Release Dates: Friday, February 5, 2021 Tuesday, February 9, 2021 Friday, February 12, 2021 Tuesday, February. 16, 2021 Tiny operas, big ideas. This program features newly commissioned 8-10-minute operas from Minnesota artists with a variety of creative backgrounds. The MN Opera new works team will collaborate with four pairs of artists selected through a competitive application […]
ACF's Study Group opens our staff and board conversations and anti-racism training to our colleagues and friends. Please use this Zoom link as we will be meeting remotely due to Covid-19. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Join us on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 4pm CST for […]
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY MUSIC in collaboration with MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC invites you to share virtually with the FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE Deep Listening: 5 consecutive 15-minute sessions; guided meditations, daily rituals, improvised text scores, and movement exercises; Deep Listening provides multiple tools for mindfulness, creativity, and communal music making. Friday, January 29, 2021 […]
American Composers Orchestra’s Composer to Composer series features major American composers in conversation with each other about their work and leading a creative life. The intergenerational discussions will begin by exploring a single work with one composer interviewing the other. Attendees will gain insight to each work’s genesis, sound, influence on the American orchestral canon, […]
Fire Station Artists‘ Studios is delighted to invite you to an online Meeting at the Crossroads of visual art, sound art, music and poetry presented by Warsaw-based curator and art historian Stanislaw Welbel, with Matthew Evan Taylor (past NextNotes panelist), Dannielle Tegeder, Suzanne Walsh on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 11am CST | 5pm (Dublin […]
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF). What skills should a composer have in order to produce their own work? Topics include audio and video recording, project management, and producing recordings. John Glover moderates a panel of creators and producers. Q&A with audience will follow the panel discussion. Panelists: Habib Azar, Film and Stage Director, Judith Sherman, […]
Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. Featuring a wide range of leading instrumentalists and vocalists (including […]
Join us for the world premiere of NEW MUSIC written by our elementary singers of Sister Cities Girlchoir and The Music & Motion Choir. The compositions were created during a short-term residency with composer, Erin Busch (in ACF's Philly chapter) sponsored by the American Composers Forum. Alysia Lee (a ChoralQuest collaborator) of SCGC will also […]
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY MUSIC in collaboration with MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC invites you to share virtually with the FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE Deep Listening: 5 consecutive 15-minute sessions; guided meditations, daily rituals, improvised text scores, and movement exercises; Deep Listening provides multiple tools for mindfulness, creativity, and communal music making. Friday, January 29, 2021 […]
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF). How can composers help guide their own careers? What part does creating an ensemble play in that? Frank J. Oteri moderates a panel of innovative ensemble creators to explore topics of entrepreneurship and career advancement as a composer. Q&A with audience will follow. Panelists: Afa Dworkin, Sphinx Organization, […]
Twenty-six artists collaborate to bring you a live, online song cycle called Swell, weaving together ten original, new music compositions by ten composers drawing from their personal histories as immigrants and children of immigrants. Hailing from Mexico, India, Israel, Japan, Trinidad, the Philippines, Russia, and Taiwan, the composers’ unique, surprising, and deeply human stories are […]
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY MUSIC in collaboration with MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC invites you to share virtually with the FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE Deep Listening: 5 consecutive 15-minute sessions; guided meditations, daily rituals, improvised text scores, and movement exercises; Deep Listening provides multiple tools for mindfulness, creativity, and communal music making. Friday, January 29, 2021 […]