American Composers Forum

Cleveland Ovations features Cleveland Chamber Choir
2020-12-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
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 Wednesday, December 23 at 7pm CST | 8pm EST
How to Listen
Program:
Cleveland Chamber Choir
Scott MacPherson, conductor
Part 1
Stephen Paulus (ACF co-founder, and a BQ and CQ composer): Three Nativity Carols (The Holly and the Ivy; This Endris Night; Wonder Tidings)
Johannes Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater
Cecilia McDowall: Alma Redemptoris mater
John McIntyre: Two Advent Motets (Rorate coeli desuper; Vigilate)
Baruch J Cohon: Hanerot Halalu
Samuel Adler: A Song of Hanukkah
Andrew Rindfleisch: Menorah Blessings
Corey Rubin: Mi Yimalel
Corey Rubin: Ma’oz Tzur
Scott Little: Banu Choshech
Charles Baker: Three Hanukkah Songs (S’vivon; Nerli; Chanukah, oi, Chanukah)
Part 2
William Billings: Shiloh
Plainsong: Resonet in laudibus
Michael Praetorius: Joseph Lieber, Joseph mein
CL Alwes: Resonet in laudibus
Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Steve Heitzeg: little tree
Abbie Betinis (a ChoralQuest composer and McKnight fellow): In the Bleak Midwinter
J David Moore: Jingle Bells
Joan Szymcko: Stille Nacht
Arthur Warrell: A Merry Christmas
Trad.: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Rethinking Music Theory Pedagogy II [Composers Coffee Break]
2020-12-22 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
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 Southeast) for a second panel discussion envisioning new and different ways of teaching music theory. They invite discussion and questions from the audience, especially those who are also students and teachers of music.
This event goes live on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST
Attend the event here.

Make Music Winter
2020-12-21 | MN
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 the winter solstice.
For Make Music Winter, music can pop up anywhere. Rounding the corner, you may see a herd of electric guitarists, a choir of medieval singers, or a percussive Puerto Rican parranda coming down the street. Ingenious musical parades for iPhones, hand bells, bicycles, trombones, and boomboxes have delighted audiences since New York City began celebrating Make Music Winter in 2011.
Whatever your wintertime musical dreams, anything is possible. And all of it is free, joyful, and profoundly participatory. Please complete this short form to register an event for Make Music Winter 2020.
Make Music Winter is presented by The NAMM Foundation.
Check out if this will be in or near your city:
Boston, MA

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New Haven, CT
New York, NY
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Portland, ME
Santa Fe, NM
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St. Louis, MO
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Learn more here.

“Lessons and Carols for Our Time” by Cantus
2020-12-20 19:30 - 2020-12-22 20:30, 2020-12-19 19:30 - 2020-12-21 20:30, 2020-12-18 19:30 - 2020-12-20 20:30, 2020-12-11 19:30 - 2020-12-13 20:30 (America/Chicago) | MN
This eight-man vocal group puts its own spin on the King’s College “Nine Lessons and Carols” tradition, with a different 50-minute concert streamed each weekend (taped at Ordway Concert Hall).
Part one, streaming next weekend, features Cantus’ arrangements of traditional carols, while the following weekend includes works from such local composers as Jocelyn Hagen, a McKnight composer, and Abbie Betinis, a ChoralQuest composer and McKnight composer, and the group’s signature song, Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria.”
December 11-13, 2020 (Part I) at 7:30pm CST
December 18-20, 2020 (Part II) at 7:30pm CST
Learn more and get tickets here.

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s “Messiah”
2020-12-19 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
For generations, Handel’s Messiah has been one of classical music’s greatest holiday traditions. Now, you can enjoy free HD streaming video of this performance featuring conductor Jeannette Sorrell, an all-star roster of vocal soloists, and renowned vocal ensemble The Singers.
This live stream will start Saturday, December 19, at 8:00 pm CST.
George Frideric Handel, Jeannette Sorrell (conductor), Carine Tinney (soprano), Reginald Mobley (countertenor), Rufus Müller (tenor), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), The Singers — Minnesota Choral Artists (chorus), Matthew Culloton (artistic director).
Learn more here.

Music on the Strait: Alone Together at the Holidays
2020-12-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Conversation and live music from their living room to yours, featuring Richard O’Neill, a classical music rock star, and Christopher Theofanidis, a BQ composer.
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 7pm CST | 5pm PST
Get the streaming link here.

Mary Prescott: Tida
2020-12-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Mary Prescott presents Tida—an interdisciplinary performance examining intergenerational cultural identity through the artist’s maternal lineage. Integrating music, dance, and word, Prescott investigates her mother’s undocumented Thai ancestry, her experience as a Southeast Asian immigrant raising biracial children in Midwest America, and the resulting impact of these histories on her, her daughters, and granddaughters.
Tida will be presented virtually and available for free on a variety of streaming platforms. Roulette’s theater is currently closed for public performances as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the safety measures that Roulette has put in place to keep staff, artists, and the public safe.
This event is scheduled for Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 7 pm CST
Watch the event on their website.

