Kravis Emerging Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Philharmonic Commission, Metacosmos, Set for April World Premiere

The new year is kicking off busily for New York Philharmonic Kravis Emerging Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Fresh on the heels of having a piece on one of NPR Music’s Top 10 Classical Albums of 2017, her Ró will be performed by Philharmonic musicians at Monday’s CONTACT! concert at National Sawdust, alongside works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Ashley Fure, Du Yun, and Fernanda Aoki Navarro.

After this amuse-bouche, don’t miss the main course on April 4–6: the World Premiere of Metacosmos, Thorvaldsdottir’s Philharmonic orchestral commission, conducted by Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The composer writes:

Metacosmos is constructed around the natural balance between beauty and chaos — how elements can come together in (seemingly) utter chaos to create a unified, structured whole. The idea and inspiration behind the piece is the speculative metaphor of falling into a black hole – the unknown – with endless constellations and layers of opposing forces connecting and communicating with each other, expanding and contracting, projecting a struggle for power as the different sources pull on you and you realize that you are being drawn into a force that is beyond your control.” 

It's been a wonderful journey to write the new piece for the @nyphil –
looking forward to the premiere in April with @esapekkasalonen pic.twitter.com/5HWlqiXTjE

— Anna Thorvaldsdottir (@annathorvalds) September 15, 2017

Ditto!