Philharmonie de Paris announces the 25/26 season, featuring repertoire by Philip Glass. From a concert performance of Glass’ legendary opera Akhnaten to his loved Piano Etudes, this seasons repertoire spans decades and crosses genres. Tickets on sale April 11. September 25, 2025La Tempête – featuring excerpts from 1000 Airplanes on the Roof – Tickets October 14, 2025Vanessa Wagner – Piano Etudes...
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Twyla Tharp tours her new dance production featuring a vibrant suite of works by Philip Glass – Aguas da Amazonia. Music will be performed live by Third Coast Percussion on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments. Event dates run between January and April, 2025. Tickets now on sale. Additional dates to be announced. January 26, 2025 Minneapolis, MN –...
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The British Film Institute hosts a series of film screenings to showcase Philip Glass’s unique contribution to the history of cinema. Event dates and ticket information below. August 2, 2024 The Thin Blue Line Showtime – 20:45Errol Morris began his hugely successful, long-term collaboration with Philip Glass on this pioneering documentary, which combines interview footage with striking crime-scene re-enactments as...
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The Philip Glass Ensemble tours the world premiere of Naqoyqatsi Live for Cello, Orchestra, and Philip Glass Ensemble; in Ravenna present the Qatsi Trilogy in whole; and Early Works and Glassworks programs across Europe. Tour dates and ticket information below. More dates to be announced. June 14, 2024 Early Works and Glassworks · Uppsala, Sweden The Philip Glass Ensemble presents Glassworks...
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Since 2022, Quatuor Molinari has embarked on a process to record all of the Philip Glass string quartets. Volume 1 featured Glass’s First Quartet from 1966 through his Fourth in 1989. The newest volume which was released at the end of November 2023 features Glass’s Fifth from 1991 through his Seventh in 2013. Quatuor Molinari spoke with Richard Guérin about...
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Philip Glass Solo Album artwork; credit: Luis Álvarez Roure: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Philip Glass shares a new album, Philip Glass Solo, January 26 via Orange Mountain Music. The collection is an intimate portrait of the renowned pianist at 84, as he takes a new look at some of his most enduring and beloved piano works. Now available everywhere:...
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November 7, 2023: Philip Glass Piano Etudes published by Artisan Books is now available online and at your local bookstore. About the book: Philip Glass Piano Etudes is a one-of-a-kind tribute to Philip Glass’ 20 piano etudes. A deluxe boxed gift set, it was designed as an heirloom to be cherished by music lovers, piano students and players, and anyone attuned to...
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Once Within A Time Godfrey Reggio’s Once Within a Time is now playing in select theaters this October from Oscilloscope Laboratories. Tickets are on sale now for select Q&A events at the IFC Center in New York and Brain Dead Studios Fairfax in Los Angeles featuring co-director Jon Kane & EP Steven Soderbergh. Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a...
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Sep 26 – Oct 4 Godfrey Reggio Philip Glass Retrospective · MoMA MoMA presents Total Cinema of Sight and Sound, a retrospective including all of the features the duo has collaborated on. The retrospective is organized around a weeklong run of their latest work, Once Within a Time (2022), which is screening in its New York premiere. Nine years in the making since its...
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INTERVIEW WITH JILLON STOPPELS DUPREE This weekend, Early Music Seattle presents Philip Glass’s Harpsichord Concerto with soloist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, who performed the premiere back in 2002. Richard Guérin: “What do you remember about the premiere of the piece?  I recall there being a flourish of soloists in the mix around the premiere and that you had something like one...
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The Paris Philharmonie presents a wide range of Glass programming on their 23-24 season including Music in 12 Parts, Einstein on the Beach, the Cocteau Trilogy, Dracula, and a discussion on Minimalism The Philip Glass Ensemble – Music in 12 Parts Sunday, October 8, 2023 6:00pm Tickets Dracula Arranged for solo piano, Michael Riesman October 31, 2023 6:30pm; 10:00pm Tickets...
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GLASS: REIMAGINED CELEBRATING GLASS’ 85TH BIRTHDAY Pomegranate Arts and Rockefeller Center present an evening of performances by longtime Glass interpreters, the Kronos Quartet, and electronic composer Jlin. This celebratory event will explore Philip Glass’ influence through a shared concert featuring performances by longtime Glass interpreters, the Kronos Quartet and electronic composer Jlin in her first performance honoring the composer. Featuring...
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EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH RECEIVES NEW PRODUCTION Theater Basel and Berliner Festspiele produce Glass and Wilson’s landmark opera, direction by Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg In their first opera production, Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg create a futuristic total work of art about space and time. Utilizing their unmistakable style of theatre, they smash the boundaries between humans and machines,...
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Interview with conductor Karen Kamensek, conductor of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera from May 19th to June 10th, 2022 Richard Guérin: My first awareness of your work on Philip Glass’s music was seeing your name on the credits for the recording of Les Enfants Terribles. The recording was in the early 2000s but I believe that recording was connected to the...
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Mari Samuelsen and the BBC Concert Orchestra perform Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No.1 on Thursday 5 May 2022 at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, 19:30 I first became aware of Mari Samuelsen around 2014 when I heard that composer James Horner (1953-2015) was going to compose a concerto work. Samuelsen and her cellist brother Hakon Samuelsen commissioned the composer...
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EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH NFT Iconic Bed Scene minted as a digital artwork The latest revival of the original production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) was in 2012, and it toured around the world. Now it is making its entrée into the digital realm: the iconic “Bed scene”, the slow rise of a...
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Akhnaten Recording (2021) wins a GRAMMY Award Recorded live at the MET Opera, November 2019. This production was originally created by English National Opera and LA Opera, in collaboration with Improbable Philip Glass’ “Akhnaten” wins a GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. The award is given to the recording’s conductor, Karen Kamensek; stars J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James,...
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Glass wins BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Music and Opera Award Ceremony June 2022 The prestigious Frontiers of Knowledge Award has gone to Philip Glass for forging a unique musical style that embraces cultural traditions from around the world and appeals to audiences of all generations. The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Music and Opera, in its...
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On behalf of Philip Glass and the entire Philip Glass organization it is with respect and thanks that we acknowledge the resignation of Jim Woodard, Philip Glass’ tour manager of 20 years. We wish him the best on his next chapter.

