Allison Loggins-Hull 2026: Premieres and Cleveland Orchestra Portrait Albums

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Composer & Flutist Allison Loggins-Hull 
2026 Winter/Spring Highlights

The Cleveland Orchestra to Release LOGGINS-HULL, the Orchestra’s 
First Portrait Album of a Living Composer this Century

Avie Records Releases Patchwork, a Chamber Music Portrait Album
Featuring Members of The Cleveland Orchestra 

New York Philharmonic Performs Can You See? (New York Premiere)

The Boston Symphony Orchestra Performs Flute Concerto,
Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni (Massachusetts Premiere)

New Jersey Symphony Premieres New Orchestral Work,
Part of Loggins-Hull’s Second Season as Resident Artistic Partner

2026 Spoleto Festival USA Composer-in-Residence

“Smart instrumental writing… ferocious yet melodically supple passages”
– The New York Times

“Loggins-Hull [shapes] performances that are keenly alive to each sound world.”
– Gramophone Magazine

www.allisonloggins.com

New York, NY (November 17, 2025) – Composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull, celebrated as “a virtuoso player with a profound and deeply moving compositional voice” (Strings Magazine), announces highlights for the first half of 2026. Coming off fall 2025 tours with Roomful of Teeth and chamber ensemble yMusic – including a November 13 date with yMusic at Carnegie Hall – her 2026 calendar brings a milestone composer portrait by The Cleveland Orchestra, the orchestra’s first portrait album of a living composer in recent history; plus a chamber music portrait disc recorded by members of The Cleveland Orchestra; the New York premiere of her work Can You See? by the New York Philharmonic; the Massachusetts premiere of her flute concerto, Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and the world premiere of a new orchestral work by the New Jersey Symphony as part of her role as the orchestra’s Resident Artistic Partner.

In the spring of 2026, The Cleveland Orchestra will release a landmark recording devoted to the music of Loggins-Hull – the first time this century that the ensemble has issued a portrait album of a living composer. Championed by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, Loggins-Hull served as the Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow for an unprecedented three seasons from 2022 to 2025. The album, produced by multi-GRAMMY® Award winner Elaine Martone and engineered by GRAMMY® nominees Gintas Norvila and Jennifer Nulsen, will be released on the Orchestra’s in-house label and features world-premiere recordings conducted by Welser-Möst, including Can You See? and Grit. Grace. Glory., her four-movement tribute to the people and history of Cleveland. It also includes Legacy, a string sextet commissioned by the Orchestra to honor its partnerships with three of the city’s cornerstone cultural and community organizations: the Fatima Family Center in Hough, Karamu House – the nation’s oldest producing Black theater – and the Hryhory Kytasty Cleveland School of Bandura, a Ukrainian music institution.

On Friday, May 1, 2026, Avie Records will release Patchwork, a portrait album featuring Allison Loggins-Hull’s chamber works performed by members of The Cleveland Orchestra. Featuring all world-premiere recordings, the album showcases the title work, Patchwork, a new duo for viola and cello, alongside the chamber version of Can You See?; The Pattern for pierrot ensemble; Homeland for solo flute; Shine for soprano Laquita Mitchell, flute, viola, and piano; and Kalief for clarinet and piano.

From Thursday, January 15 to Saturday, January 17, 2026, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform Loggins-Hull’s flute concerto Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni. Co-commissioned by the BSO in partnership with the Seattle Symphony and The Knights in honor of the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, the work pays elegant homage to one of Loggins-Hull’s musical idols, Joni Mitchell. BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons conducts as Principal Flute Lorna McGhee makes her solo debut with the orchestra. In performances on Thursday, January 15 at 7:30pm and Saturday, January 17 at 8:00pm, Loggins-Hull’s work will be performed alongside Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring soloist Seong-Jin Cho, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. There will be a performance of Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni paired only with the Tchaikovsky work on Friday, January 16 at 7:30pm. The full program, part of the BSO’s “E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One” celebration of the American experience, will also be performed in an open rehearsal on Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 10:30am.

Just ahead of the full-orchestra performances, on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 7:00pm at the Boston Athenaeum, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra will join Allison Loggins-Hull – performing on flute – for a program of her chamber works. The concert features a remix of Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni alongside selections from her catalog of flute string quartet compositions, including Homeland (Remix), Ban, Persist, and more.

On Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 7:00pm, Loggins-Hull performs as flute soloist on her own work FRICTION with the two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. A deeply personal, genre-defying song cycle composed for voices, flute, and electronics, FRICTION traces Allison Loggins-Hull’s reckoning with grief, identity, legacy, and familial connection through layered vocal textures, immersive sound processing, and intertwined musical memories inherited from her late father. This program, supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, pairs Loggins-Hull’s work with Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices. The performance caps off a tour that has included performances presented by the Schubert Club for its Mix Series at the Parkway Theatre in Minneapolis and at the Fine Arts Series at Middlebury College.

On Wednesday, April 15; Thursday, April 16; and Saturday, April 18, 2026, the New York Philharmonic performs the New York premiere of Loggins-Hull’s work Can You See?. Arranged for full orchestra during Loggins-Hull’s three-season residency at The Cleveland Orchestra, Can You See? is a play on The Star-Spangled Banner that reflects on the difficult and complex dimensions of the American experience, mourning lives lost amid its struggles while expressing a call to action for the living. The work was originally composed as a small chamber ensemble piece commissioned by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Newark Museum of Art in 2021. For this performance, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the full orchestra arrangement in a program also including Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Karen Gomyo, and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 7.

In May and June 2026, Loggins-Hull serves as the 2026 Suzan D. Boyd Composer-in-Residence of the Chamber Music series at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, where she will premiere a new work on the acclaimed Bank of America Chamber Music series and perform additional works alongside leading artists in programs curated by Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director of Chamber Music, Paul Wiancko.

On Thursday, June 4; Friday, June 5; Saturday, June 6; and Sunday, June 7, 2026, the New Jersey Symphony performs the world premiere of a new orchestral work by Loggins-Hull, currently in her second season as the orchestra’s Resident Artistic Partner. This season finale program, conducted by Music Director Xian Zhang, features the new work alongside Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22, with Emanuel Ax, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.

Additional spring highlights include an appearance at New York City’s Kaufman Music Center on Friday, May 1, 2026, performing as part of Jessie Montgomery’s “The Everything Band,” an ensemble curated by Montgomery from musicians of wide-ranging musical styles who are also composers, and a performance of Loggins-Hull’s Chasing Balance as part of Alisa Weilerstein’s performance cycle FRAGMENTS on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at the stARTfestival 2026 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Allison Loggins-Hull 2026 Calendar
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 7:00pm
Allison Loggins-Hull and Members of the Boston Symphony OrchestraBoston Athenaeum | Boston,
MA
Link: www.bso.org/events/homeland-loggins-hull-bso?performance=2026-01-13-19:00 

Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 7:30pm
Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 8:00pm
Boston Symphony Orchestra Performs Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni
Symphony Hall | Boston, MA
Link: www.bso.org/events/jan-15-17-hull-bern-tchaikov?performance=2026-01-15-19:30

Friday, January 16, 2026 at 7:30pm
Boston Symphony Orchestra Performs Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni
Symphony Hall | Boston, MA
Link: www.bso.org/events/jan-16-hull-tchaikovsky?performance=2026-01-16-19:30

Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 7:00pm
Allison Loggins-Hull and Roomful of Teeth Perform FRICTION
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center | College Park, MD
Link: theclarice.umd.edu/events/roomful-teeth

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 7:30pm
Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 7:30pm
New York Philharmonic Performs New York Premiere of Can You See?
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center | New York, NY
Link: www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/dvoraks-seventh-and-sibeliuss-violin-concerto/ 

Friday, May 1, 2026 at 7:30pm
Jessie Montgomery & The Everything Band
Kaufman Music Center | New York, NY
Link: kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/jessie-montgomery-the-everything-band/

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 7:00pm
Alisa Weilerstein Performs Chasing Balance
stARTfestival 2026 | Leverkusen, Germany
Link: lust-auf-leverkusen.de/veranstaltung/alisa-weilerstein-fragments-1-startfestival-2026/

May 22 – June 7, 2026
Composer-in-Residence
Spoleto Festival USA | Charleston, SC
Link: https://spoletousa.org/

Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 7:00pm
New Jersey Symphony Season Finale Program Featuring New Work by Allison Loggins-Hull
State Theatre New Jersey | New Brunswick, NJ
Link: www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/symphonie-fantastique-2026

Friday, June 5, 2026 at 7:00pm
New Jersey Symphony Season Finale Program Featuring New Work by Allison Loggins-Hull
Richardson Auditorium | Princeton, NJ
Link: www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/symphonie-fantastique-2026

Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 7:00pm
New Jersey Symphony Season Finale Program Featuring New Work by Allison Loggins-Hull
Count Basie Center for the Arts | Red Bank, NJ
Link: www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/symphonie-fantastique-2026

Sunday, June 7, 2026 at 7:00pm
New Jersey Symphony Season Finale Program Featuring New Work by Allison Loggins-Hull
New Jersey Performing Arts Center | Newark, NJ
Link: www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/symphonie-fantastique-2026

About Allison Loggins-Hull
Celebrated as a musical “powerhouse” (The Washington Post), Allison Loggins-Hull is a composer, flutist, and producer whose work defies genre, from symphonic music to film scores, chamber works, and electronic music. Her music is often resonant with social themes, encompassing reflections on motherhood, Blackness, and identity. In September 2024, Loggins-Hull was appointed Resident Artistic Partner to the New Jersey Symphony for a two-year term during which she will create new works for orchestra and contribute her unique perspective and experiences to the orchestra’s programming and community engagement. 

Loggins-Hull's signature compositional style is distinguished by its unique sonic effects that echo contemporary music production techniques. Her works are profoundly influenced by Black American music, creating a vibrant and kaleidoscopic sonic palette. Thematically, her compositions are deeply rooted in the experiences of community, culture, and life, offering a rich and evocative musical narrative. Her artistic reflections on Black stories, music, and experience have led to works aligned with Afrofuturism, a movement that imagines alternate realities and a liberated future through the lens of Black cultures. 

The 2024-2025 season marked Loggins-Hull’s last of three seasons as the Lewis Composer Fellow with The Cleveland Orchestra. Through programming, commissions, and community engagement, her work with the Orchestra focused on the narratives and history of Cleveland through the prism of one of the world’s great orchestras, culminating in three world premieres: Can You See? (2023) and Grit. Grace. Glory. (2025), both for full orchestra, and Legacy (2024) for string sextet. In a first for the Lewis Fellow’s quarter-century history, Loggins-Hull performed alongside Cleveland Orchestra musicians throughout her tenure. Following its world premiere, Grit. Grace. Glory. received its Canadian premiere by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Recent highlights also include the West Coast Premiere of Loggins-Hull’s flute concerto Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni by the Seattle Symphony with soloist Demarre McGill, performances of her own works with members of the orchestra at Raisbeck Music Center’s Octave 9, as well as premieres for The Knights, Third Coast Percussion, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Apollo Chamber Players, and the National Orchestral Institute.

In recent years, Loggins-Hull performed with Lizzo at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards Show® and at the 2023 Met Gala, where she led an ensemble of flutists. As a performer on film scores, Loggins-Hull was co-principal flutist on the soundtracks for Creed III and Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King, working closely with Hans Zimmer. Continuing her work in film, Loggins-Hull composed the score for Bring Them Back, a 2019 award-winning documentary about the legendary dancer Maurice Hines, directed by Jon Carluccio and executive produced by Debbie Allen. 

Born in Chicago, Loggins-Hull lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey. She is represented by Pink Noise Agency, a BIG Arts Group Company. Allison Loggins-Hull received a 2025 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Learn more at www.allisonloggins.com.

*Photo Credit: Roger Mastroianni

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