American Composers Forum

Jupiter String Quartet: Reflection and Renewal
2021-02-12 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-02-19 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-02-26 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is presenting a free, digitally delivered four-part concert series featuring the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Music’s Jupiter String Quartet. The tight-knit ensemble consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law) is in their 19th year together. Of their in-demand and award-winning artistry, The New Yorker remarked, “The Jupiter String Quartet, an ensemble of eloquent intensity, has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene.”
For this new Krannert Center Reflection and Renewal series, the quartet explores diverse composers and themes. They have chosen programs with contrasting styles and genres of music, each moving from a quartet masterpiece in a minor key to a more hopeful, major-key contemporary work. The quartet’s hope is that each short concert and the personal reflections the members will share will provide a musical meditation for audiences. The performances will be viewable on demand beginning at noon on the day of each concert through March 5, 2021.
Reflection and Renewal with Jupiter String Quartet
Part I on Friday, February 5, 2021 at 12pm CST
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, “Serioso” – IV. Larghetto espressivo—Allegretto agitato—Allegro Kati Agócs: Imprimatur
Part II on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 12pm CST
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden” – II. Andante con moto Michi Wiancko: To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores – VI. “Follow the Water” & VII. “Rise Up”
Part III on Friday, February 19, 2021 at 12pm CST
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80 – II. Allegro vivace assai Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5 – II. Largo. Cantabile e mesto Dan Visconti: excerpts from Ramshackle Songs
Part IV on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 12pm CST
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 – IV. Molto allegro e vivace George Walker: Lyric for Strings William Bolcom: “Incineratorag” from Three Rags for String Quartet
Learn more on their website here.

Simone Dinnerstein: A Character of Quiet
2021-02-12 14:00 - 23:59 (America/Chicago)
Simone Dinnerstein’s virtual concert for Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Washington features music from her latest album, A Character of Quiet, released in fall 2020 by Orange Mountain Music. The album and concert include Philip Glass’s Etudes No. 16 and No. 2 paired with Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960.
The performance will be available for seven days, beginning on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 2pm CST | 12pm PT, for free on-demand viewing.
Dinnerstein recorded the album over the course of two evenings at her home in Brooklyn in June 2020, during the quiet of the New York City lockdown, with her longtime producer and friend Adam Abeshouse. It reached the number one spot on the Billboard Classical Chart, and was described by NPR as, “music that speaks to a sense of the world slowing down,” and by The New Yorker as, “a reminder that quiet can contain multitudes.”
For more information, visit their website.

New Opera as Art and Social Discourse
2021-02-12 18:30 - 2021-02-19 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Joshua Frankel and Judd Greenstein (a ChoralQuest composer) will discuss their multimedia opera, A Marvelous Order, which explores the epic struggle between Robert Moses, master builder, and Jane Jacobs, self-taught oracle of urban insight, over the fate of New York City in the mid-twentieth century.
The conversation will include a video featuring highlights of their work in progress. Their discussion will center on the genesis and development of the opera, which features a libretto by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
Watch the live event on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30 p.m. EST.
A recording will be available for streaming on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30 pm to Friday, February 19, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30 p.m.
Join on the virtual event here.

Great Falls Symphony's 62nd Live Concert Series - 2020-2021 Season
2021-02-13 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-02-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-02-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Great Falls Symphony announces their 100% FREE concert season this year until May 2021. “All of us at the Great Falls Symphony are fully committed to fulfilling our mission to infuse cultural vibrancy into the Great Falls community through transformative music events and education programs.”
All live performances will be FREE of charge, but need to be picked up in advance at the Mansfield Center for the Performing Arts box office. Two performances are offered during each GFSA concert in order to accommodate two smaller, socially distanced live audience. Venue location will vary – detailed information can be found at gfsymphony.org.
All performances will be recorded and broadcast later on the KRTV app so patrons can enjoy a virtual concert experience.
Virtual concerts will be broadcast to the general public one week after each live performance date. See schedule here.
See the upcoming schedule:
Fri OCT 9, 7:00pm “Native Views” Cascade Quartet
Sat NOV 7, 3:00pm “Vistas” *PREVIEW Thu NOV 5
Sat NOV 7, 7:30pm EVOCATIVE MUSIC OF OPEN SPACES
Fri NOV13, 7:00pm “Innovators” Chinook Winds
Sun NOV 22, 3:00pm FallConcert Youth Orchestra AND Sinfonia
Sun DEC 6, 3:00pm “Christmas” *PREVIEW Thu DEC 3
Sun DEC 6, 7:30pm HOLIDAY MUSIC FAVORITES
Sat JAN16, 3:00pm “Virtuoso” *PREVIEW Thu JAN 14
Sat JAN16, 7:30pm FEATURING Dorian Antipa, BASSOON
Fri JAN 29, 7:00pm “ViolaPower” Cascade Quartet
Sat FEB 13, 3:00pm “Heart Strings” *PREVIEW Thu FEB 11
Sat FEB 13, 7:30pm FEATURING Luis Angel Salazar, VIOLIN & Alyssa Roggow, VIOLA
Fri FEB 19, 7:00pm “Greatest Hits” Chinook Winds
Fri MAR 12, 7:00pm “Voices” Cascade Quartet
Sun MAR 28, 3:00pm SpringConcert Youth Orchestra AND Sinfonia
Sat APR 24, 3:00pm “Testament” *PREVIEW Thu, APR 22
Sat APR 24, 7:30pm FEATURING Supaman
Fri MAY14, 7:00pm “Together Again”

