2 PART PERFORMANCE OF:
Premiere of material from new album by Max Richter
  From SLEEP, concert performance version of Max Richter’s ‘lullaby for a frenetic world’, SLEEP

Across 7 U.S. cities this October, Max Richter performs with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and Soprano Grace Davidson, premiering new material from his forthcoming album, as well as ‘From SLEEP’ (90 min. – concert performance version).

Max Richter’s SLEEP project appraised as, ‘comfortingly familiar and fascinatingly elusive.’(Financial Times) and ‘…haunting and beautiful, and yet more evidence, as if it were needed, of the enriching properties of art.’ (The Independent) explores new ways for music and consciousness to interact – conceived by Richter as “a personal lullaby for a frenetic world…a manifesto for a slower pace of existence.”

Sold-out performances at such venues as the Sydney Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris, Grand Park in Los Angeles, New York City’s Spring Studios, London’s Old Billingsgate presented by the Barbican, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw are a testament to its international acclaim. ‘…Music as a physically communal, but profoundly interior and unknowable experience’ (LA Times).

Richter’s 2002 album Memoryhouse, reviewed by BBC Music as ‘a masterpiece…’ Was followed up with the anti-war protest album The Blue Notebooks, considered ‘one of the most affecting and universal contemporary classical records in recent memory.’ (Pitchfork) The 15th anniversary rerelease was accompanied by the short film On the Nature of Daylight starring Elisabeth Moss.