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World premiere of Spring Songs (chamber version) on this concert entitled “Chamber Hits.” Featuring Alok Kumar, tenor, and American Modern Ensemble.
Performance of an aria from Three Way, performers TBA.
Performance of Suite from A New Eaarth for choir and piano with the SUNY Cortland Choral Union, Stephen B. Wilson, director.
The New Amsterdam Singers, founded and directed by Clara Longstreth, will give the New York premiere of Life is But a Dream.
American Modern Ensemble performs In Real Life, a song cycle about online dating with text by David Cote, Marnie Breckenridge, soprano, and selected arias from Three Way, a trio of comic operas about craving and connection, libretto by David Cote, to be premiered by Nashville Opera and also performed at BAM, June 15-18, 2017. (Photo Credit: Ricardo Birnbaum)
World Premiere of selected movements from Night Songs, David Neal, bass baritone, Suite from A New Eaarth from the recent Eternal Reflections album sung by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, and Batter's Box for tenor and piano, Dan Bates, tenor, with text by Ithaca-based writers Kenny Berkowitz and Bridget Meeds. Performance will take place at the Center for the Arts and will include an on-stage discussion with David Neal and Robert Paterson.
ChamberMusicNY presents American Modern Ensemble in an evening of vocal works by composers who are (or were) percussionists on a program entitled "Voice of Thunder." Concert will feature the world premiere of Summer Songs for soprano and chamber ensemble, featuring Marnie Breckenridge, soprano. Summer Songs was commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund.
New York premiere of Suite from A New Eaarth by the New Amsterdam Singers, Clara Longstreth, conductor.
World premiere of Graffiti Canons, commissioned by the Volti Choir of San Francisco, Robert A. Geary, Artistic Director, with support from the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music.
In Real Life: dating site songs for soprano and piano, featuring Mela Dailey, soprano, and Marti Ahern, piano, with lyrics by David Cote. This work is commissioned by the Austin Chamber Ensemble for their 35th Anniversary, with generous support from Kickstarter donors.
In Real Life: dating site songs for soprano and piano, featuring Mela Dailey, soprano, and Marti Ahern, piano, with lyrics by David Cote. This work is commissioned by the Austin Chamber Ensemble for their 35th Anniversary, with generous support from Kickstarter donors.
American Modern Ensemble presents an operatic double feature: Stewart Copeland's (from The Police) The Cask of Amontillado based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Paterson's The Whole Truth, libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley.
American Modern Ensemble presents an operatic double feature: Stewart Copeland's (from The Police) The Cask of Amontillado based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Paterson's The Whole Truth, libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley.
Performance of Thursday for soprano and piano (texts based on fictitious answering machine messages) by The Curiosity Cabinet, Justine Aronson, soprano, and Melinda Faylor, piano.
Opera on Tap presents a program entitled Opera Meets Vaudeville: An Evening with Trav SD, featuring arias from Three Way, libretto by David Cote, as well as music by David Mallamud, Henry Akona, and Edward Einhorn. $10 suggested donation. Featuring David Gordon, Seth Gilman, Anne Hiatt, David Macaluso, Cameron Russell, and Krista Wozniak with Christopher Berg tinkling the piano keys.
World premiere of The Whole Truth, a new opera by Robert Paterson and Mark Campbell, based on a short story by Stephen McCauley. A woman confesses an affair to her psychiatrist, but cleans up the details in order not to seem too sordid. Her fabrications lead to awkward questions and complications.
World premiere of The Whole Truth, a new opera by Robert Paterson and Mark Campbell, based on a short story by Stephen McCauley. A woman confesses an affair to her psychiatrist, but cleans up the details in order not to seem too sordid. Her fabrications lead to awkward questions and complications.
Lyric Baritone Daniel Ihasz performs CAPTCHA for baritone and piano on a faculty recital at SUNY Fredonia. Other works include Brahms Liebeslieder and Act IV Finale from Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as performances by other faculty members.
Safe Word, a one act opera from the three-act opera Three Way, libretto by David Cote, is one of eight operas that will be featured during Fort Worth Opera's Fronters showcase.
CAPTCHA will be performed by Daniel Ihasz, baritone on a faculty showcase recital at SUNY Fredonia. James Welch will be accompanying.
Faculty, performance of Winter Songs, faculty at Atlantic Music Festival Composition Program.
Pre-premiere performance of CAPTCHA for baritone and piano, Daniel Ihasz, baritone and Eli Kalman, piano.
Unstaged world premieres of the piano reduction of two arias from Safe Word, the first of three one-act operas from Three-Way (formerly titled Fetish), libretto by David Cote, and a song entitled CAPTCHA, with text made from random CAPTCHA texts.
Arias and excerpts presented from Invisible Child (un-staged piano reduction performance).
World premiere of a new choral work Did You Hear? as part of a residency with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, Jeffrey Buettner, conductor. Made possible by Meet the Composer and the League of American Orchestras through the Meet The Composer Music Alive Program.
