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Natalie Dietterich: Optimal Primes

Saturday, 22 November 2025   |   19:30 - 21:30

Natalie Dietterich: Optimal Primes

NOW Ensemble performs ‘Optimal Primes’ by Natalie Dietterich.

  • Composer(s) Natalie Dietterich
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    Optimal Primes
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Ensemble NOW

Date

Nov 22 2025
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Time

19:30 - 21:30

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Location

New York, Troy Listening Room, USA
New York, Troy Listening Room, USA
3361 6th Avenue, North Troy, NY 12181, USA
Website
https://www.mediasanctuary.org/stories/2024/troy-listening-room/

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Applauded by Performance Today for her “pulsatingly beautiful and moving” music, Natalie Dietterich is a composer, violinist, and vocalist from Harleysville, PA. Her unconventional work with choir and large ensembles have earned her accolades such as the Leo Kaplan Prize (ASCAP), [‘tactus] Prize, and the First Music Commission along with fellowships at the Cabrillo festival and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Cone Institute.

Dietterich has worked with nationally and internationally accredited ensembles such as the Luxembourg and Brussels Philharmonics, the Seattle, Albany, and Shanghai Symphonies, WildUp and Ensemble Modern. Her collaborations have resulted in projects such as a short film released on PBS’s independent film series POV Shorts, an electro-acoustic guitar concerto featuring JIJI with a premiere in Carnegie Hall, and an open-form live installation shown in museums throughout Europe including the Kunst imTunnel (KIT) in Düsseldorf and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Ghent, and as a permanent audio installation at Kunsthal, Ghent since 2021.

Natalie Dietterich holds an MM and MMA from the Yale School of Music and is currently ABD at Princeton University. She publishes select works with Donemus Music Publishing.

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Johan Wagenaar: Voorspel ‘De Cid’

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Location

Utrecht, Geertekerk
Utrecht, Geertekerk
Geertekerkhof 23, 3511 XC Utrecht
Website
https://www.heirloom.nl/locaties/geertekerk/

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Location

Utrecht, De Wartburg
Utrecht, De Wartburg
Kennedylaan 16, Utrecht
Website
https://www.axioncontinu.nl/locaties/de-wartburg

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A discarded donkey playing the double bass, a hoarse rooster with a trumpet, an old dog playing percussion and a cat singing. Four animals together form a colourful group. In the eyes of the people, the animals are too old or no longer suitable to do their work.

Location

Amersfoort, Theater de Veerensmederij
Amersfoort, Theater de Veerensmederij
Soesterweg 330, Amersfoort
Website
https://www.theaterveerensmederij.nl

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