Boston Musica Viva

In its 44-year history, Boston Musica Viva has performed more than 600 works by over 250 composers. These include over 150 works written specifically for BMV, over 160 world premieres, and over 75 Boston premieres. Among the composers whose work the ensemble has performed are Pulitzer Prize-winners Ellen Taaffe Zwilich{{cite book | last = Brennan | first = Elizabeth A. | author2 = Seymour Topping | author3 = Elizabeth C. Clarage | title = Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 1999 | url = https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofpulitze00bren | isbn = 1-57356-111-8 | url-access = registration }} John Harbison, Joseph Schwantner{{cite news | first=John | last=Rockwell | title=Boston Musica Viva experiments in idioms | work =The New York Times | pages =10 }} and Steven Stucky.

Boston Musica Viva has presented the world premieres of Thea Musgrave’s opera The Mocking-Bird, John Harbison’s A Full Moon in March, Theo Loevendie’s Gassir, the Hero, Martin Brody’s Heart of a Dog, and John Eaton’s Traveling with Gulliver.

In addition to its Boston concert season, Boston Musica Viva’s touring engagements have taken them to Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Tanglewood, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. The ensemble has made eight tours of Europe, making appearances that included the Settembre Musica Festival in Turin, Italy.

Boston Musica Viva has recorded for the Albany, Neuma, Delos, CRI, Nonesuch, Newport Classic and Northeastern Records labels.

Boston Musica Viva received an Aaron Copland Fund grant in 1993{{cite news | first=Richard | last=Dyer | title=Classical Notes column | work =The Boston Globe }} and in 2003, the ensemble received the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming.

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• John Cage
• Elliott Carter
• Peter Child
• Osvaldo Golijov
• Patrick Greene
• John Harbison
• Donald Harris
• Bernard Hoffer
• Shirish Korde
• William Kraft

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• Gyorgy Kurtag
• Joyce Mekeel
• Frederic Rzewski
• Gunther Schuller
• Joseph Schwantner
• Ralph Shapey
• Rand Steiger
• Steven Stucky
• Andy Vores
• Jörg Widmann

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• Chen Yi
• Evan Ziporyn
• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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• Bayla Keyes
• Danielle Maddon
• Cecile Garcia-Moeller
• Mary Crowder Hess

• Willine Thoe
• Katherine Murdock

• Jan Mueller-Szeraws
• Ronald Thomas
• Bruce Coppock

• Carolyn Davis Fryer

• John Heiss (1969–74)
• Fenwick Smith
• Renee Krimsier
• Mauricio Garcia
• Alicia DiDonato (2003–2008)
• Ann K. Bobo (2008–present)

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• Nancy Dimock

• William Kirkley

• Greg Newton

• Rick Menaul
• Bob Marlatt
• Jean Rife

• Steve Banzaert

• Robert Couture

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• Jeffrey Fischer

• Robert Schulz
• Dean Anderson

• Hugh Hinton
• Geoffrey Burleson
• Bruce Brubaker
• Evelyn Zuckerman

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• Composer, conductor and pianist Rob Kapilow
• Vocalist Dominique Eade
• Mezzo-soprano Janice Felty
• Pianist Randall Hodgkinson
• Mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal
• Soprano Elizabeth Keusch
• Soprano Emily Thorner

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• [http://www.bmv.org Boston Musica Viva web site]
• [http://www.richardpittmanconductor.com/ Richard Pittman web site]

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