April 15, 2024
Guggenheim Works & Process with Experiments in Opera
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | New York, NY

Phil Kline & Jim Jarmusch: The Lives and Dreams of Tesla (workshop premiere)

Anthony Roth Costanzo — Nikola Telsa

April 9, 2024
New York University Orchestra
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts | New York, NY

Jackson A. Waters: from Defending Greenwood: III. June 1, 1921 (world premiere)
Brandon Connors-Morrison: from Symphony No. 2: Elegy (world premiere)
Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

March 16, 2024
Queer Urban Orchestra: Briefly Gorgeous
Church of the Holy Apostles | New York, NY

Aaron Copland: An Outdoor Overture
Andrew Yee: Briefly Gorgeous (East Coast premiere)
Caroline Shaw: Lo (world premiere, cello version)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastorale

Andrew Yee — cello
Derek Weagle — associate conductor

January 19, 2024
Washington National Opera
Kennedy Center | Washington, DC

Laura Jobin Acosta: A Way Forward (world premiere)
Elizabeth Gartman: Forever (world premiere)
Joy Redmond: Hairpiece (world premiere)

December 16, 2023
Queer Urban Orchestra: With a Little Help From Our Friends
Church of the Holy Apostles | New York, NY

Henry Purcell, arr. Steven Stucky: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Florence Price: Symphony No. 4

Ryan Roberts — oboe
Derek Weagle — associate conductor

December 8 - 10, 2023
NYU Opera & Orchestra
Iris Cantor Theater | New York, NY

Gian Carlo Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors

December 2, 2023
String Orchestra of Brooklyn
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church | Brooklyn, NY

William Grant Still: Threnody in Meory of Jean Sibelius
Loren Loiacono: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Vicky Chow — piano

November 19, 2023
Present Music
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist | Milwaukee, WI

Leilehua Lanzilotti: koʻu inoa
Brian Packham: Staircase Variations (world premiere)
Raven Chacon: Owl Song
John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae
Aaron Jay Kernis: Simple Songs

Ariadne Greif — soprano
Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group

November 15, 2023
New York University Orchestra
Iris Cantor Theater | New York, NY

Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

October 27, 2023
New York University Orchestra
Iris Cantor Theater | New York, NY

Jimmy López Bellido: Perú negro
Aaron Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Florence Price: Symphony No. 3

Matthew Fontana — clarinet

October 21, 2023
Queer Urban Orchestra: Besties
Symphony Space | New York, NY

Gian Carlo Menotti: Amelia al ballo Overture
Alma Mahler-Werfel, orch. David Bloom: Ich wandle unter Blumen
Alma Mahler-Werfel, orch. Matthews: Laue Sommernacht am Himmel
Alexander von Zemlinksy: Die drei Schwestern
Alma Mahler-Werfel, orch. Matthews: Bei dir ist es traut
Samuel Barber: School for Scandal Overture
Jessie Montgomery: Lunar Songs
Eve Beglarian, orch. David Bloom: Farther from the Heart
Alex Temple: Liebeslied
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
Andrew Gold, orch. Noah Green: Thank You for Being a Friend

Ariadne Greif — soprano
Youth Pride Chorus
Derek Weagle — associate conductor

October 10, 2023
Contemporaneous: Parables
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Music by Alhaji Bai Konte, Jali Bakary Konteh, Mafu Conteh, and Pa Bobo Jobarteh, arranged by David Bloom, Jordyn Davis, Josh Henderson, Dylan Mattingly, and Zachary Ritter

Jali Bakary Konteh — kora and voice
Georgia Mills — assistant conductor

June 14, 2023
Contemporaneous
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

Tonia Ko: new work (world premiere)
Donnacha Dennehy: new work (US premiere)
Dan Trueman: Midden Find (East Coast premiere)

Tonia Ko — bubblewrap
Eliza McCarthy — piano
Dan Trueman — hardanger d’amore

June 11, 2023
American Composers Orchestra: SONiC Festival CoLABoratory Showcase
New School Tishman Auditorium | New York, NY

Mendi & Keith Obadike: Dream Train
Trevor New: Cohere Touch
Marcus Gilmore: Pulse

Paloma McGregor, director/choreographer
Marcus Gilmore Trio
Trevor New — viola

May 20, 2023
Contemporaneous
Disney Concert Hall | Los Angeles, CA

Dylan Mattingly & Thomas Bartscherer: Stranger Love (world premiere)

Lileana Blain-Cruz — director

April 26, 2023
NYU Orchestra Two
New York University | New York, NY

Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Lenny White: Without Resolution (world premiere)
Maxim Dybal-Denysenko: An American in Vienna (world premiere)
Claude Debussy: La mer

