October 8, 10 2010
Our Town
Opera Idaho
Egyptian Theater, Boise Idaho
Director David Cox; conductor Steven Crawford
August 23, 2010
program includes NR songs
Simon Keenlyside, baritone/Malcom Martineau, piano
Queens Hall: Edinburgh, Scotland
May 16, 2010
Music for Friends, A concert of Quaker Music; excerpts from NR's A Quaker Reader
First United Methodist Church
Birmingham, AL
May 15, 2010
Sonata No. 3, Three Songs
Live Music by Living Composers; benefit concert, The Leschetizky Association, Tenri Cultural Institute
New York, NY
May 10, 2010
Frankly Music with Frank Almond, Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
selections from Day Music and Night Music, for violin and piano
Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield WI
May 1, 2010
Evidence of Things Not Seen
4:00, pre-show discussion; 5:00 performance
Gildenhorn Recital Hall
University of Maryland, College park MD
April 22, 23, 24, 25, 2010
Our Town
University of Colorado, Boulder
March 12,and 13, 2010
Our Town
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
March 14, 2010
All Rorem program
The Prince Consort
Wigmore Hall, London UK
March 11, 2010, 8:00
Art Song Forward: Unplugged
songs by Ned Rorem and other composers
Galapogos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY http://www.galapagosartspace.com
February 11,12,13,14. 2010
Our Town
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea , Ohio
February 21, 2010
In Time of Pestilence
Swedish Radio Choir/ Ragnar Bohlin
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor MI
February 19, 20, 21
Frolic
Houston Symphony/Hans Graf
Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas
February 6 ,8 ,9, 13, 14, 16, 17 2010
Bertha - opera
Opera Stabile, Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg, Germany
January 31, 2010; 3:00 p.m.
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
427 Chestnut Street; Philadelphia, PA
January 28, 2010
Night Music
Juilliard School; Peter Jay Sharp Theater
New York NY
January 17, 2010
Violin Concerto
Lina Sohn, violin / Boca Raton Philharmonic
St. Andrews School, Boca Raton, Florida
2009
November 2009
Our Town
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
October 17,18,23,24,25 Ê2009
Anna la Bonne (Premiere of new production)
Christian Vetsch, director / Die Oper im Knopfloch / Denette Whitter
Theater Stok, Zurich, Switzerland
Kostume: Anna von Zerboni
October 25, 2009
European Premiere
Evidence of Things Not Seen
The Prince Consort
Oxford Lieder Festival, Oxford U.K.
September 27, 2009
World Premiere
Four Sonnets of Shakespeare
Andrew Kennedy, tenor, Roger Vignoles, piano
Wigmore Hall; London UK
Concert starts at 4:00 pm
29 June
Lions (A Dream)
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/ Christopher Seaman
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail CO
May 11, 2009
11 Songs For Susan
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, NY, NY
May 11, 2009
Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (world premiere)
Zaidee Parkinson, piano/Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York Ê
May 9, 2009
11 Songs For Susan (World Premiere)
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Williams Center for the Arts, Easton PA
April 29, May 4, 2009
Another Sleep
Mitchell Galloway-Edgar, baritone/Katherine Svistoonoff, pianist
Dudley Recital Hall; University of Houston, Houston Texas
April 23, 2009
Our Town
University of South Carolina / Ellen Douglas Schlaefer
Longstreet Theater, Columbia, SC
April 7, 2009
Pilgrims
Project Divisi
Zilkha hall, Houston Texas
April 3, 4, 5, 7 2009
Our Town
University of North Texas / Stephen Dubberly
Lyric Theater at Murchison Performing Arts Center; Denton, Texas
February 12,13,14,15,16
Our Town
Tufts University Ensemble/ Carol Mastrodomenico, director
Distler Hall, Tufts University, Medford MA
15 January
Mallet Concerto
Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion
String Concerto
Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn/ Ruben Gazarian
Forum am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg, Germany
December 12, 2008
Tribute to NR's 85th Birthday
Flute Trio; A Quaker Reader
Jeremy Haladyna, organ
UC Santa Barbara, CA
December 11, 2008
Happy Birthdays! Messain, Carter and Rorem
Trio for Flute, cello and piano
