American Composers Forum

Scott Keever - Online Concert 50th Birthday Party
2020-04-25 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
Scott Keever is a composer/guitarist who specializes in fingerpicking and open tunings, with influences from Balkan and Celtic to blues, jazz and classical. He will be hosting online YouTube solo guitar concert.
“April 27th is my 50th Birthday! And I was hoping for a large gathering celebration type thing. But that’s not going to happen. So instead, I’m creating a special online concert for all of you, so I can give you the gift of music, in celebration for another trip around the sun.
And the gift you can give is by joining me in the celebration!! I’ll be playing covers and even TAKING REQUESTS! (I can’t promise that I’ll play ’em, but I’ll certainly take ’em!) Please note that that the concert will be on my YOUTUBE channel: https://youtu.be/PaPczKB_ng4
Also, all donations for the evening will be going to an Artist who has been struggling throughout this situation, to be named during the concert. For those interested in my Solo Guitar album, you can download it: https://scottkeever.bandcamp.com/albu… And you can enjoy it streaming on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6iVtkx…”
– Scott

ALONE TOGETHER | JENNIFER KOH
2020-04-25 19:00, 2020-05-02 19:00, 2020-05-09 19:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, United States
Violinist Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together is an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers among them. Twenty-one composers have each agreed to donate a new, 30-second micro-work for solo violin while also recommending a fellow composer to write their own 30-second solo violin work on paid commission from the artist-driven nonprofit ARCO Collaborative. Koh will premiere a selection of these donated and commissioned works each Saturday at 7:00 p.m Eastern Time.

Connecting ACO Community - Shara Nova & Ahya Simone
2020-04-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, United States
Gather as a community online and experience the creation of new work!
In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on composers and performers, American Composers Orchestra announces Connecting ACO Community, a new initiative to commission short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer will receive $500 to write the work, and each performer will receive $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. With this project, ACO aims to support artists who need financial assistance; to create new work that will live beyond this crisis; and provide virtual, interactive performances to ACO’s supporters and the general public.
This event will include the world premiere of Shara Nova’s new work for harpist Ahya Simone and an exclusive Q&A with Shara and Ahya, hosted by Ed Yim and Derek Bermel.
Ticketholders will receive a private link to join the performance, and all of the proceeds from the ticket sales will go solely to fund artists involved in this project. If the $5 entrance fee poses a barrier to participation, please fill out an anonymous form at bit.ly/ACOConnectComp or email Aiden Feltkamp at aiden@americancomposers.org.
The recorded session will be available within 24 hours after the performance on ACO’s website and social media platforms, as well as on MUSIC on the REBOUND: an online festival for participating in live events as well as a platform for streaming concerts.
Learn more about the artists on their websites:
Shara Nova: https://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/bio
Ahya Simone: https://ahyasimone.live/
For all upcoming Connecting ACO Community Events, see our website: bit.ly/ACOConnect

ACF Creative Community Wellness Check-In
2020-04-28 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
In response to the unique emotional challenges of this global pandemic, ACF is hosting a weekly, virtual space for creative musicians to check in, listen and be heard, and feel more connected to the national composer community. These sessions will be facilitated by Jen Rives, MA, LMFT (she/hers) of Relationship Insights Therapy & Coaching. Feel free to reach out to Kris Kautzman with any questions: kkautzman@composersforum.org or 651.243.0049.
The format of each session will follow this framework:

Introduction & guidelines
Settle in and get in touch with your breath.
Share first name, and 1 or 2 sentences about how you’ve been doing and how things are in your world this past week.
Introduction of this Week’s Theme: Potential themes could be challenges of practicing physical distancing while living alone; how have you been doing self-care at home; navigating these disruptive financial times; navigating fear and anxiety.
Individual sharing: 3-4 minutes for each person to respond to the theme and share how it is for them. Option to say “pass,” and simply listen.
Check out & closing: helpful suggestions, specific encouragement, and reminders that more support is available from adjacent resources.

