TAPESTRY OF VOICES from Navona Records showcases the versatility and elegance of the human voice woven with grand orchestral statements, colorful choral arrangements, and intimate settings with piano. Eight contemporary composers offer settings of poetry and stories from various cultures throughout human history, from Africa to Europe, North America, and beyond. Threading modern takes on Greek mythology, meditations on concepts of loss, mortality, and more, TAPESTRY OF VOICES is exactly as its title suggests — an intricate and artistic convergence of ideas that’s sure to entrance those who experience it.

Release Date: December 1, 2023

Composers:
Christopher Jessup
David Gaines
John Craven
Michael G Cunningham
L Peter Deutsch
Ryan Homsey
Hendrik Hofmeyr
Richard E Brown

WORLD PREMIERE Oscar winner James Ivory began his storied career making documentaries in India. While screening one at India’s Consulate in New York City, he met his life and business partner, Ismail Merchant. As Merchant Ivory Productions, they made 44 films, including such classics as Howard’s End, A Room with a View, and The Remains of the Day. Jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes stories of their creative process and impact are shared here in fresh interviews with Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and more—and, of course, the spry 95-year-old Ivory himself. – Jaie Laplante (Artistic Director, DOC NYC)

Director: Stephen Soucy
Executive Producer: Charles Cohen, James Ivory
Producer: Jon Hart and Stephen Soucy
Cinematographer: E. Matthew Cady, Sefa Karatekin, Adam Lewis, Jean-Marc Selva
US Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Original Music: Ryan Homsey
Sound Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Adam Scott

https://www.docnyc.net/film/merchant-ivory/

WORLD PREMIERE Oscar winner James Ivory began his storied career making documentaries in India. While screening one at India’s Consulate in New York City, he met his life and business partner, Ismail Merchant. As Merchant Ivory Productions, they made 44 films, including such classics as Howard’s End, A Room with a View, and The Remains of the Day. Jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes stories of their creative process and impact are shared here in fresh interviews with Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and more—and, of course, the spry 95-year-old Ivory himself. – Jaie Laplante (Artistic Director, DOC NYC)

Director: Stephen Soucy
Executive Producer: Charles Cohen, James Ivory
Producer: Jon Hart and Stephen Soucy
Cinematographer: E. Matthew Cady, Sefa Karatekin, Adam Lewis, Jean-Marc Selva
US Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Original Music: Ryan Homsey
Sound Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Adam Scott

https://www.docnyc.net/film/merchant-ivory/

The Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra (OCCO) presents HOMAGES under the leadership of music director/conductor Todd Craven, and featuring pianist Caroline Owen. Homsey’s work “Music and Life Mingle”—from the forthcoming feature documentary film Merchant Ivory—will be premiered by OCCO at Harriett’s Orlando Ballet Centre. The piece is part of a larger score that pays homage to Richard Robbins (1940-2012) who crafted original scores for 24 of the 43 films made by Merchant Ivory Productions spanning three decades.

A collaboration between New York-based choreographer Jason Ohlberg and composer Ryan Homsey with Natascha Greenwalt of Coriolis Dance in Seattle. Coriolis Dance is celebrating its 14th season. This project is made possible in part by grants from 4 Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Arts & Culture, and Skidmore College. This collaboration is part of a two-year process—both remote and in person—and brings together artists from New York and Seattle in a cross-continental dialogue on life, loss, and our precarious state of existence.

2022 Seattle International Dance Festival

Choreography set to Briefly Gorgeous / Red Threads for xylophone and electronics.

The eighth annual Source Song Festival led by composer Libby Larsen will be the culmination of months-long featuring collaborative world premieres on texts by Joyce Sutphen, along with our annual MNSong Composer Showcase, featuring some of Minnesota’s most outstanding performers!

This performance will feature the last two movements, “The Last Toast” and “We Do Not Know How to Say Goodbye” of Homsey’s song cycle for baritone and piano entitled Five Russian Poems performed by baritone Jeremy M. Wong and pianist Ann DuHamel.

www.sourcesongfestival.org

Virtual event through Facebook.

The eighth annual Source Song Festival led by composer Libby Larsen will be the culmination of months-long featuring collaborative world premieres on texts by Joyce Sutphen, along with our annual MNSong Composer Showcase, featuring some of Minnesota’s most outstanding performers!

This performance will feature Homsey’s premiere of “Your Name” performed by mezzo-soprano Valeria Bibliowicz and collaborative pianist Felipe Calle.

www.sourcesongfestival.org

Virtual event with talkback to follow.

Believe Me
Soul-Stirring Music for Difficult Times

The New Haven Oratorio Choir performs the virtual premiere of Believe Me. The text of the SATB, a cappella, piece is by writer and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell.

Join us for a virtual performance with insights from four contemporary composers.

