IAWM competition for new music by women - deadline is March 15th

Date: 
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 12:00pm

The International Alliance of Women in Music announces its annual competition Search for New Music by Women Composers. This international competition includes ten different prize categories ranging from chamber and orchestral works to electro-acoustic media, improvisation, and sound installation. Each prize has its own monetary award. Membership in IAWM is required to enter, but contestants may join at the time of entry.

ACA Composers at SCI National Conference concerts, February 13-16 at Ohio State University

Date: 
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 8:00pm

Ohio State UniversityOhio State UniversityThe Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, will take place at The Ohio State University, School of Music in Columbus, from February 13 to 16. Ten works by ACA composers are scheduled for performance.

On Wednesday, Feb. 13, the evening concert features Slammed by James Paul Sain For Soprano Saxophone, iPad, and Computer.

 Anubis QuartetAnubis QuartetOn Thursday, Feb. 14, OK-OK by Lansing McLoskey will be performed by featured ensemble, the Anubis Saxophone Quartet.

On Friday, Feb. 15 at 1pm, Hall of Mirrors by Elliott Schwartz for Saxophone Quartet and Piano will be performed by the Ohio University (Athens) New Music Ensemble in Weigel Hall.  At 3pm, Circular Motions by Richard Brooks for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano.  

Sotto Voce by Marilyn Shrude for Violin, Cello, and Piano will be performed at the evening concert.

On Saturday, Feb. 16, the morning concert will feature, Perne in a Gyre by Elizabeth Bell for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano; Songs of Evocation by Brian Bevelander for Mezzo Soprano and Piano; Consort II: Photogram by Brian Fennelly for Saxophone Quartet. In the afternoon concerts,  B-A-C-Homage by Elizabeth Austin for Viola and Piano will be performed; and  Romances and Metamorphoses by Gerald Warfield for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano.

World Premiere of Seven Stories by Lawrence Dillon Performed by Le Train Bleu on February 6th at Drom in New York City

Date: 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 7:00pm

 Lawrence Dillon’s Seven Stories for soprano and eight instruments will be given its World Premiere by Le Train Bleu, conducted by Ransom Wilson Le train bleuLe train bleuon Wednesday, February 6th – 7:00 PM at Drom, 85 Avenue A (between 5th and 6th St.) in New York City. This will be part of Le Train Bleu's Toy Stories concert (now rescheduled from the original date).

Seven Stories was composed to an original text. The composer writes, “A stuffed animal falls from an apartment window. As it falls, it looks into each passing window, trying to create a story out of what it sees.” The new work will be sung by soprano Mellissa Hughes.

Toy Stories explores mankind's endless variety of play and playthings. The concert will also include Thomas Ades Living Toys, a journey through the fantasies of a child, for 14 instruments, Matt Marks’ Sex Objects, a set of three songs about unique characters and their intimate relationships with inanimate objects, with vocal performances by Mellissa Hughes, Matt Marks, and Jeff Gavett and the World Premiere of Eric Nathan’s Toying, a virtuoso exploration of the full range of possible sounds and techniques produced by the trumpet, played by Le Train Bleu’s Hugo Moreno.

Tickets for the February 6 event are $20, and are available at http://www.ticketfly.com/event/205653. For more information, call

212-777-1157 or visit http://www.dromnyc.com/.

 

"Texture" for chamber orchestra by Elliott Schwartz, Feb. 9th in New York City, 8pm

Date: 
Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 8:00pm

Ensemble Mise-en presents a concert at The Cell, 338 W. 23rd Street in Chelsea. The world premiere of Texture for Chamber Orchestra by Elliott Schwartz, first composed in 1966 and revised 2013, as well as works by Quinn Collins, Hans Abrahamson and others. Admission is free.

ensemble mise-en is an innovative and versatile New York-based contemporary music collective striving to bring challenging yet beautiful sounds to a wide range of listeners. The ensemble consists of over 15 talented musicians who are led by composer Moon Young HA. The ensemble endeavors to impart an experience simultaneously multi-cultural, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically pleasing (“mee” in Korean means “beauty”, and “zahn” means “to decorate”).

