Free Livestream on YouTube: Wednesday, April 6 at 8:00 pm
Listening In: A Deep Dive into the Music with the NEP is your opportunity to sit in on fun and lively conversations with the composers and artists on NEP’s concerts this season.Your hosts, New England Philharmonic Concertmaster and soloist Danielle Maddon, and Composer-in-Residence Eric Nathan, take a step behind the scenes to see how the music is made, what inspired it, and how performances have come together.
As a prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries, Dr. Chen Yi is a recipient of the Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She has been Lorena Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1998. She was elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2005, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters in 2019.
NEP will perform Yi’s Spring in Dresden with Concertmaster Danielle Maddon as soloist on May 1, 2022. Tickets now on sale!