Mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, and flutist Laura Falzon gave the world premiere performance of composer Jody Rockmaker’s Flutesongs – a duet for soprano and flute on Saturday October 21 2017 at the National Opera Center/Opera America in New York City in a concert presented by the American Composers Alliance
Flutesongs is a setting for voice and flute of two poems. The first one, a setting of the poem Music, by American poet of the imagist school and Pulitzer Prize winner, Amy Lowell. The second song is a setting of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s A Musical Instrument.
American composer Jody Rockmaker is the recipient of numerous awards including a Barlow Endowment Commission, Fulbright Grant, two BMI Awards and an ASCAP Grant. His principal teachers included Milton Babbitt and Miriam Gideon.
Mezzo soprano Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek has collaborated with many composers including Stockhausen and Berio, singing with new music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris, Ixion, and Ekmeles. She also premiered roles in operas for English National Opera London and The Royal Opera Covent Garden.