worden and the De Doelen Ensemble perform David Lang's death speaks as the piece makes its Netherlands Premiere
Ashley Bathgate joins Lil Buck for the world premiere of What Moves You at the Spoleto Festival.
Performances are on 5/29 at 7:30PM, 5/30 at 2:00PM and 9:00PM, and 5/31 at 6:00 PM.
Glenn Kotche joins Third Coast Percussion for Wild Sound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
David Lang's love fail makes its Netherlands Premiere as Anonymous 4 performs the piece.
Glenn Kotche's Wild Sound is performed by Third Coast Percussion, combining live instrumental sound with field recordings of everyday sounds. Traditional percussion instruments are paired with new instrumental inventions, crossing lines between music and noise.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars conclude BOAC's season-long partnership with The Jewish Museum, taking the stage for a concert that highlights the relationship between music and image.
The All-Stars will perform an acclaimed work by Don Byron to accompany a screening of Eugene, an early television show by pioneering comedian Ernie Kovacs. This concert will also include Fade to Slide, a music and video piece by visual artist Christian Marclay.
The performance corresponds to the Museum’s exhibition Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents Philip Glass' The Light as part of the Metropolis Music Festival, with the Australian premiere of Julia Wolfe's "Fuel."
This May, trailblazing new-music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars unveil their newest album of world premiere recordings, a 13-track CD and DVD package of their project: Field Recordings. Be the first to hear the upcoming release from the ensemble dubbed “the country’s most important vehicle for contemporary music” (San Francisco Chronicle) with a performance of the complete album live from The Greene Space at WQXR.
Hear recent works by Steve Reich, Christian Marclay, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Anna Clyne, Todd Reynolds, Bang on a Can co-founders David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon, and genre-hopping provocateurs Tyondai Braxton (formerly of Battles), Mira Calix, Nick Zammuto (The Books), Florent Ghys, and Bryce Dessner (The National).
Field Recordings asks composers to go into the field of recorded sound itself – to find something old or record something new, and to respond with their own music, in dialogue with what they found. What they have created is a bridge through time, sensation, and sound – a thrilling ride from New York to Hollywood to Las Vegas, from John Cage to French Canadian folk singing, from beauty treatments to tape loops, vinyl records, and more. With "Field Recordings," one hundred years of sound and imagery unfold to reveal a contemporary collective consciousness channeled through the virtuosity and force of the electric Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Hosted by Q2 Music's Helga Davis, the evening includes on-stage conversation with performers and composers.
The U. S. Air Force Band will perform the DC premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World, by Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, produced in conjunction with Washington Performing Arts.
The U.S. Air Force Band will perform the DC premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World, by Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, produced in conjunction with Washington Performing Arts.
This concert is free and open to the public, no tickets required. Please note, in case of rain this performance will be cancelled.
So Percussion takes part in a music marathon curated by Bryce Dessner for the Barbican, performing Dessner's Music for Wood and Strings.
Michael Gordon writes a new work to be premiered by Ensemble Modern in Germany.
Saskia Lankhoorn performs Dances and Canons by Kate Moore in the Netherlands.
David Lang's face so pale is performed in Rotterdam by Ralph Van Raat.
Northwestern University performs the staged oratorio Lost Objects written by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe.
Kate Moore serves as composer-in-residence for the Canberra International Music Festival in Australia. Moore will have new works premiered on 5/1 and 5/5.
The Canticum Novum Singers perform David Lang's the same train (same train) in South Salem, New York as a part of their 2014/15 season.
The Noord Nederlands Orkest performs Decasia by Michael Gordon
The Noord Nederlands Orkest performs Michael Gordon's Decasia
Carnegie Hall presents So Percussion as part of its free Neighborhood Concerts.
Pianist Saskia Lankhoorn plays Kate Moore's Sensitive Spot for the World Minimal Music Festival.
Juniata presents So Percussion as part of their Worlds Collide 2014/2015 series.
Ralph van Raat plays an all-David Lang program as part of the World Minimal Music Festival.
