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Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta and Ensemble Modern will give two concerts on an upcoming U.S. tour.

Giunta and the vocal quartet amarcord join Ensemble Modern on its first US tour since 2011. The focus of the tour dedicated to “Weimar” is Kurt Weill’s “Die Sieben Todsünden.” Together they present a new version for chamber ensemble of the piece which Ensemble Modern premiered at the Beethovenfest in Bonn in 2019.

The first concert takes place on April 9 at DaCamera in Houston. Carnegie Hall hosts the next concert on April 12. HK Gruber conducts both performances. Also on the “Weimar” program are works by Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Arnold Schönberg. The group performed the concert on March 11 at Alte Oper Frankfurt.

Closing the tour on April 13 is “Composer’s Chair: Tania León” also at Carnegie Hall. Stefan Asbury conducts Ensemble Modern in a program of works by Cuban-American composer and conductor Tania León, who holds the Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall this season. Her opera “Scourge of Hyacinths” received over 20 performances throughout Europe and Mexico. The opera took received the BMW Prize, and the aria “Oh Yemanja” (“Mother’s Prayer”) was recorded by Dawn Upshaw on “The World So Wide.” In 2022, she was named a recipient of the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. In 2023, she was awarded the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from Northwestern University.