“Songs for the Season” featuring carols by Minnesota composers is one of the most popular programs from the Courtroom Concert series. If sub-zero temperatures kept you from attending the program last time at TPT Street Space, now’s your chance to hear “Songs for the Season” from the comfort of your own home! Carols by Linda […]
Field to Media is about amplifying musical communities’ responses to environmental challenges. Field researchers worked with communities in Canada, Bangladesh, China, Haiti, India, Tanzania, and the United States to create musical videos and cinematic messaging about climate change, water pollution, deforestation, and the impact of motor noise on marine life. You will find a full […]
The following Professional Development Webinar are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; Recording Law and Practice; Project Production and Recording; and […]
Helpful hints on choosing and presenting your best work. Hosted by composer Jeremy Gill. Composer and BMI Student Composer Awards preliminary judge Jeremy Gill offers an insiderʼs view on how judges assess your work, and what you can do to make your best work stand out. This workshop is aimed at student composers applying to early […]
Composed by Jojo Abot, Sahba Aminikia, Juhi Bansal, Raven Chacon, Carmina Escobar, Yvette Jackson, Molly Joyce, Jimmy López, Angelica Negrón, Paul Pinto, Daniel Bernard, Joel Thompson, and Bora Yoon. As our society continues in a form of suspended animation, we look to art to open new avenues of thought, imagination, wonder, and reckoning. MODULATION is a digital, self-guided […]
Created by Geoff Sobelle & Pamela Z Such strange times call for a new time signature. Is there still time to sit in the center of a city and hear the tide of traffic? To listen for a heartbeat? Composer Pamela Z and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle collaborate on a site specific-sonic journey through Times Square – […]
Composed and performed by Helga Davis & Shara Nova Directed and filmed by Mark DeChiazza Ocean Body immerses its audience in a landscape of sculpture, multiple video diptychs, and sound utilizing parallel imagery and music to examine the efficacy of interracial coalitions and the sometimes tenuous connection of friendship. A layered invitation to commune even as we […]
The Albany Symphony unveiled its reimagined 2020-2021 season, which will include world premieres and concertos with brilliant soloists, as well as iconic masterworks. Curated by conductor David Alan Miller, the season brings to life an array of new and recent works by a panoply of living composers forging new ways to create art reflecting our […]
Composed by Valgeir Sigurðsson Text by a rawlings Direction by Sara Martí Inspired by the award-winning book of the same name by poet a.rawlings, Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists pairs sleep and dream studies with lepidoptery, the study of butterflies and moths. Tracking the stages of sleep and pairing them with the life cycle of butterflies and moths, insomnia is mirrored in […]
Directed by by Garin Nugroho Composed and performed by Septina Rosalina Layan Featuring Mazmur Chorale Garin Nugroho’s brand new staged Song Cycle, The Planet – A Lament, merges film with live dance and a 14-voice choir accompanied by Papuan Soloist to impart a moving story of creation set against the backdrop of environmental disaster. A destroyed community struggles in […]
Composed by Ben Frost & Petter Ekmann Direction by Ben Frost Libretto by Daniela Danz Musical Direction by Florian Groß The digital U.S. premiere of the film THE MURDER OF HALIT YOZGAT launches Sunday, January 10 at 11am CT / 12pm ET and is available to stream January 10-16. 21-year-old Halit Yozgat was assassinated in broad daylight, in his immigrant […]
The following Professional Development Webinars are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; […]
THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES Stories and songs in the meantime Join Theater Latté Da for THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES, five virtual cabarets launching January 2021. The cabaret series will feature more than 40 Minnesota artists showcasing stories and songs in a virtual series delivered monthly beginning January and running through July 2021. THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES features performances […]
ACF's Study Group opens our staff and board conversations and anti-racism training to our colleagues and friends. For our January study group, we will be discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Praised by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” the book is a personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a […]
Great Falls Symphony announces their 100% FREE concert season this year until May 2021. "All of us at the Great Falls Symphony are fully committed to fulfilling our mission to infuse cultural vibrancy into the Great Falls community through transformative music events and education programs." All live performances will be FREE of charge, but need […]
Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 7pm CST | 5pm PST | 8pm EST Guitartists Jiji and Gulli Bjornson, represented by avatars, will improvise to prompts generated by a digital Magic 8 Ball in response to questions from the online audience. The cyber-psychedelic desert space, designed by virtual reality architect Drew Busmire, will remain up online, […]
