Indictus Project is thrilled to announce that Joseph Summer has been elected our new Chairman of the Board. We look forward to his experienced leadership and vast musical understanding. Read more about him below or on our website, www.Indictus.org

Joseph Summer is familiar to audiences both as a composer and as the founder/director of The Shakespeare Concerts. With concerts from Korea to the Virgin Islands; an annual presentation at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall; and recordings produced in the Czech Republic, Mechanics Hall (the preeminent recording facility in New England,) and the WGBH Boston studio; The Shakespeare Concerts is “nothing short of spectacular.” (American Record Guide.)

His operatic music has been praised as “comfortably tonal but sophisticated, ceaselessly inventive, and often gripping; he’s a vivid musical storyteller;” (Opera News) and his work for voice and chamber ensembles has been described as a “21st-century world of kaleidoscopic influences like a beautifully transformed Schubert” (Gramaphone). Known as well for his string quartets, the Ulysses Quartet (resident at Juilliard) is engaged in a long term project recording all of his quartet music, including the recently finished “Book of Invisible Women.” In May 2021 the Ruse Opera Company of Bulgaria will premiere Summer’s expansive setting of Hamlet, at the Dohodno Zdanie, followed by the opera’s recording by PARMA Records. Summer’s Tempest Sonata for Violin and Piano will be the featured work on the North American tour of Christina Bouey’s 2021 Ovid themed recital series, debuting at Carnegie Hall. Much of Summer’s music is available on CD and electronic media through the standard outlets. One can peruse the available recordings, and find upcoming events of Summer and The Shakespeare Concerts at http://shakespeareconcerts.org/