Carlos Simon Extends Composer-in-Residence Contract with Kennedy Center

Carlos Simon Releases brea(d)th - Landmark Work Recorded Live with the Minnesota Orchestra

Carlos Simon Announced as Inaugural Composer Chair with Boston Symphony Orchestra

'Requiem for the Enslaved', Carlos's debut album on Decca, out now.

'Together', Decca Classics, with first single 'Near the Cross' Out Now.

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

– Los Angeles Times

“Carlos Simon’s propulsive and galvanizing ​“Fate Now Conquers” nodded to Beethoven, but on his own brazen terms.”

– new York Times

About Carlos Simon

"Carlos Simon is a young composer on the rise, with an ear for social justice."
–NPR Music

Carlos Simon is a GRAMMY-nominated composer, curator and activist. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, his compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. Simon is the Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Latest Album

Recordings

Hold Fast to Dreams

March 15, 2024

Inspired by the poem by Langston Hughes, Hold Fast to Dreams is a work for piano and violin, performed by Carlos Simon and Randall Goosby. The recording is part of the deluxe edition of Randall's album Roots.

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Works

Featured

“A modern major composer: an artist whose windows are thrown wide open to the world, and whose musical scope of late lands like a grand panorama of American life.”

– The Washington Post

Schedule

Upcoming

April 6, 2024

Sacramento Philharmonic

SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center
Sacramento, CA

CARLOS SIMON Fate Now Conquers
GRIEG Selections from Peer Gynt
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Conductor: Timothy Myers

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April 11, 2024

National Youth Orchestra

The Tung Auditorium
Liverpool, UK

Experience an electrifying evening as musicians from The National Youth Orchestra take you on a daring musical adventure, with two composers whose music is a catalyst to new ideas and creativity.

Julius Eastman Stay On It
Carlos Simon
Graffiti

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Carlos Simon