Composers Concordance Presents Low-Key Chamber Concert Series
2021-02-13 16:00 - 17:00, 2021-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Low-Key Chamber Concert Series
An eclectic concert series, ensemble, record label, and presenting organization for music with a 34-year history of premiering good music that is pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.

Saturdays, February 6 through March 14, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Live-streamed on the Composers Concordance Facebook page.

Event listing:
Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
TAP: Milica Paranosic and Brian DuFord, music, voice, guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Max Pollak, dancer
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Sean Satin, classical guitar
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Jay Rodriguez, saxophone, flute, and clarinet
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Charles Coleman, voice
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Music of the Unsung America Sacred Fire Concert
2021-02-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us at the Sandrell Rivers Theater on Saturday, February 13 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST for a night that explores a range of Western classical music by composers of African descent by merging engaging visual elements and sound. Sacred Fire is a chronological musical journey from Afro-British to Afro-Brazilian music, narrated with poetic prose and accompanied with elements of movement (ballet) and visual art. The program will culminate in an audience talk-back with the artists and Fantasy Theater Factory CEO/Executive Artistic Director Larry Fields.
Virtual Streaming Link:
https://facebook.com/ftfshows
https://www.facebook.com/events/170092428221680
Tickets: $10 (in person). For more information contact the Box Office at 305-284-8872 or boxoffice@ftfshows.com
COVID-19 Protocol & Practices: The use of face coverings and the practice of social distancing are required for all individuals. Read more at: https://www.sandrellriverstheater.com/reopening
Founded by Portia Dunkley, this is part of a new series featuring Black artists of history and today launches this month. Music of the Unsung America reveals a beautiful truth about our history as it kicks off a dynamic season exploring the deep roots and extraordinary range of music created by descendants of Africa. Read more about the series on ACF’s website.

The Albany Symphony 2020/2021 SEASON RE-IMAGINED!
2021-02-13 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Albany Symphony unveiled its reimagined 2020-2021 season, which will include world premieres and concertos with brilliant soloists, as well as iconic masterworks. Curated by conductor David Alan Miller, the season brings to life an array of new and recent works by a panoply of living composers forging new ways to create art reflecting our time and place, with major masterpieces by Beethoven, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and others, and dazzling solo performances by artists including Inon Barnatan, Melissa White, Karen Hosmer and Grace Shryock.
The newly reimagined season will be presented virtually. As restrictions are lifted, live audiences will be invited back into the concert hall. All concerts will be performed live, in real time, on Capital Region stages, by Albany Symphony musicians conducted by Music Director, David Alan Miller.
The season kicks off on Oct. 24 at 7:30pm EDT, with a program featuring Michael Daugherty’s This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie. Michael Daugherty is a BandQuest composer.
Performances run through June 2021. Find the schedule here and below.
ROMANTIC BRAHMS – Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Narrator; SIR WILLIAM WALTON: Facade; TYSON DAVIS (a NextNotes creator): (new work) JOHANNES BRAHMS: Serenade No. 1
RACHMANINOFF’S THIRD – Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Inon Barnatan, Piano; OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano; CARLOS BANDERA: (new work); SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 (chamber orchestra version)
HAYDN & SCHUBERT – Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Melissa White, Violin; FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony No. 46; GEORGE TSONTAKIS: Violin Concerto No. 2; TANNER PORTER: (new work) FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5
AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL–TRAILBLAZE! – Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Brasil Guitar Duo; NINA SHEKHAR: (new work); CLARICE ASSAD: Folk Tales, Double Guitar Concerto; MOLLY JOYCE/CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS: Songs; ALEXIS LAMB: (new work)
For more information, and to watch the concerts, subscribe and get tickets on their website: www.albanysymphony.com.

