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New Music Ensemble

The University of Texas at Austin

Opening the program is Wolfgang Mozart’s charming Symphony No. 33, followed by Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s orchestrally imaginative Archora, inspired by the “primordial energy” of her homeland, Iceland. Closing the program, international star Hilary Hahn is soloist in one of the greatest works in the repertoire: Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Brahms composed this rich, lyrical work in 1878 for, and with the advice of, his friend Joseph Joachim, a towering virtuoso of the age.

Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart, Thorvaldsdottir, and Brahms with Hilary Hahn, violin

Boston Symphony Hall

The frosty magic of the Russian winter inspired Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony: music so tuneful, and so fresh, that you can almost see your breath in the air! Anna Thorvaldsdottir dreams of the vast stillness of Icelandic nature. And the great Ian Bostridge – possibly Britain’s finest living tenor – leads a wild parade through Britten’s shimmering, magical musical dreamscape. This promises to be a truly gripping evening…

Britten & Tchaikovsky

The International Convention Centre

Philharmonic Orchestra – Jeffery Meyer, conductor

Musical Arts Center

AXIOM

Lincoln Center

A Far Cry beckons you on a sonic journey to Stonehenge. The early light of the emerging dawn pulses and shimmers on granite, awakening the bucolic English countryside. This concert is crafted to evoke and transport you to the enigmatic, pre-historic monument by way of musical selections which draw inspiration from the rising sunlight, the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi, and nature itself.

A Far Cry | Stonehenge

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Boston Conservatory Choirs, directed by Dr. Stephen Spinelli and featuring graduate conducting candidates Naomi Bennett and Edith Hernandez, present A Light in the Dark—Winter Landscapes from Around the World. This performance will provide a respite from the cold of winter, featuring repertoire by Icelandic composer Ana Þorvaldsdóttir and Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds, as well as some beloved seasonal classics.

Boston Conservatory Choirs: A Light in the Darkness—Winter Landscapes from Around the World

Saint Clements Eucharistic Shrine

The SF Symphony Youth Orchestra opens its season with a program featuring Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Metacosmos.

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Davies Symphony Hall

Discover the jaw-dropping artistry of next-gen talents as the 100 musicians of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra come together to explore repertoire standards and new works alike

Youth Orchestra

Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s acclaimed new orchestral work ARCHORA and Hans Abrahamsen’s horn concerto are both performed here for the first time in Sweden, the latter featuring the orchestra’s principal hornist Chris Parkes. Acclaimed Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen concludes the concert with Jean Sibelius’ beloved fifth symphony.

Nordic Weeks: Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony

SR Berwaldhallen

“A brilliant musician and an extraordinary visionary” (Wall Street Journal), Pierre-Laurent Aimard has built his reputation as a go-to of contemporary music and collaborator for composers but is celebrated for his interpretation of historic repertoire as well. Aimard joins the LA Phil for Beethoven’s wonder-filled Fourth Piano Concerto, with the unusual quiet drama of its second movement. Eva Ollikainen is the chief conductor of several orchestras in Europe and leads the U.S. premiere of a new work by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir and the gorgeous Suite from Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier.

Beethoven and Strauss

Walt Disney Concert Hall

The sensational Danish String Quartet returns to perform the third concert in its ongoing Doppelgänger Project, pairing Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet with a newly commissioned work by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Schubert’s serene and solemn quartet bears the weight of the composer’s declining health and heavy heart during the period of its composition—when he died a few years after its premiere, Rosamunde was his only quartet to have been performed publicly in its entirety; it was also his only chamber work published in his lifetime. Thorvaldsdottir is widely admired as one of the most original voices of her generation, praised for creating vast, visceral, and ravishing musical landscapes that conjure at once a sense of “immensity and intimacy” (Gramophone).

Danish String Quartet

First Congregational Church

The Rhythm Method presents a concert of contemporary works for string quartet, joined by contemporary performance students. Works by George Lewis, Shelley Washington, and members of the Rhythm Method will be performed.

Guest Artist: The Rhythm Method

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir curates an evening of Nightcap, our cabaret-style series of music and conversation in the new Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio.

Nightcap: Anna Thorvaldsdottir

Ludovic Morlot leads one of Shostakovich’s greatest symphonies, depicting the despair of the Stalin regime but ending in a musical triumph. Formidable pianist Sergio Tiempo takes on the striking concerto Prokofiev composed for himself to play in the conservatory’s competition—which he won. Opening the program, Anna Thorvaldsdottir explores the natural balance between beauty and chaos in her piece Metacosmos, which led the Boston Globe to declare, “There is possibly no other composer working today who is so adept at channeling the massive forces of nature.”

Shostakovich and Prokofiev with Ludovic Morlot

Taking its title from the famous African American Spiritual, this eclectic concert explores themes of homecoming and aspiring towards paradise. Earlier this year, we premiered a short film of Derrick Skye’s, a piece which, in the artist's words, "sonically and visually interprets the process of gaining release from restraint using the mind, body, soul, and voice". After being postponed from our 2019–20 season, this breathtaking new commission will finally receive its live debut. We're also thrilled to present world premieres by two brilliant composers— Saunder Choi and Dale Trumbore.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir

Composer

Events

Apr 20, 2024

New Music Ensemble · Butler School of Music

18 - 20 Apr, 2024

Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart, Thorvaldsdottir, and Brahms with Hilary Hahn, violin · Boston Symphony Orchestra

Apr 17, 2024

Britten & Tchaikovsky · City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Apr 17, 2024

Philharmonic Orchestra – Jeffery Meyer, conductor · Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Apr 8, 2024

AXIOM · The Juilliard School

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