On March 22, 2025 one of O’Regan’s most enduring works, Triptych, will return to New York City’s Carnegie Hall in a performance by the New England Symphonic Ensemble under the direction of Jo-Anne van der Vat-Chromy.
The Vancouver Chamber Choir makes a rare Toronto appearance, for the first time with their new music director Kari Turunen, at Soundstreams on February 27, 2025. The program features music by visiting composer Tarik O’Regan and the world premieres of six short new works by participants in Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Emerging Composer Showcase, who will be mentored by Tarik O’Regan in the days leading up to this concert.
Tarik O’Regan will be presented with The Yaddo Artist Medal at an award ceremony in Manhattan on November 21, hosted by Alan Cumming. The Yaddo Artist Medal recognizes individuals who exemplify a level of achievement and commitment to their art that reflects the tradition of excellence that has always been a hallmark of the Yaddo residency program, as well as celebrating those who have been supportive and understand the sense of community that it has long promoted among artists. Past recipients have included Philip Roth, Laurie Anderson, Martin Puryear, David Del Tredici, Amy Hempel, and Alfred Leslie.
The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco has been awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to fund a new commission from Tarik O’Regan, provisionally titled Requiem for the Estranged to be premiered in 2025.
Inspired by Rilke’s letters to an aspiring poet, five leading composers write a personal letter to a young composer – real or imagined – with their thoughts about their craft, their influences and the things they wish they’d known when they were starting out. In this essay, Tarik O’Regan writes to an imagined, younger Tarik, sharing the internal and external pressures of a life working in music. O’Regan discusses travel, mental health, the relationship between public image and reality – and the thrill of creation.
This spring the Dunedin Consort will perform Scattered Rhymes in a five-date tour around the UK. Scattered Rhymes, a fifteen-minute work for SATB choir with four vocal soloists, was originally commissioned by Spitalfields Festival and premiered by the Orlando Consort and the Joyful Company of Singers in 2006.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and SCO Chorus announce their summer touring plans, which include performances of The Ecstasies Above under the direction of Gregory Batsleer as part of their Earth, Heaven and Sky program.
Seen and Unseen, a song cycle setting the poetry of Yone Noguchi commissioned by Lieder Alive in San Francisco, receives its European premiere at Deutsche Oper Berlin in a performance by John Parr (piano) and Meechot Marrero (soprano).
Oratorio of Hope, which launched Croydon as the 2023/24 London Borough of Culture with performances involving more than 250 of young singers and instrumentalists, has been nominated in the Series and Events category of the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.
JAM returns to St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street to open its 2024 season. Music of Our Time is a celebration of new music including including The Night’s Untruth commissioned from Tarik O’Regan in 2010. This work explores the use of sleep as a metaphor by dint of excerpts from poems written in the 17th to 20th centuries. The piece was premiered in 2010 to great acclaim: “O’Regan’s technical skills are superb, and the result has a directness that is perfectly matched by the subtlety of its means.” (The Guardian)
Tarik O’Regan has been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal for “actively contributing to the official Coronation events in Westminster Abbey.”
Purchase copies of the Coronation Agnus Dei sheet music performed at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6, published by Novello & Company.
Download official PDF copies of the sheet music from Novello & Company for the Coronation Agnus Dei performed at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6.
Tarik O’Regan speaks with Lydia Wilson from New Lines Magazine about “Rock, Rai, and Royalty.”
“British-American composer and force of nature Tarik O’Regan discusses John-Paul Jones and the aborted arrow dance; a brief stint in banking; long childhood car journeys listening to Led Zeppelin, Madonna and a selection of local Algerian oud players; and the not-entirely-pressure-free task of composing for none other than the coronation of King Charles III, plus much more.”
Commissioned on behalf of The King by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. First performed on Saturday 6th May 2023 at Westminster Abbey by the combined forces of the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, choristers from Methodist College Belfast and Truro Cathedral Choir, and an octet from the Monteverdi Choir, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha with organist Peter Holder.
The first staged performance of Mass Observation, a major work for voices and percussion ensemble originally premiered in 2018, has been made available to watch for free on YouTube. The Netherlands Radio Choir is conducted by Benjamin Goodson at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht in a production directed by Peter Leung, as part of the Living Room project.
