BMP: Next Generation

Name: BMP: Next Generation
Start: 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-02-20T20:30:00-05:00
Location: National Sawdust

Featuring works by Michael Lanci and Emma O’Halloran

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BMP: Next Generation is a new initiative to discover the next generation of music-theatre and opera-theatre compositional voices. The two finalists chosen in the 2018 concert, Michael Lanci and Emma O’Halloran, return to National Sawdust in February to showcase new and original 30-minute works commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects. Lanci’s satirical operetta will tackle a congresswoman’s revelation about climate change and the effects of money in politics. O’Halloran’s monodrama about the inner life of a murderess explores how our secret personal history gets misrepresented in the public eye. Following the performance, one of these two finalists will receive a commission for a full evening-length operatic work to be developed, premiered, and toured by BMP.

Music by Michael Lanci and Emma O’Halloran
Music Direction by David Bloom
Featuring Contemporaneous

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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David Bloom Contemporaneous Beth Morrison Projects Emma O’Halloran Michael Lanci

David Bloom is founding co-artistic director of Contemporaneous. A devoted advocate for new music, David has conducted over 200 world premieres at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He has been a guest conductor for NOW Ensemble, Present Music, ensemble mise-en, JACK Quartet, and Mantra Percussion, among others and has worked with such composers and artists as David Byrne, Donnacha Dennehy, Lucy Dhegrae, Dylan Mattingly, Missy Mazzoli, Andrew Norman, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Dawn Upshaw, and Julia Wolfe. Especially active as a conductor of new opera, David serves as music director on projects with Experiments in Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, PROTOTYPE Festival, New Amsterdam Presents, and Pig Iron Theater Company, among others. He has recorded for the Innova, New Amsterdam, Mexican Summer, Mona, Roven, and Starkland labels. Also a passionate educator, David is the orchestra conductor for Special Music School High School and the nation’s only new music youth orchestra, Face the Music. Along with Contemporaneous, he has led residencies at such institutions as City University of New York, the University of New Orleans, Williams College, and his alma mater, Bard College. Read more at davidbloomconductor.com.

Contemporaneous is an ensemble of 21 musicians whose mission is to bring to life the music of now. Recently recognized for a “ferocious, focused performance” (The New York Times) and for its “passionate drive...setting an extremely high bar for other ensembles to live up to” (I Care If You Listen), Contemporaneous performs and promotes the most exciting work of living composers through innovative concerts, commissions, recordings, and educational programs. Based in New York City and active throughout the United States, Contemporaneous has performed for a wide range of presenters, including Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, PROTOTYPE Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, MATA Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and Bang on a Can and is a 2017-2018 group-in-residence at National Sawdust. The ensemble has worked with artists as diverse as David Byrne, Donnacha Dennehy, Yotam Haber, Dawn Upshaw, and Julia Wolfe. Contemporaneous has premiered more than 100 works, many of them large-scale pieces by emerging composers. The ensemble has held educational residencies at such institutions as City University of New York, the University of New Orleans, Williams College, and Bard College, where the group was founded in 2010. Read more at contemporaneous.org.

Founded in 2006 to support the work of composers and their multi-media collaborators, Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) encourages risk-taking, creating a structure for new work that is unique to the artist and allows them to feel safe to experiment and push boundaries.

Noted as “the edge of innovation" (Opera News), Beth Morrison Projects is a “contemporary opera mastermind” (Los Angeles Times) and “its own genre" (Opera News). Projects have been performed in numerous premier venues around the world including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Disney Hall, The Barbican, Lincoln Center, The Walker Art Center, The Beijing Music Festival, The Holland Festival, and more. Current and upcoming projects include works by composers Mohammed Fairouz, Michael Gordon, Ted Hearne, Mikael Karlsson, David Lang, David T. Little, Keeril Makan, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Elvis Perkins, Paola Prestini, Ellen Reid, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Jeremy Schonfeld, Du Yun, and more, with directors Mallory Catlett, James Darrah, Rachel Dickstein, Lee Sunday Evans, Daniel Fish, Patricia McGregor, Kevin Newbury, Jay Scheib, and Ashley Tata. Projects have been performed in numerous premier venues around the world including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, The Walker Arts Center, The Beijing Music Festival, The Holland Festival, and more.

BMP is generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund for New Music, The Amphion Foundation, The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, The Cheswatyr Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Emma A. Sheafer Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, The Jana Foundation, Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation, The Howard and Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, MAP Fund/Creative Capital Foundation, The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The New England Foundation for the Arts, New Music USA, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, OPERA America, and The Seniel Ostrow Foundation.

Emma O’Halloran is an Irish composer, producer and performer whose work moves freely between acoustic and electronic forces. Emma has written for orchestra, folk musicians, chamber ensembles, turntables, and laptop orchestra. Her work has been performed at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, and MATA Festival, and she has collaborated with artists such as Crash Ensemble, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. In addition to concert music, Emma composes for film and theatre, and performs with her band Games Violet, a duo of producer-performers that make hybrid rock/electronic music. Emma considers much of her music to be reflective, often trying to map real or imagined moments in time to gain a deeper understanding of her own personal experiences. Emma is currently completing a doctorate at Princeton University. When not composing, she can be found hiking, practicing yoga, and flying high on aerial trapeze.

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BMP: Next Generation

Featuring works by Michael Lanci and Emma O’Halloran

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