News from Edward B. Marks

William Bolcom's Trombone Concerto for Joseph Alessi and the New York Philharmonic will be premiered on June 10 at Avery Fisher Hall as part of the Philharmonic’s Biennial festival! For information and tickets click here.

About the work, the composer said: “When I was informed that Joseph Alessi wanted a concerto from me I was delighted. His recorded performance of Christopher Rouse’s powerful contribution to the form has mightily impressed me, and other recordings have shown a consummate musician with perfect intonation, wide stylistic sense, lyrical phrasing, and dazzling technique. I always want to meet the performer I’m writing for, and our recent meeting gave me a focus; I hope and intend that Joe’s warmth and geniality will find their way into this concerto, along with his interpretative breadth."

Additional News:

  • Bolcom's opera McTeague continues to run in Linz, Austria (through June 9), and the Aspen Music Festival will produce his opera, A Wedding on July 28 and 30.

 

  • Bolcom recently attended, with busy librettist Mark Campbell, a workshop with the Minnesota Opera on the duo's upcoming feature, Dinner At Eight. (March 11, 16, 18, & 19 2017).
     
  • Bolcom's contribution, along with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, to the two-piano arrangement of Cole Porter's 1923 ballet, Within the Quota, is now in production for print release.