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
142 Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley CA
November 14,15,16
Our Town
Raylynmor Opera Company
Peterborough Players; Peterborough, NH
14 November 8:00 PM
World Premiere Two Shakespeare Poems
Yale Glee Club; Jeffrey Douma, director
Woolsey Hall, Yale University
New Haven, CT
November 11, 2008
Eleven Studies for Eleven Players
University of Illinois Ensemble/ Donald Schleicher
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana IL
November 9, 2008
Daniel Pearl: Harmony for Humanity
War Scenes
St. Marks in the Bowery
131 East 10 Street, NY NY
November 1, 2008
Songs Old and New (World Premiere)
Mary Wilson, soprano; Iris Orchestra/ Michael Stern
Germantown Performing Arts Center
Germantown, TN
October 24, 2008
A Ned Rorem Celebration; works for violin, cello, and piano
The Phoenix Concerts
The Church of St. Mathew and St. Timothy
26 West 84 Street, New York NY
September 5
8:00 pm
Here and Now: American Contemporary Music Series- Celebrating the Music of Ned Rorem in Honor of his 85th Birthday
Dances for Cello and Piano, String Quartet No. 2, Song and Dance for Piano, Bright Music
Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, New York
27, 29 June
Our Town
Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City / Andy Anderson
Folley Theater, Kansas City, MO
13, 15, 19, 21 June
Our Town Skylark Opera / Steve Stucki
Pearson Hall, Concordia University, Saint Paul, MN
June 9
7:30 PM
Premiere of A Little Fantasy for Cello and Piano
20th Century Classics, 21st Century Premieres; Joshua Roman, cello; Evelyne Luest, piano
Symphony Space, New York NY
13 May/ 7:30 P.M.
American Voices
Saint Thomas Church Concert Series
0ne West 53 Street, New York
22 May
Aftermath European premiere
Event: On Love and War
Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
Wigmore Hall, London UK
5 May
Three Sisters who are not Sisters
University of Las Vegas / Paul Harris theater, Las Vegas NV
25, 26, 27 April 4:00 P.M.
Bertha, Queen of Norway
Event: Bertha and the Bad Girls ; also Purcell and Handel
Vertical Player Repertory Opera/ Brooklyn NY
23, 25, 27 April
Our Town
Juilliard Opera Center, The Juillard Orchestra, Anne Manson, New York
April 22
Barcarolles
Literary & Philosophical Society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
30 March
The Stars Have Not Dealt for voice/piano
Florestan Recital Project
Boston Conservatory
27 March
World Premiere The Stars Have Not Dealt for voice/piano
Florestan Recital Project, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
7 March
Barcarolles
NPL Music Society, Teddington, Berkshire, UK
28 February, 1 March
Our Town
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
19 January
Symphony No. 2 (UK Premiere)
Helios Chamber Orchestra / Owen Leech
Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church
London, UK
8 January
Picnic on the Marne
Adam Swayne, Hannah Marcinowicz
Purcell Room
London, UK
2007
23 November
Rorem and Bernstein program
Thomas Lanners, piano
Pianistes a la Maison du Peuple
Brussels, Belgium
21 November
Rorem and Bernstein program
Thomas Lanners, piano
Rode Pomt; Ghent, Belgium
3 November
Lions (A Dream)
North Carolina Symphony / Branford Marsalis Quartet / Grant Llewllyn
Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC, USA
2 November
Lions (A Dream)
North Carolina Symphony / Branford Marsalis Quartet / Grant Llewllyn
Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC, USA
1 November
Lions (A Dream)
North Carolina Symphony / Branford Marsalis Quartet / Grant Llewllyn
Pinecrest High School Auditorium, Southern Pines, NC, USA
24 October
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
"Dolce Suono" Group, Haverford PA
18 October
War Scenes
Gerald Finley, baritone / Julius Drake, pft
Wigmore Hall, London UK
10 October
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
"Dolce Suono" Group, Philadelphia
7 October
Little Elegy
Irene Drummond, soprano / Alasdair Beatson, piano
Kings College Chapel, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
26 September
Romeo and Juliet
Richard Hand, guitar, Jennifer Stinton, flute
Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom
22 September
Evidence Of Things Not Seen
Florestan Recital Project, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
