Young Women Composers Camp 2021 - World Premieres Concerts
2021-08-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-08-07 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Don’t miss Young Women Composers Camp’s world premieres concerts featuring works composed by the 2021 members of the camp! Their cohort this year spans across the United States, as well as Canada, Asia, Europe, and the UK, all of whom have composed new works for the andPlay Duo, Mazumal Duo, or Peridot Duo. Each concert will feature newly-composed works for each of these three incredible ensembles.
Dates & Times:

Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1 PM CT | 2 PM ET

The Young Women Composers Camp amplifies the voices of young female and nonbinary composers by providing them with affordable, high-level coursework, resources, mentors, and a supportive community full of like-minded peers. This year, our program featured core composition faculty members inti figgis-vizueta, Flannery Cunningham, Bahar Royaee, and Tonia Ko; as well as guest instructors Natacha Diels, Courtney Bryan, Adam Vidiksis, Dale Trumbore, Angélica Negrón, Jessica Rae Huber, Alexandra Gardner, and Annika Socolofsky.
Can’t make the livestream? Not a problem – the concert videos will be archived on their Facebook and Youtube pages, so you can watch again at a later date.
Read more about our program and values at www.youngwomencomposers.org.

Neave Trio Performs Music by Ravel at the Bard Music Festival - In-Person and Livestreamed Online
2021-08-08 12:00 - 14:00, 2021-08-07 12:00 - 14:00
The Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival’s 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. On Program Two, “Contemporaries and Colleagues,” August 7 at 1pm, Neave Trio will perform Ravel’s Piano Trio on a concert which traces Nadia Boulanger’s early musical relationships.
On Saturday, August 7, 2021 and Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET, the Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival’s 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. The concerts will be performed for a live audience at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater at Bard College (Manor Ave.) and livestreamed online.
The Bard Music Festival returns for its 31st season with an exploration of the life and work of Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and indomitable personality who shaped more than a generation of American musicians. Through a series of themed concert programs, lectures, and panel discussions, Nadia Boulanger and Her World pays tribute to one of the most important female figures in the history of classical music.
On Program Two, “Contemporaries and Colleagues,” August 7 at 1pm, Neave Trio will perform Ravel’s Piano Trio on a concert which traces Nadia Boulanger’s early musical relationships. The program couples songs she wrote in her teens with chamber works by then-preeminent Debussy, her composition teacher Fauré, and renowned classmates George Enescu and Ravel. Ravel composed his only piano trio after nearly six years of sketching and planning. But following the beginning of World War I in 1914, Ravel was motivated to quickly complete the work before enlisting in the French army. In a letter to Igor Stravinsky, he wrote, “The idea that I should be leaving at once made me get through five months’ work in five weeks! My Trio is finished.”
Complete program and ticket information can be found here.

The Philadelphians in Concert on WRTI
2021-08-08 12:00 - 13:00
Tune in on Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET on Philadelphia’s radio station WRTI 90.1, and on Monday, August 9, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, for a rebroadcast of a concert from The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2014-2015 season.
Carol Jantsch, principal tuba of the orchestra since 2006, stood front and center on the Verizon Hall stage to perform as soloist in a work written for her – Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) Reflections on the Mississippi.
Learn more here.

Elizabeth Cree
2021-08-07 22:00 - 23:00, 2021-07-30 22:00 - 23:00, 2021-07-25 19:00 - 20:00
Set in a bawdy Victorian music hall, Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts (a BandQuest composer and the Director of the MNOrch Composer Institute) is a psychological thriller in which an abused and impoverished woman finally finds a family in a troupe of misfit performers. The action moves with kaleidoscopic energy and wit as the pulitzer- prize winning creators of Silent Night (seen on Great Performances) collaborate again for this intense new opera.
Learn more on West Edge Opera‘s website.
Performance Dates:
Sunday, July 25, 2021 – 7pm CDT | 5pm PDT
Friday, July 30, 2021 – 10pm CDT | 8pm PDT
Saturday, August 7, 2021 – 10pm CDT | 8pm PDT

The Inception Orchestra Young Composers Celebration
2021-08-07 18:00 - 19:00
Help the Los Angeles Inception Orchestra celebrate their young composers of the March 2020-Aug 2021 class! Meet the composers and their mentors. Showcases, bloopers, behind-the-scenes and most importantly, their music.
Date & Time: Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM ET
Register for free here.

