N e w s & U p d a t e s
7/10/17
Hilary is thrilled to be the winner of the 2017 Underwood Commission from the American Composers Orchestra! “Hilary Purrington’s music spoke in a highly personal voice,” said ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel. “Her work unfolded assuredly, revealing an orchestral palette at once austere and lyrical.” Read the complete press release here!
6/26/17
Check out some photos from this year's Underwood New Music Readings! The American Composers Orchestra, conducted by George Manahan, read and recorded Likely Pictures in Haphazard Sky (2016).
5/12/2017
Hilary has been chosen to participate in the 2017 Underwood New Music Readings in June! Read more in the press release.
5/9/2017
Hilary recently received awards at the annual Yale School of Music Honors Dinner! Read more about the event here.
5/4/2017
Hilary has been selected to participate in the 2017 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute! Read more about it here.
4/25/2017
Check out this article about the recent premiere of A Clarion Call, a new song cycle for baritone and chamber ensemble!
3/22/2017
The Bowers-Fader Duo will be giving soft premieres of Places among the stars and Three little birds for mezzo-soprano and guitar this Friday, 3/24 at 8pm! You can watch the performance live here.
3/9/2017
Hilary has been selected to compose a new work for the New York Youth Symphony! The piece will open the NYYS's 2017-18 season. Read more here!
3/1/2017
Hilary is the recipient of a 2017 Charles Ives Scholarship awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters! Read the full press release here.
2/1/2017
Hilary is featured as a Composer of the Month on the Washington Square Winds website! This May, WSW will premiere Stress & Sunshine, a New York City-inspired work for wind quintet.
1/10/2017
The Portland Press Herald reviews the ChoralART Camerata's "Epiphany Celebration" concert, which featured the premiere of "Ring out, wild bells"! "Tennyson’s imagery and Purrington’s ear-catching setting give the piece an appealing, carol-like surface, but its real appeal is in the sophistication and subtlety of its inner rhythms, which have the choir’s sections singing at different speeds but remaining tightly interwoven." Read the full review here!
12/12/2016
Listen to the complete recording of the Yale Philharmonia's premiere of Likely Pictures in Haphazard Sky here!
10/27/2016
Hilary wins the 2016 ChoralArt New England Carol Competition! The ChoralArt Camerata of Portland, ME will premiere Ring out, wild bells for SATB choir in January 2017. Learn more about ChoralArt and their annual competition here!
8/29/2016
Cassandra is featured on Composers Circle! Listen here.
6/25/2016
Click here to listen to Cassandra, a new work for women's choir, piano, and percussion quartet! Cassandra was commissioned in 2015 by the Melodia Women's Choir of NYC.
5/27/2016
Check out the New York Times review of New Music New Haven's performance in the NY Phil Biennial! "In 'For your judicious and pious consideration,' Hilary Purrington (a Yale student) adapted excerpts from a 1692 petition by Mary Eastey, executed in the Salem witch trials. Scored for mezzo-soprano (Adele Grabowski), piano (Yevgeny Yontov) and viola (Julia Clancy), the text was delivered by Ms. Grabowski with expressive conviction and Ms. Clancy vividly rendered the agitated viola solos." Read the full review here!
5/24/2016
New Music New Haven performs tomorrow evening in the NY Phil Biennial! The concert will include the world premiere of For your judicious and pious consideration, a new piece for mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano. Visit the Events page for more information, or livestream the concert here!
5/11/2016
Come out to Lincoln Center this evening for Insights at the Atrium, part of the NY Phil Biennial! Music director Alan Gilbert sits down with artists from across the new-music spectrum to preview highlights from the festival. Learn more here!
5/9/2016
Hilary Purrington discusses "Cassandra," a new commission for the Melodia Women's Choir of NYC, with conductor Cynthia Powell, founder Jenny Clarke, and mythology expert Laura Shamas! Listen to conversation on Blog Talk Radio. Melodia will premiere "Cassandra" on May 14 - visit the Events page for more information!
4/23/2016
"As a female composer writing for women, I found it fitting to create a work that tells a story about an extraordinary woman," said Purrington. "Everyone thought there was something 'wrong' with Cassandra, but, in fact, she was just a victim of her time....I like to imagine her as formidably intelligent and outspoken, a woman millennia ahead of her time." Click here for the full article about the upcoming premiere of Cassandra, a new choral work commissioned by the Melodia Women's Choir of NYC!
2/1/2016
Check out the Events page for several upcoming performances!
12/8/2015
Watch a sneak preview of A Sound Soul in a Sound Body for amplified harpsichord & percussion quartet, commissioned by Robert Fleitz in 2015! He will be premiering the new work on Thursday, 12/17. More information here!
10/6/2015
New recordings have been added to the Listen page! Check out a clip from the Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble's premiere of With reluctant morning eyes.
