The Festival of Contemporary Music (FCM) is one of the world's premier showcases for works from the current musical landscape and landmark pieces from the new music vanguard of the 20th century. FCM affords Tanglewood Music Center Fellows the opportunity to explore unfamiliar repertoire and experience the value of direct collaboration with living composers.

Schedule

July 27, 2023

1:00pm

In Conversation: Curators of the Festival of Contemporary Music and Michael Gandolfi
Reena Esmail, Gabriela Lena Frank, Tebogo Monnakgotla, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, the Merwin Geffen, M.D. and Norman Solomon, M.D., Festival of Contemporary Music Co-curators

Michael Gandolfi, Head of Composition Program, Tanglewood Music Center

Michael Gandolfi interviews the four Festival of Contemporary Music Co-curators about how they curated the festival, with each program representative of their sound worlds. Learn more about these leading and pathbreaking composers.

The Festival of Contemporary Music has been endowed in perpetuity by the generosity of Dr. Raymond H. and Mrs. Hannah H. Schneider, with additional support from the Fromm Music Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, American Scandinavian Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

8:00pm

TMC Festival of Contemporary Music
Gabriela Lena FRANK Sonata Serrana No. 1
Gabriela Lena FRANK Las Sombras de los Apus
BARTÓK Contrasts
Gabriela Lena FRANK Milagros

July 28, 2023

2:30pm

TMC Festival of Contemporary Music
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Reminiscence
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Spectra
György KURTÁG 12 Microludes
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Hrim
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Aequilibria
György KURTÁG Six Moments Musicaux
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró

July 29, 2023

4:00pm

TLI Presents: A Curated Concert by Reena Esmail
Saili Oak, Indian classical vocalist
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows

ALL-REENA ESMAIL PROGRAM
Darshan
Piano Trio: movement III
Who Makes a Clearing
Ragamala
Pranayam
Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz

8:00pm

Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Messiaen, Ravel and Zubel
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano

MESSIAEN Les Offrandes oublieés
BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’été
Intermission
Agata ZUBEL In the Shade of an Unshed Tear
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

6pm, Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Tanglewood Music Center

July 30, 2023

10:00am

TMC Chamber Music

Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA It is the Lark that Sings
Malin BÅNG Arching
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Five Pieces for String Trio
Andile KHUMALO Schaufe[r]nster II
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Le dormeur du val
Bent SØRENSEN The Lady of Shalott
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Toys (or The Wonderful World of Clara)
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Companion

July 31, 2023

8:00pm

Stefan Asbury and the TMC conducting fellows conduct Esmail, Thorvaldsdottir, Monnakgotla, and Frank
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows

Reena ESMAIL RE|Member
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR METACOSMOS
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Un Clin d’oeil
Gabriela Lena FRANK Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra

Date: July 27-31, 2023

Location:

Various Venues

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