Tanglewood contemporary festival schedule

Composer Augusta Read Thomas (right) curates the 2009 Contemporary Music Festival at Tanglewood Aug. 7-11, and the schedule just dropped in my in box. The slate set by Thomas, a former Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, includes performances by current Tanglewood Music Center Fellows, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and guest artists, including conductor Stefan Asbury, soprano Lucy Shelton, and pianist Nicolas Hodges. The works they'll eprform include the world premiere of a new chamber piece by Elliott Carter and commissions by twentysomething composers 2008 TMC Fellow Helen Grime, 2009 TMC Fellow Cynthia Lee Wong and Jacob Bancks. Tix are $11, except for the Aug. 9, BSO concert, which is $19-$99. Buy online or thru  SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200. Details from the press release after the jump.

DETAILS OF THE 2008 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

The 2009 FCM begins on August 7, at 2:30 p.m. with a chamber music concert featuring the Tanglewood Music Center Fellows under the direction of Tanglewood Music Center faculty member Stefan Asbury and TMC conducting fellows in performances of works by Christopher Rouse and David Lang (U.S.), Matthias Pintscher (Germany), Pierre Boulez (France), Beat Furrer (Austria), and Oliver Knussen (U.K.). The concert also features the world premiere of a new Tanglewood Music Center commission by Juilliard graduate Cynthia Lee Wong (U.S.), an International Zemlinsky Composition Competition prizewinner and 2009 TMC Fellow.

On August 8, at 2:30 p.m., Asbury and the conducting Fellows again lead the TMC Fellows in a concert of works by John Corigliano, David Rakowski, and Judd Greenstein (U.S.), George Benjamin (U.K.), Zoltán Jeney (Hungary), and Unsuk Chin (Korea/Germany). A TMC commission by the young Scottish composer/oboist Helen Grime, a 2008 TMC Fellow, will be given its world premiere.

On August 9, at 10:30 a.m., the TMC Fellows offer a chamber music concert of works by Paula Matthusen, Aaron Travers, Aaron Kernis, and Yehudi Wyner (U.S.), Robin De Raaff (Netherlands), Tania León (Cuba/U.S.), and Pascal Dusapin and Philippe Manoury (France). In the evening at 8 p.m., acclaimed American soprano and TMC faculty member Lucy Shelton and BSO clarinetist Tom Martin perform a world premiere of “Poems of Louis Zukofsky” by Elliott Carter, and TMC Fellows perform a world premiere of a work by Chicago-based composer Jacob Bancks. Both works are TMC commissions. The program also includes works by Bent Sorenson (Denmark), Mario Davidovsky (Argentina/U.S.), Ivan Fedele (Italy), and Tansy Davies (U.K.).

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of BSO Assistant Conductor Julian Kuerti, will participate in the 2009 Festival of Contemporary Music with a performance of George Perle’s Sinfonietta No. 2, on Sunday, August 9, at 2:30 p.m. (The program will also include Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Faure’s Elegie, for cello and orchestra, featuring cellist Yo-Yo MA, and Bizet’s Symphony in C.)

Stefan Asbury and conducting Fellows lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in a wide-ranging program on August 10, at 8 p.m. featuring the music of Julian Anderson (U.K.), Wolfgang Rihm (Germany), John Zorn and Peter Lieberson (U.S.), and Enrico Chapela (Mexico).

The annual Fromm Concert at Tanglewood, which closes the 2009 Festival, is a recital August 11, at 8 p.m. by acclaimed British pianist Nicolas Hodges. The program features the U.S. premieres of Pierre Boulez’s une page d’éphéméride, Hans Thomalla’s Piano Counterpart, and Michael Finnissy’s Mit Arnold Schoenberg. The program also includes Frederic Rzewski’s Nanosonatas – Book I, Boulez’s Incises, and Henri Dutilleux’s Trois Preludes.

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