DATES
Tuesday, April 7 @ 11:00am-12:00pm Central Time | REGISTER
This session is reserved for music creators who are living alone and experiencing isolation

Tuesday, April 14 11:00am-12:00pm Central Time | REGISTER
This session is open to all creative musicians
Tuesday, April 21 11:00am-12:00pm Central Time | REGISTER
This session is open to all creative musicians

Tuesday, April 28 11:00am-12:00pm Central Time | REGISTER
This session is open to all creative musicians

Please note that these sessions:

are not therapy or support groups.
do not substitute for therapy if needed, and do not prevent, cure, or treat any mental disorder or medical disease.
do not involve the diagnosis or treatment of mental disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
are not a substitute for counseling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, or other professional advice by legal, medical or other qualified professionals.

ACF Town Hall
2020-04-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
Creative artists and supporters are welcome to join this safe space – for sharing, listening, and connecting. Please RSVP to receive a zoom link.

ALAN CHAN MOO-SIC GROUP @ San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
2020-04-28 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual, United States
A live recording from Alan Chan‘s 6-piece group’s concert at San Gabriel Mission Playhouse stage last February. Program includes original music from “Shrimp Tale” to “Moon Walk” projects, as well as arrangement of songs in multiple languages!
It is scheduled for April 28 at 8pm (Los Angeles), watch from around the globe via ACJO’s YouTube channel. ▶︎Subscribe Now
This webcast is a fundraiser for Week of Compassion, a U.S.-based charity that works with partners to respond to the global coronavirus pandemic, as well as relief, refugee and development efforts around the world. ▶︎ Read more

Composer Zoom Roundtable & Happy Hour Series
2020-04-29 19:00, 2020-05-06 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
ACF member and Rhode Island composer Elliott Miles McKinley is hosting a weekly series for music creators across the country to connect virtually on Zoom. Follow the link below to sign up, and then Elliott will reply with the secure Zoom link.
Elliott shares, “I am a composer, improviser, and teacher and, like most of us, am in a state of imposed isolation as we collectively navigate through this difficult and unexpected moment in time. However, we are fortunate to have tools for communication, such as Zoom and other multi-participant real-time platforms, that just a few years ago were not available. In what started as a kind of get together composition group lesson for a few former and current students, I hatched an idea to engage the wider composer-creator community in an open forum leveraging my access to Zoom for the purpose. It is my hope sessions such as these may offer a chance for people to gather, talk, share ideas and music, and/or just provide a place to share a virtual “drink” together with colleagues as fellow artists. At the moment, this is a little bit of an experiment, and as such, in the interest of allowing more space for discussion and sharing, and to preserve bandwidth, I will try to limit the number of participants for each session. Hence the “first-come, first-serve” RSVP form. If this proves to be popular, I’ll look for more ways to expand. Thank you and stay safe!”

Setting Up a Podcast
2020-04-30 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
Kyle King from Slam Academy leads this free webinar with practical tips for anyone interested in launching a podcast. It will focus on getting professional sounding podcasts with the smallest amount of gear needed! Just a smartphone, and a computer with some free tools is all you’ll need to learn along the way.
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This webinar is part of the Stay Plugged In series, co-sponsored by American Composers Forum, Slam Academy, and Springboard for the Arts
Notice to Participants
By participating in this webinar you agree to the following:

You acknowledge and agree that the session will be recorded (in both video and audio format) and that ACF may make such recordings publicly available in the future via download, streaming, or other means.
You acknowledge and agree that to the extent you participate in the session by asking questions, sharing examples of your music, or otherwise appearing in the recording, you grant ACF a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use your name, voice, likeness, and any other intellectual property you share during the session as part of ACF’s distribution of recordings of the session.
You acknowledge and agree that ACF and/or the session leader, as appropriate, own all rights to the materials distributed that ACF and /or the session leader, as appropriate, own all rights to materials distributed in connection with the session and the recordings of the session, and that you do not gain any rights in such materials by participating in the session.

