American Composers Forum

Lara Downes' new digital recording: Rising Sun Music
2021-03-05
Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. Featuring a wide range of leading instrumentalists and vocalists (including Ms. Downes) whose work defines the creative energy of this generation and the next, the series presents a new EP of music-each exploring a different theme -to be released the first Friday of every month starting February 5.
Rising Sun Music is distributed digitally worldwide by [PIAS] and available on all major streaming and download platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Primephonic, and Idagio.
Friday, February 5, 2021: Remember Me to Harlem
BENNY GOLSON: Classical Dreams – Lara Downes, piano
Eubie Blake: Love Will Find A Way – Lara Downes, piano
William Grant STILL: Song for the Lonely – Lara Downes, piano & Titus Underwood, oboe
Margaret Bonds/Langston Hughes: When the Dove Enters In – Lara Downes, piano & Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Friday, March 5, 2021: Phenomenal Women
Hazel Scott: Peace of Mind – Lara Downes, piano
Margaret Bonds: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed – Lara Downes, piano & Nicole Cabell, soprano
NORA HOLT: Negro Dance – Lara Downes, piano
Florence Price: Andante con Espressione – Lara Downes, piano & Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Friday, April 2, 2021: Spring Fever
BETTY JACKSON KING: Spring Intermezzo – Lara Downes, piano
NKEIRU OKOYE: When Young Spring Comes – Lara Downes, piano
H. Leslie Adams: L’extase d’amour – Lara Downes, piano & Jordan Bak, viola
ALVIN SINGLETON (a BandQuest composer): Changing Faces – Lara Downes, piano

2021-03-04 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Morten Lauridsen’s “O magnum mysterium” has become one of the world’s most performed and recorded compositions since its 1994 premiere. Experience the composer’s own brass arrangement of this “quiet song of profound inner joy.” Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) “Asclepius” refers to the Greek God of medicine. This majestic fanfare for brass and percussion celebrates those who devote their lives to medical research and healing.
This performance will be available for FREE streaming on our YouTube and Facebook channels from Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 9pm CST through April 2.
A presentation of the Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Virtual Classical Series.
Artists
Carl St.Clair, conductor
Pacific Symphony
Program
LAURIDSEN: “O magnum mysterium”
(arranged by the composer for brass ensemble)
DAUGHERTY: “Asclepius”
Fanfare for Brass and Percussion
Learn more and get tickets on their website.

Chamber Music Concert with Artist Director Finalist, Robert Franz
2021-03-04 19:00 - 20:00
Artist Director Finalist, Robert Franz will curate this concert of Signature Symphony musicians featured in a more intimate and personal setting, allowing them to perform safely with physical distancing guidelines in place. The streaming nature of these concerts will give you (our patrons) an up-close vantage point not possible in a full orchestra concert in a large hall; everyone will have a front row seat.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7pm CST
With Artistic Director Finalist, Robert Franz
Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer)
Southern Harmony – string quartet
Debussy
unaccompanied solo flute
Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
Tickets for the concert are $10; once purchased, the ticket holder may access the concert for the next seven days.
Purchase tickets here.

Fast Forward: Performers from Special Music School’s 7th & 8th Grade
2021-03-04 18:00 - 19:00
Date & Time: March 4, 2021 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall Featuring 7th and 8th grade performers from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, the country’s only K-12 public school that teaches music as a core subject during the school day.
Learn more and get tickets here.
About Fast Forward:
Get to know a whole new generation of performers at this new series of four concerts streamed from Merkin Hall. Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, a NYC public school that teaches music as a core subject and Lucy Moses School, Manhattan’s largest community arts school, explore a broad range of repertoire, including a program of works by composers of color including Florence Price, Margaret Bonds and Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and chamber music performed together with 2020-21 KMC Artists-in-Residence Conrad Tao and Seth Parker Woods.

Symphony Thursdays @7pm - Lauridsen & Daugherty
2021-03-04 17:00 - 2021-04-02 23:59
PacificSymphony+ is a new way to experience your Symphony online and on-demand. Enjoy the magic of music whenever and wherever you can.

