Boston Musica Viva is a Boston, Massachusetts-based music ensemble founded by its Music Director, Richard Pittman, in 1969 and dedicated to contemporary music.
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Boston Musica Viva has performed the works of 233 composers over its 38-year history; more than 565 compositions in all. A total of 143 works have been written for the ensemble to date, and they have performed 158 world premieres, and 71 Boston premieres. Among the composers whose work the ensemble has performed are Pulitzer Prize-winners Ellen Taaffe Zwilich[1] John Harbison, Joseph Schwantner[2] 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 Records | Albany], Neuma, Delos, CRI, [Nonesuch Records | Nonesuch], Newport Classic and Northeastern Records labels.
Boston Musica Viva received an Aaron Copland Fund grant in 1993[3] and in 2003, the ensemble received the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming.
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Violin
Viola
Cello
Contrabass
Flute
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Oboe
Clarinet
Bassoon
French horn
Trumpet
Trombone
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Timpani
Percussion
Piano
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