Also this April, Watson will release a recording of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago performing “Diving into the Wreck,” based on the poems of Adrienne Rich. On May 1, members of Ekmeles vocal ensemble and Sandbox Percussion will premiere “[of desire,” setting fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson alongside poems by composer and poet Kevin Madison. But Watson, 24, also makes music with a personal stamp and a poetic depth - “Sunburnt Monoliths” is a setting of prose written by Watson’s parents, both of whom immigrated to the United States from Australia almost 30 years ago. The Chicago-based composer and sound artist works “between the mediums of contemporary concert music, electroacoustic music and interactive installation work.” This means that her music can veer from bracing, tensile strings (“ Three Places for String Quartet” composed for Quatuor Diotima) to a row of wired clay pots (“ Ekklesia (motherboard mass),” an interactive installation with Emily Harter). Blood Orange) later this year, releasing an EP and presenting full orchestral performances of Hynes’s piano concerto for Tendler, “Happenings.”. Tendler will also continue his collaboration with Hynes (a.k.a. Y in New York will feature new work by Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, Missy Mazzoli and a crew of alums from past editions of this list: inti figgis-vizueta (’21), Angélica Negrón (’21), Christopher Cerrone (’21), Marcos Balter (’22), Darian Donovan Thomas (’21), Mary Prescott (’21) and Timo Andres (’21). His forthcoming Inheritances project will premiere 16 commissioned works for piano, funded by the money left to Tendler (in a manila envelope) by his father after his unexpected death in 2019. But in 2023, I’m most looking forward to the community that will spring from his music. I’ve seen Tendler, 40, precisely navigate the dizzying corridors of Philip Glass, the vast expanses of Morton Feldman and the writhing wrath of Frederic Rzewski. ĭisclaimer, disclaimer: The Brooklyn-based pianist and I have been buddies long before I ever sat at this desk, and well before I realized he’d become one of the premier interpreters of mid-century piano repertoire. With Delong Wang and Norvin Tu-Wang, he’s also composed a score (performed by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra) for Hou Yong’s forthcoming film, “Manifesto.”. He’s also completed “Fireward Feast,” an orchestral work commissioned by the China National Centre for the Performing Arts. Most recently, he finished recording “ƎHOHE” - a work based on a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai for a new album by violinist Julia Glenn. Hwarg) he created “ Don’t You Know?” a multimedia concert based on the poetry of Li Qingzhao. With Min-Xiao Fen (on pipa, ruan, qin and vocals), lighting designer François-Thibaut Pencenat and composer and sound designer Howie Kenty (a.k.a. But his most recent works teem with surprising textures and ideas. Pre-pandemic orchestral pieces like “ Spiritus” and “ Dust” hinted at a composer honing a voice of unique lightness. The 28-year-old composer, a doctoral student at Princeton University, creates strikingly beautiful soundscapes that extend between and beyond notions of Western and Eastern. In the coming year for Beth Morrison Projects, Bansal will complete “Star Singer,” an opera with librettist Neil Aitken inspired by Asian and Polynesian mythology, as well as two album-based projects: “ Women’s Stories” (with Ghatak) and a collaboration with cellist Jake Charkey. You can hear her management of color and light on full display in “ Songs From the Deep,” a surging chamber work for the Oregon Mozart Players. Most recently she premiered “ Love, Loss and Exile (women’s poems from Afghanistan),” a song cycle composed from anonymous landays (i.e. In 2021 for the New York City-based Prototype Festival of new opera, she released “ Waves of Change,” a digital short inspired by the story of the Bangladesh Girls Surf Club that weaves the vocals of Ranjana Ghatak and soprano Kathryn Shuman atop Timothy Loo’s sawing cello. The 38-year-old, raised in Hong Kong and now based in Los Angeles, composes orchestral works that interlock Hindustani and Western classical traditions. An inventive, exciting negotiation of sound energizes the music of composer Juhi Bansal.
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