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2018 Summer Festival Digest

Jul. 16, 2018

2018 Summer Festival Digest

Summer 2018 marks another exciting festival season for our composers. Below you’ll find a round-up of festival activities across the globe. 

Aspen Music Festival
The 2018 Aspen Music Festival features Pierre Boulez's  Le Marteau sans maître, Alexander Zemlinsky's Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Francisco Coll'sHyperlude V, György Ligeti's Violin Concerto, Joaquín Rodrigo's Aranjuez, ma pensée, and performances using the new critical edition of George Gershwin's An American in Paris, among other works. 

BBC Proms
Karina Canellakis leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of Andrew Norman's Spiral at the 2018 BBC Proms. Read more.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
On August 12, Cristian Măcelaru and the Festival Orchestra present the West Coast premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s In Terra. Read more.

Chamber Music Northwest
On July 26, clarinettist David Shifrin and the Montrose Trio perform Pierre Jalbert's Street Antiphons as part of the Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival in Portland, OR. Read more.

Glimmerglass Festival
From July 8 to August 25, the Glimmerglass Festival mounts a new production of Leoš Janáček's beloved opera The Cunning Little Vixen with a new English translation by Kelley Rourke. Joseph Colaneri conducts and E. Loren Meeker directs this work in its Glimmerglass debut. Read more.

Grant Park Music Festival
On July 4, Christopher Bell led the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in a performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and on July 11, Vinay Parameswaran led the Orchestra in Gershwin's An American in Paris. David Danzmayr conducts Andrew Norman's Switch on July 27-28, and Carlos Kalmar conducts Orff's Carmina Burana on August 17-18. 

Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center
Louis Langrée leads the Festival Orchestra in the New York premiere performances of the new critical edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris on July 24-25. 

Lucerne Festival
From August 20-24, Wolfgang Rihm leads the Lucerne Festival's Composer Seminar designed to encourage “encounters between creative young people and performers.” On August 20, the Lucerne Festival Alumni perform COncErto? Certo! cOn soli pEr tutti (… perduti? …)! with the composer conducting.  Finally, on September 1, Matthias Pintscher leads the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Dialogue, a concerto for two pianos and orchestra, and the world premiere of Peter Eötvös's Reading Malevich for orchestra, commissioned by Roche as part of Roche Commissions for the Lucerne Festival. For this special performance, the audience will be seated among the musicians in the orchestra to give them a uniquely interactive experience.

Salzburg Festival
Kent Nagano leads the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in performances of Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion (Passio Et Mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Lucam) on July 20. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's "Nobody knows de trouble I see" (Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra) is performed by the Vienna Symphony, led by Andris Nelsons, featuring Håkan Hardenberger as the soloist on July 28-29. From July 30-August 6, a series of concerts feature an array of works by Beat Furrer including Begehren. Music theater based on texts of Cesare Pavese, Günter Eich, Ovid und Vergil, invocation VI, for soprano and bass flute, intorno al bianco, for clarinet and string quartet, Des Dichters Pflug, String trio in memoriam Ossip Mandelstam, among others. Finally, Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids returns to the Salzburg Festival for the first time since its debut there in 1966. Read more about Krzysztof Warlikowski's new production of the opera here.

Tanglewood Music Festival
The 2018 Tanglewood Music Festival includes works by a number of our composers including Bernard Rands, Hannah Lash, Julian Anderson, and György Ligeti. BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès directs the 2018 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music which includes some of his own works alongside those of Francisco Coll, Conlon Nancarrow, Jonathan Harvey, Gerald Barry, Oliver Knussen, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, among others. The 2018 Tanglewood Festival brochure may be found here.

Yellow Barn Music Festival
The 2018 Yellow Barn Music Festival includes Nicholas Maw's Roman Canticle and Wolfgang Rihm's Das Rot. A concert on July 13 was performed in memory of Oliver Knussen and featured his Triptych alongside works by Mozart and Franck.

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