Boston Modern Orchestra Project
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) is a major ensemble devoted to the performance and advancement of new music. The group has won several ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming of Orchestral Music, been nominated for major awards, and has issued dozens of albums for a variety of labels.
The BMOP was founded in 1996 by Gil Rose, who continued to serve as the group's artistic director and conductor as of the early 2020s. The ensemble performs mostly at its home venue, Jordan Hall, located at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. The group also occasionally concertizes in New York City, at Tanglewood, and other locales in the U.S.
While the BMOP has a stated goal to perform and promote new compositions, including many commissioned pieces, the ensemble also takes up rediscovered works of the 20th century. Concertgoers and record buyers won't be hearing the group perform Mozart and Beethoven, but they may well hear a rarely encountered piece by Schoenberg or Webern. Their repertory typically features works by composers such as Arthur Berger, Lukas Foss, and John Harbison and lesser-knowns like Shih-Hui Chen, Michael Gandolfi, Lee Hyla, and scores of others. From the beginning, Rose was able to attract both talented musicians to perform in the BMOP as well as gifted, often well-known composers to write new works for them. In fact, through the first decade of the new century, the group commissioned and performed more than 30 works and gave over 70 premieres. Since 2000, the BMOP has generally named a composer-in-residence for each concert season. For all its early success, the BMOP did not make its first recordings until the new century, when Naxos released an album of Rochberg works in 2002, and Chandos issued the Lukas Foss opera Griffelkin the following year.
The BMOP has also recorded for Innova, Arsis, and Albany, among other labels. In 2008, the BMOP launched its own label, BMOP/Sound, with a highly acclaimed release of John Harbison's ballet Ulysses. By early 2020, the BMOP had recorded over 50 albums in the BMOP/Sound catalog, among them Charles Fussell's Symphony for Baritone and Orchestra ("Wilde") from 2008, which received a Grammy nomination. The group won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Tobias Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox. The BMOP remained active through the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing recordings of operas by Norman Dello Joio (The Trial at Rouen, 2020) and Samuel Barber (Medea, 2021). The year 2022 saw the release of albums devoted to Gail Kubik's Symphony Concertante and Anthony Davis' opera X - The Life and Times of Malcolm X, as well as the John Corigliano orchestral collection To Music.
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Steven Stucky: American Muse
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 7 Nov 2016
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Tobias Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Odyssey Opera
Opera - Released by BMOP - sound on 4 Jun 2019
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Lisa Bielawa: In medias res
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 15 Jun 2010
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Moravec: Northern Lights Electric
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 11 Sep 2012
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Eric Nathan: the space of a door
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 5 May 2020
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Jacob Druckman: Lamia
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Lucy Shelton
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 14 May 2013
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Tobias Picker: Awakenings
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera Chorus, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 15 Sep 2023
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Virgil Thomson: Three Pictures
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 1 Sep 2010
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Keeril Makan: Dream Lightly
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 3 Sep 2019
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Banana/Dump Truck
Classical - Released by Albany Records on 1 Apr 2005
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Paul Moravec: The Overlook Hotel- The Suite from "The Shining"
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 12 Apr 2024
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Reza Vali: Toward That Endless Plain
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 9 Oct 2012
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William Schuman: The Witch of Endor
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 18 Dec 2018
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John Cage: Sixteen Dances
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 1 Oct 2009
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Flute Concerto / Deylaman / Folk Songs (Set No. 10)
Alberto Almarza, Janna Baty, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, George Mgrdichian, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by Naxos on 9 Apr 2004
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John Harbison: Diotima
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 2 Nov 2021
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Norman Dello Joio: The Trial at Rouen
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Odyssey Opera
Opera - Released by BMOP - sound on 25 Aug 2020
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Steven Mackey: Dreamhouse
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 1 Oct 2010
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Anthony Paul De Ritis: Devolution
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 13 Dec 2011
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Jeremy Gill: Before the Wresting Tides
Gil Rose, Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 12 Sep 2017
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Ken Ueno: Talus
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Classical - Released by BMOP - sound on 1 Feb 2010
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