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Requiem for the Enslaved released today!

Requiem for the Enslaved released today!

June 17, 2022

Carlos's Decca debut available to stream and purchase on all major platforms.

National Arts Centre Orchestra 2022-2023 Season Presents More Than 100 Concerts

National Arts Centre Orchestra 2022-2023 Season Presents More Than 100 Concerts

May 17, 2022

Experience the transformative energy of orchestral music, with over 100 concerts to choose from across the season...

Carlos signs to Decca, announces release of 'Requiem for the Enslaved' June 17

Carlos signs to Decca, announces release of 'Requiem for the Enslaved' June 17

May 6, 2022

The new work honors the passing of the people bought and sold by university founders during the slave trade years

Minnesota Orchestra’s commissions Carlos to write “brea(d)th” in memory of George Floyd

Minnesota Orchestra’s commissions Carlos to write “brea(d)th” in memory of George Floyd

April 27, 2022

The large-scale work will receive its world premiere May 18-20, 2023, led by Jonathan Taylor Rush

NPR

Carlos Simon is a young composer on the rise, with an ear for social justice. Simon's new album, Requiem for the Enslaved confronts Georgetown University's troubled past and its ownership of enslaved individuals.

February 25, 2022

Financial Times

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, he is the Kennedy Center’s composer-in-residence and has some cinematically vivid and energizing music to his name.

January 22, 2022

The Washington Post

If Simon has inherited any mission from his lineage, it appears to be a desire to build bridges between worlds, and use music to illuminate them.

November 28, 2021

OperaWire

“With additional textural influences of dark jazz, back-room blues, and film noir amour, Simon’s score could be described as hypnagogic (infra)vitalism.”

November 28, 2021

OperaWire

LA Opera Conjure Up Some Magic With this Solid Digital Short

November 7, 2021

The Washington Post

“As the center’s composer-in-residence, Simon has been creating works that have been brightening up programs with their sheen and sensitivity, and “Fate” was no exception.”

September 21, 2021

Los Angeles Times

“Simon refashions musical history as excitable new realms with an unmistakable musical purpose essential for our times.”

New York Classical Review

“Simon’s gorgeous writing packs grit and grace together into a melodic line that carries unmistakable determination, a drive to realize itself, no matter what.”

February 21, 2021

San Diego Union Tribune

“Music is a physical, tactile thing, releasing that energy out. I went to the keyboard and improvised. I didn’t think; I just let my feelings go. It’s therapy for me.”

January 9, 2019

The New York Times

How this Great Website is Changing the Music World

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March 28, 2018

The New Yorker

Savagely Fierce Performance

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