Good morning, all!
I
hope everyone has had a wonderful start to the new year and that we're
looking forward to a lot of new things that will happen in the coming
months ahead, the news on this end is off to a great beginning as well.
Here are my announcements of upcoming performances and events for this year (thus far):
This
past Saturday (22 January), The Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the
direction of its founder Orlando Cela officially recorded my second little symphony for
seven players in Lowell, Massachusetts for an upcoming recording on
Parma Records that is comprised of five of Darius Milhaud's petite
symphonies for different instrumental combinations alongside five
companion pieces by five different composers including this person (the
others being Quinn Mason, who were commissioned for this project. The
second little symphony will officially receive its world premiere by
these forces sometime in the 2022-23 concert season, so I will keep
everyone informed as to the recording's release and the first public
performance.
1 February -
There will be a ZOOM concert of works by Black composers performed by
pianist Leonard Lehrman, violinist Dan Hyman, soprano Helene Williams
and mezzo-soprano Patrice Eaton as part of his monthly Virtual Music
Recital series sponsored by the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in
conjunction with Court Street Music of Valley Stream. On this program
Leonard will perform two works of mine: Three Pieces for Scott,
a short cycle of piano pieces written for the pianist Scott Tinney (now
deceased) who requested short works for his virtual performances on
Facebook, and the world premiere of Two Pieces for Porter, a pair of works written on a call for scores by pianist Stephen Porter that pay homage to Schubert (Schubert's Swan) and Beethoven (Ruminations).
The concert will also feature works by composer-conductor Joseph Jones
as well as compositions by Hale Smith, Abel Meeropol, Edith Segal, Elie
Siegmeister and the world premiere of Leonard Lehrman's setting of
Amanda Gorman's 2021 poem "The Hill We Climb", penned for the
inauguration of President Biden.
A
flyer for the concert is annexed herewith. I will send the ZOOM link to
this concert over the weekend. If you are unable to attend, the concert
will be posted in its entirety on YouTube, and you can also hear the
segments for this concert.
19 and 20 March - Triad, a Boston-based choral collective comprised of professional singers, composers and conductors, will premiere my motet In Manus Tuas on
these dates. Locations to be announced. If the live concerts are
cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic, this concert will be done in a
virtual setting. For further information about the group, here is their
website:
9 April - Conductor David Tedford will conduct the second performance of my Introduction and Allegro for
string orchestra with the Bloomsburg University Community Orchestra in
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. This will be the first performance of this
composition on this side of the country, as the world premiere took
place in February of 2017 with Warren Cohen conducting the Musica Nova
Orchestra in Osborn, Arizona.
Also, please look forward to announcements of the following:
- Conducting appearances with OperAvant sometime this year in New York;
- Commencing crowdfunding to seek funds for a recording project
comprised of several of my chamber compositions including my seventh
string quartet, Hitch! for string quintet and other works to be
determined (Label to be announced);
- Commencing crowdfunding to seek funds for several recording projects
conducting orchestral works by Ulysses Kay (five compositions receiving
world premiere recordings for Albany Records) and Heikki Suolahti (more
news to follow on this project, label to be determined) and eventually a
couple of discs of wind band music by several composers to be
announced. These projects will span across this year and next, so
updates will be forthcoming.
And, like last year, there will be some surprise announcements in regard
to any compositions of mine that might get programmed at the last
minute, so please stay tuned for further news.
Thank you, one and all.
Sincerely,
Kevin Scott
p.s. - if you
receive a duplicate announcement, it is because I have yet to properly
update my list. Please let me know this and I will correct it
immediately.
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