Recorded live on June 16, 2021
This Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum.
Established film composers talk about the film industry and the essentials of being a film composer. ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel moderates a panel of experts. The panel will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Panelists:
Rachel Beetz is an American performer-composer-improvisor on flutes, various electronics, and an Arp...
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Alma Laprida, Berglina María Tómasdóttir, Chris Williams, Heather Stebbins, Julie Herndon, Mattie Barbier, Patrick Shiroishi, Rachel Beetz, Raven Chacon
In the last few years, arts workers have been hitting massive walls, witnessing the absurdity, toxic...
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Basel Abbas, Black Quantum Futurism, Dancers for Palestine, Decolonize this Place, DJs Against Apartheid, Dread Scott, Just Stop Oil, Moor Mother, Nan Goldin, PAIN, Ruanne Abu Rahme, Ruanne Abu Rahme and Basel Abbas, Shellyne Rodriguez, Toshi Reagon
Stunning textures and timbral exploration are hallmarks of Camila Agosto’s compositional output. As...
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Camila Agosto, International Contemporary Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble
In new music, there is a world of primarily textural music that I sometimes refer to as “creaky door...
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James Fei, John Bischoff, Laetitia Sonami, Mills College, Zeena Parkins
In an age where music from around the world is only a few clicks away, more and more people feel inc...
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MEGUMI, Megumi Saruhashi
Multidisciplinary collaboration is essential to bring opera to life, fusing singing, acting, choreog...
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Carmina Escobar, Guillermo E. Brown, Matana Roberts, REDCAT, The Industry, The Industry LAB
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, artist Marlo De Lara received a PhD in the School of Fine Art, History...
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Ingrid Plum, Judith Hamann, Marlo De Lara, NikNak, Semay Wu, Susie Ibarra, Vincent Moon
The multitudes of Black womanhood are center stage in Black Being, a new four-part song cycle by Flu...
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Allison Loggins-Hull, Chicago Sinfonietta, Flutronix, Jaki Shelton Green, Mei-Ann Chen, Nathalie Joachim
Opera Philadelphia’s Complications in Sue is a fun, fantastically stylish, genre-defying work that r...
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Alistair Coleman, Andy Akiho, Anthony Roth Constanzo, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dan Schlosberg, Errollyn Wallen, Imara Miles, Justin Vivian Bond, Kamala Sankaram, Kiera Duffy, Michael R. Jackson, Missy Mazzoli, Nathalie Joachim, Nicholas Newton, Nicky Spence, Nico Muhly, Opera Philadelphia, Rehanna Thelwell, Rene Orth
Ishmael Ali carries many titles and is in no danger of running out of projects. He is a cellist, imp...
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Amalgam Arts, Bill Harris, Brianna Tong, Corey Wilkes, Ed Wilkerson Jr., Ishmael Ali, Jim Baker
When I got on the plane to attend Reykjavík’s Dark Music Days festival, I expected to have plenty of...
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Apparat, Arngerður María Árnadóttir, Bára Gísladóttir, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Björg Brjánsdóttir, Charles Ross, Dark Music Days, Dúplum dúó, Haukur Þór Harðarson, Huldur Chamber Choir, Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir, James MacMillan, Jón Arnar Einarsson, Luke Deane, M Alberto, Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson, Negla Piano Quartet, Pétur Eggertsson, Ragnar Árni Ólafsson, S. Gerup, Siggi String Quartet, Veronique Vaka, Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir
Last summer, Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio invited ten artists to compose multichannel works f...
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Angel Bat Dawid, Anna Friz, Audible Gallery, Brendan Principato, David Bird, Experimental Sound Studio, Eyeisha Sistrunk, Glenn Kotche, Jeff Kolar, Myles Emmons, Paige Alice Naylor, Saapato, Sonic Pavilion Redux, Zouning Liao
Freezing cold conditions demand collective care. Outside National Sawdust on Jan. 29th, old snow was...
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Fay Victor, Kaoru Watanabe, Kweku Sumbry, Mafer Bandola, National Sawdust, Seamus Egan, Shahzad Ismaily, Sunny Jain, yuniya edi kwon
To Our Artists, Supporters, and Partners: For the past 40 years, American Composers Forum has been p...
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innova Recordings
Applications for our 2026 McKnight Composer Fellowships are now open. These awards are presented in...
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McKnight Composer Fellowships
Today, we’re excited to announce Recomposing America, a multi-year initiative that considers the rol...
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Recomposing America
Loki Karuna Joins ACF as Executive Director, Vanessa Rose becomes CEO American Composers Forum (ACF)...
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American Composers Forum, Loki Karuna, Vanessa Rose
As an artist, your digital presence is both a practical marketing tool and an opportunity for storyt...
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Amanda Cook, Hannah Edgar, I Care if You Listen, John Schaefer, Loki Karuna
I’ve spent years on both sides of the camera. As a musician, I know what it feels like to stand in f...
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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, photography, Titilayo Ayangade
Three-Year Opportunity for Mid-Career Women Composers Includes the Workshopping and Premiere of a Ne...
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com...
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McKnight Artist and Culture Bearer Fellowship Program, McKnight Composer Fellowships, McKnight Foundation, McKnight Visiting Composer Residency
I was asked recently to share stories about my experiences commissioning new music in the hope that...
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Anatomy of a Commission
How artists approach digital content is a sprawling, deeply complicated question. While some key top...
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Alexi Kenney, Ashley Jackson, Ayane Kozasa, Caleb Teicher, Conrad Tao, Daniel Temkin, Death of Classical, Emi Ferguson, Francisco Fullana, Lawrence Brownlee, Min Kwon
