American Composers Orchestra opens its 2019-20 concert season with New England Echoes on Nov. 13, 2019 at at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall.

The concert is set to feature the world premiere of 2017 ACO Underwood Commission winner Hilary Purrington’s concerto for guitar and orchestra, Harp of Nerves, with guitar soloist JIJI.

Jamie Barton will sing in the world premiere of new orchestrations of Charles Ives’ songs, by composers Hilary Purrington, Hannah Lash, and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

The concert will also feature the New York City premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Evidence.”

“Many of Jamie Barton’s stories about lieder revolve around Charles Ives, the composer who ‘made my mind absolutely spark,’” ACO President Edward Yim told OperaNews. “Before her Ives group at Glimmerglass, she told the audience that the music was ‘an important and special group for me,’ and she was taking a set of six Ives songs on her U.K. tour. Indeed, much of a two-hour conversation with Barton defined her as a particularly American artist.”

According to a press release, “the composers chosen to orchestrate these songs reflect Barton and ACO’s interest in ensuring that women composers are represented and are composers who have had meaningful associations with ACO.”