Free Livestream on YouTube: Wednesday, February 16 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.
Recently called “a giant of the American music scene” by Gramophone magazine, George Tsontakis currently holds the post of Distinguished Composer-in-Residence at the Bard College Conservatory. His recent commissions and premieres since 2018 include large-scale pieces for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a Requiem for the Albany Symphony, and his Violin Concerto no. 3 for Gary Levinson and the Dallas Symphony.
NEP will perform Tsontakis’s Violin Concerto no. 3 with Concertmaster Danielle Maddon as soloist on February 26, 2022. Tickets now on sale!