Hersch’s powerful, wrenching music and Fleischmann’s austere libretto are fitting vehicles to capture the brutal violence of the classic story, mining the Medea story to explore profound questions of fate, vengeance, and remorse

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Composer Michael Hersch's setting underscores the profound psychological trauma at the heart of the tale with a characteristically powerful, bracing score

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The 21st Century Orchestra celebrates a project curated by the Brown University faculty composers with one of the country’s seminal large ensembles for contemporary music that asserts exciting paths for the future

The five works are heard in expert performances by one of the premiere symphonies devoted to modern music in the United States, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), led by Gil Rose

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On Book of Flowers, composer Adam Roberts reflects on the lineage of collections of music and the bond it cultivates with the performer. Roberts honors this tradition while taking it in his own direction, creating a work that revels in pianistic brilliance and intimate resonance

Performed by piano virtuoso Conrad Tao, Roberts explores an expansive range of expression and techniques on the keyboard, fashioning many short components into work of epic scope

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Ordway revels in ambiguity, drawing a fertile analogy to the creative process with the image of the "woods," an elemental domain that is at once foreign to those of us living in manmade environs but viscerally native to any creature whose roots trace back to our prehistoric forebears

Trumpeter Andy Kozar presents works that exist outside of the pulsing minimalist machine that has become associated with music for multiple iterations of one instrument. Kozar’s thoughtful curation is matched by his excellent performances across a wide range of music

Ordway focuses on resonance and emotional intensity, qualities which artistic director Beth Willer's Lorelei singers bring with unique skill to the genre of treble choirs