EnsembleNEWSRQ announces a “newStart” to its 2020-21 season
2021-02-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
EnsembleNEWSRQ announces a “newStart” to its 2020-21 season, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chamber music group, now in its fifth season, will take a cautious approach to reintroducing live musical performance, with its five upcoming programs gradually increasing in size as pandemic and vaccine news is monitored.
Concerts will be offered in a digital streaming format, and, if the situation allows, to a small in-person audience in 2021. Tickets to the streamed concerts will be “pay what you can.”
The ensemble also aims to increase the diversity of the composers represented during the season, with a concentrated focus on female, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC composers.
Schedule:
It’s About Time – October 19, 2020 at 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
Features MN Orch Composer Institute, Katie Balch; and BandQuest composer, Tania Leon
Solitude and Suffrage – January 18, 2021 at 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
Features NextNotes composer, Quinn Mason
Enter the Vortex – February 15, 2021 at 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
Digital – March 15, 2021 at 8pm
Body Vessel – April 12, 2021 at 2pm CDT / 3pm EDT
Some works and final programs are still TBD and dependent on COVID situation. Find out more information here.

EMERGE: Winter Composer Concert
2021-02-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
The Julius Quartet presents a virtual concert by nine composers participating in the EMERGE: Winter Workshop & Performance. This exciting performance is a culmination of a 3-day virtual workshop that offers in depth workshops, masterclasses, reading sessions and daily rehearsals.
This concert will be presented as a virtual live stream performance on Monday, February 15, 2021 at 7:00 PM CT.
Learn more at www.thejuliusquartet.com/emerge
Watch on YouTube.
Participating Composers: Michael Boyd, Martin Hebel, Gunter Gaupp, Manuel Hernandez, Dan Monte, D’Juan Moreland, Michael Selvaggi, Del’Shawn Taylor, Patrick Wu, The Julius Quartet, Hyun Jeong Lee, Violin, David Do, Violin, John Batchelder, Viola, Sebastian Kozub, Cello.

MNIATURES: SHORT WORLD PREMIERE OPERAS FROM MINNESOTA ARTISTS
2021-02-16
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 process to support the musical, visual, and dramatic development of their work.
Creative teams include:
KASHIMANA AHUA (ACF’s In Common awardee) & KHARY JACKSON
ASAKO HIRABAYASHI (McKnight awardee) & REBECCA NICHLOSON
RITIKA GANGULY & ROSHAN GANU
CHARLIE MCCARRON & OANH VU
2021 Spring Season digital offerings will be available for FREE on YouTube, Facebook, and mnopera.org. Learn more and receive an email reminder by signing up for our newsletter.
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Learn more here.
Free digital access to the 2021 Spring Season is made possible by our generous community. As we find new ways of advancing our mission to provide access to innovative opera for all, please consider supporting MN Opera and the 2021 Spring Season.

“This Land” Live Virtual Listening Party | Theo Bleckmann & The Westerlies | with John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds
2021-02-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Join Grammy®-nominated singer and composer Theo Bleckmann and New York-based brass quartet The Westerlies for a live virtual listening party for their new album, “This Land,” with John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s New Sounds. Relix describes “This Land” as Bleckmann’s “most potent and important project to date,” and DOWNBEAT praises the album for “stretch[ing] our understanding of musical inventiveness.” Tune in to listen to selections alongside John Schaefer and the musicians, hear behind-the-scenes stories, ask questions, and witness a live rendition of Wade in the Water courtesy of the magic of The Westerlies’ remote performance technology.
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
On “This Land,” Bleckmann and The Westerlies combine their interpretive talent and wisdom, pairing songs of resistance with songs of refuge, seeking to balance music’s integral role in protest movements with the power of songs to provide internal solace amid external turmoil. Combining original music, spirituals and material by Woody Guthrie, Joni Mitchell, Phil Kline and more, Bleckmann and The Westerlies create a vivid through-line from historical sources to our present moment, in a musical statement brimming with creativity, piercing insight and humor.
Free event; registration encouraged. Registrants will receive a direct link to join the event, as well as links to listen to the album.