Great Falls Symphony announces their 100% FREE concert season this year until May 2021. "All of us at the Great Falls Symphony are fully committed to fulfilling our mission to infuse cultural vibrancy into the Great Falls community through transformative music events and education programs." All live performances will be FREE of charge, but need […]
Boston Children’s Chorus unites its voices to honor the resilience of a people that have formed the backbone of this country’s cultural heritage. In 1619, the first slave-bearing ship, the White Lion, arrived on the shores of North America, marking the onset of centuries-long injustice borne by black Americans. Drawing upon a rich artistic legacy, […]
Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 7pm CST | 5pm PST | 8pm EST Guitartists Jiji and Gulli Bjornson, represented by avatars, will improvise to prompts generated by a digital Magic 8 Ball in response to questions from the online audience. The cyber-psychedelic desert space, designed by virtual reality architect Drew Busmire, will remain up online, […]
Sponsored by Harris N. Miller, NatPhil Board Chair and Deborah A. Kahn Alas, we can’t all become astronauts, but this concert offers the next best thing. Seven talented NatPhil instrumentalists bring us on a musical journey through space, exploring the universe, the moon, and the stars in a way that will make you feel like […]
EnsembleNEWSRQ announces a “newStart” to its 2020-21 season, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chamber music group, now in its fifth season, will take a cautious approach to reintroducing live musical performance, with its five upcoming programs gradually increasing in size as pandemic and vaccine news is monitored. Concerts will be offered in a […]
"The Greatest Good" is the fourth movement from Jocelyn Hagen's multimedia symphony THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. This virtual choir features performers from all over the country, and was created by C. Scott Company Multimedia Production. For more information on this multimedia symphony, visit: https://www.jocelynhagen.com/davinci/ Check out Jocelyn's Tedx Talk titled "Composing for Choir, […]
The following Professional Development Webinars are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; Recording Law and Practice; Project Production and Recording; and more. […]
**RESCHEDULED EVENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE WORK TO FIND A NEW DATE & TIME** The following Professional Development Webinars are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and […]
Join a live discussion with composer and conductor Dr. Timothy Mahr, Professor of music and director of bands at St. Olaf College. We'll talk about his musical journey, share some music, the world of band music, and more. Questions and comments are welcome during the show from our viewers. The stream will be hosted on […]
From Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat to the ragtime riffs of Joplin’s The Entertainer, this wide-ranging program features dance music from French and American Impressionism to jazz, blues and swing. Iowa composer Michael Daugherty’s (a BQ composer) Sinatra Shag kicks off the program with swirling chromatic grooves; D’Indy’s spirited Chanson et Danses evokes the French countryside. […]
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's free event: Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience. Episode 2: Originators and Disrupters (Part 2) Friday, November 27, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET Part 2 brings together the musicians with modern American composers (Libby Larsen, Gary Schocker and Charles Rochester Young) and a Beethoven orchestration by Music Director Manfred Honeck […]
The University of Georgia Wind Bands will host JanFest: the 71st Annual UGA January High School Band Festival on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 5:15pm CST | 6:15pm EST. At any rate, this is a virtual event that begins the evening with a chat with Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser (more info available at musicforall.org/who-we-are/bios/dr-tim-lautzenheiser). Then, there […]
The Jupiter String Quartet is presented by Austin Chamber Music Center (ACMC) in a program entitled Inspiration. This online performance was recorded exclusively for this event at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where the ensemble has been artists-in-residence since 2012. The program includes Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Uncharted Shores, a recent commission for […]
On Saturday & Sunday, January 23 & 24, 2021 at 7:30pm CST, conductor Delta David Gier and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (Sioux Falls, SD) will perform the World Premiere of New York City-based composer Frank J. Oteri’s (former ACF Board member, Delta David Geier) Already Yesterday or Still Tomorrow, written in the last months of 2020. The […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
On Saturday & Sunday, January 23 & 24, 2021 at 7:30pm CST, conductor Delta David Gier and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (Sioux Falls, SD) will perform the World Premiere of New York City-based composer Frank J. Oteri’s (former ACF Board member, Delta David Geier) Already Yesterday or Still Tomorrow, written in the last months of 2020. The […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
