American Composers Forum

Neave Trio performs music by Clarke, Chaminade, and Piazzolla on free livestream concert presented by WNMU’s Virtual President’s Chamber Music Series
2021-03-02 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 8pm CST | 7pm MST, the Neave Trio presents a free concert on Western New Mexico University’s Virtual President’s Chamber Music Series. The trio will perform live from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where the ensemble has been a Faculty Ensemble-in-Residence since 2017. The stream will be free to watch, and will remain available for one week after the initial broadcast.
Neave Trio’s program includes Rebecca Clarke’s Piano Trio; Cécile Chaminade’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 11; and the “Fall” and “Spring” movements from Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.
Learn more here.

A Meeting at the Crossroads of visual art, sound art, music and poetry presented by Stanislaw Welbel
2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Fire Station Artists‘ Studios is delighted to invite you to an online Meeting at the Crossroads of visual art, sound art, music and poetry presented by Warsaw-based curator and art historian Stanislaw Welbel, with Matthew Evan Taylor (past NextNotes panelist), Dannielle Tegeder, Suzanne Walsh on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 11am CST | 5pm (Dublin time)
Participating guests will be presenting their practices or projects in a variety of forms. Suzanne Walsh and Stanislaw Welbel will share effects of their recent collaboration – soundtracks with poem readings by Suzanne with music composed by Stanislaw.
Dannielle Tegeder will be talking on her art practice – which often combines visual art and sound. She will also discuss her recent series of online meetings The Pandemic Salon, an inspiration for the programming of this FSAS event.
Matthew Evan Taylor a composer, saxophonist and performer will present his practice and collaborations with Dannielle and other artists. His latest album: The Unheard Mixtapes 5: Abstractions in Sound is a great inspiration to discuss the composition and improvisation in music as well as the abstract and narrative approaches on sound.
The session of short presentations will be followed by a discussion and a special screening of ‘White Waltz’ (1963) a short movie by a Polish film director Edward Etler. The archival film set in a sanatorium for tuberculosis in the mountains, poetically shows isolation, confinement and limited contact with the outside world through imagination, art and TV screen.
This event will be recorded and is taking place on 2 March 5PM (Dublin time), 6pm (Warsaw), Midday (NYC). It will be approximately 1.5 hour.
Book your free place by emailing artadmin@firestation.com. Please put ‘A Meeting on the Crossroads’ in the subject line.
Film still. Biały Walc (White Waltz), directed Edward Etler, 1963, Poland, 10 min, courtesy of the director and Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych WFO.
Participant bios
Dannielle Tegeder
Born in Peekskill, NY, Dannielle Tegeder received her BFA from SUNY Purchase, and an MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recipient of several residencies and grants, including Yaddo, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Elizabeth Foundation, Governors Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program, Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship, and Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists. She has been a visiting artist in over forty institutions and participated in numerous institution exhibitions including Mixed Greens, PS1/MOMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her work is part of the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Weatherspoon Museum of Art.
http://www.dannielletegeder.com/
Pandemic Salon https://vimeo.com/showcase/7735813
Installation View of EPISODES at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL | 2020
Suzanne Walsh
Suzanne Walsh is a writer and artist from Wexford, currently working in Dublin. They use audio/musical performances and text-based work to query ideas around identity, human/non-human relationships and consensus reality. This often draws on the scientific world as well as more esoteric sources. They explore modes of delivery through vocalisation and recitation, video, recordings, and photography. Writing is also important, and they’ve published essays, reviews and poetry in publications including Circa Art Magazine, Fallowmedia, gorse journal, and Winter Papers. They have performed and shown/read work at galleries and festivals including Galerie Michaelastock Vienna, TENT Rotterdam, Phoenix Institute Brighton, IMMA Dublin, Zachęta Warsaw, The Model Gallery Sligo. They were previously in residence at Fire Station Artist Studios. Walsh is currently funded by the Irish Arts Council and they were an awardee of the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Project Space in 2020.
www.suzannewalsh.ie
photo: Post-Opera exhibition, TENT Rotterdam, 2019
Matthew Evan Taylor
Composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor (1980) has been hailed as a composer whose music is “insistent and defiant…envelopingly hypnotic” (Alan Young, Lucid Culture). His music has been performed across the United States and Europe by such ensembles as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, and Metropolis Ensemble. As a performer, Matthew has collaborated with such creators as musician Elliott Sharp, visual artist Dannielle Tegeder, and dancer Sara Shelton. His newest album, The Unheard Mixtapes, are available now for purchase on Bandcamp, and will be available on iTunes and all other streaming platforms beginning March 5, 2021.
http://matthewevantaylor.bandcamp.com/
https://vimeo.com/471598979
Stanislaw Welbel
Stanisław Welbel (b. 1982, based in Warsaw) is a curator and art historian. He currently works at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw as a visual art curator. In the years 2009-2019 was working in Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Welbel studied art history at Warsaw University and Curatorial Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Presently, he is finishing his PhD thesis at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2018 a member of Polish section of AICA International Association of Art Critics. Stanisław plays saxophone with Warszawsko-Lubelska Orkiestra Dęta and Warsaw Iprovisers Orchestra. In 2019, he published a cassette at Szara Reneta label with music composed for several poems read by computer generated voice, currently he is working on a sound project for the same label.
https://szarareneta.bandcamp.com/album/poems
Edward Etler
Edward Etler is a film director based between Tel Aviv and Warsaw. He was born in 1931 in Warsaw, he survived the Warsaw Ghetto and World War II. After the war, he studied at the Film School in Łódź. He made films for the Tuszyn Puppet Film Studio – later Se-Ma-For Small Film Forms Studio, Czołówka Film Studio and for the Educational Film Studio (Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych WFO). In 1962 his short film “Cmentarz Remu” won the Film Festival in Locarno. In 1968, after the events of March and the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland, he emigrated to Israel, where he worked for the television and magazines. He is currently working on the biographical book and the film “Silver Fox of Felicja T.”

