Bridge Records releases “Mountain Interval: Songs and Chamber Music of Russell Platt” featuring Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby, flutist Molly Barth, and the Borromeo String Quartet, November 2025.
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February 25, 2026: Faculty singers Hailey Clark, Tyler Nelson, and Dashon Burton, along with pianist Jennifer McGuire, present “Russell Platt: The Complete Songs 1988-2021” at Turner Hall at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music.
August 17, 2025: Maverick Concerts: Peter Kolkay performs “Sunday Variations” for solo bassoon on a concert with the Callisto String Quartet.
July 27, 2025: Maverick Concerts: Tenor Daniel McGrew and the Horszowski Trio perform Platt’s Mark Strand cycle “Eating Poetry” on a program that also includes piano trios by Fauré and Ravel. (Learn More)
July 6, 2025: Maverick Concerts, Woodstock, NY: Mariam Adam is the soloist in the premiere of the revised version of Platt’s Clarinet Concerto, with the Manhattan Chamber Players and Alexander Platt conducting; program also features music by Mozart and Valerie Coleman-Page. Adam, Coleman-Page, and Platt will appear in a pre-concert talk. (Learn More)
April 5, 2025: Dr. Thomas Verrier conducts the Vanderbilt Wind Ensemble in the world premiere of Platt’s Arizona Echoes: Sinfonia for Concert Band, at Vanderbilt’s Ingram Hall.
March 28, 2024: Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby sings World Premiere of “After Apple-Picking” (Robert Frost) with Brooklyn Art Song Society.
February 20, 2024: Collaborative pianist Dylan Perez accompanies his students at the Guildhall School, London, in several Platt songs.
October 30, 2023: Bassoonist Peter Kolkay performs “Sunday Variations” at Harvard Music Association Sept. 29, 2023; at Vanderbilt Blair School of Music concert honoring the centenary of Ned Rorem, Oct. 3, 2023; and at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
July 10, 2022: Escher String Quartet performs “Mountain Interval (String Quartet)” at Woodstock’s Maverick Concerts.
April 23-24, 2022: JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra offer the world premiere of “Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still)”, a work composed in honor of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Gallery. (Learn More)
Septebmer 12 & October 23, 2021: Mirror Visions Ensemble and Locrian Chamber Players offer online performances of vocal and instrumental works by Platt.
July 16 & 18, 2021: Horszowski Trio performs Trio by Night at MOCA Westport (Conn.) and at Maverick Concerts (Woodstock, N.Y.).
May 30, 2019 at 8:00 pm: The Locrian Chamber Players give the NY Premiere of Trio by Night at the 10th Floor Performance Space of Riverside Church. (Learn More)
March 29, 2019: Molly Barth, Vanderbilt’s professor of flute, gives Southern premiere of Memoir for Flute and Piano at the University’s Turner Recital Hall, Nashville, Tennessee.
March 15, 2019: Blakemore Trio gives world premiere of Trio by Night —Platt’s first piano trio, generously commissioned by Premiere Commission, Inc.—at the Martha Rivers Ingram Center for the Performing Arts, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
February 12, 2019: Peter Kolkay and the PUBLIQuartet perform Quintet for Bassoon and Strings on Concert Artists Guild program at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, New York.
January 4, 2019: Brooklyn Art Song Society preludes Ned Rorem tribute concert at Brooklyn Historical Society with four songs by Russell Platt.
June 10, 2017: World premiere of Requiem for Clarinet and Strings by Jose Franch-Ballester and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra (Wisconsin), Alexander Platt conducting.
August-December 2016: Borromeo String Quartet world-premieres Mountain Interval (String Quartet) to celebrate the centennial of Maverick Concerts, Woodstock, N.Y., and repeats it at Brooklyn’s Bargemusic and Boston’s Jordan Hall.
October 2016: Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby sings Paul Muldoon Songs at Bargemusic.
April 2014: American premiere of Eurydice (A Serenade for Strings) with JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; world premiere with Howard Griffiths and Sinfonie Orchester Biel, Switzerland, Sept. 2011
April 2014: World premiere of Three Poems of Elizabeth Bishop for soprano and piano at Curtis Institute of Music (which commissioned it); also that month, song cycle Extended Night: Three Poems of Jeffrey Greene premiered at American University in Paris and SubCulture (NYC) by Mirror Visions Ensemble
December 2013: Concerto for Bassoon and Strings performed by George Sakakeeny with Tim Weiss conducting the Oberlin Sinfonietta in concert and on record.
November 2013: Jack and the Beanstalk: A Folk Tale for Narrator, Oboe, and String Trio premiered by An die Musik at Merkin Concert Hall, New York.
August 2013: World premiere of Memoir for Flute and Piano (2010) with Marya Martin and Shai Wosner at Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival; repeated at NYC’s Bargemusic.
April 24, 2012: New York Festival of Song presents “NYFOS Next: Russell Platt and Friends,” DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York
July 4, 2010: Quintet for Bassoon and Strings (1997) performed by Peter Kolkay and St. Petersburg Quartet at Music Mountain; repeated at Maverick Concerts, summer 2011.
June 2010: World premiere of Three Songs for Unaccompanied Bassoon at International Double Reed Society Conference by Peter Kolkay, Oklahoma Univ..
November 2008: New York premiere of Concerto for Bassoon and Strings by Peter Kolkay and Salomé Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic, Brooklyn, June 2010; World premiere given by Kolkay and Wisconsin Philharmonic (Alexander Platt, cond.).
May 2010 and March 2009: New York Festival of Song performs excerpts from Whitman Cantata (featuring Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby) and Paul Muldoon Songs at Merkin Concert Hall.
March 2010: New York Festival of Song performs excerpts from Whitman Cantata (featuring Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby) and Paul Muldoon Songs at Merkin Concert Hall, May 2010 and March 2009, respectively
February 2010: Performance of Sonata for Violin and Piano (2005) by Williams Chamber Players as part of Williams College residency; New York premiere at Bargemusic, November 2008, by Mark Peskanov and Steven Beck
September 2009: World premiere of Duo for Violin and Cello by Colin and Eric Jacobsen, Bargemusic; repeated at Westport Arts Center, November 2009
March 2009: World premiere of Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano by Verdehr Trio, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
February 2008: European premiere of Concerto for Clarinet, Percussion, and Strings (2002-3, commissioned by the Wisconsin Philharmonic and the American Composers Forum) by soloist Michel Lethiec and I Virtuosi Italiani, Verona.
February 2008: World premiere of String Sextet with Voice (2007-8) by Brooklyn Rider with Edward Arron, Max Mandel, and Nancy Allen Lundy at Bargemusic.
October 2006: European premiere of From Noon to Starry Night: A Walt Whitman Cantata by Mirror Visions Ensemble at American University in Paris; world premiere by Mirror Visions at Merkin Concert Hall, New York; repeated on Copland House program, Westchester, June 2013
October 2002: Love Unlimited: An Indoor Overture performed at Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute (Aaron Jay Kernis, director).
Christmas 1999: Dale Warland Singers world premiere Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong (Thoreau) for double chorus and harp in Minneapolis & St. Paul.
May 1999: Sequitur Ensemble and tenor Paul Sperry give world premiere of Eating Poetry (eight Mark Strand settings with piano trio) at Kaye Playhouse.