Tito Muñoz, conductor
Curtis Stewart, curator
REVERB: Contemporary Music Festival is an exploration and celebration of works from the current musical landscape. This 3rd Annual Festival includes intimate concerts, panel discussions and behind-the-scenes events to explore the repertoire and learn more about the living composers. Conducted by Tito Muñoz and curated by GRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart, this year’s REVERB promises to be an exciting, varied and engaging program. Newly appointed artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra, Stewart has soloed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and the 2022 GRAMMY®Awards.
The 2024 REVERB festival includes an expanded concept of Curtis Stewart‘s GRAMMY Award nominated project – of Love.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
7:30 PM
Program
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7:30 PM
Program
A world premiere of Stewart’s Afrofuturist meditation / recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – Seasons of Change – frames both evenings with an acoustic/electronic musical dreamscape on climate change, class and the nature of digital memory. These 4 new works are paired alongside works from of Love, as well as symphonic works by inti figgis vizueta and Leyou Wang, winners of American Composers Orchestra’s National call for scores: Earshot. REVERB’s programs also feature the voices of the unhoused community in Phoenix – recorded conversations with Circle the City clients weave in and out of the program, centering their stories as a new and personal motivation for art to advocate for climate change. The primary question driving this evening is “Who will climate change erase first?”
Panel and Q&A Discussion
At each performance there will be an audience engaged panel discussion with Stewart, Muñoz, members of the Phoenix Symphony and members of our partner organization, Circle the City.
About Curtis Stewart
