COMMISSIONS & PROJECTS

Recording “Nou Edition” with Nicholas Finch (April 2023)

NouLou Chamber Players aims to continue with the city of Louisville’s historic commitment to furthering musical innovation worldwide through commissions, premieres and recording projects. In April 2019, we commissioned three new cello concertos commissioned with Louisville Orchestra Principal Cellist Nicholas Finch by composers Dorian Wallace, Alyssa Weinberg, and Ljova. In April 2023, we recorded these works and the album, “Nou Edition,” will be released in the spring of 2025.

For the 23/24 Season, NouLou commissioned & premiered chamber music works by Daniel Gilliam & Jack McFadden-Talbot. Gilliam’s decet will feature flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass & piano and will be premiered in April 2024. McFadden-Talbot’s work, “Passage” for Cello Quintet will be premiered in February 2024 and is co-commissioned with the Wallis Family in loving memory of Christian Meriwether Kennedy.

Other projects have included chamber orchestra, such as giving the Kentucky premieres of Mahler Symphony No. 4 (chamber version) & Vier Letzte Lieder by Strauss (chamber version) under the baton of Louisville Orchestra Concertmaster & conductor Gabriel Lefkowitz and soprano Emily Albrink.