Faculty artist Oscar Bettison studied with composer Louis Andriesen and spent 2023-24 in residence with the Asko|Schönberg orchestra in the Netherlands, writing a response to Andriesen’s De Staat. Conductor Clark Rundell leads Asko|Schönberg orchestra, Ensemble Klang, and students of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam through Louis Andriesen’s De Staat and the world premiere of Oscar Bettison’s “On the slow weather of dreams,” commissioned by Asko|Schönberg, Wednesday, September 4, 7:00 pm as part of the Gaudeamus Festival 2024 in Utrecht, the Netherlands; Thursday, September 12, 8:15 pm at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam; Saturday, September 20, 8:00 pm, at the Festival Musica Strasbourg; Wednesday, November 13 as part of the November Music 2024 festival in Den Bosch, the Netherlands; and Sunday, November 24, 8:15 pm at Amare in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
