There’s no limit to the stories that can be told by a string quartet. The Equilibrium Quartet, four members of the Orchestra who aim to re-balance inequality in music, present a chamber concert with a fascinating difference. They'll perform works from the first lady of Polish music, Grażyna Bacewicz, Panamanian folk, and the beautiful yet largely undiscovered music of Emilie Mayer, before easing gently into the Christmas season with Rebecca Clarke’s Combined Carols.

Equilibrium Advent

The Music Room

Jessica Meyer will be our guest as Composer-In-Residence as we give the Western US Premiere of a newly-commissioned work that brims with impassioned flare and fire. IFS Concertmaster Emma Rubinstein dazzles with the exotic music of Ravel, and the Symphony delivers a forgotten gem by the 19th century German composer, Emelie Mayer: her dramatic and evocative Fifth Symphony.

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Her Song in 3 Voices

Idaho Falls High School

2024-2025 Season Concert 1

St. John's Episcopal Church Barrington

Isabelle Faust returns to Berwaldhallen with Alban Berg's violin concerto – written in memory of a young girl. Principal conductor Daniel Harding also leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the overture to Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser , an opera about the struggle between virtuous and sensual love. In addition, the German Romantic composer Emilie Mayer's Seventh Symphony.

Isabelle Faust In Bergs Violin Concert

SR Berwaldhallen

The season opens with a flourish in a program celebrating the work of inspiring women in classical music. Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman is described by composer Joan Tower as “a tribute to women who take risks and are adventurous.” The captivating, Grammy-nominated Kara Huber will treat you to a dazzling performance of Mozart Piano Concerto K. 466. The evening concludes with Symphony No. 2 in E minor by Emilie Mayer, a Romantic composer beloved in her lifetime whose works are being celebrated in concert halls once again. 

The Uncommon Woman

River Lodge Conference Center

Romantic Era Masterpieces

Orpheum Theatre, Galesburg

Since the beginning of her career, Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has championed the trumpet repertoire amongst audiences on all six continents, meriting the highest critical praise for her soulful, lyrical sound and collaborative approach to music-making. An artist who challenges the boundaries of genre with an intensely creative, open-minded philosophy, Tine’s ever-expanding repertoire ranges from the classical period to contemporary works and new commissions.

Beethoven’s 5th!

Miller Symphony Hall

Two women composers of the Romantic era hold the spotlight in this imaginative concert of 19th-century music. The ‘fantastic’ (The Guardian) Kammerorchester Basel performs under the direction of Julia Schröder.

Kammerorchester Basel

Usher Hall

Two wonderful women composers of the Romantic era hold the spotlight in this imaginative concert of 19th-century music. The ‘fantastic’ (The Guardian) Kammerorchester Basel performs under the direction Julia Schröder.

Colors From The Newer Era

Christ Lutheran Church in Allentown

Musical ideas, like memories, evolve over time. In both Liszt’s symphonic poem and Mayer’s symphony, melodies and rhythms return over and over, transforming with each iteration until they have become something wholly new and triumphant. While a new work by Yaz Lancaster explores when, how, and why we return to childhood memories in our adult lives.

Throughlines

St. Catherine University

Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the greatest violinists of our time, performs Brahms’ quasi-symphonic Violin Concerto, in which the orchestra and the soloist engage in dialogue as equal partners. Here, the violin, with its high-energy gusto, spurs the orchestra to a playful, Romani-inspired finale. A contemporary of Brahms, Emilie Mayer, a composer well worth discovering, expresses her fascinating musical personality in her Symphony no. 7, a highly original work replete with surges of passion.

Zimmermann and Brahms’ Masterful Violin Concerto

Place des Arts

South African soprano Golda Schultz has been gracing the stage of the world’s greatest opera houses—from the Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna State Opera. Equally at home in leading operatic roles as she is as a soloist with the world’s foremost orchestras and in the most venerated recital halls, she has quickly become a leading voice in a new generation of star singers. For her Princeton University Concerts debut, she brings the extraordinary warmth of her voice to a program hailed as “a love-letter to women in music” exploring themes of love, nature, folklore and belief from a distinctly female perspective. Discussing the program’s curation, she shares: “Emilie Mayer, whose music was never recorded, was a genius on the level with Beethoven, but she was forgotten the day after she died in 1883. Nadia Boulanger became one of the greatest pedagogues with a touch that defined American culture. Even when we forget these women, what they’ve done still remains.”  

