American Composers Orchestra: October 29, 2025

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Carnegie Hall Presents

American Composers Orchestra

The New Virtuoso: For Art’s Sake

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7:30 PM Zankel Hall

Mélisse Brunet by Mothwing Photography, Lucy Fitz Gibbon by Steve Riskind, Daniel Rozin

Witness a groundbreaking concert of new works, new instruments, and more, performed by one of the most prolific new-music presenters in Carnegie Hall history. The American Composers Orchestra is an astonishingly versatile ensemble, and this program invites five visionary composers to explore the vast possibilities they represent. Discover the musical inspiration each composer has found—or newly expressed—in such wide-ranging sources as electronically collected dream data; sonically reactive, moving sculptures; graphic music scoring; art history; gestural conduction; and the creation of new, culturally informed instruments.

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Performers

American Composers Orchestra
Mélisse Brunet, Conductor
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Daniel Rozin, Interactive Kinetic Sculpture

Program

AARON ISRAEL LEVIN Lear in the storm (World Premiere)

MAZZ SWIFT Memory FIVE: Freedom Initiate for Conductrix and Orchestra (World Premiere)

RAVEN CHACON Inscription (NY Premiere)

ELIJAH DANIEL SMITH The Fall of Ideals (World Premiere)

TAMAR MUSKAL Square Off for Voice, Interactive Kinetic Sculpture, and Orchestra (World Premiere)

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately 90 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.

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Bios

American Composers Orchestra

In 1977, a collective of fearless New York City musicians came together to form the American Composers Orchestra (ACO), an ensemble dedicated to the creation, celebration, performance, and ...

Mélisse Brunet

American conductor Mélisse Brunet is a native of Paris with Spanish and Italian roots who is gaining recognition on both sides of the Atlantic for her inspiring leadership and ...

Lucy Fitz Gibbon

Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (The Boston Globe), soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to the present. She believes ...

Daniel Rozin

Artist and educator Daniel Rozin is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in digital and kinetic interactive art. Working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, ...

Daniel Kramer

Daniel Kramer is the former artistic director of the English National Opera, creative associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, associate of the Young Vic and Gate Theatre (London), and a ...