Everyone, Everywhere, commissioned by The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro Music Director, in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and premiered in December at Carnegie Hall, is set for release on the Naxos label worldwide in February 2025. Cercle Bach de Genève was conducted by Mark Shapiro in the European premiere of the hour-long work for soloists, choirs, and orchestra on 10 November in Geneva, Switzerland. Mark Shapiro and UN High Commissioner Volker Türk discuss the work here. Pre-order your copy here.

I Hear America Singing has been released to Film Festivals, marking the culmination of the Bardo Trilogy of “operafilms.” Jekyll and Hyde is now officially in pre-production.

10 December 2024: A consortium is gathering to commission Daron to compose a nine minute work honoring Joseph Schwantner which includes Yale University, the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Tennessee, Miami University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of Michigan, the Royal Northern College of Music, the St. Olaf Band, and Texas Tech University. Learn more and join here.

City of Light for full orchestra (commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic in celebration of music director JoAnn Falletta’s 25th year) opened the BPO’s season on 28 September 2024. See Buffalo News, Buffalo Spree, and here. Pre-order here. It is now streaming on all the platforms.

9/10: Love Before the Fall is now streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime Video. It is also available on Tubi, Future Forward, and other channels. More channels will be added over the coming months. 9/10: Love Before the Fall joined Orson Rehearsed streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 1 December. This level of exposure for an independent operafilm written and directed by the composer is unprecedented.

More 9/10 press includes an interview with Daron in the Swedish International Film Festival magazine here; and in the Cannes World Film Festival blog here. An “audience feedback” reel from the Experimental Dance & Music Festival in Montreal here. An interview with Daron produced by the WILDSound Film Festival here. An article / interview in OperaWire here describes 9/10 as “a neo-Gesamtkunstwerk form of opera cinema where each and everything seen on the screen, from the cuts to the lighting to the pacing, reflect the internal motivations of the story.”

New York Stories is given its European staged premiere at the Teatro do Bairro, by Operà Deriva in Lisbon, Portugal, 7-8 September 2024. An interview with director & soprano Cláudia Anjos in Portuguese Look Mag here. 

Past news here.

More buzz about New Mercury Collective projects here.