At Amsterdam's Muziekbgebouw, at 20:30 , as part of worldwide concerts celebrating the 100th birthday of the great American composer Elliott Carter,   the Nieuw Ensemble performs a program of Carter's chamber music, including the Oboe Quartet and the song cycle Tempo e Tempi, with soprano Susan Narucki as soloist.   Garry Walker conducts. 

A world premiere recording of Ernst Krenek's comic opera "What Price Confidence?" featuring sopranos Ilana Davidson and Susan Narucki, tenor Richard Clement, bartione Christopheren Nomura and pianist Linda Hall has been released on the  Phoenix Edition label.   Presented in a series of sold out performances at the NYC Austrian Cultural Forum's Mostly Modern Series, "What Price Confidence?" is an amusing and poignant look at two couples, their loves, and their betrayals.  Krenek's music portrays  the characters inner lives and outward foibles with equal measures of depth, dash and wit.  

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This four disc collection on Bridge Records contains works by thirty-seven composers who composed these pieces while in residence at the American Academy in Rome.  The earliest work dates from 1920, the most recent from 2003.  Composers include the well known: Samuel Barber, Elliott Carter, and Roger Sessions; the largely forgotten: Charles Naginski, Alexander Lang Steinert, Walter Helfer; and many of today's most active voices: Robert Beaser, David Rakowski, Aaron Jay Kernis, Paul Moravec, Stephen Hartke,  and David Lang.  Curated by Donald Berman, the disc features  performances by many of today's leading performers of contemporary music, including  Richard Stoltzman, Yehudi Wyner, Susan Narucki, Tony Arnold, Fred Sherry, Daniel Druckman, and Curtis Macomber. 

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The Light That is Felt: Songs of Charles Ives is now available on New World Records.  www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi 

The disc by soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman contains 27 songs of Charles Ives, ranging from his early days as a student at Yale to the works of his maturity, including his masterwork General William Booth Enter  Into Heaven.    For more information on the disc, please go to the  News-Latest Release page. 

Welcome to Susan Narucki.net!  The new website, designed by Ian Loew of LForm Design www.lform.com   contains news, soundclips, and  information about the award-winning soprano, as well as a comprehensive discography section.   The site also features a blog, which will go live in two weeks. 

Soprano Susan Narucki, a leading interpreter of contemporary music, joins the faculty at UC San Diego as Professor of Voice.   Narucki's repertoire ranges from Stravinsky to Oliver Messiaen, Gerard Grisey, Pierre Boulez and Elliott Carter. She earned a Grammy for her recording of George Crumb's "Star-Child", and she has presented more than one hundred world premieres. 

UCSD's Department of Music is internationally recognized as the West Coast's premiere center for education and innovation in new music. Founded in 1966 by composers Robert Erickson and Will Ogdon, it was designed to provide a unique environment in which composers, performers and scholars could collaborate and engage with the most vital ideas and newest technologies in order to push the boundaries of contemporary music.

Narucki joins the performance faculty that also includes saxophonist David Borgo, clarinetist Anthony Burr, pianist Anthony Davis, contrabassist Mark Dresser, flutist John Fonville, bass-baritone Philip Larson, cellist Charles Curtis, pianist Aleck Karis, violinist János Négyesy and percussionist Steven Schick,

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