American Composers Forum

Cutting Edge Concerts presents: Immigrant Dreams
2021-04-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
The New York premiere of Philip Glass‘s Annunciation leads the program. Paul Barnes performs his own arrangement of the work for solo piano, as well as the world premiere of Victoria Bond‘s Enite ton Kyrion and the New York premiere of a work by David von Kampen.
Native American flutist Ron Warren joins Barnes for the regional premiere of his work, Beads, and Barnes gives the world premiere of Distances Between 2, also by Warren.
Program details are at the Cutting Edge Concerts website. The performance will be available on demand after the premiere, and access is free.
Date & Time: Monday, April 19 at 6:30pm CDT | 7:30pm EDT
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Telegraph Quartet Gives Virtual Concert Presented by Crowden Music Center
2021-04-18 18:00 - 20:00
The Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) will give a virtual performance featuring the music of Britten, Beethoven, and Brahms, on Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 4pm PT presented by Crowden Music Center as part of its Sundays@Four Concert Series. The performance is free to watch online with advance reservations and will be available for on-demand viewing for one week.
The Telegraph Quartet’s program features Britten’s Three Divertimenti; Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1; and Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2.
Date & Time: Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 6pm CT | 4pm PT
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The Trailblazers: Women Creators and Game Changers
2021-04-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-04-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-04-16 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-04-14 17:30 - 18:30
The catalyst for the 20-21 season, this concert celebrates the indelible mark women have made on the world. Inspired by the hard-fought battle to win the right for women to vote, we celebrate barrier-blasters and trailblazers with works by women composers and/or based on texts by women authors and poets, including Alice Parker (a ChoralQuest composer), Hildegard von Bingen, Jocelyn Hagen, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Maya Angelou and more.
Since 2017, the Stephen Paulus (ACF’s co-founder; a BQ and CQ composer) Emerging Composers Competition has led to the creation of dozens of new works and the premiere of three outstanding winners. This year’s entries use texts from suffrage movement leaders.
YOU the audience play a key role in hearing this new work as it enters the world!
Date & Time:
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 5:30pm
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 5:30pm
Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 5:30pm
Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 5:30pm
Video Concert: May 7-21, 2021
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Neave Trio Performs in Person in Nashua at The First Church, Presented by First Music Concert Series
2021-04-18 14:00 - 16:00
On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 2pm CT | 3pm ET, the Boston-based Neave Trio is presented by the First Music Concert Series in Nashua. The concert will be held at The First Church (1 Concord St.) for an in person, reduced capacity audience. Entry to the church building is through the sole entrance currently used, in the courtyard between the old and new buildings at the rear. Wearing masks is a requirement inside the church building for all attendees. First Music operates with full social-distancing principles and air exchange in the Sanctuary, for the safety and comfort of its patrons.
Neave Trio’s program includes Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17, Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, and Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The Schumann and Boulanger are part of a collection of works by women composers, spanning the Romantic era through the modern day, that Neave Trio has been performing around the U.S and worldwide.
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Bang on a Can Marathon - All Commissions, All World Premieres - Live Online
2021-04-18 12:00 - 16:00
All 15 pieces on this virtual Bang on a Can Marathon will be world premiere performances of newly commissioned works, streamed from musicians’ homes around the country and across the world. The four-hour live Marathon will be hosted by Bang on a Can Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
Date & Time: Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 12pm CT | 1pm ET
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Andy Akiho new work (world premiere) for himself
Anton Batagov Chaconne in A minor (world premiere) for himself
Carman Moore STALLION (world premiere) for Robert Black
Joan La Barbara ad astra…for cellist who sings (world premiere) for Iva Casian-Lakos
John Hollenbeck Persuasion (world premiere) for David Cossin
Jonathan Bailey Holland new work (world premiere) for Mark Stewart
Kelly Moran new work (world premiere) for herself
Leyla McCalla new work (world premiere) for Arlen Hlusko
Matana Roberts new work (world premiere) for herself
Michael Abels Anguish from Falling Sky (world premiere) for Vicky Chow
Michael Daugherty Six Riffs after Ovid for solo oboe (world premiere) for Titus Underwood
Michael Fiday Song for Eric (world premiere) for Jeff Anderle
Rudresh Mahanthappa new work (world premiere) for Ken Thomson
Soo Yeon Lyuh new work (world premiere) for herself
Timo Andres House Calls (world premiere) for David Byrd-Marrow

Fresno Philharmonic presents their Digital Masterworks Series.
2021-04-17 19:30 - 20:30
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.

