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2019 summer season
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Andrew Hamilton O'ROURKE
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto in A Major for Piano and String Quintet, K.414
Eric Nathan Some Favored Nook
Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane (Sacred and Profane Dances)
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Elliott Carter Saëta (Arrow) from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Ró (Serenity)
Simon Bainbridge Four Primo Levi Settings
Stefan Wolpe Arrangements of Six Yiddish Songs
Eugène Ysaÿe Trio à cordes “Le chimay,” Op. posth.
André Previn Vocalise
Antonín Dvořák Violin Sonata in F Major, Op.57 (B.106)
Salvatore Sciarrino Tre duetti con l'eco (Three Duets with an Echo)
Sándor Veress Memento
Earl Kim Where Grief Slumbers
Tōru Takemitsu Orion
Harrison Birtwistle Crescent Moon over the Irrational
Stephen Coxe About That Time
Jörg Widmann Fieberphantasie (Fever Fantasy)
Brett Dean Recollections
Clara Schumann Romance in A Minor, Op.21
Brett Dean Equality
Brett Dean Huntington Eulogy
Benjamin Britten Winter Words, Op.52
Brett Dean String Quartet No. 2 “And once I played Ophelia”
Philippe Schoeller Isis II
Mark Applebaum Control Freak
Frédéric Chopin Rondo in C Major for Two Pianos, Op. posth. 73
Brett Dean Winter Songs
John Cage Dream
2018 summer season
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.6 No.5, HWV 323J
John Cage Solo for Voice 25 (Cheap Imitation No.2) from Song Books
John Cage Solo for Voice 49 from Song Books
John Cage Solo for Voice 52 (Aria No.2) from Song Books
Einojuhani Rautavaara Ballad for Harp and Strings
Gustav Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen “Songs of a Wayfarer”
John Cage Experiences No.2
Salvatore Sciarrino Le voci sottovetro
Hans Abrahamsen Liebeslied
Philippe Hersant Usher
Stephen Coxe Entretien
Oliver Knussen Triptych
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet in G Minor, K.516
César Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor
Robert Mann "Little Red Hen" variations
Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio in G Minor, Op.26
Franz Schubert Adagio from String Quintet in C Major, D.956
Chinary Ung Spiral
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major
Alexandre Lunsqui Deflectere II
Shulamit Ran Moon Songs, a song cycle in four acts
Béla Bartók Violin Sonata No.2, Sz.76
György Kurtág 12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op.13
Benjamin Britten String Quartet No.1 in D Major, Op.25
Christopher Rouse Compline
Franz Schubert Fantasie in F Minor, D.940
Alexander Raskatov Monk’s Music, Seven Words by Starets Silouan (In memoriam Mieczyslaw Weinberg)
Nicholas Maw Roman Canticle
Harrison Birtwistle 9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker
Maurice Ravel Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer
Steven Mackey Ars Moriendi, nine tableaux on the art of dying well
Steven Mackey Fusion Tune
Steven Mackey Four Iconoclastic Episodes
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, Op.135
Sofia Gubaidulina Perception, for soprano, baritone, string septet, and tape
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Suite, Op.23
Steven Mackey On All Fours
Jacob Druckman Bō
Arnold Schoenberg Phantasy, Op.47
Luciano Berio O King
Edison Denisov Clarinet Quintet
Leon Kirchner String Quartet No.4
Luciano Berio Folk Songs
Elliott Carter String Quartet No.1
Viktor Suslin Grenzübertritt “Crossing Beyond”
Béla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin, Op.19, Sz.73 (BB 82)
Dieter Ammann A(tenir)tension
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op.25
Arnold Schoenberg Notturno
2017 summer season
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G Major, BWV 1048
James Tenney Maximusic
Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV:30
Franco Donatoni Alamari
Eric Nathan Quartet for Oboe and Strings
Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello
Johann Sebastian Bach Selections from Cantatas BWV 197, 88, 47, and 42
Jörg Widmann Zirkustänze
Jörg Widmann String Quartet No.1
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in F Major, Op.24 “Spring”
Jörg Widmann Oktett
Giacinto Scelsi Khoom “Seven episodes of a love story and of a non-written death in a faraway land”
Henry Purcell Sonata in A Minor, Z.804
Toshio Hosokawa Landscape II
Pavel Haas String Quartet No.2, Op.7 “From the Monkey Mountains”
Sofia Gubaidulina Galgenlieder à 3
Alban Berg Lyric Suite
Sergiu Natra Music for Violin and Harp
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G Major, K.387
Alexander Raskatov Five Minutes from the Life of W.A.M.
2016 summer season
Johannes Brahms Poco Allegretto from Symphony No.3, Op.90
Michel van der Aa Oog
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op.6 No.2, HWV320
Arnold Schoenberg Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs)
Jörg Widmann 180 beats per minute
Charles Wuorinen Spinoff
Alexander Raskatov Dolce Far Niente “Sweetness of Doing Nothing”
Oliver Knussen Prayer Bell Sketch
Toshio Hosokawa Drei Engel-Lieder (Three Angel Songs)
Johannes Brahms Sonata in E-flat Major, Op.120 No.2
Hans Abrahamsen Schnee “Snow”: 10 Canons for 9 Instruments.
James MacMillan Visions of a November Spring
Sofia Gubaidulina Garden of Joy and Sorrow
Thomas Adès Lieux Retrouvés
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.9 in E-flat Major, Op.117
Beat Furrer Aer
Luciano Berio Naturale
Charles Ives The Things Our Fathers Loved
Charles Ives Tom Sails Away (1917-1921)
Charles Ives Two Little Flowers
Charles Ives General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Charles Ives Charlie Rutlage
Charles Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Charles Ives Down East
Charles Ives The Side Show
André Caplet Les Prières
Susan Botti Bird Songs
Franz Schubert Sonata for violin and piano in A Major, D.574 “Duo”
György Ligeti String Quartet “Metamorphoses nocturnes”
Ted Hearne Vessels
Johannes Brahms String Quartet in A Minor, Op.51 No.2
John Zorn The Aristos, ten metaphysical ambiguities for violin, cello and piano
Travis Laplante Thank You Is Not Enough
Magnus Lindberg Clarinet Trio
Béla Bartók Sonata No.1, Sz.75 for violin and piano
Stefano Gervasoni Phanes
Stefano Gervasoni An, Quasi una serenata, con la complicitá di Schubert
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in B-Flat Major, K.589
George Crumb Books I-V from Madrigals
Stefano Gervasoni Adagio ghiacciato, da Mozart, K.356
Arnold Schoenberg String Trio, Op.45
Matthias Pintscher A Twilight’s Song
Franz Schubert String Quartet in A Minor, D.804 “Rosamunde”
Stefano Gervasoni Luce ignota della sera “Unknown Evening Light”, da Robert Schumann, Zwölf Vierhändige Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kinder, Op.85 No.12 for piano and electronics
Stefano Gervasoni Sonatinexpressive
Felix Mendelssohn Sonata in D Major, Op.58 for cello and piano