7:00 pm
14 September
Little Elegy, Andy Warhol Celebration
Irene Drummond, soprano / Iain Burnside, piano
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
11,14,17,19 August
Festival Opera
Walnut Creek CA
Our Town West Coast Premiere
10 August
Lions (A Dream)
Aspen Festival Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, CO, USA
15 July
Nocturne for Double Bass and Piano (World Primiere)
The Basso Moderno Duo (Dr. Allen Von Schenkel db; Kristen Williams pft)
McEnvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC
2 July
Organ Concerto
Saint Ignatius Church, New York
18 May
Three Prayers
Flemish Radio Choir / tbc
Predikherenkerk, Leuven, Belgium
17 May
Three Prayers
Flemish Radio Choir / tbc
OLV-ter-Potterie, Brugges, Belgium
16 May
Three Prayers (Belgian premiere)
Flemish Radio Choir / tbc
Flagey, Brussels, Belgium
21 April
Erato Ensemble Mystics and Misfits / NR song Knight of the Grail
St. Andrews-Wesley Church; Vancover B.C., Canada
21 April
World Premiere: Afternoon On A Hill, Four Pieces for Chorus and Piano
The Young People's Chorus of New York
Francisco J. Nunez, artistic director
7:30 PM
92nd Street YMHA, New York
4-21 April
San Francisco Ballet Company
San Francisco CA
World premiere: On Common Ground
Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson; to music by NR, String Quartet #4
29 March
World Premiere: Four Prayers for Flute and Piano
Marya Martin
Weill Hall, New York
29 March
Mallet Concerto
Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion / Akbank Chamber Orchestra / Cem Mansur
Istanbul, Turkey
28 March
Mallet Concerto (Turkish premiere)
Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion / Akbank Chamber Orchestra / Cem Mansur
Istanbul, Turkey
23 March
7:30, Zankel Hall, New York
War Scenes
for voice and piano, Gerald Finley, baritone
15, 16, 17 March
Nashville Symphony/ Arild Remmerit
Nashville TN
Fantasy and Polka
5 March
92 St YMHA, Lexington Ave at 92 St, New York
A Tribute to W.H. Auden with Shirley Hazzard, Sandy McClatchy, Edward Mendelson, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen, and Oliver Sacks. Literary readings and performances. NR will accompany four songs on poems of Auden, with tenor Scott Murphree.
8:00 PM
26 February
Romeo and Juliet
Richard Hand, guitar, Jennifer Stinton, flute
Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom
9,11 February
Raleigh, North Carolina
A.J. Fletcher Opera Theatre
Our Town
Friday February 9 @ 8:00 PM, Sunday February 11 @ 2:00 PM
2,4 February
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Stevens Center of the North Carolina School of the Arts
Our Town
Friday February 2 @ 8:00 PM, Sunday February 4 @ 2:00 PM
2 February
Romeo and Juliet
Richard Hand, guitar, Jennifer Stinton, flute
Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
World Premiere
'Strada Duo' performs works including the World Premiere of Lullaby by NR
Weil Concert Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, January 21, 2007
5:30 pm
2006
7 ,8 ,9 December
Cleveland, Ohio
English Horn Concerto
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
10 November
Los Angeles, CA
Violin Concerto
Los Angeles Philharmonic
11 September
Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center
Broadway and 65 Street
CD signing of new Naxos CD - Flute and Violin Concertos
Discussion with NR, conductor José Serebrier, Flutist Jeffrey Khaner, violinist Philipe Quint
Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, Colorado
Our Town: David Zinman, conductor
Saturday July 29 @ 7:00 PM, Monday July 31 @ 7:00 PM, Wednesday August 2 @ 7:00PM
28 July @ 12:00 PM
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Music Festival
Screening of documentary film Ned Rorem: Word and Music
Paepcke Auditorium
27 July @ 8:30 PM
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Music Festival
Ying Quartet performs United States: Seven Viewpoints for String Quartet
29 July @ 4:00 PM
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Music Festival
Chamber Music Concert of NR's Bright Music
26 July @ 12:00 PM
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Music Festival
Panel Discussion of Our Town
1,5,9 July
Saratoga Springs, New York
Lake George Opera
Our Town
July 1 @ 8:00 PM, July 5 @ 1:00 PM, and July 9 @ 1:00 PM.
