Season Highlights and Premieres of composers published by the Music Sales Group of Companies: G. Schirmer, Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, Chester Music Ltd, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Novello & Co, and affiliates Breitkopf & Härtel, Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski, and Red Poppy.
September 2006
- HENZE
Fünf Botschaften für die Königin von Saba [CH] — Country Premiere
2 September 2006
Orchestre National de France/Kurt Masur
Ludwigsburg, Germany- KYBURZ
touché [B&H] — World Premiere
2 September 2006
Christiane Oelze, soprano; John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst
Lucerne, Switzerland- LORENTZEN
Kain og Abel [WH] — World Premiere
5 September 2006
The Royal Opera, Copenhagen/Frans Rasmussen
Takkelloftet, Operaen, København, Denmark- CORIGLIANO
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 'The Red Violin' [GS] — Country Premiere
7 September 2006
Elina Vähälä, violin
Turku Philharmonic
Turku, Finland- SHENG
A Night at the Chinese Opera [GS] — World Premiere
7 September 2006
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN- O'REGAN
We Remember Them [NOV] — World Premiere
10 September 2006
Choir of Saint Thomas Church /John Scott
9/11 Memorial Concert
New York City- HENZE
Sebastian im Traum [CH] — Country Premiere
14 September 2006
New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel
New York City- RUDERS
Shakespeare Songs [WH] — World Premiere
14 September 2006
Hanne Fisher
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard
Copenhagen, Denmark- BENNETT
Troubadour Music [NOV] — World Premiere
15 September 2006
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra/John Mauceri
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA- TILSON THOMAS
Notturno (Version for Flute and Piano) [KON] — World Premiere
15 September 2006
Paula Robison, flute; Ken Noda, piano
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York City- FRANK
Ritmos Anchinos [GS] — World Premiere
16 September 2006
Wu Tong, sheng; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
The Silk Road Ensemble
The Silk Road Project
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York City- GLASS
Passion of Ramakrishna [DUN] — World Premiere
16 September 2006
directed by John Alexander
Pacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair
Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA- DANIELPOUR
Troubadours' Feast [AMP] — World Premiere
17 September 2006
Music from Copland House
Restaurant Daniel
New York City- GORDON
What to Wear? [RP] — World Premiere
20 September 2006
Richard Foreman, stage director; New Century Players; REDCAT Center for New Performance
Los Angeles, CA- BRAHMS/ ARR. BRIGHT SHENG
Black Swan [GS] — World Premiere
28 September 2006
Seattle Symphony /Gerard Schwarz
Seattle, WA- GORDON
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony [RP] — World Premiere
30 September 2006
Bamberg Symphony/Jonathan Nott
BeethovenFest Bonn
Bamberg, Germany
October 2006
- KYBURZ
touché [SIK]
Christiane Oelze (soprano) and John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst
1 October 2006 — Country Premiere
Cleveland, OH
5 October 2006 — New York Premiere
Carnegie Hall, New York City- SCHAATHUN
Transcriptions of an Unknown Symphony [WH] — World Premiere
1 October 2006
Cikada 2
Ultima 2006
Heine Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway- SALLINEN
Chamber Music VI, op.88 [NOV] — World Premiere
5 October 2006
Debussy Quartet
Orchestre d'Auvergne
Salle Gaveau, Paris, France- SCHAATHUN
Requies [WH] — World Premiere
5 October 2006
Ensemble Court-Circuit/Pierre-André Valade
Ultima 2006
Kulturkirken Jakob, Oslo, Norway- ARMSTRONG
Memory Takes My Hand [CH] — World Premiere
6 October 2006
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Garry Walker
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow- PREVIN
Night Thoughts (orchestral work based on Wayne Thiebaud) [GS] — World Premiere
14 October 2006
Sacramento Philharmonic/Michael Morgan
Sacramento, CA- DORMAN
Violin Concerto [GS] — World Premiere
18 October 2006
Ittai Shapira, violin
Jerusalem Symphony/Giselle Ben-Dor
Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem, Israel- MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartet No. 9 [CH] — World Premiere
18 October 2006
Maggini Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London- MAXWELL DAVIES
Kettletoft Inn [CH] — World Premiere
19 October 2006
Northern Sinfonia/Gary Walker
The Sage, Gateshead- ARNOLD / PHILIP LANE, ARR.