C4NM Encore Concerts: Inn-Fest
2020-04-30 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual, United States
C4NM Encore Concerts – a free new online series broadcasting concerts from seasons past – presents:

Inn-Fest: feat. Areon Flutes, Volti, Friction Quartet, and Pamela Z
Join us for C4NM Encore Concerts – a chance to relive some of our favorite live performances at 55 Taylor, and a chance to reconnect with our community despite social distancing. Curators and artists will join in on the conversation in real-time to answer questions and discuss musical topics. To watch, just login a few minutes before the event time and look for a live video on our Facebook or Youtube channel, or right here on this page (make sure you refresh the page). Inn-fest, the annual Innova label showcase featured a smorgasbord of regional acts from its roster of visionary musical artists. Inn-fest is a celebration that celebrates a range of groundbreaking music on the Minnesota-based label, tied to brand new and recently released albums. From daringly a cappella choral music, to dazzling flute trios, audacious string quartets, and breathtaking vocals with electronics, there will be a fantastic range of sonic wonders to sample.The program includes sets by:

Friction Quartet performing selections from Spark, an album of works by members of Common Sense Composers’ Collective: Dan Becker, Marc Mellits, John Halle, Carolyn Yarnell, Belinda Reynolds, Melissa Hui, Ed Harsh, and Randall Woolf.
Areon Flutes (Jill Heinke Moen, Kassey Plaha, Meerenai Shim) performing selections by Ryan Brown and Cornelius Boots from their albums NO ERA and Thrive.
Volti ‘Singing Without a Net for 40 years’ vocal ensemble under the direction of Robert Geary, reprising selections from their new album the color of there seen from here.
Pamela Z performs works for solo voice and electronics from her upcoming Innova album, A Secret Code.

The Center for New Music San Francisco, Inc. is a community center for participants of new music in San Francisco. The Center serves the practitioners of creative, non-commercial music by providing the resources they need, including space to work, rehearse, and perform, access to a like-minded community, and access to media resources. Through these services, the Center seeks to support and build the community of new music to encourage its efficiency, growth, integration, and excellence.
The Center acts as a steward for our community, including but not limited to composers, performers, producers, presenters, teachers, students, listeners, scholars, advocates, engineers, curators, collaborators, critics, and organizers. By valuing diversity and inclusion, fair treatment of members, fair payment of participating artists, and advocacy for the growth and integration of our community, the Center will provide a platform for communication, collaboration, outreach, program development, incubation of new artists, engagement of new listeners, and increased activity for the business of new music.
Innova® Recordings serves the needs of original, visionary, creative musicians by offering artistic and technical guidance throughout the recording and publication process; amplifying the reach of new musical ideas through access to our marketing and distribution networks; and by actively working together to maximize professional impact. Together we champion a curated body of diverse and compelling American musical voices to the listening public.

ListN Up
2020-05-01, 2020-05-08 | Virtual, United States
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing and connected during times of isolation, ListN Up offers an intimate sonic portrait of contemporary artists by showcasing the diverse and stylistically varied music that influences their creative practice. This series is sponsored by American Composers Forum/innova Recordings with new releases every Friday on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.

Tech Support Happy Hour
2020-05-01 17:00 - 18:00, 2020-05-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Slam Academy’s Free Tech Support Happy Hour!
Are you an artist that has been forced into the world of working online?
Are you a music or art educator that is struggling with your online teaching options?
Or are you just curious how all of this stuff is supposed to work?
Join us for a free pop-in meeting to chat, and get tips, ideas, and solutions from our tech ninjas.
Every Friday 5 – 6pm CDT.
Event Link
Beverages optional.
about slam academy
Slam Academy is devoted to creating a non-competitive, experiential learning environment to anyone who seeks it. We believe that each of our students has something valuable to say, and our ultimate goal is to empower them with the ability to release it through music.
When it comes to electronic music education in the Twin Cities, there are two options: 1. YouTube, and 2. College Programs. While we at Slam Academy are big fans of a college education, there seemed to be a gap in options. On the one hand was a free and completely unsupervised, non-reactive medium (YouTube), and on the other a highly focused (and fairly expensive) college education. In our opinion, there should be something in between. Something that gives the student one-on-one, personal education at an affordable price.
Since the start of each electronic art form – music, video, digital image making, software development – participation has been reserved for those who can afford the technology. In the last few years, technology has become more and more inexpensive and accessible. Anyone can make great work – all you really need is a computer. If you have a computer, we can show you how to make art on it.