April 25, 2023
NYU Orchestra One
New York University | New York, NY

Jackie Andresen: Derivation (world premiere)
Viet Cuong: Re(new)al
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Christina Swanson — soprano
Grace Sprecher, McKenzie Squires, Adriana Harrison, and AJ Morrissey — percussion

April 7 - Oct 8, 2023
Experiments in Opera: Everything for Dawn
Opera Philadelphia Channel

A 10-episode made for TV opera with music by Clarice Assad, Jason Cady, Melissa Dunphy, Miguel Frasconi, Pauline Kim Harris, Paul Kerekes, Phil Kline, Kamala Sankaram, Aaron Siegel, and Matthew Welch. Directed by Alison Moritz.

April 6, 2023
Present Music
Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee, WI

Clarice Assad: Retro-Pop (world premiere)
Dan Trueman: Midden Find (world premiere)
Emilia Amper: Spelpuma

Clarice Assad — voice
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh — hardanger d'amore
Carla Kihlstedt — nykelharpa

March 30-April 2, 2023
NYU Opera & Orchestra One
Frederick Loewe Theatre | New York, NY

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo

March 21, 2023
NYU Orchestra Two
Symphony Space | New York, NY

Julia Wolfe: Fountain of Youth
world premiere film scores by Y-Fan Chen, Jude Shih, Jackie Andresen, and Louis Stevens
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

November 16, 2022
Present Music: Flat on your back in the dry wintry grass — Miller & Kentridge
Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee, WI

Music by Philip Miller and animated films by William Kentridge

October 22, 2022
Queer Urban Orchestra
Church of the Holy Apostles | New York, NY

Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

October 20, 2022
NOW Ensemble
Eisenhower Auditorium | State College, PA

Judd Greenstein & Tracy K. Smith: A Marvelous Order (world premiere)

Joshua Frankel — director & animator

Megan Schubert — Jane Jacobs
Rinde Eckert — Robert Moses

September 11, 2022
Present Music
Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee, WI

Christophe Chassol: excerpts from Big Sun
Philip Glass: La belle et la bête

August 27, 2022
Contemporaneous: Genealogy
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Pa Bobo Jobarteh & Jali Bakary Konteh, arr. Dylan Mattingly: Jelenka (world premiere arrangement)
Pa Bobo Jobarteh & Jali Bakary Konteh, arr. Dylan Mattingly & Zachary Ritter: Sissay & Kelefa (world premiere arrangements)
Michael Kropf: Moses in Nederland (world premiere, Contemporaneous commission)
Dylan Mattingly: from History of Life: Genealogy (world premiere)
Eve Beglarian, arr. David Bloom: The Continuous Life (world premiere arrangement)

Sabrina Tabby — violin
Terrence McKnight — narrator

August 5, 2022
Teatro Grattacielo
Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice | Phoenicia, NY
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni

May 6, 2022
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts | Milwaukee, WI

Eric Coates: Saxo-Rhapsody
Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Florence Price: Symphony No. 3

May 2, 2022
Ensemble Connect
Carnegie Hall | New York, NY

Robert Honstein: new work (world premiere, Carnegie Hall commission)
Shelley Washington: A Kind of Lung (world premiere arrangement, Carnegie Hall commission)

April 29, 2022
New York University Orchestra One
Loewe Theater | New York, NY

Cole Reyes: Pression (world premiere, winner of the 2022 Steinhardt Composition Competition)
Launy Grøndahl: Trombone Concerto
Johannes Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Joseph Haydn
Leonard Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)

April 9, 2022
Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble
Disney Concert Hall | Los Angeles, CA

Annie Gosfield: The Secret Life of Planets (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Hila Plitmann — soprano
James Hayden — bass

April 9, 2022
Jacaranda
Disney Concert Hall | Los Angeles, CA

Rajna Swaminathan: The Illusion of Permanence (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Mazz Swift: Memory Two (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Du Yun: Oksoko (West Coast premiere, LA Phil commission)

Rajna Swaminathan — mridangam
Mazz Swift — violin

April 4, 2022
New York University Orchestra Two
Skirball Center | New York, NY

Lenny White: The Journey (world premiere)
Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in D Major, Op. 83a

March 10, 2022
Present Music: Ablaze
Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee, WI

Daniel Kidane: new work (world premiere, Present Music commission)
Viet Cuong: Re(new)al
Anthony R. Green: Piano Concerto: Solution
Nina Shekhar: Turn Your Feet Around