His Majesty King Charles III has commissioned Tarik O’Regan to compose the Agnus Dei for the Coronation Service of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey on Saturday May 6, 2023. O’Regan writes: “I wanted to explore influences from my own varied heritages within the context of the Agnus Dei in the British choral tradition: a unison melody is slowly fragmented to create myriad timbres, much as one might hear in some Arab or Irish traditional music. This melodic shifting is also reminiscent of ‘phase music’, strongly connected with San Francisco, where I wrote this work. Finally, there is an alternating verse anthem structure: a nod to Orlando Gibbons, who became Organist of Westminster Abbey exactly 400 years ago.”
“Art and creativity are fundamental parts of any city’s economy.” Read the Ray Bonsall’s interview with Tarik O’Regan here.
The James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance is premieres a new dance work choreographed by Rubén Graciani, dean of JMU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and professor of dance, set to Grammy-nominated composer Tarik O’Regan’s evocative, three movement composition, Triptych.
Croydon has unveiled a yearlong timetable of music and art events as London Borough of Culture 2023. Street festivals, dance, music and theatre productions will run from April until March 2024. The year of events will begin with Oratorio of Hope at Fairfield Halls, a performance led by London Mozart Players and Grammy-nominated and Croydon-educated Tarik O’Regan. It will include more than 250 of the borough’s young singers and instrumentalists.
Tarik O’Regan has been commissioned by His Majesty King Charles III to compose a new work of music for The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort taking place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday May 6, 2023.
On May 25, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Courtney Lewis gives the premiere of Recalcitrance.
Mostly Modern Festival announces that O’Regan joins the composition faculty for this year’s festival.
The London Mozart Players give two flagship performances on April 1-2, 2023 of the Oratorio of Hope, a brand-new commission which puts Croydon, London’s Borough of Culture 2023-4, at its heart. Croydon’s poet laureate Shaniqua Benjamin shares stories of hope for the future, while O’Regan leads on the composition of the music alongside established composers, arrangers and local musicians.
Mass Observation, a major work for voices and percussion ensemble originally premiered in 2018, will receive its first staged performance on April 22, 2023. The Netherlands Radio Choir will be conducted by Benjamin Goodson at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, as part of the Living Room project.
Amy Dickson premieres a new concerto for soprano saxophone and strings, Machine, by O’Regan at the Presteigne Festival in Wales. The piece, which has been specially commissioned by the festival and will be performed by the Presteigne Festival Orchestra conducted by George Vass, started life as a short three-minute solo which was first performed by the Australian saxophonist during lockdown.
PBO announces their summer tour to the U.K., Netherlands, and the eastern United States, where they will perform a program featuring a new work, Ancestor, co-composed by PBO Composer-in-Residence Tarik O’Regan and Errollyn Wallen, set to text from original sources researched by countertenor Reginald Mobley that explore the creation myth.
O’Regan and poet/activist Marcus Omari join forces on The Quickening, a new work for chorus and orchestra to be premiered by the Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony on 7 May, 2023.
The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra announces the premiere performances of Trances commissioned by the orchestra on June 10 and 11, 2022 under the direction of Courtney Lewis. The orchestra will also perform the US premiere of O’Regan’s Raï on April 8 and 9, 2022.
The Washington Post includes O’Regan in its annual list of “composers, performers and artists hitting their stride with work that resonates with the right now.”
Cantori New York announces two performances of O’Regan’s major work A Letter of Rights, his collaboration with librettist Alice Goodman meditating on the right to due process enshrined in Magna Carta, on November 12 and 13.
Following two sold-out runs, Mata Hari, featuring choreography by Ted Brandsen and a score by Tarik O’Regan, returns to Dutch National Ballet from October 14 for three weeks.
Oregon Ballet Theatre celebrates their return to live performance with the world premiere of Choros, created by Nicolo Fonte, featuring O’Regan’s Raï and Latent Manifest.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) has named Tarik O’Regan as its composer in residence — the first time in its 40-year history that the early-music ensemble has supported such a position. The residency promises to make new music a more prominent part of the orchestra’s activity.
