Kate Soper News

The New York Philharmonic has revealed its 2024–25 season. Learn more about the season!

ISOLA–a prismatic meditation on time, mental health and isolation– is the new opera by composer Alyssa Weinberg with a text by poet J. Mae Barizo that launches Long Beach Opera's 2024 Season.

Houses on the Moon Theater Company will present the world premiere of the play HOTEL HAPPY, written by Camilo Almonacid (The Assignment), directed by Estefanía Fadul (Repertorio Español's Eva Luna), and featuring puppet direction by Matt Acheson (Broadway's War Horse).

​​​​​​​Long Beach Opera announces that it has received the largest single gift in the company's history of $1.25 million from long-time Board member Carol Richards. Richards served on LBO's Board from the company's inception in 1979 until her passing in 2021, at which time she included Long Beach Opera in her estate plans with this historic gift, which recently came to fruition.

Long Beach Opera announces a generous gift of $1.25 million from Carol Richards. Major donations and grants are also announced, and single tickets are now on sale.

New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble celebrates the release of Eric Wubbels's new album if and and only if on Carrier Records with the NYC premiere performance of the complete concert-length work on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. at the Tenri Cultural Institute.

Alt-rock bassist & composer Hannah Marks has released her debut LP 'Outsider, Outlier' via Out Of Your Head Records. The album is out now and showcases Marks' unique sound and musical style.

ALT-ROCK bassist and composer Hannah Marks shares a gentle track and video titled 'Jessie's Lullaby.' New York City based bassist, composer and educator Hannah Marks shares gentle, hopeful ballad and Twin Peaks-inspired video, 'Jessie's Lullaby' out everywhere now.

New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble opens its 25th anniversary season with an evening of world premieres by Wet Ink’s composer-performers Mariel Roberts, Kate Soper, and Josh Modney on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. at Opera America’s Scorca Hall. Learn more about the upcoming concert here!

Discover the exciting lineup of Yarn/Wire's 2023/2024 season, featuring experimental percussion and piano performances at renowned festivals and venues around the world.

Long Beach Opera announces the appointment of Marjorie Beale as their new President of the Board of Directors, effective June 28, 2023.

Yarn/Wire hosts its eighth annual International Institute, an incubator for sonic collaborations between performers, ensembles, composers, and creators, serving as an ecosystem for emerging and world-class artists to collectively push the boundaries of music, performance and sound.

Since its inaugural season in 2008, Music in May (MiM) has featured a rotating roster of internationally renowned musicians and its 16th season is no exception.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues its 2022-23 Composer Portraits series with Øyvind Torvund.

Continuing an important tradition of presenting groundbreaking new works, Long Beach Opera will present the world premiere in February of 2023 of Kate Soper’s fantastical and darkly comic opera The Romance of the Rose. 

On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 3:00pm, EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY will present the world premiere of Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian and South African-American director and writer Nigel Maister's Paper Pianos, commissioned by Alarm Will Sound.

​​​​​​​Bowerbird, the Philadelphia based non-profit organization that shares music, dance, film, and related art forms with audiences at locations across the region, presents New York percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire in the Philadelphia premiere performance of curvo totalitas by Catherine Lamb at University Lutheran Church on Friday, December 2, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. 

New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble continues its 2022-2023 season with a program of new and recent works written Artist-in-Residence Rick Burkhardt and members of the ensemble on Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 7:30pm at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Benzaquen Hall.

Building on Long Beach Opera’s legacy of pushing operatic boundaries and boldly taking performance into uncharted territories, the 2023 Season will continue to bring new energy and relevance to the form with a series of surprising, immersive, and accessible operatic experiences.

New York-based percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire gives the world premiere performance of Parallel Prints by Marcel Zaes at The Stone on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 8:30pm.