Listen: 2016 Cone Composition Institute concert on Q2 Music
Listen to the 2016 NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute concert, “Scores: New Orchestral Works,” now on demand through WQXR’s online new-music station Q2 Music.
This NJSO performance with conductor David Robertson, recorded July 16 at the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, features Institute Director Steven Mackey’s Turn the Key and the professional premieres of works by the 2016 Institute composers—Matthew Browne, James Anderson, Jung Yoon Wie and Will Stackpole. The program also includes composer interviews recorded at Q2 Music’s New York studios.
Mackey says that the 2016 Institute’s four emerging composers, selected from an international applicant pool, impressed with “their dynamic works and strong individual voices.”
The composers drew inspiration for their works from different sources. Browne’s Farthest South imagines an unusual encounter on Ernest Shackleton’s “Nimrod Expedition” to Antarctica; Anderson’s Places with Pillars is about the extraordinary events upon which people place meaning in their lives. Wie’s Water Prism for Orchestra illustrates the phenomenon of light passing through a prism and forming a rainbow; Stackpole was moved to write ... Ask Questions Later as a reaction to gun violence headlines. Mackey wrote his celebratory, rhythmic Turn the Key for the 2006 opening of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.
» Learn more about the program and composers.
Q2 Music and the NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute
Q2 Music has aired each NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute concert since the Institute’s 2014 inception. The station also broadcast the NJSO’s 2014 world premiere of Edward T. Cone’s Symphony—a work by the Institute’s namesake. The Orchestra premiered the late Princeton University professor and composer’s Symphony as part of the New Jersey Roots Project, which inspired the Institute.
Listen to previous NJSO concerts on Q2 Music
2015 NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute concert
Featuring works by Luke Carlson, Brendan Faegre, Shuying Li, Reinaldo Moya and Steven Mackey.
2014 NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute concert
Featuring works by Lembit Beecher, David Biedenbender, Daniel J. Choi, Chris Rogerson and Steven Mackey.
2014 world premiere of Edward T. Cone’s Symphony
Featuring the world premiere of a work by the late Princeton University professor and composer for whom the NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute is named.
More on the 2016 NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute
At the six-day Institute, held July 11–16 at Princeton University, the composers participated in masterclasses with Institute Director Steven Mackey, heard their works rehearsed and performed by the NJSO and received feedback from guest conductor David Robertson and NJSO musicians. They also enjoyed career-enriching sessions with music-industry leaders, including Q2 Music; Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.; New Music USA and Subito Music Corporation, as well as executive speech coach, author and Inc.com columnist Sims Wyeth. During a visit to Q2 Music’s studios, the composers participated in the interviews that aired during the station’s concert broadcast.
» Read a review of the 2016 Institute concert from Town Topics.
» Read a Times of Trenton interview with Steven Mackey.
» Listen to WWFM’s inside look at the 2016 Institute.
Learn more about the NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute.
The NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute is presented in collaboration with the Princeton University Department of Music and generously funded in part by the Edward T. Cone Foundation and Princeton University.