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The 2019–20 season concludes with three weeks that shine a light on three hotspots
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of classical music innovation: Berlin, Reykjavík, and New York.
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Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic present the hotspots festival, featuring
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World Premieres by Berlin-based Olga Neuwirth,
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Nico Muhly, co-founder of Reykjavík's Bedroom Community collective,
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and Sarah Kirkland Snider co-founder of the New York–based New Amsterdam Records.
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"It's a very vivid city.
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It's full of different kinds of people from all over the world and all these different
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kinds of aesthetics in all the art forms.
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So of course it's an exciting hotspot and I am very honored to have received this commission
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by the New York Philharmonic, under the baton of John Adams."
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"When we started talking about this program, I immediately thought of Olga Neuwirth.
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I guess we have American mavericks, and she's an Austrian maverick."
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"I've loved working in Reykjavík so much because there's a sense of rigor and a sense
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of community and a sense of 'Let's experiment with this for a second.'
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And I think work is being made in every possible context, and that to me is just really thrilling."
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"I think it's very open to all aesthetics.
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It's diverse in its embrace of all different kinds of musical perspectives.
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There are so many different concert series and
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different kinds of venues, and there's a network
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you can really plug into."
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Each composer will curate a new-music program as part of the Nightcap series, hosted by
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Nadia Sirota.
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"Sarah [Kirkland Snider] is an incredible citizen of the contemporary music community.
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And not only that, her music is poignant and brilliant and touching and does such cool stuff.
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Nico Muhly is fast-talking, whip-smart, works incredibly hard.
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Sometimes his music sounds like being on a 15-lane highway where everyone is trying to
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merge and change lanes all at the same time, but somehow it elegantly and beautifully happens,
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and then there's, like, a sunset."
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"Olga Neuwirth is writing some really incredible, sort of textural, toothy music.
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It's going to be great not just to hear her big, symphony stuff, but also kind
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of get a more intimate view as to what makes her tick and what's going on in her brain."
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hotspots will also include a concert exploring the avant-garde in Berlin as part of the Sound ON series.
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hotspots will be an international tour of today's new-music scene,
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right here, in and around Lincoln Center.
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Your guides?
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Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic.
