Established in 2003, Welltone New Music, Inc. www.cuttingedgeconcerts.org supports creative music projects that serve the public through cultural diversity, education, outreach and innovation. Its primary goal is to supply living composers with performance opportunities and to provide the public with a way to experience contemporary music. Through the efforts of Artistic Director Victoria Bond,
Welltone produces and finances Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival.
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival exists to celebrate, support and promote the work of living composers. Over the past 25 years, works by more than 200 composers have been played by some of the best chamber music performing artists in the country. Audiences have delighted to dozens of world premieres and hundreds of on-stage conversations with the composers themselves. The 2022 season marks the 25th year of the concert series, which Chamber Music America has called “a full-throttle commitment to contemporary music.”
The theme for our 2022 Festival is ‘Bringing People Together’. Because of the stress, loneliness and isolation of the past year, Welltone New Music believes now is the time to bring people together with music that expresses uplifting spiritual themes of hope. To accomplish this, Cutting Edge Concerts will bring together four arts organizations during the 2022 season that share its vision, performing in different locations throughout the metropolitan area, along with live streaming offerings, and producing a season that powerfully expresses our theme.
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Percussia
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
33-50 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372; 4:30 – 6:00PM
Victoria Bond: From the Atlas of Imaginary Places
Alexis Lamb: Murmuration
Dennis Tobenski: Starfish
5.13.22
How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Mostly Modern Projects
Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker Street, NY, NY 10012; 8:00 PM
Tickets: www.sheencenter.org
How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct
Victoria Bond, composer; Stephen Greco, librettist; Doug Fitch, director; Victoria Bond, conductor
Cast: Ariadne Greif; Glen Seven Allen; Peter Van Derick
Herschel Garfein: Untitled Work
Robert Paterson: The Companion
6.12.22
Japan Songs
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Kyo-Shin-An Arts
Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13th Street, NY, NY 10011
Featuring composers Aleksandra Vrebalov, James Nyoraku Schlefer, Paul Moravec, Douglas Cuomo, Jay Reise, and Victoria Bond
10.22.22
From an Antique Land
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with All Keyed Up
Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13th Street, NY, NY 10011
Victoria Bond: From an Antique Land
Michael Kelly, baritone; Bradley Moore, piano
Dalit Warshaw: Different Loves
Dalit Warshaw, piano
David Del Tredici: selected songs
Michael Kelly, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