All Things Common is included in AllMusic’s list of best vocal classical music for 2020.
Letters, an album which leads with O’Regan’s A Letter of Rights, tops the list of 2020 classical albums as ranked by the Irish Times.
NativeDSD has nominated All Things Common as one of four best albums of the year in the Chorale & Gospel cateogry.
Naxos releases Letters, which includes Tarik O’Regan’s major work A Letter of Rights, his collaboration with librettist Alice Goodman (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer) meditating on the right to due process enshrined in Magna Carta, originally commissioned by Salisbury Cathedral as part of the Magna Carta 800th anniversary celebrations in 2015. The performance on this recording, which couples A Letter of Rights with David Fennessy’s Triptych, is by Chamber Choir Ireland and Irish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Paul Hillier.
Pentatone releases the live recording of Houston Grand Opera’s production of The Phoenix, which tells the fascinating story of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist for Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, and Così fan tutte. Written by composer Tarik O’Regan and librettist John Caird, The Phoenix stars baritone Thomas Hampson as Lorenzo da Ponte, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as Da Ponte’s son, Enzo, and mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb in the three roles of Maria Malibran, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Nancy Da Ponte.
Tarik O’Regan has been appointed Artistic Partner with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO). This coincides with the launch of the online talk show What’s New and H.I.P. with Tarik and Rick, in which PBO Music Director Richard Egarr and Tarik discuss connections and misconceptions between and about “new music” and “historically-informed performance”.
All Things Common, a portrait album by Pacific Chorale and Salastina Music Society under the direction of Robert Istad is released today on the Yarlung label.
Dutch National Ballet has announced that its production of Mata Hari, featuring choreography by Ted Brandsen and a score by Tarik O’Regan, will be available to stream online until Saturday, June 6.
Here is a preview of the title track, recorded in one take, from All Things Common, a new album of O’Regan’s work from Pacific Chorale under the direction of Robert Istad on the Yarlung label.
Composer Tarik O’Regan discusses with host Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known.
Tarik O’Regan has been appointed Visiting Artist at Stanford University. Aside from working on his various commissions and ongoing projects, he will lead student engagement activities, including mentoring and advising.
This BBC World Service documentary follows two years in the development of The Phoenix, “from O’Regan’s original base in the former Swaziland, now known as eSwatini, to meetings in London and rehearsals in Houston, we hear how the process of working on an opera is a global business and how the music evolves over a long period from first sketches to opening night.”
The Phoenix tells the fascinating story of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist for Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, and Così fan tutte. Written by composer Tarik O’Regan and librettist John Caird, The Phoenix stars baritone Thomas Hampson as Lorenzo da Ponte, in his HGO debut, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as Da Ponte’s son, Enzo, and mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb in the three roles of Maria Malibran, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Nancy Da Ponte. The opera runs April 26 to May 10.
Chamber Choir Ireland and Contemporary Music Centre are pleased to announce that, following an anonymous selection process, composers Anselm McDonnell, Sinéad Finegan, and Eoin Mulvany have been selected to participate in the Choral Sketches project for 2019. This is a unique professional development opportunity for composers who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music, with mentoring from Tarik O’Regan.
In February and March 2019, Tarik O’Regan will join fellow Banff faculty members Michael Zaugg and Lone Larsen to co-run the Choral Art: Choirs program, an intensive workshop that explores the creation and presentation of choral music in the 21st century.
The Oberlin College Choir and Oberlin Orchestra under the direction of Gregory Ristow will perform O’Regan’s Triptych, in a version scored for choir and percussion ensemble, alongside Stravinsky’s Les Noces on January 19 at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
Following the success of the Choral Sketches projects in 2017 and 2018, Chamber Choir Ireland and Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland) will renew their partnership in 2018/2019, to present this unique professional development opportunity for composers who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music with mentoring from Tarik O’Regan.
Following the success of the Choral Sketches project with Chamber Choir Ireland and the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland), now in its second year, Pacific Chorale presents this unique professional development opportunity for US-based composers who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music. Deadline: August 1.
