Welcome to the Makrokosmos Project Virtual Festival!
We hope you enjoy this eclectic selection of performances from our stellar team. Some of the videos are hot off the press! Others are from previous Makrokosmos Project festivals and performances. All are the contributions of our awesome MP artists and show their dedication and love to our craft.
Please consider making a donation to Makrokosmos Project at any amount. This year’s festival is brought to you free of charge, but your generous donation will benefit our performers and help fund future performances. Please help keep our dreams alive. We need your help more than ever.
In this tremendously difficult time we call on our community to unite as one. The current pandemic raging through our cities, our hospitals and our families must be brought to an end. We fight a parallel pandemic, a pandemic of systemic racism against people of color.
Originally, Makrokosmos Project 6 was going to be called Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. That will be the theme for next year’s festival.
The new title for this year’s festival is:
Makrokosmos Project 6: Compassion
In Memoriam: Widney Moore
In Memoriam: George Floyd and Victims of Systemic Racism
Dedicated to the Victims of COVID-19
Enjoy the music! Please take good care, stay healthy and keep in touch. We hope to see you in person again before too long.
Yours,
Stephanie & Saar
To make a donation at any amount click below. All donations to benefit the performers and future Makrokosmos Project events.
Caroline Shaw Gustave Le Gray
Stephanie Ho, piano
Dedicated to the unclaimed victims of Covid-19 in New York City
Alexander Schwarzkopf Five Sketches for Piano
(MP World Premiere)
Alexander Schwarzkopf, piano
Martin Bejerano Petite Corvette Rouge
(MP commission 2020)
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos
Portland Percussion Group
Philip Glass Etude 5
Saar Ahuvia, piano
In memoriam Widney Moore
Philip Glass Etude 6
Saar Ahuvia, piano
In memoriam Widney Moore
Gordon Stout Skylark Orange Circles
Paul Owen and Chris Whyte, Marimbas
John Zorn Carny
Jeff Payne, piano
Michael Johanson In Memoriam Jóhann Jóhannsson
Susan Smith, piano
Michael Johanson Ozymandias
George Skipworth, baritone
Deborah Cleaver, piano
Kenji Bunch Etudes
Monica Ohuchi, piano
Paul Lansky Threads Movements 8-10
Portland Percussion Group
John Cage Sonatas and Interludes
Julia Lee, piano
Meredith Monk Ellis Island
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos
Meredith Monk Obsolete Objects
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos
Branic Howard In the Nothingness
DUO Stephanie & Saar, piano
Branic Howard, electronics
Ben Justis Nucleation
Portland Percussion Group
Julia Wolfe Compassion
Dedicated to New York City’s heroic first-responders
Stephanie Ho, piano
George Crumb Music for a Summer Evening I. Nocturnal Sounds
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos
Chris Whyte & Paul Owen, percussion