A review from the Houston Chronicle, following the premiere of the new Kaminsky-Campbell-Reed opera, writes: “Some Light Emerges, the new opera commissioned by Houston Grand Opera through its community collaborative initiative, dives right into Rothko
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[In “Some Light Emerges”] Kaminsky has a knack for making characters sound real even while singing operatic lines. Director Robin Guarino’s fluent staging helped all (the characters’) human traits come across. Conductor Bradley Moore and
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Since its earliest days, 5BMF’s artistic programming has maintained a particular focus on the emergence of new music in New York City, regardless of genre. This dedication, coupled with our mission to celebrate the city
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AOP Composer-in-Residence Laura Kaminsky receives gold medal of honor from the President of Poland NEW YORK – On Wednesday, May 4th, our beloved Composer-in-Residence Laura Kaminsky was decorated with the Złoty Krzyż Zasługi (Gold Cross of Merit)
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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:
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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