Week of Events
The Winston-Salem Symphony will present “The World Beloved” on demand for 30 days beginning Thursday, April 24, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30 p.m. ET Bluegrass stars Hank, Pattie & The Current join the Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus to lend energetic bluegrass rhythms to the sacred liturgy in Carol Barnett’s (a charter member of ACF) The World […]
AMERICA AWAKENS
Spring is in the air, the light of awareness is dawning, change is within reach, growth is on the horizon, and pride lends a bounce to one’s step. Please join Maestro Wes Kenney and the Fort Collins Symphony for an evening of American composers and themes. This streamed virtual concert features two of Aaron Copland’s […]
Kaufman Music Center – Solar Flare: Luna Composition Lab
Kaufman Music Center – Solar Flare: Luna Composition Lab
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET FREE concert streamed on Facebook & YouTube Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center premiere works by the 2020-21 Luna Composition Lab Fellows: Vera Gjaja, Alisha Heng, Jordan Millar, Zola Saadi-Klein, Azalea Twining and Marina Zurita McKinnon. A national mentorship program founded by […]
Wind Symphony Concert
Wind Symphony Concert
On Tuesday, April 27 at 8:30pm CT | 7:30pm MT, the CMU Wind Symphony will present its final concert of the season in the Moss Performing Arts Center Robinson Theatre. It will also be the last time director Calvin Hofer will lead the ensemble. He is retiring from his position as Director of Bands for […]
Kaufman Music Center – Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Kaufman Music Center – Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 9:06am | 10:06 am ET Performance as Process events are streamed on Kaufman Music Center’s Facebook page. 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao is a pianist, composer, Avery Fisher Career Grant winner and alumnus of Special Music School. A series of eight FREE monthly digital Performance […]
Composer to Composer Talk with Tania León and Angélica Negrón
Composer to Composer Talk with Tania León and Angélica Negrón
Free event, registration highly encouraged. Registrants will receive links to listen to the featured works in advance of the event. Join on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 4pm CT | 5pm ET for a new Composer to Composer Talk with Tania León (a BandQuest composer) and Angélica Negrón (a friend of ACF) about León's work Carabalí for orchestra, from […]
Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
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 […]
Kaufman Music Center – Fast Forward: ComposerFest
Kaufman Music Center – Fast Forward: ComposerFest
Date & Time: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Joseph Bolougne, Chevalier de Saint-George. Learn more and get tickets here.
Violinist Kristin Lee and Pianist Jeremy Jordan Perform Americana – Live Online – Presented by Adelphi University
Violinist Kristin Lee and Pianist Jeremy Jordan Perform Americana – Live Online – Presented by Adelphi University
Violinist Kristin Lee and pianist Jeremy Jordan join forces for a virtual recital presented by Adelphi University. The program, entitled Americana, showcases a broad spectrum of illustrious composers and the American musical styles which influenced them, as well as their own musical styles which influenced generations of composers to come. This concert will be streamed […]
The Power of Band Music Panel
The Power of Band Music Panel
We already know how influential the experience of playing in a band can be for a kid, college student, or adult. The opportunities to be part of a community, to make music together, and to perform for others have a tremendous impact on each individual. But what about the composer/music creator? What if the piece […]
Gabriela Lena Frank Lecture: Forging a Composer’s Path in 2021 and Beyond
Gabriela Lena Frank Lecture: Forging a Composer’s Path in 2021 and Beyond
The arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 was devastating to the performing arts. An urgent call rang loud and clear to artists from all walks of life: adapt and create new models or risk losing livelihoods that took years to build. Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer born with high-moderate/near-profound hearing loss, describes her creative experience and […]
Hot & Cool Jazz: Taylor Eigsti
Hot & Cool Jazz: Taylor Eigsti
On International Jazz Day 2021, please Wilton Libary's first Hot & Cool jazz concert since their 2019-2020 season was interrupted after the smashing two-set concert of Brubecks Play Brubeck in January 2020! They will broadcast a spectacular concert performed by pianist Taylor Eigsti and recorded in front of a live audience last winter at Millstone […]
ACF | create Application Information Session
ACF | create Application Information Session
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 […]
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Department of Music Whitewater Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra will release their final concert virtually and for viewing through May 13. The Whitewater Symphony Orchestra is the flagship orchestra at UW-Whitewater. WSO is a full orchestra and includes woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. In addition to performing 2-3 concerts each semester, […]
VOX Femina Los Angeles presents I Dream A World
VOX Femina Los Angeles presents I Dream A World
“I dream a world where man no other man will scorn, where love will bless the earth and peace its paths adorn.” Centered around the beautiful words of Langston Hughes’ poem imagining a world of justice and equality, VOX presents its second digital concert of the season, I Dream A World. Travel with us through newly […]
ACF | create Application Information Session
ACF | create Application Information Session
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 […]
Belated Beethoven Birthday Celebration
Belated Beethoven Birthday Celebration
Leon Botstein conducts the first of two concerts dedicated to one of the greatest composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven, after the pandemic shut down many of the celebrations planned for the 250th anniversary of his birth. The program features his beloved 5th and 7th symphonies, as well as his Triple Concerto for violin, […]
Jupiter String Quartet Gives Virtual Concert with the Jasper String Quartet presented by Ringwood Friends of Music
Jupiter String Quartet Gives Virtual Concert with the Jasper String Quartet presented by Ringwood Friends of Music
On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7pm CT | 8pm ET, the Jupiter Quartet joins forces with the Jasper String Quartet to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 for Ringwood Friends of Chamber Music. Their recording of the work was released in February 2021 on Marquis Classics and praised by All Music as, “one […]
Tulsa Opera Announces Additional Performance & Live-Stream of Greenwood Overcomes
Tulsa Opera Announces Additional Performance & Live-Stream of Greenwood Overcomes
Due to high demand, Tulsa Opera has announced a second performance of Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program of works by 23 living Black composers performed by eight Black artists to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The performances will be Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CT and Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. CT at […]
Greenwood Overcomes
Greenwood Overcomes
In a special concert this spring titled Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program comprised of works by living Black composers, Tulsa Opera will honor the resilience of Black Tulsans and Black America one hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre. During the two-day massacre May 31–June 1, 1921 the city’s Greenwood neighborhood (known as Black Wall Street) was razed […]
Tulsa Opera Announces Additional Performance & Live-Stream of Greenwood Overcomes
Tulsa Opera Announces Additional Performance & Live-Stream of Greenwood Overcomes
Due to high demand, Tulsa Opera has announced a second performance of Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program of works by 23 living Black composers performed by eight Black artists to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The performances will be Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CT and Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. CT at […]