Oregon Sympony: 'of Love' – A Personal Requiem
$33-$43
- Curtis Stewart, violin
- Deanna Tham, conductor
Edvard Grieg — Holberg Suite, Op. 40 ("From Holberg's Time")
Carlo Gesualdo — Resta di darmi noia (from Madrigals, Book 6) (arr. Jonathan Posthuma)
Missy Mazzoli — Dark with Excessive Bright
inti figgis-vizueta — coradh (bending)
How do we transform and transcend loss as we grieve? The violinist and composer Curtis Stewart spent four years caring for his cancer-stricken mother, a composer and violinist herself. His latest album, of Love., is a personal requiem and tender tribute to his mother's memory. This concert brings together excerpts from Stewart's album and Grieg's buoyant yet nostalgic Holberg Suite, and also features Missy Mazzoli's gothic and shadowy violin concerto, Dark with Excessive Bright.
Curtis Stewart's was hailed by The New York Times as "a giant...combining omnivory and brilliance." A fierce advocate for other living composers, Stewart was recently appointed artistic director of American Composers Orchestra.
About Curtis Stewart, violin
Curtis Stewart is a multi Grammy-nominated violinist/composer who enjoys bouncing between MTV specials with Wyclef Jean and sold out shows at Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder to stints at the Kennedy Center with the Jimmy Heath Big Band and runs at the Guggenheim, MoMA, and Whitney Museums in NYC. Curtis has performed as a classical soloist at Lincoln Center, with the New York Philharmonic Bandwagon, as well as held chamber music residencies at Carnegie Hall, the MET Museum, and National Sawdust. His work realizes a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures, and music.
Curtis is Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, faculty at The Juilliard School, director of Contemporary Music at the Perlman Music Program, has been commissioned to write works for the Royal Conservatory of music, The Virginia Symphony, WQXR in New York, Newport Classical Festival La Jolla Festival,The Eastman Cello Institute, The Knights, New York Festival of Song, PUBLIQuartet, and Carnegie Hall: Play/USA.
https://curtisjstewart.com/