In Saturday’s (1/28) Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), Celia R. Baker writes, “Utah Symphony music director Thierry Fischer believes that concert programming should be about the present and the future as well as the past. That’s why he is reintroducing the orchestra’s tradition of commissioning new works from contemporary composers. … To launch the initiative, Fischer commissioned a work from a composer whose work he knows well: his Swiss countryman Michael Jarrell, winner of many important awards for his genre-spanning works. The new piece is a cello concerto, ‘Emergences,’ to be performed for the first time Feb. 3 and 4 by French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Utah Symphony under Fischer’s baton at Abravanel Hall. Queyras has presented world premieres of new works by other current composers with orchestras in Europe and Japan, and is a member of the Arcanto Quartet. Fischer said he is inspired by the lightness and transparency of Jarrell’s compositions and the mysterious orchestral sound the composer attains. The composer will be present as Fischer and the Utah Symphony prepare for the premiere.”
Posted January 30, 2012