ACF & ACO Co-Presents Professional Development Panel: Orchestra 101
2021-02-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
The following Professional Development Webinars 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 an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; Recording Law and Practice; Project Production and Recording; and more.
This panel peers into the inner-workings of the orchestra, illuminating the structure and best practices for composers. New York Philharmonic Librarian Sara Griffin moderates a panel of experienced orchestra administrators. Q&A with audience will follow the panel discussion.
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST
Panelists:
Nicole Jordan, Philadelphia Orchestra Librarian
Anna Kuwabara, Albany Symphony Orchestra Executive Director
Meghan Martineau, Los Angeles Philharmonic Vice President of Artistic Planning
Get your tickets here.
If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact ACF’s Laura Krider within 48 hours of the webinar (lkrider@composersforum.org or 612.314.9228).

ACF Study Group-Unbroken: Making Disabled Music and Creating Accessible Spaces
2021-02-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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 our February study group. We will be joined by special guest INFINITY WILLNER and discuss the article they wrote for I Care If You Listen.
Here are some other easy entry points/primers for what will surely be a full and enlightening conversation:

The movie Crip Camp is on Netflix and is AMAZING (about the origins of the organized Disability Justice movement in the US)
Watch this YouTube video: THINGS NOT TO SAY TO SOMEONE IN A WHEELCHAIR – TOP 3 by Sitting Pretty
Watch thisTed Talk by Stella Young: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much
Watch this YouTube video: What does it mean to “overcome disability”?
Watch this YouTube video: What You SHOULD Say To A Disabled Person
Watch this YouTube video: Being ‘the disabled one’ in university
Watch this YouTube video: My Complex Relationship with my Disability
Watch this YouTube video: My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does

Closed captioning and ASL interpretation services will be provided at this event. If you require any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact Laura Krider (lkrider@composersforum, 612.314.9228) at least 48 hours before the event.

Opera Orlando presents "Death of Ivan Ilych"
2021-02-19 18:30 - 19:45, 2021-02-21 16:00 - 17:45 (America/Chicago)
Live Opera Performance
Music by John Young with a libretto by Alan Olejniczak
Based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy.
World premiere production in partnership with Thompson Street Opera Company.
Sung in English.
Estimated run time is one hour and 15 minutes with no intermission.
Pre-show drinks and appetizers included, as well as post-show drinks and dessert to accompany a talk-back with the cast and creative team after each performance.

Date & Time: Friday, February 19, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST; Sunday, February 21, 2021 @ 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Get tickets here.

Fresno Philharmonic presents their Digital Masterworks Series.
2021-02-20 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
For 2021, the Fresno Philharmonic is presenting a series of online performances in their Digital Masterworks Series. Each concert will premier on YouTube, and will later be broadcast on Valley Public Radio on the 2nd Tuesday following each YouTube premier. Join host David Aus and conductor Rei Hotoda for this series of special broadcasts.
Intersections of Past and Present: Hailstork and Haydn
On Valley Public Radio, KVPR FM89: Tuesday January 26th at 10PM CST | 8PM PST
American composer William Bolcom‘s Commedia is a witty commentary on the classical symphonic style of Haydn. The music of Adolphus Hailstork (a BQ composer), hailed as the dean of African-American composers, is also steeped in the classical tradition.
American Visions: Copland Appalachian Spring
Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 7:30pm CST | 5:30pm PST
The varieties of American music are on display in this program combining new voices with Aaron Copland‘s popular ballet score Appalachian Spring. Joan Tower‘s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman sets the stage for our musical exploration of American identity featuring recent works by Jessie Montgomery and Chickasaw Nation composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (a ChoralQuest composer).
Vive la France: Ibert Divertissement
Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 7:30pm CST | 5:30pm PST
Alons-y! This program is a Francophile’s delight culminating in the charming insouciance of Jacques Ibert‘s Divertissement. Our season-long exploration of contemporary African-American composers continues with Jasmine Barnes‘ timely Resistance Brass Quintet.
Bach to the Future: Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 7:30pm CST | 5:30pm PST
The Masterworks Series concludes with a celebration of the influence of Baroque music across five centuries. Gabrieli’s music written for St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice was an important for the turn from the Renaissance to the Baroque musical style. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 exemplifies the high Baroque style, while works by Beethoven, Villa-Lobos and Kevin Day testify to the Baroque’s lingering inspiration down to the present.
Check out their YouTube page on these dates and times to listen to each program.

