Composer

Place shapes us – through their landscapes, architecture, and atmosphere, and sometimes, through a single moment of light or sound. Songs About Place invites us to hear how a setting is transformed into sound, and how a place, in all its forms, becomes a unique experience.

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Songs About Place

Pasadena Conservatory of Music

String students from The Taylor Academy come together as the Academy Chamber Orchestra to perform a special concert.  The second half presents Senior Division Winners of The Florence Man & Bernard Sze Concerto Competition.

Academy Chamber Orchestra

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert features contemporary works by Sarah Gibson, Andrew Norman, Stephen Hartke, and Donald Crockett.

Faculty Recital: Kate Vincent, Viola

Colburn School

April’s concert is filled with inspiring and youthful energy featuring Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals! This piece depicts various animals in their natural habitats through the different colors and timbres of the orchestra. Following that, we’ll dive deeper into the sounds of the orchestra with a piece by Modesto’s own and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist composer Andrew Norman. The program will end with Copland’s Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo with the young musicians of the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra playing side-by-side on Hoedown.

Carnival of the Animals

Gallo Center for the Arts

April’s concert is filled with inspiring and youthful energy featuring Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals! This piece depicts various animals in their natural habitats through the different colors and timbres of the orchestra. Following that, we’ll dive deeper into the sounds of the orchestra with a piece by Modesto’s own and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Andrew Norman. The program will end with Copland’s Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo with the young musicians of the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra playing side-by-side on Hoedown.

Modesto Symphony Orchestra - Carnival of the Animals

It starts with a bassoon solo, and before long there is a profusion of twitters, plucked strings and pounding of pagan drums…like all manner of life forms breaking through the frozen crust of the Russian landscape as pulsing rhythms and primitive rituals proclaim the veneration of spring. It’s The Rite of Spring, the iconic work that changed classical music forever and even today continues to be a thrilling, visceral experience. Abandon yourself to its raw energy and revel in its electrifying intensity as Aziz Shokhakimov, Music Director of Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, guest conducts the DSO. Jörgen van Rijen solos in the US premiere of a concerto by Andrew Norman, praised by the Boston Globe for his “staggering imagination.” Opening the concert, Rimsky-Korsakov dazzles you with colorful evocations of Spain.

Stravinksy’s The Rite of Spring

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

### Event Description: Simone Porter & Blake Pouliot, Violin with Hsin-I Huang, Piano at BroadStage

**Date and Time:** March 27, 2025, at 7:30 PM

**Duration:** 75 minutes with no intermission

**Venue:** BroadStage

**Event Overview:**
Join us for an unforgettable evening of classical brilliance as three young virtuosos—violinists Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot, accompanied by pianist Hsin-I Huang—take the stage at BroadStage. This performance promises to be a mesmerizing display of talent and artistry, featuring a wide-ranging program that includes both classical masterpieces and contemporary favorites.

**Program Highlights:**
- **Hotel California** by The Eagles, arranged by O. Marckx (Porter, Pouliot) – 5 minutes
- **Nigun** by Ernst Bloch (Porter, Huang) – 7 minutes
- **Danse Russe from Petrushka** by Igor Stravinsky, arranged by S. Dushkin (Porter, Huang) – 3 minutes
- **Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song for Violin and Piano, Op. 4** by Miklos Rozsa (Pouliot, Huang) – 9 minutes
- **Intermission**
- **Sabina** by Andrew Norman (Porter) – 7 minutes
- **Much Ado About Nothing Suite, Op. 11** by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Pouliot, Huang) – 10 minutes
- **Sonata for 2 Violins, Op. 15** by Miklos Rozsa (Porter, Pouliot) – 18 minutes and 40 seconds

**About the Artists:**

**Simone Porter, Violin:**
Recognized for her impassioned energy and vibrant communication, Simone Porter has performed with prestigious orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She made her professional solo debut at age 10 and has since been a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

**Blake Pouliot, Violin:**
Described as a once-in-a-lifetime talent by the Toronto Star, Blake Pouliot has captivated audiences with his refined and impassioned performances. He has performed with major orchestras across North America and Europe and has released critically acclaimed recordings.