20,21 June
Washington, D.C.
The Kennedy Centre
The Royal Ballet perform the ballet Tanglewood set to Ned's Violin Concerto. Choreographed by Alastair Marriott, with conductor Barry Wordsworth and Solo Violinist Vasko Vassilier.
20 June
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwood, United Kingdom
Scottish Ensemble, Nash Ensemble
Strings Symphony
7 June
Teatro Solis
Montevideo, Uruguay
Song program including works by NR
Carole Farley; Julian Pello, piano
18 May
New York City
New Amsterdam Singers at Immanuel Lutheran Church perform From an Unknown Past.
2 May
New York City
Saint Peter's Church
Songs of Post-War New York
17-25 April
Chicago, Illinois
Ned Rorem Retrospective: Northwestern University presents a festival of Ned's music, with performances of Eagles for orchestra, Evidence of Things Not Seen for four voices and two pianos, the Fourth String Quartet, Sinfonia for 15 Wind Instruments, and Air Music.
4,5 April
New York City
Aftermath is performed by Nathaniel Webster and the Laredo Kalichstein Robinson Trio at the YMHA.
15 March
Saratoga Springs, NY
Lake George Opera presents 'Songs & Writings of Ned Rorem' at Caffe Lena, 47 Phila Street. An evening of songs and readings of the works of Ned Rorem, featuring excerpts from Rorem's new opera version of Our Town.
8 March
New York City
The Ying Quartet performs Ned's String Quartet No. 5 at Symphony Space.
25 February
Bloomington, Indiana
Ned appears as a guest in Sharon Robinson's master class.
23 February
Indianapolis, Indiana
Claude Baker conducts an all-Rorem concert with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble.
3, 4 March
24, 25 February
Bloomington, Indiana
Our Town receives its world premiere by the Indiana University Opera.
21 January
New York City
Four Sonnets for Piano and Mixed Chorus is performed by the Gregg Smith Singers at the Church of St. Peter's at the Citicorp Center.
2005
16 December
New York City
Daron Hagen and Gilda Lyons perform the world concert premiere of 'Emily's Aria' from Ned's Our Town as part of their American song set on a concert at St. Matthew and St. Timothy's, 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM.
8 November
New York City
Ned is interviewed by Paul Schindler of Gay City News about Paul Goodman prior to a new film about Goodman. Gay and Lesbian Center, 208 West 13th Street.
29 October
New York City
Auden Poems are performed at the Cthedral of St. John the Divine. Tim Brumsfield, organ.
28 October
Vassar College
Five Elizabeth Bishop Songs are performed by Robert Osborne.
22 October
New York City
Ned appears from 5:45-6:10 to speak about 'The Book That Changed My Life' at Symphony Space.
19 October
New York City
So We'll Go No More Aroving and As I Walked Out One Morning from Evidence of Things Not Seen are performed by the New York Festival of Song at Merkin Hall.
1 June
London, England
Carole Farley performs Ned's music at the Wigmore Hall.
22 May
Chicago, Illinois Winter Pages, Santa Fe Songs, Poems of Love and the Rain, 4th String Quartet performed by the Chicago Chamber Players. Ned will attend this concert.