Removed From Air
2021-02-20 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
From 113 (One Thirteen), this event is a video show featuring work by Elizabeth A. Baker, Joey Crane, Anthony R Green, Joe Horton, Sam Krahn, Heather Mease, Joshua Musikantow, Tiffany M. Skidmore, and Bethany Younge.
Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description.
Join on YouTube for a live chat during the show!
Date & Time: Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 7:30pm CST
113 (One Thirteen), a collection of composers and performers of new experimental music based in the Twin Cities, curates concerts, seminars, and master classes throughout the United States and Europe. Through ambitious programming, community building, educational outreach, and emphasis on extensive interaction between composers and performers, 113 provides a platform for musicians pursuing bold, personalized artistic visions, and helps them to transmit those visions as directly and honestly as possible to a receptive audience, unfettered by university politics, market pressures, or established conventions. Since its inception in 2012, 113 has presented over one hundred world premieres and worked with composers and performers such as Richard Barrett, Anthony Cheung, Chaya Czernowin, James Dillon, Julio Estrada, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Pisaro, Collect/Project, Duo Gelland, Ensemble Dal Niente, Fonema Consort, The Gregorian Singers, Marcelo Rilla, Bill Solomon, Strains New Music Ensemble, Milana Zaric and dozens of local musicians of the highest caliber.

Bang on a Can Marathon - All Commissions, All World Premieres - Live Online
2021-02-21 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
New Year! New Hope! New Commissions! Bang on a Can presents an entire marathon of PREMIERES! 16 brand new works by 16 pioneering composers. Tune in to hear 4 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, mind-blowing music. Alvin Lucier! Jennifer Walshe! Matthew Shipp! Ingrid Laubrock! Gabriel Kahane! and many many more.
This concert is FREE! But please do consider purchasing a ticket. That helps us pay more players, commission more composers, and make more music. The pandemic is still here. An entire ecosystem of composers and performers needs our attention, our love, and our financial support. All Marathon performers and composers are participating live and being paid by Bang on a Can. Please help us do that!
– Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe: co-founders and co-artistic directors

Date & Time: Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12pm CST | 1pm EST
Visit website.

Sunday Concert: Jason Amos & Betsy Hinkle of the Boston Public Quartet
2021-02-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
The Framingham Public Library will host Jason Amos and Betsy Hinkle of the Boston Public Quartet on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST and will be viewed on Facebook Live
The Boston Public Quartet was created to connect, inspire and innovate as an ensemble-in-residence in Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.
The quartet is dedicated to presenting rarely heard and underrepresented composers alongside the traditional canon of classical chamber music.
Violaist Jason Amos and Violinist Betsy Hinkle will perform works by W.A. Mozart, Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer), Franz Schubert, and Jessie Montgomery.
Watch on Facebook Live. No registration or Facebook account required.

COINCIDENT - Episode 1 debut event with Q&A
2021-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Zeitgeist is pleased to present the debut of a new multi-episode audiovisual collaboration on February 21 in an online release event with a live artist Q&A session.
COINCIDENT is a telematic, multi-episode, audiovisual collaboration between Zeitgeist, composer Scott L. Miller, visual artist Carole Kim, and an evolving list of artists. Each artist performs from their home studio, and they connect to each other through specialized software that facilitates real-time performance with greatly reduced latency issues (lag in time due to internet connection). Because latency is reduced, but not gone, the music embraces a certain amount of asynchronicity; individual events can occur at different times without compromising the musical idea. The music is paired with a projection world created by Carole Kim that is derived from micro-installations (located under her kitchen table) and projections performed in real-time with the music.
The online COINCIDENT debut event will take place on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 4 p.m. CST, featuring the premiere of Episode 1 plus a live Q&A with Miller, Kim, and members of Zeitgeist.
Free, donations accepted
Details can be found at zeitgeistnewmusic.org/coincident.

FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE
2021-02-22 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
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 at 10:40AM CST
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 at 11:30AM CST
Thursday, February 4th, 2021 at 11:30AM CST
Friday, February 5th, 2021 at 10:40AM CST
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Join on Zoom.

WE ARE GOOD: 5 consecutive 90-minute sessions; Deep Listening and story gathering rooted in collective decision making through creative acts. Fosters authentic inquiry among participants of varied social and political back-
grounds, uses Deep Listening to bring strangers together through communal music-making. Each session culminates in a creative act, including the development of new text scores, graphic scores, or other work products.
Mondays, February 8, 22, March 8, 22, April 5, 2021 all sessions 4:30—6:00 p.m. CST
REGISTER AT THIS LINK by February 3rd, 2021.