This is America
2021-04-17 18:30 - 19:30
Conductor Edwin Outwater returns to lead an all-American Music program, featuring today’s leading voices across the nation. Vocalist, pianist and composer PaviElle French makes her NWS debut performing her own A Requiem for Zula, a symphony dedicated to her mother. Viet Cuong’s Wax and Wire is inspired by sculptor Michael Gard, and Gabriella Smith‘s Riprap is a mini-concerto for marimba. French’s piece A Requiem for Zula was developed with support from an ACF Create grant funded by the Jerome Foundation.
Date & Time: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Program:

Smith : Riprap
Cerrone : The Night Mare
Castro : Festival Quintet
Cuong : Wax and Wire
French : A Requiem for Zula

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Cutting Edge Concerts presents: Art of the 21st Century Trombone
2021-04-12 18:30 - 19:30
The Art of the 21st Century Trombone features the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist Joseph Alessi, and others from the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra trombone sections: John Romero, George Curran and Collin Williams. Each will perform the the premiere of a work written expressly for them.
Beaming in remotely from Kansas City, JoDee Davis, trombone professor at University of Missouri-KC, performs The Voices of Air, by Victoria Bond, which she recently recorded for Albany Records.
Program details are at the Cutting Edge Concerts website. The performance will be available on demand after the premiere, and access is free.
Date & Time: Monday, April 12, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
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FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE
2021-04-12 16:30 - 18:00
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

EnsembleNEWSRQ announces a “newStart” to its 2020-21 season
2021-04-12 14:00 - 15:00
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.

A Tour of Iran – Symphony Concert presented by Michael Christie and New West Symphony
2021-04-11 17:00 - 19:00
A Tour of Iran is a four-day festival of events culminating in a symphony concert featuring the New West Symphony led by Music and Artistic Director Michael Christie. Exploring centuries old traditions of Iranian poetic and musical cultural influences on the western world, award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and Iranian instrumentalists Pejman Hadadi (tombak and daf) and Masoud Rezaei (setar) join the New West Symphony on this musical voyage. Michael Christie leads the orchestra in Western classical masterworks by Handel, Rameau, Gounod, and the timeless overture to Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Iranian composers Behzad Ranjbaran, Masoud Rezaei, and Golfam Khayam share their inspiration from Iranian sites and poetry.
Tickets include three additional programs featuring interviews and cultural context. All four programs will be available on-demand to ticket holders shortly after the initial broadcast ends.
Find more information and get tickets here.
Pre-Concert Talk with David Ravetch Presented Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 6pm PT (not available on-demand)
The New West Symphony’s Pre-Concert Talk features UCLA Senior Lecturer, David Ravetch, who explores the music presented in the A Tour of Iran concert in an informative, audience-friendly format.
Culture Insights Premieres Friday, April 9, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm PT
In Culture Insights, the New West Symphony offers insights into Southern California – Iranian culture; demonstrations of traditional instruments and dance; and discussions about history, arts and music with distinguished guest artists including Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, a distinguished literary figure and Iranologist who has written dozens of books and hundreds of scholarly articles on poetry and language, Grammy – winning composer, musician and santur player Hamid Saedi, Executive Director of Farhang Foundation Alireza Ardekani, and award – winning choreographer Melieka Fathi.
Meet the Artists Premieres Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 7pm PT
This online edition of Meet the Artists is an expansion of a longstanding New West Symphony tradition that breaks the barrier between the stage and audience seats. Enjoy a combination of biography, artistry and insight into an artist’s process and talent. The guests of the Meet the Artists program include percussionist Pejman Hadidi, setar virtuoso Masoud Rezaei, and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke.
A Tour of Iran Symphony Concert
Premieres Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 5pm CT | 3pm PT
Michael Christie, conductor
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Pejman Hadadi, tombak and daf
Masoud Rezaei, setar
Khayam: Seven Valleys of Love for Strings (Simorgh, Murmuration)
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Ranjbaran: Enchanted Garden: Joy Rameau: Suite from Zoroastre
Handel: Xerxes: “Ombra mai fu”
Gounod: Faust: Entr’Acte | “Faites lui mes aveux” (Flower Song) | “Si le bonheur “(When fortune beckons)
Rezaei: Excerpts from Nothingness (2015 album)
“Another Birth” | “Cold Autumn” | “Failure”

