RECENT PRESS and GOINGS ON
October 30, 2024
Busy times, lots of playing, plenty of press. Here is some of it:
Wall Street Journal, “Harawi Review: AMOC Brings Harawi to California”
San Francisco Classical Voice, “Julia Bullock Sings of Loss and New Love in Harawi”
Opera Wire, “Cal Performances Review: Harawi”
Los Angeles Times, “Julia Bullock Reinvent[s] the Old Song Recital for a New Generation”
Seen and Heard International, “Extra Dimensions of Dance Add Lift to Messiaen’s Song Cycle in Berkeley”
Santa Barbara Independent, “Greater than the Sum of its Musical and Mythic Parts”
And after that, a new piano concerto by Carlos Izcaray and the Alabama Symphony (great band!), and then back to Berkeley for the complete Ustvolskaya Sonatas, which was thoughtfully written about by Joshua Kosman on his excellent substack, On A Pacific Aisle.
The recital consisted of Ustvolskaya’s six Piano Sonatas, a stretch of about an hour’s worth of music composed between 1947 and 1988. It’s not accurate to say that the music is unlike anything you’ve heard — Bach’s example is everywhere, and the influence of Debussy, Cowell and even Shostakovich (Ustvolskaya’s teacher and sometime lover) can be detected now and again. But these pieces are ravishing in their starkness and unpredictability, and Hanick played them with almost demonic clarity. (Joshua Kosman)
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HARAWI: Photo by Daniel Dittus
HARAWI
August 31, 2024
Touring this fall: Hancher, Cal Performances, Wallis, Ojai, SB Arts and Lectures.
Miranda Cuckson, violin; PS21 Chatham, August 2024
2024-2024 SEASON UPDATE
August 31, 2024
Big year coming up. Here’s the Fall Season, replete with amazing repertoire and inspiring collaborations. It starts with the premiere of Nico Muhly’s final segment of Bell Études, written for me over the course of four years since 2020. After that HARAWI (AMOC*’s production of Olivier Messiaen’s song cycle Harawi) goes on tour with stops in Iowa and California, including Hancher Auditorium, Cal Performances, The Wallis, and SB Arts and Lectures. (See above). After that, concerts with the Alabama Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Timo Andres, JACK Quartet, a new piece by Matt Aucoin, and many other exciting events. Hope to see you.