Composer

America/Beautiful is a project by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, in which she has commissioned a diverse group of more than 70 of today’s leading American composers to each compose a variation on “America the Beautiful.”

Kwon's hope is to paint a sonic picture of her adopted country in all of its sprawling complexity, and ultimately try to find the beauty at the core of the American experiment and its credo of e pluribus unum (out of many, one).

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America / Beautiful: Min Kwon piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

America/Beautiful: Min Kwon piano

Hair-raising....an ensemble of exceptional insight and communicative gifts.

Brentano Quartet
with Thomas Sauer, piano

Kleinhans Music Hall

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns for his final appearance during the 2022.23 season to conduct two ebullient symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven and an SPCO co-commission, a cello concerto by Stephen Hartke for Principal Cellist Julie Albers. Both the Haydn and Beethoven symphonies bristle with propulsive energy and harmonic surprises. The new cello concerto provides a stark contrast, of which the title, Da Pacem, comes from a Latin hymn that begins, “Grant peace in our day.”

Stephen Paul Hartke

Composer

Events

Aug 5, 2023

America / Beautiful: Min Kwon piano · Aspen Music Festival

Aug 5, 2023

America/Beautiful: Min Kwon piano · Aspen Chamber Resort Association

Apr 25, 2023

Brentano Quartet with Thomas Sauer, piano · Buffalo Chamber Music Society

Mar 31 - Apr 2, 2023

Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony with Richard Egarr · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

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