This event was originally scheduled for March 10 and has been rescheduled. Quinteto Latino is a San Francisco Bay Area wind quintet with a mission to build community through Latino classical music. Founded in 2004 by French horn player Armando Castellano, this ensemble aims to expand the boundaries of a classical music tradition by performing […]
In The Seasons, renowned pianist Marilyn Nonken explores the relationship between memory and time. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (1841), a monumental cycle of pieces depicting the months of the year, is juxtaposed with Liza Lim's The Four Seasons (After Cy Twombly) (2009), commissioned by the Ian Potter Foundation for Marilyn Nonken and inspired by […]
Join us for a performance by our ACF | connect partner, Music of the Unsung America Concert Series. A new series featuring Black artists of history, Music of the Unsung America continues its live performance series with a concert of a classical and jazz fusion program of repertoire featuring the piece Tre by Dwight Banks, […]
The Harlem Chamber Players announce Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021, an online concert program on Juneteenth in partnership with The Greene Space at WQXR and WNYC, Harlem Stage, and the Harlem School of the Arts. The program will feature the world premiere of TULSA 1921 (Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust) by Dr. Adolphus Hailstork (a […]
The Marquette Symphony Orchestra returns to the Presque Isle Park Bandshell on Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET with 'June Jubilation,' an outdoor performance. Under the direction of principal conductor Octavio Mas-Arocas, the concert will consist of: Camille Saint-Saëns, Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila; Quinn Mason (a NextNotes creator), A Joyous Trilogy for Orchestra; Antonin Dvorak, Slavonic Dance […]
Composer and vocalist Anaïs Maviel returns with composer-performer ensemble The Rhythm Method to present the world premiere of listen to the rain. Approaching listening as performative and performance as meditative, listen to the rain’s instrumentation weaves Afrocentric with Eurocentric music traditions, written and oral. Grounded in the study of the Asian theories of the five elements—rather, dynamic agents—and of the bagua, the […]
In celebration of Juneteenth, EXTENSITY presents: Beethoven X Walker: Piano Sonatas. EXTENSITY Concert Series Benefit. This special benefit concert pairs the monumental, late piano sonatas No. 30 Op. 109 and No. 31 Op. 110 by L. van Beethoven, with the masterful, yet rarely heard piano sonatas No. 2 and No. 4 by pioneering 20th century […]
There is a full vibrant spectrum of diversity that makes up the Asian American experience. In light of ongoing events around anti-Asian hate, ACF would like to create a safe space to share stories and experiences, as well as highlight and celebrate what it means to be an Asian American today. Artist and ACF board […]
A virtual event with Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Vanska and Principal Violinist Erin Keefe joining host Melissa Ousley. These musicians will share two world premieres, just for us: Libby Larsen's (ACF's co-founder) Tarantella for Our Times and David Ludwig's Seven Circles. Additionally, we'll hear two transcriptions of Mozart opera arias by Osmo. AND Libby […]
This performance features brand new solo cello works written for Matt Haimovitz commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT. This new initiative asks composers to write in response to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, Primavera, and the prophetic large-scale triptych, Primavera 2020, by contemporary artist Charline von Heyl. Haimovitz releases the first of three albums (featuring 14 out […]
The 2021 Sunflower Music Festival will honor women in music. This expanded project pays homage to females in music and the arts through showcasing both past and contemporary female composers, current female performers and soloists, important female figures in music and women’s rights, and art of the Suffrage Movement. Our project has won multiple endorsements […]
New music star pianist Vicky Chow and inimitable pianist/composer Craig Taborn join forces for a first time collaboration juxtaposing works by contemporary female composers with original compositions by Craig Taborn. The program includes Caroline Shaw’s Gustave Le Gray, Tomeka Reid’s Lamenting G.F., A.A., B.T., T.M, Tania Leon’s Rituál and Craig Taborn’s 3 Set Ups and […]