Burlesque (newly discovered work for Horn and Orchestra) [NOV] — World Premiere
20 October 2006
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth
85th Birthday Celebration - Arnold Concerto Day
Derngate Theatre, Northampton, England- TOWER
In Memory [AMP] — Country Premiere
26 October 2006
TinAlley String Quartet
Government House, Sydney, Australia- TALBOT
Trumpet Concerto [CH] — World Premiere
28 October 2006
Alison Balsom, trumpet
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool- THOMAS
Toft Serenade [GS] — World Premiere
28 October 2006
Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle, piano
Chicago, IL- HARBISON
My Little Children, Let us not Love in Word [AMP] — New York Premiere
We do not live to ourselves [AMP] — New York Premiere
29 October 2006
New York Virtuoso Singers/Harold Rosenbaum
New York City- BRUUN
Letters to the Ocean [WH] — World Premiere
29 October 2006
Seattle Chamber Players
"Baltic Voices II"
Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA
November 2006
- FRANK
El Día los Muertos (Chamber version) [GS] — World Premiere
3 November 2006
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA- TAVENER
Kaleidoscopes (A tribute to Mozart) [CH] — World Premiere
6 November 2006
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Daniel
London, Cambridge, Norwich- KOPPEL
Concerto for Saxophone, Piano, and Orchestra [WH] — World Premiere
9 November 2006
Benjamin Koppel, Rikke Sandberg
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/John Storgårds
Radiohusets koncertsal, København, Denmark- AUERBACH
Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra [SIK]
10 November 2006
Philippe Quint, violin
Louisiana Philharmonic/Carlos Miguel Prieto
New Orleans, LA- PAPE
Suburban Nightmares [WH] — World Premiere
9 November 2006
Per Boye Hansen
Odense Symfoniorkester
Odense Koncerthus, Odense, Denmark- KIRCHNER
Piano Sonata [AMP] — World Premiere
11 November 2006
Joel Fan, piano
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA- DANIELPOUR
A Child's Reliquary (Orchestral version) [AMP] — World Premiere
16 November 2006
Jaime Laredo, violin; Sharon Robinson, cello
Pacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair
Santa Ana, CA- WALLIN
Das war schön! [CH] — World Premiere
16 November 2006
Martin Grubinger, percussion
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/John Axelrod
Wiener Mozartjahr 2006
Vienna, Austria- KOPPEL
Concerto No. 4 for Marimba [WH] — World Premiere
17 November 2006
Musikverein, Wien, Austria- THOMAS
Ring Out Wild Bells, to the Wild Sky [GS] — Country Premiere
18 November 2006
University of Surrey/Russell Keable
University of Surrey Great Hall, London- O'REGAN
Lamentation [NOV] — World Premiere
18 November 2006
YL Helsinki Male Voice Choir/Matti Hyökki
St Pancras Church, London- GUBAIDULINA
The Rider on the White Horse [GSR] — Country Premiere
22 November 2006
Toronto Symphony/Gianandrea Noseda
Toronto, Ontario, Canada- DANIELPOUR
Adagietto [AMP] — Country Premiere
23 November 2006
Moravian Philharmonic/André Raphel Smith
European Tour
Olomouc, Czech Republic- HENZE
L' Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe [CH] — Country Premiere
24 November 2006
Dieter Dorn, director / Jürgen Rose, stage design
Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice/Julia Jones
Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova, Italy- TAVENER
A Little Child Shall Lead Them [CH] — World Premiere
26 November 2006
Choir of King's College Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge- THOMAS
The Soul is Light [GS] — World Premiere
28 November 2006
Virginia Shaw, oboe; Verena Giovanazzi, violin; Stephanie Meitzner, harp
Rudolf Steiner Archive
Dornach, Switzerland- LORENTZEN
Tivoli [WH] — World Premiere
30 November 2006
Branco Djordevic, acn.
