Contemporary Composers

As part of our programming we strive to introduce our audiences to new sounds and composers. Below are the 21st and 20th century composers’ works we have performed throughout past seasons.

Message from the Music Director

21st Century Composers

Amy Beach
Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 151 (2017 – 2018 Season)

Kenji Bunch
Supermaximum (2018 – 2019 Season)
Changes of Phase (2017 – 2018 Season)

Anna Clyne
Within Her Arms (2018 – 2019 Season)

Valerie Coleman
Tzigane (2017 – 2018 Season)

John Corigliano
The Cloisters (2018 – 2019 Season)

Louise Farrenc
Sextet for Piano and Winds, Op. 40 (2018 – 2019 Season)

Jean Francaix
String Trio (2015 – 2016 Season)

Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout

José Pablo Moncayo García
Huapango (2016 – 2017 Season)                                   

Jennifer Higdon
Autumn Music (2018 – 2019 Season)
Machine (2017 – 2018 Season)

Aaron Jay Kernis
Musica Celestis (2017 – 2018 Season)

Erich Korngold
Sinfonische Serenade in Bb, Op. 39 (2018 – 2019 Season)

Philip Lasser
Manchester Miniature (2018 – 2019 Season)
So Says the Wind (2015 – 2016 Season)

Darius Milhaud
Sonata, for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Piano, Op. 47 (2018 – 2019 Season)

Jessie Montgomery
Records from a Vanishing City (2018 – 2019 Season)
Starburst (2017 – 2018 Season)

Brandon Scott Rumsey
Emblems (2017 – 2018 Season)

Annika Sokolofsky
Hush, II. As if we could kill time without injuring eternity (2018 – 2019 Season)

Karen Tanaka
Dreamscape (2018 – 2019 Season)

Christopher Theofanidis
A Thousand Cranes (2018 – 2019 Season)

Michael Torke
December (2018 – 2019 Season)

Chris Whittaker
Lullaby for Strings (2018 – 2019 Season)
From This Elevation (2016 – 2017 Season)

20th Century Composers

Alberto Ginastera
Variaciones Concertantes, Op. 23 (2016 – 2017 Season)      

Fritz Kreisler
Liebeslied (Love’s Sorrow) (2015 – 2016 Season)
Liebesfreud (Love’s Joy) (2015 – 2016 Season)

Astor Piazzolla
Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (2015 – 2016 Season)

Francis Poulenc
Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, Op. 100 (2017 – 2018 Season)

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major, II. Assez vif (2018 – 2019 Season)
Le Tombeau de Couperin (2017 – 2018 Season)

Silvestre Revueltas 
Ocho por radio (2015 – 2016 Season)

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (2016 – 2017 Season)

Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Transfigured Night) (2017 – 2018 Season)

Igor Stravinsky
Historia du Soldado (2018 – 2019 Season)
Concerto in E-flat, “Dumbarton Oaks” (2015 – 2016 Season)

Toru Takemitsu
Requiem (2018 – 2019 Season)

Virgil Thomson
Cantabile (Portrait of Nicolas de Chatelin) (2018 – 2019 Season)