JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution

Label: harmonia mundi
File Under: Classical/Contemporary
Catalogue No: HMU907580
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Format: 1 CD
Packaging: slipcased
Conspirare / Craig Hella Johnson
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop [conductor]
Kevin PUTS: Symphony No.4
To touch the sky, If I were a swan
Conspirare
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
RELEASE DATE
29TH JULY 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly coloured musical voice.
Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Kevin Puts’ Symphony No.4 (From
Mission San Juan), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening this programme of world première recordings, Craig
Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in two choral settings of texts by women poets: 'To Touch the Sky' and 'If I Were a
Swan'.
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for 'Silent Night', an opera commissioned by Minnesota Opera and co-written with
librettist Mark Campbell, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. His work
has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the New York
Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester (Zurich), the Saint Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the Minnesota
Orchestra, and by soloists and chamber ensembles such as Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, the Eroica Trio
and the Miro Quartet.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he received his training as a composer and pianist at the Eastman School of Music and
Yale University. Since 2006, he has been a member of the composition department at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore,
Maryland.