Ben Bolter

"..Bolter spotlighted the showiest aspects of Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody #1 and made it look easy." (National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C.)

- Joan Reinthaler, Washington Post

2015 Performances

Saturday December 12, 2015 at 3:00pm

Merit Conservatory String and Symphony Orchestras

String Orchestra Plays:
J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3
Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony #1

Symphony Orchestra Plays:
Claude Debussy Nocturnes
1. Nuages
2. Fêtes

Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I

Merit School of Music, Gottlieb Hall- Chicago IL

Friday December 4, 2015 at 7:30pm

Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble
Caleb Burhans Oh Ye of Little Faith (Do you know where your children are?)
Anton Webern Five Pieces for orchestra (op. 10)
Steve Reich City Life
Galvin Recital Hall - Evanston IL
Alan Pierson and Ben Bolter conducting

Saturday November 7, 2015 at 8:00pm

Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble
Ann Cleare On Magnetic Fields
Ted Hearne Excerpts from Katrins Ballads
Donnacha Dennehy Grá Agus Bás
Galvin Recital Hall - Evanston IL
Alan Pierson and Ben Bolter conducting

Friday July 24, 2015 at 7:30pm

Festival Youth Orchestra at New England Conservatory Final Concert
Jordan Hall- Boston, MA

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Marquez Danzon #2
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5

Monday May 18, 2015 at 7:30pm

Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble
Celebrating the Music of Esa-Pekka Salonen: NEMMERS Composition Prize Winner
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall- Evanston, IL

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Two Songs from the Kalender Rod (Bienen Early/Contemporary Vocal Ensemble- Donald Nally conducting)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sisar (solo piano, performed by Jim Giles (2012)
György Ligeti, Chamber Concerto (1970)

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Concert étude for horn (2000)
Russell Rybicki, horn
Carlo Diaz, reach too far. (2015)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Five Images after Sappho (1999)
Rachel Sparrow, Soprano

Saturday April 25, 2015 at 2pm

Merit School of Music: Final Spring Conservatory Performance Conservatory String and Chamber Orchestras
Gottlieb Concert Hall- Chicago, IL

Friday March 20, 2015 at 7:00pm

The People's Music School Youth Orchestras
Haydn Symphony 104 and Dvorak Themes from New World
Hibbard Elementary School- Chicago, IL

Thursday March 5, 2015 at 7:30pm

Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble
Guest soloist, Claire Chase
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall- Evanston, IL

Saariaho Terrestre
Boulez Mémoriale
Rzewski Coming Together (with guest Brad Jungwirth as narrator)
NU composer works by Austin Busch and Jonathan Bauerfeld (TBD)

Saturday February 28, 2015 at 1pm

Merit School of Music Conservatory String and Chamber Orchestras-
PERFORMATHON (WFMT)- Gottlieb Concert Hall- West Loop, Chicago, IL

String Orchestra: Holst St. Paul Suite
Chamber Orchestra: Brahms Academic Festival Overture

Thursday February 5, 2015 at 7:30pm

Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble
Side-by-side with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall- Evanston, IL

Xenakis Échange
Birtwistle Cortége
Podgursky Mindjob
NU composer work by Wilson Tanner Smith (TBD)

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