This December 4-7, Julia Bullock will give the premiere of Song of the Reappeared, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from former CSO Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice and 2018 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin. Also a founding core member with Bullock of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), Aucoin wrote the cycle for her on texts by Chilean poet Raúl Zurita that explore themes of memory, language and spirituality.
The following month, Julia tours the U.S. with another collaborator from AMOC*, “dazzlingly inventive” (Gramophone) pianist Conor Hanick, as well as 2022 Chamber Music America Michael Jaffee Visionary Award-winning cellist Seth Parker Woods. Their program, titled “From Ordinary Things,” features a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León, along with songs by George Gershwin, Robert Owens, André and Dory Previn, Ravel, Richard Rodgers, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Nina Simone; and George Walker’s Cello Concerto. Anchored by a performance at New York’s 92NY, a co-commissioner of the León premiere, the tour also stops at UCLA, the University of Chicago, Eastman School of Music, and Virginia Tech (Jan 15–28).