VIRTUAL WINTER MEETING: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST and Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST Register now for the New Works Forum, the pre-eminent national convening dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of new American opera. Producers, creative artists, publishers, and other stakeholders […]
VIRTUAL WINTER MEETING: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST and Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST Register now for the New Works Forum, the pre-eminent national convening dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of new American opera. Producers, creative artists, publishers, and other stakeholders […]
Unreleased scenes and highly personal short films by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) are given original new musical scores by Armenian American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian (a board member and ACF Connect composer) in the world premiere of this MetLiveArts digital commission. Egoyan's films and excerpts on the life of abstract painter Arshile Gorky […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
VIRTUAL WINTER MEETING: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST and Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST Register now for the New Works Forum, the pre-eminent national convening dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of new American opera. Producers, creative artists, publishers, and other stakeholders […]
VIRTUAL WINTER MEETING: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST and Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 10am, 2pm CST | 11am, 3pm EST Register now for the New Works Forum, the pre-eminent national convening dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of new American opera. Producers, creative artists, publishers, and other stakeholders […]
The following Professional Development Webinars are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
Due to the ongoing impact of the global pandemic, SphinxConnect 2021: UNITY will offer a dynamic, engaging virtual experience. Register now for the fifth annual epicenter for artists and leaders in diversity. The online convening will celebrate and empower leadership as we welcome hundreds of musicians, industry leaders, educators, funders, diversity advocates, and administrators for […]
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 […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
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 […]
Live in the Digital Concert Hall - On Friday, January 29, 2021, at 1pm CST | 11am PT | 2pm ET | 8pm CET, the Berlin Philharmonic will perform the world premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s highly anticipated new orchestral work, CATAMORPHOSIS, conducted by Kirill Petrenko. A further testament to Thorvaldsdottir’s “confident and distinctive handling of the […]
Due to the ongoing impact of the global pandemic, SphinxConnect 2021: UNITY will offer a dynamic, engaging virtual experience. Register now for the fifth annual epicenter for artists and leaders in diversity. The online convening will celebrate and empower leadership as we welcome hundreds of musicians, industry leaders, educators, funders, diversity advocates, and administrators for […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
A Focus On Middle Eastern Percussion And Frame Drums An interactive session from Yousif’s studio where he will answer questions about, and demonstrate, various world percussion instruments. What The Workshop Will Include The guidelines when writing for world percussion. Playing techniques on Dumbek, Tar and Riq. Middle Eastern Rhythms - how they are played and […]
Mark your calendars for a free weekend of concerts featuring four of Music in the Vineyards' most beloved string quartets, plus our 2020 Apprentice String Quartet. You don't have to wait for the summer to enjoy these concerts - escape your winter chills and enjoy some musical warmth, all introduced by artistic directors Michael and […]
Due to the ongoing impact of the global pandemic, SphinxConnect 2021: UNITY will offer a dynamic, engaging virtual experience. Register now for the fifth annual epicenter for artists and leaders in diversity. The online convening will celebrate and empower leadership as we welcome hundreds of musicians, industry leaders, educators, funders, diversity advocates, and administrators for […]
About Kinetic is back at MATCH with Quiet Art, our first concert of 2021, live-streamed from Matchbox 4. Opening with Jennifer Higdon’s Quiet Art for string quartet, a work reflecting on the solitude in which artists create their work, this program draws us into a deeply introspective and intimate musical space. The centerpiece of the […]
A blend of local and international composers expressing the strength of home articulate the power of where you are, the acceptance and importance of now, and the value of nature as part of daily life. In particular, Caroline Shaw’s Plan and Elevation: The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks asks the audience to gather in celebration of the treasured […]
On January 29-31, 2021 at 7:30pm CST, Cantus’ newly reimagined program Alone Together draws inspiration from their American Public Media special of the same name as well as their hugely popular ‘COVID-19 Sessions’—an online series with nearly two million views released in the early days of the pandemic. What does it mean to ‘stay connected’ in […]