PostClassical Ensemble

PostClassical Ensemble
Orchestra
Short name PCE
Founded 2003 (2003)
Location Washington DC, United States
Concert hall Harman Center for the Arts
Music director Angel Gil-Ordoñez
Website www.postclassical.com

The PostClassical Ensemble is a classical music musical ensemble from Washington, D.C.. The organization was founded by conductor Angel Gil-Ordoñez and music historian Joseph Horowitz in 2003.[1]

History

For the first period of its history, the PCE performed in a variety of locations in the Washington, D.C. area. The ensemble debuted in 2005 with a sold out performance of “Celebrating Don Quixote,” featuring a commissioned production of Manuel de Falla’s puppet opera Master Peter’s Puppet Show, along with rarely heard works by Oscar Espla and Roberto Gerhard. Growing rapidly in the 2000s, the ensemble received a $200,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In 2016, PCE's presentation of three classic American documentaries; “The Plow that Broke the Plains,” “The River,” and “The City,” with original scores by Virgil Thomson generated two best-selling Naxos DVDs hailed as “revelatory” by Washington Post. Its release of a newly recorded score for the Mexican docu-film Redes also received international acclaim.,[2] and its festival honoring the works of Bernard Hermann gained national attention for highlighting Hermann's works.[3][4][5]

Activities

PostClassical Ensemble's repertoire emphasizes music composed after 1900, producing the work of artists such as Lou Harrison,[6] Bernard Hermann,[4] and Silvestre Revueltas.[7]

PCE has collaborated with such artists as pianists Jeremy Denk, Benjamin Pasternak, Alexander Toradze, William Wolfram, clarinetist David Krakauer, baritones Christòpheren Nomura and William Sharp, bass-baritone Kevin Deas, pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-fen, and other internationally prominent artists.

The group is also an artistic partner of Georgetown University as well as an educational partner of the National Gallery of Art.[1]

Music directors

References

  1. 1 2 Tim Smith (4 January 2011). "Innovation rewarded: Post-Classical Ensemble receives $200,000 Mellon grant". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  2. ↑ Kenneth Turan (2016-05-05). "Newly recorded score is highlight of Mexican neo-doc 'Redes'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  3. ↑ Armando Trull (2016-04-15). "'Psycho' And So Much More: Composer Bernard Herrmann Gets A D.C. Festival". WAMU. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  4. 1 2 Charles Downey (2016-04-18). "Ensemble shines spotlight on Herrmann's film scores, and for good reason". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  5. ↑ David Mermelstein (2016-04-26). "More Than Hitchcock's Handmaiden". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  6. ↑ Anne Midgette (2016-03-13). "PostClassical Ensemble shows a new side of Lou Harrison". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  7. ↑ Joan Reinthaler (2014-05-14). "PostClassical Ensemble shines in its performance of Silvestre Revueltas's music". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-08-12.

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