Professional Development Panel: Conductor’s Roundtable – Mei-Ann Chen & Alan Gilbert

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 […]

ACF Study Group: ICIYL Article, Imagining a Trans-Inclusive New Music World

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 […]

McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Application Information Session

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, […]

ACF | create Application Information Session

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 […]

KATE CAMPBELL

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 […]

Fields of Wonder

"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. […]

McKnight Fellowships Application Information Session

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 […]

MOZART’S FIFTH VIOLIN CONCERTO

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, […]

2021 VIRTUAL SPRING BENEFIT CONCERT and SILENT AUCTION

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 […]

Mendelssohn & Bernstein

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 […]

New Music for Piano

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 […]