Songs for the Season – Virtual Courtroom Concert

“Songs for the Season” featuring carols by Minnesota composers is one of the most popular programs from the Courtroom Concert series. If sub-zero temperatures kept you from attending the program […]

Make Music Winter

ACF has previously partnered with MakeMusic! After years of spontaneous musical merriment on June 21, the spirit of Make Music Day has come to visit on Monday, December 21, 2020 […]

Rethinking Music Theory Pedagogy II [Composers Coffee Break]

Join Elliott McKinley and their two colleagues, Dr. Peter Smucker (Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Stetson University) and Dr. Erich Stem (Associate Professor of Music Composition at Indiana University […]

Cleveland Ovations features Cleveland Chamber Choir

This event is a combination of two holiday programs from 2018 and 2019.  Music for Advent, Hanukkah, and Christmas are all represented including a few world premieres. Tune in on […]

Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays!

Question: What do Seinfeld, Christmas, The Tin Woodman, Queen, Sting, Charlie Brown, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, and award-winning American poetry, have in common? Answer: Streaming Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays! […]

How Can We Not Sing II

How Can We Not Sing is part of Artists Respond: Combating Social Isolation, a project of Springboard for the Arts. The Artist Respond commissions empowers artists to find ways to […]

Field to Media

Field to Media is about amplifying musical communities’ responses to environmental challenges. Field researchers worked with communities in Canada, Bangladesh, China, Haiti, India, Tanzania, and the United States to create […]

Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management for Composers by ACO & ACF

The following Professional Development Webinar are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating […]

Composer Awards: Demystifying the Process

Helpful hints on choosing and presenting your best work. Hosted by composer Jeremy Gill. Composer and BMI Student Composer Awards preliminary judge Jeremy Gill offers an insiderʼs view on how judges […]