New Music
A Global Commissioning Project, “32 Bright Clouds”
Music and Peace Initiative
32 Bright Clouds: Beethoven Conversations Around the World is a global music-commissioning and performing project. Curated and performed by pianist Yaël Weiss, this groundbreaking project commissions new works from 32 countries of conflict spanning the globe. All new compositions are unified by a single “Peace” motif from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, a motif selected because of Beethoven’s compelling inscription "A Call for Inward and Outward Peace" above the notes. 32 Bright Clouds aims to harness music’s great power for unity and peace. More
Bohdana Frolyak (Ukraine)
Bosba (Cambodia)
Ny Myo Aung (Myanmar)
Alfred Wong (Hong Kong)
Sonam Dorji (Bhutan)
Ananda Sukarlan (Indonesia)
Sidney Boquiren (Philippines)
Adina Izarra (Venezuela)
Carolina Noguera-Palau (Colombia)
Xavier Beteta (Guatemala)
Wilma Alba Cal (Cuba)
Commissioned “32 Bright Clouds” Piano Works:
Bongani Ndodana-Breen (South Africa)
George Mensah Essilfie (Ghana)
Héritier MayimbiI Mbuangi (Congo)
Milad Yousufi (Afghanistan)
Aida Shirazi (Iran)
Usman Anees (Pakistan)
Malek Jandali (Syria)
Aslıhan Keçebaşoğlu (Turkey)
Talia Amar (Israel)
Saed Haddad (Jordan)
Artur Akshelyan (Armenia)
Commissioned Works: Concerti, Solo Piano, Chamber
Lera Auerbach: “Triptych, The Mirror with Three Faces” for piano trio
Paul Chihara: “Rag 109” for solo piano
Paul Chihara: “Ain’t No Sunshine” for piano trio
Joel Feigin: “Aviv Piano Concerto” (Fromm Foundation grant), for piano and orch.
Joel Feigin: “Prelude to a Sonata” for solo piano
Michael Gilbertson: “Outliers”, Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orch.
Michael Hersch: “Recordatio (in memory of Luciano Berio”) for solo piano
Michael Hersch: “Variations on a Poem” for piano trio
Paul Lansky: “Angles” for piano trio
Clancy Newman: “Juxt-Opposition” for piano trio
Paul Schoenfeld: “32<2” for solo piano
Noam Sivan: “Concert Paraphrase on Tutto è gioia from La Sonnambula” for solo piano
Noam Sivan: “Improvisations on Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” for solo piano
Oded Zehavi: “Seagull” for violin and piano