Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services Are you a music creator who would like to develop a music residency exploring Minnesota communities? Applications are now open for the McKnight Visiting Composer Residency program. The application deadline is 11:59 PM Central on Monday, April […]

TUES@7 “From Scratch” focuses on new collaborations with recordings/performances taking place from the Ensemble’s studio/office space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. The program includes a world premiere of a new quartet work by Josh Modney (violin/composition), written for and performed alongside acclaimed creative musicians Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Cory Smythe (piano), and Mariel Roberts (cello). The […]

Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services. Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in Minnesota of five boroughs of […]

Jen Shyu (a ChoralQuest composer) and Jade Tougue celebrate their deeply personal album Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses on Pi Records with an evening of music at Roulette. The album and subsequent performance marks the long-awaited return of Jade Tongue, an ensemble made up of musical innovators—Ambrose Akinmusire, Mat Maneri, Thomas Morgan, and Dan Weiss—with whom Shyu has created […]

Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Composer Fellowship Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services. The application deadline for the McKnight Composer Fellowships for mid-career music creators is 11:59 PM Central on Monday, April 19, 2021. The intent of this program is to recognize and support mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota […]

The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF). Orchestral conductors Mei-Ann Chen and Alan Gilbert provide insight into the conductor-composer relationship, programming new works, and other topics relevant to composers. Date & Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 2pm CDT | 3pm EDT Register here. If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully […]

ACF Invites you to engage in a discussion of Alex's Temple's 2020 I CARE IF YOU LISTEN article, Where Are the Operas About People Like Me? Imagining a Trans-Inclusive New Music World (icareifyoulisten.com). Date & Time: Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 4pm CDT Closed captioning and ASL interpretation services will be provided at this event. If you […]

Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Visiting Composer ResidencyApplication Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services Are you a music creator who would like to develop a music residency exploring Minnesota communities? Applications are now open for the McKnight Visiting Composer Residency program. The application deadline is 11:59 PM Central on Monday, April 19, […]

Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services. Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in Minnesota of five boroughs of […]

Join SFCMP Pianist, Kate Campbell for Piano Break, a program of the The Ross McKee Foundation. Campbell will present a recital of fun, quirky, and deeply personal works in a program that celebrates Bay Area Composers and the diversity in contemporary classical music. This program is released on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7pm CT | 5pm PT, and is then available […]

Information session regarding 2021 McKnight Composer Fellowship Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services. The application deadline for the McKnight Composer Fellowships for mid-career music creators is 11:59 PM Central on Monday, April 19, 2021. The intent of this program is to recognize and support mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota […]

BROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY'S inaugural New Voices Festival brings the start of an essential event for modern song. This first festival takes the tradition that created countless masterpieces and re-imagines it for the 21st century. 15 works by living composers, half of them world-premieres, reflect on the past and look toward the future SATURDAY, APRIL […]

Join on Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30pm ET as Geneva Music Festival will present its 2021 Spring Benefit virtual concert, “An Evening of Romance”. This virtual evening of world-class music will feature violinists Geoffrey Herd and Clara Lyon, cellists Hannah Collins and Clive Greensmith, and pianist Esther Park. The artists will […]

Music Director Lawrence Loh leads Symphoria in a reflective piece from Quinn Mason (a NextNotes creator), one of America’s most sought-after young composers.  The orchestra also presents Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, a work which served to reinvent his compositional style after suffering a number of mental and physical setbacks.   Violinist and Central New York native, […]

TŌN music director leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), featuring violin soloist Zongheng Zhang, a winner of the 2020 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition. Also on the program is the 2008 work Ácana from Cuban-born composer Tania León (a BQ composer), and Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, performed with pianist Blair McMillen. This […]

A video show featuring work by Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Donofrio, Raphaël Languillat, Joshua Musikantow, and Tiffany M. Skidmore (a McKnight fellow). Performed by Nanyi Qiang Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021, 7:30PM CST The FREE Livestream will occur on 113 Composer Collective's YouTube channel. Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description. Join […]

A video show Featuring work by Chaya Czernowin, Anthony Donofrio, Raphaël Languillat, Joshua Musikantow (a McKnight fellow), and Tiffany M. Skidmore (a McKnight fellow). Date & Time: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 7:30PM CST, FREE The Livestream will occur on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/I8V4iSB-4ww Program details will be provided in the YouTube video description. Join […]

This program, rescheduled from this fall, centers around our complex and ever-evolving sense of home. It opens with the world premiere of Elegy for Solo Oboe by composer Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), who was born in Guangzhou, China and settled in the United States, where she is a Professor of Composition at […]

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players' 50th Season Online is in full swing, and at the end of the week, Program 1 will launch with at the CROSSROADS series with the world premiere of Unravel–a new work for solo piano by SF Search for Scores winner Josiah Catalan–alongside Jeff Anderle's brilliant performance of Echoes for clarinet and electronics by Contemporary Players' friend and […]

American Public Television’s presentation of the acclaimed one-hour documentary Sharon Isbin: Troubadour has been seen by millions on over 200 PBS stations across the U.S. and abroad. She performed at Ground Zero for the first internationally televised 9/11 memorial, in concert at the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical […]

A Tour of Iran is a four-day festival of events culminating in a symphony concert featuring the New West Symphony led by Music and Artistic Director Michael Christie. Exploring centuries old traditions of Iranian poetic and musical cultural influences on the western world, award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and Iranian instrumentalists Pejman Hadadi (tombak and daf) […]