Upcoming Events
Program To Include
Nicolás Lell Benavides
New work (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
Andrés Soto
New work (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
William Dawson
Selections from Negro Folk Symphony
The SFCM Orchestra welcomes back SFCM 2013 graduate Nikola Printz to perform a song cycle set to poems by Pablo Neruda. Acequia by SFCM 2014 graduate Nicolás Lell Benavides will be a world premiere performance and was commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. This concert also features works by Ravel including one of his first major works for orchestra, as well as La Valse, a dazzling orchestral showpiece that has inspired intense debate about its true meaning.
Program
Nicolás Lell Benavides: Acequia (World premiere)
Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Maurice Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Sebastianskapelle Baden, Baden, Switzerland
Sunday, April 28, 2024 5:00pm
Chamber music concert with Benjamin Scheck, guitar and Ulrike vom Hagen, cello
Saturday, May 4, 2024
7pm
Walnut Creek
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4pm
Tiburon
Saturday, May 4, 2024
7pm
Walnut Creek
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4pm
Tiburon
Program information:
Pre-College Orchestra
Adam Glaser, Conductor
Nicolás Lell BENAVIDES Querencia (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61
Andrés SOTO New Work (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with The Juilliard School Preparatory Division and American Composers Forum)
ELGAR In the South
Watch the performance on this page at the scheduled date and time. This performance won’t be available to stream afterward on demand.
Love and Longing by the Lake
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
Love and Longing by the Lake
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
Love and Longing by the Lake
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
Love and Longing by the Lake
A trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, a new opera inspired by oral histories and true accounts of life at Chautauqua Institution across the decades. Conceived to be performed outdoors on the grounds of Chautauqua, The Summer Place is a fitting celebration of Chautauqua in its sesquicentennial year. This hour-long evening of opera is rounded out with the -charming and poignant story of Pepito.
Performance Dates: June 28, July 5, 12 & 21 on the Athenaeum Hotel lawn
Stage Director: Ned Canty
Conductor: Steven Osgood
Featured Projects
For soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion. ~9:00
Commissioned by Khemia Ensemble for the sophomore album, Intersections
Opera. Drama. 45:00. Libretto: Marella Martin Koch
Tres Minutos is a chamber opera by composer Nicolas Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch. Inspired by a real program that reunites families separated by immigration policies at the U.S. - Mexico Border, but only for three minutes, Tres Minutos imagines the story of Diego and Nila, a brother and sister who share DNA but not citizenship. When Diego is deported, leaving Nila behind, questions of identity, duty, and belonging threaten to consume them. The opera will be approximately 45 minutes long and explore the consequences of separation in intimate, human terms.
Electronics and dance. 15:00
On Trac|< is a short film that looks at the intersection of human existence and machine acceleration in rural America. The film is choreographed and performed, by Amanda Castro, composed by Nicolas Lell Benavides, and co-directed by Amanda Castro and Lucas Godlewski. Benavides, a former Young Artist Composer with the Festival, has worked with Washington National Opera, West Edge Opera, Nashville Opera, Shreveport Opera, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and more. Castro is a multidisciplinary artist with her storytelling rooted in rhythm, who has performed across the United States and abroad. She was most recently seen at Glimmerglass in 2021 the Fate in Il Trovatore, and in 2018 as Anita in West Side Story, a role she also performed at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Godlewski is a Brooklyn-based director of photography, prop stylist, and production designer. Godlewski heads The Glimmerglass Festival’s video department of one.
On Trac|< is generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and Kara Unterberg.
Opera, comedy. 22:00. Libretto: Marella Martin Koch
Pepito, a lonely shelter dog, misses his old family and his old life. Camila and David, young married professionals, are searching for the perfect dog. As the cracks in Camila and David's marriage deepen, Camila and and Pepito form an unshakeable bond.
For two violins. 6:00
Commissioned and premiered by Lucia Lin as part of her In Tandem series with thanks to the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music
For guitar, violin, viola, and cello. 16:00
Commissioned and premiered by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble