EOS Ensemble

The EOS Orchestra very quickly established a reputation among the leading American orchestras focusing on new, unusual, and neglected repertory. The orchestra’s founder was conductor/composer Jonathan Scheffer, a indigenous New Yorker who went to Harvard University, learning with Leonard Bernstein and Leon Kirchner. While there he published the original Hasty Pudding Display. While carrying on his musical research at Juilliard in NY with Renée Longy and Michael Czajkowski he started working like a pianist and trainer in NY Theater. This resulted in film composing, which needed him to consider up performing. After documenting three soundtracks using the Seattle Symphony Orchestra he used concert symphonic performing, debuting using the NORTH PARK Symphony in 1991, was associate to Michael Tilson Thomas using the London Symphony Orchestra and L’Orchestre Country wide de France in 1992, and acquired further research with Jorma Panula, Tsung Yeh, Yuri Simonov, and Harold Farberman, and executed various major nationwide and worldwide orchestras. He founded the EOS Orchestra in 1995, getting its Artistic Movie director. The orchestra’s concentrate is certainly on innovative coding, collaborating with various other creative disciplines besides music, creating a different audience, as well as the breakthrough of new functions and rediscovery of neglected types. Its initial three concerts, Sept 19-21 1995, had been on the functions of American composer-novelist Paul Bowles, including some functions by various other composers and choreography. The orchestra set up once again on July 15, 1996 by invitation to seem on the Lincoln Middle Festival of this calendar year within a “Hyperinstruments Trilogy” (Hyperinstruments are musical equipment with include receptors and telemetry so the participant can, while playing, also present command to computer systems to generate extra sounds or even to alter the digital output from the device itself. In 1996 EOS Orchestra started playing a normal subscription group of around five concerts a calendar year. The orchestra’s concerts and occasionally brief concert series are nearly always based on a style. These possess included such topics as “Music Created for [Choreographer] Merce Cunningham,” “Minimalism as well as the Baroque,” “The Concerto Grosso from Corelli to Schnittke,” “Music Constructed for the 1939 World’s Good,” and “Six Ten-Minute Operas.” The orchestra itself is constructed of up to sixty-five from the leading freelance music artists of NEW YORK. It normally performs at the brand new York Culture for Ethical Lifestyle Auditorium or at Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Middle. It has produced four recordings over the RCA Victor label: “Music of Paul Bowles,” “Music for Merce,” “George Gershwin: Functions for Piano and Orchestra,” and “Celluloid Copland,” a couple of three Copland film ratings never previously documented for home hearing. It has made an appearance on NPR’s Functionality Today and on the Arts & Entertainment wire route and, in November 2000 was planned to seem on PBS within an all-Copland concert. The EOS Orchestra provides played on the While Home, and provides received the Japan Music Prize. It is usual for EOS Orchestra concerts to add visual performance components. Furthermore to undertaking its concerts, the business also released books of essays and pictures on a few of its musical topics. In 1999, it documented the score towards the MGM film Perfect starring Robert DeNiro. Within its educational outreach system it opens a few of its rehearsals in Manhattan and Queens to college classes. It really is backed by efforts from over 400 donors, like the Country wide Endowment for the Arts, The Aaron Copland Account for Music, the Virgil Thomson Basis, THE BRAND NEW York Condition Council within the Arts and the brand new York City Division of Cultural Affairs, BBC Music Journal, as well as the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.