The Pacific Chorale, with which Tarik O’Regan is Composer in Residence, has annouced its 2018/19 season, including a concert dedicated to the works of O’Regan on May 18, 2019.
Tarik O’Regan has been awarded the 2018 ACDA Brock Commission, for which he has composed All things common.
Chamber Choir Ireland and The Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland) have partnered to present the Choral Sketches public workshop. It is a professional development opportunity for composers wishing to develop their skills in writing choral music.
Fred Plotkin at WQXR/Operavore has included The Phoenix in his 2018/19 season highlights.
HGO announces its 2018/2019 season, including “The Phoenix, a world premiere about the colorful life of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist for the masterful Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, and Così fan tutte. The new work, written by composer Tarik O’Regan and librettist John Caird, will star renowned baritone Thomas Hampson as Lorenzo da Ponte, in a belated HGO debut, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as Da Ponte’s son, Lorenzo, and mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb in the three roles of Maria Malibran, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Nancy Da Ponte.”
Marking O’Regan’s 40th birthday, Music Sales Classical has published The Choral Works of Tarik O’Regan, a new brochure covering all choral publications from Novello, OUP and Sulasol.
O’Regan is the focus of Gramophone Magazine’s Contemporary Composers series in an extensive and detailed feature by Evan Dickerson in the December, 2017 issue.
Pacific Chorale, accompanied by the Pacific Symphony, launches O’Regan’s three-year residency with them on October 29 with the US premiere of A Celestial Map of the Sky . The concert celebrates the ensemble’s fiftieth anniversary, and is conducted by Robert Istad.
Following the success of the inaugural Choral Sketches project in February 2017, Chamber Choir Ireland and CMC will renew their partnership in 2017/2018, to present this unique professional development opportunity for composers who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music with mentoring from renowned composer Tarik O’Regan. Deadline: Friday, October 13.
Shattered Glass launches its new album of music for string ensemble, which includes O’Regan’s Chaâbi, on October 3 at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
Pembroke College’s Governing Body from time to time elects distinguished individuals as Honorary Fellows. O’Regan has accepted his invitation to join this group, which also includes His Majesty the King of Jordan, Sir Roger Bannister, and Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett.
Highlights of the 2017/18 season include performances by the Orchestra of the Opéra de Rouen, Lausanne Symphony Orchestra, and the Alexander String Quartet.
O’Regan has been appointed Composer in Residence for three seasons from Autumn 2017 with Pacific Chorale. As well as writing new works, O’Regan will play a role in artistic planning, working alongside incoming Artistic Director Robert Istad. Pacific Chorale will launch the residency with the US premiere of A Celestial Map of the Sky at a concert celebrating the ensemble’s fiftieth anniversary on October 29.
Following its sold-out premiere run in 2016, Mata Hari returns to Dutch National Ballet from October 14, 2017. Tickets are now on sale.
Houston Grand Opera has announced that Thomas Hampson and Luca Pisaroni have been cast in The Phoenix, O’Regan’s new full-scale opera about the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte. The opera, with a libretto by John Caird, will open in Houston in 2019.
A Celestial Map of the Sky is reviewed by Hannah Kendall on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review.
A three-hour retrospective with performances by the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, the Hallé orchestra, and an interview with Michael Lee is broadcast on RTÉ Lryic.
A promotional video for O’Regan’s new orchestral album, A Celestial Map of the Sky, co-directed by Martin Roe and Nate Skeen of Dirty Robber, has been released.
Having joined the board of Yaddo, Tarik O’Regan will take part in their 2017 benefit, Variations, hosted by Gail Gregg on May 15.
A Celestial Map of the Sky, has entered the UK Specialist Classical Chart at position seven.
Tarik O’Regan talks about his new album and new opera with Sean Rafferty on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.
Tarik O’Regan’s first orchestral album, performed by the Hallé, Hallé Youth Choir, and The Manchester Grammar School Choir, under the direction of Sir Mark Elder and Jamie Phillip, is now available on the NMC label.
Tarik O’Regan is interviewed by Steven Rainey on BBC’s The Arts Show.
Tarik O’Regan, discussing his current projects, is featured in Final Note Magazine.
