MARC NEIKRUG
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Composer, Marc Neikrug, has had an international career for 30 years. He has written chamber music, symphonic music, music theater and opera.
Major performances have taken place with the New York, Los Angeles and Buffalo Philharmonics, as well as the symphonies in Pittsburgh, Houston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, New World (Miami), St. Louis, Washington DC, Chicago, Utah, Dallas, Phoenix, New Mexico, and the Minnesota and Cleveland orchestras. Abroad, his works have been performed by the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, the BBC Symphony, London Synfonietta, English Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Berlin Radio Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Lisbon Orchestra, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
Festival performances have been at Ravinia, Tanglewood, Hollywood Bowl, Aspen, Angel Fire, La Jolla, Marlboro, London’s South Bank, Aldeburgh, Berlin Festival, Franfurt Festival, Schleswig Holstein, Zurich, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Jerusalem.
Among noted musicians who have performed his music are Zubin Mehta, Loren Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph von Dohnanyi, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Lawrence Foster, Oliver Knussen, James Galway, Pinchas Zukerman, and the Emerson, Vermeer, Tokyo and Orion Quartets.
His music theater work, Through Roses, was commissioned by London’s South Bank Festival with the National Theater. Since its premiere in 1980 it has had hundreds of performances world wide and has been translated into 11 languages. There are two CD’s and a third is planned to be released in November 2008. There have also been two films produced, a documentary by Christopher Nupen, and a feature film directed by Jurgen Flimm and starring Maximilian Schell.
Through Roses continues to be regularly performed with productions for 2007/2008 in Osaka, Santa Fe, Ottawa, New York and London.
Los Alamos, a full length opera, is the only American opera ever commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Its American premiere was at the Aspen Music Festival.
Works can be heard on Deutsche Grammophon, Koch International, Stereophile, and Enya records. Publishers are Chester Music and Theodore Presser.
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Rosaceae for Band
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Chetro Ketl for Chamber Orchestra (Based on a fragment from Los Alamos)
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Concertino for Seven Instruments
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Continuum for Cello and Piano
Available From Composer
Kaleidoscope for Clarinet and Piano
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Mobile for Two Flutes, Oboe, Clarinet, Percussion, Piano and Strings
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Petrus for Cello and Piano (2001) -- 10'
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Commission Information: Manchester International Cello Festival and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Additional Information: Dedicated to Dr. Harry M. Brian
Available Separately:Score and parts (#114-41151)
Piano Quintet -- 22'
Solo Piano; 2Vln. Vla. Vcl.
Published: #114-41227
Available Separately:Full Score - Large (#114-41227S)
Set of parts (#114-41227P)
Quintet for Strings (1995) -- 22'
2Vln., 2Vla., Vcl.
Published: #114-40831
• Reviews
Available Separately:Full Score - Large (#114-40831S)
Sonata Concertante for Violin and Piano (1994)
Published: #114-40739
Movements:
• Blues
• Measured and Unmeasured
• Still Life
• Three Transformations, a March and a Scherzo
Stars the Mirror for String Quartet
Available From Composer
Los Alamos an Opera in Three Acts
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Through Roses Dramatic Work for an Actor and 8 Instruments
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Chetro Ketl for Orchestra (Based on a fragment from "Los Alamos")
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Clarinet Concerto (2004) -- 25'
Solo Cl.; 2 2 2 2 - 4 2 0 1; 4Perc. Pno.(Cel.) Hp. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra -- 21'
Solo Fl.; 3(Picc.) 3 3(B.Cl.) 3(Cbsn.) - 4 3 2 1; Timp. 4Perc. Pno. Hp. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Commission Information: Pittsburgh Symphony
Premiere Information: Pittsburgh Symphony, Loren Maazel, conductor, James Galway, flute; Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1989
• Reviews
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1995) -- 18'
Solo Pno.; 2 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 1; 2Perc., Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Premiere Information: The Alderburgh Festival by the London Symfonietta, conducted by Oliver Knussen, Marc Neikrug, piano
Concerto for Two Violins, Viola, Violoncello and Orchestra -- 16'
Solo Str. Quartet; 1 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 0; 3Perc. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Commission Information: St. Paul Chamber Otrchestra
Premiere Information: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, Mark Kaplan and Leslie Shank, violins, Lynn Ramsey, viola, Peter Howard, cello; Ordway Music Theater, St. Paul, MN and Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra (Departures and Remembrance) (1999) -- 20' 30"
Solo Vln.; 2 2 2 2 - 4 2 0 1; 3Perc.(Timp.) Pno. Hp. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Premiere Information: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marc Neikrug, conductor, Pinchas Zukerman, violin, February 26, 1999
Eternity's Sunrise for Orchestra
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Quintessence Symphony No. 2 (2007) -- 37'
3(d.Picc.) 3(d.E.H.) 3(d.B.Cl.) 3 - 4 3 3(B.Tbn.) 1; 3Perc.Cel. Hp. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Premiere Information: New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor March 13 and 15, 2008 Avery Fisher Hall, New York
Suite from "Los Alamos" for Orchestra
Available From Chester Music, Ltd.
Symphony No. 1 -- 24'
3(Picc.) 3(E.H.) 3(B.Cl.) 3(Cbsn.) - 4 3 3 1; Timp. 3Perc. Pno.(Cel.) Hp. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Commission Information: Houston Symphony
Premiere Information: Houston Symphony, Christopher Eschenbach, conductor; March 14, 1992
• Reviews
Nachtlieder for Soprano and Orchestra -- 18'
3(2Picc.) 3(E.H.) 3(B.Cl.) 3(Cbsn.) - 4 2 2 1; Timp. Perc. Pno.(Cel.) Hp. Str.
Available from the Presser Rental Library
Commission Information: Frankfurt Festival
Premiere Information: Rheinland Pfalz Symphony, Leif Segerstam, conductor, Ulrike Sonntag, soprano; Alte Opera, Frankfurt
Pueblo Children's Songs for Soprano and Piano (1995) -- 10'
Published: #111-40156
Commission Information: Soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, in celebration of the birth of her son
"The work proved appealing, spicing an approachable symmetry and logic with gnarled harmonies and a crabbed sort of lyricism. The Adagio offers colorful effects, the finale a jazzy interlude that avoids cliché by evolving slowly, inchoately… and under-staying its welcome."-James R. Oestreich, New York Times
"Neikrug's Flute Concerto is exciting not because of any inherent shock value, but because the composer has taken a traditional form and dressed it in original attire… only fear of flutes could relegate this new work to a dusty shelf."-Donald Rosenberg, The Pittsburgh Press"Neikrug has written a pleasingly euphonious and melodic new work, one that possesses considerable sonic felicities… And running a bit over 20 minutes, the piece hardly wears out its welcome."-Bill Zakariasen, Pittsburgh Daily News
"…a cyclic experience that provides the thematic material for all its sections and results in a very tightly conceived architecture. Like the Neikrug Violin Concerto… this symphony's melodic profile is often attractively lyrical. Its harmonic palette is even richer than the concerto, ranging freely but logically and imaginatively through the spectrum of consonance and dissonance."-Carl Cunningham, Houston Post
Page last updated February 26, 2008
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