Symphony Number One

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SNO Wins The American Prize

Symphony Number One has been named 2019 Winner of The American Prize! This award recognizes our 2017-2018 season which, among other exciting projects, included: 

Premieres by Carolyn Chen, Jasmine Arielle Barnes, and 14 other emerging composers.

Our most recent album, Approaching, featuring music by Martha C. Horst, Nicholas Bentz, and Hangrui Zhang

Performance of Bruckner's sprawling Symphony No. 7 in an arrestingly compelling version for chamber orchestra

 Our premiere of "Catalyst" by Ben Goldberg at our TEDxMidAtlantic performance.

Our BaltimoreCorps partnership.

The American Prize produces an annually adjudicated national competition across a range of categories, recognizing both individual artists as well as large ensembles in the United States. The competition includes categories in Conducting, Orchestral/Band/Choral Performance, Orchestral Programming, Composition, Instrumental/Vocal Performance, Chamber Music, Opera, Musical Theater and Arts Marketing and multiple divisions highlighting professional, collegiate, and community work. Previous winners of The American Prize for Professional Orchestras includes the National Philharmonic, Allentown Symphony, Park Avenue Chamber Orchestra, and the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra.

Thanks to everyone in the Symphony Number One family for the countless hours of hard work and dedication it has taken to offer substantial works by emerging composers across the Baltimore community, the Mid-Atlantic region, and beyond!

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VIDEO: Song of the Earth

For the first time, the complete video of our performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von Der Erde (Song of the Earth) is available online. Happy Birthday to Gustav Mahler, born on this day in 1860.

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Part 6

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Symphony Number One names Managing Director

Symphony Number One has named Brian Harris as Managing Director, effective June 15.

Brian Harris is an oboist and network engineer who recently relocated to Baltimore from nearby Clarksburg, MD. He began his career in music education before transitioning into networking and telecommunications infrastructure, where he has remained for over a decade. Because of his managerial role on a range of fast-paced, results-driven contracts, Harris brings a wealth of leadership experience to Symphony Number One’s administrative team. Outside of work, Brian is an active member on the community ensemble circuit. He plays with the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra and performs locally as a freelance musician. Highlights of past performances have included concert cycles with the Columbia Orchestra (MD), NIH Philharmonia, and as featured soloist with the Montgomery Village Community Band. Brian is inspired by the rich musical community in Baltimore, and will be instrumental in planning Symphony Number One’s upcoming seasons.

Symphony Number One returns with the music of Schoenberg and James Lee on September 7 and 8 at the Carl J Murphy Performing Arts Center at Morgan State University. Visit our 2019-2020 season page to learn more.

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Beethoven's Kitchen

Our next edition of Beethoven's Kitchen will feature the Axios Trio performing a variety of terrific music along with all-you-can-drink composer cocktails at Baltimore’s Flavor.

5:30 - Doors Open - Drinks Served

6:00 - Music Begins

7:15 - Meet the Musicians

Program

Beethoven: Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11, “Gassenhauer”

Kinan Azmeh: The Fence, The Rooftop and The Distant Sea

Nino Rota: Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano

Axios Trio

Anastasia Christofakis, Clarinet

Elizabeth G. Hill, Piano

Justin Page, Cello

Cocktail Menu

Cocktail Menu Coming Soon!

Tickets

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VIDEO: Boulez - Dérive 2

For the first time, the complete video of our performance of Dérive 2 by Pierre Boulez is available online. Happy Birthday to the late Pierre Boulez, born on this day in 1925.

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Five Year Anniversary - Album Release

Symphony Number One celebrates five years of innovative programming and stunning new composers with the release of our fifth album! Join us for live music, and pick up your copy of our fifth album, featuring music by several Symphony Number One composers.

Enjoy complimentary libations and hors d’oeuveres !

Advance RSVP required. More information coming in June 2019.

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Awakened (Sunday)

For years, SNO has presented the arrangements of other composers created by Arnold Schoenberg and his students in the early 20th Century. This September, SNO will perform the music of the man himself, Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1. James Lee III will be our featured composer, writing his own extended work for chamber orchestra.

Program

Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1

James Lee III, Chamber Symphony: Awakened to Eternal Realities (World Premiere)

Additional music TBA

 Tickets

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Awakened (Saturday)

For two years, SNO has presented the arrangements of other composers created by Arnold Schoenberg and his students in the early 20th Century. This September, SNO will perform the music of the man himself, Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1. James Lee III will be our featured composer, writing his own extended work for chamber orchestra.

