Andrew Norman News

Music Director Thierry Fischer, Principal Pops Conductor Jerry Steichen and Associate Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic today announced the Utah Symphony's complete 2013-2014 season, in which Fischer will again conduct 12 of the 18 Masterworks performances.

The Neighborhood Classics concert series presents new music group Contemporaneous on Monday, February 11 at 7pm, at P.S. 142 (100 Attorney St., NYC) on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The evening, entitled DON'T EVEN, will be hosted by James Matheson, composer and Neighborhood Classics Artistic Director at P.S. 142. The program includes Sean Friar's Clunker Concerto (world premiere, revised version), Jeremy Podgursky's Mindjob (East Coast premiere), Judd Greenstein's Octet 1979, Andrew Norman's Try, and David Lang's increase.

On Friday, November 30, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will offer a live webcast of the first of five performances of an updated version of the 16th-century Chinese Kunqu opera masterpiece Peony Pavilion that will take place in the Met's Astor Court, the courtyard modeled on a 17th-century Chinese garden. This 70-minute version of the opera has been developed and directed by celebrated composer Tan Dun, with a new score by Mr. Tan and choreography by Huang Doudou, one of China's most prominent dancers. It will be performed by Zhang Jun, one of China's most respected Kunqu performers, and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company.

Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and composer Gabriel Kahane performs the world premiere of his composition The Fiction Issue, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, tonight, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall on a program entitled Don't Even Listen.

Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and composer Gabriel Kahane performs the world premiere of his composition The Fiction Issue, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, on Thursday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall on a program entitled Don't Even Listen.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) Music Director Jeffrey Kahane announces the appointments of Robert Brophy, viola (Los Angeles 90042); Sandy Hughes, flute (Portland, OR); Carrie Kennedy, violin II (Pasadena); and Joel Pargman, violin II (Pasadena) to LACO's roster, one of the nation's leading orchestras renowned for its wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissioning initiatives. The 2012-13 season marks the first full season with the Orchestra for Brophy, Kennedy and Pargman; and the first time that Hughes has performed with LACO. Kennedy and Pargman are husband and wife.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) announces its 2012-13 season, its 44th, featuring a compelling mix of beloved masterpieces and genre-defying premieres from firmly established and notable up-and-coming composers programmed by Jeffrey Kahane, one of the world's foremost conductors and pianists, who marks his 16th season as the Orchestra's music director.

Chicago's Millennium Park's summer concerts continue with the all-new series, Loops and Variations, a mix of new music and electronica. The series of six free concerts will take place on select Thursday evenings tonight, June 7 through July 12 and Sunday, August 26, 2012. Start times vary.

Deviant Septet--an acclaimed ensemble modeled after Igor Stravinsky's favored instrumentation of violin, bass, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, and percussion--will perform the NYC premiere of a new collaborative evening-length work entitled Histories, written by six-piece composer collective Sleeping Giant, tonight, May 24th at Brooklyn's Issue Project Room.

Chicago's Millennium Park's summer concerts continue with the all-new series, Loops and Variations, a mix of new music and electronica. The series of six free concerts will take place on select Thursday evenings June 7 through July 12 and Sunday, August 26, 2012. Start times vary.

Following the Brighton Beach and Downtown Brooklyn series, the Brooklyn Phil concludes its 2011-12 relaunch season with three free concerts in the heart of BED-STUY, in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and Brooklyn Public Library.

Deviant Septet--an acclaimed ensemble modeled after Igor Stravinsky's favored instrumentation of violin, bass, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, and percussion--will perform the NYC premiere of a new collaborative evening-length work entitled Histories, written by six-piece composer collective Sleeping Giant, on May 24th at Brooklyn's Issue Project Room.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic announces Bushwick-based DJ Eddie Marz as winner of its community-based BEETHOVEN REMIX PROJECT. Marz was selected from five finalists who were asked to remix the finale of Beethoven's Third Symphony (the Eroica), following an open application process coordinated by musician and community organizer Sam Hillmer. Read coverage of this project from NPR and Tiny Mix Tapes.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art today unveiled the 2012-13 season of Met Museum Presents, its newly-renamed series of performances and talks. This is the first full season to be programmed by Concerts & Lectures General Manager Limor Tomer, who assumed her post at the Met in July 2011. The program offers interpretations of and reflections on the Museum's collection, special exhibitions, and tradition through the work of some of today's most celebrated composers and performing artists.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic announces five finalists for its community-based BEETHOVEN REMIX PROJECT. Following an open application process coordinated by musician and community organizer Sam Hillmer, where Brooklyn-based DJ's and sound artists were invited to remix the finale of Beethoven's Third Symphony (the Eroica), five finalists have been selected. Tiny Mix Tapes helped spread the word.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) has appointed Andrew Norman composer-in-residence for three years beginning July 2012, it was announced by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane

Maybe you loved Pierre Jalbert's Icefield Sonnets for string quartet when you heard it in concert and wonder if your ensemble might like to perform it.

SONiC - Sounds of a New Century - a brand new festival of 21st century music by more than 100 composers age 40 and under, will take over New York from Friday, October 14 through Saturday, October 22, 2011.