Passion in Sound. Power in Performance.
 

About Us

ABLAZE records was founded with the intention of representing todays living composers across a range of media: chamber music, orchestral music, electronic music, choral music, ensemble music, and composer and performer solo discs that we call 'portrait' discs. With over one hundred and twenty composers from around the world now represented in our catalog, we are well on the way to offering a wide spectrum of listening experiences across the extremely wide aesthetic range of our composers.

Originally established in Australia, ABLAZE moved its substantive operations to the United States in 2008. Since that time, through annual calls for recordings and scores, ABLAZE has established a strong network of composers, many of whom have published with us numerous times.

Our interest is not just in composers of our time, but also in the performing artists who so beautifully represent them. Through our publications you will find some extraordinarily virtuosic and committed performances from artists around the world.

Finally, ABLAZE is committed to the very best in sound quality and distribution. To this end we have partnered with the best GRAMMY Award winning audio and mastering engineers. Our discs are distributed throughout the world in hard copy and direct digital download (DDD) format in both standard and high definition files. In this we have partnered with Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and other major streaming services as well as NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY, AMAZON.com, CDBaby and our own sales oriented website to make our discs and downloads available worldwide through direct hard copy sales and via dozens of streaming partners worldwide.

 

Contact Us

 

Contact

General Inquiries

info [at] ablazerecords [dot] net
 

Artist Management

Josephine McLachlan
ablaze [at] ablazerecords [dot] net
 

 
 
 

ABLAZE Artistic and Technical Collaborators

 
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Douglas Knehans

Co-Director and Producer

In 2008 Knehans and his partner, designer Josephine McLachlan, co-created ABLAZE Records and have since published over seventy discs of new music from hundreds of living composers around the world. Knehans has served as producer for ABLAZE Records FOR over seventy discs and is a member of NARAS. His own compositions have also been published by ABLAZE WINNING numerous international recording awards.

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Josephine McLachlan

Co-director and Art Director

Josephine McLachlan is the resident designer at ABLAZE Records. She has held graphic design industry and teaching positions in New York City; New Haven, CT; Hobart, Australia, and Cincinnati, OH. She is also co-director of ABLAZE Records. Josephine McLachlan has designed over 60 CD covers, artwork, printed and digital books. She is published by Simon and Schuster and is a member of NARAS.

 
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Mikel Toms

ConDuctor

Mikel is closely associated with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic with whom he has made over a hundred recordings of contemporary and classical repertoire. He has recorded over 80 new works for orchestra and has collaborated with major composers including Iannis Xenakis, James Dillon, Michael Finnissy, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Harrison Birtwistle and has appeared at festivals in London, Bath, Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Belfast, Darmstadt, Innsbruck, Sligo, Almaty, Valencia, Dortmund and Berlin.

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Brett Scott

Conductor

Brett Scott currently directs Cincinnati’s Coro Volante, a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance and recording of music by living composers, which releases recordingS In the New Choral VoiceS Series through Ablaze records. Past director of the Cincinnati Camerata he recently led that ensemble in the regional premiere of Arvo Pärt’s Passio, and in collaboration with concert:nova and Nanoworks Opera, the regional premiere of Jonathan Dove’s community opera Tobias and the Angel.

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Kevin Michael Holzman

CONDUCTOR

As the Frederick Fennell Conducting Fellow and 2016 recipient of the prestigious Walter Hagen Prize for Excellence in Conducting, Holzman served as Associate Conductor of the world-renowned Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind Orchestra. He regularly appeared as a conductor for OSSIA New Music, including multiple world-premiere performances. In summer 2016, Holzman SERVED as an associate conductor on the Eastman Wind Ensemble’s first tour in Europe, where he conducted the Eastman Harmonie in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague.

 
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Jaroslav Zouhar

RECording Engineer

Jaroslav Zouhar has recorded more than 30 CDs of classical, jazz and folk music. In cooperation with the Brno Philharmonic.

he HAs dozens of recording projects To His Credit of orchestral and film music and music DVDs for companies such as Sony BMG Publishing, FM Classic, Universal Records, Channel 4, Music Sales and More than Twenty discs of Orchestral and Chamber music for ABLAZE Records.

