Performances & Events

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM

American Composers Orchestra

Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall | New York City, NY

Link: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Cart/Event-Seating?itemNumber=49300#/

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The New Virtuoso: For Art’s Sake features works that utilize newly created instruments and sonic media to explore symphonic texture. Spanning the use of sculptures that move and sonically react to their environments; graphic scores; gestural conduction; a survey of contemporary techniques for traditional instruments; the fashioning of instruments based on composers’ unique cultural backgrounds, these artists’ sense of design propels them into new compositional spaces.

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Mélisse Brunet, Conductor

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano

Daniel Rozin, Responsive Sculptures

Daniel Kramer, Libretto

The New Virtuoso: For Art's Sake

RAVEN CHACON, Inscription (NY Premiere, ACO Co-commission, developed via EarShot CoLABoratory) 15'

TAMAR MUSKAL, Square Off for voice, interactive kinetic sculpture and orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission) 20'
ELIJAH DANIEL SMITH, The Fall of Ideals (World Premiere, ACO Commission) 15'

MAZZ SWIFT, Memory FIVE: Freedom Initiate for Conductrix and Orchestra (ACO Commission, developed via EarShot CoLABoratory, World Premiere) 10'

AARON ISRAEL LEVIN, Lear in the storm (ACO Commission, World Premiere) 10'