Sharon Isbin: Live in Concert
2021-04-11 14:00 - 15:00
American Public Television’s presentation of the acclaimed one-hour documentary Sharon Isbin: Troubadour has been seen by millions on over 200 PBS stations across the U.S. and abroad. She performed at Ground Zero for the first internationally televised 9/11 memorial, in concert at the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical artist in the 2010 Grammy Awards. She has been profiled in periodicals from People to Elle, in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, as well as on the cover of over 45 magazines. Her 2010 Grammy-winning Journey to the New World spent 63 consecutive weeks on top Billboard charts. Her Dreams of a World soared onto top classical Billboard charts, edging out The 3 Tenors, and earned her a Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist, making her the first classical guitarist to receive a Grammy in 28 years.
Date & Time: Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 2pm CT | 3pm ET
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Featuring:
Sharon Isbin, guitar

Program Overview:
PAOLA PRESTINI | Tango!
OTTORINO RESPIGHI | Ancient Airs and Dances, No. 3
ANTONIO VIVALDI | Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93
LUIGI BOCCHERINI | Quintetto IV in re maggiore (G. 448)

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players' 50th Season
2021-04-10 22:00 - 23:00
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players‘ 50th Season Online is in full swing, and at the end of the week, Program 1 will launch with at the CROSSROADS series with the world premiere of Unravel–a new work for solo piano by SF Search for Scores winner Josiah Catalan–alongside Jeff Anderle‘s brilliant performance of Echoes for clarinet and electronics by Contemporary Players’ friend and collaborator Olly Wilson.
Program 1 premieres Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 10pm CT | 8pm PT and is available on demand through MAY 10
Program 2 premieres Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 10pm CT | 8pm PT and is available on demand through AUG 10, 2021.
Learn more and get tickets here.
PROGRAM 1
Josiah Tayaq Catalan, unravel*
Allegra Chapman, piano
*Winner, SF Search for Scores 2020
Olly Wilson, Echoes
for clarinet and electronics
Jeff Anderle, clarinet

PROGRAM 2
Tomeka Reid, Prospective Dwellers
for string quartet
Tyshawn Sorey, For Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (In Memoriam)* co-commission with Ensemble Intercontemporain / *U.S. premiere
Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, harp, 2 violin, viola, cello, double bass
Olly Wilson, A City Called Heaven
Flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello

Sounds From Home
2021-04-10 20:00 - 21:00
This program, rescheduled from this fall, centers around our complex and ever-evolving sense of home. It opens with the world premiere of Elegy for Solo Oboe by composer Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), who was born in Guangzhou, China and settled in the United States, where she is a Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The piece was written for and will be performed by Principal Oboe Cassie Pilgrim, whose family hails from the same region of China. The program also features excerpts from Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2, infused with African American dances and Black idioms of the mid-20th century.
Principal Flute Julia Bogorad-Kogan performs a solo work by James Lee III, inspired by his long relationship with Brazilian music. Composer and musician PaviElle French reprises a movement from A Requiem for Zula, a symphony commissioned and premiered by the SPCO that revisits her upbringing in Saint Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. The program closes with Antonín Dvořák’s American String Quartet, a piece written after the composer moved to the United States, that blends Czech influences with popular American music.
Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 8pm CST.
Live stream the event here.

