Selected News
The Colburn School
Announces Details of The 2012-2013 Season
for The Conservatory of Music and
The Academy
Click here to read the release
Click here to go the school's website
Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
and the New Century Chamber Orchestra
in Concert
September 18-23, 2012
Britten, Simple Symphony
Bartok, Divertimento
Britten, Les Illuminations
Melody Moore, soprano
September 18, Center for Performing Arts at
Menlo-Atherton High, Atherton
September 20, First Congregational Church, Berkeley
September 22, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
September 23, Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael
Click here to go the the NCCO website
Solti Foundation U.S. Recognizes
Five Young American Conductors
2012 Career Assistance Award Recipients
Yaniva Attar, Vladimir Kulenovic,
Nicholas Hersh, Francesco Lecce-Chong,
and Joshua Weilerstein
Named
2012 Career Assistance Award Recipients
Read more here
"FWOpera's Darren Woods cited as influential figure
FWBusinesspress.com
Read the article here
"...Aficionados from all over the country travel to
attend these concerts. Do not deprive yourself."
-Gerald Kane, Las Cruces Bulletin,
on the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival August 1, 2012
"...Santa Fe in the summer offers the
majore-league Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival..."
Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News August 3, 2012
Press Acclaim for Audrey Luna inThomas Ades The Tempest
"Audrey Luna as Ariel proved a stunning
acrobat in all senses." -Montreal Gazette 7/27/2012
"Soprano Audrey Luna is impressive, delivering
a very physical Ariel who performs stunts while
singing." -La Presse, 7/27/2012
"…and Ariel, the one who causes bad weather
and triggers off the tempest, makes me think of
the fairy (Tinkerbell) in Peter Pan. She flies,
twirls in air thanks to a chandelier, but also the
acrobats (all dressed in black) who support her
in opportunity. And her voice, which attains notes
that I have never heard my life!!! It is sublime.
Audrey Luna, the American soprano, not only
interprets Ariel suspended from a cable to give
the illusion that she floats about 25 feet over
the stage, but, on top of that, the composer,
Thomas Adès, pushes back an octave the border
of the soprano coloratura register. What a beautiful
contrast with the imposing and serious voices
of the tenors and baritones.
...
This show is very acrobatic. First vocally, because it
is a veritable exercise for the voice for these famous
singers. Also, it is acrobatic physically, since there are true
acrobats on stage (which is rare in the Opera) and
sometimes, one has the impression of attending a
circus performance, a true feat.
After three acts of 45 minutes and an intermission
of 30 minutes, people jumped out of their seats to
chear this ensemble of singers, dancers, musicians,
acrobats, but especially the masterly and prodigious
performance of coloratura soprano Audrey Luna.
For this second festival, they can say that Robert LePage
and his team took up the challenge once more to
surprise, to fill with wonder and to delight the public
of Quebec. Bravo!"-Info-culture.biz 7/27/2012
Read The New York Times review
of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
here:
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Celebrating 40 Years
View the From the Top youtube video on
Simone Porter, 15 year-old violinist from
The Academy at The Colburn School in LA
Click here to go to video
Violinist Simone Porter, Academy student at
The Colburn School, to appear on From the Top
Program will be broadcast on radio nationally week
of June 25, 2012
Click here to read full details
"For its 40th birthday party, the Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival, cranking up on
July 15, lets all the stock out of the barn:
four premieres/commissions, a symposium
on “Music, The Brain, Medicine and Wellness,”
three string quartets (Miró, Orion, Tokyo) and
40-plus concerts over five weeks including four
large-scale modernist chamber works."
Read the rest of theSanta Fe Reporter article here
Opera review: Jake Heggie’s ‘Three Decembers’ transformed by FW Opera"The Fort Worth Opera Festival has now done it twice: made a moving experience of a Jake Heggie opera that in another company’s production had seemed a facile pushing of emotional buttons."Read the full DMN review here
An Opulent Production Kicks Off Opera Festival
And Brings Fort Worth's Tosca To Life
"Whilst heading into one of the most admirably
up-to-date opera festivals in the world—with
two works by living composers in a four-production
season—Fort Worth Opera opened its annual spring
festival Saturday night at Bass Performance Hall
with a hyper-traditional production of one of the
all time hits from the traditional standard repertoire,
Puccini’s Tosca."
Diva on a Mission
Tosca soars and seduces as the opening show
in the 2012 Fort Worth Opera Festival.
Fort Worth Opera 2012 Festival
May 12 - June 3 -Don't miss it!
Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announces
2013 Festival (the company’s 67th season
and seventh Festival).
The Season will feature Puccini’s tragic drama,
La Bohème; Donizetti’s spirited switched-at-birth
romantic comedy, The Daughter of the Regiment;
and the company’s first-ever production of Strauss’
entertaining and comedic opera-within-an-opera,
Ariadne auf Naxos, all performed in the company’s
artistic home, Bass Hall, as well as the regional
premiere of American composer Tom Cipullo’s
Glory Denied, in the company's previously unnamed
popular alternative venue series. Newly-titled
Opera Unbound,the series will be held in the
McDavid Studio across from Bass Hall in downtown
Fort Worth. An emotion-packed, landmark work based
on the bestselling book by journalist Tom Philpott,
Glory Denied tells the tragic, true story of America’s
longest-held Vietnam prisoner-of-war, Colonel Jim Thompson.
The 2013 Festival will also move earlier into spring,
running April 20–May 12, 2013, one month earlier
than previous Festival seasons.
