SUPPORT SMO’s FIRST ALBUM OF COMMISSIONED PIECES
With music by Wang Lu, Huck Hodge, and our founding director Jérémy Jolley, the album features some of SMO’s largest instrumentations, and highlights pieces developed over years of close collaboration.
New Focus Recordings, a NYC-based independent music label specializing in contemporary concert music, will launch the project, and we are tracking the album with Grammy-nominated engineer Andrew Munsey at the University of Washington’s new in-house recording studio.
These selections represent the essence of SMO’s creative and curatorial ethos; bringing these works to the international stage on a label like New Focus is key to the group’s vision to expand our reach beyond the Pacific Northwest while continuing to articulate the group’s unique point of difference in the field of contemporary music.
“…the future is more likely to be found…with the Seattle Modern Orchestra.” Alex Ross, The New Yorker