Live Performance Videos, Documentaries & Trailers
Tony Arnold performs Julio Estrada's haunting and other-worldly miqi' cihuatl. Part of Miller Theatre's Composer Portraits Series; May 16, 2013.
World Premiere performance of Josh Levine's Breathing Ritual (Inflorescence V). Commissioned for the 2012 soundSCAPE Festival. Performed by Tony Arnold, soprano; Aiyun Huang, percussion; and Thomas Rosenkranz, piano. www.soundSCAPEfestival.org
World premiere performance of Seven Armenian Songs by Gabriela Lena Frank. Supported by Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant. Tony Arnold, soprano; Movses Pogossian, violin; Kuniko Kato, percussion. Dilijan Chamber Music Series, April 2013.
On the Nature of Thingness, composed by Nathan Davis (2011). Performed by soprano Tony Arnold and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC, May 2011. Commissioned as part of the ICElab program.
Either/Or performs an excerpt from György Kurtag's Scenes from a Novel at Miller Theatre, 12 February 2013. Tony Arnold, soprano; Aaron Baird, double bass; Jennifer Choi, violin; David Shively, cimbalom
Soprano Tony Arnold sings the first seven movements of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, as part of the 2010 Monadnock Music Festival, in the Peterborough Town House, Peterborough, NH.
Electric Earth Concerts, September 2012. Tony Arnold, soprano; Rieko Aizawa, piano. Nacht; Schilflied; Die Nachtigall; Traumgekrönt; Im Zimmer; Liebesode; Sommertage.
Electric Earth Concerts, September 2012, New Hampshire. Tony Arnold, soprano; Jesse Mills & Owen Dalby, violins; Jonathan Bagg, viola; Greg Hesselink, cello.
Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind (2013) by Eric Chasalow. Transliteration and vocalization of the Hebrew texts by Marc Brettler, and of the Aramaic text by David Wright. Premiere performance by Tony Arnold and Dinosaur Annex at Brandeis University, October 2013.
Monadnock Music presents Madrigals, Book III (1969) by George Crumb. Performed on August 8, 2009 in Peterborough, NH. Tony Arnold, soprano; Douglas Perkins, percussion; Stacey Shames, harp.
Tony Arnold sings Luciano Berio's Sequenza III (1966) DILIJAN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL IN ARMENIA 2012 Komitas Chamber Hall Concert June 12, 2012
Soprano Tony Arnold sings Philomel, by Milton Babbitt (b. 1916) for voice and electroacoustic sound. Part of the Monadnock Music Festival 2010
Monadnock Music presents Madrigals, Book I (1969) by George Crumb. Performed on August 8, 2009 in Peterborough, NH. Tony Arnold, soprano; Nathan Davis percussion; Robert Black, bass
Trailer for Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's Comala, performed in at 2013 tour to Mexico with Bent Frequency and PUSH Physical Theatre.
Extract from the documentary Knots and Fields by Andrew Chesher and David Ryan (2010). The full documentary is 75 mins in length and looks at the history and the contemporary relevance of the famous Summer Courses in New Music, which have been held in Darmstadt, Germany since 1946. In this extract, György Kurtág is working with the musicians Tony Arnold and Movses Pogossian on his Kafka Fragments.
In Memory of a Winter Evening (New York premiere) from Either/Or's Kurtág Portrait @ Austrian Cultural Forum, 3/7/11 Either/Or is: Tony Arnold, soprano Jennifer Choi, violin David Shively, cimbalom www.eitherormusic.org
The soundSCAPE documentary, from the 2010 soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy. www.soundSCAPEfestival.org
Trailer for the May 2013 world-premiere of Whisper Opera by David Lang, commissioned by ICE with Tony Arnold as solo soprano. This one-of-a-kind work is performed with the players, singer, and audience enclosed in an intimate, onstage set, designed and directed by Jim Findlay. The music and the environment work together to convey themes of secrets, and the tension between what we hide and what we choose to reveal.