LOCC March 2025 Update

By Jacob Gotlib, Creators Corps Program Manager
March 19., 2025

Welcome to the first edition (pun intended) of the LO Creators Corps monthly newsletter! We’re thrilled to share our creators’ exciting activities with you. The last month has been particularly jam-packed with world premieres, community events, and more.

Brittany J. Green’s Thread and Pull

January saw the world premiere of Brittany J. Green’s Thread and Pull at our “Teddy Conducts Der Kaiser von Atlantis concert.” The piece expands a series of shorter chamber pieces by Brittany – also called Thread and Pull – into a totally reimagined work scored for Der Kaiser’s specific and unusual instrumentation. The text is a translation of Ghazal 1419 by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi and addresses making one’s way in the face of oppositional forces.

Lunar New Year Celebration

Oswald Huỳnh’s Vietnamese heritage has been a crucial source of inspiration for his work and artistic viewpoint. So, when he arrived in Louisville, he envisioned an event that could engage our city’s Vietnamese and Asian communities more broadly. On February 8, in partnership with Asia Institue Crane House, the Louisville Orchestra hosted a Lunar New Year celebration at the Americana World Community Center that featured performances by LO musicians, the Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble, River Lotus Lion Dancers, and the Japan-America Society of Kentucky’s Yasakoi dancers. Audience members also enjoyed lantern-making, food from Mak-mak’s Barbecue, and drinks from DaLat’s Café.

LOCC 2025-26 Announcement

We’re thrilled to welcome Anthony R. Green and Chelsea Komschlies to the LOCC in 2025-26! We can’t wait to work with them and experience the music and projects they will develop during their time with us next season.

Recent & Upcoming Events

February 27-March 1: Music Without Borders: Myths & Legends, featuring Brittany Green’s In the Beginning and arrangements of songs by Christella Philippe by LOCC alum Tanner Porter.

March 7-8: Stravinsky’s Firebird, featuring the world premiere of former LOCC member Alex Berko’s Double Concerto for violin and cello.

March 12-14: MakingMUSIC, featuring the world premiere of Oswald Huỳnh’s A Different Pond (Andrew Tran, narrator), Brittany Green’s collaboration with the LO Rap School, Take Some Time, and works by JCPS students in the LO’s Young Composers Program.