Recorded live on April 7, 2021.
The following Professional Development Webinars are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF).
Orchestral conductors Mei-Ann Chen and David Alan Miller provide insight into the conductor-composer relationship, programming new works, and other topics relevant to composers.
On The American Concerto, Volume One (Aug. 14, Cedille Records), the Grammy Award-winning violinist...
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Cedille Records, Courtney Bryan, Jennifer Koh, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Timothy Weiss, Vijay Iyer
Composer and percussionist Christopher Thompson deftly demonstrates how overlooking the constraints...
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Christopher Thompson, Emerging Black Composers Project, Michael Morgan Prize, San Francisco Symphony
Rebekah Heller is on a mission to smash every tired stereotype or bad orchestra joke about the basso...
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Brittany J. Green, Cantaloupe Music, Fay Victor, Jessie Cox, Julius Eastman, Rebekah Heller, Steve Reich
Applications for our 2027 McKnight Composer Fellowships are now open. These awards are presented in...
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American Composers Forum, McKnight Artist and Culture Bearer Fellowship Program, McKnight Composer Fellowships, McKnight Foundation, Recomposing America
A last-minute venue change brought Chinese Arts Week’s presentation of Du Yun’s The Ocean Etched in...
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Du Yun, He Guiying, Lincoln Center, OK MISS, Piao Niu
Electronic drummer, producer, educator, and clinician Ravish Momin is known for his groundbreaking r...
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'Kuza, 3Phaz, Abdullah Miniawy, Abu Ama, Deena Abdelwahed, Devi Mambouka, DJ Lag, Dolphins of Venice, El Kontessa, Kibrom Birhane, Kush Arora, Lila Tirando a Violeta, Mahorka, Masma Dream World, Moki McFly, New Music USA Creator Fund, Nihiloxica, Nkululeko Zungu, Nyege Nyege Tapes, Rani Jambak, Ravish Momin, Saba Alizadeh, Saskia, Sunken Cages, Tanya Tagaq, Trio Tarana, Turning Jewels into Water, Val Jeanty, Weldroid
The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984, He/They) engages with the embodied and acoustical energ...
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[Ahmed], Amadeus Julian Regucera, Amadeus Regucera, Charles Curtis, Charmaine Lee, Elaine Mitchener, Éliane Radigue, EMPAC, Eva Furrer, Gaber Modus Operandi, Georges Aperghis, HULUBALANG, Johanne Saunier, Kasimyn, Miho Hatori, Mike Schmidt, Richard Dubelsky, Sarah Davachi
Over the past 20 years, Sarah Hennies has developed an iterative musical practice that finds sonic a...
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[Switch~Ensemble], Alex Matterson, Andrew Yee, Bent Duo, Cabrillo Festival, EMPAC, GLISS Residency, Greg Stuart, Hazel Foxræ, inti figgis-vizueta, Joe Houston, Judith Hamann, Lulu West, Nate Wooley, Sarah Hennies, Sarah Saviet, Stuart Saunders Smith, Tristan Kasten-Krause
Andrew Yee, a multi-hyphenate new music powerhouse, continues to build an oeuvre that spans composit...
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Andrew Yee, Attacca Quartet, Caroline Shaw, New Amsterdam Records, NOVUS NY, Trinity Choir
Dylan Fujioka is a Japanese-American composer, performer, actor, and model most known for his work o...
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Akira Ifukube, Bad Brains, Dylan Fujioka, Jeanette, Juan Gabriel, Ocrilim, Ornette Coleman, Selena, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Peanuts
It’s end-of-term showtime at the London conservatoires, and recently I’ve seen some exciting new sho...
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Alex Hardy, Anastasia Koorn, Asher Joyce, Bella Marslen, Charlotte Jane Kennedy, Daniel Musashi, David Fraser, Deniz Dortok, Eden Shifroni, Lasha Kharkhelauri, Michael Rosewell, Royal College of Music, Ruvin Meda, Taining Zhao, Tète-à-Tète, Tom Law
Everything seemed perfectly engineered for presence on Jun. 25 at Pioneer Works. The sun twinkled go...
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Ash Fure, Laurel Halo, Pioneer Works
Kronos Quartet is an ensemble that needs little introduction — the San Francisco-based group recentl...
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CMC Centrediscs, Delia Derbyshire, Kronos Quartet, Nicole Lizée
José Martínez has charted numerous routes through tradition and storytelling by leaning into abstrac...
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Alejandro González Puche, HOCKET, Hocket Duo, Jordan Walsh, José Martínez, Laura Moreno, Leymis Bolaños, Ma Zhenghong, May Romero Quiñonez, New Focus Recordings, Sara Martínez
Composer, electroacoustic musician, and educator Ali Balighi seems most comfortable in the unstable...
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Ali Balighi, Post Orientalism Music
Mari Esabel Valverde is an award-winning transgender Mexican-American composer in steady demand in t...
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21V, Amir Rabiyah, Andrew Yee, California All-State Choir, Katherine FitzGibbon, Mari Esabel Valverde, Melissa Attebury, Melissa Dunphy, Resonance Ensemble, SACRA/PROFANA, Saunder Choi, Seattle Pro Musica, Tove Ditlevsen, Trinity Choir
It isn’t often that performers approach microtonal music armed only with a set of tuning forks and t...
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Charlotte Mundy, Ekmeles, Elisa Sutherland, George Lewis, Iwo Jedynecki, Jeffrey Gavett, Katherine Balch, New Focus Recordings, Plainsound, Steven Hrycelak, Timothy Parsons, Tomás Cruz, Wolfgang von Schweinitz
In the 250th anniversary of the United States, we might expect programming that focuses on the Found...
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Amy Beach, Danielle Jagelski, Erin Schwab, Florence Price, JL Marlor, Joan Tower, Michelle Rofrano, Nadia Boulanger, PROTESTRA, Recomposing America, Valerie Coleman
Metamorfosis opens with a yell. In “Tormentas,” a deity loosely based on the Aztec goddess of earth...
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Ana E. López, AVAJI, Matt Marks Impact Fund, Nnux, Paulina Parga
In a world of constant connectivity, what do we gain from looking within? Wild Up’s Jun. 6 program,...
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Christopher Rountree, Eliza Bagg, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Hildegard von Bingen, Isabella Leonarda, M.A. Tiesenga, REDCAT, Wild Up
Sound artist, composer, and visual creator Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe has developed a singular artistic...
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Charmaine Lee, Damon Locks, Kou Records, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Lia Kohl is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composi...
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Alain Peters, Egil Kalmen, Floating Points, FRANKIE & Battle-ax, James Holden, Lia Kohl, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Macie Stewart, Whitney Johnson
When Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (“Hallucination City”) for 100 Guitars was first performed at th...
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Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca Ensemble, Lincoln Center, Reg Bloor
