News
Dec.14, 2011
“Nicholas DeMaison … and flutist Amelia Lukas performed with grace and solemnity, holding the audience in breathless suspension for the entire three hours. Mr.DeMaison displayed fluidity and dexterity, and his voicings of Feldman’s trance-like chords were spine-tingling.“
“Nicholas DeMaison … and flutist Amelia Lukas performed with grace and solemnity, holding the audience in breathless suspension for the entire three hours. Mr.DeMaison displayed fluidity and dexterity, and his voicings of Feldman’s trance-like chords were spine-tingling.“
Reviews of Ensemble Sospeso’s come back on the Darmstadt Essential Repertoire Series at Issue Project Room.
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Dec.6, 2011
Allan Kozinn of the New York Times calls Ensemble Moto Perpetuo’s debut concert at the DiMenna Center “consistently invigorating.”
Concert photos available compliments of Henceforth Records.
Nov.10, 2011
Seen & Heard International calls Pocket Opera New York’s Le Pauvre Matelot “enchanted.”
Oct.27, 2011
Rehearsal photos from James Ilgenfritz’s The Ticket That Exploded
Ongoing through 2011
Nicholas DeMaison will act as Music Supervisor
for the upcoming production of Peter and the Wolf.
Created by live animation team, Giants Are Small
Directed by Doug Fitch
About Nicholas DeMaison
Nicholas DeMaison is a highly regarded interpreter of new music and contemporary opera. A composer and conductor, he also serves as Music Supervisor for the critically acclaimed production company Giants Are Small, which received national acclaim for their stagings of Ligeti’s ‘Le Grand Macabre’ and Janáček’s ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ with the New York Philharmonic. For the latter, the Philharmonic commissioned DeMaison to contribute an original electronic soundscape for Avery Fisher Hall.
He has conducted premieres and led recording projects of new pieces by over forty living composers (including Lewis Nielson, Reiko Füting, NIcholas Deyoe, James Ilgenfritz and Philippe Manoury), and was founding Music Director of Chicago’s Opera Cabal, called “Chicago’s most daring opera company” (Chicago Magazine). DeMaison’s own music has been described as “emotionally provocative” (Time Out NY) and “faster and blippier…both ominous and playful at the same time” (Lucid Culture).
This season he will conduct new productions of Milhaud’s ‘Le Pauvre Matelot’ and Poulenc’s ‘La Voix Humaine’ with Pocket Opera New York, the premiere of James Ilgenfritz’s opera ‘The Ticket That Exploded’ (based on the writings of William S. Burroughs), a new production of Georges Aperghis’s ‘L’origine des espèces’ and a revival of his own opera, ‘Ursularia’.
Nicholas is currently the Artistic Director of Ensemble Sospeso, one of New York’s most dynamic chamber orchestras, called “stunning” (New York Times), “a wonder to watch” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeously rich” (Village Voice), and Music Director of New York’s Florilegium Chamber Choir. Previous appointments have included positions with the La Jolla Symphony and the South Hadley Chorale and Orchestra.
…..producing partners have included The Nonsense Company, High Concept Laboratories, Galapagos, Zhou B Art Center, The Tank NYC, Curtiss Hall / Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, Riverside Theatre, Columbia Stages, AVaerie , Ché Café Collective, and Cafe Orwell
for the upcoming production of Peter and the Wolf.
Directed by Doug Fitch
