Announcing the 2024-25 Season Featuring Collaboration with Chorus Pro Musica and Celebration of Composer-In-Residence Eric Nathan
BOSTON — The New England Philharmonic, led by Music Director Tianhui Ng, is excited to announce its 48th season. The season’s four performances highlight works from a diverse array of well-known and emerging contemporary composers, featuring six regional premieres.
The season opens with Ancient Cultures New Musics on Sunday, October 20, at 7pm in Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory. Featured on the program is the world premiere of Composer-in-Residence Eric Nathan’s Flute Concerto, written for the extraordinary Mexican flute-virtuoso Alejandro Escuer. Nathan’s groundbreaking work is paired alongside Gabriela Ortiz’s Antropolis and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, exploring one of the most important musical works of the 20th century.
The NEP’s annual Family Concert, on Sunday, December 8, at 3 pm in Boston University Tsai Performance Center, opens with Adolphus Hailstork’s Fanfare on Amazing Grace. Bartok’s ballet The Wooden Prince will be innovatively presented along AI-generated graphics that utilize the story to parallel the emerging influence of AI-generated avatars in our own time and age. The concert also includes a solo performance by the winner of the annual Young Artist Competition.
The second annual New Music New England concert will be held on Sunday, March 2, at 3 pm in Boston University Tsai Performance Center. Celebrating new music from New England, this programming initiative presents music by composers from the region. This year’s concert celebrates the beloved Yehudi Wyner’s 95th birthday with a performance of his dazzling cello concerto, Prologue and Narrative. Displaying the depth of our musical community, the concert features works by Chaya Czernowin, Keeril Makan, and Marti Epstein, pillars of new music in Boston with a large international following.
The NEP celebrates the end of its season with Paths of Peace on Saturday, May 3, at 7 pm in Boston University Tsai Performance Center. NEP concertmaster and perennial favorite Dani Maddon explores Panufnik’s beautiful Violin Concerto, reflecting on peace in challenging times. The dramatic Mathis der Maler from Paul Hindemith questions the role of the artist in an earlier politically complicated era. The NEP joins forces with Chorus Pro Musica to perform John Adams’ Harmonium and Eric Nathan’s Open again a turn of light, setting a text by Boston-based poet Sawako Nakayasu. The concert will also celebrate Eric Nathan’s contributions to the NEP at the conclusion of his tenure as Composer-in-Residence.
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