Orange Mountain Music and the Metropolitan Opera are proud to announce the release of Philip Glass’s opera SATYAGRAHA across a variety of media. SATYAGRAHA portrays Gandhi’s years in South Africa during the time he developed his tools for social transformation through nonviolence.  Captured at the 2011 revival of the work, the production was directed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch...
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For tickets click here TIBET HOUSE BENEFIT 2021 One of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in New York City, The 34th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert will return this year for a special virtual edition combining live and pre-recorded segments streaming via Mandolin, the premiere concert livestream platform for artists, venues, and fans. For the first time ever, this year’s concert offers viewers around the...
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            Now available on all major platforms, link here Orange Mountain Music is proud to present violinist Chase Spruill’s recording of Philip Glass’s “Epilogue for Solo Violin.”  Spruill is known for his interpretations of 20th century Minimalist music including his much lauded 2019 recording of Michael Nyman’s “Yamamoto Perpetuo.”  Responding to the turmoil of 2020,...
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Composed and premiered in May 2020, Philip Glass’s six-minute meditation for solo piano is now available on Apple Music and Spotify.  Premiered by pianist/conductor Dennis Russell Davies at the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz, Austria – Davies returned to the studios to record the work the following week. Release 29 May 2020

Tales From The Loop Premieres April 3rd on Amazon Prime Richard Guérin:  So first of all tell me where you are in the world right now? I’m just coming into knowing your music, and before this I didn’t know much about you. Paul Leonard-Morgan: I’m in my studio in LA (which is a converted guest house at the end of...
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Orange Mountain Music presents the first advance track from the forthcoming soundtrack album to THE LAST DALAI LAMA?, the 2016 film by director Mickey Lemle featuring an original score composed by Tenzin Choegyal and Philip Glass.  For the film Glass was interviewed and discussed his composition MAD RUSH, originally written on and for the organ of the cathedral of St.John...
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On March 13th across the Brooklyn Bridge near the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, the newly born Brooklyn Orchestra will premiere a new orchestral arrangement of Philip Glass’s AGUAS DA AMAZONIA. Originally composed as sketches for piano (Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet) – then later interpolated by the Brazilian percussion group UAKTI.  In 2015 arranger Charles Coleman...
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Orange Mountain Music is proud to announce the special RECORD STORE DAY 2020release of the complete soundtrack to the classic film KOYAANISQATSI for the first time on vinyl and limited to 1500 numbered units. Directed by Godfrey Reggio with an iconic score by Philip Glass, KOYAANISQATSI premiered in 1982 and quickly became a cult classic.   With cinematography by Ron Fricke...
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Maki Namekawa, piano – www.makinamekawa.com Real time visualization : Cori O‘lan Directed and produced by Julian Pixel Schmiederer julianpixel.at Director of photography Gregor Franz gregorfranz.com Edited by Johannes Rass johannesrass.at Gaffer Eliam Lauppert eliam.at

(On 4 July 2019, Philip Glass’s First Piano Sonata will have its world premiere at the Klavier Festival Ruhr) In February 2017 in Washington DC, the piano duo of Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies had just finished a performance at the Philips Collection and were heading to a restaurant in the neighborhood. Davies is known as one of Philip...
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