**Hsin-I Huang, Piano:**
Hsin-I Huang is one of today's most sought-after pianists, known for her collaborations with renowned artists and orchestras. She has performed at prestigious venues and festivals worldwide and has received accolades for her recordings.

**Tickets:**
Tickets for this event are available for purchase. Don't miss the chance to experience this extraordinary evening of music.

**Additional Information:**
For more details on ticketing, accessibility, and COVID-19 safety measures, please visit the BroadStage website.

Join us for a night of exceptional music that promises to leave a lasting impression!

Simone Porter & Blake Pouliot, violin

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage

In Streich’s ISHJÄRTA distinctive chordal characteristics emerge in a soundspace of contrasting layers—mists, shimmering veils, a capped, shielded world. This is a piece about heart and intensifying expression.

Icefire, Do-Re-Mi & Caring for the Earth

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. Will Joseloff is a student of Paul Kantor. 

Will Joseloff, Violin

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Watch the performance on this page at the scheduled date and time. This performance won’t be available to stream afterward on demand.

Ensemble Connect 2025

The Juilliard School

The program features eight new works commissioned for Hub’s 10th birthday by composers whose work gives a snapshot of music being written today:  Angélica Negrón, Jessica Meyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Nico Muhly, Donnacha Dennehy, Marcos Balter, Sage Shurman and Andrew Norman.

Hub Mix Tape

Kaufman Music Center

Join Musicians of the Philharmonic for personal and intimate performances, and experience the personality of the performers. See how a small setting can amplify a huge musical event!


NY Phil Ensembles at Merkin Hall

Leif Ove Andsnes, Klaus Mäkelä, and the Oslo Philharmonic open the orchestra season with Beethoven's fifth piano concerto, "The Emperor Concerto." The orchestral piece Play from 2013 established Andrew Norman as an important voice in the American contemporary music scene.

Klaus Mäkelä Leif Ove Andsnes

Oslo Concert Hall

Season Opener Klaus Mäkelä Leif Ove Andsnes

New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry. Named a BBC New Generation Artist (2022–24), Ms. Lewis is also the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, winner of the Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize (2021), Musical America’s New Artist of the Month (June 2021), a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and a YCAT Concordia Artist.

Solo Recitals at the Strand: Geneva Lewis, violin

Strand Theatre, Rockland

Georges Méliès’ seminal 1902 silent film is the inspiration for this year’s Community Opera. Garsington Opera is proud to open our stage to the inter-generational voices of our communities, working shoulder-to-shoulder with professional singers and creative teams.

A Trip to the Moon

Wormsley

**Garsington Opera Presents: A Trip to the Moon**

Join us for a mesmerizing evening at the Garsington Opera with the enchanting performance of "A Trip to the Moon." This unique event takes place on Tuesday, 30th July 2024, and Wednesday, 31st July 2024, with both performances starting at 6.45pm.

**About the Opera:**
Inspired by Georges Méliès’s seminal 1902 silent film, "A Trip to the Moon" is this year’s Community Opera at Garsington Opera. Crafted by Andrew Norman, the opera unfolds a fantastical story where astronomers, after crash-landing their rocket on the moon, must overcome linguistic barriers to communicate with the moon's inhabitants. This opera promises to be a delightful experience for all ages, exploring themes of discovery, communication, and the universal quest for understanding.

**Featuring:**
- **Conductor:** Douglas Boyd
- **Director:** Karen Gillingham
- **Designer:** Rhiannon Newman Brown
- **Lighting Designer:** Ben Pickersgill
- **Cast:** Includes the Garsington Opera Adult Company, Garsington Opera Youth Company, Primary School Youth Company, with George Méliès played by Robert Murray and Eoa by Jennifer France.

**Ticket Information:**
- **General Admission:** £15
- **Under-18s:** £5
- **Booking:** Tickets can be booked through the Garsington Opera box office at 01494 37603.

Don't miss this extraordinary opera that bridges the gap between Earth and the moon through the universal language of music. Book your tickets now for an unforgettable journey to the moon!

