Composer

This 100th Anniversary Season finale includes Beethoven’s most beloved work with the Amarillo Master Chorale and special guest vocalists, plus new music written for the Harrington String Quartet by Grammy Award-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis.

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Beethoven’s Ninth & HSQ

Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts

Timothy Weiss leads the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) in Warner Concert Hall. CME features Oberlin Conservatory student musicians playing new pieces by a wide range of 20th- and 21st-century composers. This program features a new untitled work by fourth-year composition student Jerry Achtermann.

Concert: Contemporary Music Ensemble

Oberlin College

The highly anticipated total solar eclipse on Buffalo’s horizon illuminates the program selection of two contemporary composers to complement Holst’s dazzling interpretation of the cosmos, The Planets. Nina Shekhar’s haunting Lumina explores the concept of lightness and dark, while The Universe in Ecstatic Motion by Christopher Theofanidis is a showcase for pre-eminent flutist, Marina Piccinini.

Beyond The Planets

Kleinhans Music Hall

“Our Glorious Life concert is deeply personal. And I’m really excited for it.  Birth and death are the most profound and mystical occurrences of the human life cycle. There is nothing more celebrated or mourned than the ‘into’ and ‘out of’ our human life. And there is nothing more questioned than the ins and outs. Where did we come from? Where do we go? Is there life before life? Is there life after death? Who knows the answers?  We turn to religion, spiritual practices, psychics, priests, gurus, doctors.  Books have been written about different accounts of people with Near Death Experiences.

Glorious Life

Civic Center Music Hall

Kerson Leong Plays Beethoven

Robinson Center

Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 was his most understated and transparent, concluding with an orchestral song based on a German folk poem that presents a child’s view of heaven. Soprano Heather Hill sings the final movement of the symphony, as well as a Mozart aria and a short work by 12th-century composer, poet and abbess Hildegard von Bingen which serves as the basis for the only purely orchestral work on the program, Rainbow Body by American composer Chris Theofanidis.

Classical IV – Heavenly Voices

Capitol Theatre

Fantasy for Clarinets

First Baptist Church of Oklahoma

Rachmaninov’s poignant Third Symphony evokes the Russia he left behind. Violinist Karen Gomyo, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality and brilliance,” joins the CSO for Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1. From its exciting first movement to its thrilling finale, this is one of Glass’ most powerful and captivating concertos. Complementing these works is Sibelius’ atmospheric Pohjola’s Daughter.

Glass & Rachmaninov

Symphony Center

 World premiere commission by Dr. Candace Steele Flippin, the Briggs Foundation, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Pictures at an Exhibition & Chris Brubeck Guitar Concerto World Premiere

Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center

Christopher Theofanidis: Drum Circles
Holst: The Planets

Holst’s The Planets with The Florida Orchestra

Ruth Eckerd Hall

Duke Energy Center for the Arts

Holst’s The Planets

Featuring Grammy Award Winner Richard O’Neill, and continuing our celebration of Rachmaninoff’s most popular works for orchestra!

Happy 150th, Rachmaninoff! - Masterworks Series

Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS faculty coach the program's major emerging talents in opera scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching. This week's focus is on contemporary music.

Opera Encounters

Wheeler Opera House

Two ballets written for the Martha Graham Dance Company feature prominently on this evening showcasing American creativity and originality. Augusta Read Thomas’s The Auditions is in seven sections, and depicts three dance auditions and the environment surrounding them. According to the composer and choreographer, the ballet "takes place in two worlds – one ethereal, one grounded.” The otherworldly, odd-numbered sections, all titled “The Landscape” contrast with the action-packed even-numbered sections, all titled “The Room.” 

American Evening Featuring Appalachian Spring

Aspen Meadows Resort

Hear Copland's original 13-instrument version of Appalachian Spring and an AMFS co-comissioned work in this concert highlighting American composers. 

Watch and listen as composer and professor Christopher Theofanidis works with talented composers on honing their craft as part of his weeklong AMF workshop Orchestrating for the 21st Century. Hear how it all comes together on Sunday night at First Draughts Reading Sessions.

Composer Masterclass

Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra inaugurates its 2021-22 season a with stirringlprogram of brilliance, depth, and grandeur.

PSYO Fall Concert

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

PSYWE: Rise & Shine!

At the beginning of the 1930s, Orff produced a number of arrangements of early music. His researches in this area led to the creation of Carmina Burana. The texts come from a collection of earthy lyrics, discovered in a Bavarian monastery and dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It contains some 200 drinking songs and love lyrics. Orff saw in it the ideal vehicle to express basic human emotions.</p>
<p>This work is enormous in both force and sound creating an experience that is nothing short of spectacular.

Christopher Theofanidis

Composer

Events

Apr 19, 2024

Beethoven’s Ninth & HSQ · The Amarillo Symphony

Apr 11, 2024

Concert: Contemporary Music Ensemble · Oberlin Conservatory of Music

5 - 6 Apr, 2024

Beyond The Planets · Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Mar 23, 2024

Glorious Life · Oklahoma City Philharmonic

24 - 25 Feb, 2024

Kerson Leong Plays Beethoven · Arkansas Symphony Orchestra

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