San Francisco, CA, December 18, 2015 – San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle (OP) has announced its first main stage opera commission, the creation of a new opera by American composer Laura Kaminsky inspired by the life
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Dreaming Absinthe, commissioned by Cygnus Ensemble with support from the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music for a premiere at the Morgan Library & Museum on December 8, 2015 in conjunction with the exhibition “Ernest Hemingway:
Read more →Laura Kaminsky will be a guest artist at LAU (Lebanese American University) and AUB (American University of Beirut). She will speak on Music with a Message: Narratives of Gender, AIDS, Climate Change, and War and Peace and Listening to the
Read more →The thirteenth Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music, with resident ensemble, the Cassatt Quartet, has named composer Laura Kaminsky as artistic administrator. She will moderate conversations with guest composers John Corigliano and Joan Tower after each concert,
Read more →By ALLAN KOZINN of the New York Times, August 22, 2014 American Opera Projects, the adventurous Brooklyn company that has been commissioning, developing and staging new operas for a quarter century, has appointed Laura Kaminsky as its composer-in-residence,
Read more →Saturday Evening Gala Event August 9, 2014 at 8:00 pm Skirball Center Orchestra of St Luke’s Gordon Hunt and Milan Turkovic, conductors Program John Snow, oboe – Laura Kaminsky Oboe Concerto – World Premiere Pascal
Read more →New York, NY — OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce the first round of recipients of its new program: Opera Grants for Female Composers, made possible through the generosity
Read more →Adventures in the Not-For-Profit Cultural Industrial Complex, January 19, 2014 Chamber Music America Conference. Thank you, Cia. And thank you Margaret, for your leadership of Chamber Music America. I am deeply honored to be receiving my
Read more →New York, NY – Three ensembles and five presenters, including Symphony Space, have been selected to receive 2014 CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. The awards will be presented at the Chamber Music America National Conference on Sunday,
Read more →The New York Times, January 10, 2014 – Laura Kaminsky, the artistic director of Symphony Space since 2010, and the overseer of its music programming since 2006, said on Friday that she had resigned her position.
Read more →Nov 11, 2013 – Since the composer Laura Kaminsky became the institution’s artistic director in 2010, music has become more integral to its programming mission. “November 21,” conceived and produced in conjunction with the Hermitage Artist Retreat in
Read more →A conversation with Laura Kaminsky in two parts: in her office at Symphony Space in New York, and at her home studio in the Bronx, October 9. Read the full story and see the video
Read more →The Grand Canyon Project is a recording of new works for solo cello was commissioned by the cellist Rhonda Rider as part of her National Parks residency. Laura Kaminsky’s ‘The Great Unconformity’ begins with double
Read more →Albany Records is proud to announce the release of “The Music of Laura Kaminsky.” Repertoire includes “Vukovar Trio,” “Cadmium Yellow,” “Music for Artur,” “Duo for Cello and Piano,” “Transformations,” “Triftmusik” and “Wave Hill.” The music is performed
Read more →Every so often we have a conversation that changes us for the better. Sometimes, we have this type of conversation with our mothers, our fathers, our close friends and allies, our colleagues, or with an
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