- Neri: Escobar “Love Duet” at Austin ATX“I am thrilled to showcase the beautiful ‘Love Duet’ from the opera, Escobar, composed by the brilliant Matteo Neri and featuring the captivating libretto written by Alejandra Villarreal Martinez.” And so, Claudia Chapa, Austin Opera Curator for Latinx and Hispanic Programming, introduces Subito Music’s latest operatic venture when Matteo Neri and Alejandra Martinez’s “Love Duet” […]
- Locklair: The Harvard/ Ashmont Evening ServiceOn March 23, 2023, the Harvard Glee Club, University Choir, and The All Saints’ Choir of Men and Boys, Ashmont present the world premiere of Dan Locklair’s newest choral work The Harvard/Ashmont Evening Service. Music director Andrew Clark conducts the premiere — along with Edward Elwyn Jones — at Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge, as […]
- Sierra: Keeps Me On My Toes“Roberto Sierra’s music keeps me on my toes!” On March 17, 2023, pianist Marc Peloquin presents a composer portrait concert called “Celebrating Roberto Sierra” at the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York City. Peloquin’s program highlights Sierra as “one of the most important composers of our time,” and features works for solo piano that […]
- Moravec: The Shining in Kansas City“…We have to make characters sing, and we have to care about them…Each character has to have a heart.” — Mark Campbell And so, librettist Mark Campbell gives some insight into the characters that he — along with composer Paul Moravec — brought to life on stage for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s production […]
- Sierra: Salseando in the USOn February 17, 2023, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra presents the US premiere of Roberto Sierra’s trumpet concerto Salseando, featuring soloist Pacho Flores. Manuel Hernández-Silva conducts. The three-movement, 18-minute work – with improvisation – was written for Flores, and was commissioned and premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Domingo Hindoyan led the world premiere in […]