Read the violinist.com interview with
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg about the
new DVD ON OUR WAY
Violinist.com is also giving
away five copies of the DVD in
a contest this week
Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
"...the orchestra [Chicago Symphony] sounded
remarkably relaxed and fresh at Saturday night's
subscription concert conducted by the impressive
Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto."
-Chicago Sun-Times
"Ma began his spring CSO residency a week ago....
On Saturday, he delivered a rapt and impassioned
account of Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor in
partnership with his frequent collaborator,
Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto.
...
The cellist brought his usual tonal refinement as
well as a degree of rhapsodic freedom that allowed
the lyricism to unfold both tenderly and with a firm
sense of direction. Ma's unusually wide dynamic range
- from ethereal pianissimi to rich fortes - found an
equally sensitive ally in Prieto, whose balancing of
the orchestra was always true to the cellist's needs."
-Chicago Tribune
Read James' Bash's review
in OregonMusicNews.com
on violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's
performance with the
Oregeon Symphony
MusicalAmerica.com
Read the interview by Eugenia Zukerman
with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
about competitions
violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
with the Oregon Symphony
"Then violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg showed up,
and it was Katie bar the door. The music was Astor
Piazzolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires," an
assemblage of independently-written pieces that,
despite the title, was not intended as a reference
to Vivaldi's famous set of concertos. ...The soloist
herself was a blur for most of it. Salerno-Sonnenberg
is known for her unrestrained stage presence, and
the piece suited her; she was airborne in her retina-
searing scarlet trousers more than once. Chen's
precision was an effective counterbalance to
Salerno-Sonnenberg's wild energy as the orchestra
raced through breathless passages, and principal
cello Nancy Ives lent a captivating fourth-movement
cadenza, a typical Piazzolla combination of passion
and melancholy. After intermission came Camille
Saint-Saëns' Third Symphony in a performance
like Chen herself -- warm, expansive and
full of energy, with blazing brass, colorful winds,
magnificent organ playing by Doug Schneider and
Salerno-Sonnenberg herself occupying a seat at
a back desk of the violins (a mark of a great guest soloist)."
-Oregonlive.com
"This August, three organizations—
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the
University of New Mexico Cancer Center,
and Gabrielle’s Angels Foundation for Cancer
Research—are assembling musicians,
neuroscientists and music therapists for
a three-day symposium on music, the brain,
medicine and wellness."
-healthymagination.com
"Carlos Miguel Prieto knows how to work
a crowd. The music director of the
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico and the
Louisiana Philharmonic opened the Oregon
Symphony's concert Saturday night with a joke
-- making his first OSO appearance, he walked
onstage violin in hand, pretending to be a guest
concertmaster -- and ended it by nearly blowing
the roof off the place with a high-contrast,
high-tension performance of Maurice Ravel's
arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's
'Pictures at an Exhibition.'"
Read the full review from The Oregonian
David Patrick Stearns speaks with violinists
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Joshua Bell,
and David Kim in an article about violinists
and conducting in The Philadelphia Enquirer
New Century, the Movie, Sizzles
"How do you do justice to the twin volcanos
of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and
the New Century Chamber Orchestra?
Just follow them with a camera and show it all.
The deed is done, and the result is spectacular."
Music News - San Francisco Classical Voice
NSS MUSIC
YouTube Video on the DVD,
ON OUR WAY
The Journey of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
and the New Century Chamber Orchestra
RELEASE DATE MAY 8, 2012
American Lyric Theater
Presents Final Event in 2011-2012
Freshly Brewed Series
The Living Libretto
April 29, 2012
1:00 p.m. at OPERA America
(Doors open at 12:30 p.m. for brunch.)
Tickets: $20*; available online at smarttix
Click here to go to order site
Click here to read press release
and for details on artists
SOLTI FOUNDATION U.S.
ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS
of 2012 AWARDS
Cristian Macelaru
$10,000 Sir Georg Solti Emerging Conductor Award
Robert Trevino
$5,000 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Development Award
Click here to read full details
APRIL 24, 2012
AvantiClassic Releases the latest
CD collaboration between violinist
Philippe Quint, Carlos Miguel Prieto
and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria.
The CD, the first in Quint's new relationship
with the Belgium-based record label,
will be released in the US April 24,
and features Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 in g, Op. 26;
Beethoven, Romances, and Mendelssohn,
Violin Concerto in e, Op. 64. Recorded August 2011 at
Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City. Prieto's and Quint's
2009 recording of Korngold's Violin Concerto
(also with Mineria) garnered a Grammy
Award nomination.
View the YouTube video on the CD by
(Note: Press cc on bar below video to activate
English subtitles for Spanish section)
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Read the Oregon Music News
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
and
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center
Co-Present Cutting-Edge International Symposium
on the Science of Music and Healing
August 3 - 6, 2012
Part of the Festival's 40th Anniversary Season
Click here to visit Symposium website
Click here to read the post by AllThingsStrings.com
Read the FoxNews piece on festivals
worth checking out, including
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival:
The Hub
Industry Buzz
Symposium on music and healing set for Santa Fe
this summer
Click here to go to The Hub's link and
read the piece about
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's
August 4 - 6 Symposium co-presented by
The University of New Mexico Cancer Center
SymphonyNOW talks
to Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
about her work as music director
of New Century Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto
"Much credit should go to Prieto, however,
whose energy, intelligence, and encouraging
way with a baton was central to the success
of the evening. This is a very worthwhile concert,
especially for those who enjoy a bit of a musical
challenge and like to stretch their ears."
-Calgary HeraldClick here to read the review
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