Horizon Line features three works - Continuous Interior, Arctic & The Great Marsh, featuring Mivos and Bergamot Quartets, among others

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View this email in your browser Hello friends, I am thrilled to announce my sixth full length album Horizon Line, featuring three works with string quartets: Continuous Interior for Vibraphone and String Quartet (2022), The Great Marsh (2016), and Arctic (2013). The album will be on New Focus Recordings June 12, 2026. Stay tuned for updates, trailers, and previews leading up to its release. The album features the some amazing artists-friends-longtime collaborators: Abby Fisher, percussion Bergamot Quartet Mivos Quartet Alyssa Wang, violin Kiyoshi Hayashi, violin Beste Tiknaz, viola Jacques Lee Woods, cello Horizon Line explores landscapes and the pastoral - in nature, visual art, and urban space. The “horizon line”orients perspective and by implication, how we situate ourselves and derive meaning from the world around us. The album also brings together a decade of string quartet compositions, a medium of great joy for me. Album Trailer Below! https://youtube.com/shorts/NWkQVjRQifQ I have three upcoming premieres:  Juvenalia, arranged this past year for Wind Ensemble and solo percussion, will be premiered by Garrett Arney and the Yale Concert Band on April 10th, with additional performances at East Carolina University (April 24) and Arizona State University (Fall 2026). April 10 | Yale Concert Band with Garrett Arney Percussionist Lynn Vartan and violinist Shalini Vijayan premiere Floriography as a part of their multidisciplinary performance featuring live music, dance, projection, robotics and interactive installations April 24-25 | Floriography at Kimbell Cultural Event Center, Bryan, TX And No Exit New Music will be premiering my full Sonnets for soprano and chamber ensemble with soprano Anika Kildegaard, May 28-30: May 28 | Songs, Soundscapes and Sonnets at Waterloo Arts, Cleveland May 29 | Songs, Soundscapes and Sonnets at The Bob Stop, Cleveland May 30 | Songs, Soundscapes and Sonnets in Cleveland Heights Look below for some other news. Thanks for tuning in!  - rob In big news, I was awarded a 2025 Fromm Music Foundation commission. I will be composing a percussion quartet with the Colin Currie Quartet in the UK. Full Press Release Here In December, Rocket City New Music premiered my Everything, Anywhere. Everything, Anywhere was commissioned by Rocket City New Music with the generous support of Constance Blau in loving memory of Paul C. Blau. “The marriage of percussion and electronics is magical, creating newfound space, its repetitions implying the flawed infinity of the places of the title.” - Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine (Issue 49:5) Neuma Records releases Percussionist Abby Fisher's Continuous Interior, featuring the vibes/electronics version of Continuous Interior April 3rd Album Release Concert (Flagstaff, AZ) Streaming everywhere April 26, 2026 In January, The Living Earth Show with Tanner Porter premiered Music to Hear for mezzo-soprano, electric guitar percussion at the PIVOT Festival in San Francisco. Copyright © 2026 Robert Honstein, All rights reserved.    You are in this list because you might be interested in my music. But, please, unsubscribe if this is not the case.     Our mailing address is:    Robert Honstein 2 Barney Park Irvington, NY 10533 USA     Want to change how you receive these emails?    You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

For the release of Horizon Line, Abstraction Music Group has made a score follow video for The Great Marsh. Enjoy!

NYU appointment, Rocket City New Music commission, Juvenalia & Sonnets premiere, and videos of my Hong Kong residency