New Music for Piano
2021-04-10 19:30 - 20:30
A video show
Featuring work by Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Donofrio, Raphaël Languillat, Joshua Musikantow (a McKnight fellow), and Tiffany M. Skidmore (a McKnight fellow).
Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 7:30PM CST, FREE
The Livestream will occur on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/I8V4iSB-4ww
Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description.
Join for a live chat during the show!

New Music for Piano
2021-04-10 19:30 - 20:30
A video show featuring work by Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Donofrio, Raphaël Languillat, Joshua Musikantow, and Tiffany M. Skidmore (a McKnight fellow).
Performed by Nanyi Qiang
Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021, 7:30PM CST
The FREE Livestream will occur on 113 Composer Collective’s YouTube channel. Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description. Join for a live chat during the show!

Mendelssohn & Bernstein
2021-04-10 19:00 - 20:00
TŌN music director leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), featuring violin soloist Zongheng Zhang, a winner of the 2020 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition. Also on the program is the 2008 work Ácana from Cuban-born composer Tania León (a BQ composer), and Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, performed with pianist Blair McMillen.
This concert is free, but if you’d like to purchase a ticket to support The Orchestra Now, please select one of the additional ticket on the website.
One ticket per household; one ticket = one link (one device).
Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 7pm CT | 8pm ET
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2021 VIRTUAL SPRING BENEFIT CONCERT and SILENT AUCTION
2021-04-10 18:30 - 19:30
Join on Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30pm ET as Geneva Music Festival will present its 2021 Spring Benefit virtual concert, “An Evening of Romance”.
This virtual evening of world-class music will feature violinists Geoffrey Herd and Clara Lyon, cellists Hannah Collins and Clive Greensmith, and pianist Esther Park. The artists will perform selections by Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Chen Yi (a BQ and CQ composer), Florence Price, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, and Roger Tollroth.
Alongside the virtual concert, Geneva Music Festival is hosting an online Silent Auction. The auction will run from April 3rd to the 11th of 2021. The auction features unique Finger Lakes gifts and experiences including locally made items, wines and wine tastings, car detailing, fine art, Cessna flight over the Finger Lakes, sailing lessons, and much more! Bidding will begin at 12 p.m. on April 3rd, and will continue until 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. Tickets to the benefit concert are not required to take part in the online bidding, which will be conducted at GenevaMusicFestival.com/auction.
Tickets to the benefit concert on April 10th are $40 each and can be purchased online at GenevaMusicFestival.com/springbenefit.

MOZART’S FIFTH VIOLIN CONCERTO
2021-04-10 18:30 - 19:30
Music Director Lawrence Loh leads Symphoria in a reflective piece from Quinn Mason (a NextNotes creator), one of America’s most sought-after young composers. The orchestra also presents Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, a work which served to reinvent his compositional style after suffering a number of mental and physical setbacks. Violinist and Central New York native, Sarah Crocker-Vonsattel joins to perform Mozart’s brilliant Fifth Violin Concerto.
Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30 pm ET
Learn more and get tickets here.

New Voice Festival - Past/Present/Future
2021-04-10 18:30 - 19:30
BROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY’S inaugural New Voices Festival brings the start of an essential event for modern song. This first festival takes the tradition that created countless masterpieces and re-imagines it for the 21st century. 15 works by living composers, half of them world-premieres, reflect on the past and look toward the future
SATURDAY, APRIL 10TH, 2021 at 6:30PM CST | 7:30 PM EST
The idiosyncratic Balliett Brothers re-set Schubert’s final masterpiece Schwanengsesang in their own musical voices. After intermission, Katherine Balch‘s (a MN Orchestra Composer Institute participant) latest work takes a new look at Schumann’s masterful Dichterliebe from the female’s perspective, with newly commissioned poetry by Katie Ford. I. Katherine Balch: New Work* Brad and Doug Balliett: Swan Song * Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe Op. 48
SATURDAY, MAY 15TH, 2021 at 6:30PM CST | 7:30 PM EST
Each work in the second New Voices program takes a text from the past and gives it a new perspective, including words by Anna Akhmatova, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, and more. II. Tom Cipullo: Rapture Daron Hagen: To a Street Person* Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer): Lilacs James Kallembach: Autumn Violets* Libby Larsen (ACF’s co-founder and a BandQuest composer): New Work* James Primosch: 2 Whitman Love Songs Scott Wheeler: 3 Russian Nocturnes*
SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH, 2021 at 6:30PM CST | 7:30 PM EST
The New Voices finale looks back at BASS’s commissioned works from the last five years, celebrating its impressive past as it looks forward to its exciting future. III. Daniel Felsenfeld: For Clara James Matheson: Pessoa Songs Harold Meltzer: From a Book of Beautiful Monsters II Kurt Rohde: It Wasn’t a Dream
For ticket and more information, visit their website.