Following its sold-out premiere run in 2016, Mata Hari returns to Dutch National Ballet in October 2017 as a centerpiece of DNB’s 2017/18 season.
The first review of O’Regan’s forthcoming orchestral album has been printed in the Observer newspaper: “If you missed Tarik O’Regan’s acclaimed chamber opera Heart of Darkness, here’s a welcome opportunity to hear some of its luminous beauty.”
Hold this city all night, a setting of three poems by Alice Goodman, will receive its premiere on May 20 at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms in a performance by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and pianist Iain Burnside.
Gradual – O’Regan’s first full-length string quartet – gets its first West Coast performance on March 26 at Kohl Mansion, Burlingame, California, performed by The Alexander String Quartet.
Mass Observation, a major new work for voices and percussion ensemble, commissioned by Jerry Blackstone and the University of Michigan, will receive its premiere on February 15. The University Chamber Choir and Percussion Ensemble will then record the 40-minute composition for a new album of O’Regan’s work to be released in 2018.
Now fatal change, the bonus track from A Celestial Map of the Sky, O’Regan’s forthcoming orchestral album (release date: February 24, 2017), is now available for download from NMC.
A Letter of Rights, Tarik O’Regan’s collaboration with Alice Goodman, will receive its Irish premiere and a three-city tour performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir Ireland under the direction of Paul Hillier: 23-26 February.
Commissioned by Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State University Department of Music, Gradual – O’Regan’s first full-length string quartet – will receive its East Coast premiere on November 18 at Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City, in a performance by the Alexander String Quartet.
The Contemporary Music Centre and Chamber Choir Ireland are delighted to announce that composers Amanda Feery, Michael Gallen and Seán Doherty have been selected to participate in the Choral Sketches project, with mentoring from Tarik O’Regan, for 2017. In February 2017 Chamber Choir Ireland will perform the Irish premiere and tour of A Letter of Rights by O’Regan and Alice Goodman.
As Senior Fellow, O’Regan will share his expertise and broad understanding of music and collaborations across the arts, begin composing a full-scale opera commissioned by Houston Grand Opera for 2019, and work with the Center to explore and expand programs that accomplish its mission.
Commissioned by Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State University Department of Music, Gradual – O’Regan’s first full-length string quartet – will receive its first performance by The Alexander String Quartet on October 7 in the Boise Chamber Music Series.
Dutch National Ballet’s world premiere production of Mata Hari has been released by EuroArts in DVD and Blu-ray formats, distributed by Warner Classics. This full-length ballet is choreographed by Ted Brandsen with a new score by Tarik O’Regan.
With Choral Sketches, Chamber Choir Ireland and CMC will partner to present a unique professional development opportunity for composers who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music with mentoring from Tarik O’Regan. The purpose of the Choral Sketches initiative is to provide a creative and open environment for composers to deepen their experience in writing for voices in a choral context. Deadline: Monday, October 17.
Dutch National Ballet’s world premiere production of Mata Hari will be released by EuroArts on September 30, 2016 in DVD and Blu-ray formats, distributed by Warner Classics. Both formats are availble for pre-order now via Amazon. This full-length ballet is choreographed by Ted Brandsen with a new score by Tarik O’Regan.
On July 17, Anna Tsygankova and Matthew Golding will perform excerpts from Mata Hari in Hamburg Ballet’s 42nd Nijinsky Gala, held at Staatsoper Hamburg. The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra will perform, conducted by Simon Hewett; choreography by Ted Brandsen.
National Portrait Gallery’s Gregory Batsleer, producer Louis Hartshorn of the Arts Theatre, London and Latitude’s Tania Harrison present a fusion of electronica with O’Regan’s The Ecstasies Above. DJ Nico Bentley, 16 singers, a string quartet and a company of dancers led by choreographer Lily Howkins have been brought together to create this presentation for Latitude Festival (July 14-17).
Organist Joseph Wicks gives the first performance of O’Regan’s Chorale Prelude on ‘Wenn dich Unglück tut greifen an’ (forming part of the Orgelbüchlein Project) on July 3 in the chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Turn, a new work commissioned by chamber choir Conspirare setting the poetry of Albert Verwey in a translation by Cliff Crego, receives its seven-date world premiere tour May 11-23.
