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Deadly Sins in New York and Silver Lion in Venice: Ensemble Modern
Wallis Giunta (Photo: Dario Accosta)Ensemble Modern is currently on a small tour of the USA with concerts in Houston and New York including Carnegie Hall. Under conductor HK Gruber the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta and a-cappella ensemble amarcord, will be presenting Kurt Weill's Die Sieben Todsünden, in a new version for chamber ensemble, plus music by Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Arnold Schoenberg. A second programme in New York will focus on Cuban-American composer Tania León alongside transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano studies.In September, Ensemble Modern will be at the Biennale Musica di Venezia 2024 and will be receiving the festival's Silver Lion whilst Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to the composer Rebecca Saunders. On September 26, Ensemble Modern opens the festival at the Teatro la Fenice together with the Orchestra del Teatro under the baton of Tito Ceccherini, performing Rebecca Saunders' Wound. On September 28, Ensemble Modern appears […]
2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] the heels of a run of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with Deutsche Oper Berlin, star soprano Liv Redpath joins the cast as Radamisto’s wife Zenobia. Bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock returns to the role of the tyrant Tiridate, having performed this role with Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415 at Lincoln Center in 2013. British soprano Ellie Laugharne plays his faithful wife Polissena, pursued by baritone Morgan Pearse as Farasmane. Rounding out this powerhouse of a cast is mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta as Tigrane.This treasure trove of artists includes five Philharmonia debuts. Music Director Richard Egarr will lead the production from the harpsichord, conducting his first opera with Philharmonia.For details, visit https://philharmonia.org/--Jacob Dassa, Philharmonia BaroqueMusic At The Anthology Announces 2022 FestivalFrom May 4-7, 2022 in Brooklyn, Music at the Anthology (MATA) presents the MATA Festival, New York’s most cutting-edge showcase for experimental early career composers and sound artists, for the first time in two years due […]
2022-02-18 07:52:20
[…] Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin, plus a new work by Jonathan Dove, Man, Woman, Child, a duet cycle that is receiving its first performance outside London with Shakira Tsindos mezzo-soprano, Dominic Sedgwick baritone, and Ian Tindale piano. The Leeds Lieder 2022 Young Artists will be taking part in masterclasses and performing in a showcase concert. Late evening recitals include The Revolution Smells of Jasmine, an homage to protest music in the Americas from female artists and composers with Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano, Sean Shibe, guitar, and Adam Walker, flute, with music ranging from Ariel Ramirez to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, plus Abel Meeropol's Strange Fruit. Ruby Hughes, soprano and Joseph Middleton in music by Errollyn Wallen and Mahler, plus Deborah Pritchard's new song cycle, The World. The mental health initiative SongPath will be running a musical walking trail around St Aidan's RSPB Nature Reserve, and Jess Dandy's recital is designed to complement this event. Full […]
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