Director of the 2nd Annual NEP New Music Readings
New England Philharmonic
Eric Nathan, conductor
Mentor composers Matthew Aucoin and Ileana Perez Velazquez

Works by three composers selected through the NEP’s Call for Scores (TBA)

Stefan Jackiw, violin
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, Shepherdstown, WV

Double Concerto for solo violin, solo clarinet and string orchestra

Stefan Jackiw, violin
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, Shepherdstown, WV

Double Concerto for solo violin, solo clarinet and string orchestra

Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México
Scott Yoo, Music Director
Alejandro Escuer, solo flute
Sala Silvestre Revueltas (Mexico City)

The Seas Between Us (Flute Concerto) (Mexico City Premiere)

Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México
Scott Yoo, Music Director
Alejandro Escuer, solo flute
Sala Silvestre Revueltas (Mexico City)

The Seas Between Us (Flute Concerto) (Mexico City Premiere)

Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Collage New Music
Tony Arnold, soprano (2024-25 Artistic Partner)
Students from Longy School of Music Performance Programs
David Hoose, conductor (Music Director Emeritus)
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA)

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and featured composers

Concert in honor of Frank Epstein’s retirement from Collage New Music after 52 years

Season Finale: IV. We Carry Our Homes Within Us

John Heiss: Soliloquy (2007)
flute and piano 

Yehudi Wyner, Passage (1983) (10th Anniversary Collage Commission)
flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, piano 

Reinaldo Moya: The Earth Outlived the Hands that Held It (2018)
clarinet, violin, piano 

Michael Gandolfi, New Work (2025) world premiere (50th anniversary Collage Commission)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Tony Arnold, soprano 

Intermission

Yaz Lancaster: New Work (2024) Boston premiere (Collage Co-Commission with Hub New Music and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center) 
flute, clarinet, violin, cello

Marcos Balter, We Carry Our Homes Within Us Which Enables Us to Fly (2015)
flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, trumpet
Tony Arnold, soprano 
Longy students

Chorus Pro Musica
New England Philharmonic
Tianhui Ng, conductor
United Parish (210 Harvard St., Brookline, MA)

Celebrating the conclusion of Eric Nathan’s six-year tenure as Composer-in-Residence of the NEP

Open again a turn of light for choir and orchestra (Boston premiere)
Text by Sawako Nakayasu

Program co-curated by Eric Nathan, to also include:

Roxanna Panufnik, Abraham (2015)
Dani Maddon, violin

John Adams, Harmonium (1980)

Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler Symphony (1934)

Chorus Pro Musica
New England Philharmonic
Tianhui Ng, conductor
United Parish (210 Harvard St., Brookline, MA)

Celebrating the conclusion of Eric Nathan’s six-year tenure as Composer-in-Residence of the NEP

Open again a turn of light for choir and orchestra (Boston premiere)
Text by Sawako Nakayasu

Program co-curated by Eric Nathan, to also include:

Roxanna Panufnik, Abraham (2015)
Dani Maddon, violin

John Adams, Harmonium (1980)

Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler Symphony (1934)

Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río
Diego Naser, conductor
Alejandro Escuer, solo flute
Foro Boca (Veracruz)

The Seas Between Us (Flute Concerto) (Mexico premiere)

The Pickford Ensemble
Pepperdine University
N. Lincoln Hanks, Director
Malibu, CA

Onement for chamber ensemble

Composition Colloquium
Yale School of Music
New Haven, CT

On My Recent Music (Composition Talk)

Listening In: Interview Series with NEP Call for Scores Finalists
New England Philharmonic
Interviews led and curated by Eric Nathan, Composer-in-Residence

Interview with Eugene Astapov about their music
Tune in via Zoom

Orquesta Filarmónica de Acapulco
Bartholomeus-henri Van De Velde, Music Director
Alejandro Escuer, solo flute

The Seas Between Us (2024), concerto for flute and orchestra (México Premiere)

Royal College of Music, Stockholm
(Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm)
Composition Colloquium

Colloquium Talk: “On my recent music”

Saleem Ashkar, piano
Henschel Quartet
The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
The Queen’s Hall

Dream Scenes for piano trio (Danish premiere)
Co-commissioned by The Black Diamond Copenhagen

Listening In: Interview Series with NEP Call for Scores Finalists
New England Philharmonic
Interviews led and curated by Eric Nathan, Composer-in-Residence

Interview with Gillian Rae Perry about their music
Tune in via Zoom

Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Collage New Music
Tony Arnold, soprano
Anna Handler, conductor
Goethe-Institut Boston (Presenting partner)

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan, composer Gabriela Ortiz and featured composers

III. Between Words and Worlds

Kareem Roustom: Xarja (2017)
soprano and percussion 

Olga Neuwirth: Magic Flu-Idity (2018)
flute and typewriter/wine glasses 

Gabriela Ortiz: El águila bicéfala (2005)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano 

