Q2 Music to broadcast 2016 Cone Institute concert Oct 18 at 9 pm

WQXR’s online new-music station Q2 Music will broadcast the 2016 NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute concert, “Scores: New Orchestral Works,” on Tuesday, October 18, at 9 pm. The program—a live NJSO performance with conductor David Robertson, recorded July 16 at the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton—features Institute Director Steven Mackey’s Turn the Key and new works by the 2016 Institute composers. The broadcast, which will include composer interviews, will become available for on-demand listening in the archives at www.q2music.org.

Mackey says that the 2016 Institute’s four emerging composers, selected from an international applicant pool, impressed with “their dynamic works and strong individual voices.”

The composers drew inspiration for their works from different sources. Matthew Browne’s Farthest South imagines an unusual encounter on Ernest Shackleton’s “Nimrod Expedition” to Antarctica; James Anderson’s Places with Pillars is about the extraordinary events upon which people place meaning in their lives. Jung Yoon Wie’s Water Prism for Orchestra illustrates the phenomenon of light passing through a prism and forming a rainbow; Will Stackpole was moved to write ... Ask Questions Later as a reaction to gun violence headlines. Mackey wrote his celebratory, rhythmic Turn the Key for the 2006 opening of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.

» Learn more about the works on the program

At the six-day Institute, the composers participated in masterclasses with Mackey, heard their works rehearsed and performed by the NJSO and received feedback from guest conductor David Robertson and NJSO musicians. They also enjoyed career-enriching sessions with music-industry leaders, including Q2 Music; Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.; New Music USA and Subito Music Corporation, as well as executive speech coach, author and Inc.com columnist Sims Wyeth. During a visit to Q2 Music’s studios, the composers participated in the interviews that will air during the concert broadcast.

Tune in to www.q2music.org on October 18 at 9 pm!

» Read a concert review from Town Topics

» Read a Times of Trenton interview with Steven Mackey

» Listen to WWFM’s inside look at the 2016 Institute

» Learn more about the Institute

The Institute is presented in collaboration with the Princeton University Department of Music and generously funded in part by the Edward T. Cone Foundation and Princeton University.