Described by The New Yorker as a composer of “fearless eloquence,” Louis Karchin has been honored with performances of his music throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East. His Chamber Symphony was presented in August, 2011 on Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music in Seiji Ozawa Hall (with the composer conducting), and his first opera, Romulus, released by Naxos Records in 2011 has garnered notable press attention internationally, with Opera News writing in a feature review, “It announces its originality right out of the gate…and sustains it through to the very end of its seventy-two-minute running time.” Mr. Karchin is currently at work on a second opera, recently showcased both by the Ft. Worth Opera, and the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York.

The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 2011-12, Mr. Karchin was honored in May of 2012 with the inaugural Andrew Imbrie Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additional recognition has included awards from the Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Fromm Foundations, the American Academy’s Goddard Lieberson and Walter N. Hinrichsen Awards, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. His music is recorded on Naxos, New World, Albany and CRI labels, and is published by C. F. Peters Corporation and the American Composers Alliance. A frequent conductor of new music, Mr. Karchin co-founded the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and with them has conducted world or New York premieres by Elliott Carter, Arthur Kreiger, Missy Mazzoli, David Rakowski, and Shulamit Ran, among many others. He is Professor of Music at New York University.

This concert is part of a series of free concerts and master classes California Summer Music will present this July at Sonoma State’s Green Music Center.

Presented by California Summer Music