News & Events

Upcoming performances, recording sessions, interviews, and more.

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    Voice and Chamber Ensemble Performance: October 9th in Dayton OH

    Soprano Andrea Chenoweth will premiere two new works by Joseph Summer: The Cupid Sonnets and My Love Well Knows Her Pretty Looks at the Roger Glass Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Dayton.

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    Orchestral Recording Session: October 13-15th in Brno Czech Republic

    Internationally renowned hornist, Radek Baborák with the Brno Contemporary Orchestra will record Joseph Summer’s award-winning horn concerto, The Silver Swan and The Waltz of the Thirteenth Bee for release by Navona Records in 2025.

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    Chamber Performance: October 15th in New York NY

    Violinist Elmira Darvarova, hornist Howard Wall, and pianist Thomas Weaver will premiere Juliet and her Romeo at The New York Chamber Music Festival in New York.

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    The Shakespeare Concerts Presents a Free Evening of Music for Voice and String Quartet

    On Friday, October 18th at 7:00 PM on the campus of Boston University, The Shakespeare Concerts will present a program of music by composers from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Free admission.

Featured Release

Hamlet

The Bard’s classic play in an all new setting complete with the lyric integrity of Shakespeare’s words in a contemporary musical arrangement.

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Video: An Inside Look

Joe’s early days of writing opera, and a few of the processes that led to his most recent production, the operatic adaptation of HAMLET

Video: An Inside Look

Joe’s early days of writing opera, and a few of the processes that led to his most recent production, the operatic adaptation of HAMLET

Sheet Music

A selection of scores and parts available for digital download.

Voice & Chamber Ensemble

Sonnet CXXXIII

Duration: 7:00

Voice & Chamber Ensemble

Oh God, That I Were A Man!

Duration: 3:35

String Quartet

Sea Change I

Duration: approximately 40 minutes

String Quartet

Sea Change II

Duration: approximately 40 minutes

String Quartet

The Book of Invisible Women – 10 Movement Collection

Duration: approximately 79 minutes

String Quartet

The Book of Invisible Women: II: Sycorax

Duration: 5'30"

Music

Compositions

Browse a complete collection of works for opera, chamber ensemble, string quartet, and more from composer Joseph Summer.

Music

Recordings

Explore an expansive collection of recordings featuring works by Joseph Summer, including the 15-album Shakespeare Concerts collection.