Max Richter and the The American Contemporary Music Ensemble perform Richter's piece "On The Nature Of Daylight" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California on May 8, 2025. On The Nature Of Daylight appeared in Richter's second studio album, The Blue Notebooks (2004), and has been used in the soundtracks for Arrival, The Last Of Us, Stranger Than Fiction, Togo, Shutter Island, Disconnect, and Jiro Dreams Of Sushi.
Max Richter is a Grammy nominated German-born British pianist and contemporary classical composer. The American Contemporary Music Ensemble, led by cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen, is a critically-acclaimed musical collective founded 20 years ago. The ACME members performing with Richter were Ben Russell (violin), Laura Lutzke (violin), Kyle Miller (viola), Claire Bryant (cello), and Clarice Jensen (cello).
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Max Richter Tour dates:
April 26 - Boston, MA @ Emerson Colonial Theater
April 29 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
May 2 - Washington DC @ Kennedy Center
May 3 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Academy Of Music
May 4 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
May 6 - Chicago, IL @ Symphony Center
May 8 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
May 9 - Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
May 10 - Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall
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Max Richter official bio:
Max Richter is one of the most influential and acclaimed composers of all time. His fusion of classical technique and electronic technology, heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion, has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.
His ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new studio in rural Oxfordshire – is a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion. In A Landscape is a record about “reconciling polarities,” as Richter puts it, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living.
The 19-track album began life in summer 2022 as a natural counterweight to the urgent political tenor of his previous projects: Exiles, a ballet score about the refugee crisis, and Voices, constructed with a “negative orchestra” and hundreds of readings of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. Richter’s ongoing commissions, meanwhile, were similarly dramatic and conceptual, including a ballet adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MADDADDAM, music for a Mark Rothko retrospective, and scores for Johan Renck’s sci-fi drama Spaceman and the Elisabeth Moss spy thriller The Veil.
The next project called for a recalibration. Shifting focus to Richter’s immediate surroundings, In A Landscape marks out a psychic space in which to meditate on the present while recognising a lifetime of artistic influence, from Bach and Purcell to the poetry of Keats, Wordsworth and Anne Carson. “It’s me having a look around, trying to examine where I’m at,” he suggests, “like a memoir of the present moment.”
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American Contemporary Music Ensemble official bio:
Since 2004, led by cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) has risen to the highest ranks of American new music through a mix of meticulous musicianship, artistic vision, engaging collaborations, and unwavering standards in every regard. The membership of the amorphous collective includes some of the brightest stars in the field. NPR calls them “contemporary music dynamos,” and Strings reports, “ACME’s absorbing playing pulsed with warm energy. . . Shared glances and inhales triggered transitions in a flow so seamless it seemed learned in a Jedi temple.”
The ensemble has performed at leading international venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BAM, The Kennedy Center, UCLA's Royce Hall, Chicago’s Millennium Park, Duke Performances, The Satellite in Los Angeles, STG Presents in Seattle, Melbourne Recital Hall and Sydney Opera House in Australia, and at festivals including the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Poland, All Tomorrow's Parties in England, Auckland Arts Festival in New Zealand, Summer Nostos Festival in Greece, Boston Calling, and Big Ears in Knoxville, TN. ACME has performed Max Richter’s Sleep, an eight-hour lullaby for a sleeping audience, with him around the world, including at the Great Wall of China; on the piers of Auckland, New Zealand; in Hobart, Tasmania; at the Sydney Opera House; and in LA’s Grand Park, among others.
ACME’s collaborators have included The Richard Alston Dance Company, Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance, Gibney Dance, Satellite Ballet, Meredith Monk, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter, actress Barbara Sukowa, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Blonde Redhead, Grizzly Bear, Low, Matmos, Micachu & The Shapes, Jeff Mangum, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Roomful of Teeth, Lionheart, and Theo Bleckmann.
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