Inception Orchestra Virtual Celebration & Concert
2021-08-07 18:00 - 19:00
Celebrate Inception Orchestra Young Composers of the March 2020-Aug 2021 class! Meet the composers and their mentors. Showcases, bloopers, behind-the-scenes and most importantly, their music.
Spotlights with the professional musicians who worked with our students. Spend time with our partners, ASMAC and the Classical Sax Project.
Sit in on a featured master class which will resonate with everyone — composers or not.
And discover what’s next for Inception and you and your kids can be involved.
Date & Time: Saturday, August 7, 2021, at 6 PM CDT
Register for free here.

Summer Festival X - "Beethoven and Friends"
2021-08-07 16:00 - 17:00, 2021-08-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-08-03 19:30 - 20:30
Brightmusic returns to Live Concerts with ‘Beethoven and Friends’ – Summer Festival concert series mixes old and new. Join the four days of concerts. See each date and time in the program below:

Program:

Concert No. 1 – Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
Concert No. 2 – Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT

Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Piano Trio

​Concert No. 3 – Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 4 PM CT (reception to follow) The Mae Ruth Swanson Memorial Concert
Concert No. 4 – Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT

Libby Larsen (ACF’s co-founder and a BandQuest composer), Slang for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

Musicians
Gregory Lee, Violin
Katrin Stamatis, Violin
Shaohong “Betty” Yuan, Viola
Jonathan Ruck, Cello
Parthena Owens, Flute
Lisa Harvey-Reed, Oboe
Chad Burrow, Clarinet
Kate Pritchett, Horn
Rodney Ackmann, Bassoon
Amy I-Lin Cheng, Piano
Heather Conner, Piano
Jill Jantzen, Piano

Admission:

$20 per concert (students and active-duty military free with ID)

$50 for a Summer Festival Pass to all concerts – festival passes are not required for 2019-20 subscribers
Learn more and get tickets here.

Prairie Woods Sound Garden (Premiere)
2021-08-07 12:00 - 16:00
Minneapolis-based Composer / Director JG Everest premieres a new immersive sound installation for one of the scenic hiking areas at the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center (PWELC) in Spicer, MN, to be presented on Saturday August 7, 2021. Part of his ongoing series of site-specific “Sound Gardens”, Everest has spent 3 weeks composing and designing a wholly new spatial sound score for this special natural space at Prairie Woods. This self-guided, “concert you can move through” will include live roving musicians and dancers, as well as site-specific photography, poetry, and storytelling, designed to connect us more deeply to this particular place and it’s natural environment. The event is durational and self-guided, meaning that attendees can attend for as little or as long as they like, but the more time spent inside the Sound Garden will result in a deeper connection and more lasting impressions of this place.
The Prairie Woods Sound Garden at PWELC is a family-friendly free outdoor event open to all ages and will take place on Saturday August 7, 2021 at 12 PM CT. The event is rain or shine, unless it is extremely bad weather, in which case it will take place the next day, on Sunday, August 8 at the same time.
The Prairie Woods Sound Garden will feature a temporary sound installation of 50 small, battery-powered remote speakers distributed throughout the park, each playing a different part of the larger piece of music, creating a multi-layered, immersive experience. The sound installation is accompanied live by live roving musicians and dancers, “The Free Range Orchestra”.
Free, but reservations recommended via this link.
Presented by Wavelets Creative in partnership with the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through an Arts Touring grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

IPO BRASS QUINTET: AMERICAN COMPOSERS
2021-08-04 19:45 - 21:00, 2021-08-04 18:15 - 19:30
IPO SUMMER @ OLYMPIA FIELDS COUNTRY CLUB
Enjoy small ensemble concerts by our own IPO Musicians and IPO Musician Friends at the beautiful Olympia Fields Country Club. Capacity will be capped according to Restore IL Guidelines.
James Stephenson (a BandQuest composer and former board member) – Fanfare for an Angel
James Stephenson – Fantasia on Semper Paratus
Anthony Barfield – Eclipse
Matt Lee, Trumpet
Date & Time: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 6:15 PM CT
Single Tickets: $37 in advance only
4 Concert Subscription – $140
3 Concert Subscription – $105
Get tickets here.