 Program

Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1

James Lee III, Chamber Symphony: Awakened to Eternal Realities

Additional music TBA

 Tickets

Tickets go on sale in June 2019. Be the first to know by subscribing to our email list in the grey form below, or by clicking here.

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SNO Named Semi-Finalist in American Prize

Symphony Number One has been named a semi-finalist in the The American Prize Orchestra division! This award recognizes our 2017-2018 season which, among other exciting projects, included: 

Premieres by Carolyn Chen, Jasmine Arielle Barnes, and 14 other emerging composers.

Our most recent album, Approaching, featuring music by Martha C. Horst, Nicholas Bentz, and Hangrui Zhang

Performance of Bruckner's sprawling Symphony No. 7 in an arrestingly compelling version for chamber orchestra

 Our premiere of "Catalyst" by Ben Goldberg at our TEDxMidAtlantic performance.

Thanks to everyone in the Symphony Number One family for the countless hours of hard work and dedication it has taken to offer substantial works by emerging composers across the Baltimore community, the Mid-Atlantic region, and beyond!

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Natalie Draper's "Timelapse Variations" Featured in NASA Video

Award-winning composer Natalie Draper had her Symphony Number One collaboration, Timelapse Variations, featured by NASA in a series of videos accompanying a raft of new research regarding a new impact crater discovered in Greenland. The video has already reached tens of thousands of people through published articles by CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, and other popular outlets.

Watch the video below:

Timelapse Variations originally appeared on our third album, titled More.

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In Search of Imagery (Sunday)

We open our fourth season with the music of Aaron Copland, Kirsten Broberg, and Douglas Buchanan!

Program

Copland, Appalachian Spring

Kirsten Broberg, From In Search of Imagery

Douglas Buchanan, Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn

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In Search of Imagery (Saturday)

We open our fourth season with the music of Aaron Copland, Kirsten Broberg, and Douglas Buchanan!

Program

Copland, Appalachian Spring

Kirsten Broberg, From In Search of Imagery

Douglas Buchanan, Variations on a Shape-Note Hymn

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Catalyst

Take a look at Catalyst by composer Ben Goldberg, performed at TEDxMidAtlantic 2017! 

Symphony Number One delivers a “couture, customized” premiere of Ben Goldberg’s latest composition: “Catalyst” for chamber orchestra. With dazzling colors and rhythmic verve, this brand new work was written specifically for the TEDxMidAtlantic audience in this performance at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C.

 Here are some great photos from our performance: 

Part II of our TEDx presentation coming soon! 

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Summer in the Squares

Symphony Number One returns for another year of seasoned classics alongside stunning new music by emerging composers around the globe! This concert will feature Copland's Appalachian Spring and a new work by Kirsten Broberg.

FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT! 

Performers: 

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Program

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

Kirsten Broberg: New Work TBA

More Works TBA

Presented In partnership with the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy and the Mount Vernon-Belvedere Association.

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Nicholas Bentz featured on WBJC Podcast

SNO Co-founder and founding Concertmaster Nicholas Bentz was interviewed as All-Classical WBJC's inaugural Student Composer of the Month. Podcast host John Scherch talks to Nick about his future plans as a composer and violinist, his history with launching Symphony Number One and his perspectives as a composer. Nick even discusses one of the seven "totems" that guided his compositional process as he created Approaching Eternity for Symphony Number One.  Listen to the podcast below:

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SNOlabs: Reality, Race, and Religion

 From the creators of Symphony Number One come SNO Laboratories, SNO's space for partnering with composers, artists, and creatives to co-create unique community projects across the Mid-Atlantic Region. 

Reality, Race, and Religion

The Music of Jasmine Arielle Barnes

Reality, Race, and Religion is a concert debuting a variety of works written by composer Jasmine Barnes. This concert is aimed to take the listener on a musical journey of life. The Songs, categorized into these three topics, speak on various aspects of each category. The Creative team has aimed to partner the listening experience of the concert with the visual experience. Come listen and feel the experience of Reality, Race, and Religion.

Here's a video of our collaboration with Jasmine in August 2017:

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Revisiting the Boss Saxophone Concerto

Nearly two years after its premiere, Symphony Number One co-founder again took up the Boss Saxophone concerto, this time with the University of Texas New Music Ensemble. Here is a video from that performance, which happened to take place the same night as Symphony Number One gave the premiere of Nicholas Bentz’s Approaching Eternity.

  Our 2nd commercial release, Emergence, was an EP featuring Andrew Boss’ Saxophone Concerto. It is available in all formats on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon.