Cantori/QUASI: Composer Benjamin C. S. Boyle

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Saturday, March 4 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 5 @ 3PM
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 9th Ave, NYC
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In advance of our winter 2023 concerts, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro and composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle discuss his new cantata "Les Fous et Leurs Chimères" - a Cantori commission. Boyle adapts the prose-poetry of Charles Baudelaire, whose prescient commentaries on social inequality he infuses with tragic realism. With tenor Daniel McGrew (a 2021 Young Concert Artists winner) and string trio.
Benjamin C.S. Boyle is an American composer, pianist, and theorist. His works have been commissioned and premiered by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Lyric Opera, Montreal Chamber Orchestra, the Kobe City Orchestra, the Crossing Choir, Lyric Fest, and many others the world over. The Crossing Choir’s recording of his Cantata No. 2: Voyages was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2020 for Best Choral Performance. In 2008, at the piano, he gave the US premiere of his Sonata-Fantasy with violinist Tim Fain at the Kennedy Center in Washington and Merkin Hall in New York. In 2005, Bachanalia Orchestra premiered the Cantata No. 1: To One in Paradise for string orchestra and four vocal soloists in New York. He was composer-in-residence with Young Concert Artists from 2005-7 and received representation from them for many years. He is particularly noted for his composition of art songs. A compendium of these works (Complete Songs and Melodies 1998-2014) including some 60 songs was published in 2016. His song cycle Spirits in Bondage won first prize in the NATS Art Song Competition in 2018.
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This interview is the latest edition of our salon series Cantori/QUASI. Conceived during the pandemic, Cantori/QUASI brings the best of music and scholarship directly to your home. Each season, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro curates listening sessions with distinguished guests on themes of choral music past & present.
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This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the NY State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.