He has received prestigious awards throughout his career and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In addition to three symphonies, he has composed concertos for violin, viola, cello, and oboe, as well as four piano concertos and a ballet, Awakenings, also based on the book by Oliver Sacks, commissioned by the London-based Rambert Dance Company.Īn accomplished pianist, he has performed as soloist in performances of his piano concertos and chamber works with major orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world. Tobias Picker has had symphonic works commissioned and performed by the BBC Proms, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Opéra de Montréal, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, and Zurich Tonhalle, among many others. Individual works have appeared on Sony Classics, Angel, and Ondine albums. His extensive discography also includes albums devoted entirely to his works on Nonesuch, Sony Classics, Virgin Classics, Angel, Chandos, Ondine, Albany Records, Wergo, and Tzadik.
In 2022, Picker’s opera Awakenings, based on “Awakenings,” Oliver Sacks' 1960's chronicle of his efforts to help the victims of an encephalitis epidemic, premiered at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Fox, his family opera, was released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera in Spring 2019 on the BMOP label, which won the 2020 Grammy award for best opera recording. The world premiere recording of Fantastic Mr.
In 2015, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis mounted a major new production of his Emmeline that won universal acclaim as “a work of gripping emotional intensity and extraordinary musical expressivity” (the Dallas Morning News), “one of the best operas written in the past twenty-five years ( The Wall Street Journal), and “the greatest American opera of the 20th century (the St.
His operas have also been produced by the New York City Opera, San Diego Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Chicago Opera Theater, Covent Garden, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and many other companies. Fox, 1998), Dallas Opera ( Thérèse Raquin, 2001), Metropolitan Opera ( An American Tragedy, 2001), San Francisco Opera ( Dolores Claiborne, 2013), and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ( Awakenings, 2022). His operas have been commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera ( Emmeline, 1996), LA Opera ( Fantastic Mr. The New Yorker has called him “a genuine creator with a fertile, unforced vein of invention” The Wall Street Journal wrote he was “our finest composer for the lyric stage” and BBC Music Magazine described him as “displaying a distinctively soulful style that is one of the glories of the current musical scene.” Tobias Picker has drawn commissions from and performances by the world’s leading musicians, orchestras, and opera houses.
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