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The Minnesota Post’s Pamela Espeland spoke with Houston-based composer Pierre Jalbert in advance of the premiere of his new violin concerto, co-commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Milwaukee Symphony to showcase their concertmasters….
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Jalbert’s “alternately contemplative and gritty” Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was given its New York premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Chiara String Quartet, for which it was written.
“I have never heard a piece of his I haven’t admired and this one (Piano Quartet) was no exception. Jalbert is the real thing, a composer who has things to say and says them very, very, well.”
“The Seattle Symphony premiered Kernis’ Violin Concerto with Conductor Ludovic Morlot and guest soloist James Ehnes. “…The new concerto is a huge work…the concerto demonstrated Kernis’ command of the complete orchestral palette. He made imaginative and inventive use of percussion, harp and tuba and in pushed the soloist toward the frontiers of technique…”