Odense Symfoniorkester
Carl Nielsen Salen, Odense, Denmark
December 2006
- RODRIGUEZ
El Día de los Muertos [GS] — World Premiere
3 December 2006
NEC Percussion Ensemble
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA- GORDON
Tinge [RP] — Country Premiere
4 December 2006
University of Ulster
Derry, Northern Ireland- RUDERS
Light Overture [WH] — World Premiere
4 December 2006/Justin Brown
Birmingham, AL- GUBAIDULINA
Feast During a Plague [GSR] — New York Premiere
5 December 2006
Pittsburgh Symphony/Andrew Davis
Carnegie Hall, New York City- GUBAIDULINA
Mirage: The Dancing Sun [GSR] — Country Premiere
On the Edge of the Abyss for Seven Cellos and Two Waterphones [GSR] — Country Premiere
6 December 2006
Ara Guzelimian, moderator
Making Music
Zankel Hall, New York City- DANIELPOUR
A Child's Reliquary (Orchestral version) [AMP] — European Premiere
10 December 2006
Isabelle Faust, violin; Jens Peter Maintz, cello
Staatskapelle Weimar/Carl St. Clair
Weimar, Germany- AUERBACH
Double Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra [SIK] — World Premiere
13 December 2006
Vadim Gluzman, violin; Angela Yoffe, piano
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart/Andrey Boreyko
Stuttgart, Germany- SAARIAHO
Adriana Songs [CH] — Country Premiere
13 December 2006
Patricia Bardon, mezzo-soprano
New York Philharmonic/David Robertson
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City- DANIELPOUR
Piano Quartet [AMP] — World Premiere
14 December 2006
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, with Michael Tree, viola
Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, FL- TAN DUN
The First Emperor [GS] — World Premiere
21 December 2006
Zhang Yimou, stage direction
Metropolitan Opera/Tan Dun
New York City
January 2007
- MCCABE
Symphony on a Pavane [NOV] — World Premiere
10 January 2007
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Steven Sloane
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London- SAARIAHO
La Passion de Simone [CH] — Country Premiere
12 January 2007
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Los Angeles, CA- GUBAIDULINA
The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair [GSR] — Country Premiere
15 January 2007
Sharon Bezaly, flute
BBC Symphony
London, England- THOMAS
Traces [GS] — World Premiere
18 January 2007
Lang Lang, piano
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA- GLASS
Waiting for the Barbarians [DUN] — Country Premiere
19 January 2007
Austin Lyric Opera/Richard Buckley
Austin, TX- SØRENSEN
Ständchen [WH] — World Premiere
21 January 2007
Scharoun Ensemble
Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany- FRANK
Two Songs to texts from Pablo Antonio Cuadra [GS] — World Premiere
26 January 2007
Andrew Garland, baritone
Marilyn Horne Foundation
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York City- TOWER
For Daniel [AMP] — Country Premiere
27 January 2007
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Hamburg, Germany
February 2007
- SALONEN
Piano Concerto [CH] — World Premiere
1 February 2007
Yefim Bronfman, piano
New York Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
New York City- KAPILOW
Tap Dance Concerto [GS] — World Premiere
3 February 2007
Family Musik Ensemble/Robert Kapilow
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
New York City- MCCABE
Horn Concerto [NOV] — World Premiere
16 February 2007
David Pyatt, horn
BBC Concert Orchestra/Tadaaki Otaka
St David's Hall, Cardiff- SAARIAHO
Notes on Light [CH] — World Premiere
21 February 2007
Anssi Karttunen, cello
Boston Symphony/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA- HARBISON
Umbrian Landscape with Saint [AMP] — World Premiere
25 February 2007
The Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL- BAINBRIDGE
Scherzi [CH] — Country Premiere
28 February 2007
Toronto Symphony /Oliver Knussen
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 2007
- ADAMO
Little Women [GS] — Country Premiere
March 2007
State Opera of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia
- BAINBRIDGE
[new orchestra work] designed for Royal Ontario Museum [CH] — World Premiere
3 March 2007
Toronto Symphony /Peter Oundjian
Toronto, Ontario, Canada- O'REGAN
The Ecstasies Above [NOV] — World Premiere
4 March 2007
Yale Schola Cantorum/Simon Carrington
New Haven, CT- KIRCHNER
String Quartet No. 4 [AMP] — New York Premiere
7 March 2007
Orion String Quartet
Kirchner Marathon
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
New York City- DANIELPOUR
River of Light (In Memory of Isaac Stern) [AMP] — World Premiere
18 March 2007
Sarah Chang, violin
La Jolla, CA- GLASS
The Juniper Tree [DUN] — New York Premiere
20 March 2007
Arthur Yorink, libretto
Roger Rees, stage director; The Collegiate Chorale
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