This concert is free! A suggested online donation of $15 during your viewing on April 24 will be credited toward matching funds in our participation in the Great Give (May 4-5, 2021).

Stay tuned! We'll be posting a YouTube link to this concert on this page shortly.

Visit Believe Me to learn more about this piece.

Briefly Gorgeous is a site-specific work for solo xylophone and electronics that premieres as a recording as part of Skidmore College’s spring dance concert taking place outdoors on campus behind Haupt Pond with social distancing.

Choreography by dancer and Skidmore professor Jason Ohlberg
Music composed, performed, and recorded by Ryan Homsey
Audio programming and production by multimedia producer Adam Scott.

Commissioned by choreographer and dance professor, Jason Ohlberg, with support from the Skidmore College Department of Music and Department of Dance.

Briefly Gorgeous is a site-specific work for solo xylophone and electronics that premieres as a recording as part of Skidmore College’s spring dance concert taking place outdoors on campus behind Haupt Pond with social distancing.

Choreography by dancer and Skidmore professor Jason Ohlberg
Music composed, performed, and recorded by Ryan Homsey
Audio programming and production by multimedia producer Adam Scott.

Commissioned by choreographer and dance professor, Jason Ohlberg, with support from the Skidmore College Department of Music and Department of Dance.

Join the Boston New Music Initiative and the composers of the January Quarantune Snacks series for a discussion of their work. Ryan Homsey talks about “Insistent” performed on January 31, 2021 by violist/violinist Arjun Mudan.

Quarantunes Snacks Performance Series
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Violist/violinist Arjun Mudan performs “Insistent” from Three Moods for Violin as part of Boston New Music Initiative’s virtual Quarantunes Snacks performance series.

Quarantunes Snacks Virtual Performance Series
Facebook Event

Violinist Adrianna Mateo performs “Insistent” from Three Moods for Violin as an encore to the world premiere of Mitchell McCarthy’s Violin Concerto with the Thames Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Cumming Arts Center’s John C. Evans Hall at Connecticut College.

Ryan Homsey joins hundreds of singers in the premiere performance of John Luther Adams’ In the Name of the Earth during the Mostly Mozart Festival.

As part of Access Contemporary Music’s Concept Lab Series, collaborators Ryan Homsey (composer) and Joseph Cermatori (librettist) workshop selected instrumental excerpts from their opera in development, Saint Cecilia, or the Power of Music, based off of the 1810 short story of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist. Features musicians Hristina Blagoeva (flute), Talia Dicker (cello), and Irene Fitzgerald-Cherry (violin) alongside descriptive commentary from the composer and librettist.

Adrianna Mateo (violin), Charlie Rauh (guitar), and Katherine Haroldson (cello) perform "Stage III: Grace" from Recurrent Stages as part of the ETHEL and Friends concert series at the Great Hall Balcony Bar.

Adrianna Mateo (violin), Charlie Rauh (guitar), and Katherine Haroldson (cello) perform "Stage III: Grace" from Recurrent Stages as part of the ETHEL and Friends concert series at the Great Hall Balcony Bar.

Musicians from the Kaufman Center's Face the Music ensemble perform "Stage II: Chaos" and "Stage III: Grace" from Recurrent Stages. Face the Music is the country’s only youth ensemble dedicated to studying and performing works by living composers.

Colleen Bixler and Ruby Pine, violins; Amirah Stewart, viola; Layla Krantz, cello

Musicians of the Kaufman Center's Face the Music ensemble perform "Stage III: Grace" from Recurrent Stages for string quartet and tape.

Nina Uesato & Oren Segal, violins; Musajon Kharakov, viola; Frederic Renaud, cello

Returning audiences to the glory days of live radio broadcasts, Late Night at National Sawdust is a collaboration between Open G Records, Seth Boustead, and Access Contemporary Music on a quarterly concert series airing live on Relevant Tones, the world’s only weekly syndicated contemporary music radio program.

"Stage II (Chaos) from Recurrent Stages for string quartet and live electonics performed by members of the Access Contemporary Music ensemble.

An evening of chamber works, including "Stage III (Grace) from Recurrent Stages specially arranged for Michelle Steward (flute), Nicholas Baer (cello), and Susan Letcher (piano), and Ryan Homsey (electronics).

Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music’s student composers and performers return to Queens Museum with a diverse group of performances. The concert will feature Face the Music Symphony’s premiere of Cosmic Collision by student composer Sasha Radosav, string quartets performing works by Conrad Tao, Pierre Jalbert, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Ryan Homsey, and a student ensemble performing Steve Reich’s early, hypnotic minimalist classic Eight Lines.

Recurrent Stages: Stage 2 performed by Colleen Bixler and Ruby Pine, violins; Amirah Stewart, viola; Layla Krantz, cello