SEMMELWEIS Online Stream
2020-05-02 - 2020-05-31 | Virtual, United States
Complete Stream Available May 2-31, 2020: www.Doctor-Semmelweis.com

Watch Excerpts Now: www.Doctor-Semmelweis.com/video

Co-Produced by Budapest Operetta Theatre & Bartók Plusz Opera Festival

“the strength of Semmelweis as a written piece is its music…strong images and without pre-digested clichés turning the fable of handwashing into a contemporary message” – Élet és Irodalom (Life & Literature), Hungary

New York, NY, April 27, 2020 – An online stream of the world premiere production of SEMMELWEIS, a music-theater work inspired by one of medicine’s most tragic heroes, Hungarian doctor Ignác Semmelweis, will launch on Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 1PM ET, at www.Doctor-Semmelweis.com, and will be available for one month. SEMMELWEIS was created by American composer Raymond J. Lustig, Irish-American writer Matthew Doherty, and Hungarian director Martin Boross. The world premiere performance in 2018 was co-produced by Budapest Operetta Theatre and Bartók Plusz Opera Festival. It will be free to watch, but viewers may make donations via the website to support organizations currently working to understand and combat the global coronavirus pandemic, and to alleviate its toll, especially on the most vulnerable populations: UNICEF USA, Alight, and the Semmelweis Foundation.

The obstetrician Ignác Semmelweis – who championed the practice of handwashing in the 19th century that is the foundation of today’s antiseptic procedures – has had a resurgence of interest during the current coronavirus outbreak. Semmelweis was an “outsider,” a “foreign” doctor, Hungarian, but living and working in Vienna’s top hospital in a xenophobic era. Amidst a devastating epidemic in 1846, Dr. Semmelweis discovered that the deadly disease was being spread to healthy mothers by the unclean hands of their own doctors. Tragically, the medical community rebelled against Semmelweis’ discovery. They scoffed at his findings, rejected his theory, stripped him of his credentials, and the doctor was subsequently driven into an insane asylum where he died alone. It was not until decades later that his discovery was validated and accepted.

The entire action of SEMMELWEIS may be seen as if a reflection – a fever dream or death dream – of Ignác Semmelweis’ inner psyche at his life’s end. Dr. Semmelweis re-experiences events from throughout his life, perhaps out of sequence, distorted, or unreliable, as if through a lens of a mind in turmoil.

Google, which paid tribute to Semmelweis in its March 20, 2020 Google Doodle, reported, “Today, Semmelweis is widely remembered as ‘the father of infection control,’ credited with revolutionizing not just obstetrics, but the medical field itself, informing generations beyond his own that handwashing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of diseases.” In response to the Doodle, the Wall Street Journal deemed Semmelweis “The Unsung Pioneer of Handwashing,” with CNN, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Radiolab telling the doctor’s story as well in March 2020.

New York City-based composer Raymond Lustig has a background in science, and is a published researcher in molecular biology, with previous posts at Massachusetts General Hospital and Columbia University. Lustig’s wife, Dr. Ana Berlin, is a surgeon and palliative care specialist on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Lustig says, “There has never been a more urgent moment in history to reflect on the mystery of insight, the tension between truth and hubris, our deadly myopic inertia, and the clear truth that we as a society need our full human participation, our fresh perspectives and brave new ideas, literally to survive. My hope is that, by giving vocal expression to the Semmelweis story – not just that of the man himself, but also of the women and mothers from whom he is inseparable – we may all be inspired by his refusal to remain silent on a truth that was not merely inconvenient, but intolerable.”

SEMMELWEIS asks what it is like to be the first to see into a terrible blind spot, to perceive a truth too awful to believe, to disrupt a powerfully held world-view, to experience a world dismissive of and even hostile to your idea, and to fear that the answer may die with you. What is it like to have the earth-shattering insight of a cure, and yet be haunted by the countless mothers that would never be saved?

The production, featuring a cast of all women with the exception of Dr. Semmelweis, shines light on the role of women – from patients, to sex workers, to midwives, to Dr. Semmelweis’ own wife, Mária – and illuminates the cost to their bodies, lives, and families when powerful men prioritize the preservation of their own power over their duty to truth. SEMMELWEIS explores what happens to a man whose conscience will not let him participate in a deadly and sexist status quo.

SEMMELWEIS’s story is symbol-driven and tightly integrated with movement, staging, lighting, projection, and voiceover to convey the essential narrative outline. SEMMELWEIS blends elements of song cycle, choral opera, pure-tone sacred vocal singing style, and pop and musical theater influences. The work is scored for women’s vocal ensemble, baritone soloist, and seven instrumentalists. Specially designed music boxes and tuned bells are played onstage by all soloists and chorus, and four dancers, choreographed by Anna Biczók, are interwoven with the singing cast.

