Delos congratulates pianist Dominic Cheli, who appears on Mark Abel’s new album The Cave of Wondrous Voice, on his award of $50,000 by The American Pianists Association for being a finalist in the APA’s American Pianists Award competition. Four other young finalists are being similarly honored a year before the deciding round, which will be…
Bowdoin College’s News Department has just published a piece about Mark Abel’s collaboration with Alyssa Gillespie, chair of the school’s Russian department, which resulted in the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva.” (The piece provides) a good introduction to a poet who still has a “semi-obscure status in America’s world of letters,” said Abel.…
Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson’s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance! “Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, and Eric Whitacre might have to slide down the bench a little to make room for a newcomer. … Runestad’s music tends to be luminous,…
Stephen Costello, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s A Te, O Cara: Stephen Costello Sings Bel Canto recording has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits.… The Kaunas City Symphony, under the…
The 2020 International Classical Music Awards have been announced, and Delos was represented by three albums in three categories! Contemporary Music Spring Forward David Shifrin, the Miró, Dover, and Jasper String Quartet’s present Spring Forward: Music for Clarinet and String Quartet featuring music by Peter Schickele, Richard Danielpour, and Aaron Jay Kernis. “everyone involved in…
Candid shots from a pre-recording rehearsal in Santa Monica for the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva,” a collaboration between composer Mark Abel and translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, chair of the Russian Department at Bowdoin College. The musicians are the renowned soprano Hila Plitmann, pianist and Delos label director Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck,…
Provintia, “Sunset of Chihkan Tower” (赤崁夕照) by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (b. 1970) Taiwanese-American composer Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, winner of the first Biennial Brandenburg Symphony International Composition Competition and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, was educated in Taiwan and the United States. She received a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio…
Please enjoy these shots of violinist Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and pianist Dominic Cheli rehearsing Mark Abel’s “The Elastic Hours” in Los Angeles. Later on we moved to famed Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood to lay down this piece for Mark’s next album, “The Cave of Wondrous Voice.” Photos by the fabulous Jeanine Hill (with contributions from Sabrina and…
Deserted Garden by Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953) When the Chicago Symphony premiered Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 in 1933, it was the first time that a major orchestra performed a work by an African-American female composer. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and educated at the New England Conservatory, Price wrote music that shows influences from…
Classical MPR’s The Choral Stream hosted a live broadcast with composer Jake Runestad about his music on the new Conspirare recording The Hope of Loving – watch it on demand via Facebook today: The Hope of Loving: Choral Works of Jake Runestad Jake Runestad is one of America’s leading composers of the younger generation; witness his…
Opera News names Stephen Costello‘s A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra a Critic’s Choice! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits. … Take, for example, the album’s opener, La Fille du Régiment’s ‘Ah! Mes amis.’ Costello does not reach for…
A recent announcement on the OPERAWIRE website revealed that the voice contest in the upcoming 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition (beginning June 17) will offer a special new prize in memory of legendary operatic baritone and Delos Artist Dmitri Hvorostovsky. The prize will include an award of $15,000 USD and a performance in the Russian city…
On May 6, it was announced that “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, in partnership with the All-Star Orchestra (ASO) under the baton of prolific Delos recording artist Gerard Schwarz, had won this year’s Emmy® Award in the Special Event Coverage (Other than News and Sports) category. This was the seventh Emmy® won by…
On Monday, it was announced that the 2019 International Opera Awards had selected soprano Asmik Grigorian as Female Singer of the Year and tenor Charles Castronovo as Male Singer of the Year! Ms. Grigorian is the featured soprano in Delos’s audio recording, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of War, Peace, Love and Sorrow (DE 3517), with distinguished Maestro Constantine…
Delos’ international A&R director, globetrotting conductor Constantine Orbelian, recently returned to his San Francisco home base from an extended stay in Armenia and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple letters of congratulation from California political figures for his 2019 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording. Orbelian and audio engineer Vilius Keras were honored for their…
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