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2009-2010 Concert Season Friday, August 6, 2010 Symphony No. 3 (world premiere) A Forest of Attics for clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, viola, cello and bass Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series Last Autumn for horn and cello (world premiere) Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series |
New Recording - 2009
Upcoming Projects New Song Cycle for Thomas Hampson - Michael Hersch has been commissioned to write a new song cycle for baritone Thomas Hampson scheduled for premiere during the 2010/11 concert season. New Concerto - The Cleveland Orchestra has commissioned Michael Hersch to compose a new concerto for principal trumpet Michael Sachs. The work is scheduled for a fall 2011 premiere. Symphony No. 3 - Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music, Michael Hersch will write his third symphony for Music Director Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra for premiere during summer 2010. A Forest of Attics - Commissioned by the Network for New Music for their 25th Anniversary Season, Michael Hersch has written a new work for septet (clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and bass) after texts of Bruno Schulz. The work is scheduled for a spring 2010 premiere. Last Autumn premiered. The 2.5 hour work completed in 2008 was premiered on October 17, 2009 in Philadelphia. |
Vanguard Classics releases the first disc in a series of three surveying Michael Hersch's complete works for solo strings, written during the fifteen years 1994-2009. The first recording features the demanding early Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 for Unaccompanied Cello. The recording is the first on Vanguard since the widely acclaimed 2-CD box set release of The Vanishing Pavilions in 2007, with the composer at the piano. 
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