Programs
Facebook Event Page Join us for a night of new music by the winners of the NextNotes High School Co...
The American Composers Forum is pleased to announce a new community residency program with Giving Vo...
Three composers have been selected as participants for the first annual ACF CONNECT program offered...
National Composer Contest Awardee Profile There’s a high degree of bias that comes to mind when peop...
ACF is thrilled to announce the 4th Annual NextNotes® High School Composition Awards! NextNotes is a...
While the school year kicks into overdrive with end-of-year activities, students in Teresa Rhyne’s s...
Composers will travel to Minneapolis for Orchestra’s acclaimed professional training program, direct...
Facebook Event Page SAINT PAUL, MN – ANCIA Saxophone Quartet, hailed by Eugene Rousseau, Distinguis...
ACF is excited to announce that a new BandQuest® commission and partnership is beginning this month.
written by Tim Hansen In the 19th century, the Age of Enlightenment, there was a great leap forward...
written by Tim Hansen Sean Harold In the email ping-pong prefacing this article, JFund awardee Sean...
Composer Paul John Rudoi and poet Brian Laidlaw met weekly over dinner with the children and familie...
written by Tim Hansen The Vietnam War. An international clash of ideologies fought in the theatre of...
written by Tim Hansen When JFund awardee James Everest was three years old, he composed a thundersto...
written by Tim Hansen Tiffany Skidmore “My music is almost always several times removed from its ins...
by Tim Hansen Composer Alex Temple is fascinated by cheese. Not the dairy kind. The musical kind. Fa...
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Alex Temple, Frank Zappa, National Composition Contest, wild Up
by Tim Hansen Contemporary art photographer artist Bill Henson is a wizard with a camera. Internatio...
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National Composition Contest, REDCAT, wild Up, William Gardiner
by Tim Hansen In 1942 Aaron Copland was commissioned to write a new ballet for Martha Graham with br...
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Appalachia, Jerome Fund, Shawn Jaeger
by Tim Hansen Kids who grew up in the ’80s came of age when, for the first time since the indu...
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Jerome Fund, Pig Iron Theatre, Troy Herion
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
Written by Tim Hansen “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing l...
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banff, improvisation, mahler, maximalism, negative space, stravinsky, the delegation