Club Closed - Featuring Eki Shola (Birthday Bash!)
2020-12-18 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Hey! What are you doing Friday Night on December 18th? If you miss nightlife as much as us, you’ll be happy to know San Francisco has its own late show now, with famous djs, bands and local performers of all varieties!
Tonight “Club Closed,” (filmed at The Great Northern), presents EKI SHOLA, DJ VIN SOL, Edna Mira Raia & Tales Of Mere EXISTENCE by Lev Yilmaz, and Hosted by DJ M3 aka Makes Me Move and Cole Odin as your Chat Room Dungeon Master. It’s a blend of Monty Python-ish,120 Minutes MTV and Public Access Television SF style, in the comfort of your home.
Turn on your rave lights and tune in to the party at 9PM 11PM CST | 7PM or 10PM PST for two streams of stellar talent! Pandemic pricing available.
Get tickets and learn more here.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.
2020-12-18 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | MN
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s free event: Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.
Episode 2: Originators and Disrupters (Part 2) Friday, November 27, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
Part 2 brings together the musicians with modern American composers (Libby Larsen, Gary Schocker and Charles Rochester Young) and a Beethoven orchestration by Music Director Manfred Honeck in a salute to a bouquet of Pittsburgh path breakers who defied their times and boundaries: Rachel Carson (environmentalist and writer), Martha Graham (choreographer), Thaddeus Mosley (sculptor), Fred Rogers (television creator) and Andy Warhol (multi-media artist).
Episode 3: Finding Your Song Friday, December 4, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
With the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s new Principal Pops Conductor Byron Stripling as a featured artist and conductor, Finding Your Song explores the journeys of artists and how they come to find their voice, song, inspiration and connection to the world. Finding Your Song travels from Heinz Hall to Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild to The Andy Warhol Museum, and includes the Pittsburgh Symphony debuts of composer Gabriela Lena Frank and composer Hannah Ishizaki.
Episode 4: Tapestry of Light: A Holiday Celebration. Friday, December 18, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
Enjoy the magic and excitement of the holiday season with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra AND Principal Pops Conductor/Soloist Byron Stripling! Perfect for all ages
Episode 5: For the People (Part 1). Friday, January 22, 2021 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET. (Part 2). Friday, January 29, 2021 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
A constellation of five female composers (Jennifer Higdon, a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer, Libby Larsen, ACF’s co-found and BandQuest composer, Jessie Montgomery, Florence Price and Joan Tower).
More information can be found on their website.

Americas Society presents...counter)induction: nueva música
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
counter)induction returns to Music of the Americas with music by Latin American female composers.
Celebrating its 21st season, the adventurous composer-performer collective counter)induction returns to Music of the Americas after over a decade with a program highlighting the widely diverse world of contemporary music by Latin American female composers.
Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Less like a livestream and more like a concert film, “nueva música” will feature world premieres as well as new arrangements prepared expressly for counter)induction, interwoven with interviews with all of the composers.
DM R‘s “Studies for violin and cello” explores the extremes of timbre and texture on strings, while Villanueva’s “Plancto” uses contrasting, expressive gestures for a sparse and dramatic lament. Areal provides a hypnotic series of chords that players choose how to interact with in “Holsa”, while Arditto creates a fun atmosphere that focuses on the sounds and gestures we make beyond what the instruments themselves can do. After Villanueva and Solomonoff revisit inspirations found in childhood and in Debussy respectively, the program culminates with Lopez delving into her new-found love for Hip-hop.
Learn more here.

Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
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.

Songs for the Season – Virtual Courtroom Concert
2020-12-17 12:00 - 2020-12-31 12:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
“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 last time at TPT Street Space, now’s your chance to hear “Songs for the Season” from the comfort of your own home!
Carols by Linda Kachelmeier, Bradley Ellingboe, Abbie Burt Betinis (a ChoralQuest and McKnight composer), Timothy C. Takach, Joan Griffith, Stephen Paulus, Kenneth Jennings, Peter Mayer, Alfred Burt, Daniel Messe, Neal Hagberg, and Don Peterson.
Featuring:
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Laura Betinis Healy, alto
Nicholas Chalmers, tenor
Timothy C. Takach, bass
Zacc Harris, guitar
Audrey Slote, cello
Join on Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 12pm CST to Thursday December 31, 2020 at 12pm
Learn more here.

