Tune in to Q2 Music tonight for NJSO broadcast!

WQXR’s online new-music station Q2 Music will broadcast the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s “World-Premiere Saturday” program featuring music by the four composers of the inaugural NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute tonight, April 28, at 8 pm at www.q2music.org.

The performance was recorded in July 2014 at the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.

 

The broadcast—as well as last week's broadcast of the NJSO's special concert/lecture world-premiere performance of Cone’s Symphony—will be available for on-demand listening in the archives at www.q2music.org.

Distinguished composer, Princeton University Department of Music Chair and NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute Director Steven Mackey says: “We are proud to present an in-depth look at Edward T. Cone, an important Princeton University professor and composer whose influence continues to resonate with New Jersey composers. The April 21 broadcast captures our discussion and premiere of Cone’s symphony, which is perhaps his finest work.

“The composers of the inaugural NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute have tremendous careers on the horizon, and we are excited to share their work with Q2 Music’s vast listenership on April 28—I have confidence that this will be the first of many times listeners will hear from these talented artists.”

“Working with a major American orchestra is a singular and pivotal opportunity in any emerging composer’s career,” says Alex Ambrose, Q2 Music producer. “For Q2 Music to amplify the admirable educational work the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is doing through its inaugural Cone Composition Institute and to bring the resultant music, and that of Cone himself, to a large digital audience strikes at the core of what we, as a new-music station, aspire to do.”

April 28 broadcast: World premieres of inaugural NJSO Edward T. Cone Institute composers

The NJSO’s “World-Premiere Saturday” program featured new music from the four composers of the inaugural NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. Lacombe and the Orchestra performed Lembit Beecher’s Kalevipoeg in California, David Biedenbender’s Strange, Beautiful Noises, Daniel J. Choi’s Scaena Ager and Chris Rogerson’s Night and the City on July 19, 2014.

The world-premiere concert was the culmination of the intensive five-day Institute—a multi-faceted program that promotes new music and emerging composers. The participants were selected from an international applicant pool of university composition students and composers in the early stages of their professional careers. During a visit to Q2 Music’s studios, the composers participated in interviews that will air during the concert broadcast, in addition to comments by Institute director Steven Mackey.

» View additional concert information.

» Watch video interviews with each composer. 

» Learn more about the Institute.

» View additional concert information about the Cone Symphony premiere broadcast on Q2 last Tuesday.