Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival will present a special concert on Oct. 9, 2024. The showcase will feature arias from Victoria Bond’s “Mrs. President” about the first woman to run for president 150 years ago. The showcase will feature soprano Amy Justman and pianist Mila Henry. Also on the program is Bond’s “Four Strings Around the World” featuring violinist {…}
(Image Courtesy of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival) Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, founded by composer Victoria Bond, has announced two special concerts this fall. First up is “Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock: A Celebration in Music,” set for Sept. 17 in partnership with The Village Trip. The event will feature soprano Amy Burton alongside the {…}
Marshal Opera is set to present the “Oral History Project Concert” at the Cell Theatre in New York on Oct. 28, 2023. The showcase, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m., will feature works by Victoria Bond, Michael Dellaira, Kenneth Fuchs, Charles Fussell, Daron Hagen, Adolphus Hailstork, Louis Karchin, Douglas Knehans, Jo Kondo, Tobias Picker, Judith Shatin, Alice Shields, Faye-Ellen Silverman, {…}
Baritone Michael Kelly is set to headline “Neighbors, Lovers, and Friends” at the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival on Sept. 9, 2023. The showcase, which will take place at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, will feature music by Victoria Bond, John Cage, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, John Glover, John Musto, and Astor Piazzolla. Kelly {…}
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival will team up with Mostly Modern Projects to present “Kings, Giants & Robots.” The showcase will feature Victoria Bond’s puppet operetta “How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct” as well as Herschel Garfein’s “King of the River” and Robert Paterson’s one-act opera “The Companion.” The trilogy of works will {…}
American conductor and composer Victoria Bond is one of the most popular artists of opera and classical music today. Over a long career that has included conducting stints around the world and dozens of original compositions, Bond is also notable for her distinction as the first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School. Bond was {…}
Composer Victoria Bond and librettist Hilary Bell’s “Mrs. President” is set to return to New York’s Symphony Space on April 27, 2020. The concert performance will feature Valerie Bernhardt as Victoria Woodhull, Scott Ramsay as Henry Ward Beecher, Michael Kelly as Col. James Blood, Katie Hannigan as Roxie, Keely Futterer as Isabella Beecher, and David Charles Tay as Joseph Treat. {…}
Victoria Bond’s “Mrs. President” will get a showcase at Symphony Space in New York this April 27, 2020 as part of the Cutting Edge Concerts Series. “Mrs. President’ tells the story of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for the highest office in the nation in 1872. She was often seen as a threat to society and deemed “Mrs. {…}
(Credit: Symphony Space Official Website) The German Forum is set to showcase Victoria Bond and Barbara Zinn Krieger’s “Clara” in New York. The new opera will be presented at Symphony Space in New York City on Nov. 8 with another showcase set for Nov. 10 at the Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck. The opera will feature Christine Reber as {…}
Composer Victoria Bond is set to showcase her next work “The Adventures of Gulliver” in a preview version at the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival in Symphony Space on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. Per a press release, the program will feature sections of the upcoming opera, which was written by Stephen Greco, in addition to other pieces by Bond. {…}
In celebration of the bicentennial of Clara Schumann, the 2019 Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival will feature the world premiere of Victoria Bond’s opera, “Clara.“ The opera draws upon the personal lives of Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms, to tell their story as only an opera can. “Clara” was composed by Bond during her residencies at the Brahms House, {…}