1 May
Boston, MA Symphony No. 3 performed by Ars Viva, Alan Heatherington, conductor.
15 April
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Four Colours (Canadian Premiere) Thomas Piercy, clarinet, Judith Olson, piano.
1 & 3 April
New York City In Time of Pestilence The New Amsterdam Singers, 316 East 88th Street, 4 PM.
12-20 March
New York City Lingo Land, a celebration of the words of Kenwood Elmslie as set to music by Ned and other composers. For more information, call 212-935-5824.
11,12 March
Baton Rouge, Alabama
Symphony No. 2 performed by the Alabama Symphony.
3 March
New York City Organ Concerto performed by Steven Hamilton - Holy Trinity Church 316 East 88 Street.
21 January 04 Denver, Colorado Denver's Friends of Chamber Music performs String Quartet No. 4
15 February 04 Austin, Texas The Austin Chamber Ensemble performs Romeo and Juliet for Flute and Guitar
22 February 04 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Market Square Concerts present Flute Concerto, and Winter Pages at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center
26,27,28 February 04 Atlanta, Georgia Gary Graffman performs Ned's Left Hand Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony
6 March 04 New York City 14th Street Y performs the short opera, The Robbers
10 March 04 New York City American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Steven Sloane, performs Lions
13 March 04 Colchester, Vermont The Vermont Youth Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Troy Peters, performs Ideas
17 March 04 Helsinki, Finland The Double Concerto is performed, conducted by Michael Stern
27,28 March 04 Madison, Wisconsin Evelyn Glennie premieres Ned's Mallet Concerto with the Madison Symphony Orchestra
2,9,16 March 04 New York City Gregory D'agostino gives an All-Rorem recital at the Riverside Church which includes a rare performance of Ned's Organ Concerto
5 March 03 San Francisco Evidence of Things Not Seen
9 March 03 New York City Ned joins David Del Tredici, Tom Cipullo, Daron Hagen and others on a benefit concert to raise money for the Friends and Enemies of Music Concert Series
12 March 03 New York City Pas de Trois, a trio for oboe, violin and piano, is performed by the Cosmopolitan Chamber Players at Merkin Recital Hall
28, 29,30 March 03 Kansas City Cello Concerto is premiered by David Geringas and the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern
28 March 03 New York City Fifth String Quartet is premiered by the Ying Quartet at Symphony Space. Ned will also accompany Scott Murphree in songs on poems of Paul Goodman
April 03
24-25 April 03 WNYC is giving a five-hour-long broadcast of Ned's music, along with interviews,
from Midnight to 5 AM on the evening of April 24-25
24,25,26 April 03 Washington, D.C. Leonard Slatkin conducts Lions with the National Symphony
May 03
15-30 May 03 Ned makes appearances in Rome
15,16,17 May 03 Jacksonville, Florida Lions is performed by the Jacksonville Symphony, conducted by Fabio Machetti
17 May London, England, Wigmore Hall Andrew West, Emma Bell, Jane Peters perform Early in the Morning and For Poulenc
June 03
4-5 June 03 Charleston, North Carolina Two concerts of Ned's chamber music are presented by the Spoleto Festival
6 June 03 Netherlands Cello Concerto receives its European premiere by David Geringas, cello, and the Residentie Orkestra, Anne Manson, conductor
7 June 03 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Six Variations for Two Pianos performed by Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal
21 June 03 New York City The Gay Gotham Chorus performs choral music of Ned Rorem at 86 West End Avenue
A publicity still from around 2002.
Ned and Susan Graham in 2004.
Composing.
Composing.
With musicians performing his work.
Ned speaking at the Other Minds Festival in California, 2004.
Ned attending a rehearsal at the Other Minds Festival in California, 2004.
New York 79th Birthday Concert, 2003.
Publicity shot, 2002.
Composing in New York, 2003.
Photographed in Nantucket, 2002.
Composing in New York City, 2003.