Symphony Thursdays continues on March 4, 2021 at 5pm CST | 7pm PST with music for brass ensemble:

Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium” has become one of the world’s most performed and recorded compositions since its 1994 premiere. Experience the composer’s own brass arrangement of this “quiet song of profound inner joy.”
Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) “Asclepius” refers to the Greek God of medicine. This majestic fanfare for brass and percussion celebrates those who devote their lives to medical research and healing.

This performance is available for FREE streaming from March 4 through April 2.

This series is made possible by the Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation. We thank them for their generous and ongoing support. Pacific Symphony’s on-line programs are being produced with new state-of-the-art audio, video and lighting equipment purchased through a generous grant from the Janet Curci Family Foundation.
HOW TO WATCH
Symphony Thursdays @7pm will be streamed on Pacific Symphony’s YouTube channel, Facebook page and on our website. Individual events will remain available for online viewing for 30 days.
Livestream FAQs to enhance your virtual concert experience.

SFCMP MASTERCLASS series
2021-03-04 - 2021-04-04
In San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ (SFCMP) ongoing Masterclass series, they interact with some of the most talented Bay Area pre-professional musicians in a live performance and feedback session with one of their renowned ensemble members. Students bring selected works to the stage while being mentored in the techniques, skills, and myriad styles of contemporary music performance. This season’s masterclass focuses on contemporary repertoire for stringed instruments, coached by SFCMP violinist Hrabba Atladottir.
Watch the recorded livestream event here; it is available on Thursday, March 4, 2021 for 30 days on demand.
Program
Bright Sheng, The Stream Flows
Adrian Wu, violin

Philip Glass, Partita for Solo Violin
Solanch Sosa, violin
Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2, Mvt I
Ryan Cheng, violin
Giacinto Scelsi, Manto
Natalia Badziak, viola

San Francisco Ballet's DIGITAL PROGRAM 03
2021-03-04 - 2021-03-24
Created for 21 dancers, Symphony #9 highlights two lead couples and a solo male set against designer George Tsypin’s backdrop of grays and splashes of red recalling works of Socialist realism. Wooden Dimes – Danielle Rowe’s first mainstage production for SF Ballet – follows her Gala successes and is sure to delight fans of dramatic, contemporary choreography. Closing the program, Yuri Possokhov’s fan-favorite Swimmer brings audiences on a psychedelic multimedia journey through loneliness, love, and 1960s pop culture.
The ballet’s elaborate rehearsal process entailed director of photography Heath Orchard working in person and over Zoom, along with remote collaboration with costume designer Emma Kingsbury, lighting designers Jim French and Matthew Stouppe, and composer James M. Stephenson, who created an original score for the piece.
Stream this show from Thursday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 24.
You can purchase a single stream access ticket for $29 or purchase their digital package to access their whole season.
Learn more and get tickets here.

An Evening with Joy Harjo: "Feeding the Spirit of a Nation"
2021-03-03 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for an evening “Feeding the Spirit of A Nation” with US Poet Laureate and Tulsa native Joy Harjo (a past board member) to discuss her new album “I Pray For My Enemies” with an exclusive sneak peek. Joy, a third-year Tulsa Artist Fellow, is distinguished as the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States along with being the author of several books of poetry, plays and children’s books.
“The concept for ‘I Pray for My Enemies’ began” says Harjo, “with an urgent need to deal with discord, opposition. It could have been on a tribal, national or a personal level. I no longer remember. The urgency had a heartbeat and in any gathering of two or more, perhaps the whole planet, our hearts lean to entrainment – that is, to beat together.”
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 7pm CST on Facebook LIVE
We welcome people with disabilities. For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email caroline@tulsaartistfellowship.org or call 918.591.2461. Requests should be made at least one week prior to the event.

Professional Development Panel: Project Production & Recording for Composers
2021-03-03 14:00 - 15:00
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF).
What skills should a composer have in order to produce their own work? Topics include audio and video recording, project management, and producing recordings. John Glover moderates a panel of creators and producers. Q&A with audience will follow the panel discussion. Panelists: Habib Azar, Film and Stage Director, Judith Sherman, Producer and Audio Engineer, and Du Yun, Composer, Performer, and Advocator
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST
Learn more and get 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).

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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Removed From Air
2021-02-20 19:30 - 20:30
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
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.