Jupiter String Quartet presented by Bowdoin International Music Festival on Livestream Concert
2021-08-02 18:30 - 19:30
The Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violinists; Liz Freivogel, viola; and Daniel McDonough, cello) returns to the Bowdoin International Music Festival as a faculty ensemble, performing concerts on July 19 and August 2 in Studzinski Recital Hall. The Bowdoin International Music Festival is set to return to Brunswick this summer, gathering world-renowned musicians and students for an intensive schedule of chamber music study and performance. Only Festival students will be permitted inside the recital hall for live concerts, due to campus COVID policies. However, concerts will be livestreamed online from Studzinski Hall, free to community members and viewers around the world. Individuals are encouraged to RSVP in advance at www.bowdoinfestival.org/rsvp, and will receive day-of concert reminder emails with direct viewing links.
On Monday, August 2, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET, the Jupiter Quartet presents a recently premiered work written for them by Stephen Andrew Taylor, Chaconne/Labyrinth, along with selections from Florence Price’s Five Folksongs in Counterpoint and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80.
Of his new work, Chaconne/Labyrinth, Taylor explains, “‘Chaconne’ is an old-fashioned word for a repeating chord progression, like the 12-bar blues. Here the wonderful Jupiter Quartet plays a chaconne, but at the same time they are lost in a labyrinth. The chords keep returning, only to point in new directions. This is how I’ve felt the past year: stuck in a loop, but at the same time lost in a maze, desperately seeking the way out. At the center of this maze, like the Minotaur of Greek myth, lies a depiction of the coronavirus that has so profoundly changed our world. After this encounter—marked by strange, percussive sounds—the quartet traces their way, like following Ariadne’s thread, back through the labyrinth.” Chaconne/Labyrinth was commissioned by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music.
Register and learn more here.

American Roots
2021-07-31 19:30 - 21:30
American Roots is the Lakes Area Music Festivals grand opening event of the season that celebrates the American Spirit. Mason Bates‘ kaleidoscopic orchestral fanfare is followed by Jessie Montgomery‘s rhapsody of patriotic anthems, including the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ Peruvian-American composer Jimmy Lopes completes this trilogy of contemporary voices with a musical fiesta! Complementing these works by great younger composers will be Antonin Dvorak’s venerable “New World” Symphony, including the soulful Largo, ‘Going Home.”
Date & Time: Saturday July 31, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
Learn more here.

American Roots
2021-07-31 19:30 - 21:00
The grand opening event for the Lakes Area Music 2021 season, that celebrates the American Spirit. American Roots features Mason Bates‘ kaleidoscopic orchestral fanfare followed by Jessie Montgomery‘s rhapsody of patriotic anthems, including the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ Peruvian-American composer Jimmy Lopez completes this trilogy of contemporary voices with a musical fiesta! Complementing these works by great younger composers is Antonin Dvorak‘s venerable “New World” Symphoney, including the soulful Largo, ‘Going Home.’

Date & Time: Saturday, July 31, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
Learn more here.

Dialogues: Malang Jobarteh
2021-07-31 19:00 - 20:00
Malang Jobarteh is a master of the kora, a 21-stringed West African harp and instrument of choice for griots, storytellers who chronicle the history and traditions of West Africa. The program features original compositions, arrangements of Western classical pieces and traditional West African music in a boundary-defying recital that unifies these seemingly disparate musical traditions.
This concert will be followed by a reception.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 31, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
Get tickets here.

Pairing other Instruments with the Harp (Session 2 of The Composer's Harp Cohort Masterclass Series)
2021-07-28 12:30 - 13:30
What instruments pair well with the harp? How can composers best approach navigating the different timbral possibilities presented by the harp in chamber contexts? ​
Informed by both her experiences performing on the harp in small ensembles as well as her own compositional successes and learning moments, Amy Nam explores these questions with examples from Debussy, Crumb, Saariaho, and beyond.
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 23, 2021 at 12L30 PM CT | 1:30 PM ET
Learn more and register here.

Yellow Barn Concert with Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate
2021-07-24 19:00 - 20:00
Yellow Barn’s summer festival continues this week with a special focus on Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (a ChoralQuest composer). This concert will include Tate’s cantata “Standing Bear: A Ponca Indian Cantata in Eight Tableaux” performed by baritone William Sharp, as well as a string quintet by Antonin Dvořák, who found inspiration in American Indian music after an extensive visit to the United States in the 1890s.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
Get tickets and learn more here.
Tickets go for $30.

Scores: The Cone Institute Concert
2021-07-24 19:00 - 20:00
Ludovic Morlot conducts the NJSO premieres of dynamic works by the composers of the NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a multi-faceted program that promotes new music and emerging composers. The Institute composers will briefly share the inspiration behind their pieces in an evening at NJPAC that will show the vibrant future of orchestral music.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
Tickets are only $15! A ticket purchase is required for entry. Student tickets are $10 and can be reserved in advance!
LUDOVIC MORLOT conductor
STEVEN MACKEY Institute director & host
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ELISE ARANCIO (a NextNotes creator) Wake
KEVIN DAY Tango Oscuro
ERIN GRAHAM Increase
JARED MILLER Under Sea, Above Sky
Learn more and get tickets here.

Echoes in Life: Thomas Mesa
2021-07-24 08:00 - 17:00
Cellist Thomas Mesa presents an emotional and timely recital celebrating an emergence from despair to joy. The program opens with Andrea Casarrubios’ SEVEN (2020), commissioned by Mesa and written as tribute to the essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by Elizabeth Start’s Echoes in Life (2015), a ruminative exploration of bi-culturality which combines Native American influenced melodic elements with Western musical developments. The program concludes with Lydia Jane Pugh’s jubilant Caroline’s Jig (2015), and Beethoven’s transformative Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
This concert will be followed by a reception.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
Get tickets here.

Oneonta Community Concert Band in a “Going Out”
2021-07-22 18:00 - 19:00
Oneonta Community Concert Band plays in a “Going Out” event in Neahwa Park on Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 7 PM ET
The band will pay tribute to this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Tania León (a BandQuest composer), by playing her original composition for band, “Alegre.”
Address to Neahwa Park: 15 James Georgeson Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820
Learn more here.

AACM in Conversation with The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
2021-07-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual, United States
AACM in Conversation with The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker Moderated by Dameun Strange on Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 3PM CT
Join artist and AACM president Coco Elysses and New Renaissance Artist The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker’s discussion of the work Elizabeth has developed for AACM through our ACF l connect program. We’ll learn about Elizabeth’s inspiration for the electronically driven creation and the process of composing this piece for this iconic Chicago-based ensemble that has worldwide reach – moderated by Dameun Strange.
Learn about our ACF | connect program here.
Register for this event here.
If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact Laura Krider (lkrider@composersforum, 612.314.9228) at least 48 hours before the event.
American Composers Forum’s ACF | connect program is made possible with the outstanding generosity of the following individuals: Jane Anfinson, Thomas Arneson, Suzanne Asher, Carol Barnett, Pearl and Bob Bergad, Margee and Will Bracken, Karen Brooks, Richard Cisek and Kay Fredericks, Dee Ann and Kent Crossley, Julia W. Dayton, C. Lee Essrig, Rosemary & David Good Family Foundation, Katherine Goodale, Jeff and Hyun Mee Graves, Mike and Kay McCarthy, Carol Heen, Steve Heitzeg and Gwen Pappas, Kathleen Henschel and John Dewes, Linda and Jack Hoeschler, Leaetta Hough and Bob Muschewske, Sam Hsu and Sally Cheng, Hella Mears Hueg Estate Gift, Thelma Hunter Estate Gift, John and Ruth Huss, George Frederick Jewett Foundation East, Art and Martha Kaemmer, Jon Lewis and Lisa Merklin, Greg McNeely, Alfred and Ann Moore, Louis and Gloria Nuechterlein, John Nuechterlein and Dan Monson, John and Debbie Orenstein, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation in memory of Thelma Hunter, David and Judy Ranheim, Denice Rippentrop, Vanessa Rose, Bill and Susan Sands, Gale Sharpe, Doug and Kathy Skor, Dan and Ellie Thomas, Stephen and Jayne Usery, Kathleen van Bergen, Janika Vandervelde, Jim Wafler, and Margaret and Angus Wurtele.

Jupiter String Quartet presented by Bowdoin International Music Festival on Livestream Concert
2021-07-19 18:30 - 19:30
The Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violinists; Liz Freivogel, viola; and Daniel McDonough, cello) returns to the Bowdoin International Music Festival as a faculty ensemble, performing concerts on July 19 and August 2 in Studzinski Recital Hall. The Bowdoin International Music Festival is set to return to Brunswick this summer, gathering world-renowned musicians and students for an intensive schedule of chamber music study and performance. Only Festival students will be permitted inside the recital hall for live concerts, due to campus COVID policies. However, concerts will be livestreamed online from Studzinski Hall, free to community members and viewers around the world. Individuals are encouraged to RSVP in advance at www.bowdoinfestival.org/rsvp, and will receive day-of concert reminder emails with direct viewing links.
On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET the Jupiter Quartet joins forces with two members of the Ying Quartet. They will perform Alexander Zemlinsky’s String Quintet in D Minor with violist Phillip Ying and Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956 with cellist David Ying.
Learn more and register here.

Hal Leonard Supports the University of Michigan Choral Conducting Symposium
2021-07-19 - 2021-07-21
Redesigned for 2021, this choral conducting workshop will be an abbreviated version of the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) Choral Conducting Symposium. Students will participate in daily lessons with SMTD faculty, gain access to daily lessons specific to choral conducting, and gain an introduction to the SMTD Choral Conducting Program.
All sessions will be online, allowing participants to engage with SMTD faculty from the comfort from their own home! Click here for a sample schedule, required repertoire, and more.
Session Dates: July 19 – July 21, 2021
Application Deadline: July 10, 2021
Learn more here.
Program Tuition: $250
Faculty:
Eugene Rogers (ACF’s CQ series editor), Director of Choral Activities, University of Michigan
Julie Skadsem, Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Michigan
Alysia Lee ( past CQ collaborator), Founder / Conductor of the Sister City Girlchoir & Maryland State Department of Education

Jupiter String Quartet Makes Debut with Chamber Music Northwest
2021-07-17 21:30 - 23:30
On Saturday, July 3, 2021 at 9:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM PT & Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT, Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) presents a collaboration between the Jupiter String Quartet and East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), highlighting the quartet in a performance of Jessie Montgomery’s Banner for quartet and orchestra. The performances on July 3 and 4 will take place in person at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium (3203 SE Woodstock Blvd). These live festival concerts will be professionally recorded and streamed online beginning two weeks later, on Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 9:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM PT, as part of CMNW’s AT-HOME Series, remaining online for ticket holders until August 31, 2021.
Get tickets here.
In addition to the Montgomery, ECCO will perform Barber’s Adagio from the String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11; Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 20; Hanna Benn’s Where Springs Not Fail; Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz.113. “Three of the Jupiters are founding members of ECCO, so getting to play together at CMNW will be a happy reunion between musicians that have known each other for more than two decades,” says Jupiter Quartet’s violist Liz Freivogel. “It will be a joyful and celebratory way to kickstart a return to live performances.”
Preceding these performances, the Jupiter Quartet will perform as members of ECCO on July 1 and 2, 2021, opening CMNW’s 2021 festival with performances of Bach’s Cantata 180: “Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele”, BWV 180; Mendelssohn’s; Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Strings in D minor, MWV O4; and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48.

LMQ Show “Kind of Bill - The Musical Life of Bill Evans” Comes to Brix in Stillwater
2021-07-17 19:30 - 22:30
Performance of “Kind of Bill – The Musical Life of Bill Evans” and his associations with Tony Bennett, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian, Miles Davis, Jim Hall, Eddie Gómez, Eliot Zigmund, Marc Johnson, and Joe LaBarbera.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
Location:
Brix Music Café, 423 Main St. S.
Stillwater, MN 55082
(651) 342-0672
https://www.brixmusiccafe.com/
Program:
Larry McDonough (an ACF Showcase composer) Quartet
Larry McDonough, piano and voice
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry
Greg Stinson, bass,
Dean White, drums
Families and students are welcome.
Learn more here.