Garsington Opera: A Trip to the Moon

Student and Senior Discount Tickets Available at the Box Office

2024 Young Concert Artists Season Finale

Carnegie Hall

Arnaud Sussmann is a violinist with a unique sound and a strong passion for chamber music. An in-demand soloist who appears regularly with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he takes the Colburn stage for a program blending classic and contemporary.

Colburn Chamber Music Society: Arnaud Sussmann, Violin

One California Plaza

Shepherd School Chamber Players

The Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble performs music composed in the last twenty years in concerts that feature multidisciplinary collaboration, technology, improvisation, and theatrical elements. The ensemble often highlights the work of students and faculty.

Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble

Carnegie Mellon University

Sakari Oramo joins star violinist Vilde Frang to bend time and play the unplayable – whether Andrew Norman’s American odyssey or Sibelius at his most passionate.

Frang plays Stravinsky

Barbican Centre

BMOP continues its extended 25th Anniversary celebrations with a trip to Carnegie Hall. Featuring three works originally commissioned, premiered, and recorded by BMOP, "Play It Again" provides the capstone to the first 25 years of BMOP's mission.

Andrew Norman's Play, Lei Liang's A Thousand Mountain, A Million Streams, and Lisa Bielawa's In medias res all receive their New York premieres on the historic Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage in Carnegie Hall.

Play It Again at Carnegie Hall

For his debut concert, he conducts Andrew Norman’s 10-minute orchestra joyride, Unstuck, which brims with invention and energy. The orchestra’s first concertmaster, American Noah Bendix-Balgley, takes the stage for Mozart’s first violin concerto before the orchestra concludes its program with Erich Korngold’s only symphony — a work that the composer never heard performed live. Completed in 1952 and dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the work had a radio premiere in 1954 and was not performed live until 1972, 15 years after the composer’s death. Korngold’s sweeping orchestrations and brilliant orchestral color made him a huge success in Hollywood as a film composer, all of which are on display in this insightful and dramatic score.

Berliner Philharmoniker

University of Michigan

Kirill Petrenko makes his eagerly awaited Boston debut as music director of the Berliner Philharmoniker in what promises to be a highlight of the new season: a truly unmissable event. Petrenko leads the orchestra in three pieces, culminating in a sweepingly dramatic, richly textured work that he deeply champions: the Korngold Symphony.

Symphony Hall

John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composer’s ego over the audience and performers. At the height of the AIDS crisis, Corigiliano overcame that hesitation and wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a way to memorialize friends lost to the epidemic. Though he was a member of the so-called “Silent Generation,” Corigliano’s symphony served as influential composition for those coming of age in symphonic circles when it premiered in 1990. In this Gen X program curated by Thomas Adès, the milestone Symphony No. 1 is paired with music by Andrew Norman and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Corigliano and Norman

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Following its wildly creative video presentation as part of the Spring 2021 Cal Performances at Home season, the adventurous new-music ensemble yMusic—all members of Generation Y—returns with an exciting program of new and recent works for its in-person Berkeley debut.

Comprising “six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres” (The New Yorker), yMusic is committed to working closely with living composers, from pop stars like Paul Simon, Regina Spektor, and Ben Folds to leading lights of the classical music world.

The centerpiece of the concert is the West Coast premiere of Difference, a Cal Performances co-commission by the Grammy-nominated and Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Andrew Norman, hailed as “the leading American composer of his generation” by the Los Angeles Times. The program also includes Missy Mazzoli’s meditative Ecstatic Science; Berkeley-born composer Gabriella Smith’s Tessellations; Together, a new work Judd Greenstein wrote for the group during quarantine; and several new pieces co-composed by the ensemble during the past year’s hiatus from live performance.

yMusic

University of California, Berkeley

About</a>	<div>	<div>	From the terror of its opening brass fanfare through to the wild delirium of its ending, Piotr Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony takes us on a journey of unstoppable drama, filled with aching melodies, thundering climaxes and the psychological torments of a hero struggling with implacable fate. Trumpeter Pacho Flores stars in the U.S. premiere of a new concerto by Paquito D'Rivera, a jazzy tribute to the Venezuelan people by the Cuban-born composer. And the concert opens with an enchanting orchestral firework by the young California-based composer Andrew Norman.