Kaufman Music Center – Piano Dialogues: Adam Tendler
2020-12-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
ROBERT SCHUMANN – Carnaval Op. 9 (1834-1835)
CHRISTIAN WOLFF – FANTAIL (22 pieces for a pianist) (2020) World Premiere!
Pianist Adam Tendler premieres FANTAIL, a new major work by iconic American composer Christian Wolff. Commissioned by the pianist, FANTAIL is a 22 movement, unofficial response to Robert Schumann’s Carnaval, and like Schumann’s legendary set, a tour of Wolff’s musical laboratory and universe. Tendler will intersperse the world premiere of Wolff’s FANTAIL with Schumann’s Carnaval in a mash-up that puts both complete works, and their composers, in a fresh dialogue – reframing, blurring, even challenging our notions of what is classical and what is contemporary.
Learn more and get tickets here.

Rondo Community Music Series 2020
2020-12-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
“The Rondo Community Music Series wrapped up last winter with outstanding performances by Ashley DuBose, the Kevin Washington Quintet; Robert Robinson, Debbie Duncan and William Duncan, and DeSean Jones. Though we’re unable to hold in-person dates, this year we remain dedicated to bringing you hope, healing and joy through the power of music.
We have moved to virtual music performances so that we can continue social distancing protocols. We kicked off the series this September with a virtual concert from We Are King, which was viewed in 36 states, 13 countries, and has over over 6k views online.”
Join on Crowdcast for each date: crowdcast.io/walkerwest
Schedule:
DeSean Jones
Saturday, November 7th at 7pm CDT
Duncan, Duncan & Robinson
Saturday, November 14th at 7pm CDT
Ashley DuBose
Saturday, December 5th at 7pm CDT

Live from Columbia: Simone Dinnerstein, piano
2020-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
VIDEO PREMIERE Co-presented with Columbia University School of the Arts
Simone Dinnerstein’s “majestic originality of vision” (The Independent) has made her one of today’s most sought-after pianists. The frequent Miller collaborator performs a solo recital highlighting her thoughtful interpretation and signature expressive elegance.
The virtual concerts in the Live from Columbia series are filmed live and premiered throughout the 2020-21 season at millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia. On-demand streaming will be available immediately after.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6pm CST / 7pm EST.
Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Simone Dinnerstein: Pop-Ups in the Lantern
2020-12-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to the Miller Theater at Columbia University for a solo recital as part of their Pop-Ups in the Lantern concert series. Dinnerstein will perform Phillip Glass‘s Etude No. 2 (1994) and Franz Schubert‘s molto moderato from Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960 (1828). The virtual concert is free and will be filmed live and premiered at millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia. On-demand streaming will be available immediately after.
Join on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Learn more here.

Minnesota Music Coalition's Web Workshop: How to Avoid Bad Band Breakups – Conflict Resolution
2020-12-15 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago) | MN
A one-hour interactive presentation on the underlying causes of conflict, simple skills you can use to help manage disputes when they arise, and how mediation can help when you just can’t talk to your bandmates (or others you’re having a dispute with).
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 4 pm
Get tickets to this free online Only via Zoom event.
Presented by Dawn Zugay, Mendoza Law
About the Presenter: Dawn is a Senior Counsel and Mediator at Mendoza Law, LLC. Dawn’s extensive background in conflict resolution provides clients valuable skills and perspectives that help resolve their problems. Dawn’s skills are available to assist a variety of clients and matters, including business disputes, employment conflicts, housing disputes, large and small scale community conflict, organizational conflict, litigation, and non-profit organizations.
As a mediator, Dawn has over ten years of experience, including mediation, conflict coaching, conducting conflict assessments, designing dispute resolution processes for multi-party disputes, and facilitating community comment processes. As an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, Dawn managed and taught the Community Mediation Clinic. She also taught the 30-Hour Civil Facilitative Hybrid Mediation Training Course for the Conflict Resolution Center, and she designs and teaches advanced mediation training classes for practitioners to enhance their mediation skills. She is a Rule 114 Qualified Civil and Family Mediator and holds a Certificate from the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Management Executive Education Course. She also trained with the Minnesota Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution (OCDR) in Constructive Problem Solving.

All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 airs on PBS this holiday season
2020-12-15 | MN
Composer Timothy C. Takach (a past JFund winner and Healing & Hope Through Song composer), is delighted that PBS will air All is Calm across the country. The show has changed quite a bit since they first premiered it as a radio drama in Minneapolis with 3 actors speaking the lines and the 9 members of Cantus singing the songs, but it has received rave reviews both in it’s off-Broadway run last year and across the country in over 100 performances, and the creative team is excited to bring the show to a wider audience.
“A beautiful musical recounting of a World War I cease-fire
of gifts, poetry, and melody.”
– The New York Times
All is calm premieres November 27 and you can stream it on December 15.
So keep your eye out for All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 this season on PBS!

Our Voices: Gabriella Reyes, Jennifer Higdon, Adolphus Hailstork Headline New York Choral Society’s 2020-21 Season
2020-12-15 | 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.

