Harmonium Choral Society is pleased to announce the 2021-2022 season featuring four subscription concerts. March’s program is aptly titled Resilience; it will include performances of several of last year’s winners of the High School Choral Composition Contest, along with works from Heinrich Schütz to Lili Boulanger and Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer) to Alice Parker (a ChoralQuest composer). […]
Radical Kinship is Ensemble Pi’s new concert project, inspired by the work of global champion of social justice, Father Greg Boyle, and his belief in the power of radical kinship to heal society’s inequalities. Ensemble Pi has commissioned composers Orlando Jacinto García, Gregg Welcher, Ralph Mendoza and rapper AJ Peoples, and vocalist Damian Norfleet and dancer/puppeteer […]
The Aeolians, a world-renowned choir from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, an Historically Black College and University, are giving us so many reasons to “Rejoice.” Named the “2017 Choir of the World” at the World Choir Games, The Aeolians inspire audiences to stand up and cheer for more, whether singing the music of Bach, spirituals, […]
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women's Jazz Festival at the historic Schomburg Center […]
The Ladies Quintessential Quintet is a magnificent cohort of professional women musicians, banded together from the states of Arizona, Idaho, Utah, and Washington. These powerful artists unite across the limitations of distance and time to bend sound to their will in the service of ART and the lifting of historically muted and suppressed voices. Tuesday, […]
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women's Jazz Festival at the historic Schomburg Center […]
2020 ACF | Create awardee Mary Prescott joins ACF Equity Study with a series about the progress of her project Tida. The discussions will be focused on themes of isolation, oral traditions, and food. Prescott writes: “Tida weaves music, storytelling, movement, and film into an hour-long performance exploring maternal lineage and intergenerational cultural identity. I […]
An evening of Chamber Music highlighting women and living composers. Date & Time: Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET Learn more and get tickets here.
In 1920, the right to vote was expanded under the Nineteenth Amendment to include women. One hundred and two years later, we explore what it means to have your voice heard. CCS has commissioned works from three of today’s leading women composers — Augusta Read Thomas, Lisa Bielawa, and Jessie Montgomery — that demonstrate the […]
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women's Jazz Festival at the historic Schomburg Center […]
MPLS (imPulse) returns to live performances in 2022, partnering with the youth of ComMUSICation to present vocal works with texts by children. The ensemble will also perform Moira Smiley's Time in Our Voices for mixed chorus and mobile phone playback. On the score’s opening page, the composer notes that the goal of the piece is: […]
Two extraordinary settings of sacred texts demonstrate the range of spiritual expression made possible through music. Handel’s Dixit Dominus, one of the composer’s earliest works, is full of vocal fireworks and virtuosity reflecting the composer’s youthful passion. Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum is music of profound humility and faith, conveying inner peace through the resonance of the human voice. Shimmering […]
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women's Jazz Festival at the historic Schomburg Center […]
ACO returns to Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall for Sanctuary, a concert that explores the places, company, and states of mind in which composers seek inviolable refuge, led by conductor Marin Alsop and featuring violin soloist Jennifer Koh. The program includes the New York premiere of Lisa Bielawa’s (a JFund and MN Orchestra Composer Institute winner and an innova artist) […]
This April 3, Gao Hong will be celebrating her 50th year of being a performer; her accomplishments as a composer, improviser, and educator; and the 100th anniversary of her late teacher, Lin Shicheng’s birth. The celebration will showcase her deep connections and collaborations with an array of diverse cultures and her own compositions. Special guests […]