Faculty recital at the USC School of Music
Works to include Eight Songs for Steffen Thomas by David Kirkland Garner and Brahms Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99.
Location:Koger Center Auditorium
Admission Cost:FREE
Cormac Cannon, conductor
David Warren, guest conductor
Jennifer Parker-Harley, flute
Claire Bryant, cello
The Wind Ensemble celebrates the first week of spring with a program inspired by the Earth and the stars. D’un Matin De Printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”) was composed by Lili Boulanger, sister of the acclaimed composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. USC School of Music faculty Jennifer Parker-Harley and Claire Bryant are featured on David Maslanka’s reflective and stunningly beautiful O Earth O Stars, while Danyhew’s Magnolia Star elicits images of a mid-twentieth-century ride on a train of the same name. The concert concludes with a brand-new work by University of Michigan composition professor Erik Santos inspired the concept of “Pangea Proxima,” a future supercontinent configuration of Earth’s land masses.
Program:
Boulanger/Hontz, D’un Matin De Printemps
Maslanka, O Earth O Stars
Danyhew, Magnolia Star
Santos, Pangea Proxima (Consortium Premiere)
More details coming soohn.
World premiere by Stephen Jaffe.
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/concerts_and_events/cornelia_freeman/
Performing SEVEN by Andtrea Casarrubios as well as some cello chamber music with Christopher Hutton, Eric Kutz, and Seth Russell.
Guest cellist with the GRAMMY-winning Parker Quartet celebrating 150 years of Schoenberg with Verklarte Nacht. Hootie Johnson Hall at Darla Moore School of Business at USC.
Decoda—comprising alums of the adventurous Ensemble Connect and featuring “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (Time Out New York)—is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble. With every concert, the spectacularly versatile ensemble showcases its commitment to virtuosic performance, audience and community engagement, and seemingly boundless repertoire. For its 2024–2025 Carnegie Hall concert, Decoda performs works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Schoenberg, and a one-of-a-kind collaborative suite by four of today’s leading composers, featuring live narration and singers.
Decoda
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone
Richard Powers, Narrator
R. SCHUMANN "Eintritt" from Waldszenen
C. SCHUMANN "Geheimes Flüstern," Op. 23
G. MAHLER "Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld" from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
A. MAHLER "Licht in der Nacht"
SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht
DAVID KIRKLAND GARNER / STEPHEN JAFFE / ERIC MOE / MELINDA WAGNER A Forest Unfolding
Max Richter, a leading figure in contemporary classical music, is known for blending classical composition with modern electronic elements. His innovative work spans solo albums, ballets, film scores and unforgettable concert hall performances. From Shutter Island to The Leftovers, his evocative music has captivated audiences worldwide.
Join us at Dubai Opera for a captivating evening as Richter performs his latest studio album, In a Landscape, along with selected pieces from The Blue Notebooks, celebrating its 20th anniversary. This performance offers a unique opportunity to experience Richter’s deep exploration of human emotion, optimism, and the fusion blend of acoustic and electronic soundscapes.
Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology -heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion - has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.
The newly announced tour, marking the coming of age for the globally celebrated musician, will see Richter play across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Canada, Australia and Asia throughout 2024 and 2025, including shows at London’s legendary Royal Festival Hall, the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Sydney Opera House.
Coinciding with the world tour Richter will release his 9th studio album ‘In A Landscape’ in September 2024. The new album marks a significant evolution in Richter’s musical journey, as he delves deeper into the themes of optimism and human emotion accompanied by an innovative exploration of electronic sounds and field recordings. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living - a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director
Ben Russell & Laura Lutzke, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
Claire Bryant, cello
Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology -heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion - has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.
The newly announced tour, marking the coming of age for the globally celebrated musician, will see Richter play across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Canada, Australia and Asia throughout 2024 and 2025, including shows at London’s legendary Royal Festival Hall, the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Sydney Opera House.
Coinciding with the world tour Richter will release his 9th studio album ‘In A Landscape’ in September 2024. The new album marks a significant evolution in Richter’s musical journey, as he delves deeper into the themes of optimism and human emotion accompanied by an innovative exploration of electronic sounds and field recordings. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living - a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director
Ben Russell & Laura Lutzke, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
Claire Bryant, cello
Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology -heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion - has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.
The newly announced tour, marking the coming of age for the globally celebrated musician, will see Richter play across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Canada, Australia and Asia throughout 2024 and 2025, including shows at London’s legendary Royal Festival Hall, the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Sydney Opera House.
Coinciding with the world tour Richter will release his 9th studio album ‘In A Landscape’ in September 2024. The new album marks a significant evolution in Richter’s musical journey, as he delves deeper into the themes of optimism and human emotion accompanied by an innovative exploration of electronic sounds and field recordings. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living - a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director
Ben Russell & Laura Lutzke, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
Claire Bryant, cello
Ahead of his highly anticipated ninth album, neo-classical master and post-minimalist legend Max Richter returns to the Sydney Opera House for an all-new performance with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
One of the most influential and acclaimed composers of all time, Max Richter is bringing his highly anticipated first ever world tour to Australia, performing a selection of his best-loved works from The Blue Notebooks and the newly released In A Landscape alongside the visionary American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology – heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for the likes of Dior and Kim Jones, Denis Villeneuve, Martin Scorsese and Woolf Works by Wayne McGregor, to name a few – has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.
His latest release and ninth studio album In A Landscape is a meditation on the present that brings together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world. In A Landscape employs homogenous musical language to Richter’s seminal album The Blue Notebooks, with the two albums bookending this significant chapter of Richter’s life and career.
With a catalogue amassing over three billion streams to date making him the most-streamed classical artist in the world, don’t miss this transcendent evening with Max Richter and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
USC faculty Joe Eller, Claire Bryant, and Lynn Kompass perform works by Jon Jeffrey Grier and Johannas Brahms for clarinet, cello, and piano at Greenville’s hidden gem, the Sigal Music Museum.
Congaree Trio plays trios by Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré, and Felix Mendelssohn in a private house concert in Philadelphia, PA.
USC faculty Jennifer Parker-Harley, Claire Bryant, and Phillip Bush in a program of music for flute, cello, and piano for Columbia’s chamber music enthusiasts, ChamberPots. Works by Gaubert, Haydn, and more.
