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Saturday, March 23, 2024
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SUGAR VENDIL / ISOGRAM: SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD LIVE AT NATIONAL SAWDUST // DOORS AT 6:30PM March 23, 2024 7:30 pm Get tickets here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36490/production/1185929 For more information about the event: https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/sugar-vendil-isogram-scenes-from-childhood In an evening of kaleidoscopic sound and movement, Sugar Vendil demonstrates her range as an interdisciplinary artist.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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ACF is proud to commission a new orchestral work by Joel Thompson with partners New York Philharmonic (Jaap van Zweden, Music Director), Atlanta Symphony (Nathalie Stutzmann, Music Director), the Aspen Music Festival and School (Robert Spano, Music Director), and the Bravo! Vail Music Festival (Ann-Marie McDermott, Artistic Director). American Composers…
Monday, March 18, 2024
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Monday, March 18, 2024 @ 8:00 PM Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 $25 advance | $30 doors | $20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+) | doors 7p.m. NYC-based composer, bassist, and bandleader Martin Nevin (2017 JFund for New Music) world premieres his song cycle, “Scratch at…
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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Session 2: Thursday, March 7th – 5:30-6:30 PM Central Time Topic: we will examine previous awardees’ applications as case studies. ACF staff will offer two 60-minute information sessions for the 2024 ACF | create program online to review the application process. During these sessions, there will be time to ask questions about…
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Session 1: Tuesday, March 5th – 5:30-6:30 PM Central Time Topic: we will review all guidelines and walk through the application process in SlideRoom. ACF staff will offer two 60-minute information sessions for the 2024 ACF | create program online to review the application process. During these sessions, there will be time…
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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Vanessa Rose presents ACF’s racial equity journey to Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia February 27, 2024 @ 12:30pm ET Vanessa Rose, Executive Director of ACF, joins the Musical Fund Society for a virtual lunchtime presentation on how ACF has navigated the successes – and failures – of achieving greater equity in the organization and for…
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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Featured Speakers: Melissa Ngan and Vanessa Rose Being a part of a consortium is not only artistically beneficial to composers, but financially beneficial as well! In this session, Melissa Ngan will unpack some of the need-to-know information surrounding orchestral commissions and the creation of consortia for composers. This webinar is free, but registration…
Saturday, February 17, 2024
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American Composers Forum presents – “Connecting Our Students to Cutting-Edge Chamber Repertoire: New Solo and Ensemble Music Written by Black Composers” This session will highlight new pedagogical chamber music repertoire available for educators to include in their high school-level solo and ensemble repertoire by composers supported through various American Composers…
Saturday, February 10, 2024
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In this project the idea was to tell an abstract musical and visual narrative of a group of Black South Minneapolis residents moving through the racial unrest we experienced in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, while also moving through the global pandemic and shutdowns, as well as the…
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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Featuring Mychal “MMYYKK” Fisher, deVon Russell Gray, LaAerial, and Troy Rogers (aka Robot Rickshaw) Wed, Jan 31, 7:30–9:30 pm Cedar Cultural Center Tickets: $17 The Great Northern joins forces with American Composers Forum (ACF) to showcase ACF’s most recent cohort of Minnesota-based McKnight Composer Fellows: Mychal “MMYYKK”…
Friday, January 26, 2024
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What happens when young music students have the opportunity to not only perform side-by-side works with professional musicians but also play new works with “flex scores” written especially for them? What about when that living composer invites them to contribute to the creation of the work, or when they share…
Thursday, January 25, 2024
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The Sphinx Organization brings you the largest and longest-standing convening dedicated to diversity and inclusion in classical music January 25-27, 2024! With over 30 sessions designed to inspire and ignite action and spark collaboration, the participation of more than 90 speakers, keynote addresses by luminaries and trailblazers, and much more:…
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
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National Flute Association – IDEA Committee: 2024 Speaker Series Join members of the NFA’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee for enriching conversations with today’s arts leaders. These Zoom events are free and open to the public – no NFA membership required. Vanessa Rose | American Composers Forum…
Thursday, January 18, 2024
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Join us in NYC for the CMA Conference and be part of Anatomy of a Commission! ACF constituents use promo code ACF10CMA when registering and receive $10 off Sessions include an interactive town hall about the commissioning process, dialogue about applying best practices between composers and collaborators, and a composers/creators-only…
Friday, January 12, 2024
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ACF | Create awardee Stephanie Chou will be performing her work Comfort Girl. NY Hilton Midtown – 1335 6th Ave (54th St. and 6th Ave) SUTTON Center, 2nd Floor, free and open to the public Friday Jan 12 – 7:50pm Follow the link for more information: https://apap365.org/meet-the-artists-of-up-next-at-apapnyc-2024/ Comfort…
Friday, October 27, 2023
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The world premiere of the song cycle A Path Home/Camino a Casa, with music by Victor Márquez-Barrios and lyrics by Márquez-Barrios and Rodolfo Nieto, will take place on Friday, October 27, at 7:30pm in Truman State University. These songs were inspired by testimonies provided by a group of Latino immigrants living…
Saturday, June 24, 2023
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On Saturday, June 24, the Japanese composer Asuka Kakitani presents a concert at Studio Z (St. Paul, Minn.), to support her new solo percussion album Twelve Months in Minnesota (out on June 30), featuring Eri Isomura and inspired…
Thursday, June 1, 2023
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Immigration, Identity and the Arts You are invited to join American Composers Forum (ACF) and East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) on Thursday, June 1 at 6:30 pm CT for the culminating event of our “Immigration, Identity, and the Arts” series. Taking place at the Community Hall in the newly-renovated…
Monday, May 29, 2023
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Stephanie Chou — a 2016 ACF JFund (now ACF | create) award winner — is a Chinese-American jazz composer/saxophonist/singer who blends influences from her Chinese heritage with Western jazz and pop to create a bracingly original sound that draws audiences across the globe, creating…
Saturday, May 6, 2023
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For Bang on a Can’s 2023 LONG PLAY FESTIVAL (May 5 – 7), Quince Ensemble will perform love fail, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. Quince Ensemble, an all-female contemporary music vocal quartet, recorded the piece for innova…
Saturday, May 6, 2023
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The first orchestral concert of Composing Inclusion — a collaboration between the New York Philharmonic, ACF, and the Juilliard School’s Preparatory Division, made possible with funding from the Sphinx Venture Fund — will take place on May 6 at David Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center). It will feature…
Friday, May 5, 2023
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Witness the world-premiere performances of Canto Caló, a song cycle by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides, performed by Friction Quartet and mezzo soprano Melinda Martinez Becker. Following the world premiere, Benavides and Becker will release the work on innova…
Friday, April 28, 2023
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Performed and recorded in a church just across the street from the Minnesota State Capitol on December 28, 2020, only months after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, We Sick (on innova Recordings, the in-house record label of American Composers Forum) is a record of…
Friday, April 28, 2023
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In this “speed dating” event hosted by American Composers Forum, artistic directors from GALA LGBTQ choruses across North America are gathering in Minneapolis to tour Orchestra Hall, Central Lutheran Church, and the Minneapolis Convention Center in preparation for the upcoming GALA Choruses Festival 2024.