New music – Upcoming Concerts

The Westerlies return to The Royal Room on May 11 for the closing night of Westerlies Fest 2024, featuring two sets of music premiering new…

Jorge Montilla — Introduction and Joropo for bass clarinet (2007)
Masatora Goya — Humble Beginnings (for clarinet & piano; 2024)
Juan Ruiz — Nocturno for clarinet (2015)
Michael Fontana — Nocturne for clarinet and piano (2013)
Horacio Fernández Vázquez — Suite Latino-Americana (for clarinet & piano; 2021)

Reena Esmail — Malhaar: A Requiem for Water (Pacific Northwest premiere)

Program includes works by Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Vartan Aghababian, Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Nancy Bachmann.

Giacomo Puccini — Turandot
Giacomo Puccini / Christopher Tin — Turandot Finale (world premiere)

Aaron Copland — Midday Thoughts for Solo Piano
Hannah Kendall — Vera (for violin, viola, cello, & clarinet)
Hanns Eisler — Septet No. 1, Op. 92a (Variations on American Children's Songs) (for flute, clarinet, bassoon, & string quartet)
Billy Bragg — Eisler on the Go
Danni Lee Parpan / Caroline Shaw — Every Stone in Cambridge Reminds Me of You (world premiere)
Aaron Copland — Appalachian Spring Suite

Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition
Richard Einhorn — Maxwell's Demon (part of 'Red Angels')
Solange Knowles — Villanelle for Times (part of 'Play Time')
Philip Glass — Glassworks ("Rubric" & "Façades"; part of 'Glass Pieces')
Philip Glass — Akhnaten (selections; part of 'Glass Pieces')

Jean Sibelius — Karelia Overture, Op. 10
Béla Bartók — Romanian Folk Dances for strings, Sz. 68, BB 76
Kareem Roustom — Aleppo Songs
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
Charlie Zhong — Selected works (new work TBA)

Karen P. Thomas / Traditional — Deep River
William Byrd — Mass for Five Voices
Gary D. Cannon — O Absalom (world premiere)
Herbert Howells — Requiem

Adam Schoenberg — Automaton

Kevin Puts — The Hours

NowHearThis!, Western Washington University's contemporary music collective, presents new works.

Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals (Part 1)
Laura Luna Castillo / Ashley Menestrina / Daniel Peterson / Ewa Trębacz — Recontre 1
Laura Luna Castillo / Carolina Marín / Ashley Menestrina — Enclavados Todos Juntos ("Enfolded all together")
Laura Luna Castillo / Carolina Marín / Ashley Menestrina / Daniel Peterson / Ewa Trębacz — Recontre 2
Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals (Part 2)

Anna Clyne — This Moment (NSO premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn — Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — African Suite, Op. 35 (No. 4: Danse nègre)
Edward Elgar — Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma Variations"

Danae Venson – Atlas

Vasiliki Krimitza’s – Streichquartett No. 1 [World Premiere]

Giuseppe Gallo-Balma – Ornitomaquia

Angela Elizabeth Slater …

Jessie Montgomery — Rhapsody No. 2 (arr. Michi Wiancko for violin & chamber orchestra; world premiere of arrangement)
Gabriel Kahane — Heirloom (NY premiere)
Gabriel Kahane — Where Are the Arms (arr. for orchestra, voice, & guitar)
Anna Clyne — Shorthand (NY premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a "Paris"

Jonathan Leshnoff — The Sacrifice of Isaac (world premiere)
Igor Stravinsky — Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring")

Unsuk Chin — subito con forza
Samuel Barber — Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (James Ehnes, violin)
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

Unsuk Chin — subito con forza
Samuel Barber — Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (James Ehnes, violin)
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

April Dawn Guthrie – Toy Toy Toypurina [New York Premiere]

Henryk Golden – Sprechen Sie Musik? [New York Premiere]

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh – Per…