Performances
February 28, 2019
Richmond, VA
1:30 PM and 7:30 PM
American Civil War Museum
AUCOIN scenes from Crossing
Rod Gilfry, baritone
Mackenzie Gotcher, tenor
Kenneth Kellog, bass-baritone
Matthew Aucoin, piano
March 4, 2019
Sarasota, FL
First United Methodist Church
ensembleNEW SRQ
Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano
Samantha Bennett, violin
Matthew Aucoin, conductor
Program to include Aucoin’s The Orphic Moment and Its Own Accord as well as music by Berio and Gubaidulina
March 10, 2019
New York, NY
Tenri Cultural Institute
Boston’s crack new-music quartet Hub New Music plays a series of miniatures composed for them by Matthew Aucoin.
March 16, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
Matthew Aucoin hosts and curates After Hours, a post-show concert series, following The Clemency of Titus
March 21, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum
Hammer Conversations Presents: Matthew Aucoin and Megan Amram
Matthew Aucoin and comedian/writer Megan Amram will have a public conversation about their work, the intersection of opera and absurdist comedy, and much more.
March 24, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
Matthew Aucoin hosts and curates After Hours, a post-show concert series, following The Clemency of Titus
April 2, 2019
Houston, USA
HENRY The Veil of Orpheus
PINTSCHER Study No. 1 for Treatise on the Veil
MONTEVERDI Possente spirto from Orfeo
BIRTWISTLE Orpheus Elegies for countertenor, oboe and harp
AUCOIN This Earth
AUCOIN Excerpts from Eurydice (2019)
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Kelly Markgraf, baritone
Matthew Aucoin, piano
April 10, 2019
Brooklyn, NY
National Sawdust
Keir GoGwilt, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Conor Hanick, piano
Musicians from AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) will perform an adventurous chamber-music concert featuring music by Salvatore Sciarrino and Celeste Oram as well as Matthew Aucoin’s violin sonata, Its Own Accord.
April 12, 2019
Boston, MA
AUCOIN Its Own Accord
AUCOIN With Care
Keir GoGwilt and Miranda Cuckson, violins
Matthew Aucoin, piano
Matthew Aucoin is joined by his AMOC colleagues Keir GoGwilt and Miranda Cuckson, as well as radio host Christopher Lydon, for an afternoon of music as well as discussion of Aucoin’s influences and inspirations.
May 3, 2019
Stony Brook, NY
AUCOIN Selections from Crossing
Rod Gilfry, baritone
Matthew Aucoin, piano
Matthew Aucoin will both perform selections from his opera Crossing and give a talk on Walt Whitman and music as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth.
May 28, 2019
London, UK
Listenpony at Borough New Music
Program to include Aucoin’s Three Études as well as music by Knussen, Carter, and others
George Fu, piano
May 31, 2019
New York, NY
Dessoff Choirs
Program to include a new arrangement of choruses from Crossing, for mixed choir, as well as music by Eve Beglarian and Tania León
June 20, 2019
New York, NY
The Morgan Library & Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition Walt Whitman at 200, Matthew Aucoin curates an evening of spoken word and music featuring Walt Whitman’s letters and poems with musical excerpts from Crossing and works by John Adams and Leonard Bernstein.
Matthew Aucoin, piano
Ben Lerner, poet/writer
Additional artists TBA
November 6, 2019
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
Brentano String Quartet
Program to include the New York premiere of Aucoin’s new string quartet as well as music by Mozart and Ravel
November 13, 2019
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
American Composers Orchestra
George Manahan, conductor
PURRINGTON Guitar Concerto
IVES Selected Songs (orch. Purrington/Lash)
AUCOIN Evidence
The American Composers Orchestra gives the first New York City performance of Aucoin’s orchestral piece Evidence, under the baton of George Manahan.
February 1, 2020
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
AUCOIN Eurydice (world premiere)
Danielle DeNiese – Eurydice
Joshua Hopkins – Orpheus
Rod Gilfry – Father
John Holiday – Orpheus’s Double
Barry Banks – Hades
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin
February 8, 2020
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
AUCOIN Eurydice (world premiere)
Danielle DeNiese – Eurydice
Joshua Hopkins – Orpheus
Rod Gilfry – Father
John Holiday – Orpheus’s Double
Barry Banks – Hades
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin
February 14, 2020
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
AUCOIN Eurydice (world premiere)
Danielle DeNiese – Eurydice
Joshua Hopkins – Orpheus
Rod Gilfry – Father
John Holiday – Orpheus’s Double
Barry Banks – Hades
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin
February 16, 2020
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
AUCOIN Eurydice (world premiere)
Danielle DeNiese – Eurydice
Joshua Hopkins – Orpheus
Rod Gilfry – Father
John Holiday – Orpheus’s Double
Barry Banks – Hades
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin
February 20, 2020
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
AUCOIN Eurydice (world premiere)
Danielle DeNiese – Eurydice
Joshua Hopkins – Orpheus
Rod Gilfry – Father
John Holiday – Orpheus’s Double
Barry Banks – Hades
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin
February 23,2020
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Opera
AUCOIN Eurydice (world premiere)
Danielle DeNiese – Eurydice
Joshua Hopkins – Orpheus
Rod Gilfry – Father
John Holiday – Orpheus’s Double
Barry Banks – Hades
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin