Project in Development

Debut Orchestral Recordings of Sarah Kirkland Snider

• Metropolis Ensemble is collaborating with “one of new music’s leading names” (Gramophone), composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and Grammy-winning producer Silas Brown (The Blind Banister, Liquidverse) to record Sarah's acclaimed orchestral works.

• Studio recording begins in Fall 2024 with an expected release in 2025 on New Amsterdam Records.

• Metropolis will also be amplifying Sarah's $100K Challenge Grant to fund the $200K recording project.

WATCH: Sarah shares her influences and composition process ahead of her previous album, Unremembered.

Sarah Kirkland Snider

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider writes music of direct expression and vivid narrative that has been hailed as “rapturous” (The New York Times), “groundbreaking” (The Boston Globe), and “ravishingly beautiful” (NPR). Sarah was recently named one of the “Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music” by The Washington Post, and winner of the 2014 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Lebenbom Competition.

Snider’s recent works include Forward Into Light, an orchestral commission for the New York Philharmonic inspired by American women suffragists; Drink the Wild Ayre, the final commission for the legendary Emerson String Quartet’s farewell tour; Mass for the Endangered, a Trinity Wall Street-commissioned prayer for the environment for choir and ensemble, programmed by dozens of choirs the world over; Embrace, an orchestral ballet for the Birmingham Royal Ballet; and Hildegard, an upcoming opera on 12th c. visionary/polymath/composer St. Hildegard von Bingen co-commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and Aspen Music Festival, to premiere (venue TBA) in 2025.

A founding Co-Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based non-profit New Amsterdam Records, Snider has an M.M. and Artist’s Diploma from the Yale School of Music, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University in Fall 2024. Her music is published by G. Schirmer. More »