SEMMELWEIS owes its inception to The American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice residency. Several early workshops, directed by Matt Gray, were staged with AOP’s generous support at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, HERE Arts in New York City, the New York Academy of Medicine, and South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, and selected for a special AOP workshop with eminent director Jonathan Miller. The National Arts Club (NYC) also presented a concert performance of the full music of SEMMELWEIS on Sept 11, 2017, conducted by Ryan McAdams, with executive producer Edward Andrews. Additional support comes from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Ensemble Studio Theater, Musiktheater Wien, and Dr. Warren Widmann.

Composer Raymond J. Lustig’s music has been described as, “entrancing…surreally beautiful… ecstatic…rapturous,” by The New York Times. Born in Tokyo and raised in Queens, New York, Lustig pursued his simultaneous interests in music and the sciences. Before coming to Juilliard to complete his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in composition, Lustig was a published researcher in molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Columbia University. As a composer, he remains deeply inspired by science, nature, and the mind. His awards include the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nissim Prize, and the Aaron Copland Award. In 2016, he was invited by TEDx to speak about his practice of looking to constraint for new inspiration, in both scientific and creative work. Lustig has been commissioned and performed by the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall Seattle, The Juilliard Orchestra, Caramoor Music Festival, Metropolis Ensemble, TENET Vocal Ensemble, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and numerous other orchestras and institutions across the country. His work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, American Music Center’s Live Music for Dance Project, and the European American Musical Alliance in Paris.

Massachusetts-born writer Matthew Doherty has published poetry and prose in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Poetry, and Glimmer Train (a literary quarterly). He was a Steger Fellow in poetry at Stanford University and has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama. He has lived and taught abroad in China, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere, has worked as a long-haul truck driver in the U.S. and Iraq, and is currently completing a law degree at Boston College Law School.

Director Martin Boross is artistic director of STEREO AKT, a Budapest based contemporary theatre collective. Between 2011 and 2014, he was a member of Artus Theatre. He earned his diploma in 2013 at the University of Theatre and Film Art of Budapest, Faculty of Dramaturgy. Since 2011, he has directed twelve theater pieces—both onstage and site specific — as well as an opera, a documentary film, and numerous smaller scale works such flash-mobs and civil campaigns. His post-dramatic pieces are often interdisciplinary, participatory, and interactive, and he frequently use documentary materials from a social or political perspective. Boross is interested in audience interaction as the dramaturgical technique necessary to achieve a deep and intensive level of perception. Outside of Hungary, he has worked with international project-based teams in Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the United States.

2020-05-02 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
Join Third Cost Percussion for another Digital TCP live concert! We’re performing a program featuring John Cage’s iconic masterpiece “Third Construction,” a new work composed for TCP by composer and modular synth practitioner Bana Haffar entitled “Shed,” and an early work by TCP ensemble member David Skidmore, “Ritual Music.”
Click here to join the live stream.
This concert is brought to you by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the generous support of Russ Irwin.

SIX NONSTOP HOURS OF LIVE STREAMING MUSIC!
2020-05-03 15:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, United States
“Bang on a Can means a lot of things to us. It means live performance in front of enthusiastic audiences, which none of us can really have right now. It means music-curious people rubbing elbows with each other, in packed concert halls, talking to each other about the role that music plays in their lives, which we can’t have now either. But it also means supporting a community of artists, commissioning new work from composers, providing live paid performance opportunities to amazing musicians, and introducing listeners worldwide to music that can change their lives. Those are things we can do now! And they are things we need now.
We are all waiting for the world to heal, but until it does, we all have to do what we can We will start by hosting a LIVE Bang on a Can Marathon on Sunday, May 3. Six hours of uncompromisingly adventurous, searching music, with brand new works commissioned especially for the day, played by some of the most amazing performers on the planet. Please join us!” – Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolfe

OPERA OF THE WEEK - Angel's Bone
2020-05-04 | Virtual, United States
ANGEL’S BONE
Music DU YUN | Libretto ROYCE VAVREK
Direction MICHAEL JOSEPH McQUILKEN | Music Direction JULIAN WACHNER
Conductor DANIELA CANDILLARI | Choreography JENNIFER NEWMAN
Scenic and Lighting Design MARUTI EVANS
Costume Design KATE FRY | Projection Design MICHAEL JOSEPH McQUILKEN based on original design by HANNAH WASILESKI
Sound Engineer CALEY MONAHON-WARD | Lighting Associate COLIN SCOTT
Stage Manager RYAN GOHSMAN | Video Engineer KATE DUCEY
From its premiere at PROTOTYPE 2016, to winning the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music, to creating a large-scale production at the 2018 Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival, BNP was thrilled to be bringing this work to our LA Opera family at The Broad Stage. Instead, they cannot gather together in person, so they’ve partnered with LA Opera to bring you the production virtually. Filmed at the Hong Kong New Visions Arts Festival, this extraordinary production will stream on both their websites for the next week. As always, they are eternally grateful to the artists who poured themselves into creating and performing this work, who have given their permission to have the work streamed free of charge.

SOUND EARTH
2020-05-04, 2020-05-05, 2020-05-06, 2020-05-07
Aleksandra Vrebalov started daily gatherings on ZOOM/FB, tune in to the same pitch from several continents, all at the same time, uniting in sound to heal and bond across the planet.
Pitch-of-the-day, ZOOM link, and the time of the event are re-posted daily on SOUND EARTH page: https://www.facebook.com/soundearth/

The Quarantine Concerts
2020-05-04 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
The Quarantine Concerts are a collaborative endeavor meant to provide artists a space to share their work and continue to earn a living during this time when most live performance opportunities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. We believe in the necessity of art during difficult moments like these, and feel fortunate to live in a time when loss of mobility does not have to mean loss of community. Thank you for being here.
Suggested donation of $5/evening – think of it like paying cover to a concert! 100% of the donations contributed during each performance go to the artists who played that night.

OboeBass! Livestream on Performingarts.live
2020-05-05 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
OboeBass! is on a creative journey inventing an enchanting body of work for this previously unexplored pair of instruments. They invite you to join them as they describe their voyage and perform their trail-blazing works. Experience for yourself music that is delighting and thrilling audiences around the country.
Carrie Vecchione, oboe, and Rolf Erdahl, double bass, are OboeBass!, the world’s only professional oboe/bass duo. They concertize widely around the US, and toured Norway in 2017. They have commissioned over 40 new oboe/bass pieces and recorded six CDs, effectively creating the oboe/bass duo genre. They typically present over 100 Pages of Music education programs annually to elementary schools and senior residences around Minnesota, and are Roster Artists for the South Dakota Arts Council. The creation of Valerie Coleman’s American Vein, performed on this concert, was made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Valerie has been hailed “one of the Top 35 Women Composers” by Washington Post critic Anne Midgette. Tim has been the most prolific composer of OboeBass! repertoire, including all the music for the duo’s most recent duo CD “Monk Fish Tango” with music for English horn and bass.
Program:
A Walk in the Park (2006) – Timothy Goplerud – www.timgoplerud.com
Vignettes from the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006) – Timothy Goplerud
1. Jangles Dances for Pennies
2. Malone’s Hobo Song
3. Down But Not Out
American Vein (2020) – Valerie Coleman – www.vcolemanmusic.com
1. The Redwood Forest
2. On Route 66
3. Woodstock: Summer of 1952
4. The Melting Pot
5. Barn Raising, Bourbon and Bluegrass (BB&B)

VIRTUAL HOOTENANNY
2020-05-06 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
Present Music invites you to join our community for our third Virtual Hootenanny!
This event is a free online space for the community to gather around art and music being created right now.
Artists and art lovers alike are invited to share work in any medium and stage of completion: performances, recordings, video, visual art, poetry — it’s all welcome! Our entire community is invited to participate in the conversation or just come and listen.
The featured guests for the event will be two of Present Music’s finest: percussionist Carl Storniolo and trumpet player Don Sipe, both of whom have wowed our audiences with many years of stellar performances. They will be offering performances live from their homes.
This event will take place on Zoom Video Conferencing. Upon registration, you will receive instructions for how to download the Zoom application. In the days leading up to the event, you will receive the link for the meeting.