News and events for Robert Honstein! Visit my website for more info. View this email in your browser Robert Honstein's 25-26 Season Preview Performing Sonnets for soprano, percussion and piano at the Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theater, Hong Kong with soprano Joanne Shao and percussionist Matthew Lau, June 7, 2025 (Photo Credit: Jeff Cheng) Hello friends, Happy fall and the start of the 2025-26 concert season! I have some exciting premieres coming up, but first, I wanted to let you know that I’ve accepted the position as Clinical Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Steinhardt, starting this year. As most of you know, I've been teaching and working at NYU in various capacities for almost ten years. During that time, working with NYU students and colleagues has been a privilege, joy and source of constant inspiration. I'm thrilled to continue that work in this new role and excited to see where it takes me next. On to the music... Last season ended on a high note, with a week long residency with the Up:Strike Project at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, culminating in a portrait concert where I performed in a new version of my Sonnets for soprano, percussion, and piano, while the Up:Strike Project premiered my Yet in my sad heart for percussion quartet and track alongside older works, Patter and Is it Auburn?. We were even interviewed on Hong Kong’s RTHK, with a preview performance of Sonnets (Video here). On the premiere front, I’m currently finishing up a large chamber ensemble work for Rocket City New Music. Premiering December 20th in Huntsville, AL, with a Meet-the-Composer event on the 18th, the three-movement work is scored for eight performers (oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, vibraphone, and piano). In March and April, percussionist Garrett Arney will premiere the wind ensemble arrangement of my percussion concerto, Juvenalia, with the ASU Wind Symphony, Yale Concert Band, and East Carolina University Wind Ensemble. Finally, the complete eight-part song cycle Sonnets for soprano and chamber ensemble will be premiered and recorded by the No Exit New Music in Ohio May 28-30, 2026.  Last but not least, keep your ears out for an album of my string quartets, slated for release in June 2026 on New Focus Recordings. Much more to come about that as we get closer to the release date. In the meantime, please take a look at my full season calendar here: https://www.roberthonstein.com/202526-season Thanks for tuning in, Robert Recent Works: Yet in my sad heart for percussion quartet and track Sonnets, version for soprano, percussion and piano Music to Hear, commissioned by The Living Earth Show and Tanner Porter (more info soon) Interview/Performance on Ratio Television Hong Kong Upcoming Performances Oct. 3: "Bow Lines" from An Economy of Means in Cologne, Germany Oct. 29: De Apostolis in Manitoba, Canada Nov. 2: Iwo Jedynecki and Karolina Mikolajczyk perform selections of Floriography, arranged for accordion and violin. Nov.13-15: VT Percussion Ensemble performs An Index of Possibility with choreography at PASIC  Jan. 30: The Living Earth Show with Tanner Porter perform Music to Hear at PIVOT Festival in San Francisco Feb. 14: Colin Currie & Ensemble 360 perform Continuous Interior Yet in My Sad Heart was commissioned by The Up:Strike Project, Dr. Matthew Lau & Karen Yu, directors. It was premiered on Saturday, June 8, 2025 at the Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theater, Hong Kong by the Up:Strike Project, featuring Matthew Lau, Karen Yu, Samuel Chan, and Bevis Ng. face tweet web YouTube Copyright © 2025 Robert Honstein, All rights reserved. You are in this list because you might be interested in my music. But, please, unsubscribe if this is not the case. Our mailing address is: Robert Honstein 2 Barney Park Irvington, NY 10533 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

My new album The Real Charlie Chaplin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out today!

The day is finally here, friends. I hope that you can take the time to listen to these cues from The Real Charlie Chaplin. It was such a joy to make this score and also a huge learning process. I'm really proud of where it landed and thrilled to be sharing it with you today. Coinciding with Bandcamp Friday, this soundtrack album also marks the creation of my label Up in the Attic Records.

Let me know what you think and please share it with your friends!

- Rob

New Focus Recordings just released Lost and Found by Robert Honstein, check it out here.

AUDIO RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE ON ORIGIN RECORDS:

Middle Ground, an album recorded by violinist Kate Stenberg, features this work in three movements. Please check out this beautiful performance and read the liner notes by the engaging music journalist Vanessa Ague.

The digital album can be ordered through Other Minds Records here: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/middle-ground

Credits:

releases March 12, 2021

Kate Stenberg - Violin

Produced by Robert Honstein
Recorded and edited by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY
Mixed by Devin Greenwood at the Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Video by Four/Ten media (Kevin Eikenberg and Evan Chapman)
Design by Laura Grey with Molly Haig
Liner Notes by Vanessa Ague

Middle Ground was commissioned by Kat Kroll, Barbara Sapienza, and Nancy Karp + Dancers and premiered February 10, 2016 by Kate Stenberg at the ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

Gratitude and thanks to Kate Stenberg, Ryan Streber, Devin Greenwood, Laura Grey, Evan Chapman, Kevin Eikenberg, Other Minds, Andrew Weathers, Vanessa Ague, Nancy Karp, Kat Kroll, Barbara Sapienza, Nick Noyes, and Thekla Hammond.

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Third Angle New Music presents “Everything Means Nothing To Me”

Album available here: https://www.thirdangle.org/albums/everything-means-nothing-to-me

Featuring my arrangements of “Biggest Lie”, “Waltz #1”, and “Southern Belle”. 

The recorded works of Third Angle New Music in their 2018 concert “A Fond Farewell,” reimagining the music of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith as a suite of classical art-songs. Presents the music of six nationally lauded composers: Christopher Cerrone, LJ White, Robert Honstein, Scott Wollschleger, Ted Hearne, and Jacob Cooper. The second album on the Third Angle Records imprint.