Eunmi Ko — piano

March 5, 2022
New York Philharmonic (cover conductor)
Alice Tully Hall | New York, NY

Young People’s Concert, featuring works by students from NY Phil’s Very Young Composers program

James Blachly — conductor
Jon Deak, Jessica Mays, and Jordan Millar — hosts

February 28, 2022
Contemporaneous: Songs for the Earth
Carnegie Hall | New York, NY

Julius Eastman: Stay On It
Marcos Balter: Bladed Stance
Gabriella Smith: Tesselations
Joshua Groffman: Lemur (world premiere)
Lawrence Kramer: Ecospheres (world premiere)

Nathaniel Sullivan — baritone

February 17-19, 2022
New York Philharmonic (cover conductor)
Jazz at Lincoln Center | New York, NY

Ziboukle Martinaityte: Saudade
Richard Strauss: Brentano-Lieder
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Santtu-Matias Rouvali — conductor
Golda Schultz — soprano

January 6, 2022
New York Philharmonic (cover conductor)
Carnegie Hall | New York, NY

Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call
John Adams: Saxophone Concerto
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

Susanna Mälkki — conductor
Branford Marsalis — saxophone

October 20-23, 2021
New York Philharmonic (cover conductor)
Alice Tully Hall | New York, NY

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Anthony Davis: You Have the Right to Remain Silent
John Adams: Chamber Symphony

Dalia Stasevska — conductor
Anthony McGill — clarinet

September 18, 2021
Contemporaneous Day of Imagination
Irondale Center | Brooklyn, NY

Brian Petuch: Portrait and a Dream (world premiere, Contemporaneous commission)
Andrés Martinez de Velasco: new work (world premiere, Contemporaneous commission)
Kara-Lis Coverdale: Aftertouches (world premiere, live version)
Dylan Mattingly: from Stranger Love: Acts II and III (concert premiere)

June 11, 2021
Present Music
Online performance
Available on-demand through September 11, 2021

David Lang: these broken wings
Louis Andriessen: Life
Tansy Davies: Neon
Daniel Kidane: Winged
Aviva Kopelman: Neon Lights
Henry Threadgill: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs: Part IV

May 27, 2021
Beth Morrison Projects & Contemporaneous
Online performance

Gabriel Fynsk: Z-rod and Doorway
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: excerpt from We the Innumerable
Laura Jobin-Acosta: excerpts from The Seven Last Words of Christ
Gabrielle Herbst: excerpt from Ashes

May 6, 2021
Bang on a Can
Online performance
Available on-demand through August 4, 2021

Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer

March 26, 2021
Present Music & Elenna Sindler
Online performance
Available on-demand through June 26, 2021

Andy Akiho: NO one To kNOW one
Hans Abrahamsen: Winternacht
Caroline Shaw: And So
Philip Glass: Changing Opinion

October 24, 2020
Present Music
Online performance

Music by Frederic Rzewski, Klassik, and more

September 25-27, 2020
Tri-Cities Opera, LUMA Festival & Contemporaneous
Virtual reality online performance | more information

Kamala Sankaram: Miranda

February 13-14, 2020
Present Music
Jan Serr Studio | Milwaukee, WI

Avant-Garden of Love — music by Sophie Dunér, John Cage, Charles Mingus, and others

February 10, 2020
Face the Music & Nathalie Joachim
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

Nathalie Joachim: excerpts from Famn d’Ayiti

January 10-11, 2020
PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL & Beth Morrison Projects
Gerald Lynch Theater | New York, NY

Jeremy Schonfeld, arr. David Bloom: Iron & Coal

Director: Kevin Newbury | Choreographer: Natalie Lomonte
Contemporaneous, MasterVoices, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus

November 17, 2019
Present Music
St. John’s Cathedral | Milwaukee, WI

Shelley Washington, arr. D. Bloom: A Kind of Lung
Caroline Shaw: This might also be a form of dreaming
Eve Beglarian, arr. D. Bloom: The Continuous Life

September 7, 2019
Present Music
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts | Milwaukee, WI

Gabriella Smith: Brandenburg Interstices
Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Auction
Caleb Burhans: Escape Wisconsin
Christopher Cerrone: South Catalina
Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite

July 11-21, 2019
Bard Summerscape | Beth Morrison Projects
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Michael Gordon & Deborah Artman: Acquanetta

Director: Daniel Fish
Cast: Rebecca L. Hargrove, Amelia Watkins, Eliza Bagg, Christopher Burchett, and Timur
Choir of Trinity Wall Street & Bang on a Can Opera

May 31-June 2, 2019
Experiments in Opera and Contemporaneous
The Flea Theater | New York, NY

