PLAY receives Grammy nomination

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Andrew Norman's explosive work nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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It's an orchestra! No, it's a video game! With bows speeding faster than the eye can follow and discrepancies between classical tradition and modern society overcome in a single bound...it's Play, rumored to be in the running for the best orchestral work written so far this century. On our very own BMOP/sound!

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Holiday gift-shopping? Our catalog has grown!

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Listen to audio samples...or email bmopsound@bmop.org for a recommendation
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BMOP/sound is closing in on 50 releases! A huge variety of the best, most unique orchestral music on disc might contain the perfect choice for a discerning music lover on your holiday gift list...

Gunther Schuller Memorial Concert

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Sunday, November 22 at 3pm. BMOP, Odyssey Opera, and NEC salute a Boston icon on his birthday.
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Our November production honors recently departed composer Gunther Schuller with performances of his musical fable Journey into Jazz, the one-act opera The Fisherman and His Wife, and the sinfonietta work Games.

Chinary Ung: Singing Inside Aura

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A distinctive global voice featured on the latest BMOP/sound release
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Chinary Ung: Singing Inside Aura features singing violist Susan Ung in the title track, as well as two of the composer's fascinating "spiral" works, and more. A deeply studied and intuitively felt merging of Cambodian and Western musical traditions.

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Musical America names BMOP 2016 Ensemble of the Year

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Accolades launch our 20th season!
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The Boston Modern Orchestra Project is the first-ever symphony orchestra to receive Musical America's prestigious Ensemble of the Year award!

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Resilient Voices: 1915-2015

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<b>Sunday, October 18 at 3pm. *Program change announcement*</b> Betty Olivero's <em>Neharót Neharót</em> with violist Kim Kashkashian to replace Shostakovich
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Journey with us to Armenia for our season opener on October 18, a concert commemorating the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. Featuring works by Komitas/Aslamazyan, Hovhaness, Shostakovich, and the Boston premiere of Tigran Mansurian's Requiem.

20th Anniversary Season

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2015-2016 season subscriptions and individual tickets are now on sale!
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BMOP turns 20! Take a look at our 2015-2016 offerings, including works from old friends and new, intimate and grand, jazzy, folky, Bachian, amped-up, and more. (image: Glenn Kulbako)

Lukas Foss: Complete Symphonies

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A historic 2-disc recording of Lukas Foss's four symphonies
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Foss's Symphony in G, "Symphony of Chorales," "Symphony of Sorrows," and "Window to the Past" in SACD quality. A landmark release!

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A Heartrending Cry

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BMOP joins the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus for Unfinished Work: a concert series of the Harvard Civil War Project.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem and William Schuman: A Free Song. Sunday, May 3rd at 4pm at Sanders Theatre.

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