About the LMI
For some 200 years, New Orleans has been widely identified as a vital center of musical life. It has invented, encouraged and sustained a number of genres that have influenced musical thinking and practice worldwide. To date, forward-leaning New Music has not enjoyed the prominence or identity of the opera, rags, multi-cultural concert music, jazz, blues, and funk conventionally associated with the city's rich cultural heritage. The Louis Moreau Institute is poised to do so, adding to the vitality and diversity of the city's musical life, do so in a unique way, and give the future of music a desitively rite place to grow and prosper.
The Louis Moreau Institute presented its first one-week season of performances in March 2015, with repertory providing a mix of new music from the last 100 years, as well as one work by a regional composer – or a work somehow about the region – and improvisation using traditional regional material as a foundation, played in a non-traditional way. The second season featured two performances in February 2016 that included an original composition by the New Orleans-based composer Ray Evanoff, winner of the Louis Moreau Institute Composition Competition.
For its third season, three performances in March 2017 followed in this well-established tradition with an exciting new instrumentation: string quartet, piano, and horn in F. The 2018 season featured concerts exploring fresh sounds from the time honored piano quintet, with the 2019 season also reexamining new sounds from this group of instruments.
The Louis Moreau Institute is a non-profit arts organization formed, in part, to honor Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the 19th century New Orleans composer who bridged cultural and musical worlds himself. Directed by Morris Rosenzweig—composer, conductor, and New Orleans native who is a professor at the University of Utah—the LMI combines love of the city and music into an exciting series of musical events.
The Louis Moreau Institute also supports emerging, young performing artists from around the country, giving them the opportunity to perform a challenging repertory in non-traditional venues and to produce a recording of the performances. The 2015 and 2016 seasons' group of dynamic, enthralling musicians included Laura Cocks, Arnaud Ghillebaert, Marina Kifferstein, Richard Valitutto, Tiffany Valvo, and Liam Veuve. The Ulysses String Quartet, featuring Christina Bouey, Rhiannon Banerdt, Colin Brookes, and Grace Ho, formed the cornerstone of the 2017 season, enhanced by Russell Rybicki on horn in F and Adrian Blanco on piano.
The Louis Moreau Institute is grateful for a generous grant from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and for the support of our private donors!
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Morris Rosenzweig, Director
Alan Gerson, Associate Director
Mary Jane Ciccarello, Secretary
Seth Harris, Treasurer
Dale Fleishmann
Mario Davidovsky
Roger Dickerson
Julie Schwam Harris
Seth Harris
Devin Maxwell
Mary Beth Meyer
Dennis Miller
Eric Murrell
Mimi Stafford
Raymond Tymas-Jones
Robert Yekovich
STAFF
Morris Rosenzweig, Artistic Director
Darlene Castro, Executive Director
The Louis Moreau Institute presented its first one-week season of performances in March 2015, with repertory providing a mix of new music from the last 100 years, as well as one work by a regional composer – or a work somehow about the region – and improvisation using traditional regional material as a foundation, played in a non-traditional way. The second season featured two performances in February 2016 that included an original composition by the New Orleans-based composer Ray Evanoff, winner of the Louis Moreau Institute Composition Competition.
For its third season, three performances in March 2017 followed in this well-established tradition with an exciting new instrumentation: string quartet, piano, and horn in F. The 2018 season featured concerts exploring fresh sounds from the time honored piano quintet, with the 2019 season also reexamining new sounds from this group of instruments.
The Louis Moreau Institute is a non-profit arts organization formed, in part, to honor Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the 19th century New Orleans composer who bridged cultural and musical worlds himself. Directed by Morris Rosenzweig—composer, conductor, and New Orleans native who is a professor at the University of Utah—the LMI combines love of the city and music into an exciting series of musical events.
The Louis Moreau Institute also supports emerging, young performing artists from around the country, giving them the opportunity to perform a challenging repertory in non-traditional venues and to produce a recording of the performances. The 2015 and 2016 seasons' group of dynamic, enthralling musicians included Laura Cocks, Arnaud Ghillebaert, Marina Kifferstein, Richard Valitutto, Tiffany Valvo, and Liam Veuve. The Ulysses String Quartet, featuring Christina Bouey, Rhiannon Banerdt, Colin Brookes, and Grace Ho, formed the cornerstone of the 2017 season, enhanced by Russell Rybicki on horn in F and Adrian Blanco on piano.
The Louis Moreau Institute is grateful for a generous grant from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and for the support of our private donors!
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Morris Rosenzweig, Director
Alan Gerson, Associate Director
Mary Jane Ciccarello, Secretary
Seth Harris, Treasurer
Dale Fleishmann
Mario Davidovsky
Roger Dickerson
Julie Schwam Harris
Seth Harris
Devin Maxwell
Mary Beth Meyer
Dennis Miller
Eric Murrell
Mimi Stafford
Raymond Tymas-Jones
Robert Yekovich
STAFF
Morris Rosenzweig, Artistic Director
Darlene Castro, Executive Director