SRS @ HOME
2020-12-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
In October, November and December, members of the Santa Rosa Symphony (SRS) orchestra and Francesco Lecce-Chong will gather on stage for three spectacular concerts with rich, dynamic programming to replace the originally planned live concerts. This will be new and different, we know, but we are very excited to share these virtual performances with you.
A professional video production team will get you closer than ever before to the orchestra, Francesco, individual musicians you’ve come to know and love, and even take you backstage! You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in a post-concert Q & A with Francesco—all in the comfort of your home.
Upcoming Schedule:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 at 5pm CST / 3 PM PDT on YouTube: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, Bruch, Scott Joplin, Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) & more
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 at 5pm CST / 3 PM PDT on YouTube: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams & more

SFCM Faculty Artist Series: Sarah Cahill
2020-12-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Sarah Cahill, called a “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by the New York Times, performs an online concert from Sol Joseph Recital Hall, in a concert that features the world premiere of Up for two pianos by Riley Nicholson (an alumnus of SFCM), performed with Regina Myers; George Lewis’s Endless Shout; Aida Shirazi’s Albumblatt; Reena Esmail’s Rang de Basant; and Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Piano Poems. The concert is free to view, but sign up is required to receive the Live Stream link.
Sunday, December 13 at 4pm CST / 2pm PST
Register here.

SFCM Faculty Artist Series: Sarah Cahill
2020-12-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
Sarah Cahill, called a “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by the New York Times, performs an online concert from Sol Joseph Recital Hall, in a concert that features the world premiere of Up for two pianos by Riley Nicholson (an alumnus of SFCM), performed with Regina Myers; George Lewis’s Endless Shout; Aida Shirazi’s Albumblatt; Reena Esmail’s Rang de Basant; and Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Piano Poems.
The concert is free to view, but sign up is required to receive the Live Stream link. Learn more here.

Join this concert on Saturday, December 13, 2020 at 4pm CST / 2pm PST.

The Albany Symphony 2020/2021 SEASON RE-IMAGINED!
2020-12-12 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | MN
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.

Neave Trio performs Glinka, Eric Nathan, and Dale Trumbore presented by the Longy School of Music
2020-12-12 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
The Neave Trio, Faculty Ensemble‑in‑Residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, presents Finding What is Lost, a livestream performance on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm EST. The trio will perform live in Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall and the stream will be available to watch online with advance registration. Registrants will receive the link to the event in the order confirmation email, and in a reminder email before the event begins. Finding What is Lost pairs Missing Words V (2018) by Eric Nathan and Another Chance by Dale Trumbore (both premiered by Neave Trio), with Glinka’s Trio pathetique (1832).
Learn more here.

Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) World Premieres: Duo Concerts & Conversations
2020-12-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
This event takes place on ZOOM. You must RSVP to receive ZOOM link.
Experience six world premieres born from the new initiative Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³), a revolutionary model of mentorship created in March and launched in June 2020 at the height of the pandemic.
Hosted by M³ Editor-in-Chief Jordannah Elizabeth, each premiere will be followed by a Q&A with the audience about its creative process.
Created by co-founders Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa along with Jordannah Elizabeth, M³ is a think tank for new ways to connect, collaborate, support, create, and empower womxn musicians worldwide including BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and musicians of all abilities across generations. More information: https://mutualmentorshipformusicians.org/
Part One: Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Romarna Campbell + Val Jeanty
Caroline Davis + Maya Keren
Jen Shyu + Sumi Tonooka
Part Two: Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Eden Girma + Anjna Swaminathan
Erica Lindsay + Sara Serpa
Lesley Mok + Tomeka Reid

Border CrosSing’s “El Mesias”
2020-12-11 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
The bilingual choir presents a mashup of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” with Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez’s cantata “Navidad Nuestra.” It’s also a hybrid of live performance, recordings from past years, and a collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra.
Watch on Friday, December 11 at 8pm CST for free.
Visit their website here to learn more.

New Works Commission Concert: JACK Quartet
2020-12-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MN
In unprecedented times, new evolving models and ways of thinking are necessary. National Sawdust has responded to the pandemic by creating the New Works Commission, and awarding twenty composers the resources to create a new work for streamed performance.
This is the second of two online performances of the commissioned works, hosted by the composers themselves, we will hear about their experience with the commission, and how it has impacted their work during this time. They will give us an overview of the music, their process, and technical elements within the work, and what it means for them to be an artist at this time.
The performance will feature the JACK Quartet performing music by 10 composers by Eddie Codrington, Jessie Cox, Yaz Lancaster, Ted Moore, Daniel Sabzghabaei, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Nina Shekhar, Rajna Swaminathan, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa and Nicholas Tran.
This event will take place on Friday, December 11, 2020 at 4 PM CST.
Watch on Facebook Live here.