Intermission

Jingmian Gong (2024 Collage Fellow), New Work (2025) world premiere (Collage Commission)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion 

Gabriella Smith: Anthozoa (2018)
violin, cello, piano, percussion 

Jörg Widmann: Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde (1997)
soprano, clarinet, violin, piano

Program co-curated by Eric Nathan
New England Philharmonic
Tianhui Ng, conductor
Tsai Auditorium (Boston University)

Program to include:

Keeril Makan, Dream Lightly (2008)

Yehudi Wyner, Prologue and Narrative (1994)
TBA, cello

Chaya Czernowin, Once I Blinked Nothing Was the Same (2015)
Boston Premiere

Marti Epstein, Celestial Navigation (1988)

Bobby Ge, Remember to Have Fun (2020)
Boston Premiere
2024 Call for Scores Winner

Listening In: Interview Series with NEP Call for Scores Finalists
New England Philharmonic
Interviews led and curated by Eric Nathan, Composer-in-Residence

Interview with Roger Zare about their music
Tune in via Zoom

Rock Hill Symphony
Christopher James Lees, conductor

Hoppin’ (Rock Hill, SC)

Zlatomir Fung, solo cello
Brown University Orchestra
Eric Nathan, conductor
Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Brown University

Inga Chinilina: New Work (BUO Commission)
Anna Clyne: DANCE! for cello and orchestra (featuring Zlatomir Fung, cello soloist)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Zlatomir Fung, cello | Benjamin Hochman, piano
Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Brown University

Missing Words III for cello and piano

Listening In: Interview Series with NEP Call for Scores Finalists
New England Philharmonic
Interviews led and curated by Eric Nathan, Composer-in-Residence

Interview with Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei about their music
Tune in via Zoom

Tony Arnold, soprano | William Sharp, baritone | Seth Knopp, piano
Also featuring soprano Lucy Shelton, Longy School of Music Choir
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music

Program curated by Eric Nathan, featuring Collage 2024-25 Artistic Partner Tony Arnold

II. Collage New Music presents: “I Shall Be Brave: A Celebration in Song”

Amy Beach, I Shall Be Brave
Text by Katherine Adams

Margaret Bonds, When the Dove Enters In
Text by Langston Hughes

Florence Price, Hold Fast to Dreams
Text by Langston Hughes
William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano 

Sofia Gubaidulina: Aus den Visionen der Hildegard von Bingen (1994)
Lucy Shelton, solo soprano 

Hildegard von Bingen: Various Works for chorus
Tony Arnold and Lucy Shelton, sopranos
Longy students 

Bernard Rands, Memo 7 (2000)
Text by Emily Dickinson (“Bind me—I still can sing”)
Tony Arnold, solo soprano 

Intermission

Eric Nathan, Some Favored Nook (2017; Boston Premiere) 
Texts by Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson  (adapted by Mark Campbell and Eric Nathan)
Tony Arnold, soprano; William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano

Post-Concert Talkback with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and guest soloists

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Gil Rose, conductor
Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Brown University

In Between II for orchestra

As part of IGNITE: The 21st Century Orchestra, a festival co-curated by Eric Nathan (featuring Afa Dworkin, Community Music Works, BMOP, Daniel Callahan, Brown Faculty and Student composers)

Alejandro Escuer, solo flute
New England Philharmonic
Tianhui Ng, conductor
Jordan Hall, Boston
New England Conservatory

The Seas Between Us: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (world premiere)
NEP co-commission with Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting and a consortium of Mexican orchestras

Program co-curated by Eric Nathan, to include:
Gabriela Ortiz: Antropolis
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

Brown University Orchestra
Eric Nathan, conductor
Lindemann Performing Arts Center

Eric Nathan: Opening for orchestra (2021)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Vatsal Vemuri, solo piano) (1919)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon Septimi Toni, No. 2 (1597)
Respighi: Pini di Roma (1924)

Composition Colloquium
Boston University, School of Music

On My Recent Music (Composition Talk)

Collage New Music
Eric Nathan, conductor
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and featured composers

Opening Night: I. New Beginnings

Wang Lu: New Work (2024) world premiere (Collage Commission)*
flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, piano/harpsichord, percussion 

Vijay Iyer: Run (2015)
solo cello 

Juri Seo: Rondeau, Ostinato, Fantasia (2018) Boston premiere
clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, piano/harpsichord, percussion 

Intermission

J.S. Bach: Aria from Goldberg Variations
harpsichord 

John Harbison: New Work (2024) world premiere (Collage Commission)

Eric Nathan: Short Stories (2021) live audience world premiere (50th anniversary Collage Commission) 
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion