The 2021 Sunflower Music Festival will honor women in music. This expanded project pays homage to females in music and the arts through showcasing both past and contemporary female composers, current female performers and soloists, important female figures in music and women’s rights, and art of the Suffrage Movement. Our project has won multiple endorsements […]
This performance features brand new solo cello works written for Matt Haimovitz commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT. This new initiative asks composers to write in response to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, Primavera, and the prophetic large-scale triptych, Primavera 2020, by contemporary artist Charline von Heyl. Haimovitz releases the first of three albums (featuring 14 out […]
A virtual event with Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Vanska and Principal Violinist Erin Keefe joining host Melissa Ousley. These musicians will share two world premieres, just for us: Libby Larsen's (ACF's co-founder) Tarantella for Our Times and David Ludwig's Seven Circles. Additionally, we'll hear two transcriptions of Mozart opera arias by Osmo. AND Libby […]
