Gregory Spears

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GREGORY SPEARS is a New York-based composer whose music has been called "astonishingly beautiful" (The New York Times), "coolly entrancing" (The New Yorker), and "some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory" (The Boston Globe). In recent seasons he has been commissioned by The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cincinnati Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seraphic Fire, The Crossing, Volti, BMI/Concert Artists Guild, Vocal Arts DC, New York Polyphony, The New York International Piano Competition, and the JACK Quartet among others. He is currently working on a new evening-length opera, Castor and Patience, with U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, commissioned by Cincinnati Opera and scheduled for premiere in 2020. Spears' most recent evening-length opera, Fellow Travelers, written in collaboration with Greg Pierce, premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2016 and was seen in the 2017-18 season at the Prototype Festival (NYC), The Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in a new production at Minnesota Opera. It was hailed as "one of the most accomplished new operas I have seen in recent years" (Chicago Tribune) and an opera that "seems assured of lasting appeal" (The New York Times). The premiere was featured in The New York Times' Best in Classical Music for 2016. Cincinnati Opera released a commercial CD recording in 2017. His Requiem was released by New Amsterdam records in 2011. Spears' first opera, Paul's Case, written in collaboration with Kathryn Walat, was described as a "m

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Spears: Requiem

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Gregory Spears: Fellow Travelers (Live)

Requiem

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Emerging Composers

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Seven Days

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The Tower and the Garden: I. 80

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Paul's Case

Gregory Spears: Paul's Case

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Gregory Spears: Requiem

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The Tower and the Garden

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Wednesday Morning

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American Aggregate

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