American Composers Forum

Music Monday LIVE!
2021-11-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
The Lewis Prize for Music has teamed up with Save The Music Foundation to host youth-led weekly conversations with today’s music leaders starting on Mondays, October 18, 2021 through December 20, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT
Music Monday LIVE is an exciting opportunity for youth across the United States to connect with music industry professionals, ask questions, and share ideas. This event is open to the public and hosted on INSTAGRAM LIVE.
This 10-week series kicks off with Songwriter and Photographer Teron Beal (@teronbeal) and Xavier Washington (@zaytheartist), youth leader and Development Coordinator at Save The Music Foundation.
If you want to join the conversation, don’t be shy! You’re welcome you to hop on the Live during the Q&A. Next week’s Instagram Live will be hosted on the Save The Music Instagram (@savethemusic).

Kaufman Music Center – Music Speaks: Into the Light – Jordan Bak, viola & Ji Yung Lee, piano
2021-11-09 18:30 - 20:30
“A star in the making” (Seattle Pi), Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak is an outstanding artist of passion, energy and authenticity in the recital and chamber music arenas. A Sphinx MPower Artist Grant Recipient and a top laureate of the 2020 Sphinx Competition, Bak is also a winner and Audience Prize recipient of the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, the recipient of the 2019 Samuel Sanders Tel Aviv Museum Prize and the 2019 John White Special Prize from the Tertis International Viola Competition. In addition to his growing solo career, Jordan Bak is a member of the celebrated New York Classical Players and is a featured artist for WQXR’s inaugural Artist Propulsion Lab.
Bak says, “’Into the Light’ is really a storybook of my own life centered around the subject of under-representation in Classical music through the lens of an under-represented instrument. Through that, I share personal West Indian influences and culture, memories from my childhood, family members who have inspired me and shaped my perspective, even as healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and connect that with the current work I’m doing to hopefully motivate and give opportunities to the next generation of musicians of color. ‘Into the Light’ speaks to today’s important conversation of diversity and true equal opportunity in the arts, finding one’s own voice despite the circumstances, and poses the question of, ‘What can we do to ensure that our future in Classical music shines even brighter?’”
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Learn more and get tickets here.

Jazz Fest Live Virtual Music Performance with Dave Hagedorn
2021-11-11 19:15 - 20:30
Join for the next JAZZ FEST LIVE scheduled for Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 7:15 PM CST featuring Dave Hagedorn.

Vibraphonist Dave Hagedorn has performed with many jazz greats including David Berkman, Gil Evans, Thad Jones, Rufus Reid, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove and Steve Turre.
He has also appeared on Prairie Home Companion and Good Evening shows on Minnesota Public Radio.
Dave Hagedorn is an Assistant Professor of Music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he teaches percussion, jazz studies, and world music.
Dave Hagedorn – vibes
Phil Hey – drums
Charlie Lincoln – bass
Dave Milne – sax
JAZZ FEST LIVE is free. Click here to SAVE YOUR SPOT
For the more information please visit twincitiesjazzfestival.com

Peter Bay Conducts the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
2021-11-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-13 19:00 - 20:00
Former Music Director Peter Bay Returns to the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra November 12 & 13 with the second of our Masterworks Concerts. Our program featurs the sonic splendor of the ASO’s Low Brass in a special concerto just for them (and you). Plus Dvořák’s first big hit symphony (originally listed as #1 but now known as #6)
Date & Time: Friday & Saturday, November 12 & 13, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
Program:
Kodály: Dances of Marosszék
Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) : Low Brass Concerto
~ with the ASO low brass section
Dvořák: Symphony No. 6
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CELEBRATION OF KEYS
2021-11-13 18:30 - 19:30
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer): An American Port of Call
Rachmaninoff : Concerto No. 2 in C minor for piano, featuring Jon Nakamatsu
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Date & Time: Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
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China Arts and Entertainment Group Presents Image China - East/West Concert
2021-11-13 18:30 - 19:30
China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) returns to the David H. Koch Theater this November with Image China – East/West concert which is a celebration of modern and traditional Chinese classical music, featuring Conductor Jindong Cai and New York City Ballet Orchestra, together with standout Bass William Guanbo Su, Violin Shenghua Hu, Erhu (a traditional Chinese two-stringed bowed instrument) Jiebing Chen, soprano Esther Maureen Kelly and coloratura soprano Holly Flack. The program features two composers, Zhou Long and Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), who were recipients of the distinguished CMS Stoeger Prize for composition, the former having written Tales from the Nine Bells which will be a homecoming performance seven years after the premiere of this CMS co-commission. This beautiful symbiotic collaboration from two sides of the world presents classical Chinese pieces in a new light, which will leave you breathless and transport you to an otherworldly time and place.
Date & Time: Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Learn more and get tickets here.

Back to the Future
2021-11-13 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-11-14 18:30 - 19:30
Resonance Works returns to live performance with music by some of today’s most important living composers: Missy Mazzoli, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessie Montgomery, and Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer). Guest soloist Jeffrey Turner, former principal double bassist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, joins the Resonance Chamber Orchestra and conductor Maria Sensi Sellner for the company’s debut at the Greer Cabaret at Theater Square!
Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, November 13 & 14, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
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MAJOR U.S. PREMIERE
2021-11-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-11-14 14:30 - 15:30
Celebrated mandolin player Avi Avital performs the U.S. premiere of Jennifer Higdon‘s (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) Mandolin Concerto, commissioned jointly by the Mobile Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and Chicago Philharmonic.
Dates & Times:

Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM CT

Program:
Rossini | La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Overture
Higdon | Mandoline Concerto (AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Avi Avital, mandolin
Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 4 Italian
Learn more and get tickets here.

Fall Youth Symphony, Youth Philharmonic & Chamber, Orchestra Concert
2021-11-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-14 16:00 - 17:00
The Omaha Area Youth Orchestra will start the season with a program featuring all of its ensembles: Youth Symphony, Youth Philharmonic, Youth Concert Strings and the new Percussion Ensemble. Pieces include Dances in the Canebrakes, composed by Florence Price and arranged by William Grant Still, and A Joyous Trilogy by a young composer named Quinn Mason ( a NextNotes creator).
Date & Time: Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 3 PM & 4 PM CT
Stay connected on The Omaha Area Youth Orchestras’ website to get updated information.