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Silas Brown

Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Silas Brown is a New York City area producer, engineer, and mastering engineer specializing in classical and jazz recordings. He has more than 20 years of production credits and was awarded Grammys in 2014 as producer of the Evelyn Glennie/Albany Symphony recording of Corigliano’s Conjurer (Best Soloist Performance with Orchestra) and in 2011 as mastering engineer on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Verdi Requiem recording (Best Classical Album).

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Adam Abeshouse

Recording, Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Adam Abeshouse has produced and engineered recordings for many TOP CLASSICAL LABELS. In 1999, he won the GRAMMY Award for Classical Producer of the Year, and was nominated again in 2003. ADAM Abeshouse won a second GRAMMY Award in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo Performance category for producing and engineering Garrick Ohlsson's Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3.

David V.R. Bowles

Recording, Mixing and Mastering Engineer

David v.R Bowles recordings have been GRAMMY-nominated (Classical - Best Orchestral Performance), JUNO-nominated (Classical Album of the Year - Vocal or Choral) and won the “Classical Orchestral Album” prize (Just Plain Folks Awards). Other Bowles-produced and engineered releases have twice been named “Record of the Month - Editor's Choice” from Gramophone Magazine and Opera News; and “Record of the Year” from New York Times, the New Yorker and Voix des Arts.

 
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Joel Crawford

RECORDING AND MIXING ENGINEER

Joel Crawford bringS a depth of knowledge in audio recording that focuses on classical and jazz, but also includes CONTEMPORARY and popular styles.

HIS over 15 years of extensive professional experience in location recording includes: solo and chamber recitals, wind bands, brass bands, chamber and massed choirs, orchestras, large scale orchestra and choir works, operas, musicals, jazz combos and big bands, rock shows, music festivals, and more.

 
 

ABLAZE Ensemble Collaborators

 
 
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CORO VOLANTE

Chamber Choir

Coro Volante was founded in 2017 by Brett and Krista Cornish Scott. Reflecting the two founders’ long standing advocacy for new music. the ensemble is devoted to performing and recording music by living composers from around the world. the chorus voraciously tackles a variety of styles and genres with a passion for highlighting new, emerging choral voices. Coro Volante’s releases through the Ablaze record label, New Choral Voices Volume 2, 3 and 4 received stellar reviews from both composers and critics, who cite the group’s “tremendous breath control”, “careful choral balancing”, and “beautifully realized performance”.

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BRNO PHILHARMONIC

Symphony Orchestra

Today’s Philharmonic was established on 1 January 1956, when it performed its first concert. The philharmonic tradition in Brno dates back to the 1870s when a young Leoš Janáček made efforts to establish a Czech symphony orchestra there. Now with over a hundred members, today the Philharmonic performs at festivals and concert halls all over the world. It collaborates with renowned conductors and star soloists, regularly sells out halls as far away as Japan, and in 2015 even visited Oman for the first time. In addition to its busy and respected concert season the philharmonic sustains an active recording roster and has recorded more than 20 CDs of new music for ABLAZE Records.

 
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ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Formed in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, the company became the Scottish National Orchestra in 1950, and was awarded Royal Patronage in 1977. The Orchestra’s artistic team is led by Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård, who was appointed RSNO Music Director in 2018, having previously held the position of Principal Guest Conductor. Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan succeeds Søndergård as Principal Guest Conductor. The RSNO performs across Scotland, including concerts in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Perth and Inverness. The Orchestra appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms, and has made recent tours to the USA, China and Europe.

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CCM WIND SYMPHONY

WIND ENSEMBLE

The CCM Wind Symphony is comprised of highly advanced performers of wind and percussion instruments. The ensemble is internationally recognized as one of the finest groups of its kind. Each semester the players are auditioned and assigned parts on a rotating basis. Following a philosophy of one player per part and adopting flexible instrumentation according to the composer’s intentions, the ensemble performs chamber music, selected transcriptions, concerti and original full ensemble repertoire spanning five centuries.

 
 

ABLAZE Distribution Network

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