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Sweden – “Sunrise” for string orchestra – Jönköpings Sinfonietta

This is my Swedish debut!

The Jönköpings Sinfonietta, will perform my “Sunrise” for strings orchestra, along with Osvaldo Golijov’s nonet “Last Round,” and also works by Pergolesi,  W Stenhammar and, S-E Johansson.

The concert takes place in the concert hall in the town of Jönköping, near Gothenburg, at 6 pm, with a pre-concert talk at 5:15 pm.

Tickets are between 75 and 200 Swedish krona (roughly $10-$30).

for more info, please go here

NFO album update and sneak peak

Hi friends,

between these last busy months of performing and composing, the NFO have put in a tremendous amount of work on our first full length rock orchestra album.  This has been no small feat for a band whose members are taking auditions with the New York Philharmonic, playing with groups like Alarm Will Sound and Ensemble Signal, playing festivals all over North and South America and constantly traveling between different countries and states on musical errands. Finding time to get everyone in the same city (let alone the same room) this summer has been one of the exciting challenges of running this group. But these are the things that make having a rock orchestra fun, right? Especially when you find those few magic days you’re all in the same city at exactly the same time.

On this album you can expect some old favorites, like a new recording of my “Madam I Have Seen Guns, and You are Not One” (the one that got us attention from the BBC a few years ago) and new songs like “The Place You Go Before You Die,” not to mention a few others we’ve never even performed live yet!

We’re very excited about this album, most of which we’ve recorded in our drummer Jeremy’s Flatbush home studio. This album has been quite a project, You can hear a sneak peak from “Place You Go…” here while we polish it off and finish the last few songs.

I hope you enjoy it, and we can’t wait to play it for you.

Noam

Upcoming NYC performances.

If you live in or near NYC, I hope you can come to one of the upcoming performances of my some of music. It’s been nice to have my music performed (or to perform myself) at NYC venues like Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette and 25CPW galleries, Sullivan Hall and the Theater for the New City during the Lower East Side Festival. The next two performances include my first at two of NYC’s most important art spaces for new music: Galapagos art space and the Tank.

On January 18th, my rock orchestra the NFO will perform an acoustic set with our folk-pop friends The Relatives at the Tank.

On January 21st members of the DETOUR collective’s chamber orchestra will perform my new quintet for string trio, piano and French horn at Galapagos. This concert was listed on WQXR’s top five upcoming new music concerts in NYC for the new year (read more here).

Other composers on this concert include Seth Bedford, Jeremy Howard Beck, Tom Swafford, Brian Mark, Ben Brody, Theodore Hine and Jeffrey Parola.

We hope you can catch one of these performances. Keep an eye out for more info on performances in the upcoming months by Boston’s Juventas ensemble, London’s Ligeti quartet and my main composer’s collective Circles and Lines in NYC, as well as more performances by my rock orchestra in NYC and the debut of the UK version of the ensemble in the near future.

If you like what you hear make sure you join the facebook fan pages for the Noam Faingold Orchestra and Circles and Lines.