Down and Dirty is a new work commissioned by the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival for clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu. Manasse and Nakamatsu will be performing ‘Down and Dirty’ on San Jose Chamber Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve ‘CELEBRATION!!!’ concert.
Mary Elizabeth Bowden performs the world premiere of the piano reduction of Trumpet Concerto with pianist Zhao Wang as the guest artist for Central Michigan University’s Trumpet Blast Day.
Program
Ravel, Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera
Fung, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Debussy (arr. DeJonge/Miles), Reverie
Beach, Three Browning Songs
de Falla, Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas
National Sawdust presents a new project featuring the World Premiere of 18 new works for solo piano, co-commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and pianist Han Chen, celebrating the centenary birthday of Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006).
Each of the new works is paired with one of Ligeti’s renowned canonic piano etudes, in a recital performance by Han Chen. A diverse cohort of contemporary composers were invited to study Ligeti’s etude, go against the etude, or simply sit with the etude during the composition process. Together, all thirty-six works bring a new and imaginative interpretation on the original iconic etudes.
Down and Dirty is a new work commissioned by the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival for clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu. The world premiere is set for August 11, 2023 at 5:30pm at the First Congregational Church of Chatham.
Program
John Williams, Victor’s Tale from the motion picture THE TERMINAL
Vivian Fung, Down and Dirty
Franz Liszt, Sonata in B Minor, S. 178
PROGRAMM
Vivian Fung (*1975)
Prayer
Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Sinfonie Nr. 1 e-Moll op. 39
PROGRAMM
Vivian Fung (*1975)
Prayer
Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Sinfonie Nr. 1 e-Moll op. 39
PROGRAMM
Vivian Fung (*1975)
Prayer
Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Sinfonie Nr. 1 e-Moll op. 39
In a program inspired by daring creativity and artistic innovation, conductor Michelle Merrill makes her ROCO debut, leading the orchestra in Techtonal, a ROCO world premiere commission by Anthony DiLorenzo based on the thought-provoking book The Telling Image by Lois Stark, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Miller Outdoor Theatre. Also receiving its world premiere will be a ROCO-commissioned orchestral work by Juno award-winner Vivian Fung, Parade. Louise Farrenc’s fiery Symphony No. 1 also features, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus appropriately rounds out our 18th Season as we’re joined by Houston’s musical future: the Houston Youth Symphony!
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven, Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella Suite
Vivian Fung, Parade - World premiere
Louise Farrenc, Symphony No. 1
Barbara Day Turner, Conductor
Trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden
Three fabulous new works by American composers
Harriet: Journey to Freedom
Timothy Adams
Trumpet Concerto
Vivian Fung
Symphony #1 for Chamber Orchestra
Durwynne Hsieh. World premiere
The Lafayette String Quartet is on their retirement tour this season, and we are thrilled to present them in their final Edmonton recital. They will be joined by ESO violist Clayton Leung, and will also be playing a piece composed by Edmonton’s Vivian Fung.
Looking back at the history of music and creating something new on this basis – composers have often attempted this with great success. Igor Stravinsky, for example, used a kind of musical magic wand to touch music that was then covered with the dust of the archives. The Canadian Vivian Fung follows a similar path and melts together baroque sounds with contemporary tones in a "compositional water bath". Mendelssohn, the great rediscoverer of Bach, did not become baroque in his violin concerto, but created a score of "classical" elegance. Finally, Mozart, who, as is well known, greatly admired Handel's music, used the three-part form for his "Prague" symphony, which – what a wonderful coincidence – comes from Naples, the setting of Pulcinella-Ballets. Entirely in the spirit of the present, the New Zealand conductor Gemma New will rehearse these four works for Bern. She is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Principal of the Orchestra in Hamilton, Canada. For Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, she finds another counterpart alongside the Bern Symphony Orchestra in the young German violinist Tobias Feldmann.
Program:
Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella Suite
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Vivian Fung, Baroque Melting - European Premiere
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony in D major, K. 504
Looking back at the history of music and creating something new on this basis – composers have often attempted this with great success. Igor Stravinsky, for example, used a kind of musical magic wand to touch music that was then covered with the dust of the archives. The Canadian Vivian Fung follows a similar path and melts together baroque sounds with contemporary tones in a "compositional water bath". Mendelssohn, the great rediscoverer of Bach, did not become baroque in his violin concerto, but created a score of "classical" elegance. Finally, Mozart, who, as is well known, greatly admired Handel's music, used the three-part form for his "Prague" symphony, which – what a wonderful coincidence – comes from Naples, the setting of Pulcinella-Ballets. Entirely in the spirit of the present, the New Zealand conductor Gemma New will rehearse these four works for Bern. She is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Principal of the Orchestra in Hamilton, Canada. For Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, she finds another counterpart alongside the Bern Symphony Orchestra in the young German violinist Tobias Feldmann.
Program:
Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella Suite
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Vivian Fung, Baroque Melting - European Premiere
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony in D major, K. 504
The LSQ is excited to present Vivian Fung’s latest brilliant and fiery quartet “Spiraling” to Victoria audiences. The fourth quartet presented in Victoria as part of a series of works composed by female composers commissioned by the Lafayette String Quartet.
Vivian will be giving a pre-concert talk at 7:00 PM.
Shostakovich Quartet No. 4 and Beethoven’s Op. 59, No 3 are also featured.
PROGRAMM
Richard Wagner: Vorspiel zum ersten Akt der Oper Lohengrin
Béla Bartók: Rumänische Volkstänze BB 76
Johann Strauß (Sohn): Unter Donner und Blitz op. 324 (Polka)
Peter Tschaikowsky: Pas de deux aus dem Ballett Der Nussknacker
Vivian Fung: A Child’s Dream of Toys
Carl Nielsen: Introduktion zum zweiten Akt der Oper Maskarade
Johann Strauß (Sohn): Kaiser-Walzer op. 437
Pause
Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier-Konzertsuite
Johann Strauß (Sohn): Pizzicato Polka
Josef Strauß: Dorfschwalben aus Österreich op. 164
Carl Nielsen: Ouvertüre zur Oper Maskarade
Johann Strauß (Sohn): An der schönen blauen Donau op. 314
Dances of Galánta
Flute Concerto (VSO Commission)
Symphony No. 2, Age of Anxiety
Dances of Galánta
Flute Concerto (VSO Commission)
Symphony No. 2, Age of Anxiety
MSM Faculty Recital: Molly Carr, viola and Anna Petrova (BM ’09, MM ’11, DMA ’17), piano