Chamber Choir Ireland, under the direction of Paul Hillier, is taking Scattered Rhymes (a Spitalfields Festival commission) on tour to Dublin (June 9), Kilkenny (June 10), and the Gregynog Festival (June 26).
New York City-based conductorless string ensemble Shattered Glass takes O’Regan’s Chaâbi, originally commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, on a seven-date US tour.
A New York Times feature on Mata Hari includes interviews with composer Tarik O’Regan and choreographer Ted Brandsen.
Dutch National Ballet’s Mata Hari, with a new score by Tarik O’Regan, will be streamed live on Mezzo Live HD in 44 countries on February 23, with repeat broadcasts until March 30.
Watch the trailer for Dutch National Ballet’s Mata Hari, with a new score by Tarik O’Regan, currently enjoying its sold-out run in Amsterdam.
As Mata Hari opens, the final episode in a five-part mini-series looks at the music in this full-length new ballet for Dutch National Ballet with a new score by Tarik O’Regan.
Principal ballerina Anna Tsygankova explains what it means to her to dance the title role of Mata Hari in the fourth episode of the five-part mini-series charting the development of Mata Hari, a full-length new ballet for Dutch National Ballet with a new score by Tarik O’Regan.
The US premiere of A Letter of Rights, Tarik O’Regan’s collaboration with librettist Alice Goodman (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer) by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, NOVUS NY and Scott Allen Jarrett can now be watched online.
In the third episode of the five-part mini-series charting the development of Mata Hari, a full-length new ballet for Dutch National Ballet with a new score by Tarik O’Regan, design team Clement & Sanôu describes their visual concept for the ballet.
A Letter of Rights, Tarik O’Regan’s collaboration with librettist Alice Goodman (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer), will receive its US premiere in Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City on January 4, 2016, as part of the church’s Twelfth Night Festival. It can be watched live and for a year afterwards online.
The second episode of the five-part mini-series charting the development of Mata Hari, a full-length new ballet for Dutch National Ballet with a new score by Tarik O’Regan, has been released and can be viewed online. This episode focuses on the work of costume designer François-Noël Cherpin.
O’Regan is the focus of the latest in a series of promotional films from Music Sales Classical.
The first episode of a five-part documentary mini-series charting the inception and development of Mata Hari, a large-scale new ballet for Dutch National Ballet choreographed by Ted Brandsen (opens February 6, 2016), has been released and can be viewed online.
Watch a preview of a five-part documentary series charting the inception of Mata Hari in advance of the ballet’s February, 2016 premiere at Dutch National Ballet.
A Letter of Rights, Tarik O’Regan’s collaboration with librettist Alice Goodman (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer), will receive its US premiere in Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City on January 4, 2016, as part of the church’s Twelfth Night Festival.
Tarik O’Regan has given an exlusive interview to DCINY ahead of the November 15 concert of his music at Carnegie Hall, which will be conducted by Robert Istad.
The Boise Chamber Music Society, presenter of the annual Boise Chamber Music Series, has commissioned Tarik O’Regan to create a work for string quartet which will be premiered in 2016 by the Alexander String Quartet of San Francisco.
The “wonderful European premiere” (Time Out London) of O’Regan’s monodrama The Wanton Sublime in a new production by Robert Shaw for Inside Intelligence has opened to a series of positive reviews: O’Regan’s music is “rather wonderful, weaving a richly melismatic vocal line into a strikingly coloured orchestral score delicately enhanced by electronic effects; never sterile or mechanical, it [had] a living organic pulse” (Telegraph). An “inventive and attractive score” (Evening Standard) “rooted in strings, but regularly pricked with electric guitars, flute doubling piccolo, and the stardust of percussion” (Spectator) provides for “vital, compelling music” (WhatsOnStage) to create a “strikingly immersive experience” (The Stage) of “bluesy rebelliousness and Monteverdian lyricism” (Guardian).
Tarik O’Regan is interviewed by Caro Moses ahead of the European premiere of The Wanton Sublime at the Arcola Theatre, London (runs August 25-29).
