Based on the long-running correspondence between poet Emily Dickinson and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, this dramatic cycle runs 45 minutes and features a minimal trio of soprano Tony Arnold, baritone William Sharp, and pianist Gilbert Kalish.
Tony Arnold premieres a new work by Eun Young Lee at Boston Conservatory’s Seully Hall.
Tony Arnold performs György Kurtág's cantata for soprano and piano, The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, Op. 7, in Budapest, Hungary.
Tony Arnold performs György Kurtág's Akhmatova Songs, in Budapest, Hungary.
Performs Comala, a scenic cantata by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, with the Zohn Collective at the University of Notre Dame. 8pm.
Recital at Bard College, featuring György Kurtág's cantata for soprano and piano, The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, and songs by Charles Ives.
Recital at Cornell University, featuring György Kurtág's cantata for soprano and piano, The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, and songs by Charles Ives.
Joins Collage New Music for a performance of Yu-Hui Chang’s Rhetorical Flourishes and Richard Festinger’s The Coming of Age. Conducted by David Hoose, Edward Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, 8pm.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents a family concert program featuring works written about the moon. Tony Arnold sings works by Crumb, Debussy, and Schumann. Alice Tully Hall, 2pm.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Crumb at 90. Tony Arnold performs his Three Early Songs and American Songbook III: Unto the Hills at Alice Tully Hall, 5pm.
Performs David Liptak’s Folgore's Months, with the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble led by Mark Scatterday. Kilbourn Hall, 7:30pm.
ICE brings David Lang's acclaimed the whisper opera to Belgium, as part of the Festival Ars Musica celebration at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. the whisper opera is the most intimate operatic experience, with the musicians, singer, and audience enclosed in a small onstage set, and is performed almost entirely in whispers.
Faculty recital at Peabody in collaboration with pianist Seth Knopp. Program includes the music of Debussy, Szymanowski, Birtwistle, Ives, and more. 7:30pm, Leith Symington Griswold Hall.
Recording of Anna Weesner’s My Mother In Love with Cygnus Ensemble.
Tony Arnold and the Zohn Collective record Matthew Schreibeis's Sandberg Songs for Albany Records, with conductor Tim Weiss.
Tony Arnold will be a resident artist with the Portland Chamber Music Festival for two concerts. On 8/16, she will perform J.S. Bach’s cantata BWV 32 Leibster Jesu, mein Verlangen, followed by the festival finale concert on 8/18 featuring the Maine premiere of A Forest Unfolding, a four movement oratorio with each section written by a different composer - Melinda Wagner, Eric Moe, Stephen Jaffe, and David Garner.
Tony Arnold premieres A Forest Unfolding, a four movement oratorio with each section written by a different composer - Melinda Wagner, Eric Moe, Stephen Jaffe, and David Garner - at the Electric Earth Concerts in New Hampshire.
Tony Arnold will be on faculty at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, for the inaugural year of (R)evolution: Resonant Bodies.
On faculty at Tanglewood Music Center in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.
On faculty at New Music on the Point in Leicester, Vermont.
Tony Arnold will be a guest artist at the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the oldest continuous chamber music festival in America. She will give the world premiere of the string orchestra arrangement of Brett Dean’s And Once I Played Ophelia.
Tony Arnold and pianist Alison D’Amato record David Liptak’s Dove Songs at Eastman School of Music, which they premiered in 2014. Liptak set the poetry of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rita Dove, the first African-American Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
In collaboration with La Coperacha Puppet Company, Tony Arnold and the Zohn Collective will perform a new staging of Comala, a scenic cantata by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, as part of the Festival Cultural de Mayo at Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara, Mexico. Performances May 17 & 19 at 8 pm.
A performance of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's Songtree with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. Timothy Weiss, conductor.
Tony Arnold sits on the adjudication panel of the M-Prize, an international chamber arts competition based at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Tony Arnold joins Cygnus Ensemble for a performance of Anna Weesner’s My Mother in Love, as part of the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at Symphony Space in NYC.
Integrating words, music, photography, and video, contemporary composer Eve Beglarian presents “Songs from A Book of Days,” inspired by medieval manuscripts and writers through the ages.
NYC-based Resonant Bodies Festival presents three days of vocal music in Chicago. Tony Arnold will perform Messiaen’s Chants de Terre et Ciel and the premiere of Amy Williams’ Fünf Worte at Constellation Chicago.
Tony Arnold joins flutist Claire Chase's Harvard residency for the Boston premiere of Chaya Czernowin's Manaoalcadia for two sopranos and flute.
Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg perform Schoenberg's Book of Hanging Gardens at a private concert in New York City. Please email tony [at] screecher.com for more information.
Faculty members of soundSCAPE Summer Festival will give a performance tour in Ohio and New York, featuring the works of festival faculty composers. Tony Arnold will perform Flores del Viento III (Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon) and Kikai No Mori (Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez).
Performances at Bowling Green State University (2/15), Oberlin (2/18), SUNY Fredonia (2/19), and Eastman School of Music (2/20).
Faculty members of soundSCAPE Summer Festival will give a performance tour in Ohio and New York, featuring the works of festival faculty composers. Tony Arnold will perform Flores del Viento III (Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon) and Kikai No Mori (Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez).
Performances at Bowling Green State University (2/15), Oberlin (2/18), SUNY Fredonia (2/19), and Eastman School of Music (2/20).
Faculty members of soundSCAPE Summer Festival will give a performance tour in Ohio and New York, featuring the works of festival faculty composers. Tony Arnold will perform Flores del Viento III (Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon) and Kikai No Mori (Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez).
Performances at Bowling Green State University (2/15), Oberlin (2/18), SUNY Fredonia (2/19), and Eastman School of Music (2/20).
Faculty members of soundSCAPE Summer Festival will give a performance tour in Ohio and New York, featuring the works of festival faculty composers. Tony Arnold will perform Flores del Viento III (Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon) and Kikai No Mori (Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez).
Performances at Bowling Green State University (2/15), Oberlin (2/18), SUNY Fredonia (2/19), and Eastman School of Music (2/20).
Boston premiere of James MacMillan's Raising Sparks with Collage New Music.
NY premiere of Brett Dean's Quartet No. 2 for Strings and Soprano, “And once I played Ophelia," with the Orion String Quartet. Two concerts 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm, in the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio.
the whisper opera, with words and music by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang and direction and design by Jim Findlay, is performed by ICE with the musicians, singer, and audience enclosed in an intimate onstage set, and is performed almost entirely in whispers. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU.
Performances:
WED, JAN 24 @ 7:30PM
FRI, JAN 26 @ 7:30PM
SAT, JAN 27 @ 3:00PM
SAT, JAN 27 @ 7:30PM
SUN, JAN 28 @ 3:00PM
WED, JAN 31 @ 7:30PM
THU, FEB 1 @ 7:30PM
Closing Concert of the 500th Commemorative Year of the Reformation, featuring György Kurtág's The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, Op. 7. Zeneakadémia, Budapest
Arnold Schoenberg''s String Quartet No. 2 with the Boston Artists Ensemble. Brookline, MA.
Arnold Schoenberg''s String Quartet No. 2 with the Boston Artists Ensemble. Salem, MA.
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