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This week the DSO gives the world premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with soloist Marina Piccinini. Once a wunderkind, Kernis, now 56, comes to the DSO as one of the most celebrated composers of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
In a short feature in Millennial Magazine, Nexus chatted with Tim Fain, whom they note “combines exquisite talent with a cutting-edge mindset.”
Jaap van Zweden conducted the New York premiere of Julia Adolphe’s “Unearth, Release,” a viola concerto commissioned by the Philharmonic and the League of American Orchestras for Cynthia Phelps, Ms. Phelps conveyed the emotional nuances and mood shifts of the music in a commanding and plush-toned performance.
It’s possible to hear chamber music in some pretty unorthodox settings these days, but few blend the intimacy of the concert hall with the expansive freedom of the outdoors as well as this Utah festival.
Julia Adolphe’s concerto for Cynthia Phelps received its premiere in advance of the New York Philharmonic performance at the Eastern Music Festival. Highlights of the last movement were Phelps’ gorgeous playing of some high harmonics as well as duets with a muted trumpet and an English horn. The writer commented he hopes it gets recorded by Phelps as soloist