Featured Composer: Robert Aldridge
April 15 and 17, 2005

Robert Aldridge has written more than sixty works for orchestra, opera, music-theater, dance, string quartet, solo and chamber ensembles. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. He earned a doctorate in composition from the Yale School of Music and a master's degree in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Aldridge has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist's Foundation, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, the Oregon Arts Commission and the Portland Arts Council. His tone poem, Leda and the Swan, a joint commission from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, was premiered in January 2003 at the New Jersey Performing Center for the Arts. His many compositions and commissions are listed on his web site at www.robertaldridge.com.

The BCO performed the world premiere of Mr. Aldridge's composition, "A Brand New Day" on April 15 and 17, 2005.

• Program Notes

SCHEDULE & TICKETS  •  ABOUT US  •  PROGRAM NOTES  •  SUPPORT US  •  CONTACT US  •  SITE MAP & CREDITS