Open to the public.
United Church of Angel Fire
Friday, August 23, 2024 at 1:30 p.m.
Marc Neikrug, Composer-in-Residence for 2024
Composer, Marc Neikrug, has had an international career for half a century. He has written chamber music, symphonic music, music-theater and opera. Major performances have taken place with the New York, Los Angeles and Buffalo Philharmonics, as well as the symphonies in Boston, Pittsburgh, Houston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, New World (Miami), St. Louis, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Chicago, Utah, Dallas, Phoenix, New Mexico, the Minnesota and Cleveland orchestras, and the St. Paul and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras.
His works have been performed internationally, by the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, the BBC Symphony, London Synfonietta, English Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, NDR Hamburg, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Berlin Radio Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Liege Orchestra, Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Montpellier Symphony, Marseille Opera, Osaka Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Festival performances have been at Ravinia, Tanglewood, Hollywood Bowl, Aspen, Angel Fire, La Jolla, Marlboro, Menlo, Savannah, London’s South Bank, Aldeburgh, Berlin Festival, Frankfurt Festival, Schleswig Holstein, Zurich, Melbourne, Tokyo’s Music Today, and Jerusalem Festival.
Among noted performers of his music are Zubin Mehta, Loren Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Alan Gilbert, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Donald Runnicles, Lawrence Foster, Oliver Knussen, James Galway, Pinchas Zukerman, Susan Graham, Yefim Bronfman, Jeremy Denk, Maximilian Schell, John Turturro, John Rubenstein, and the Emerson, Vermeer, Tokyo, Shanghai, Flux, Jerusalem, Dover, Escher, and Orion Quartets.
His music theater work ‘Through Roses’, was commissioned by London’s South Bank Festival with the National Theater. Since its premiere in 1980 it has had hundreds of performances in fifteen countries and has been translated into 11 languages. There are three CD’s on Deutsche Grammaphon, Enya, and Koch International.
There have also been two films produced, a documentary by Christopher Nupen, and a feature film directed by Jurgen Flimm and starring Maximilian Schell, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival. Los Alamos, an anti-nuclear opera written in 1988, is the only American opera ever commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Its American premiere was at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Neikrug has been composer-in-residence at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Angel Fire, Aspen, Bravo Vail, and La Jolla festivals. Works have been recorded on Deutsche Grammaphon, Koch International, Stereophile, Laurel, and Enya records. Publishers of sixty works are G. Schirmer and Chester.
