Contemporary (1945+) – Upcoming Concerts near Jersey City, NJ

Program includes works by Zoltan Almashi, Oleksandr Kozarenko, Yevhen Stankovych, Volodymyr Zubytskyi (Vladimir Zubitsky), Victoria Vita Polevá, Alexander Shchetinsky (Oleksandr Shchetynsky), Myroslav Skoryk, and Valentin Silvestrov (Valentyn Sylvestrov).

Johann Sebastian Bach — The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 ("Contrapunctus I")
Billy Childs — String Quartet No. 2 "Awakening"
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 "Heiliger Dankgesang"

Maurice Ravel — Rapsodie espagnole
Alberto Ginastera — Violin Concerto, Op. 30
Pablo de Sarasate — Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Claude Debussy — "II. Ibéria" from Images pour orchestre
Maurice Ravel — Boléro

Scott Ordway — The End of Rain (NY premiere)
Alberto Grau — Kasar Mie La Gaji ("The Earth is Tired")
John Luther Adams — Night Peace

Program includes works by George Gershwin, Ulysses Kay, Sheila Silver, Roger Sessions, Shih-Hui Chen, Courtney Bryan, Erin Gee, David Sanford, and Anthony Cheung.

Maurice Ravel — Rapsodie espagnole
Alberto Ginastera — Violin Concerto, Op. 30
Pablo de Sarasate — Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Claude Debussy — "II. Ibéria" from Images pour orchestre
Maurice Ravel — Boléro

Terence Blanchard — Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Program includes works by Gene Pritsker, Melanie Mitrano, Peter Jarvis, Jane Getter, David Taylor, Max Pollak, Marina Vesić, Ginka Mizuki, Dan Cooper, David Saperstein, and Daniel Schnyder.

Sergei Prokofiev — A Summer Day Suite, Op. 65bis
Theo Chandler — Oboe Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93

Program includes works by Huang Ruo, Johannes Brahms, Chen Yi, Alex Ho, Modest Mussorgsky, Charles Ives, Zubaida Azezi, Edo Frenkel, Alban Berg, Toru Takemitsu, and Charles Trenet.

Kevin Lau — In the Garden of Endless Sleep for oboe and piano (2020; US premiere)
Harry Stafylakis — The Tender Scars of Memory for oboe and piano (2024)
Alexina Louie — Filigree for oboe and piano (2012)
Alex Shapiro — Brat (2013)
Adam Sherkin — Plastic Dawn (2024)
Joseph Schwantner — Black Anemones

John Adams — El Niño (Met Opera premiere)

Alessandro Martire — Selected works

Maurice Ravel — Rapsodie espagnole
Alberto Ginastera — Violin Concerto, Op. 30
Pablo de Sarasate — Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Claude Debussy — "II. Ibéria" from Images pour orchestre
Maurice Ravel — Boléro

Majel Connery — The Rivers are our Brothers

James Whitbourn — Annelies

John Adams — El Niño (Met Opera premiere)

Program includes works by Anonymous, Oscar Chilesotti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Fernando Sor, Lou Harrison, Francisco Tárrega, and Joaquín Turina.

Igor Stravinsky — Rubies: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (part of 'Rubies')
Vijay Iyer — Dig the Say for string quartet (part of 'New J. Peck')

Terence Blanchard — Fire Shut Up in My Bones