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“I'm delighted to present excerpts of a YouTube of the recording session in Budapest of my new Violin Concerto with the virtuoso Dutch violinist, Tosca Opdam. This is a single movement work, 23-minutes long, and a bit like my 3rd String Quartet, which is also in one movement and blends tonal and atonal material. The concerto has been a daunting project because I've felt the weight of the great violin concertos on my shoulder but it's also been quite exciting to see it emerge from blank paper! It is a technically demanding piece for the violin but also full of rich colors and emotions and unexpected turns. Hopefully, a performance will happen next! More on this ambitious project was written up in an article for LA Opus. And I am delighted to have won the String Orchestra composition contest for the 75th Anniversary of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) with my new work, Nagyszentmiklos. The performance was with the United States Air Force String Orchestra, a superb ensemble. In 2023, all three of my String Quartets, recorded by the Lyris Quartet, will be released by Albany Records and all the quartets are available for sale at Subito Music. |
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March 29, 2023 - Honored to have my Duo for Violin & Viola requested by the Primrose International Archive for their permanent collection.
March 22, 2023 - West Coast Premiere of Duo for Violin & Viola at UNLV.
March 7, 2023 - Premiere of Duo of Violin & Viola at BYU by Duo Novae.
June, 2021 - Shoutout LA just published a very nice write-up about me. They asked me about risk taking so I had some things to say on that! Here's the write-up.
Jaunuary, 2021- I had the pleasure of recording my new Chamber Suite with members of the Budapest Philharmonic and I look forward to visiting Budapest again to record a new piece for soprano & orchestra, based on a Wallace Stevens anti-war poem, called Of Rose And Ice.
November - What it was like studing with American composer, David Diamond, at Juilliard!
November - The wonderful soprano, Anna Schubert, sings “When You Are Near.”
November - New recording of Echoes of the Heart for 3 cellos.
October, 2020 - Recording of new piece for solo clarinet, Aurora Borealis.
October, 2020 - 6 new pieces will be published - Wind Quintet, Aurora Borealis, String Quartet No.1, Daybreak for String Orchestra, Calatrava, & Runaway Train.
February 22, 2020 - Premiere of String Quartet No. 1 with the Lyris Quartet at Mason Concerts.
January 18, 2020 - Premiere of 4-hands piano piece “Midnight at Prague Castle” with the Vieness Duo at Mason Concerts.
December 13, 2019 - Performance of Todd Mason's 1st “Wind Quintet” at the Masters in the Chapel Series at the First Lutheran Church in Venice, with members of the LA Philharmonic and LA Opera Orchestra.
October 23, 2019 - Chamber Music Palisades Los Angeles Premiere of Todd Mason's “Wind Quintet.”
October 16, 2019 - Glendale Concerts at Noon Pianist Brendan White performs Todd Mason's La Riviere Agitée at the Glendale City Church. Free admission.
July 25, 2019 - Preview of Todd Mason's “Wind Quintet,” with members of LA's leading orchestras, at the Beverly Hills International Music Festival. Location is the Beverly Cañon Gardens at 6pm. Admission is free.
July 7, 2019 - World Premiere of Todd Mason's “Where Our Innocence Once Stood” at Mount Wilson's Concerts in the Dome, performed by Grammy Award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann.
June 15, 2019 - World Premiere of Todd Mason's Echoes of the Heart at the Sunset ChamberFest at the Glendale City Church at 5pm. Todd Mason is Composer-in-Residence at the Sunset ChamberFest. Admission is free.
March 16, 2019 - Premiere of Todd Mason's Runaway Train on Old Priest Grade at Mason Concerts.
February 9th, 2019 - The Lyris Quartet premiered Todd Mason's 2nd String Quartet.
August 26, 2018 - The Sofia Philharmonic recorded Todd Mason's “Daybreak” for full string orchestra.
June 14-29, 2018 - Todd Mason was Composer in Residence at the Astoria Music Festival, for the 2nd year, with three premieres including “Daybreak” for string quintet and “Reflections” for wind quintet.
June 8, 2018 - Todd Mason's “La River Agitée” for solo piano was premiered by the brilliant young pianist Brendan White at Boston Court.
June 3rd, 2018 - Todd Mason's “The Quest” for brass quintet was premiered at the Mount Wilson “Concert in the Dome” series to honor the great American astronomer George Ellery Hale.
“The centerpiece of the concert was the world premiere of Todd Mason’s The Quest, a tribute to astronomer George Ellery Hale, the observatory’s founder. The Quest was suitably heroic and action-packed, suffused with an upwelling of sunny brass that briefly subsided into a more introspective aside.”
-LA Weekly
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