Talk:Sean Shepherd

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Edit request: 2023 oratorio On a Clear Day and 2025 recording

Hello. I am the husband of Sean Shepherd and have disclosed this above. I would like to request the following addition to the Career section, after the paragraph about the Charles Ives Living Award. All claims are cited.

Proposed text:

In 2023 Shepherd completed On a Clear Day (An einem klaren Tag), a 50-minute oratorio for solo cello, two solo voices, youth choir and orchestra setting poetry by the German poet Ulla Hahn. The work was conceived by conductor Kent Nagano and cellist Jan Vogler as a transatlantic project bringing together the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and youth choirs from Germany and New York. It was premiered at Carnegie Hall on April 22, 2023, conducted by Nagano with Vogler as soloist, and was subsequently performed at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and at the Dresden Music Festival. Reviewing the premiere, The New York Times wrote that Shepherd "has a fantastic gift for orchestral color." The world premiere recording was released on August 22, 2025, on CAvi-music, a partner label of Deutsche Grammophon.

Also proposed: in the Discography list, update the existing On a Clear Day entry to read: "Released on CAvi-music under license to Deutsche Grammophon, 2025."

Thank you for reviewing. Jbgdmn (talk) 04:50, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

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Edit request: 2025 premieres (Quadruple Concerto, Latticework)

Hello. As disclosed above, I am the husband of the article subject. I would like to request the following addition to the Career section. The Dallas premiere was covered by three independent publications.

Proposed text:

In April 2025 the Dallas Symphony Orchestra premiered Shepherd's Quadruple Concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, written for the orchestra's four principal woodwind players and conducted by Fabio Luisi. The concerto is in three movements, titled "Strolling Treble," "Heavy Machinery" and "Ganymede." Critics noted its debt to the Baroque concerto grosso.

Latticework, a work for violin and cello, was premiered by Leila Josefowicz and Paul Watkins at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival on June 8, 2025, and was later performed by the same players at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Thank you for reviewing. Jbgdmn (talk) 04:52, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

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Edit request: 2026 performances (Cabrillo, Suntory Hall, TIME:SPANS)

Hello. As disclosed above, I am the husband of the article subject. I would like to request the following addition to the Career section covering performances in summer 2026.

Proposed text:

In August 2026 Shepherd's music was performed at three festivals. His orchestral work Wanderlust received its West Coast premiere as the closing work of the 2026 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music on August 9, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. The Grossman Ensemble gave the New York premiere of Simple Machines at the TIME:SPANS festival at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on August 15; New York Classical Review praised the work's craft and imagination. On August 27 the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra performed Express Abstractionism at Suntory Hall as part of the Suntory Hall Summer Festival, conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri.

Thank you for reviewing. Jbgdmn (talk) 05:01, 25 September 2026 (UTC) Jbgdmn (talk) 05:01, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

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Edit request: additional career details from publisher biography

Hello. As disclosed above, I am the husband of the article subject. I would like to request the following additions to the Career section, sourced to the publisher's biography and other published profiles.

Proposed additions:

1. After the sentence about the Cleveland Orchestra fellowship, add: His fellowship culminated in the premiere of Tuolumne in April 2013, written for Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra.

2. After the sentence about the Kravis Emerging Composer appointment, add: After composing Magiya for the inaugural season and tour of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, he developed the orchestra's Composer Apprentice program with Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, which he continues to direct.

3. Add a paragraph: Express Abstractionism (2017), co-commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, was recorded by the Boston Symphony under Andris Nelsons for Naxos Records in 2019. Sprout, an orchestral work inspired by the regrowth of California's redwood trees after wildfires, was written for the Cabrillo Festival, where its 2021 premiere was given virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its first live performance was given by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Giancarlo Guerrero at Heinz Hall from May 30 to June 1, 2025. Downtime was premiered in 2021 by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Cristian Măcelaru. His String Quartet No. 3 was premiered in 2022 and toured by the Pacifica Quartet. Concerto for Ensemble was premiered at the Philharmonie de Paris by Ensemble intercontemporain under Matthias Pintscher.

4. In the list of orchestras in the lead, add the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Thank you for reviewing. Jbgdmn (talk) 05:11, 25 September 2026 (UTC) Jbgdmn (talk) 05:11, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

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