Experience the Louisville Orchestra like never before for an evening of musical brilliance. Join us on November 16th at Whitney Hall to enjoy the timeless beauty of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto performed by Ray Chen along with debut works from 2024-2025 Creators Corps and the groundbreaking premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra. Don’t miss this opportunity to embrace the rich diversity of our program, designed to appeal to music lovers of all tastes and backgrounds.

Teddy Abrams, conductor
Ray Chen, violin
Additional appearances by Valerie Coleman and Louisville Creator Corps Baldwin Giang, Brittany Green, Oswald Huỳnh

BRITTANY GREEN, OSWALD HUỲNH, BALDWIN GIANG – LOCC INTRODUCTORY WORKS

SAMUEL BARBER – VIOLIN CONCERTO, OP. 14 (1939)

VALERIE COLEMAN – CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA

More info here: https://louisvilleorchestra.org/concert/ray-chen-plays-barber/

Join us on November 15th for morning coffee and symphonic brilliance at Whitney Hall to enjoy the timeless beauty of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto performed by Ray Chen along with debut works from 2024-2025 Creators Corps and the groundbreaking premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra. Don’t miss this opportunity to embrace the rich diversity of our program, designed to appeal to music lovers of all tastes and backgrounds. As part of the coffee series, come early and enjoy a complimentary Heine Brothers Coffee and a pre-concert talk hosted by 90.5 WUOL before the performance begins.

Teddy Abrams, conductor
Ray Chen, violin
Additional appearances by Valerie Coleman and Louisville Creator Corps Baldwin Giang, Brittany Green, Oswald Huỳnh

BRITTANY GREEN, OSWALD HUỲNH, BALDWIN GIANG – LOCC INTRODUCTORY WORKS

SAMUEL BARBER – VIOLIN CONCERTO, OP. 14 (1939)

VALERIE COLEMAN – CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA

More info here: https://louisvilleorchestra.org/concert/ray-chen-plays-barber-2/

Performers
North Carolina Symphony
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Brian Woods, piano

About This Performance
Oswald Huỳnh: “Then, as if breathing, the sea swelled beneath us.”
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Holst: The Planets

More info here: https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/624/holst-the-planets/

Performers
North Carolina Symphony
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Brian Woods, piano

About This Performance
Oswald Huỳnh: “Then, as if breathing, the sea swelled beneath us.”
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Holst: The Planets

More info here: https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/624/holst-the-planets/

Performers
North Carolina Symphony
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Brian Woods, piano

About This Performance
Oswald Huỳnh: “Then, as if breathing, the sea swelled beneath us.”
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Holst: The Planets

More info here: https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/624/holst-the-planets/

The Chicago Composers Orchestra, conducted by Allen Tinkham, performs Oswald’s Beauty despite daylight, alongside works by Leah Asher, Marcus Norris, and Jonathan Hannau.

More info: https://www.chicagocomposersorchestra.org/

The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Kalena Bovell, performs Oswald’s Gia Đình as part of their Music Without Borders concert.

The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Kalena Bovell, performs Oswald’s Gia Đình as part of their Music Without Borders concert.

The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Kalena Bovell, performs Oswald’s Gia Đình as part of their Music Without Borders concert.

As the winner of the 2023 Luigi Nono International Composition Prize, Oswald will have a new work premiered by Trio Sheliak in Italy. This concert will feature works by Bohuslav Martinů and Johannes Maria Staud.

More info: https://amiciperlamusica.com/en-gb/eventi/

Ryuta Iwase will perform Oswald’s Aubade with Ashen Clouds, Scarlet Sky for bass clarinet in a public recital. This will be the Japanese premiere of Aubade, as well as Oswald’s Japanese debut.

Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Chicago Community Chorus
Kimberly E. Jones, Soprano
Leah Dexter, Mezzo-Soprano
Ryan Townsend Strand, Tenor
Bill McMurray, Baritone

Huỳnh IPO Composer-in-Residence / World Premiere
Shaw Seven Joys
Beethoven Symphony No. 9

IPO lowers the curtain on their 46th season with a resounding performance of one of music’s most celebrated and well-known works, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. With its debut performance having taken place in Vienna on May 7, 1824, IPO’s performance will commence nearly 200 years to the day after it first came alive. Also, on the bill for this epic evening will be the third installment by IPO Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh, as well as Caroline Shaw’s Seven Joys. In 2013, at just 30 years old, Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Partita for 8 Voices. Kimberly E. Jones (soprano), Leah Dexter (Mezzo-Soprano), Ryan Townsend Strand (Tenor), Bill McMurray (Baritone) and the Chicago Community Chorus will lend their thunderous talents to the evening’s program.

Akropolis is excited to perform at the University of Arkansas Department of Music! Akropolis will perform Oswald’s These few specks of time, as well as works by Derrick Skye and Jeff Scott.

