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2023-12-20 21:12:00
[…] this month.For more than four decades, Gordon Getty and his late wife, Ann, have been stalwart supporters of San Francisco Opera. Their generosity has enabled the Company to maintain its position among the art form’s leading institutions throughout the nation and world. Ann and Gordon Getty’s commitment to the Company has helped bring to the War Memorial Opera House stage the world premieres of many new works, including John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West, Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’sDream of the Red Chamber, Marco Tutino’s Two Women and Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne along with bolstering the core repertoire with new productions of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Puccini’s La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, among others and epochal revivals including the 2018 presentations of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Mr. Getty has been awarded the Gold Baton of the American Symphony Orchestra League, honored as an Outstanding American Composer at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, received the European Culture Prize and was […]
2023-09-13 13:17:00
Continental Drift: BCMG's new season sees collaborations exploring the music of South Korea, Japan and China
Birmingham Contemporary Music GroupBirmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is celebrating collaborations across cultures and genres with Continental Drift its 2023/24 season. The traditions of the Far East feature quite strongly during the season. Things kick off when BCMG visits South Korea later this month for concerts at the Tongyeong International Festival, performing the music of Julian Anderson and creating a collaboration of centuries-old traditional Korean music and the cutting-edge music of today, with the world-renowned Ensemble TIMF.Then on 26 September, back in the UK, BCMG join forces with Noh Reimagined and composers Hollie Harding and Ben Nobuto for an interactive workshop in Noh theatre. Then on 23 June 2024, BCMG performs Noh Reimagine New Music, a concert of new work by Nobuto and Harding inspired by their visits to Japan in winter 2023 and written under the guidance of Noh’s most skilled interpreters.Moving on to China, in October BCMG joins forces with Ensemble Contempo Beijing […]
2023-08-31 06:29:00
The Canada-based Azrieli Foundation presents the London debut of the Azrieli Music Prizes at Cadogan Hall
The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) were created by the Azrieli Foundation in 2014 to 'offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition'. The foundation is a Canadian non-profit organisation whose mission is to improve lives through Education, Research, Healthcare and the Arts mainly in Canada and Israel. There are three main prizes:The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music - awarded to a composer who has written the best new undiscovered work of Jewish musicThe Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music - awarded to encourage composers to creatively and critically engage with the question "What is Jewish music?"The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music - offered to a Canadian composer to create a new musical work that creatively and critically engages with the complexities of composing concert music in Canada todayOn 15 October 2023, the foundation is presenting […]
All the conducting master class
2023-04-19 04:26:04
APR 21 FRI 2:30pmFree CLASSICAL, CONTEMPORARY Choral Room Join us for a masterclass with acclaimed cellist, Sunny Yang. UCLA students will perform contemporary and classical works for Yang’s instruction. Program: Peter Walsh – Seven, for solo cello, by Benjamin Fleischacker – Three Songs for Pipa and Cello by Bright Sheng, with Selina Li Brahms Trio in C […]
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