Golda Schultz, Soprano Jonathan Ware, Piano

Alexander Hall

Rediscovering Women Composers

Hanger Farm Arts Centre

As always, we celebrate the voices of female composers, and over the course of the season we present composers whose backgrounds and influences are as diverse as the music they have composed. The companion pieces to our featured work serve to bind the program into a cohesive whole, offering our listeners a varied musical experience and some exposure to less known composers and works.

CWO 23/24 Concert 2

First Presbyterian Church of Oakland

Conductor Mei-Ann Chen, praised for her passionate conducting style, leads the Orchestra in the Florida premiere of the new concerto for piano and orchestra, Shades of Unbroken Dreams, by Orlando favorite James Lee III. Bookending the Concerto is Emilie Mayer’s Overture, whose Romantic vocabulary explores Faust’s searching, questing soul and leads into the beautiful conclusion of our concert, Brahms’s Third, often called his most personal symphony. “Like a rainbow after a thunderstorm,” as the composer’s biographer Karl Geiringer describes it, with an emotional palette that paints in colors of yearning, reflection, and serene acceptance.

Brahms Third Symphony

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Ob Emilie Mayer und Ludvig van Beethoven persönlich auf einer Wellenlänge gelegen hätten, ist schwer zu beantworten. Dass sich der „weibliche Beethoven“, wie Emilie Mayer gern bezeichnet wird, hinter dem „echten“ nicht zu verstecken braucht, wird beim Hören der 7. Symphonie in f-Moll deutlich. Die zeitlebens unverheiratet und kinderlos gebliebene Komponistin entfesselt einen musikalischen Sturm, der, wie auch die anderen Werke Emilie Mayers, nach ihrem Tod zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Dieser derzeit noch selten gespielten Wiederentdeckung steht mit Beethovens Violinkonzert in D-Dur ein fester Bestandteil des klassischen Kernrepertoires gegenüber. Aus der Retrospektive steht dieses Meisterwerk den Komponisten der Romantik und damit vielleicht auch Emilie Mayer näher als der Wiener Klassik.

Wellenlänge

Kongresshaus Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Emilie Meyer, a prolific composer in her own right, recalls something of Mozart’s style. English composer Gerald Finzi writes dramatically for both the DSO strings and Principal Clarinet Ralph Skiano, while Elgar’s Serenade puts the former entirely in focus. One of Mozart’s last symphonies takes us all on a ridiculously fun ride.

Elgar & Mozart

Kirk in the Hills

Our Lady Star of the Sea

First United Methodist Church

The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

Robin Wallington unearths a handful of lesser-heard gems spanning the 19th and 20th century. Today, we’ll introduce you to a few composers you may not have heard of, but whose work you’ll soon be seeking out.

Tranquillity and Discovery with the BBC Philharmonic

MediaCityUK

Fanny & Emilie

Villa Marigola

Explore Romantic music with The Syracuse Orchestra! We’ll feature Noemi Miloradovic and Spencer Phillips playing Bottesini’s Concerto for Violin and Double Bass, and the Orchestra will perform Symphony No. 1 by Mayer and Pelléas et Mélisande by Fauré.

A Romantic Afternoon

St. Paul's Syracuse, the Downtown Episcopal Church

Courageous

The Church of St. John the Divine

"Ömmer jet Nöits" - we give this phrase special meaning in this symphony concert. Firstly with the powerful, poetic Overture No. 2 by the composer Emilie Mayer, who is still rarely heard today. Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 is one of the composer's most frequently played works and,
thanks to its virtuoso passages and lyrical structure, continues to enjoy great popularity to this day. The main work of the concert offers a true novelty, as announced in the title: the world premiere of the "approximate sonata" by the Aachen composer Philipp Maintz.

4th Symphony Concert

Parkhotel Quellenhof Aachen - Premiumhotel Aachen

Haydn’s Drum Roll Symphony with Richard Egarr

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Female composers have had a hard time for a long time, and have been largely ignored by history. This year's chamber concert by the hr Symphony Orchestra in Erbach will feature some of them, with their rich music and creative work. Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Rebecca Clark will be familiar, but Isabella Leonarda, an Italian nun from the 17th century who was one of the most productive composers of her era, or Marie Jaëll, a French pianist and composer from the 19th century, is not. The Frenchwoman Mélanie Bonis, whose works were mostly published under the pseudonym Mel Bonis in the 19th century, is also hardly known in this country, as is the Austrian Maria Theresia von Paradis, who was blind since childhood and was very prominent in the musical life of her time, the Viennese Classical period, as a pianist, singer and composer. In this concert you can get to know them all, as well as Emilie Mayer, a 19th-century German composer who was celebrated during her lifetime as the "female Beethoven".

