Saturday, March 29, 2008 | 8:00pm
Program Notes hosted by Robert Kirzinger at 7:00pm
Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory
Alejandro Rutty The Conscious Sleepwalker Loops (2007)*
Derek Hurst Clades (2007)*
Firebird Ensemble, various
Ken Ueno On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis (2008)*
Ken Ueno, overtone singer
Lisa Bielawa Double Violin Concerto (2008)*
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Carla Kihlstedt, violin

*World Premiere

Gil Rose, conductor

Tickets are available for purchase online through the American Repertory Theater website or by calling the A.R.T. Box Office at 617.547.8300 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm).

News and Press

[Concert Review] For modern orchestra, a night of premieres

Four world premieres in one night is ambitious even by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s standards, but Saturday’s novelty at Jordan Hall was also an old-fashioned Boston tryout for a New York opening: This week, conductor Gil Rose and the group bring the program to Brooklyn’s MATA Festival, an annual new-music showcase previously run by BMOP’s current composer-in-residence, Lisa Bielawa.

The Boston Globe Full review
[Concert Review] Bielawa, BMOP: performance provocateurs

On Saturday night the New England Conservatory’s teal and gilt Jordan Hall enjoyed the premiere of no fewer than four new works by living, breathing composers and performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which parties where symphony orchestras fear to tread. Bucking both contemporary and traditional expectations, provoking appreciation and conversation, this was a night of risks that paid off handsomely.

The Boston Herald Full review