The Way North (A Virtual Piano Collaboration) by Reinaldo Moya
2021-03-01 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Join Reinaldo Moya (a board member and a McKnight fellow) for the virtual premiere of this amazing collaboration!
Each movement from this cycle is performed by a different pianist. 13 pianists from all corners of the world coming together on a musical journey!
Date & Time: Monday, March 1, 2021 at 8pm CST
Pianists List:
1. Prelude (Hopes and Premonitions): Xavier Beteta
2. First Crossing: Vicky Chow
3. In Transit 1 (Anxiety as the Train Approaches): Ana María Otamendi
4. La Bestia: Liza Stepanova
5. Nocturne Atop a Train: Han Chen
6. In Transit 2 (Waking Up): Jani Parsons
7. Fuga: Euntaek Kim
8. Rain Outside the Church: Michael Bukhman
9. Running Again: Benjamin Smith
10. Las Chepas: Ghost Town: Erika Ribeiro
11. Second Crossing: Joyce Yang
12. Elegy for the Nameless: Edward Neeman
13. Dreams of Flight: Edward Neeman
14. Prelude (reprise): Matthew McCright
Join on Facebook Live.

Black History Month Concert: "Can you see?"
2021-02-27 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Gonzaga University Choirs presents a livestreamed concert, “Can You See?” to celebrate Black History Month. This program features historical music by R. Nathaniel Dett, Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, and new music from living Black composers, Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer), Mark Miller, Zanaida Robles, and Joel Thompson. Concert Choir and Discantus Treble Chorus join with faculty members from Gonzaga’s Colleagues of Color Affinity Group, who will share poetry throughout the program.
To amplify and celebrate the music and experiences of Black American composers, “Can You See?” will feature an array of musical styles and texts: traditional African American Spirituals, lyrics from protest signs such as “Love is Love, Black Lives Matter,” text from Black post-Civil war poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, words from Amadou Diallo’s last voicemail to his mother before being shot by NYC police, and thirteenth century sacred Latin text. Register to join Gonzaga Choirs on Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 9pm CST | 7pm PST for this free, livestreamed concert through Gonzaga Choir’s Youtube page.
Register on Zoom.
Stream on YouTube.

Tulsa PAC’s Chapman Music Hall featuring works by three acclaimed African-American composers
2021-02-27 20:00 - 2021-02-28 15:30 (America/Chicago)
“Make an appointment with your radio for the weekend of Saturday & Sunday, February 27-28, 2021 from 8pm – 4:30pm CST as the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will present a special concert in honor of Black History Month on KWTU (88.7 FM).
The concert was recorded live in the Tulsa PAC’s Chapman Music Hall and will feature works by three acclaimed African-American composers.
The orchestra’s principal violist, Jeffery Cowen, will be the soloist for Adolphus Hailstork’s (a BQ composer) “Two Romances for Viola and Strings.” Also on the program will be “Lightspeed” by Kevin Day and Serenade for Orchestra by the pioneering African-American composer William Grant Still.
The concert, conducted by resident guest conductor Daniel Hege, will conclude with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” which was inspired by the Czech composer’s travels through the United States and the African-American spirituals and folk songs he heard during his journeys.
The concert will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 and 4 p.m. Feb. 28.”

Composers Concordance Presents Low-Key Chamber Concert Series
2021-02-27 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

UBC Bands: Winter Showcase
2021-02-26 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
UBC BANDS: WINTER SHOWCASE UBC Concert Winds
Christin Reardon MacLellan, conductor
UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Robert Taylor, conductor
Minna Stelzner, conductor
Music by
Jodie Blackshaw (a BandQuest composer), Frank Ticheli,
Antonín Dvořák, Kurt Weill,
Gustav Holst, and more
Date & Time: Friday, February 26, 2021 at 9pm CST | 7pm PST
Watch the performance on Vimeo.

Versipel in the Mulit(stream)Verse 2
2021-02-26 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for our next streaming event featuring live networked performances by the Versipel Collective! This concert will feature world premieres by Matt Wright and Philip Schuessler as well as works by Jennifer Walshe, Jennifer Higdon, Mathias Pincher and Lillian Jammes!
Date & Time: Friday, February 26, 2021 at 8 PM CST
Visit website to attend the event.

Jupiter String Quartet: Reflection and Renewal
2021-02-26 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-02-19 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.

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.

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.”
Register here.

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.

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.

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

Opera Orlando presents "Death of Ivan Ilych"
2021-02-21 16:00 - 17:45, 2021-02-19 18:30 - 19:45 (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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great Falls Symphony's 62nd Live Concert Series - 2020-2021 Season
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”

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.

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).

“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.

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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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.

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.

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.
