Cutting Edge Concerts closes 25th anniversary season with works by Victoria Bond and others
October 22 concert presented in collaboration with KeyedUp Music Project at Tenri Cultural Center
"a gift to New Yorkers thirsty for new sounds" – Time Out New York
Composer Victoria Bond founded Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival to celebrate, support and promote the work of living composers. Over the past 25 years, works by more than 200 composers have been played by world-class ensembles and soloists in the country. Audiences have delighted to dozens of world premieres and hundreds of on-stage conversations with the composers themselves.
On October 22 at 7 pm at Tenri Cultural Center, Cutting Edge Concerts closes out their 2022 season. Joining forces with KeyedUp Music Project, the program includes songs by Bond set to words by Albert Einstein and Walt Whitman, sung by Dennis Tobensky, and Illumination performed by pianist Marc Peloquin. Also on the program: music by Robert Helps, Dalit Warshaw, and David Del Tredici. details and tickets
In other Cutting Edge Concerts news, the Bowers/Fader duo gives an encore performance of Bond's "Nowhere Land," which they premiered at last month's CEC concert at St. John's in the Village. The concert is on October 23 at 5 pm at the National Opera Center. details and tickets
New CD from Artistic Director Victoria Bond
On October 1, 2022, Cutting Edge Concerts' Artistic Director Victoria Bond's new album, "Blue and Green Music" was released on Albany Records. The centerpiece of the album is the world premiere recording of Blue and Green Music, commissioned by the Cassatt Quartet through a Chamber Music America commissioning grant.
Also on the album: Bond's Dreams of Flying, performed by the Cassatt Quartet, plus the song cycle From an Antique Land, and a song set to a text by Albert Einstein, Art and Science, both performed by baritone Michael Kelly and pianist Bradley Moore.
About Cutting Edge Concerts
Inspired by Pierre Boulez's series, "Perspective Encounters", the composer and conductor Victoria Bond founded Cutting Edge Concerts in 1998. With 25 years of concerts, Cutting Edge Concerts has presented over 300 new works by more than 200 composers. Each program highlights the music of living composers, all of whom attend the concert. Along with performances by world-class ensembles and soloists, each program features on-stage discussions between host Victoria Bond and the composers.
About Victoria Bond
A major force in 21st century music, composer Victoria Bond is known for her melodic gift and dramatic flair. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and opera have been lauded by The New York Times as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding." Her compositions have been performed by the New York City Opera, Shanghai, Dallas and Houston Symphonies, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and the Cassatt and Audubon Quartets. Ms. Bond is also an acclaimed conductor, and is the principal guest conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago, and has held conducting positions with Pittsburgh Symphony, New York City Opera, Roanoke Symphony, and Bel Canto and Harrisburg Operas.