Chunky in Heat — a new opera with music by Jason Cady, Paula Matthusen, Erin Rogers, Aaron Siegel, Shelley Washington, and Matthew Welch

Librettist: AM Homes
Director: Alison Moritz

May 18, 2019
Contemporaneous with Arcomusical
Littlefield | Brooklyn, NY

Alhaji Bai Konte, arr. David Bloom: Alla L’aa Ke
Elliot Cole: Roda
Ian Gottlieb: new work — world premiere
Joanna Newsom, arr. Dylan Mattingly: Cosmia

April 3-14, 2019
Opera Omaha ONE Festival
The Mastercraft | Omaha, NE

Philip Glass: Les enfants terribles

Director: James Darrah | Choreographer: Gustavo Ramirez Sansano
Cast: Vanessa Bacera, Naomi O’Connell, Adrian Kramer, and Theo Hoffman

March 6, 2019
Contemporaneous
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Violet Barnum: new work — world premiere
Henry Threadgill, arr. David Bloom: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs: Part Four
Sarah Goldfeather: Treading Water — world premiere

February 20-21, 2019
Beth Morrison Projects and Contemporaneous
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

Michael Lanci: Crude Capital (world premiere)
Emma O’Halloran: Mary Motorhead (world premiere)

October 12, 2018
Hotel Elefant
Shapeshifter Lab | Brooklyn, NY

Chaya Czernowin: Ayre
Leaha Villarreal: Never Not

August 16, 2018
Hotel Elefant
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Matt Marks: The Adventures of Albert Fish
Matt Marks: Sex Objects
Matt Marks: This Will Hurt Someone

July 27, 2018
Contemporaneous & The Dream Unfinished
St. Peter’s Church | New York, NY

Vijay Iyer: Dig the Say
Kareem Roustom: Dabke
George Walker: Abu
Tania León: Indígena
Huang Ruo: The Sonic Great Wall

May 31, 2018
Special Music School High School Orchestra & Choir
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School | New York, NY

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
Leonard Bernstein: from Candide: Make Our Garden Grow

May 13, 2018
Contemporaneous
Bang on a Can Marathon
NYU Skirball Center | New York, NY

Jeffrey Brooks: After the Treewatcher
Jeffrey Brooks: Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother
Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion
Dylan Mattingly: from Stranger Love: Act I, Scene 13: Jubliee

May 3-4, 2018
Contemporaneous, presented by Beth Morrison Projects
The Music Center at Strathmore | North Bethesda, MD

Jeremy Schonfeld, arr. David Bloom: Iron & Coal (world premiere)

Director: Kevin Newbury
Alexandria Harmonizers | Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra

April 14, 2018
Contemporaneous at MATA Festival
The Kitchen | New York, NY

Lasse Hansen: Face the Music
David Garner: DwnByThRckyMntns
Jenna Lyle: Let them stop swaying, then there won’t be any wind. (world premiere)
William Dougherty: a stillness of zero temptation
Andreas Eduardo Frank: Samuraï Progressive

March 17, 2018
Beth Morrison Projects: Next Generation
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

Daniel Sabzghabaei: Two Reflections of the Belovèd
Gemma Peacocke: from Wave + Lines: Bees and Separation
Noah Kaplan: She

March 12, 2018
Face the Music
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Greg Saunier: silent film scores
Sean Friar: Clunker Concerto

February 25, 2018
Contemporaneous
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

Krists Auznieks: And Flowers Showered (world premiere)

February 16, 2018
Contemporaneous
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

John Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man

February 9-11, 2018
American Opera Projects
Symphony Space | New York, NY

Daniel Thomas Davis: Six. Twenty. Outrageous. (world premiere)

Librettist: Adam Frank
Director and designer: Doug Fitch
Cast: Ariadne Greif, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, and Andrew Fuchs
Momenta Quartet

January 16-17, 2018
Contemporaneous
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Dylan Mattingly: from Stranger Love: Act I (concert premiere)

Cast: Molly Netter, Jodie Landau, Jonathan Woody, Jane Sheldon

December 4, 2017
Face the Music
Roulette | Brooklyn, NY

Daniel Wohl: Holographic

October 28, 2017
Contemporaneous with Iarla Ó Lionáird
National Sawdust | Brooklyn, NY

Dan Trueman: Three sean-nós songs
Donnacha Dennehy: Grá agus Bás

September 22-24, 2017
Contemporaneous with Pig Iron Theater and The Crossing
Philadelphia Fringe Festival | Philadelphia, PA

Troy Herion: A Period of Animate Existence (world premiere)