Pianist David Holzman performs works by David Gordon, Matthew Greenbaum, and many others, Feb. 9 at Mannes

Date: 
Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 8:00pm

Squared Off, 2007 Patricia Zarate: Las Américas en ConciertoSquared Off, 2007 Patricia Zarate: Las Américas en ConciertoLAS AMÉRICAS EN CONCIERTO - part of COMPOSERS NOW CITYWIDE FESTIVAL

Música para Piano de las Américas Siglos XX y XXI
Sábado, 9 de Febrero de 2013

Free admission

Concert Hall, Mannes College The New School for Music
150 West 85th Street, (bet Amsterdam y Columbus), New York

David Holzman, piano

8pm

Tania León (Cuba-USA), Alfredo Rugeles (Venezuela), Darwin Aquino (República Dominicana), Juan Pablo Carreño (Colombia - Francia), Carlos Carrillo (Puerto Rico), David Gordon (USA), Stephen Dembski (USA), Alvaro Ramirez Sierra (Colombia), Matthew Greenbaum (USA), Natalia Van Hissenhoven (Argentina - Colombia), Hans Federico Neuman (Colombia), Samuel Goldman (USA), Hilda Paredes (México - Inglaterra), Alba Potes (Colombia - USA), Andrés Carrizo (Panamá), Francisco Iovino (Colombia-USA), Eva Wiener (USA), Guillermo Uribe Holguín (Colombia) y María Cecilia Villanueva (Argentina).

Swiss-Danish duo perform works by Frederic Balazs in Tucson

Birgitte Schnakenburg and Monika Stauss JoensenBirgitte Schnakenburg and Monika Stauss JoensenDuring the week of January 14th, violinist Monika Stauss Joensen and pianist Birgitte Schnakenburg performed a series of concerts around Tucson, including music of composer Frederic Balazs (ACA member since 1946). The duo resides in the Faroe Islands, and has performed concerts including the works of Hungarian-born Balazs in many recitals in Europe. Balazs, who turned 93 last month, met the duo in 1998 at a summer music festival of American music in the Faroe Islands. Balazs composed his Partita for solo violin for Swiss-born Joensen. She premiered it in 2000 at the Bach Festival in Schaffhausen.

Premiere of work by Elizabeth Bell; Lisa Hansen and Max Lifchitz perform Music from the Americas on February 10 at Lincoln Center

Date: 
Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 2:30pm

North/South Consonance, Inc. continues its 33rd consecutive season of free-admission concerts on Sunday afternoon February 10th, when internationally Elizabeth Bell (center): with composers including Ursula Mamlok and Chen YiElizabeth Bell (center): with composers including Ursula Mamlok and Chen Yiacclaimed flutist Lisa Hansen accompanied by pianist Max Lifchitz present a recital featuring chamber music by composers from Argentina, Brazil, México and the United States.

The recital at 2:30 PM will take place at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts (40 Lincoln Center Plaza -- Amsterdam Ave at 65th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free (no tickets necessary).

Special guest for the occasion will be composer Elizabeth Bell who this season will be celebrating her 85th birthday. Her charming and virtuosic Kaleidoscope for flute and piano will be heard for the very first time. A founder of New York Women Composers, Inc., Elizabeth Bell has described by the press as“a fine composer who writes in a freely atonal style that nevertheless has, in its rhetoric and general outlines, a strong relationship to more conventional music”

Composers Richard Cameron-Wolfe and Falko Steinbach to be featured at 2013 Composers Symposium in Albuquerque

Date: 
Sunday, March 24, 2013

 

Richard Cameron-Wolfe's Stravinsky “Sacre” anniversary tribute, Sacre-lege (2013), for 5 players, will be premiered during the John Donald Robb Composers Symposium, held at UNM-Albuquerque in March. 

The centenary of Igor Stravinsky’s revolutionary Rite of Spring will be celebrated during the 2013 John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, which will take place from March 24-27 at the University of New Mexico and other venues. This year’s symposium will explore the intersection of music and movement.

MUSIC OF H. LESLIE ADAMS, CLEVELAND MUSIC SETTLEMENT - SUNDAY JAN. 20TH

Date: 
Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 3:00pm

H. Leslie AdamsH. Leslie AdamsSunday, January 20, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. H. Leslie Adams: "Etude in A Minor" from 26 Etudes for Solo Piano  and "For You There Is No Song" from Five Millay Songs, Robyn Lanier, soloist. Cleveland Music Settlement, 11126 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland, Ohio. This special Martin Luther King Memorial Concert featuring jazz, blues, gospel and classical music performed by Settlement faculty, students, and guest performers is at Glick Recital Hall, Burke mansion. Free and Open to the Public

Gary Schneider's Orchestra for the Next Century to perform Feb. 6th at Merkin Hall

Date: 
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 7:30pm

Gary Schneider's Orchestra for the Next Century will be performing a concert as part of the 2013 ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL featuring premieres of works by indie-classical composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, Padma Newsome and Shara Worden.  The concert is being hosted by John Schaefer  of WNYC and is being streamed live over Q2 as part of the NEW SOUNDS LIVE series.

