“Mr. Puts’s music was captivating from the start... it made even a Mahler symphony — something raw and searing in its own right — seem almost peripheral, a rare feat.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts has established himself as one of America’s leading composers, gaining international acclaim for his “plush, propulsive” music (The New York Times), and described by Opera News as “a master polystylist.”
He has been commissioned and performed by leading organizations around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Opera Philadelphia, Minnesota Opera, and many more, and has collaborated with world-class artists such as Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Marin Alsop, among others.
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For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: Oboe Concerto No. 2 "Moonlight"
With Katherine Needleman (oboe), Ji Su Jung (marimba), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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The Brightness of Light
“Text excerpts from the letters by Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz used and reprinted by permission of the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. All rights reserved.”
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Elizabeth Cree
Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s third opera collaboration, Elizabeth Cree, opened Opera Philadelphia’s 2017 season
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The City
Though inspired by the city of Baltimore, The City was intended as an exploration of many aspects of urban centers in America.
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If I Were A Swan
Fleda Brown’s beautiful If I Were A Swan is a poem I had originally intended as part of my large, multi-movement choral work To Touch the Sky (Nine Songs for Unaccompanied Chorus on Texts by Women); ultimately I decided it would succeed better on its own.
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“Puts never disappoints in terms of orchestral coloring."
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Three superstar divas power opera 'The Hours' - coming to movie theaters everywhere.
The new opera The Hours is based on a film directed by Stephen Daldry and a novel by Michael Cunningham, which itself is based on a book (Mrs. Dalloway) by Virginia Woolf. But it captures the material in a brand-new way.
The new opera The Hours is based on a film directed by Stephen Daldry and a novel by Michael Cunningham, which itself is based on a book (Mrs. Dalloway) by Virginia Woolf. But it captures the material in a brand-new way.
