Program Biography
MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE is the acclaimed resident ensemble at Aaron Copland’s landmark, longtime New York home, now restored as a unique creative center for American music. Since its triumphant New York debut on Opening Night of Merkin Hall’s 1999-2000 season, Music from Copland House has emerged as one of the most exhilarating and distinctive ensembles on the American music scene. Inspired by Copland's peerless example, the ensemble’s concerts journey widely across the American musical landscape, and also include a vibrant array of works by non-U.S. composers.
Music from Copland House has been engaged by some of America’s foremost concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, Brandeis University, Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, Caramoor International and Cape Cod Music Festivals, and Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. The ensemble has commissioned new works from Chen Yi, Sebastian Currier, Richard Danielpour, and Tamar Muskal, and records for Arabesque. Music from Copland House offers concert and children’s programs, master classes, lectures, residencies, and workshops, and other educational and community outreach activities.
The exceptional artists who form the core of Music from Copland House are pianist and Copland House Artistic and Executive Director Michael Boriskin and flutist and Westchester Philharmonic Music Director Paul Lustig Dunkel (the ensemble‘s co-directors), clarinetist-composer Derek Bermel, violinist Nicholas Kitchen (of the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet), and cellist Wilhelmina Smith (of The Mannes Trio). They are often joined by a variety of outstanding, award-winning guest artists.
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