Piano Lunaire presents Composers In Play XVI: Sounding the Queer Canon on Could 15, a live performance that appears to recast and replicate on the identities of Queer artists within the classical music realm. This system focuses on unearthing little recognized composers, and celebrating the historical past of Queer artists and their contributions to the artwork music of the20th and twenty first centuries. Is there a Queer musical canon?
Piano Lunaire, based mostly in each New York Metropolis and Toronto, is a up to date classical music group that appears to current artwork music in a up to date mode.
The Program
Mezzo-soprano Claire McMahan, baritone Nathaniel Sullivan and pianist Adam Sherkin will carry out an eclectic program of latest music.
- Caroline Shaw: How do I discover you? (2018) for mezzo-soprano and piano
- David Del Tredici: Three Baritone Songs (1999): No. 3, “Matthew Sheperd; textual content by Jaime Manrique
- Eve Beglarian: Farther From the Coronary heart (2026) for voice and piano
- Chris DeBlasio: During the Night (1990) for baritone and piano; textual content by Perry Brass — Canadian Premiere
- Annika Socolofsky: Who am I to Say? (2018) for mezzo and violin
- Adam Sherkin: Caretaker of Desires for baritone and piano; textual content by Fan Wu — World Premiere; Piano Lunaire fee
- Michael Genese: MeditatIon for Sphere of affect (2022) for solo piano/electronics — Canadian Premiere
- Michael Genese: The Boy with Baleen for Enamel (2023) for mezzo, baritone and piano; textual content by Rajiv Mohabir — Canadian Premiere
Composers
American composer Chris DeBlasio was based mostly in New York Metropolis. Considered one of his compositions, Walt Whitman in 1989, is a part of the AIDS Quilt Songbook. In distinction with a lot of the atonal music of the period, his compositions have been influenced by musical theatre, and included artwork songs, and sacred music. He died at age 34 in 1993 of HIV/AIDS.
A Pulitzer Prize winner and Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow, David Del Tredici was a pioneer of the neo-romantic second, and was as soon as described within the press as, “certainly one of our most flamboyant outsider composers”. He composed works for Michael Tilson Thomas and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others, and died at age 86 in 2023.
The remaining composers on this system reside Canadians and Individuals.
Eve Beglarian (b. 1958) is a composer, performer, and audio producer. Her music, which is often described as put up minimalist, contains chamber, orchestral, and choral work, and has been broadly carried out and commissioned by particular person artists, and organizations equivalent to The Los Angeles Grasp Chorale, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Middle, and The American Composers Orchestra, amongst others. Her work was acknowledged with a Basis for Up to date Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in 2015.
Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) is a composer, violinist and singer. Her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices gained a Pulitzer Prize in 2013, and has gained two GRAMMY Awards — one in 2022 for Greatest Up to date Classical Composition for her piece Slim Sea, and in 2025 for Greatest Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Efficiency for her composition Rectangles and Circumstance.
Annika Socolofsky is a composer and avant people vocalist, and her work contains orchestral and operatic compositions, as nicely a cappella people songs. Her music is predicated on the voice, and he or she typically explores uncommon tones and hues, together with strategies and sounds not sometimes utilized in classical music. With a PhD in Composition from Princeton College, she is Assistant Professor of Composition on the College of Colorado Boulder.
Adam Sherkin is a graduate of the Glenn Gould Faculty, the place he studied piano and earned a Bachelor of Music diploma. He premiered his first composition in 2005 by way of the Buffalo Philharmonic scholar symposium. After graduating from the Glenn Gould Faculty, he made his method to the UK, the place he studied on the Royal School of Music in London by way of the Dorothy Isabella Webb Belief Scholarship. He accomplished his Grasp of Music diploma there in 2022, and has since made his house in each New York Metropolis and Toronto.
Michael Genese is a composer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist. Together with their busy apply instructing violin, piano and voice classes in New York Metropolis, Genese is an Artist Ambassador with the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). He additionally helped design the Ok-12 Music Key phrase Fairness Database, the New Bedford Symphony’s useful resource for music educators,.
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