New Century Chamber Orchestra concludes its 25th anniversary season with an inaugural, week-long festival that celebrates the orchestra's illustrious history in three separate, one-night-only programs. These performances also mark Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's final appearances as music director following nine seasons of leadership and artistic innovation.
The festival opens with an homage to the orchestra's Featured Composer Program and highlights a fresh, eclectic showcase of works by William Bolcom, Clarice Assad, Mark O'Connor, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Lera Auerbach, Michael Daugherty, Derek Bermel and Jennifer Higdon.
Founded by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in her first season as Music Director, the Featured Composer Program was established to give structure to the organization's longstanding commitment to the creation and performance of new music. Since 2008, New Century has worked alongside eight composers with each creating at least one new work for the orchestra with Salerno-Sonnenberg as concertmaster, soloist and muse. Three of these works will be featured on the festival's opening night program with excerpts from Impressions by Clarice Assad (2008-2009), Murmurations by Derek Bermel (2014-2015) and Memoria de la Luz by Lera Auerbach (2012-2013). A varied selection of string works performed by New Century over the past nine seasons will also be featured including Poltergeist and Incineratorag by William Bolcom (2009-2010) Appalachia Waltz by Mark O'Connor (2010-2011) Prologue and Variations by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (2011-2012) Strut by Michael Daugherty (2013-2014) and Strings and To the Point by Jennifer Higdon (2015-2016).
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