On this day in 1988, Remembrance received its first performance. The work was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University in memory of Paul Fromm, and later was included as part of Three Occasions for Orchestra. #ContemporaryClassical #Orchestra #MusicHistory youtu.be/A_wfoA8Bw6I

Carter's song cycle, Poems of Louis Zukofsky, premiered on this day in 2009. Soprano Lucy Shelton, also featured in the recording below, gave the first performance with clarinetist Thomas Martin at the Tanglewood Festival. #VocalMusic #Clarinet #ContemporaryMusic #ChamberMusic

Saturday, June 14: Berkeley Piano Club presents Isaac Pastor-Chermak, Miles Graber, and Alison Lee performing works for cello and piano by Bohuslav Martinu, Elliott Carter, and Francis Poulenc. #Cello #CelloSonata #MidcenturyModern #BerkeleyCA www.elliottcarter.com/events/2025-...

Heinz Holliger premiered HBHH on this day in 2007. Short for "Happy Birthday Heinz Holliger," the work was written for the oboist and composer's 68th birthday. #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #Oboe #HeinzHolliger www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAE...

Tempo e Tempi was first performed 25 years ago today! Carter described the song-cycle as "a small gesture of gratitude to Italian culture and its musicians that have shown such an interest in my work." Enjoy Lucy Shelton's recording with Ensemble Sospeso below. #ContemporaryMusic

This weekend, May 25: Wind students from Musikhögskolan i Malmö under the direction of Håkan Hardenberger perform Carter's Tintinnabulation, plus works by William Walton, Andrea Tarrodi, W.A Mozart, J.S Bach, Staffan Storm, Tōru Takemitsu, and Giovanni Gabrieli. #ContemporaryMusic

Friday, May 23: Baldur Brönnimann and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie perform Carter's Variations for Orchestra, plus works by Missy Mazzoli, Luciano Berio, and Carlos Cardenas. #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #Orchestra #ElliottCarter www.elliottcarter.com/events/2025-...

Sunday, May 4 at Carnegie Hall, Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Carter's Night Fantasies with works by Sweelinck, Chopin, Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, and Ives. #CarnegieHall #NYCConcerts #PianoMusic #ClassicalMusic #ElliottCarter #Sweelinck #CharlesIves www.elliottcarter.com/events/2024-...

This Saturday May 3, Collide-O-Scope Music performs solo and chamber works by Elliott Carter, John Link, and Eleonor Sandresky at the DiMenna Center’s Benzaquen Hall in NYC. #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #NYCConcerts #NYCMusic #JohnLink #EleonorSandresky www.elliottcarter.com/events/2025-...

The Amphion Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of volume 5 of Elliott Carter Studies Online, featuring new articles and never before published interviews. Learn more at the link below! #ElliottCarter #OnlineJournal #Musicology #MusicHistory www.elliottcarter.com/news/elliott...

On this day 25 years ago, Retrouvailles was first performed, which Carter wrote "To celebrate the birthday of my friend, Pierre Boulez, March 26, 2000." Today, we celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Boulez's birth with Ursula Oppens's recording of Retrouvailles.

Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning String Quartet No. 2 premiered on this day in 1960. Enjoy this performance of the work by Quatuor Pollack below! #ElliottCarter #QuatuorPollack #StringQuartet

On April 2, Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) performs works by Elliott Carter, Augusta Read Thomas, Matthias Pintscher, Pierre Boulez, and Lingluan Yang at @thenewschool.bsky.social 's John L. Tishman Auditorium. #MannesSchoolOfMusic #ElliottCarter #ContemporaryMusic

Carter's Duo for Violin and Piano was premiered 50 years ago today at Cooper Union in New York City! Enjoy this recording of the work by Rolf Schulte and Ursula Oppens. #ContemporaryMusic #ElliottCarter #RolfSchulte #UrsulaOppens #Violin #Piano

March 22 in Washington, D.C., Washington Men’s Camerata presents an evening of works by Fauré, Poulenc, d’Indy, Gounod, Duruflé, Milhaud, Strouse, Copland, Conte, and Carter. #VocalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #ElliottCarter #DariusMilhaud #AaronCopland

Saturday, March 22, JACK Quartet performs works by Elliott Carter, Eduardo Aguilar, and Helmut Lachenmann at @wigmore-hall.org.uk . #JACKQuartet #ElliottCarter #EduardoAguilar #HelmutLachenmann #ContemporaryMusic #StringQuartet

Next Tuesday, March 18, the Nash Ensemble performs works by Igor Stravinsky, Simon Holt, Helen Grime, Peter Maxwell Davies, Elliott Carter, and more at @wigmore-hall.org.uk . #NashEnsemble #Stravinsky #SimonHolt #HelenGrime #PeterMaxwellDavies #ElliottCarter

Next week on March 11, Northwestern State University presents Carterfest, featuring an all-Carter program performed by current and former students and faculty and a pre-concert talk with Dr. John Dunn at 7pm. #Carterfest #ElliottCarter #NSU #Music #ContemporaryMusic

Two Diversions was premiered on this day in 2000 at Carnegie Hall. Enjoy this performance of the work by Hadley McCarroll. #ElliottCarter #Piano #Music #ContemporaryMusic

#ICYMI - Trio Karénine performed Epigrams earlier this month at Théâtre de l'Alliance Française in Paris. Watch the performance now from @francemusique.fr . #ElliottCarter #TrioKarénine #Music #ContemporaryMusic

Sunday, February 23, the Worcester Concert Club presents the Gould Piano Trio with works by Mozart, Carter and Tchaikovsky at Huntingdon Hall. #GouldPianoTrio #Mozart #Tchaikovsky #ElliottCarter #Music

On this day in 1977, the New York Philharmonic performed the world premiere of A Symphony of Three Orchestras. As the title implies, the work features three small orchestras with musical themes inspired by the poetry of Hart Crane. #NYPhil #HartCrane #ElliottCarter #OtD

Réflexions premiered 20 years ago today in Paris! Commissioned by @ensembleinter.bsky.social and the Cité de la Musique for Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday, the work is based around the musical spelling of "Boulez." #Boulez #ContemporaryMusic #ElliottCarter #OtD

This weekend, Orquestra do Algarve performs the Portuguese premiere of Carter’s Symphony No. 1, plus works by Glinka and Chopin at Teatro das Figuras.

Funding opportunity for special projects involving Elliott Carter's music! #GrantOpportunity #FundingOpportunity #ElliottCarter

Friday, February 14 - JACK Quartet performs works by Eva-Maria Houben, Anthony Cheung, John Cage, and Heinz Holliger, plus Carter's String Quartet No. 5 at Lugane Arte e Cultura. #JACKQuartet #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #StringQuartet

This weekend, pianists Ursula Oppens, Hyewon Yoon, A Bu, Ice Wang, and Jun He perform an all-Carter program curated by Oppens as part of the Mannes Sounds Festival at @thenewschool.bsky.social 's College of Performing Arts.

Michael Gordon on hearing Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, & Harpsichord for the first time: "I heard the most frightening, dense, weird, strange, ugly and incomprehensible sounds, not like any music I had ever heard. But it was a puzzle…and that led me really to a whole love of contemporary music."