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Kate Soper Awarded Marie-Josée Kravis Emerging Composer Prize by the New York Philharmonic

We are delighted to announce that Kate Soper has been named the Kravis Emerging Composer by the New York Philharmonic. This honor was bestowed as part of The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, awarded this year to fellow American composers David Lang and Missy Mazzoli. As the 2024 Kravis Emerging Composer, Soper receives a $50,000 stipend, including a commission to compose a new work that the Philharmonic will premiere in May 2025 conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Funding for both honors comes from a $10 million gift to the New York Philharmonic in 2009 by Henry R. Kravis in honor of his wife, Marie-Josée, for whom the Prize is named.

Marie-Josée Kravis noted: “The 2024 recipients of the Prize and the Emerging Composer are remarkable for the collective range they represent. Each composer’s unique voice and approach to composition will tap into the potential of the New York Philharmonic in distinctive and unexpected ways. Their selection fulfills our hopes in creating these honors: to establish a platform for vibrant works that will catalyze excitement around new music. I look forward to hearing Kate Soper perform in her new work this spring, and to discovering what David Lang and Missy Mazzoli devise when their compositions are premiered in the coming seasons.” 

Norman Ryan, Vice President for Composers and Repertoire at Schott New York said: "We are thrilled that Kate Soper has been named the recipient of New York Philharmonic's Marie-Josée Kravis Emerging Composer Prize. My first exposure to Kate's unique voice as both composer and vocalist was at the premiere of her Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say, which she performed with flutist Erin Lesser in 2011. This was followed shortly after by Here Be Sirens and Ipsa Dixit, sui generis works that defy categorization, and most recently her brilliant chamber opera The Romance of the Rose. As the recipient of the Kravis Emerging Composer Prize, Kate has the opportunity to create on a large canvas and explore the myriad possibilities of the great instrument that is the orchestra in a meta-theatrical way. We look forward to the premiere of her new work in May."

About Kate Soper

Kate Soper has been creating unique and uncategorizable musico-theatrical spectacles for over a decade. Her large-scale works include the monodramas Voices from the Killing Jar (2012) and IPSA DIXIT (2017) and the operas with original librettos Here Be Sirens (2014), The Romance of the Rose (2021), and The Hunt (2023). A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Soper has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Koussevitzky Foundations, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Rome. As a vocalist, she performs frequently in her own works and has also given U.S. and world premieres of works by Rick Burkhardt, Beat Furrer, George Lewis, Darius Jones, Sky MacClay, Alex Mincek, Katharina Rosenberger, Eric Wubbels, and others. Soper is a co-director and performer for Wet Ink, a new music ensemble dedicated to adventurous music-making across aesthetic boundaries.

Don't miss the world premiere of Kate Soper's new work for the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus, led by Gustavo Dudamel and featuring the composer as vocal soloist, May 22-24 & 27. Tickets are available here.

To learn more about Kate Soper, and to purchase her music from Project Schott NY (PSNY), click here.