Payare Leads TCHAIKOVSKY

San Diego Civic Theatre

Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare’s profound musicianship, technical brilliance and charismatic presence on the podium has elevated him as one of the most sought-after young conductors, working regularly with the world’s leading orchestras. Payare currently serves as music director designate of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Prior to that, Payare was Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra from 2014-19 with whom he appeared twice at the BBC Proms in 2016 and 2019. The Orchestra recently named him Conductor Laureate in recognition of his vast artistic contribution to the Orchestra and City of Belfast during his five year tenure.  Francisco “Pacho” Flores, principal trumpet of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and founding member of the Simón Bolívar Brass Quintet, has been achieving worldwide recognition as a soloist, captivating audiences with his energy and the bell-like beauty of his tone. His playing integrates jazz and Latin American influences with his classical training. In 2005 he earned a conservatory diploma with a unanimously awarded Prix de Virtuosité. He has won four international competitions, the most prestigious of all: the Maurice André Competition in 2006.  In the 100-plus years since its inception, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra has become one of the most significant orchestras in the United States and was designated a Tier 1 Orchestra by the League of American Orchestras in 2010. Committed to providing musical experiences of superior quality for the greater San Diego community and beyond, the orchestra is known for their rich mixture of innovative and educational programming designed to appeal to all ages and cultures.

San Diego Symphony

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

From the terror of its opening brass fanfare through to the wild delirium of its ending, Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony takes us on a journey of unstoppable drama, filled with aching melodies, thundering climaxes and the psychological torments of a hero struggling with implacable fate. 
Trumpeter Pacho Flores—first prize winner of the Maurice André International Trumpet Competition—stars in the U.S. premiere of a new concerto by Paquito D'Rivera, a jazzy tribute to the Venezuelan people by the Cuban-born composer written for Flores. Also on the program is an enchanting orchestral firework by the young California-based composer Andrew Norman.

San Diego Symphony: Trumpets & Tchaikovsky

Listen to the magic of the string orchestra in this program led by Concertmaster Margaret Batjer, which highlights quintessential works from each classical music period spanning from the Baroque era to the 20th century.

Strings for the Ages

Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center

Be there for the historic debut of music director Jaime Martín. Featuring Beethoven Symphony No. 7 alongside music from Berlioz and a world premiere from composer Andrew Norman.

Welcome Jaime

Alex Theatre

Royce Hall

Guest conductor Gemma New joins the Orchestra for the first time to conduct Bach’s concerto for Two Violins featuring concertmaster Margaret Batjer alongside Hilary Hahn.

Hilary Hahn Plays Bach

American violinist Simone Porter leads New Century and students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in this musical tour of illumination. Featuring works from the 12th to the 21st centuries, each piece depicts different kinds of light: light from nature, light that inspires or clarifies, and light that bestows joy. Beginning with Andrew Norman’s Sabina, written in response to an ecstatic experience watching the sunrise in an ancient Roman cathedral, and moving through the upward gaze of Hildegard von Bingen’s antiphon to divine wisdom, the program concludes with Mozart’s Divertimento in F major, the very spirit of levity and brilliance.

Enlighten Me New Century Chamber Orchestra with Simone Porter

Stanford University

American violinist Simone Porter leads this collaboration between New Century and students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in this musical tour of illumination. Featuring works from the 12th to the 21st century, each piece on the program depicts different kinds of light: light from nature, light that inspires or clarifies, light that bestows joy.  Beginning with Andrew Norman's Sabina, written in response to an ecstatic experience watching the sun rise in an ancient Roman cathedral, and moving through the upward gaze of Hildegard von Bingen's antiphon to divine wisdom, the program concludes with Mozart's Divertimento in F Major, the very spirit of levity and brilliance.

Composer

Andrew Norman

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 23, 2026

Enlighten Me New Century Chamber Orchestra with Simone Porter · Stanford Live

23 - 24 Jan, 2026

Enlighten Me · New Century Chamber Orchestra

Past events

Nov 1, 2025

Songs About Place · Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Apr 27, 2025

Academy Chamber Orchestra · The Royal Conservatory of Music

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