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Pierre Jalbert, Hannah Lash and Lei Liang Join Schott

Dec. 12, 2011

Schott New York is proud to announce signings of publishing agreements with three of today's most exciting young composers Pierre Jalbert, Hannah Lash and Lei Liang. Norman Ryan, Vice President of Composers and Repertoire, comments:

We are delighted to begin publishing relationships with Pierre Jalbert, Hannah Lash and Lei Liang. Each has developed a compelling voice expressed in a wide range of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo works that display masterly command of the myriad musical resources available to creators today. Our new composer signings along with the recent launch of the e-music publishing platform, Project Schott New York (PSNY), continues Schott’s ‘Fresh Start in America’ initiative, which was launched shortly after the opening of the New York office in 2005 and designed expressly to recognize, support and promote significant composing talent at various stages of development.


Pierre Jalbert, among the most eagerly-watched composers of his generation, has developed a musical language that is engaging, expressive, deeply personal and distinctly his own. Key orchestral works include big sky (2005), commissioned by the Houston Symphony and performed by them at Carnegie Hall, Symphonia Sacra (2001), written for the California Symphony, Les espaces infinis (2001), commissioned by the Albany Symphony, Fire and Ice (2006), commissioned for the Oakland East Bay, Marin, and Santa Rosa Symphonies through Meet the Composer’s Magnum Opus Project, and Autumn Rhapsody (2008), commissioned by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Jalbert has also received commissions from Copland House for his ensemble work Crossings (2011), supported by Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, where he was Composer-in-Residence from 2002-2005, for his Chamber Symphony (2004).

Performers of his much sought-after chamber music include Midori, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Escher, Ying, Borromeo, Chiara, Enso, Jasper and Emerson String Quartets, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Caramoor Festival and more. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center recently commissioned his Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano and performed the world premiere at Alice Tully Hall in November, 2011. The composer's next chamber music commission is a piece for the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. A new Flute Concerto has been commissioned by the National Flute Association for a consortium of orchestras that is currently in formation.

Pierre Jalbert’s many honors include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Copland House/Borromeo String Quartet Award, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Stoeger Prize, a 2010 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the prestigious BBC Masterprize for his orchestral work In Aeternam. His discography features recordings by David Finckel and Wu Han, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Ying Quartet, and recordings of his music are available on the ArtistLed, Cedille, Albany, Gasparo, and Helicon labels.

Pierre Jalbert - Composer Profile

Hannah Lash's music, hailed by The New York Times as "striking and resourceful," has seen performances at the Chicago Art Institute, Tanglewood Music Festival, Harvard University, The Chelsea Art Museum, the Times Center in Manhattan, New York City Opera's VOX, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and on American Opera Projects' stages in New York City. The numerous honors and prizes awarded to the composer include the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fromm Foundation Commission, the Naumberg Prize in Composition, and the Barnard Rogers Prize in Composition.

Recent performances include the premieres of Hush, for large chamber ensemble, commissioned by the Great Noise Ensemble, and Filigree in Textile, for harp and string quartet, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for the JACK Quartet and Yolanda Kondonassis. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of God Music Bug Music by the Minnesota Orchestra in January, 2012, the Da Capo Chamber Players' premiere of Subtilior, Lamento at Carnegie Hall in April, 2012, and the debut of Requiem Pro Avibus Mortuis for New York's Park Avenue Christian Church Choir. Her chamber opera, Blood Rose, a haunted reinterpretation of the legend of Beauty and the Beast premiered last year with alto Kirsten Sollek, countertenor Eric Brenner and the JACK Quartet in New York City.

Hannah Lash - Composer Profile

The music of Lei Liang has been described as “hauntingly beautiful and sonically colorful” byThe New York Times and “brilliantly original, inarguably gorgeous” by The Washington Post. Lei Liang has earned commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Philharmonic, the Heidelberg Philharmonic, the Shanghai String Quartet, and the Meridian Arts Ensemble, and his music has been performed by such leading artists and ensembles as Steven Schick, Stephen Drury, the Arditti Quartet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Argento Chamber Ensemble, PRISM Quartet, Jeffrey Milarsky, Paula Robison, Stephen Gosling, Kenneth Radnofsky, and many others. The composer is a recipient of the George Whitefield Chadwick Medal from the New England Conservatory, an Aaron Copland Award, several ASCAPLUS Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Heinrich Strobel Foundation bursary from the Southwest German Radio Experimental Studio.

Described by The Wire magazine (UK) as “one of the most exciting voices in New Music,” Lei Liang was recently awarded the 2011 Elliott Carter Rome Prize. The recording, Milou, containing several of the composer's key solo and chamber ensemble works, was released by New World Records earlier this year to international critical acclaim. Liang’s next recording will be released on Naxos and will be his fourth composer portrait recording, featuring orchestral and ensemble performances by Wu Man, the Shanghai String Quartet, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Callithumpian Consort with Stephen Drury, and the Palimpsest Ensemble with Steven Schick.

Recent commissions have come from the PRISM Quartet, Southwest Chamber Music, the Callithumpian Consort for the newly designed concert hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

Lei Liang - Composer Profile

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