9/15/2015
Hilary wins the 2015 Melodia Women's Choir Commissioning Competition! She will be working on a new piece for women's choir, piano, and percussion, to be premiered in May 2016 in New York, NY.
www.melodiawomenschoir.org
4/15/2015
Hilary Purrington is selected in the Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble's 2015 Composer Search! They will commission a new work from her, to be premiered on June 5, 2015.
http://mcensemble.org
3/23/2015
Consider supporting the NOVUS Trombone Quartet! The group is raising money to record its second studio album, which will include Hilary Purrington’s Events and their horizons. Click here for more information!
1/14/2015
Extraordinary Flora is featured today on Composers Circle! Listen here.
1/10/2015
Upcoming premiere! Robert Fleitz will premiere Wrung and snapt for solo piano on 1/10/15. See the Events page for more info!
12/10/2014
New recordings have been uploaded! Visit the Listen page to hear Extraordinary Flora, a new work for orchestra.
8/13/2014
...and Fate turns on a light is currently a featured piece on the National Federation of Music Clubs home page! Listen here.
6/19/2014
Hilary wins the 2014 Ruth and Emil Beyer Composition Award, given by the National Federation of Music Clubs! The winning piece, ...and Fate turns on a light, was composed for the 2013 Norfolk New Music Ensemble, and premiered in June 2013.
5/15/2014
New pieces have been added to the Listen page! Check out excerpts from ...and Fate turns on a light (2013, for mixed chamber ensemble) and Sung from a mechanical cloud (2013, for large orchestra).
3/10/2014
Hilary wins the 2014 Chicago Harp Quartet Composition Competition! She will compose a new work for the Chicago Harp Quartet, to be premiered in their 2014-2015 season.
http://chicagoharpquartet.com/
3/2/2014
“Siren” from Mean Reds for solo viola wins 2nd place in the 2014 MA American String Teachers Association Composition Competition! Mean Reds, a four-movement solo work, was commissioned in 2013 by violist Jordan Warmath, and will be premiered in Spring 2014.
http://www.maasta.org/2nd-annual-composition-competition.html
2/28/2014
The NOVUS Trombone Quartet will premiere Events and their horizons at the 2014 Eastern Trombone Workshop on March 19, 2014. Events and their horizons was commissioned for the NOVUS Trombone Quartet by Dr. John N. Landis II.
Find more information at:
http://novus4tet.com/
http://www.usarmyband.com/trombone/
Hilary is thrilled to be the winner of the 2017 Underwood Commission from the American Composers Orchestra! “Hilary Purrington’s music spoke in a highly personal voice,” said ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel. “Her work unfolded assuredly, revealing an orchestral palette at once austere and lyrical.” Read the complete press release here!
6/26/17
Check out some photos from this year's Underwood New Music Readings! The American Composers Orchestra, conducted by George Manahan, read and recorded Likely Pictures in Haphazard Sky (2016).
5/12/2017
Hilary has been chosen to participate in the 2017 Underwood New Music Readings in June! Read more in the press release.
5/9/2017
Hilary recently received awards at the annual Yale School of Music Honors Dinner! Read more about the event here.
5/4/2017
Hilary has been selected to participate in the 2017 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute! Read more about it here.
4/25/2017
Check out this article about the recent premiere of A Clarion Call, a new song cycle for baritone and chamber ensemble!
3/22/2017
The Bowers-Fader Duo will be giving soft premieres of Places among the stars and Three little birds for mezzo-soprano and guitar this Friday, 3/24 at 8pm! You can watch the performance live here.
3/9/2017
Hilary has been selected to compose a new work for the New York Youth Symphony! The piece will open the NYYS's 2017-18 season. Read more here!
3/1/2017
Hilary is the recipient of a 2017 Charles Ives Scholarship awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters! Read the full press release here.
2/1/2017
Hilary is featured as a Composer of the Month on the Washington Square Winds website! This May, WSW will premiere Stress & Sunshine, a New York City-inspired work for wind quintet.
1/10/2017
The Portland Press Herald reviews the ChoralART Camerata's "Epiphany Celebration" concert, which featured the premiere of "Ring out, wild bells"! "Tennyson’s imagery and Purrington’s ear-catching setting give the piece an appealing, carol-like surface, but its real appeal is in the sophistication and subtlety of its inner rhythms, which have the choir’s sections singing at different speeds but remaining tightly interwoven." Read the full review here!
12/12/2016
Listen to the complete recording of the Yale Philharmonia's premiere of Likely Pictures in Haphazard Sky here!
10/27/2016
Hilary wins the 2016 ChoralArt New England Carol Competition! The ChoralArt Camerata of Portland, ME will premiere Ring out, wild bells for SATB choir in January 2017. Learn more about ChoralArt and their annual competition here!
