On July 5, celebrated cellist Joshua Roman opened the Bellingham Festival of Music’s 20th anniversary season with a performance of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Dreamsongs for cello and orchestra, conducted by Michael Palmer. Find out why Lily Olason of the Entertainment…
Bermel: Derek Bermel Appointed Artistic Director of American Composers Orchestra
At its spring 2013 benefit in Tribeca, New York City, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announced the appointment of Grammy-nominated composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel as Artistic Director for a three-year term, beginning with the 2013-14 season. As Artistic Director,…
Kernis: “A Voice A Messenger” Premiere
Aaron Jay Kernis’ new trumpet concerto “A Voice A Messenger” premiered on April 2 at the Krannert Center in Illinois. Written for the New York Philharmonic’s 1st chair Philip Smith, conductor Robert Rumbelow led the University of Illinois Wind Symphony…
Karpman: “Ask Your Mama” & the Langston Hughes Connection
“Ask Your Mama,” Laura Karpman’s multimedia theater piece, returns to New York City on March 23rd at the historic Apollo Theater, in a co-production with Manhattan School of Music. Read The Huffington Post’s feature of Karpman’s own words about…
Bermel: Be “Dazzled” by “Canzonas”
Here’s another great review (!) — this time from the San Francisco Chronicle — of Derek Bermel’s newest disc “Canzonas Americas” from Canteloupe Records. Joshua Kosman talks “ingenuity, beauty and wit….” and calls it a “superb new compilation… [that will]…
Boriskin’s “Tremendous Style”
The “irrepressible Michael Boriskin” recently joined JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic for two performances of the Shostakovich Second Piano Concerto. Buffalo News reviewer Mary Kunz Goldman wrote “Boriskin showed tremendous style…[and] zip…At the snap-bang end of the first movement,…