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NextNotes High School Composition Awards Partners with Noteflight

NextNotes High School Composition Awards is partnering with Noteflight to provide Noteflight Premium…
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JFund Awardee Brian Mark: Experience History As It Happens

by Michael Cyrs “I love the art of film music, but I’m not at all into defining labels when it comes…
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Alice Vogt, beautiful, Breathe, Brian Mark, Dark Elegy, film music, Invocation, Lucid Dreaming, Mourning, multimedia, towers, Tuesday, We Interrupt This Broadcast
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Composer Judd Greenstein Commissioned to Write New Piece for Great Falls Middle School Choir

ACF is thrilled to announce that composer Judd Greenstein has been selected as the 2017-2018 ChoralQ…
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Composers Selected for 2017 Jerome Fund for New Music & Minnesota Emerging Composer Award (MECA)

  SAINT PAUL, MN – The American Composers Forum is pleased to announce the results of two progr…
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New BandQuest Release: Steps Ahead by Michael Gandolfi

We are thrilled to announce our newest addition to BandQuest®, our music series for middle-level ban…
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Rhythm, Melody, and Dissonance: Trevor Babb’s Guitar

By Michael Cyrs Close your eyes, turn out the lights, and listen to Trevor Babb’s “Septet.” Each gui…
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guitar, innova, innova Recordings, Pat Metheny, Trevor Babb, Warmth
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New ChoralQuest Release: When I Sing by Rosephanye Powell

When I Sing by Rosephanye Powell for 3-part treble and piano with optional hand percussion We are th…
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M. Lamar: Bodylessness and History as Told through Genres

JFund Profile by Michael Cyrs “Genre-defying” and “experimental” are words that critics enjoy tossin…
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Funeral Doom Spiritual, Hunter Hunt Hendrix, M. Lamar, The Lynching Suite
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Letter from Steven Homestead, New ACF-Los Angeles President

I am humbled and excited to announce that as of September 1st, I begin my term as the next President…
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ACF Chapter, ACF-LA, ACF-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Steven Homestead
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Asuka Kakitani Conquers the Impossible Task of Representing Nature in Jazz

by Michael Cyrs Reality is rarely compartmentalized into the rigid structure of a three-minute pop s…
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Asuka Kakitani, JFund
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Getting Lost: ACF Board Member J. Anthony Allen Takes on the Arctic

by J. Anthony Allen I spent the month of June on a residency aboard a ship in the Arctic. This was a…
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Steph Chou Makes a Smooth Transition from Jazz Saxophone to Multicultural Bliss on Last Year’s Asymptote

by Michael Cyrs In May of 1995, Taiwan lost a cultural trailblazer. Teresa Teng, then 42 and already…
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Asymptote, C for G, China, Prime Knot, Steph Chou, Susan Jaffe, Taiwan, Teresa Teng
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“Getting to know you . . .”

Submitted by Louisa Castner and Victor Zupanc The Healing and Hope through Song community residency…
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Aleksandr Brusentsev’s Quest to Explore Perspectives of Music and Art

Written by Michael Cyrs   Even if it’s with someone unquestionably genuine, verbal communicatio…
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Aleksandr Brusentsev, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Fund
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2017 Champion of New Music Charles Amirkhanian

Photo by Mark Melnyk. ACF President John Nuechterlein and ACF Board member Vivian Fung presented the…
2017 McKnight Fellows and Visiting

2017 McKnight Composer Fellows and Visiting Composers Announced

The American Composers Forum (ACF) today announced the recipients of this year’s McKnight Fellowship…
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Josh Hernandez-Camen’s Quest for Authenticity in Composition

A profile of a 2016 NextNotes finalist by Michael Cyrs A Google search of Ángel Jochi Hernandez-Came…
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2017 NextNotes Showcase on June 24th 7:30pm at the Lab Theater

Facebook Event Page Join us for a night of new music by the winners of the NextNotes High School Co…
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Healing & Hope Through Song Composer and Poet Announced

The American Composers Forum is pleased to announce a new community residency program with Giving Vo…
ACF CONNECT Winners

American Composers Forum and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Announce Three Composers Selected for ACF CONNECT

Three composers have been selected as participants for the first annual ACF CONNECT program offered…
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In Service of Classical Music: Brandon Ridenour’s Noble Contributions to the Trumpet

National Composer Contest Awardee Profile There’s a high degree of bias that comes to mind when peop…
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New ACF Partnerships: Make Music Day & Young Composer Contest with Make Music, Inc.

ACF is excited to be a new national partner in Make Music Day, and we want you, the ACF community, t…
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Now Accepting Submissions for NextNotes Season Four!

ACF is thrilled to announce the 4th Annual NextNotes® High School Composition Awards! NextNotes is a…
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Auburn Junior High Choir to Perform World Premiere of Choral Work by Composer Rosephanye Powell

While the school year kicks into overdrive with end-of-year activities, students in Teresa Rhyne’s s…
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