McKnight Fellowships Application Information Session
2021-04-09 20:00 - 21:00
Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Composer Fellowship Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services.
The application deadline for the McKnight Composer Fellowships for mid-career music creators is 11:59 PM Central on Monday, April 19, 2021.
The intent of this program is to recognize and support mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota who demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence. For complete guidelines and application, visit our website here.
Date & Time: Friday, April 9, 2021 at 8pm CT
Register for the event here.

Fields of Wonder
2021-04-09 19:30 - 2021-04-11 19:30
“Fields of Wonder” features a newly rediscovered song cycle by Margaret Bonds set to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Cantus will perform the concert without an audience at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and it will be available online on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7:40pm to Saturday, April 11, 2021 at 7:30pm.
In addition to the “Fields of Wonder” song cycle, the concert will include “Let The Words” by Take 6, “When We Sing” by Rosephanye Powell (a CQ composer), “I Would Live In Your Love” by Christopher H. Harris, “Tango With God” by Ysaye M. Barnwell and others.
For info and tickets (suggested donation of $20 per household), go to cantussings.org.

KATE CAMPBELL
2021-04-09 19:00 - 20:00
Join SFCMP Pianist, Kate Campbell for Piano Break, a program of the The Ross McKee Foundation. Campbell will present a recital of fun, quirky, and deeply personal works in a program that celebrates Bay Area Composers and the diversity in contemporary classical music.
This program is released on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7pm CT | 5pm PT, and is then available on demand on YouTube.
PROGRAM
Ryan Brown Four Short Pieces for Solo Piano | Fernanda Aoki Navarro Impermanence, I. Mestiça | Leila Adu-Gilmore Colour Wheel | Matthew Welch Etude No. 1 (world premiere) | David Lang Wed
Learn more here.

ACF | create Application Information Session
2021-04-09 18:30 - 19:30
Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services.
Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in Minnesota of five boroughs of NewYork City? Five music creators will be awarded up to $8,000 for the composer or primary artist’s time to create the work, and up to $3,000 to help with production and promotion support.
Date & Time: Friday, April 9, 2021 at 6:30pm CT
Register here.
Application deadline is 11:59PM Central on Monday, May 10, 2021.
For complete information and the application, click here.

McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Application Information Session
2021-04-09 17:00 - 18:00
Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Visiting Composer ResidencyApplication Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services
Are you a music creator who would like to develop a music residency exploring Minnesota communities? Applications are now open for the McKnight Visiting Composer Residency program.
The application deadline is 11:59 PM Central on Monday, April 19, 2021. For complete information and application, click here.
Date & Time: Friday, April 9, 2021 at 5pm CT
Register here.

ACF Study Group: ICIYL Article, Imagining a Trans-Inclusive New Music World
2021-04-08 16:00 - 17:00
ACF Invites you to engage in a discussion of Alex’s Temple‘s 2020 I CARE IF YOU LISTEN article, Where Are the Operas About People Like Me? Imagining a Trans-Inclusive New Music World (icareifyoulisten.com).
Date & Time: Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 4pm CDT
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.
Registration here.

Professional Development Panel: Conductor’s Roundtable – Mei-Ann Chen & Alan Gilbert
2021-04-07 14:00 - 15:15
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF).
Orchestral conductors Mei-Ann Chen and Alan Gilbert provide insight into the conductor-composer relationship, programming new works, and other topics relevant to composers.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 2pm CDT | 3pm EDT
Register 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).