February 6, 2013 at 7:30 @ Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th NYC.

Orchestra for the Next Century performs a blend of music from all time periods, with a special emphasis on the very new.  The ensemble will present concerts that are virtuosic in execution, heartfelt in presentation and enthusiastic in performance.

Orchestra for the Next Century is led by award-winning conductor/composer Gary M. Schneider. A prize-winner of the Leopold Stokowski Competition for American Conductors, Schneider is a noted composer, an advocate and interpreter of the music of today, and a critically acclaimed conductor of symphonic, operatic, musical theatre, jazz and third-stream repertoire.

The Portland Conservatory presents music of Elliott Schwartz, January 24th

Date: 
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 12:00pm

Elliott SchwartzElliott SchwartzThe Portland Conservatory's Noonday Concert series features music by Elliott Schwartz, on Thursday, Jan 24th, 12 noon to 1 pm. The program will consist of Soliloquy I (trumpet solo with electronic extensions); Soliloquy II (clarinet solo); a mid-1960s Romance for bassoon & piano; and Four Mobiles for David (percussion solo & electronic sounds operated by two assistants). Location: the First Parish Church, corner of Congress and Temple Streets, Portland, ME.

Steven Sacco's Book of Whimsy for solo piano - February 26th at Mannes

Date: 
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 8:00pm

Steven Christopher SaccoSteven Christopher SaccoBook of Whimsy (2012), a series of dedications for solo piano by Steven Sacco, will be performed by David Oei on Tuesday, Feb. 26th at 8pm.  Mannes Faculty Composers; The Concert Hall Mannes College of Music 150 West 85th Street, New York, NY. In three sections of six short episodes each, the composer pays tribute to William Komaiko, Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Rebecca La Brecque, Bud Powell, Andrew Thomas, and others.

Richard Brooks upcoming concerts, video interview

Date: 
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 3:00pm

Richard BrooksRichard BrooksUpcoming concerts and news for composer Richard Brooks:

Feb 13, 2013, 3:00 pm: Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, Ohio State University--presentation on the music of Georg Schoenberg.

Feb 18, 2013, 3:00 pm--same loc as above--performance of Circular Motions for flute, clarinet and piano

Feb 19, 2013, 7:30 pm--Circular Motions performed by Lunatics at Large, ACA Concert during the Composers Now! Festival, Thalia, Symphony Space

Feb 19, 2013, 8 pm--world premiere of Lamentation for cello and piano, New York Composers Circle concert, Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp Center

March 15, 2013, 8 pm--world premiere of Sweet Betsy; a Fantasy on an American Folk Song for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, LeFrak Recital Hall, Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY.

Cameron-Wolfe's HERETIC at the "Days of New Music" Festival - December 18, 2012, in Kharkov, Ukraine

Sergey GorkushaSergey GorkushaYoung virtuoso guitarist Sergey Gorkusha performed Richard Cameron-Wolfe's forbiddingly difficult "Heretic" during the festival, which took place in the Chamber Hall of the Kharkov National University of the Arts - displaying formidable technical command of his instrument while singing, speaking, rapping, manically moving around the hall, and confronting the audience. One observer remarked that Gorkusha's performance was a powerful example of Antonin Artaud's "Theatre of Cruelty". Cameron-Wolfe plans to bring the artist to New York in 2013, to perform and record the "Heretic".






World premiere of David Froom’s new work for alto saxophone and piano — January 4th at George Mason University

Date: 
Friday, January 4, 2013 - 4:30pm

Eliza Garth joins saxophonist Brian Utley in the world premiere of Turn of Events, David Froom’s new work for alto saxophone and piano.  This Brian UtleyBrian Utleyperformance takes place as part of the 36th International Saxophone Symposium, sponsored by the United States Navy Band.

Friday, January 4 at 4:30PM; Harris Theater, George Mason University Center for the Arts, Fairfax, VA; More about the International Saxophone Symposium.

Brian Utley will preview the work on Feb 2 at the Blair School of Vanderbilt University.

Additional performances will be presented at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on Friday, Feb 15, 8pm, St. Mary's College of Maryland (with Eliza Garth, piano) (featured together with Perry Goldstein’s Heaven), and again on March 16, 2:30, Middle Tennessee State (Murfreesboro), NASA Region VII Conference (NASA = North American Saxophone Alliance).

 

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