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ECSTATIC RECORDS releases its newest recording, Tahiti. It features FIJI (2008) and TAHITI (2009), both recorded by Clark Rundell leading the 10/10
Ensemble (members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic).
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The World Wildlife Fund commissioned, TIGER IN THE SUN, a brass fanfare, premiered by Christofph Eschenbach and the Munich Philharmonic at an outdoor concert in Munich,
June 17, 2011. Its American premiere is scheduled for
October 18, 2011 at the Supreme Court in Washington, by the National Symphony. |
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The Austin Chamber Music Festival celebrated Torke's 50th year by featuring seven of his compositions, including the American premiere of FIJI, this July, in Austin.
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Chatelet (Paris) has commissioned POP-PEA, a rock version of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea with a new libretto (in English) by Ian Burton. With musical direction by The Clash drummer
Pete Howard, and staring Carl Barat (of The Libertines) as Nero, Ebony Bones as Poppea, and Mark Daumail (of Cocoon) as Ottone. Premiere: May 29, 2012 in Paris.
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The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing, China, has commissioned an orchestra piece for an Environmental Concert in Beijing, June 2012.
The composition will be based on the theme, Island Nations. |
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The American Harp Society has commissioned a piece for solo harp and double wind quintet (a woodwind quintet fused with a brass quintet) as part of their
50th Anniversary Commission Project to premiere at the 40th AHS National Conference to be held in New York City in July 2012. |
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Wrote MAY and JUNE, for saxophone quartet, commissioned by the Amstel Quartet and the New Century Saxophone Quartet as companion pieces to JULY. These new movements were premiered in late 2010. |
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Wrote MOJAVE, a concerto for marimba that can be performed with orchestra or with string quartet, from a commission by the TROMP International Music Festival (the Netherlands).
Premieres: (string quartet version) by Colin Currie, 13 November 2010; (orchestral version) by Alexej Gerassimez, 20 November 2010, both in Eindhoven.
The American premiere of the orchestral version will be April 2012 with Alexej Gerassimez and the Arkansas Symphony. |
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Wrote CACTUS, concerto for harp, violin, and orchestra from a commission by the San Diego Symphony for their principal players, Julie Smith (harp) and Jeff Thayer (violin). Premiere November 19-21, 2010. |
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Premiere of the oratorio, PLANS, by Carlos Kalmer and the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus on June 19, 2009 at Millennium Park which was commissioned by the Festival to mark the
100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago. |
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