New York City- KEURIS
Arcade [NOV] — Country Premiere
20 March 2007
Azusa Pacific University Symphony/Christopher Russell
Azusa, CA- JOUBERT
Wings of Faith, Op. 143 [NOV] — World Premiere
22 March 2007
Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Jeffrey Skidmore
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Birmingham- SALONEN
Helix [CH] — Country Premiere
30 March 2007
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Los Angeles, CA- FRANK
Compadrazgo [GS] — World Premiere
31 March 2007
David Finckel, cello and Wu Han, piano
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra/Timothy Russell
Columbus, OH
April 2007
- SHENG
The Nightingale and the Rose [GS] — World Premiere
April 2007
New York City Ballet
New York City- DANIELPOUR
River of Light (In Memory of Isaac Stern) [AMP] — New York Premiere
10 April 2007
Sarah Chang, violin
Carnegie Hall, New York City- PREVIN
Double Concerto for Violin, Contrabass, and Orchestra [GS] — World Premiere
19 April 2007
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin and Roman Potálko, contrabass
Boston Symphony/André Previn
Boston, MA- THOMAS
Words of the Sea [GS] — Country Premiere
26 April 2007
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine/Kirill Karabits
Bordeaux, France- CATÁN
Caribbean Movements [AMP] — World Premiere
26 April 2007
Pacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair
American Composers Festival - Los Sonidos de México
Santa Ana, CA- BAINBRIDGE
[new sinfonietta work], designed for Imperial War Museum [CH] — World Premiere
28 April 2007
London Sinfonietta
Manchester, UK- HARBISON
But Mary Stood [AMP] — New York Premiere
29 April 2007
New York Virtuoso Singers/Harold Rosenbaum
Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City- SALONEN
Helix [CH] — New York Premiere
29 April 2007
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
May 2007
- RODRIGUEZ
El Dia de los Muertos [ALH] — New York Premiere
1 May 2007
NEC Percussion Ensemble
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City- THOMAS
Helios Choros [GS] — World Premiere
3 May 2007
Dallas Symphony/Andrew Davis
Dallas, TX- WALLIN
[multimedia work for narrator, orchestra and electronics] [CH] — World Premiere
11 May 2007
Josse de Pauw, director
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Christian Eggen
Oslo, Norway- NORDENTOFT
On this Planet [North American premiere] [WH] — Country Premiere
18 May 2007
Aventa Ensemble/Bill Linwood
Canadian Tour
MacPherson Playhouse, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada- CORIGLIANO
Tournaments; Clarinet Concerto; Symphony No. 1 [GS] — Country Premieres
31 May 2007
Ovanir Buosi, clarinet
Fundação OSESP/John Neschling
Brazil
June 2007
- WEINBERG (VAINBERG)
Symphony No. 6, Op. 79 [SIK] — Country Premiere
3 June 2007
American Symphony Orchestra /Leon Botstein
Uncommon Comrades
Avery Fisher Hall
New York City- ADAMO
Four Angels [GS] — World Premiere
7 June 2007
Dotian Levalier, harp
National Symphony/Leonard Slatkin
Washington, DC- O'REGAN
Triptych [NOV] — Country Premiere
10 June 2007
Cathedral of St. John
Albuquerque, NM- TAVENER
The Beautiful Names [CH] — World Premiere
19 June 2007
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus; The Choristers of Westminster Cathedral; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jirí Belohlávek
Westminster Cathedral, London
July 2007
- TAN DUN
Tea: A Mirror of Soul [GS] — Country Premiere
July 2007
Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM- MAXWELL DAVIES
[new piano quintet] [CH] — World Premiere
July 2007
Primrose Quartet
Cheltenham Festival
United Kingdom
August 2007
- DORMAN
Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! [GS] — Country Premiere
1 August 2007
PercaDu
Verbier Festival Orchestra/Zubin Mehta
Verbier Festival
Verbier, Switzerland
- MAXWELL DAVIES
- TAVENER
- O'REGAN
- ADAMO
- CORIGLIANO
- NORDENTOFT
- WALLIN
- THOMAS
- SALONEN
- HARBISON
- BAINBRIDGE
- CATÁN
- THOMAS
- PREVIN
- DANIELPOUR
- FRANK
- SALONEN
- JOUBERT
- KEURIS
- GLASS
- DANIELPOUR
- KIRCHNER
- O'REGAN
- BAINBRIDGE
- HARBISON
- SAARIAHO
- MCCABE
- KAPILOW
- TOWER
- FRANK
- SØRENSEN
- GLASS
- THOMAS
- GUBAIDULINA
- SAARIAHO
- TAN DUN
- DANIELPOUR
- SAARIAHO
- AUERBACH
- DANIELPOUR
- GUBAIDULINA
- GUBAIDULINA
- RUDERS
- GORDON
- LORENTZEN
- THOMAS
- TAVENER
- HENZE
- DANIELPOUR
- GUBAIDULINA
- O'REGAN
- THOMAS
- KOPPEL
- WALLIN
- DANIELPOUR
- KIRCHNER
- PAPE
- AUERBACH
- KOPPEL
- TAVENER
- BRUUN
- HARBISON
- THOMAS
- TALBOT
- TOWER
- ARNOLD / PHILIP LANE, ARR.
- MAXWELL DAVIES
- MAXWELL DAVIES
- DORMAN
- PREVIN
- ARMSTRONG
- SCHAATHUN
- SALLINEN
- SCHAATHUN
- GORDON
- BRAHMS/ ARR. BRIGHT SHENG
- GORDON
- DANIELPOUR
- GLASS
- FRANK
- TILSON THOMAS
- BENNETT
- RUDERS
- HENZE
- O'REGAN
- SHENG
- CORIGLIANO
- LORENTZEN
- KYBURZ