Music Production 101
2020-05-07 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual, United States
James Patrick from Slam Academy leads this free intro to music production webinar, which will walk you through how to compose a piece of music within your digital audio workstation, focusing mostly on Ableton Live, an engaging, user-friendly, free software (free for 90 days).
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This webinar is part of the Stay Plugged In series, co-sponsored by American Composers Forum, Slam Academy, and Springboard for the Arts
Notice to Participants
By participating in this webinar you agree to the following:

You acknowledge and agree that the session will be recorded (in both video and audio format) and that ACF may make such recordings publicly available in the future via download, streaming, or other means.
You acknowledge and agree that to the extent you participate in the session by asking questions, sharing examples of your music, or otherwise appearing in the recording, you grant ACF a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use your name, voice, likeness, and any other intellectual property you share during the session as part of ACF’s distribution of recordings of the session.
You acknowledge and agree that ACF and/or the session leader, as appropriate, own all rights to the materials distributed that ACF and /or the session leader, as appropriate, own all rights to materials distributed in connection with the session and the recordings of the session, and that you do not gain any rights in such materials by participating in the session.

Free Online Concerts: Culture in the Time of Corona
2020-05-10 15:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, United States
The Streetlight Guild, in partnership with the Johnstone Fund for New Music, presents Culture in the Time of Corona, a series of 6 free live-stream concerts taking place at The Streetlight Guild on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. in April, May and June. The purpose of these performances is to provide musicians with much-needed income, as many of them have experienced cancelled gigs due to public health concerns, and to provide the public at large with much-needed musical therapy during an unprecedented time of crisis.
LIVE STREAM LINK
To watch these performances live, please visit streetlightguild.org.
RECORDED PERFORMANCES LINK
To watch recordings of these performances, please visit streetlightguild.org.
SCHEDULE
April 26: Cameron Leach (cleachmusic.com)
May 10: Tower Duo (towerduo.weebly.com)
May 17: Starlit Ways (starlitways.com)
May 24: Pendulum Duo (facebook.com/PendulumDuo)
May 31: Robert Mason (robertmason.bandcamp.com)
June 7: Janus Quartet (janusstringquartet.com)

Connecting ACO Community: Weekly Premieres
2020-05-10 17:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, United States
American Composers Orchestra Announces a new solo commissioning initiative in response to the COVID-19 crisis with online world premieres beginning Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 5pm on Zoom
$5 tickets* available through Eventbrite
If the $5 entrance fee poses a barrier to participation, interested listeners will be asked to fill out an anonymous form at https://bit.ly/ACOConnectComp or email Aiden Feltkamp at aiden@americancomposers.org to request a fee waiver.
In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on composers and performers, American Composers Orchestra announces Connecting ACO Community, a new initiative to commission short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer will receive $500 to write the work, and each performer will receive $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. With this project, ACO aims to support artists who need financial assistance; to create new work that will live beyond this crisis; and provide virtual, interactive performances to ACO’s supporters and the general public.
Ticketholders will receive a private link to join the performance, and all of the proceeds from the ticket sales will go solely to fund artists involved in this project. The composer, performer, and a host (ACO President Ed Yim or ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel, who is also donating his own performance to the project) will hold an online chat with attendees after the performance. The recorded session will be available within 24 hours after the performance on ACO’s website and social media platforms, as well as on MUSIC on the REBOUND: an online festival for participating in live events as well as a platform for streaming concerts.
Connecting ACO Community Volume 2 Composer-Performer Teams and Schedule of Events
Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 5pm ET:
Joseph Pereira & Chester Englander, percussion (register/buy tickets)
Sunday, June 14, 2020 – OFF
Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 5pm ET:
Shara Nova & Ahya Simone, harp (register/buy tickets)
Note: Ahya Simone was unable to appear during the originally scheduled premiere in Volume 1, during which Shara Nova premiered a version for voice and guitar. This installment features Simone performing a second premiere of the work When I Said Let a Change Come for harp.
Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 5pm ET:
Karena Ingram & Monica Ellis, bassoon (register/buy tickets)
Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 5pm ET:
Krists Auznieks & Stephen Gosling, piano (register/buy tickets)
Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 5pm ET:
Lembit Beecher & Seth Parker Woods, cello (register/buy tickets)
Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 5pm ET:
Alejandro Basulto Martinez & Alecia Lawyer, oboe (register/buy tickets)
