Pulitzer Prize winning composer Kevin Puts offers advice for young composers: find out who you are and do that. Tune out the noise. It’s an inspiring segment that all young composers should watch!
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his debut opera Silent Night, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. Critically acclaimed for his distinctive and richly colored musical voice, Puts’ impressive body of work includes four symphonies as well as several concertos written for some of today’s top soloists. His newest work, The City (Symphony No. 5), co-commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in honor of its 100th anniversary and by Carnegie Hall in honor of their 125th anniversary, will receive its premiere in Baltimore and New York in April 2016.
Matt Haimovitz is redefining what it means to be a musician in the twenty-first century. In this segment with Noted Endeavors founders, Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson, Matt tells the story of how he started the movement of classical musicians performing at alternative venues.
Haimovitz made his debut in 1984, at the age of 13, as soloist with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. At 17 he made his first recording with James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for Deutsche Grammophon. Haimovitz has since gone on to perform on the world’s most esteemed stages, with such orchestras and conductors as the Berlin Philharmonic with Levine, the New York Philharmonic with Mehta, the English Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano. Haimovitz made his Carnegie Hall debut when he substituted for his teacher, the legendary Leonard Rose, in Schubert’s String Quintet in C, alongside Isaac Stern, Shlomo Mintz, Pinchas Zukerman and Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 2000, he made waves with his Bach “Listening-Room” Tour, for which, to great acclaim, Haimovitz took Bach’s beloved cello suites out of the concert hall and into clubs across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Haimovitz’s 50-state Anthem tour in 2003 celebrated living American composers, and featured his own arrangement of Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner.” He was the first classical artist to play at New York’s infamous CBGB club, in a performance filmed by ABC News for “Nightline UpClose.” Soon thereafter, Haimovitz launched Oxingale Records with his wife, composer Luna Pearl Woolf. Oxingale records have since received wide acclaim for its stunning recordings.
If you hire a publicist, you’ll be the next Yo-Yo Ma, right? In this third installment of the publicist series (Watch Part 1 and Part 2), publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses what you outcomes you can expect when hiring a publicist. With Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson.
Steven Swartz is the founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, which offers public relations services to individuals and organizations in the new music field. Steven’s background includes journalism, radio, the recording industry and PR. He previously spent 16 years as the director of publicity at Boosey & Hawkes. Along with Sarah Baird Knight, his partner in the firm, Steven’s integrated approach to publicity builds careers and audiences through increased visibility and enhanced presentation. As he says, “There’s a galaxy of voices clamoring for attention, and DOTDOTDOTMUSIC helps artists cut through the noise.”
For more about DOTDOTDOTMUSIC and Steven Swartz, go to: DOTDOTDOTMUSIC.net
We’ve all wondered, “What exactly does a publicist do?” In this second installment of the publicist series, publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses this with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson.
Steven Swartz is the founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, which offers public relations services to individuals and organizations in the new music field. Steven’s background includes journalism, radio, the recording industry and PR. He previously spent 16 years as the director of publicity at Boosey & Hawkes. Along with Sarah Baird Knight, his partner in the firm, Steven’s integrated approach to publicity builds careers and audiences through increased visibility and enhanced presentation. As he says, “There’s a galaxy of voices clamoring for attention, and DOTDOTDOTMUSIC helps artists cut through the noise.”
When is the right time to invest in a publicist? Publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses this with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson.
Steven Swartz is the founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, which offers public relations services to individuals and organizations in the new music field. Steven’s background includes journalism, radio, the recording industry and PR. He previously spent 16 years as the director of publicity at Boosey & Hawkes. Along with Sarah Baird Knight, his partner in the firm, Steven’s integrated approach to publicity builds careers and audiences through increased visibility and enhanced presentation. As he says, “There’s a galaxy of voices clamoring for attention, and DOTDOTDOTMUSIC helps artists cut through the noise.”
For more about DOTDOTDOTMUSIC and Steven Swartz, go to: DOTDOTDOTMUSIC.net
