Pianist Mark Stevens premieres RICERCARES INTERVÁLICOS (for solo piano) at South Dakota State University, alongside other premieres.
Dolores, composed by Nicolás Lell Benavides with a libretto by Marella Martin Koch, The opera focuses on Chicano Civil Rights activist Dolores Huerta, her work with the United Farm Workers during the Delano Grape Strike, and her advocacy to get Robert F. Kennedy elected.
Dolores, composed by Nicolás Lell Benavides with a libretto by Marella Martin Koch, The opera focuses on Chicano Civil Rights activist Dolores Huerta, her work with the United Farm Workers during the Delano Grape Strike, and her advocacy to get Robert F. Kennedy elected.
Dolores, composed by Nicolás Lell Benavides with a libretto by Marella Martin Koch, The opera focuses on Chicano Civil Rights activist Dolores Huerta, her work with the United Farm Workers during the Delano Grape Strike, and her advocacy to get Robert F. Kennedy elected.
Inspired by Judy Baca’s mural The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Gustavo Dudamel and Gabriela Ortiz bring together a group of composer—Juhi Bansal, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Viet Cuong, Estevan Olmos, Xavier Muzik, and Nina Shekhar—to create an hour-long symphonic tribute to Angelenos who have shaped this city’s history, featuring an original film by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Los Angeles is a magnet for diverse individuals who embrace, explore, and celebrate their unique and intersectional identities. For Interstitial: A Book of (Musical) Stories, noted composers and librettists are teaming up to create six original pieces inspired by and amplifying the in-between cultures of the city, which will be performed by the nationally recognized chamber ensemble Brightwork newmusic and renowned vocal sextet HEX. Topics of this extraordinary, multi-part concert will include migration, gentrification, community, and more.
Tenor Joshua Blue and Oboist Anne Marie Gabriele premiere Sueño en mi sueño, a collection of Neruda Songs exploring themes of love and loss.
Commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichtling for premiere at the LA Phil, it was postponed due to the devastating wildfires earlier this year. We are thrilled to premiere the piece in conjunction with The Juilliard School and their Alice Tully Vocal Recital series four outstanding alumni. Joshua and Anne are both alumni of the school, and I have enjoyed a creative association with the school the past couple years!
Los Angeles is a magnet for diverse individuals who embrace, explore, and celebrate their unique and intersectional identities. For Interstitial: A Book of (Musical) Stories, noted composers and librettists are teaming up to create six original pieces inspired by and amplifying the in-between cultures of the city, which will be performed by the nationally recognized chamber ensemble Brightwork newmusic and renowned vocal sextet HEX. Topics of this extraordinary, multi-part concert will include migration, gentrification, community, and more.
The Utah State University Chamber Music Program, in collaboration with the Caine College of the Arts and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, will present Crossing Borders III: 21st Century Chamber Music from Diverse Voices. This concert features USU string and piano students performing works by living composers from a variety of cultural and musical backgrounds.
The program includes three world premieres:
I’m Blind, Walk with Me for Two Celli and Electronics by Adeliia Faizullina
Sessions for String Quartet by USU percussion faculty member Jason Nicholson
In the Trees for Piano Trio by Ben Shirley
Other composers featured in the program include Nicolás Lell Benavides, Kenji Bunch, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Iman Habibi.
This performance marks the third installment of the Crossing Borders initiative, showcasing the impressive dedication and skill of USU students. They have worked directly with their composer mentors this semester, as well as members of the Fry Street Quartet, Dr. Sasha Kasman Laude, and Dr. Cahill Smith.
As the only endowed quartet at a university in Utah — and one of only a handful in the country — the Fry Street Quartet is uniquely positioned to highlight how research and art enhance each other. In this event, the group will discuss the profound role that art-making plays in fostering observation, beauty, wonder, and a shared cultural understanding.
As part of the event, the Fry Street Quartet will perform Lek, a captivating piece by composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, written for string quartet and electronics. The electronics incorporate field recordings of the sage grouse’s iconic mating ritual, captured in Utah, and blend seamlessly with the quartet’s performance.
The dynamic and evocative work beautifully illustrates how art and nature intertwine to tell compelling stories.
This USU Research Landscapes special presentation is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the West's premier quartets.
The Joy of Discovery: Baroque Connections, Chamber Concert
Welcome to the first concert in our February mini-fest, THE JOY OF DISCOVERY. Join us for a vibrant array of recently created chamber music by diverse living composers that all have one thing in common: each piece on the program has a Baroque connection! Performed by five BCOC string players, plus artist-in-residence Vijay Chalasani on viola and guest composer Nicola Canzano on harpsichord. Music by present-day composers Caroline Shaw, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Adolphus Hailstork, Kenji Bunch, and Nicola Canzano.
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Thursday February 6, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Epiphany Lutheran Church, 790 S. Corona St., Denver (Washington Park neighborhood)
Saturday, January 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM**
Sunday, January 19, 2025 | 2:00 PM
Mago Hunt Recital | University of Portland | 5000 N Willamette Blvd | Portland, OR | 97203
Ticket information coming soon!
**Thanks to funding from RACC, Saturday's performance will include ASL interpretation. More information on this coming soon!
