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Saturday, August 7, 2021
Minneapolis-based Composer / Director JG Everest premieres a new immersive sound installation for one of the scenic hiking areas at the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center (PWELC) in Spicer, MN, to be presented on Saturday August 7, 2021. Part of his ongoing series of site-specific “Sound Gardens”, Everest has spent…
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Saturday, August 7, 2021
The Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival’s 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. On Program Two, “Contemporaries and Colleagues,” August 7 at 1pm, Neave Trio will perform Ravel’s Piano Trio on a concert which traces Nadia Boulanger’s early musical relationships.
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Thursday, August 5, 2021
Brightmusic returns to Live Concerts with ‘Beethoven and Friends’ – Summer Festival concert series mixes old and new. Join the four days of concerts. See each date and time in the program below: Program: Concert No. 1 – Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT Concert…
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
IPO SUMMER @ OLYMPIA FIELDS COUNTRY CLUB Enjoy small ensemble concerts by our own IPO Musicians and IPO Musician Friends at the beautiful Olympia Fields Country Club. Capacity will be capped according to Restore IL Guidelines. James Stephenson (a BandQuest composer and former board member) – Fanfare for an…
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
IPO SUMMER @ OLYMPIA FIELDS COUNTRY CLUB Enjoy small ensemble concerts by our own IPO Musicians and IPO Musician Friends at the beautiful Olympia Fields Country Club. Capacity will be capped according to Restore IL Guidelines. James Stephenson (a BandQuest composer and former board member) – Fanfare for an…
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Brightmusic returns to Live Concerts with ‘Beethoven and Friends’ – Summer Festival concert series mixes old and new. Join the four days of concerts. See each date and time in the program below: Program: Concert No. 1 – Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT Concert…
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Monday, August 2, 2021
The Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violinists; Liz Freivogel, viola; and Daniel McDonough, cello) returns to the Bowdoin International Music Festival as a faculty ensemble, performing concerts on July 19 and August 2 in Studzinski Recital Hall. The Bowdoin International Music Festival is set to return to…
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Saturday, July 31, 2021

American Roots

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American Roots is the Lakes Area Music Festivals grand opening event of the season that celebrates the American Spirit. Mason Bates‘ kaleidoscopic orchestral fanfare is followed by Jessie Montgomery‘s rhapsody of patriotic anthems, including the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ Peruvian-American composer Jimmy Lopes completes this…
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Saturday, July 31, 2021

American Roots

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The grand opening event for the Lakes Area Music 2021 season, that celebrates the American Spirit. American Roots features Mason Bates‘ kaleidoscopic orchestral fanfare followed by Jessie Montgomery‘s rhapsody of patriotic anthems, including the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ Peruvian-American composer Jimmy Lopez completes this trilogy…
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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Dialogues: Malang Jobarteh

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Malang Jobarteh is a master of the kora, a 21-stringed West African harp and instrument of choice for griots, storytellers who chronicle the history and traditions of West Africa. The program features original compositions, arrangements of Western classical pieces and traditional West African music in a boundary-defying recital that unifies…
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Friday, July 30, 2021

Elizabeth Cree

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Set in a bawdy Victorian music hall, Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts (a BandQuest composer and the Director of the MNOrch Composer Institute) is a psychological thriller in which an abused and impoverished woman finally finds a family in a troupe of misfit performers. The action moves with kaleidoscopic energy and…
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
What instruments pair well with the harp? How can composers best approach navigating the different timbral possibilities presented by the harp in chamber contexts? ​ Informed by both her experiences performing on the harp in small ensembles as well as her own compositional successes and learning moments, Amy Nam explores…
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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Elizabeth Cree

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Set in a bawdy Victorian music hall, Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts (a BandQuest composer and the Director of the MNOrch Composer Institute) is a psychological thriller in which an abused and impoverished woman finally finds a family in a troupe of misfit performers. The action moves with kaleidoscopic energy and…
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Saturday, July 24, 2021
Ludovic Morlot conducts the NJSO premieres of dynamic works by the composers of the NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a multi-faceted program that promotes new music and emerging composers. The Institute composers will briefly share the inspiration behind their pieces in an evening at NJPAC that will show the…
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Saturday, July 24, 2021
Yellow Barn’s summer festival continues this week with a special focus on Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (a ChoralQuest composer). This concert will include Tate’s cantata “Standing Bear: A Ponca Indian Cantata in Eight Tableaux” performed by baritone William Sharp, as well as a string quintet…
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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Echoes in Life: Thomas Mesa

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Cellist Thomas Mesa presents an emotional and timely recital celebrating an emergence from despair to joy. The program opens with Andrea Casarrubios’ SEVEN (2020), commissioned by Mesa and written as tribute to the essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by Elizabeth Start’s Echoes in Life (2015), a ruminative exploration…
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
Oneonta Community Concert Band plays in a “Going Out” event in Neahwa Park on Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM ET The band will pay tribute to this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Tania León (a…
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AACM Convo 2
Thursday, July 22, 2021
AACM in Conversation with The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker Moderated by Dameun Strange on Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 3PM CT Join artist and AACM president Coco Elysses and New Renaissance Artist The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker’s discussion of the work Elizabeth has developed for AACM through our ACF l connect…
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Monday, July 19, 2021
The Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violinists; Liz Freivogel, viola; and Daniel McDonough, cello) returns to the Bowdoin International Music Festival as a faculty ensemble, performing concerts on July 19 and August 2 in Studzinski Recital Hall. The Bowdoin International Music Festival is set to return to…
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Monday, July 19, 2021
Redesigned for 2021, this choral conducting workshop will be an abbreviated version of the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) Choral Conducting Symposium. Students will participate in daily lessons with SMTD faculty, gain access to daily lessons specific to choral conducting, and gain an introduction to…
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Saturday, July 17, 2021
On Saturday, July 3, 2021 at 9:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM PT & Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT, Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) presents a collaboration between the Jupiter String Quartet and East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), highlighting the…
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Saturday, July 17, 2021
Performance of “Kind of Bill – The Musical Life of Bill Evans” and his associations with Tony Bennett, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian, Miles Davis, Jim Hall, Eddie Gómez, Eliot Zigmund, Marc Johnson, and Joe LaBarbera. Date & Time: Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT…
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Friday, July 16, 2021
On Friday, July 16, 2021 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT, Sarah Cahill, described as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, returns to Old First Concerts to perform selections from her project, The Future is Female.
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Friday, July 16, 2021

Greater Hartford Jazz Festival

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The Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz will be back in Bushnell Park this summer after being quieted by COVID last year. The festival, running Friday, July 16, 2021 to Sunday, July 18, 2021 brings back many of the artists slated for…
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