NSO presents Notes & Frames: Kris Bowers Curates

• Kris Bowers, piano
• Anthony Parnther, conductor

Academy Award–winning director, composer, and pianist Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, King Richard, The Color Purple) curates and performs in a program of contemporary film music led by American conductor Anthony Parnther.

Performances on June 20 & 21.

About Notes & Frames: A Film & Music Festival

The NSO's 2024–2025 Classical season closes in June with a three-week festival exploring the overlap between film music and concert music, June 4–21, 2025. In the first, the NSO will present a program led by Teddy Abrams and two live-to-film concerts: Amadeus live with orchestra and Metropolis featuring organist Cameron Carpenter's original score to Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction silent film. The second week James Gaffigan will conduct film scores by Bernstein, Rota, and Shostakovich and concertos by James Newton Howard featuring violinist James Ehnes, Michael Abels with an NSO string quartet, and John Williams with NSO Principal Horn Abel Pereira as soloist. The final week of the festival culminates in a world premiere by Academy Award–winning director, composer, and pianist Kris Bowers (The Last Repair Shop, Green Book, King Richard, and The Color Purple) who will curate and perform a program of contemporary film music to be conducted by Anthony Parnther.

About National Symphony Orchestra

https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/

About Kris Bowers, piano

https://www.krisbowers.com/

About Anthony Parnther, conductor

American conductor, Anthony Parnther, has forged a singularly unique career that melds his love for the music of all genres with his prowess as a conductor, bassoonist, opera singer, producer, storyteller, comedian, and activist.

Anthony is the Music Director of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra in San Bernardino, California. He has conducted a long list of the world's greatest artists in virtually every genre and is in demand to conduct symphonic, opera, contemporary, avant-garde, popular music, and film scores, internationally. He has led many of the preeminent orchestras in North America.