DEEP LISTENING JAM SESSION: The residency culminates in a Deep Listening Jam, which includes the creative work and dialogue captured throughout the 5 WE ARE GOOD sessions.
Monday, April 12, 2021 at 4:30—6:00 p.m. CST
REGISTER AT THIS LINK by April 7th, 2021.
ADDITIONAL ONE-TIME WORKSHOPS will be offered in chamber music, entrepreneurship, and music composition between February 15 and May 5. If you are interested in these workshops, please email musicdept@augsburg.edu to be added to the reservation list. You will receive advance information with dates, times, and the Zoom link. Additional information about the Deep Listening and We Are Good experiences is available on the Fifth House

Our Voices: Gabriella Reyes, Jennifer Higdon, Adolphus Hailstork Headline New York Choral Society’s 2020-21 Season
2021-02-23 | Virtual, United States
The New York Choral Society has announced “Our Voices,” a digital 2020-21 season between November and May.
“The challenge of social distancing – so ‘unchoral’ – has prompted us to consider new ways of creating performances of choral music,” said NY Choral Society’s Music Director David Hayes in a press release. “The digital media space is an exciting opportunity for us to re-imagine performances of acapella choral works in collaboration with contemporary artists and community arts organizations,” he continues. “Although all of our collaborators will be creating and recording their contributions to the productions remotely and without the benefit of in-person workshops and rehearsals, this process will challenge collaborators and audiences to reconsider the simplicity and power of these choral works. I look forward to offering a new form of choral performance with this multitude of “voices” from around New York to bring new ways of discovering the relevance and beauty of these choral works”.
The schedule kicks off with “Peace unto Zion,” a collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Joyce McDonald that reimagines the Shaker hymn.
Streaming Date: Nov. 11, 2020
Next up will be the premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s “Carol for All Children.” The choir will work alongside visual artist and dancemaker Brendan Fernandes. Adolphus is a BQ composer and Jennifer is a BQ and CQ composer.
Streaming Date: Dec. 15, 2020
Alice Parker’s “God is Seen” will kick off the 2021 portion of the season. This work will feature a collaboration with Princess Grace Award recipient and choreographer Claudia Schreier.
Streaming Date: Feb. 23, 2021
Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” will feature a collaboration with American composer Undine Eliza Anna Smith Moore, soprano Gabriella Reyes, and choreographer Danielle Russo.
Streaming Date: March 16, 2021
The season draws to a close with “Invitation to Love,” a choral setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem by composer Jennifer Higdon. The showcase will feature a collaboration with Gordon Hall.
All films will be released on this website and The New York Choral Society’s YouTube channel.

TUES@7: Mount Tremper Arts Residency
2021-02-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
In mid-February, the International Contemporary Ensemble will be in-residence at Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) for a variety of projects. Ensemble members are workshopping a new work by Rick Burkhardt and recording the first portrait album of works by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA). See what we’ve been up to at this upstate artist sanctuary for the last ten years as we take a tour of performances, workshops, and conversations with artists. RSVP to receive the YouTube stream link.
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 6pm CST
Register for free here.

Composer-to-Composer Talks: Joan Tower / Conor Brown
2021-02-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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, and be invited to ask questions of the artists.
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST, Conor Brown talks with Joan Tower about her work Sequoia (1981).
Of the piece, Tower writes, “I think most composers would have to admit that they live, to various degrees, in the sound-worlds of other composers both old and new, and that what they consciously or unconsciously take from them enables them to discover what they themselves are interested in. Long ago, I recognized Beethoven as someone bound to enter my work at some point, because for many years I had been intimately involved in both his piano music and chamber music as a pianist. Even though my own music does not sound like Beethoven’s in any obvious way, in it there is a basic idea at work which came from him. This is something I call the “balancing” of musical energies. In Sequoia, that concept is not only very much present in the score but it actually led to the title (which is meant in an abstract rather than a pictorial sense). What fascinated me about sequoias, those giant California redwood trees, was the balancing act nature had achieved in giving them such great height.”
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Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
2021-02-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
A series of eight FREE monthly digital Performance As Process events on Thursday evenings from September through April will invite audiences to Conrad Tao’s, 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence, creative practice as he develops programming for his May 6 Ecstatic Music concert in Merkin Hall. Streamed from his home in Manhattan, these events will give the audience a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition and improvisation as the program for his Merkin Hall debut comes into focus.
Performance as Process events will be streamed on Kaufman Music Center’s Facebook page at 6pm CDT / 7pm EST on September 24, October 29, November 19, December 17, January 28, February 25, March 25 and April 29.
