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Schott New York Season Preview

Sep. 10, 2013

Schott New York Season Preview

Our Schott New York composers have many exciting events this season, including the world premiere of Joseph Schwantner'sChapel Songs as well as new works by Bernard Rands, Hannah Lash, Pierre Jalbert, Andrew Norman and more. 


Robert Beaser

  • On April 5, Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto receives a performance by the Grand Rapids Symphony led by David Lockington with soloist Eliot Fisk. The performance takes place at the Peter Martin Wege Theatre.  www.grsymphony.org

 Douglas J. Cuomo

  • Douglas J. Cuomo will write a new work for SATB chorus for the Kingswood Oxford School to be premiered in the Spring of 2014.
  • Upcoming for Cuomo include a new concerto for saxophone and orchestra with soloist Joe Lovano, a song cycle for the Young People’s Chorus of New York, and a DVD release of his recent opera, Doubt.

Pierre Jalbert

  • Pierre Jalbert receives a performance of his Transcendental Windows on September 24 by the Oberlin Sinfonietta conducted by Tim Weiss. oberlin.edu
  • The Vermont Youth Orchestra performs Music of Air and Fire on January 26 conducted by Jeff Domoto. The Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, led by Brett Mitchell, performs Les espaces infinis on March 22. www.saginawbayorchestra.com
  • Visual Abstract receives a performance this season by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on April 11 at Alice Tully Hall. www.chambermusicsociety.org
  • A new clarinet quintet by Pierre Jalbert written for clarinetist Charles Neidich and the Pro Arte Quartet receives its premiere in September of 2014.

Hannah Lash

  • Lash, who was recently named Alabama Symphony’s Sound Investment composer for the 2013-14 season, receives a performance of her Hush by the orchestra on October 25, as well as the world premiere of a new orchestral work on May 2. www.alabamasymphony.org
  • The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, who has also commissioned Lash as their 2013/14 Sound Investment composer, gives the world premiere of a new work for chamber orchestra on April 26. www.laco.org
  • Lash’s new work for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players receives its premiere on February 9 in celebration of their 50th Anniversary season. www.bso.org

Lei Liang

  • Lei Liang’s recent Cuatro Corridos receives several performances this season, including on September 28 at the Municipal Institute for Art and Culture in Tijuana, Mexico as well as at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas on October 4. cuatrocorridos.com
  • Bamboo Lights, Liang’s recent work for chamber orchestra, receives a performance on October 1 by the Callithumpian Consort, who premiered the work in February under the baton of Stephen Drury. www.callithumpian.org

Fred Lerdahl

  • The American Composers Orchestra performs the NY premiere of Fred Lerdahl's Spirals on October 25 at Carnegie's Zankel Hall.
  • The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs Fred Lerdahl’s Fantasy Etudes on April 17 at the Kaplan Penthouse in New York. Soloists include violinist Ani Kavafian, cellist Mihai Marica, flutist Tara Helen O’Conner, clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, and pianist Soyeon Kate Lee. www.chambermusicsociety.org  

Andrew Norman

  • The Utah Symphony, under the music direction of Thierry Fischer, presents the world premiere of a new percussion concerto by Andrew Norman on April 18 and 19 with soloist Colin Currie. Norman's new percussion concerto is co-commissioned by the Utah and BBC Symphony Orchestras.  www.utahsymphony.org
  • The Los Angeles Philharmonic has commissioned a new piano concerto from Andrew Norman which will receive its premiere on May 1 with soloist Emanuel Ax and Gustavo Dudamel leading the orchestra. Subsequent performances take place May 2 and 3 at Walt Disney Hall. www.laphil.com

Tobias Picker

  • Tobias Picker’s highly anticipated new opera, Dolores Claiborne, opens on September 18 at the San Francisco Opera. The performance, featuring Patricia Racette and Catherine Cook in the title role, runs through October 4. sfopera.com
  • A new recording of chamber works by Tobias Picker is to be released on the Tzadik label in early 2014. Works include Invisible Lilacs, Sextet No. 2, Piano Quintet: Live Oaks, and Nova with performances by the Brentano Quartet, pianist Sarah Rothenberg, as well as the Tobias Picker Ensemble.
  • 2014 marks the 60th birthday of Tobias Picker. Performances surrounding his birthday include the Microscopic Opera Company’s production of the chamber version of Thérèse Raquin opening September 13, Old and Lost Rivers performed by James Gaffigan and the Houston Symphony on February 28 and March 1, 2, as well as a new production of An American Tragedy at the 2014 Glimmerglass Festival. www.schott-music.com 

Bernard Rands

  • In celebration of the 80th birthday of Bernard Rands, Robert Spano will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Rands's new Concerto for Piano and Orchestra on April 3 with pianist Jonathan Biss. Repeat performances take place on April 4, 5 and 8 at Boston's Symphony Hall. The work receives its German premiere with Biss and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester led by Sir Andrew Davis on May 7, 8 and 9. The 2014 BBC Proms delivers the work's UK premiere with a performance on August 15 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Markus Stenz. www.bso.org
  • Additional performances in celebration of Rands's birthday include ...where the murmurs die... by Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on December 19, 20 and 21, residencies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Rice University, and the June in Buffalo Festival, as well as a series of four portrait concerts by the Royal Northern College of Music. Rands will also be composer in residence at the 2014 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music where the world premiere of his Folk Songs, for voice and ensemble, will take place. www.schott-music.com

Joseph Schwantner

  • The world premiere of Joseph Schwantner’s Chapel Songs takes place on February 9 at the Alice Millar Chapel at Northwestern University. The work is a setting of five diverse songs for chorus and orchestra with texts by George Herbert, St. John of the Cross, Henry David Thoreau, William Butler Yeats and from the Bible.
  • Rounding off Schwantner's 70th birthday year will be a nationawide broadcast of The Poet's Hour - Soliloquy for Violin with violinist Yevgeny Kutik and the All-Star Orchestra led by Gerard Schwarz. For details on the broadcast, visit allstarorchestra.org    

Alvin  Singleton

  • Alvin Singleton writes a new work for concert band this season commissioned by a consortium of more than 20 college and university bands, led by Dr. Jack Stamp at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). The new work receives its world premiere in the Fall of 2014 at IUP..

Morton Subotnick

  • Morton Subotnick, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, will see the world premiere in New York of the revised version of Jacob's Room: Monodrama, based on scenes from his chamber opera Jacob's Room. The premiere takes place on October 11 and features Joan La Barbara as soloist with the Juilliard AXIOM Ensemble led by conductor Jeffrey Milarsky. www.juilliard.edu

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