Women Power

Werner-Borchers-Halle

Yannick Nézet-Séguin interprets Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great,” an imposing yet deeply personal work. Christian Blackshaw, a contemporary Mozart masters, delivers a crystal clear rendition of the composer’s work. With Piano Concerto No. 24, our artist-in-residence highlights Mozart’s ability to convey the depth of human emotion through music.

Soulful Greats

Cégep Marie Victorin

Église Sainte-Claire

For a long time, women composers had a hard time; they were mostly ignored in their time and throughout history. But women have composed with strength and talent at many times. In this concert, you can experience some of them, with their rich music and their creative work. You may still know Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Rebecca Clark, but it is a different story with Isabella Leonarda, an Italian nun from the 17th century who was one of the most productive composers of her era, or Marie Jaëll, a French pianist and composer from the 19th century. The Frenchwoman Mélanie Bonis, whose works were mostly published in the 19th century under the pseudonym Mel Bonis, is also hardly known in this country, as is the Austrian pianist, singer and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis, who was blind since childhood and was also very prominent in the musical life of her time, the Viennese Classical period. In this concert you can get to know them all, as well as Emilie Mayer, a German composer of the 19th century who was also highly celebrated during her lifetime and was widely regarded as the "female Beethoven".

Bertramstraße 8

In 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his play overture to the drama "Coriolanus" by Heinrich Joseph von Collin. The music deals with a completely antithetical hero. Outwardly heroic and determined, the young general Coriolanus is inwardly driven by self-doubt, anger and insecurity. Banished from his homeland of Rome, he swears revenge and tries to regain his rights by force. Ultimately, only his mother's pleas are able to stop him from going to war against Rome. Beethoven processes all of these different character traits in his overture and forms an overall picture of this tragic heroic story.

5th Academic Concert 2024/25

Gewandhaus

Two symphonies that are nicknamed "great" - Mozart's 40th in G minor and Schubert's eighth in C major - plus a large orchestral work by the composer who has been nicknamed the "female Beethoven". All that's missing is a large orchestra. But that's not the case here. Instead, four great musicians play arrangements of great music. So we'll hear: Schubert in what Schumann calls the "heavenly length" of just under an hour, "like a thick novel in four volumes by Jean Paul, for example, which can never end." Plus Mozart's penultimate symphony, a piece of which there are probably as many different interpretations as there are exegetes. And finally: Faust! When we talk about seduction, Goethe's hero as a central figure in literary history cannot be left out, and so we also hear an arrangement of the Faust Overture , which Emilie Mayer wrote in 1879 and which was one of the few works by the highly talented composer to be published during her lifetime.

Raphaela Gromes · Daniel Dodds · Duo Tal & Groethuysen

Schwetzingen Palace

Historical instruments, gut strings and old bows are not everything. For the British Consone Quartet, founded in 2015 at the Royal College of Music in London, the name says it all: the Latin word "consone" means unison. Harmony is the goal, even for the rarity of the evening, Emilie Mayer's G major quartet. How the harmony will sound when Kristian Bezuidenhout stirs it up on the fortepiano will be shown in Mozart arrangements. First you can hear the C major piano concerto in pocket format, then the quintet KV 452, which was actually composed for piano and wind instruments. Mozart himself considered this piece "the best thing I have ever written in my life." Violins, viola and cello will implement the then new wind instrument sounds with their means - up to the Larghetto, in which Mozart echoes the register aria from his later Don Giovanni . Compared to the conquest of the many women on the womanizer's list, success with the Schwetzingen audience should be easy.

Emilie Mayer

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 12, 2025

A Romantic Afternoon · The Syracuse Orchestra

Feb 8, 2025

Courageous · ROCO

16 - 17 Feb, 2025

4th Symphony Concert · Sinfonieorchester Aachen

14 - 16 Mar, 2025

Haydn’s Drum Roll Symphony with Richard Egarr · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Mar 25, 2025

Women Power · hr-Sinfonieorchester

Past events

Dec 2, 2024

Equilibrium Advent · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Nov 23, 2024

Her Song in 3 Voices · Idaho Falls Symphony

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