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ACO Videos
Preview video for SONiC - Sounds of a New Century SONiC is a nine-day festival
featuring music written in the first decade of the 21st century by over 100+
composers age 40-and-under. The festival runs Oct. 14 - 22, 2011, and features
16 ensembles in venues around NYC.
Kenji Bunch Previews 'The Devil's Box' Violist-composer Kenji Bunch talks about the demonic inspiration behind his concerto for amplified viola premiering on the opening concert of SONiC, Oct. 14, 2011. Go to the SONiC festival site
The National's Bryce Dessner Prepares for Electric Guitars & Orchestra Premiere Bryce Dessner, front man for alt-rock band The National talks about his first full orchestra piece, written for himself and Bryce's brother Aaron. St. Carolyn by the Sea premieres in a free ACO concert as part of SONiC, Oct. 22, 2011. Go to the SONiC festival site
Wang Jie, winner of ACO's 2009 Underwood Commission, talks about her new work From the Other Sky. The piece will be given its world premiere by ACO on October 15, 2010 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC.
Hear Jacob Druckman speak about his music and writing for virtuosic players. This video footage is courtesy of the Yale University Oral History of American Music.
Trailer for Margaret Brouwer and Kasumi's BREAKDOWN
Composer Portraits All Composer Portraits produced by Jeremy Robins.
Composer Missy Mazzoli talks about the inspiration behind her piece These Worlds Within Us0and the influence that Louis Andriessen had on her life as a composer. ACO gave the NYC premiere of These Works Within Us on the Orchestra Underground concert "Louis and The Young Americans" at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2010.
Latin Jazz star Paquito D'Rivera discusses his musical roots and the inspiration behind his work Conversations with Cachao, which received its NYC premiere on January 29th, 2010 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. The piece will have its Philly premiere on January 30, 2010 at the Harold Prince Theater.
Erin
and Colin Gee talk about their new collaboration Mouthpiece XIII Mathilde of
Loci, Part 1 for the American Composers Orchestra. The
piece is given its world-premiere on November 30th, 2009 in Zankel Hall
at Carnegie Hall, NYC.
Artistic Director Robert Beaser talks about his new piece "Guitar Concerto" for the American Composers Orchestra with featured soloist and long-time friend Eliot Fisk. The piece was given its world-premiere on May 1st, 2009 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. Composer Fang Man talks about her new piece Resurrection a clarinet concerto commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, featuring clarinetist Derek Bermel. The piece is given its world premiere on February 20th, 2009 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC, and Philadelphia premiere on February 22nd, 2009, in the Ibrahim Theater at the International House, UPenn. Following
a two-year battle with cancer, Fred Ho talks about making his upcoming
orchestral debut on November 14, 2008. During his recovery, Ho
developed new breathing techniques and returns to the stage with a new
approach to playing the saxophone. Launched April 23
- 27, 2008, Playing it UNsafe is an opportunity for composers to try
out new ideas, extend working methods conceived in other musical
settings, establish new collaborations, or showcase a new piece in
development. Activities include open rehearsals, public readings, panel
discussions and two laboratory performances. The four videos below
highlight the concepts behind this "Research and Development
Laboratory" for new orchestra music, and served as previews of the
works of two of the composers, Jonathan Dawe and Dan Trueman, whose
works were performed as part of Playing it UNsafe.
Uri Caine speaks about his influences as a composer and his work, Double Trouble for Improvised Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, given its world-premiere on February 8, 2008 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC, and Philadelphia-premiere on February 10, 2008, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing arts at UPenn. In this "micro-concerto" for improvising pianist and orchestra, Caine explores the meshing of spontaneous and scripted music, conducted by David Alan Miller.
A look into the creative process behind Ken Thomson's Wait Your Turn, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and given its world-premiere on October 19, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. In this "concerto" for jazz-punk ensemble and orchestra, Thomson's band, gutbucket, joined forces with the ACO to create a truly visceral experience, conducted by ACO Principal Guest Conductor Steven Sloane.
Composer-saxophonist
Steve Coleman
gives conceptual background to his World Premiere/ACO Commission for saxophone and orchestra, The
Illusion of Body, which premiered October 19, 2007, in Zankel
Hall at Carnegie Hall, on ACO's HYBRIDITY program, conducted by ACO
Principal Guest Conductor Steven Sloane.Coleman performed as soloist in the work alongside the American Composers Orchestra.
Tania
León speaks about her work, Indigena, and its relation to her Cuban roots.
Performed on March 25, 2007 in Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg
Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA and March 26, 2007 in
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY. Conducted by ACO Conductor
Laureate, Dennis Russell Davies.
Vijay
Iyer discusses his ACO Commission/World Premiere, Interventions for Improvised Piano, Electronics and
Orchestra. Performed on March 25, 2007 in Zellerbach
Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia,
PA and March 26, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY.
Conducted by ACO Conductor Laureate, Dennis Russell Davies.
Jeremy Robins is a filmmaker and educator in Brooklyn focusing on issues of contemporary music and criminal justice. He has produced projects for MTV and PBS, and his documentary on Haitian roots music “The Other Side of the Water” has been screened at Brooklyn Academy of Music as well as festivals around the world, and is being released in 2010. His current projects include creating videos for Carnegie Hall and the New York State Department of Corrections, and a Ford Foundation project creating a youth-produced documentary with children of incarcerated parents. More information can be found at http://www.ibisdocs.com
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