American Composers Forum

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

Symphony Thursdays @7pm - Lauridsen & Daugherty
2021-03-04 17:00 - 2021-04-02 23:59 (America/Chicago)
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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.

Composer-to-Composer Talks: Meredith Monk and Missy Mazzoli Presented by American Composers Orchestra
2021-03-31 16:00 - 17:00
The Composer to Composer series features major American composers in conversation with each other about their work and leading a creative life. The intergenerational discussions, moderated by ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel, 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. Events will be live-streamed and available for on-demand viewing for seven days following the live event.
On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4pm CDT | 5pm EDT, Missy Mazzoli talks with Meredith Monk about her work WEAVE, from 2010, of which Monk writes, “I conceived of WEAVE for Two Voices, Chamber Orchestra and Chorus as a continuous, seamless form in which layers that are at first part of a texture are gradually revealed, take on their own life and then are modified by the next layer that appears. Each passage evolves from the preceding one . . . There is an organic build of momentum in each passage of WEAVE leading naturally to the next, as indicated by the marked tempi. The ebb and flow of the piece depend on the relationship of tempi from one passage to another and the balance between the solo voices, instruments and chorus.”
Learn more and get tickets here.

Cantus One Giant Leap
2021-03-31 19:30
In One Giant Leap, Cantus celebrates the allure of outward exploration, the triumph of the human spirit, and the striving for excellence through innovation and technology.
Cantus looked to the night sky to shape One Giant Leap, which the acclaimed men’s chorus toured in 2019–20 in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission put two men on the moon. But One Giant Leap looks beyond that triumph to consider elements of why we sought to go to the moon: humankind’s capacity for wonder, our innate desire to discover, and, in doing so, to better understand our own place in the universe.
This recording of the program’s highlights includes:
Stars by Ériks Ešenvalds
“La Route” from Dans la Montagne by Jean Cras
Flucht by Franz Schubert
Follow the Drinking Gourd, a traditional work arranged by Vicente Chavarria
Starry Messenger by Z. Randall Stroope
Discoveries by Grace Brigham
Silver Deity of Secret Night by Catherine Dalton
Beyond by Chris Foss
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30pm ET
Learn more and access the virtual event here.

Native American Musical Culture: Jerod Tate
2021-04-01
Explore the intersection between classical music and Native American musical cultures.
Curated by composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (a ChoralQuest composer), with SF Symphony musicians.
Tickets are $15.
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021
Learn more here.

Innova Bay Area Pilot: Info Session
2021-04-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual, United States
This info session for Innova’s Bay Area Pilot program is for anyone who may be curious about this program and its mission, applying to the program, Innova’s curatorial process, and even the process of recording and releasing music in general.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 4pm CDT
To register for the zoom event, click here.
The Innova’s Bay Area Pilot program seeks to foster an artist centric cooperative model where both label and artist work closely to achieve the artist’s goals. This pilot program is open to Bay Area artists.
Applications will be accepted March 16 through April 16. There is no cost to apply.
You can find more information about the pilot program and apply here.

Lara Downes' new digital recording: Rising Sun Music
2021-04-02
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

First Fridays with Robert Black (Bang on a Can All-Star Bassist)
2021-04-02 11:30 - 12:00
April’s First Fridays with Robert Black brings you large music from small countries. Experience pieces from Iceland’s Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Lithuania’s Žibuokle Martinaitytė, and Latvia’s Krists Auznieks. Deep oceans – expansive skies – dazzling lights – music that shares a fascination with ethereal sounds and earthly sonics. Chill with the aural aurora, celebrate at the harmonics happening, immerse in the overtone orgy.
Date & Time: Friday, April 2, 2021 at 11am CDT | 12pm EDT
PROGRAM:
Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir – Pending
Žibuokle Martinaityte – Abyssal Zone
Krists Auznieks – Arise
First Fridays with Robert Black is a monthly series of virtual mini-concerts featuring new music for solo double bass, streaming from his home studio in Hartford, Connecticut, at 12pm ET. The performance is designed to fit any time and place – whether it’s with morning coffee in Los Angeles, lunch in New York, happy hour in Paris, or a late supper in Tashkent.
Previous editions of First Fridays are available to watch on-demand on Bang on a Can’s YouTube channel.
Note: This is a free concert! But please consider purchasing a ticket just the same. Doing so will help Bang on a Can to do more performances, pay more players, commission more composers, and share more music worldwide.
Learn more and get tickets here.

Lisa Bielawa's online world premiere of Broadcast at the Crossroads, presented in collaboration with DePauw University
2021-04-02 18:30 - 20:00
Composer and producer Lisa Bielawa, in collaboration with the DePauw University School of Music, presents the online world premiere of Broadcast at the Crossroads on Friday, April 2, 2021 at 6:30pm CDT | 7:30pm ET.
The video will remain online to watch after its initial premiere, available at www.lisabielawa.net/broadcast-at-the-crossroads and on DePauw University School of Music’s YouTube channel. This new work is the culmination of Bielawa’s Composer-in-Residence appointment at DePauw’s annual Music of the 21st Century festival, organized by School of Music professor Dr. Eliza Brown. Though the residency was originally scheduled pre-pandemic to be in-person, Bielawa and Brown pivoted their work together as a way to build community in the challenging lockdown conditions.
The virtual performance will also include a performance of Bielawa’s work Vireo Canons and Chorale by pianist and professor May Phang, a performance of a selection of my work The Great Plasto-Dio Dada Drama by percussion student Landen Wood, a discussion about Broadcast at the Crossroads with Dr. Brown and participating students, and a live Q&A session. Following the premiere, the video will remain online at the same link and on DePauw University School of Music’s YouTube channel, accessible to the public for free.
Of Broadcast at the Crossroads, Bielawa explains, “Indiana’s state motto is ‘The Crossroads of America,’ but furthermore, the piece also considers the unique predicament of this generation whose studies have been dramatically affected by Covid and its impact on educational institutions, at the crossroads of their lives. In our planning process, I came to know of the existence of field recordings that Dr. Brown’s Practicum students captured in the lively campus buildings (dining hall, student union) on March 10 and 11, 2020, the final days before all students, faculty and non-essential staff were told to evacuate the campus. Eerily frozen in time, these ‘Sounds of DePauw’ videos bear witness to the last moments of lively campus life. With the kind permission of these students and alums, these field recordings have become part of the sonic landscape of Broadcast at the Crossroads.”
Additional material for Broadcast at the Crossroads was generated during Bielawa’s online residency in March 2021 through a series of lively Zoom discussions. The compiled and selected texts, drawn from students’ answers to questions such as “What is your useless superpower?,” “What is something you learned this week?,” and “What have you learned this year?” form a collective dramatic monologue of the Student during the time of Covid: acceptance, grief, steely self-determination, wisdom beyond their years.
Building on the methods and techniques Bielawa has developed during the pandemic to create broadly participatory works in a highly collaborative, asynchronous process, Broadcast at the Crossroads weaves together musical materials recorded independently and soloistically by all of the individual members of the orchestra, band, choir, and opera programs.
Learn more here.

Jupiter String Quartet Gives Virtual Concert presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
2021-04-03 11:00 - 12:30
Beginning on Saturday, April 3, 2021, at 11am CT | 10am MST the Jupiter String Quartet is presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in a virtual concert featuring the world premiere of Stephen Andrew Taylor’s Chaconne/Labyrinth. This performance was recorded exclusively for this online event in Smith Memorial Recital Hall at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where the ensemble has been artists-in-residence since 2012, and where Taylor is a professor of Theory and Composition.
The program also includes Schubert’s dramatic “Death and the Maiden” String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor.
The performance will be accessible for free starting on April 3 on Arizona Friends of Chamber Music’s website and it will be available to watch for 30 days after the initial presentation at www.arizonachambermusic.org/videos/jupiter-string-quartet

April 2021 | Great Lakes Concerts
2021-04-03 12:00 - 13:00
On Saturdays, April 3–24, at 12pm CT on 90.5 FM & streaming online, listen to a variety of music from regional orchestras and professional classical musicians from around the state of Michigan.
April 3
Violinist Samuel Arakelyan and pianist Kevin Rhodes play Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata, and Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra and Chorus perform the Mozart Requiem.
April 10
Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and Lansing Symphony play Schumann’s Cello Concerto; pianists Deborah Moriarty and Zhihua Tang play Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance; flutist Richard Sherman and Jackson Symphony play Flute Concerto by Kevin Puts (a BandQuest composer).
April 17
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is performed by Saginaw Bay Symphony; flutist Richard Sherman and Gwendolyn Dease, marimba, play Bach; Traverse Symphony performs Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain.
April 24
Jackson Symphony performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, and Shin Hwang, fortepiano, plays Fantasy in c minor by Mozart from an Academy of Early Music concert.
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McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Application Information Session
2021-04-06 16:30 - 17:30
Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Application 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: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 4:30pm CT
Register for the event here.

TUES@7: From Scratch
2021-04-06 18:00 - 19:00
TUES@7 “From Scratch” focuses on new collaborations with recordings/performances taking place from the Ensemble’s studio/office space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. The program includes a world premiere of a new quartet work by Josh Modney (violin/composition), written for and performed alongside acclaimed creative musicians Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Cory Smythe (piano), and Mariel Roberts (cello). The second set features a new collaboration between Rebekah Heller (bassoon) and Fay Victor (voice).

Date & Time: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET
Register for tickets here.

ACF | create Application Information Session
2021-04-06 18:00 - 19:00
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: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 6pm CT
Register here.
Application deadline is 11:59PM Central on Monday, May 10, 2021.
For complete information and the application, click here.

Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses Album Release
2021-04-06 19:00 - 20:00
Jen Shyu (a ChoralQuest composer) and Jade Tougue celebrate their deeply personal album Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses on Pi Records with an evening of music at Roulette. The album and subsequent performance marks the long-awaited return of Jade Tongue, an ensemble made up of musical innovators—Ambrose Akinmusire, Mat Maneri, Thomas Morgan, and Dan Weiss—with whom Shyu has created music with for over a decade. They last appeared on her groundbreaking and highly acclaimed 2015 Pi release Sounds and Cries of the World, which NPR called: “no drive-by encounter between musical cultures, no cherry picking of exotic licks. This is research and experience, absorbed and reimagined.”
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 7pm CDT | 8pm EDT
Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses is a mourning and reckoning for women and people of color, across time and into this pandemic. This album is dedicated to her father, 徐澤濱 Tsu Pin Shyu (January 19, 1941–April 2, 2019), who passed away unexpectedly during a nap at his home in Houston. Her mother tried to wake him, even banging a pot with a spoon, but finally called for help. At the time, Shyu was doing research in Japan for Zero Grasses when she received an email from the county sheriff informing her of her father’s death. A few weeks after his memorial, she was emptying her father’s closet when she discovered her childhood diaries. Reading them transformed Zero Grasses into a coming-of-age story about ambition, legacy, racism, sexism in the industry, fertility, and the mother she sought to become. It’s an investigation of life, as it was her father who inspired her to live life as she envision it.
Watch and read more here.

McKnight Composer Fellowship Application Information Session
2021-04-06 19:30 - 20:30
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: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 7:30pm CT
Register for the event 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).

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.

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 | 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
Get tickets 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, 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!

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!

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.
