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Kashimana Ahua Chosen as Composer-in-Residence for In Common, Willmar, MN

The American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce that Kashimana Ahua has been selected as...
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2018 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

The American Composers Forum (ACF) today announced the recipients of this year’s McKnight Fellowship...
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Winners of the NextNotes High School Composition Awards Nominate Educators for Recognition

The American Composers Forum, in partnership with MakeMusic®, is proud to acknowledge the influentia...
2018 - 2019 ACF CONNECT Winners

American Composers Forum and Roomful of Teeth Announce Three Composers Selected for ACF CONNECT

Three composers have been selected as participants for the second annual ACF CONNECT program offered...
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American Composers Forum Announces Winners of the NextNotes High School Composition Awards

The American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce the winners of the fourth annual NextNote...
2018 ACF Showcase Winners

Jelloslave (aka Purple Orange) to Perform Works by Winners of the 2018 American Composers Forum Showcase

Jelloslave (aka Purple Orange), hailed by Rebecca Lang of the Star Tribune as “…an infectious, myste...
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John Nuechterlein to Retire as President & CEO of American Composers Forum

John Nuechterlein has announced that he will retire as President/CEO of the American Composers Forum...
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John Nuechterlein, Mary Ellen Childs, retirement
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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...
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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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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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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Teacher Greg Beyer and Student Alexis C. Lamb Collaborate on innova Album MeiaMeia

written by Michael Cyrs The results of a teacher and student coming together have no constant. There...
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Charles Amirkhanian, Donald Nally and The Crossing, The International Alliance for Women in Music to Receive Champion of New Music Awards

The American Composers Forum (ACF) Board of Directors has voted to present its 2017 Champion of New...
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Composer Rosephanye Powell Commissioned to Write New Piece for Auburn Junior High School Choir

ACF is thrilled to announce that composer Dr. Rosephanye Powell has been selected as the 2016-2017 C...
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Composers Selected for 2016 Jerome Fund for New Music & Minnesota Emerging Composer Award (MECA)

ST. PAUL, MN – The American Composers Forum is pleased to announce the results of two programs suppo...
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Meet New Board Member: Chris Osgood

ACF’s 2016 summer development intern, Henry Dykstal, conducted a series of interviews with our...
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Saad Haddad: Family Is Everything

written by Tim Hansen Saad Haddad A couple of years ago Californian-based composer Saad Haddad was a...
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John Keston: Musical Synthesis and Sonic Environments

By Tim Hansen On a bare hill overlooking the village of Burnley in Lancashire, England, stands the S...
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improvisation, Isao Tomita, john cage, moog, Singing Ringing Tree, synthesizer
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Doyle Armbrust and the Spektral Quartet

How did Spektral¹s involvement in Behind the Wallpaper come about, and is there anything to keep in...
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Behind the Wallpaper, doyle armburst, Julia Holter, Spektral Quartet
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Erin Rogers: A composer and her role in interplanetary warfare

Written by Tim Hansen Until a few years ago, composer, saxophonist and JFund awardee Erin Rogers did...
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Isaac Asimov, sci fi, science fiction, thingNY
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Christopher Cresswell: Stone Seeking Warmth

Written by Tim Hansen When Christopher Cresswell was in the third grade, his teacher asked his class...
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My Collaborations with Penelope Freeh: A Brief History

by Jocelyn Hagen Growing up as an only child in the country, outside a small town in North Dakota, a...
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choreography, composition, live music for dance, music for dance
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Danielle Schwob: The Electrical Eclectic

Written by Tim Hansen Fresh-faced young wannabe composers arriving at college are told in Composing...
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broadway shows, concert music, Danielle Schwob, David Botrill, electronica, film score, pop/rock, The Pogues
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