Performances

April 18, 2023
Matt performs with members of AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company) as part of the ensemble’s weeklong residency at Brown University. This concert will include music by L. Boulanger, Ives, Bach, Celeste Oram, Anthony Cheung, and selections from Matt’s song cycle Merrill Songs.
April 20, 2023
AMOC’s residency at Brown concludes with a celebratory concert that will includes Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerrilla, George Lewis’s Artificial Life, selections from Doug Balliett’s Rome is Falling, and pieces by Matt including “Shaker Dance” and selections from Family Dinner.
May 24, 2023
Two programs: 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM
AMOC presents two concerts in the same evening at New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center. The programs will include music by Cassandra Miller, Andrew McIntosh, and Matt’s piece This Earth.
June 22, 2023
8:00 PM
The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, plays the world premiere of Aucoin’s new orchestral work, Lear Sketches.
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
MATTHEW AUCOIN Lear Sketches (World Premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
VERDI Otello, Act IV
Russell Thomas (Otello)
Renée Fleming (Desdemona)
June 27, 2023
8:00 PM
The Met Orchestra gives the European premiere of Aucoin’s Lear Sketches, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, at Paris’s Philharmonie.
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
AUCOIN Lear Sketches
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
VERDI Otello, Act 4
Russell Thomas, Otello
Renée Fleming, Desdemona
June 29, 2023
The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs Aucoin’s Lear Sketches at London’s Barbican Centre.
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
AUCOIN Lear Sketches
BERLIOZ Selections from Les Troyens
VERDI Otello, Act 4
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano (Berlioz)
Russell Thomas, Otello
Renée Fleming, Desdemona
July 2, 2023
The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs Aucoin’s Lear Sketches at Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus.
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
AUCOIN Lear Sketches
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
VERDI Otello, Act 4
Russell Thomas, Otello
Renée Fleming, Desdemona