(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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In 1988, at the time he was composing Itaipu, Philip Glass was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to compose a new work to to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus “discovery” of America.  When asked by the New York Times about the work, Glass said that the opera would be “‘an allegorical opera in three acts telling its story…
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February 8: Iveta Apkalna Organ Concert: Glass and Bach May 6: Practique Orchestrale (education) at the Philharmonie de Paris May 16 Dracula film with piano music  (two shows) May 16: Philip Glass: Portraits des 20th and 21st centuries (education) May 17 Piano Etudes Integrales (sold out): May 18 Piano Etudes Integrales (sold out): May 18: Glass Forms (sold out) piano/electronics…
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On December 26th CBS broadcast the annual Kennedy Center Honors which included a tribute to honoree Philip Glass.  Jon Batiste performed “Opening” from Glassworks, Jennifer Koh and St. Vincent performed music from Mishima, and the Philip Glass Ensemble played a bit of Koyaanisqatsi, and Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach. This was followed on January 6th with the…
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Mishima Solo Piano Press Release: On September 7th, 2018, Maki Namekawa premieres the piano version of Philip Glass’ soundtrack to Paul Schrader’s film MISHIMA – A Life in Four Chapters. The 1985 film by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, American Gigolo), produced by Francis Ford Coppola, employs a highly stylized aesthetic to portray the life of the Japanese poet and three-time…
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On the heels of Piano Concerto No.3, which continues to roll thanks to its dedicatee and champion Simone Dinnerstein, we have (at least) three new releases coming out from Orange Mountain this summer, the first of which is Glass’s first composition for solo piano in five years: DISTANT FIGURE: Coming 20 July – DISTANT FIGURE (Passacaglia for Solo Piano) was…
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By any measure 2017 was a very productive year in terms of major new pieces by Philip Glass. The year began in January with his latest grand Symphony, the Eleventh, largely composed the previous year, premiered at Carnegie Hall on his 80th birthday. Symphony No.11 turned out to be the first of a series of major works premiered in the…
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A number of orchestra’s have announced their 2017-18 seasons and many of them are part of the commission of the new Piano Concerto No.3 by Philip Glass who has composed the new concerto for the phenomenal Simone Dinnerstein. Glass composed his first piano concerto, the Tirol Concerto for piano & orchestra in 2000 for pianist/conductor Dennis Russell Davies and the Stuttgart…
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In celebration of Philip Glass’ 81st birthday on January 31, 2018, OMM is proud to announce three new titles including a thrilling new recording of MUSIC WITH CHANGING PARTS in celebration of the NYC and San Francisco performances of this seminal early Glass work.  Performed by the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble, this marks the first recording to incorporate electronic performance…
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From the program notes to the concert on December 9th, 2017 at Roulette in Brooklyn with pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies: The relationship between Philip Glass and the piano is a very interesting one and to no small degree is connected in a very direct way to the conductor/pianist Dennis Russell Davies, pianist Maki Namekawa, and the composer’s…
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