Log on in the month of April for a virtual poem born out of our complex times. This poly vocal, kaleidoscopic animation and sound project is a collaboration between digital artist and musician Kathy McTavish and poet Hawona Sullivan Janzen, originally commissioned to do separate projects for Northern Light.mn’s Spring Howl fundraiser. Tickets to the online […]
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 […]
Creative artists and supporters are welcome to join this safe space - for sharing, listening, and connecting. Please RSVP to receive a zoom link.
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 […]
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 […]
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. Register This […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
"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, […]
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/
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 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 […]
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/
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 […]
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/
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 […]
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 […]
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/
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). Register This webinar is part of the Stay Plugged In series, co-sponsored […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - FOX 9, in partnership with Minnesota Public Radio will host Shine On Minnesota, a broadcast event featuring local musicians to benefit Minnesota nonprofits during the COVID-19 crisis. The broadcast event will air on FOX 9 and stream live at fox9.com/live, Sunday at 7 p.m., May 10, and will include entertainment, musical performances, inspirational […]
An online workshop for the C4NM community with Meerenai Shim, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM) and professional flutist. This workshop will focus on stress relief through movement exploration, with an additional focus on performance anxiety. This online workshop is free to the C4NM community, graciously offered by Meerenai, and will run from 6 to 7:30 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For our second webcast, Alan Chan's 17-piece jazz orchestra's concert at Gateway Performance Series will be featred with singers from across the Pacific Rim, including soprano Lin-Lin Chang (Taipei), Laura Dickinson (Los Angeles), and Timur (Kazakstan-USA), to bring our audience a cross-over musical experience. Livestream will begin on May 12 at 8pm (Los Angeles), watch […]
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 […]
Hosted by Matt "Nur-D" Allen. Matt will take your questions and talk about concert streaming, which services you can use and their different qualities, a few technical options to increase quality, and a few ways to set your concert apart from other streaming events. He shares, I have have been doing Hip-Hop in the Twin […]
Creative artists and supporters are welcome to join this safe space - for sharing, listening, and connecting. Please RSVP to receive a zoom link.
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 […]
The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral Quartet – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated in the midst of a quarantine. "Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and […]
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 […]
About: In keeping with our mission to nurture the creative spirit of music creators and communities, American Composers Forum and New Music Gathering are partnering to host a weekly Music Creator Meet-Up. In these sessions, we will check-in with each other to see how we are doing, review creation in progress by one of our peers, and stay […]
COMFORT GIRL is an exploration - in song and story - of the lives of Chinese 'comfort women', a cruel euphemism for the women who were abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during WWII. There were over 200,000 of these young women, most of whom were from China or Korea. Lured […]
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, […]
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 […]
Great Performances: Doubt from Minnesota Opera is a new opera composed by Douglas J. Cuomo, based on playwright John Patrick Shanley’s acclaimed 2005 Broadway play, which was later adapted into an Academy Award-nominated 2008 film. Doubt unfolds as suspicion ignites a battle of wills at a Bronx Catholic school in 1964. The charismatic and progressive Father Flynn is […]
Digital Discovery Festival 2020 is a Festival to bring National Sawdust artists and audiences together, and to fight the vulnerability performing artists are feeling during the COVID-19 outbreak. May 19, 2020 Emily Wells May 20, 2020 Ashley Bathgate May 22, 2020 Vijay Iyer
Digital Discovery Festival 2020 is a Festival to bring National Sawdust artists and audiences together, and to fight the vulnerability performing artists are feeling during the COVID-19 outbreak. May 19, 2020 Emily Wells May 20, 2020 Ashley Bathgate May 22, 2020 Vijay Iyer
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 […]
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 […]
Digital Discovery Festival 2020 is a Festival to bring National Sawdust artists and audiences together, and to fight the vulnerability performing artists are feeling during the COVID-19 outbreak. May 19, 2020 Emily Wells May 20, 2020 Ashley Bathgate May 22, 2020 Vijay Iyer
The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral Quartet – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated in the midst of a quarantine. "Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and […]
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 […]
About: In keeping with our mission to nurture the creative spirit of music creators and communities, American Composers Forum and New Music Gathering are partnering to host a weekly Music Creator Meet-Up. In these sessions, we will check-in with each other to see how we are doing, review creation in progress by one of our peers, and stay […]
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, […]
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 […]
Living Music: Pirate Radio is a quarantine variety show, hosted by Nadia Sirota, that brings performances, conversation and community directly from socially-distanced artists to viewers at home. Watch on Facebook Live Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific and see more than a dozen archived episodes!
We feel that the best way we make it through this challenge is as a community. Taking this into consideration, we are hosting a series of virtual town halls where you can just drop in and hang out. Register
This one-hour, interactive session with legal experts will cover topics for musicians and performing artists including: Addressing current contracts tied to event dates in the next 6-12 months. Planning ahead: how to protect artists' health in a contract. What can you do differently with future contracts being negotiated now? Register Alex Mueller’s practice is concentrated […]
With an understanding that Covid-19 has been disproportionately hard on members of BIPOC communities, ACF is offering an affinity space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color open to people in the creative community who have experienced their lives being adversely affected by the pandemic. While we certainly appreciate White allies, we also recognize the […]
Living Music: Pirate Radio is a quarantine variety show, hosted by Nadia Sirota, that brings performances, conversation and community directly from socially-distanced artists to viewers at home. Watch on Facebook Live Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific and see more than a dozen archived episodes!
Past and present collide in "Villa Diodati," the off-Broadway musical theater show that imagines the fateful vacation that Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and their friends enjoyed in the summer of 1816. The stormy weather kept the friends inside telling ghost stories, and it provided the inspiration for "Frankenstein." In the play, a modern couple finds […]
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 […]
COLONY An exploration of our symbiotic relationship with honeybees through music and dance CINCY FRINGE FESTIVAL May 29 – June 13, 2020 WATCH ONLINE ANYTIME: https://knowtheatre.vbotickets.com/event/COLONY/43269 AURA Contemporary Ensemble PSOPHONIA Dance Company Sophia Torres, choreography Rob Smith, music direction Keith Epperson, set design Edgar Guajardo, lighting design Afshin Farzadfar, videographer Humans and honeybees have an […]
The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral Quartet – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated in the midst of a quarantine. "Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and […]
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 […]
About: In keeping with our mission to nurture the creative spirit of music creators and communities, American Composers Forum and New Music Gathering are partnering to host a weekly Music Creator Meet-Up. In these sessions, we will check-in with each other to see how we are doing, review creation in progress by one of our peers, and stay […]
The OmniArts Foundation is proud to present: Lean On Me: A Virtual Concert Series for COVID-19 Relief. Join us on May 30, 2020 at 4pm EDT for the Jazz/Cabaret/Musical Theater Concert, the second of three virtual, request-driven concerts to benefit freelance artists and the families of essential workers affected by COVID-19, and the charitable organizations […]
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, […]
The Organ Colossal Listening Sessions is an online series that brings two artists together through individual performances and moderated conversation. The idea is to draw connections. Events are free with donations for the artists accepted. Donations are tax-deductible. Kyle Rapps is an American hip hop artist and slam poet, formerly based in Harlem and Mexico […]
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 […]