Kentucky’s Lexington Philharmonic has selected Avner Dorman as its 2015-16 Saykaly Garbulinska Composer-in-Residence. Music Director Scott Terrell will lead the orchestra in the world premiere of a commissioned work by Dorman on its April 15, 2016 program. During the season the orchestra will also perform Dorman’s percussion concerto Frozen in Time, with 22-year-old Italian percussionist Simone Rubino as soloist. During the past four seasons, the orchestra has debuted new works by Philip Glass, Tan Dun, Jennifer Higdon, and Michael Gandolfi. It has received grant support toward contemporary-music performances from the Amphion Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. In April, the orchestra presented its first semi-staged opera, Golijov’s Ainadamar—Fountain of Tears, with collaborators including Kentucky Opera Studio Artists and University of Kentucky Opera Theater students. “We strive to introduce our audiences to works by living composers, alongside the canon of what has come before,” Terrell said in a press release.
Posted August 20, 2015