ABOUT THE SHOW
Generously supported by the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) and the University of Portland, our winter double bill features two family-friendly operas that center on animals, found family, and love that lasts fur-ever! Pepito (commissioned by the Washington National Opera) and Meow and Forever (from which Summer Splash and Music in the Manor audiences will remember "The Bored Cat Duet") are both short operas, making this a purr-fect introduction to opera for listeners of any age!
Saturday, January 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM**
Sunday, January 19, 2025 | 2:00 PM
Mago Hunt Recital | University of Portland | 5000 N Willamette Blvd | Portland, OR | 97203
Ticket information coming soon!
**Thanks to funding from RACC, Saturday's performance will include ASL interpretation. More information on this coming soon!
ABOUT THE SHOW
Generously supported by the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) and the University of Portland, our winter double bill features two family-friendly operas that center on animals, found family, and love that lasts fur-ever! Pepito (commissioned by the Washington National Opera) and Meow and Forever (from which Summer Splash and Music in the Manor audiences will remember "The Bored Cat Duet") are both short operas, making this a purr-fect introduction to opera for listeners of any age!
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 | 8 to late
@Mendelssohns Classical Music Bar
$10 Cover
New Wave Opera returns to classical music hotspot, Mendelssohns, for an evening of animal-inspired operatic music and beyond on their iconic high-rise stage!
This animal-inspired program shares excerpts from our upcoming double bill and features performers Lisa Neher, Lindsey Rae Johnson, Henriet Fourie-Thompson, and pianist Susan McDaniel. The night will also feature a special guest appearance by composer-pianist Dianne Davies!
Read more about the event here
Music by Nicolás Lell Benavides
Libretto by Marella Martin Koch
Musicians of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Where do we belong? Inspired by a real program that reunites families separated by immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico Border, but only for three minutes, Tres minutos by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch imagines the story of Diego and Nila, a brother and sister who share DNA but not citizenship. When Diego is deported, leaving Nila behind, questions of identity, duty and belonging threaten to consume them.
A co-production with Music of Remembrance; the entire San Diego Symphony Orchestra does not appear on this program.
Musical performances presented by Melisa Bonetti Luna + Opera Cultura
In collaboration with Opera Cultura and in celebration of Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month, mezzo-soprano Melisa Bonetti Luna and pianist Marika Yasuda will perform new compositions by thriving Latine Bay Area composers Héctor Armienta, Carla Lucero, and Nicolás Lell Benavides. All pieces performed will be contemporary Spanish-language opera and art song works.
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
Pre-College Orchestra
Adam Glaser, Conductor
Nicolás Lell BENAVIDES Querencia (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61
Andrés SOTO New Work (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
ELGAR In the South
Watch the performance on this page at the scheduled date and time. This performance won’t be available to stream afterward on demand.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
7pm
Walnut Creek
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4pm
Tiburon
Saturday, May 4, 2024
7pm
Walnut Creek
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4pm
Tiburon
Baritone Schyler Vargas will program “This Joy” by me and Marella Martin Koch as part of this fabulous program with a premiere by composer Laura Jobin-Acosta and poets Marcus Amaker, Evelyn Berry, Abby Duran, and Brittany Porcher.
Singers & Stanzas
Be the first to experience a new set of songs with lyrics written by Lowcountry poets Marcus Amaker, Evelyn Berry, Abby Duran, and Brittany Porcher.
Concert will be one hour long followed by a conversation with all of the artists on stage.
The SFCM Orchestra welcomes back SFCM 2013 graduate Nikola Printz to perform a song cycle set to poems by Pablo Neruda. Acequia by SFCM 2014 graduate Nicolás Lell Benavides will be a world premiere performance and was commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. This concert also features works by Ravel including one of his first major works for orchestra, as well as La Valse, a dazzling orchestral showpiece that has inspired intense debate about its true meaning.
Nicolás Lell Benavides: Acequia (World premiere)
Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Maurice Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
New work (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
New work (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
Selections from Negro Folk Symphony
March 14, 2024 | VIP Reception @ 6 PM | Main Event @ 7 PM
Club Café | Moonshine Room | South End Boston
Featuring musical selections from Caravana de mujeres paired with an epic party only MassOpera can throw!
In the next phase of development of Caravana de mujeres, we present never before seen musical selections from this exciting and new romantic/comedic opera and throw in an epic bash to help raise funds for MassOpera’s artistic and educational programs.
January 23, 2024 @ 7:30pm
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Franz Josef Haydn | String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, no. 4, the “Sunrise”
Nicolás Lell Benavides | Lek for string quartet & electronics*
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
*Commissioned for the Fry Street Quartet by the NOVA Chamber Music Series and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music
USM presents music for guitar and strings from Latin America. Robert Lehman - violin, Kimberly Lehman - viola, Rebbaca Hartka - cello, Aaron Larget-Caplan - guitar
Composers: Manuel Ponce, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Astor Piazzolla
Time: 1pm
Location: Union Hall, 24 Central St, Rockport, ME 04856 • website
USM presents music for guitar and strings from Latin America. Robert Lehman - violin, Kimberly Lehman - viola, Rebbaca Hartka - cello, Aaron Larget-Caplan - guitar
Composers: Manuel Ponce, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Astor Piazzolla, Larget-Caplan
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Corthell Hall at the Osher School of Music at the University of Southern Maine
Website:
Left Coast and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival. We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolás Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.
This concert is generously sponsored by Susan Shalit and Mary Logger.