Yellow Peril was selected for the 2024 Asian Classical Music Initiative’s Call for Scores. It will be performed on the final day of the conference,

More info about the ACMI conference

Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Lee Shirer, Horn, IPO Principal Horn

Huỳnh IPO Composer-in-Residence / World Premiere
Bologne Symphony No. 1
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4
Haydn Symphony No. 104

IPO presents IPO principal horn Lee Shirer at the helm for this stunningly opulent program of classical giants alongside a world premiere of IPO Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh.

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Akropolis is excited to be returning to perform on the Jewel Box Series in 2024. Produced by the Office of Cultural Events, the Jewel Box Series is a professional concert series featuring local, national and international artists. The Jewel Box Series is recognized for quality, diversity, innovation and collaboration among the University and community.

Marc Mellits - Splinter (2014)
Oswald Huỳnh - These few specks of time (2023)
Nina Simone - For All We Know (1934) arr. Althuis
Jeff Scott - Homage to Paradise Valley (2019)

Tickets

A video concert of music selected from the Johnson University New Music Café Call for Works. Selected from over 900 submissions, this is the first in this concert series.

Yellow Peril | Oswald Huỳnh
Corporate Coitus | David Hahn
Southern Specter | Timothy Roy
Nebonvena | Benjamin Koller
Children of the Stars | Yuanyuan Kay He

Join IPO for an enchanting orchestral presentation that takes students into a world where music becomes pure magic. Designed to introduce 3rd through 8th-grade audiences to the wonders of the orchestra, There Is Magic In Music actively engages students in the compositional process, resulting in a unique world premiere crafted during each and every performance.

This 50-minute concert is a great mix of classical favorites along with fresh, new music that will see its World Premiere on IPO’s main stage two days later! Featured composers include Bologne, Mozart, Haydn, and IPO’s 2023/24 Composer-in-Residence, Oswald Huỳnh.

This interactive concert experience will allow for chances to meet IPO musicians and more!

Recommended Audience: 3rd Grade through 8th Grade

Tickets: $9 per

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The Columbia Civic Orchestra, conducted by Stefan Freund, will perform Oswald Huỳnh’s Beauty despite daylight for chamber orchestra. This piece received an Honorable Mention in the Open Orchestral category of the 2024 Missouri Composers Project competition. Other winners of this competition will also be on the program.

More information here: http://cco.missouri.org/2023-2024-season.html

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Claire Chenette, principal oboe with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, rejoins members of the UNCSA music faculty and guest artist clarinetist Anthony Taylor, faculty of the University of North Carolina College of Visual and Performing Arts, for a concert of mixed chamber music from all over the world.

This concert will feature the talents of UNCSA faculty Tadeu Coelho on flute, Oskar Espina Ruiz on clarinet, Robert Young on saxophone, Stephanie Patterson on bassoon, Maria Serkin on French horn and Ksenija Komljenovic on percussion. The program includes works by living composers Tania León, Du Yun, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Dai Fujikura, Oswald Huỳnh and Jeff Scott.

Oswald’s Travel Hazards will be performed on this concert.

For more info and to purchase tickets, click here: https://www.uncsa.edu/performances/events/20230204-faculty-guest-artist-chamber-music-showcase.aspx

The Indiana University New Music Ensemble, conducted by David Dzubay, performs works by Oswald Huỳnh, Dzubay, and guest composer Claude Baker.

Claude Baker: Carmen infernarum machinarum fugax (2023)
Oswald Huỳnh: I Ask My Mother to Sing (2022)
David Dzubay: Labyrinth (1994)

More info here: https://events.iu.edu/musiciub/event/1070112-new-music-ensemble-david-dzubay-director-claude

Westminster Concert Series is thrilled to announce the selection of Xavier Muzik as the 23-24 Hear & Now commissioned composer. Xavier writes about this commission, “The goal of my "Hear & Now" composition is to create a transformative and immersive experience for the audience. Through the combination of music, visuals, and symbolic narratives woven through my photography, I aim to evoke my state of mind at the time I took the photos: melancholic and pensive, but punctuated by moments of profound joy. The composition will be calming, grounding, exhilarating, and restrained, providing the audience with a deeply immersive and introspective journey.” Hear the world premiere for voice, violin, piano and percussion.

The program also features music by Oswald Huỳnh, Devin Maxwell, and inti figgis-vizueta. Huỳnh’s Glass Shards for violin and harp will be performed. Reception to follow the concert.

This prize was funded in part by the Salt Lake Arts Council through the Racial, Equity, and Inclusion Grant made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.

More info and tickets here: https://westminsteru.edu/student-life/events-and-performances/performing-arts-events/performing-arts-tickets.html

Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Azusa Tashiro, Violin, IPO Concertmaster

Huỳnh IPO Composer-in-Residence / World Premiere
Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Mozart Gran Partita

Leading with the first of three world premieres by most recently minted Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh, IPO’s November concert will feature the musical mastery of IPO Concertmaster Azusa Tashiro on Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The evening will close with Mozart’s Gran Partita, which offers a glorious explosion of Classical-era Harmoniemusik for small wind ensembles and is justly the most famous piece written for this combination of instruments.