88 Strings wants new music from the great Michael Oesterle
If you know Michael's music, you know it's a perfect fit!
We want to commission the great Canadian composer Michael Oesterle to write a new composition for us of about 8 minutes duration. If you know Michael’s music, you know it’s a perfect fit! We have opened a fundraiser at GoFundMe to pay his commissioning fee. Please donate any amount, and share our project with friends and colleagues.
Michael is a celebrated composer whose many works demonstrate a love of ancient, classical, contemporary, and world musical ideas which he skillfully renews and reinvigorates with a contemporary, original imagination. He evokes music of the past without ever quoting it or imitating the styles. He has a unique voice in contemporary concert music. He has written for all of our instruments in the past, except the Chinese guzheng, which we are confident he will study and create idiomatic music. We are very eager to work with Michael.
Listen to his beautiful 2025 piece called The Violin in My Life
Michael will begin working on the music in the fall once we have secured funding to pay his fee. 88 Strings will perform the new composition at several concerts in 2027 in the Metro Vancouver area and beyond.
Visit the 88 Strings web site here: https://88strings.ca
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John Oliver for 88 Strings
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