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World Premiere of new Mozart piece

2/19/2021

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A little Mozart piece lay undiscovered until recently.  It was premiered on Mozart's birthday by pianist Seong-Jin Cho.  

Note: the video is accompanied by scrolling music, but it doesn't always exactly match the way Cho plays it.

​You can hear the piece here.
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Ft. Worth Symphony has new conductor

2/19/2021

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Conductor Robert Spano has been appointed as the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s tenth music director. Though he begins a three-year term in August of 2022 for the 2022-23 season, Spano will first be the music director designate for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra starting in April of 2021. The appointment was announced by Dr. Keith Cerny, President and CEO of the FWSO, as well as Mercedes T. Bass, Board chair of the FWSO.
As music director designate for the 2021-22 season, Spano will conduct two symphonic programs. Spano has previously been the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s music director since 2001, and this year he will be departing following illustrious years there which included performances at Savannah Music Festival and Carnegie Hall. Spano is currently the Aspen Music Festival and School’s music director and has been since 2011.
pano has worked with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra previously; at Bass Performance Hall, he was principal guest conductor and conducted Mahler’s 5th Symphony and Four Last Songs by Strauss in March of 2019. Additionally, in January of this year, Spano led the FWSO in a program including work by Dvorak, Higdon, and Prokofiev; the performance took place at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium.
Spano will next conduct the FWSO on March 16 through 18 for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, which will feature Jeremy Denk, and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.

You can read more here.

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Oregon Symphony names new conductor

2/12/2021

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The Oregon Symphony's new Music Director designate is David Danzmayr. The Austrian-born conductor replaces Carlos Kalmar beginning next season.

The orchestra has information and an announcement video posted here.
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Violinist releasing weekly videos

2/10/2021

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A docu-recital series will be released from February 11 to March 11 by Yevgeny Kutik, a Russian-American violinist. Entitled Finding Home: Music from the Suitcase in Concert, the docu-recital was filmed in Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performance Center.


Kutik, originally from Minsk, Belarus, at age five immigrated to the United States. Kutik studied with his mother, Alla Zernitskaya, a violin teacher, as well as studying at Boston University, from which he has a bachelor’s degree as well as studying at the New England Conservatory, from which he has a master’s degree. Kutik previously released the album Music from the Suitcase: A Collection of Russian Miniatures in 2014 through Marquis Classics. However, this docu-series will feature musical performances as well as discussion from Kutik.

The five episodes, each 30 to 40 minutes in length, are entitled as follows:
1: The Fifth Line
2: In Between
3: Begin Again
4: Listen
5: Coda

The episodes will be released weekly on Youtube and Facebook at 7pm ET.


For more information, click here.


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                                                                                                             Georgia Coles

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Rochester Philharmonic has new Conductor

2/10/2021

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Andreas Delfs has been selected to be the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s thirteenth music director, following previous music director Ward Stare. Originally from Flensburg, Germany, Andreas Delfs studied at The Julliard School and Hamburg Conservatory and has previously been music director for organizations such as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Suisse de Jeunes, and Bern Opera. In fact, Delfs was the Hamburg University Orchestra’s youngest music director at age 20.

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, now 98 years old, has worked with Delfs multiple times previously; his debut at RPO was in 1994 with a rendition of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, guest conducting with RPO.

For more information, click here.

                                                                                                                 
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Guest Composers for Mizzou Festival

2/10/2021

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Four composers have recently been selected by the Mizzou New Music Initiative for this year’s Mizzou International Composer’s Festival, which is in its twelfth year and will take place this July from the 26th through the 31st. The composers include:

Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer
Daniel Fitzpatrick
Paul Mortilla
Nina Shekhar

They will premiere new works in addition to the eight composers from last year’s MICF, which did not have an in-person premiere due to the pandemic.
The eight composers from 2020’s MICF are:

Yu Kuwabara
Pascal Le Boeuf
Shuying Li
Celka Ojakangas
DM R (Diana M. Rodriguez)
Niko Schroeder
Andrew Thol
Felipe Tovar-Henao

Depending on conditions, resident composers can rehearse with resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound. Additionally, MICF’s 2021 distinguished guest composers are David T. Little and Chen Yi.

Although two concerts are planned, in case of the pandemic affecting the events of MICF, multiple plans are being considered, such as the festival being in-person to a limited extent, fully online, or instead both to a degree.

For more information, click here.

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                                                                                                      Georgia Coles

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106 year old pianist releases sixth album

2/8/2021

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Collette Maze is a French pianist who spent most of her career teaching.  In her 80s, she began releasing albums, and now at age 106 is releasing her sixth album.

Details and video can be found here.
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