8/29/2016
Cassandra is featured on Composers Circle! Listen here.
6/25/2016
Click here to listen to Cassandra, a new work for women's choir, piano, and percussion quartet! Cassandra was commissioned in 2015 by the Melodia Women's Choir of NYC.
5/27/2016
Check out the New York Times review of New Music New Haven's performance in the NY Phil Biennial! "In 'For your judicious and pious consideration,' Hilary Purrington (a Yale student) adapted excerpts from a 1692 petition by Mary Eastey, executed in the Salem witch trials. Scored for mezzo-soprano (Adele Grabowski), piano (Yevgeny Yontov) and viola (Julia Clancy), the text was delivered by Ms. Grabowski with expressive conviction and Ms. Clancy vividly rendered the agitated viola solos." Read the full review here!
5/24/2016
New Music New Haven performs tomorrow evening in the NY Phil Biennial! The concert will include the world premiere of For your judicious and pious consideration, a new piece for mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano. Visit the Events page for more information, or livestream the concert here!
5/11/2016
Come out to Lincoln Center this evening for Insights at the Atrium, part of the NY Phil Biennial! Music director Alan Gilbert sits down with artists from across the new-music spectrum to preview highlights from the festival. Learn more here!
5/9/2016
Hilary Purrington discusses "Cassandra," a new commission for the Melodia Women's Choir of NYC, with conductor Cynthia Powell, founder Jenny Clarke, and mythology expert Laura Shamas! Listen to conversation on Blog Talk Radio. Melodia will premiere "Cassandra" on May 14 - visit the Events page for more information!
4/23/2016
"As a female composer writing for women, I found it fitting to create a work that tells a story about an extraordinary woman," said Purrington. "Everyone thought there was something 'wrong' with Cassandra, but, in fact, she was just a victim of her time....I like to imagine her as formidably intelligent and outspoken, a woman millennia ahead of her time." Click here for the full article about the upcoming premiere of Cassandra, a new choral work commissioned by the Melodia Women's Choir of NYC!
2/1/2016
Check out the Events page for several upcoming performances!
12/8/2015
Watch a sneak preview of A Sound Soul in a Sound Body for amplified harpsichord & percussion quartet, commissioned by Robert Fleitz in 2015! He will be premiering the new work on Thursday, 12/17. More information here!
10/6/2015
New recordings have been added to the Listen page! Check out a clip from the Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble's premiere of With reluctant morning eyes.
9/15/2015
Hilary wins the 2015 Melodia Women's Choir Commissioning Competition! She will be working on a new piece for women's choir, piano, and percussion, to be premiered in May 2016 in New York, NY.
www.melodiawomenschoir.org
4/15/2015
Hilary Purrington is selected in the Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble's 2015 Composer Search! They will commission a new work from her, to be premiered on June 5, 2015.
http://mcensemble.org
3/23/2015
Consider supporting the NOVUS Trombone Quartet! The group is raising money to record its second studio album, which will include Hilary Purrington’s Events and their horizons. Click here for more information!
1/14/2015
Extraordinary Flora is featured today on Composers Circle! Listen here.
1/10/2015
Upcoming premiere! Robert Fleitz will premiere Wrung and snapt for solo piano on 1/10/15. See the Events page for more info!
12/10/2014
New recordings have been uploaded! Visit the Listen page to hear Extraordinary Flora, a new work for orchestra.
8/13/2014
...and Fate turns on a light is currently a featured piece on the National Federation of Music Clubs home page! Listen here.
6/19/2014
Hilary wins the 2014 Ruth and Emil Beyer Composition Award, given by the National Federation of Music Clubs! The winning piece, ...and Fate turns on a light, was composed for the 2013 Norfolk New Music Ensemble, and premiered in June 2013.
5/15/2014
New pieces have been added to the Listen page! Check out excerpts from ...and Fate turns on a light (2013, for mixed chamber ensemble) and Sung from a mechanical cloud (2013, for large orchestra).
3/10/2014
Hilary wins the 2014 Chicago Harp Quartet Composition Competition! She will compose a new work for the Chicago Harp Quartet, to be premiered in their 2014-2015 season.
http://chicagoharpquartet.com/
3/2/2014
“Siren” from Mean Reds for solo viola wins 2nd place in the 2014 MA American String Teachers Association Composition Competition! Mean Reds, a four-movement solo work, was commissioned in 2013 by violist Jordan Warmath, and will be premiered in Spring 2014.
http://www.maasta.org/2nd-annual-composition-competition.html
2/28/2014
The NOVUS Trombone Quartet will premiere Events and their horizons at the 2014 Eastern Trombone Workshop on March 19, 2014. Events and their horizons was commissioned for the NOVUS Trombone Quartet by Dr. John N. Landis II.
Find more information at:
http://novus4tet.com/
http://www.usarmyband.com/trombone/