Arneis String Quartet. Recorded at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, Philadelphia. 

The Sky Itself Was In This Very Room

Lorelei Ensemble; Beth Willer, conductor
Commissioned with support from a NewMusicUSA project grant.

North Woods: Representation 3

North Woods: Representation 2

North Woods: Appendix 1

North Woods: Representation 1

Three Kalevala Songs

Prelude (in the wide spaces of the day)

The Thirteen; Matthew Roberton, cond.
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Scott Ordway - You Are My Brother

The work of composer, writer, and director Scott Ordway has been called “exquisite” (The New York Times), “a marvel” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), and “an American response to Sibelius” (The Boston Globe). Ordway’s work is passionately multidisciplinary, blending immersive, powerfully developmental music with original text and visual elements to explore a diverse array of contemporary themes including landscape and our relationship to the natural world, architecture, protest and revolution, memory and childhood, and the lives of cities.

Highlights of recent seasons include the premieres of In the Kingdom of Bells by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra; the monodrama Girl in the Snow by Oper Frankfurt’s Julia Dawson; the program-length Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello by the Grammy-winning cellist Arlen Hlusko (Philadelphia); North Woods by the Lorelei Ensemble (Boston), The Clearing and the Forest, an evening-length “theater of music” by SOLI Chamber Ensemble (San Antonio), and The Outer Edge of Youth, a choral opera commissioned by The Thirteen (Washington, D.C.).

Ordway’s work has been interpreted by performers throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood New Fromm Players, Norbotten NEO (Sweden), and the Jasper, Momenta, Arneis, and Daedalus String Quartets.

In addition to awards from ASCAP, NewMusicUSA, the American Music Center, and the American Composers Forum, Ordway’s work has been supported by important American and international institutions including the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New York Opera Fest, American Opera Projects, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, the Visby International Centre for Composers (Sweden); June in Buffalo, and the chamber music festivals of Carolina, Portland, and Newburyport. His debut recording with the Hong Kong Philharmonic appears on Naxos Records. 

Ordway is Assistant Professor of Music Composition in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.

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