On November 15, 2015, Robert Istad will conduct Triptych and The Ecstasies Above at Carnegie Hall, New York City. Tickets are now on sale from the Carnegie Hall box office.
Heart of Darkness has been nominated in the Best New Music Performance category of the San Francisco Classical Voice Best of the Bay awards. Voting will remain open until Monday, August 17.
Interviews with Tarik O’Regan ahead of the European premiere of The Wanton Sublime at the Arcola’s Grimeborn Festival (August 25-29) have been published.
Dancer Sascha Radetsky, composer Tarik O’Regan, and writer/historian Marina Warner are among a group of eight fellows who will be in residence this fall at the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, the first international institute devoted to the creation and study of ballet.
O’Regan is to join the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU as a Resident Fellow from September, 2015. He will complete his orchestral score to Mata Hari, a full length ballet commissioned by the Dutch National Ballet, which will receive it’s premiere in February, 2016.
On November 15, 2015, Robert Istad will conduct Triptych and The Ecstasies Above at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
As part of the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn 2015 Festival, Inside Intelligence will present the European premiere of The Wanton Sublime, a monodrama by Tarik O’Regan and Anna Rabinowitz, in a new production directed by Robert Shaw. Paired with The Medium by Peter Maxwell Davies, both shows star mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn. Opens August 25 at the Arcola Theatre, London.
An article in the New York Times about the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta highlights A Letter of Rights by Tarik O’Regan and Alice Goodman.
The BBC has had exclusive access to rehearsals at Salisbury Cathedral for A Letter of Rights by Tarik O’Regan and Alice Goodman.
Tarik O’Regan is interviewed in Classical Music magazine about his forthcoming collaboration with Alice Goodman on A Letter of Rights, which premieres at Salisbury Cathedral on June 13. Opens May 1 at Z Space.
The Esoterics and the Skyros String Quartet join forces for three performances of The Ecstasies Above in Seattle and Portland on June 5/6/7, 2015.
Tarik O’Regan has collaborated with librettist Alice Goodman (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer) on A Letter of Rights, a new cantata which will be premiered in Salisbury Cathedral on June 13 as part of the Magna Carta 800th anniversary celebrations.
The US premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s opera Heart of Darkness in a new production by Opera Parallèle has opened its sold-out run to a series positive reviews: O’Regan’s “florid orchestral score” (Berekeley Daily PLanet) is one of “kaleidoscopic inventiveness” (San Francisco Chronicle), described as “terrific” (San Jose Mercury News), “exceptionally beautiful” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “especially haunting” (Bachtrack), “very, very good” (A Beast in a Jungle), and “a gem [of an opera]” (SFist).
Heart of Darkness is listed as one of five essential shows for the weekend of April 30 to May 3. Heart of Darkness opens May 1 at Z Space. The evenings performances of May 1 & 2, and the matinee performance on May 3 are now SOLD OUT.
Janos Gereben of The Examiner previews the US premiere Heart of Darkness. Opens May 1 at Z Space.
While in Manchester for the world premiere of A Celestial Map of the Sky with the Hallé Orchestra, Tarik O’Regan was interviewed on a wide range of topics by Leo Mercer from The Oxford Culture Review.
Molly Colin of SFCV interviews Tarik O’Regan and the creative team behind Opera Parallèle’s new production of Heart of Darkness. Opens May 1, 2015 at Z Space in San Francisco.
Conductor Robert Istad and DCINY present O’Regan’s Triptych and The Ecstasies Above at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage), New York City .
Tickets are now on sale for Opera Parallèle’s new production of Heart of Darkness. Opens May 1, 2015 in San Francisco.
Tarik O’Regan has collaborated with librettist Alice Goodman (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer) on A Letter of Rights, a new cantata which will be premiered in Salisbury Cathedral on June 13 as part of the Magna Carta 800th anniversary celebrations.
The Dutch National Ballet has announced the forhcoming premiere production of a new large-scale, full-length ballet based on the life of Mata Hari with an original score by Tarik O’Regan and choreography by Ted Brandsen. Opens February 6, 2016 in Amsterdam.
An entry on Tarik O’Regan has been added to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.