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West Edge Opera Announces “Jacqueline”, by Luna Pearl Woolf and Royce Vavrek, as part of their 2024 summer festival

Press Contact: Emilie Whelan | Director of Advancement | emilie@westedgeopera.org WEST EDGE OPERA ANNOUNCES JACQUELINE, BY LUNA PEARL WOOLF AND ROYCE VAVREK AND STARRING MARNIE BRECKENRIDGE AND MATT HAIMOWITZ, AS A PART OF THE SUMMER FESTIVAL 2024 AT THE OAKLAND SCOTTISH RITE CENTER Jacqueline completes the 2024 season, presented alongside the world premiere of … Continue reading

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Songha Choi awarded best performance of Luna Pearl Woolf’s “l’Inconnu.e bouleversant.e”

The Concours musical international de Montréal has awarded its prizes and awards to the laureates and winners of Violin 2023. Oxingale Music is proud of all the amazing semi-finalists who presented impressive performances of the imposed Canadian work: Luna Pearl … Continue reading

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Oxingale Music Releases PRIMAVERA I: THE WIND

Oxingale Music  announces the publication of  PRIMAVERA I: THE WIND The first in a series of multi-score compilations featuring new commissions for solo cello by composers  Lisa Bielawa, inti figgis-vizueta, Jake Heggie, Vijay Iyer, David T. Little, Tod Machover, Nkeiru … Continue reading

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Luna Pearl Woolf’s New Work Announced as the Canadian Work for the 2023 Concours Musical International de Montréal

Dear friends of the CMIM, On this International Women’s Day, we are delighted to announce the imposed Canadian work for the Violin 2023 edition, by Canadian-American composer Luna Pearl Woolf. “L’inconnu.e bouleversant.e” (loosely translated as “An Astonishing Stranger”) is a … Continue reading

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WE’RE HIRING! Sibelius Music Engraver/Editor – Part Time

2023-04-24 This position is now filled. Oxingale Music seeks Sibelius Music Engraver/Editor 

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IN MEMORIAM: Lewis Spratlan

From our Oxingale Music founder, Luna Pearl Woolf: Last Thursday [February 9, 2023], we lost a major figure in the compositional world when composer Lewis Spratlan passed away… and I’m still processing. When I was 16 years old, my local … Continue reading

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Review: All-Spratlan Album, “Invasion”

Fanfare ArchiveBy: Colin Clarke Subtitled “Music and Art for Ukraine,” the sentiments on this disc certainly tap into a profound humanitarianism. If anything will inspire musicians, it is injustice and catastrophe. A selection of paintings by Ukrainian artists adorn the … Continue reading

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Album Review: Lewis Spratlan’s Invasion

Fanfare MagazineOctober 2022 by Huntley Dent

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Lewis Spratlan’s newest album INVASION: MUSIC AND ART FOR UKRAINE is released

Release Date: September 23, 2022

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A musical melting pot: Composer David Sanford brings the eclectic sounds of his Big Band to Florence

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Review: Collectif9 – Vagues et Ombres

One of Luna Pearl Woolf‘s newest works, Contact, and some of Thibault Bertin-Maghit’s arrangements are featured on this great album!

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Album Release: Collectif9’s “Vagues et ombres”

The Violin Channel: Classical Music News OUT NOW | Ensemble Collectif9’s “Vagues et ombres” Featuring arrangements by Thibault Bertin-Maghit and one of composer Luna Pearl Woolf‘s most recent compositions, Contact.

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The New York Times | David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t.

Few composers have broader stylistic reach. But on a new album, “A Prayer for Lester Bowie,” he makes it all cohere. By Seth Colter Walls Oct. 15, 2021 It’s not a big mystery why David Sanford’s energetic, well-crafted music has stayed … Continue reading

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M@A Presents: BMOP’s “Lew Spratlan and Friends”

Join the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project in celebrating Lew Spratlan‘s 80th Birthday year! The composer’s subtle and substantive “Chamber Symphony,” is presented alongside music by composers from Amherst and beyond. Lew Spratlan taught at Amherst College from 1970 until … Continue reading

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Ludwig van Toronto: Emotional Power and Bravura Performance in Tapestry Opera’s JACQUELINE

“kudos to Woolf for her beautiful musical idiom and her brilliant execution” Continue reading

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Opera Going Toronto reviews WOOLF’s JACQUELINE

Written by Ian Ritchie February 2020 Jacqueline du Pré, legendary golden-haired young cellist, unrivalled heir apparent to Casals and Rostropovich, inhabited a life transformed by multiple narrators after her death in 1987 into an almost mythical saga. A relentless surge … Continue reading

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SCHMOPERA reviews WOOLF’s JACQUELINE: COME FOR THE MUSIC, STAY FOR EVERYTHING ELSE

Written by Michael Zarathus-Cook February 23, 2020 Tapestry Opera continues their 40th anniversary season with Jacqueline, a commission for Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek and American composer Luna Pearl Woolf; the end result, directed by Tapestry Artistic Director Michael Mori, is something … Continue reading

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The Whole Note: Luna Pearl Woolf’s FIRE and FLOOD

This month Tapestry presents the world premiere of American composer Luna Pearl Woolf’s latest opera, Jacqueline. Coinciding with this is the Pentatone release of Woolf’s Fire and Flood on the Oxingale label (PTC5186803 naxosdirect.com). This striking vocal disc features mostly recent works for a cappella choir (the Choir … Continue reading

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Lewis Spratlan’s Bangladesh featured on Grammy winning album The Poetry of Places

We are excited to announce that Lewis Spratlan’s, Bangladesh, is one of the world premiere recordings featured on Nadia Shpachenko’s album The Poetry of Places, which was bestowed with the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium. Victor and Marina … Continue reading

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Calgary Herald: Evelyn Glennie and Land’s End Ensemble provide spectacular evening

“Woolf seems to have carefully considered the relationship of physicality to the performers’ bodies, for example their height, physical performance characteristics and their physical relationship with the instrument. Set in shards of imitative Bach cello suite fragments, and buttressed with … Continue reading

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