Luna Meets LACO
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In a new partnership, NYC's Kaufman Music Center (KMC) teams up with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) to present the world premieres of eight works by 2019-20 Fellows in KMC's Luna Composition Lab program, plus participants in Luna Lab with LACO. Filmed in Zipper Hall at The Colburn School in Los Angeles.
Founded by 2018 Grammy nominee Missy Mazzoli and 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Reid with Kaufman Music Center in 2016, Luna Lab addresses the gender imbalance in the field of classical music by providing aspiring female-identifying, non-binary and gender-nonconforming composers age 12-18 with a year of one-on-one mentorship, performance opportunities and high-quality recordings of their work.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has an over 50-year history of extraordinary artistry and counts in its composer family Andrew Norman, Ellen Reid, Sarah Gibson, Derrick Spiva, Juan Pablo Contreras and great female leaders including Music Director Iona Brown and Executive Director Deborah Rutter.
PROGRAM:
Ebunoluwa Oguntola, The Dimensions
KiMani Bridges, The Flower
Madeline Clara Cheng, Ceiling Star
Olivia Bennett, Mass
Sage Shurman, Enchanted
Anya Lagman, Unravel
Chloe Elise Villamayor, Fragments of [anything] to breathe to
Emily Webster-Zuber, The Sun Shines Fair
Announcing 2021 Visionary Awards Recipient
2021 First Commission
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Paloma Alonso
"2020"
Darian Donovan Thomas, violin
Shayna Dunkelman, percussion
Angélica Negrón, mentor
Paloma Alonso is a New York City native. She is 13 years old and attends the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School. Her parents, both classical concert pianists, were her first piano teachers. Alonso cites her Cuban father and Albanian mother as major inspirations for introducing her to music of all styles and genres. She began studying cello six years ago with Juilliard-trained teacher Yves Dharamraj and also pursues her passion for dance at the school of New York Theatre Ballet where she has trained rigorously since the age of four. Alonso joined the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Program in 2017. She commented that "This wonderful program opened a whole new world of expression to me. Composing is another tool that allows me to be expressive in a beautiful and artistic way". In December 2019, on a Young People's Concert, the Philharmonic performed Alonso's Sweating Bullets under the baton of its Music Director Jaap van Zweeden. The orchestral work was scheduled to be performed by the Philharmonic again in April of 2020 but, was unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.