CUTTING EDGE CONCERTS
New Music Festival
Victoria Bond, Artistic Director
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival's 27th season continues with March 12 concert at Symphony Space
Cassatt String Quartet and Ursula Oppens perform piano quintets by Joan Tower and Tania León
Also: Victoria Bond's Blue and Green Music and Wang Jie's Song for Mahler in the Absence of Words
"a gift to New Yorkers thirsty for new sounds"
– Time Out New York
Composer Victoria Bond founded Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival to celebrate, support and promote the work of living composers. Its 27th season continues on March 12, 2024 at 7:30 pm with the internationally acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet and pianist Ursula Oppens at Symphony Space. The program features 21st century works for strings and piano by Tania León, Joan Tower, Victoria Bond and Wang Jie. For more on Oppens, read a profile of the pianist in this week's New York Times.
The highlight of the program is Victoria Bond’s Blue and Green Music, which the quartet recorded for Albany Records and is based on a Georgia O’Keefe painting of the same title. Tania León's Ethos, Joan Tower’s Dumbarton piano quintet and Wang Jie’s Songs for Mahler in the Absence of Words for piano quartet are also on the program. The concert will explore facets of contemporary music by living composers, all of whom will be present to discuss their works on stage with host and creator, Victoria Bond.
"I'm so delighted to invite the Cassatt String Quartet and Ursula Oppens back to the Cutting Edge Concerts' stage. The Cassatts are one of the finest ensembles of today, and it's been such a pleasure to hear them take my work Blue and Green Music on tour around the country this past season. I cannot wait to hear this program along with the audience," says Bond.
Program details for the March 12 concert are below. The performance is at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater (2537 Broadway, Manhattan). Tickets are $25 in advance ($20 senior/student) and available at SymphonySpace.org.
Calendar Listing
CUTTING EDGE CONCERTS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Cassatt String Quartet and Pianist Ursula Oppens
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, Manhattan)
Tickets: $25 in advance (at SymphonySpace.org)
PROGRAM
Victoria Bond: Blue and Green Music
Tania León: Ethos for Piano and String Quartet
Wang Jie: Song for Mahler in the Absence of Words
Joan Tower: Dumbarton Quintet for piano quintet
About Cutting Edge Concerts
Inspired by Pierre Boulez's series, "Perspective Encounters", the composer and conductor Victoria Bond founded Cutting Edge Concerts in 1998. With 26 years of concerts, Cutting Edge Concerts has presented over 300 new works by more than 200 composers. Each program highlights the music of living composers, all of whom attend the concert. Along with performances by world-class ensembles and soloists, each program features on-stage discussions between host Victoria Bond and the composers.
About Victoria Bond
A major force in 21st century music, composer Victoria Bond is known for her melodic gift and dramatic flair. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and opera have been lauded by The New York Times as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding." Her compositions have been performed by the New York City Opera, Shanghai, Dallas and Houston Symphonies, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and the Cassatt and Audubon Quartets. Ms. Bond is also an acclaimed conductor, and is the principal guest conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago, and has held conducting positions with Pittsburgh Symphony, New York City Opera, Roanoke Symphony, and Bel Canto and Harrisburg Operas.