OrlandoA vivid Orlando makes history in Vienna" (New York Times International): Olga Neuwirth's opera Orlando, based on Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name, is the first full length opera work by a woman celebrating it's premiere at the Vienna State Opera. Olga Neuwirth, for a long time one of the great composers of the present, succeeds with this opera in creating a captivating arc across many musical genres. It's an exciting, socially critical

as Nat Hentoff has said

a sociologist and tea master

The Big Express was virtually ignored on release

the vast majority of his output lies not in large-scale works

a warrior incants into the frothing night a huge band

but in his later works he embraced the then upcoming Galant Style

The ensemble made it's debut in September of 1996 in Tremont

John Hammond

the First Symphony admirably demonstrates the young composer's grasp of symphonic form and technique

deftness of touch

Vocalism (2012) and now Umanyanyatha are emotive musical stories of love

The Concerti of the violinist-composer Francesco Venturini (c