Hubert HoweRaoul PleskowJohn MelbyA concert of mostly premieres, by HUBERT HOWE AND FRIENDS, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM at LeFrak Concert Hall on the campus of Queens College, Kissena Blvd. At the Long Island Expressway (65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing NY 11367).  Admission free.  For more information, call 718-997-3800.  For directions to LeFrak Concert Hall, link here.

The program will include world premieres of Emergence (Timbre Study No. 8) and Chimera for solo cello by Hubert Howe, Music for Four Instruments by Raoul Pleskow, “For Milton” for soprano and computer by John Melby, and Nocturne for solo piano by Nina Siniakova.  It will also include the U.S. premiere of Hubert Howe’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano and a performance of 19-tone Clusters, an electronic tape piece synthesized using Csound, with a dance interpretation by Linda Past.

Performers will include Patricia Sonego, soprano, Andrew Borkowski, cello, Nina Sinkakova and Aiko Imaizumi, piano, Sara Aratake, clarinet, Yu-Hsuan Lin, bassoon, and Hsiang-Lin Wang, flute.

Mark ZuckermanBassist Jack Hill will perform the world premiere of Touching Bass, written for him by ACA composer Mark Zuckerman. The pianist will be John Kamitsuka. The premiere will be on a Princeton University performance faculty recital at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall at 8:00 PM on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Admission is free.

Flutist Norbert Trawöger presents a concert of music by Vally Weigl, on Sunday, May 20 at Musikschule Wels. For his Welser concert series entitled: "banned, persecuted" - which presents music composed by banned, exiled and persecuted composers, Prof. Trawöger received the 2008 Elfriede Grünberg prize. Over the past ten years, performances of music in this series have included works by Ruth Schonthal, Paul Hindemith, Leo Smit, Erwin Schulhoff, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Eric Zeisl, and Vally and Karl Weigl.

GOLDEN FLEECE LTD. - THE COMPOSERS CHAMBER THEATRE

Lou Rodgers, Producing Artistic Director presents  SONG NEW YORK   -  A Concert of American Vocal Music

composer-vocalist, Charles ColemanWorks by

Seymour Barab
Charles Coleman
Robert Mitchell
Richard Peaslee
Lou Rodgers
Ned Rorem
Mira J. Spektor

 

Musical Director
Tristan Cano

With

Charles Coleman
Karen Jolicoeur
John Nelson

Sunday, April 29, at 8:00 PM

Studios 353
353 West 48th Street, 2nd Floor
New York City

Admission: $15
Students and Seniors: $10
TDF Vouchers accepted

RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION  (212) 691-6105

clockwise from left: Matthusen, Karchin, Fennelly, Bauer, Hoffman

 

THE ORCHESTRA OF THE LEAGUE OF COMPOSERS – CELEBRATES
THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NYU MUSIC DEPARTMENT (FAS)

(Presented by the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society) 
 

Soloists: Thomas Meglioranza, baritone, Madalyn and Cicely Parnas (Duo Parnas), clarinetist Marianne Gythefeldt and  Ivan Goff (Irish Pipes)

Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM  Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University – Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place.

Program:

Marion Bauer Lament on an African Theme
Brian Fennelly Symphonia Concertante NY Premiere
Elizabeth Hoffman paradigms lost World Premiere
Louis Karchin American Visions  (World Premiere of the chamber orchestra version)
Paula Matthusen the art of disappearing NY Premiere

Louis Karchin, conductor

The Orchestra of the League of Composers presents works by current and past NYU faculty and alumni to celebrate the 90^th Anniversary of the Department of Music at Washington Square. The program will include premieres by current faculty Elizabeth Hoffman and Louis Karchin, along with music by past faculty Marion Bauer and Brian Fennelly, and recent alumna Paula Matthusen.

General admission $20, senior citizens $15, students $8, at the door.

Elizabeth R. AustinA Child’s Garden of Music, a collection of vignettes for solo piano, by Elizabeth R. Austin, will be performed this Saturday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m at The Portland (Maine) Conservatory of Music. For and about children, individual pieces from this collection will be performed by Students of the Conservatory. This concert will be part of the Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival.

Featured composers include Beth Wiemann from the University of Maine at Orono; Joshua DeScherer, Mark Tipton, Gia Comoli and Richard Nelson of UMA; and USM composers Paul Thomas and Josh Newton. Other highlights of the fourth annual Back Cove Festival of Contemporary Music at the Portland Conservatory of Music, will be duets and arias from Daniel Sonenberg's opera, "The Summer King," based on the life of famous Negro League baseball player Josh Gibson.

A Concert of New Music is planned for Sunday, April 15th, 2012 at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, at 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue), in New York City.  Perfomers will include Jennifer Roderer, mezzo-soprano, and pianists Craig Ketter, Blair McMillen, Nataliya Medvedovskaya, and Christopher Oldfather.  Works to be performed:

John Eaton - Dirge without Music
Carl Kantor - Etude Transformations based on Etudes of Henri Bertini
Eugene Marlow - Three Excerpts from "Les sentiments d'amour"
Scott Miller - Pause=Pause
David Picton - Seascape for Piano
Dana Dimitri Richardson - Seasons for Solo Piano

Suggested donation:  $20, Students Free.

www.nycomposerscircle.org

Elliott SchwartzBeth WiemannElizabeth R. Austin

 

This week on April 5th, the weekly Noonday Concert at the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine, will feature two pieces by Elliott Schwartz. The very recent trumpet-percussion duet, ANAGRAMS, will be performed by Abriel Ferreira and Peter McLaughlin (both former Bowdoin students); and the composer will accompany Maria Wagner in the clarinet-piano piece READING SESSION. Both of these pieces ask the performer to speak (!) as well as play, and to carry that "speaking theme" forward Elliott will also perform Tom Johnson's classic LECTURE WITH REPETITION.  The concert is entitled "Elliott Schwartz and Friends," and will take place at the First Parish Church (425 Congress Street, Portland) at 12:15 pm.

Later this month, the Portland Conservatory will host its 4th annual Back Cove Festival of Contemporary Music. There will be four concerts taking place on April 14th and 15th, including one by PCM student performers, in Memorial Hall at the conservatory (202 Woodford Street, in the Woodfords Church building). Maine composers will be represented, including Dan Sonenberg of USM (featuring selections from his new opera), Beth Wiemann from the University of Maine/Orono (featuring "Di Camera" for trumpet, cello and piano, commissioned by trumpet professor Jack Burt, who will be performing at this festival), Joshua DeScherer, Gia Comoli, Richard Nelson of UMA, and more. Connecticut composer Elizabeth Austin and Amherst College composer-pianist Eric Sawyer will also be participating.