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Dawn To Dust Composer Andrew Norman Named Composer of the Year!
Musical America names Dawn To Dust composer Andrew Norman their 2017 Composer of the Year! “He has likened his start-and-stop rhythms and rapid-fire exchanges to video games, YouTube playback, and other digital-age phenomena. It is a voice singularly his own, and several major commissions from leading orchestras and soloists of our time have vindicated his vision. Contemporary composers often find themselves caught between two groups that stand in stark opposition to each other. On one…
Dawn To Dust “A Valuable Addition”
Classical Voice North America are fans of Andrew Norman and his new work Switch recorded by the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer on Dawn To Dust: “[Dawn To Dust] sets off into new territory with three commissioned pieces that the Utah Symphony performed and recorded last year.…Switch, by the omnipresent Andrew Norman, is the longest and most interesting piece here, virtually a percussion concerto for the nimble hands of Colin Currie, who is kept very…
The Wall Street Journal Features Utah Symphony and “Switch”
The Wall Street Journal published a double-review of recent percussion concerto performances and featured the Utah Symphony and Colin Currie’s performance of Andrew Norman’s Switch at Carnegie Hall: “…the Utah Symphony and its music director, Thierry Fischer, presented Mr. Norman’s “Switch,” with Mr. Currie as the intrepid, energetic soloist. When the concerto began, the percussionist was nowhere in sight. A few minutes later, he bounded onstage from the auditorium and began his solo perambulations, moving…
New York Times Reviews Utah Symphony at Carnegie Hall!
The New York Times reviews the Utah Symphony’s Friday night performance and the “Switch” New York Premiere at Carnegie Hall! “The inspired players excelled in an ambitious program that featured the New York premiere of Andrew Norman’s ‘Switch,’ one of several recent Utah Symphony commissions. … ‘Switch’ explores nonlinear, narrative-scrambling techniques borrowed from video games. His restless music gurgles and explodes in often fragmented phrases, leaping breathlessly from one thing to another. ‘Switch’ actually begins…
Andrew Norman’s “Switch” A Game of Control
The Utah Symphony’s Dawn To Dust release features three new world premieres. Find out about Andrew Norman’s work Switch and watch/listen to a preview from the Utah Symphony: Andrew Norman © Jessa Anderson During rehearsals for the premiere performances of Switch, Colin Currie gave me an amazing metaphor for the piece. He said that playing Switch feels like being trapped (in the best possible way) inside a giant pinball machine. It’s an apt image for…
The Utah Symphony 75th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall!
Thierry FischerPhoto Credit: Kousaku Nakagawa The Utah Symphony and music director Thierry Fischer perform at Carnegie Hall April 29th in a concert celebrating the orchestra’s 75th anniversary. The program features the New York premiere of American composer Andrew Norman’s Percussion Concerto, Switch, with Scottish soloist Colin Currie, commissioned by the Utah Symphony and Mr. Fischer, and includes Haydn’s Symphony No. 96 in D major, “Miracle,” Bartók’s Suite from the Miraculous Mandarin, and selections from the…