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Performance of Unwind/Wound Up for string quartet and percussion (handpan and cajón), along with new works and audience favorites, featuring the FAB5 quintet.
New a cappella choral work entitled The New Colossus, commissioned the Vocális Chamber Choir, James Burritt, music director and conductor. This program, entitled “Voices of the Queen City,” will also feature works by other Buffalo-born, Buffalo-based, or Buffalo-raised composers, including Caroline Mallonee and Michael Slon.
The text for this choral work is The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus.
World premiere of Alto Saxophone Concerto, "Cocktail Concerto” with Knoxville Symphony, Aram Demirjian, Music Director and Conductor, Christopher Creviston, Alto Saxophone.
World premiere of Alto Saxophone Concerto, "Cocktail Concerto” with Knoxville Symphony, Aram Demirjian, Music Director and Conductor, Christopher Creviston, Alto Saxophone.
Join us as we celebrate American composers and America’s first female conductor of a major orchestra, Maestro JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Native-Buffalo, New Yorker, and Artistic Director of Mostly Modern (and now Saratoga Springs resident), Robert Paterson, brings us a performance of the first part of his colorful Journey of a Dragonfly.
Performance of Unwind/Wound Up for string quartet and percussion (handpan and cajón), along with new works and audience favorites, featuring the FAB5 quintet.
Performance of Wound Up/Unwind for string quartet and percussion (handpan and cajón), along with new works and audience favorites, featuring the FAB5 quintet, at Mostly Modern Festival | The Netherlands.
World Premiere of Red Delicious for soprano and piano, a musical setting of the poem of the same name by Jerome Ellison Murphy, Susanna Phillips, soprano, Mark Risinger, piano.
Join us for our 5th season Finale as we celebrate American composers and America’s first female conductor of a major orchestra, Maestro JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Native-Buffalo, New Yorker, and Artistic Director of Mostly Modern (and now Saratoga Springs resident), Robert Paterson, brings us a performance of the first part of his colorful Journey of a Dragonfly.
World Premiere of New York Stories for two singers and chamber ensemble at Mostly Modern Festival, featuring librettos by New York City-based librettists and scenes inspired by the Five Boroughs. Librettists include Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John de los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.
Preview performance of the piano/vocal version of Robert Paterson’s New York Stories with American Modern Ensemble, featuring librettos and lyrics by New York City-based writers, including Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John De Los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.
Preview performance of the piano/vocal version of Robert Paterson’s New York Stories with American Modern Ensemble, featuring librettos and lyrics by New York City-based writers, including Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John De Los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.
Preview performance of the piano/vocal version of Robert Paterson’s New York Stories with American Modern Ensemble, featuring librettos and lyrics by New York City-based writers, including Mark Campbell, David Cote, Margot Connolly, Briana Elyse Hunter, John De Los Santos, and Sokunthary Svay.
World premiere of Kama for SATB choir and handpan performed by Paterson, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Founding Artistic Director, as Ember's first Composer in Residence.
World premiere of Kama for SATB choir and handpan performed by Paterson, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Founding Artistic Director, as Ember's first Composer in Residence.
World premiere of Soar for trumpet and piano, featuring Lexie Signor, trumpet, and Geoffrey Burleson, piano, on this program that features Mostly Modern composers and selections from guest ensemble Atlantic Brass Quintet’s 20th-century repertoire. World premieres abound at Mostly Modern, and tonight is no exception!
Join us for an evening concert celebrating all American composers, featuring JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mostly Modern Orchestra, and the Neave Trio performing in the world premiere of Robert Paterson’s Triple Concerto.
World premiere of Summit Trio, a new piano trio consisting of a suite of the three solo trio movements from Triple Concerto, which will be premiered at Mostly Modern Festival. This program also features our Mostly Modern composers and selections from Neave Trio’s repertoire.
World premiere performance of the second movement of The Winds of Time by the Carthage Wind Orchestra, Dr. James C. Ripley, conductor. Commissioned by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Davis Scatterday, Conductor, and a consortium of wind ensembles, in honor of the Eastman School of Music’s Centennial Anniversary.
Neave Trio performance of Moon Trio by Robert Paterson, as well as world premieres by composers at the Mostly Modern Festival.
This program features our Robert Paterson’s Dash and Mostly Modern composers, as well as a mix of Atlantic’s repertoire from the 20th century. World premieres abound at Mostly Modern and tonight is no exception!
Join us for an afternoon concert, featuring the American Modern Orchestra, with the exquisite Peter Bay, conductor for the Austin Symphony. Composers include Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Paterson, and Einojuhani Rautavaara, as well as a brand-new work from one of our ‘Mostly Modern Composers’.
Ember Choral Ensemble directed and conducted by Deborah Simpkin King is joined by American Modern Ensemble for the world premiere of Listen for choir and instrumental sextet.
Ember Choral Ensemble directed and conducted by Deborah Simpkin King is joined by American Modern Ensemble for the world premiere of Listen for choir and instrumental sextet.
World premiere of The Winds of Time by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Davis Scatterday, Conductor. Commissioned by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Davis Scatterday, Conductor, and a consortium of wind ensembles, in honor of the Eastman School of Music’s Centennial Anniversary.
New Amsterdan Singers, directed and conducted by Clara Longstreth, gives the world premiere of I Go Among Trees for SATB choir and marimba, with texts by Wendell Berry, May Sarton, and John Freeman. Special guest, Makoto Nakura, marimba.
New Amsterdan Singers, directed and conducted by Clara Longstreth, gives the world premiere of I Go Among Trees for SATB choir and marimba, with texts by Wendell Berry, May Sarton, and John Freeman. Special guest, Makoto Nakura, marimba.
Word premiere of Look To The Sky for SATB choir and piano, Commissioned by the New York Choral Consortium for the BIG SING's Ten-Year Anniversary. The premiere will be conducted by Dr. Deborah S. King, and will be part of the whole program celebrating the 10th anniversary of the BIG SING and commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.
World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.
