Notable Performances
Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby sings World Premiere of “After Apple-Picking” (Robert Frost) with Brooklyn Art Song Society, March 28, 2024.
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, Oct. 30, 2023.
Escher String Quartet performs “Mountain Interval (String Quartet)” at Woodstock’s Maverick Concerts, July 10, 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, on April 23-24, 2022.
Mirror Visions Ensemble and Locrian Chamber Players offer online performances of vocal and instrumental works by Platt, Sept. 12 and Oct. 23, 2021.
Horszowski Trio performs Trio by Night at MOCA Westport (Conn.) and at Maverick Concerts (Woodstock, N.Y.), July 16 and 18, 2021.
The Locrian Chamber Players give the NY Premiere of Trio by Night at the 10th Floor Performance Space of Riverside Church on May 30, 2019 at 8:00 pm.
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 29, 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, March 15, 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, Tuesday February 12, 2019
Brooklyn Art Song Society preludes Ned Rorem tribute concert at Brooklyn Historical Society with four songs by Russell Platt, January 4, 2019
World premiere of Requiem for Clarinet and Strings by Jose Franch-Ballester and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra (Wisconsin), Alexander Platt conducting, June 10, 2017
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, August-December 2016
Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby sings Paul Muldoon Songs at Bargemusic, October 2016
American premiere of Eurydice (A Serenade for Strings) with JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, April 2014; world premiere with Howard Griffiths and Sinfonie Orchester Biel, Switzerland, Sept. 2011
World premiere of Three Poems of Elizabeth Bishop for soprano and piano at Curtis Institute of Music (which commissioned it), April 2014; 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
Concerto for Bassoon and Strings performed by George Sakakeeny with Tim Weiss conducting the Oberlin Sinfonietta in concert and on record, Dec. 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, November 2013
World premiere of Memoir for Flute and Piano (2010) with Marya Martin and Shai Wosner at Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Aug. 2010; repeated at NYC’s Bargemusic, Aug. 2013
New York Festival of Song presents “NYFOS Next: Russell Platt and Friends,” April 24, 2012 at DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York
Quintet for Bassoon and Strings (1997) performed by Peter Kolkay and St. Petersburg Quartet at Music Mountain, July 4 2010; repeated at Maverick Concerts, summer 2011
World premiere of Three Songs for Unaccompanied Bassoon at International Double Reed Society Conference by Peter Kolkay, Oklahoma Univ., June 2010
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.), Nov. 2008
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
Performance of Sonata for Violin and Piano (2005) by Williams Chamber Players as part of Williams College residency, Feb. 2010; New York premiere at Bargemusic, November 2008, by Mark Peskanov and Steven Beck
World premiere of Duo for Violin and Cello by Colin and Eric Jacobsen, Bargemusic, September 2009; repeated at Westport Arts Center, November 2009
World premiere of Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano by Verdehr Trio, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., March 2009
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, Feb. 2008
World premiere of String Sextet with Voice (2007-8) by Brooklyn Rider with Edward Arron, Max Mandel, and Nancy Allen Lundy at Bargemusic, Feb. 2008
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, Oct. 2006; repeated on Copland House program, Westchester, June 2013
Love Unlimited: An Indoor Overture performed at Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute (Aaron Jay Kernis, director), Oct. 2002
Dale Warland Singers world premiere Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong (Thoreau) for double chorus and harp in Minneapolis & St. Paul, Christmas 1999
Sequitur Ensemble and tenor Paul Sperry give world premiere of Eating Poetry (eight Mark Strand settings with piano trio) at Kaye Playhouse, May 1999