Many thanks to everyone who submitted works for the upcoming ACA Festival of American Music. Programming will be announced in early January.
Call for 60-second sound works and 60-second silent video works for a project entitled: "What If? 60x60" New Media - New Music - New England in collaboration with Vox Novus/60x60, is accepting submissions until January 15, 2009 from composers/sound artists and video producers of any age working or living in the 6 New England states only: CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME. Selected sound works will be paired with selected video works for concert performances and a web installation. Project description, guidelines, application form: http://www.nmnmne.org
Saturday, January 17, 2009 The Canadian premiere of John Melby's Concerto for Violin, Piano and Computer, will be performed by Duo Diorama (Winston Choi, piano and Minghuan Xu, violin), for whom the work was composed, and first performed in Cambridge, MA in October, 2008. Choi will also perform a solo piano piece composed for him by Brian Current, Xu will play Bright Sheng’s The Stream Flows for solo violin and together they will pay tribute to Elliott Carter’s centenary with his Duo for violin and piano. The concert also includes the Canadian premieres of works written for Duo Diorama by John Austin and Marcos Balter.The Music Gallery 197 John Street Toronto, ON. http://newmusicconcerts.com/New_Music_Concerts/Concerts_Events/Entries/2... 8pm
Sunday, January 25th American Modern Ensemble program "North Country" - works by composers from Maine, Vermont, Minnesota, and Alaska-- will include Elliott Schwartz's trio for violin, clarinet & piano "A Garden for RKB" at the new-new auditorium of the new-new NY Times Building, NYC. Pre-program composer discussion. 7:30pm.
Lawrence Dillon, upcoming performances:
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 World premiere of "The Best Season" for mezzo-soprano, tenor, and piano by Lawrence Dillon, Watson Hall, Winston-Salem, NC 7:30pm; Additional performance of “The Best Season” scheduled for Sat. Jan. 15, Greensboro College.
Monday, Jan. 12 Performance of “Façade” by Sphinx Grand Prize winner, violinist, Danielle Belen Nesmith, Carnegie Hall, NYC, 5pm.
Tues. Jan. 27, Ravinia Festival, Chicago, IL - performance of "The Better Angels of Our Nature" featuring Welz Kauffman, narrator, and the Lincoln Piano Trio, 7:30pm.
Sat. Jan. 31, Premiere of "Brio" by the Cassatt String Quartet, Odessa, TX, 12pm.
Sunday, February 1, 2009 An all-Dillon concert, with performances of "Façade," "Sonata: Motion," "Bacchus Chaconne," "Fifteen Minutes," "Mister Blister," "Spring passing," and "The Voice," featuring violinist Danielle Belen Nesmith, Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles, CA, 4pm.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 New York premiere of "Still Point" with mezzo –soprano,
Theodora Hanslowe, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and pianist Thomas Sauer, Mannes School of Music, New York, NY, 7:30pm.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Wright Flight by the Youth Orchestra of the Rockies, Cynthia Katsarelis, Music Director, Fort Collins, CO, University Center for the Arts, and April 26 at the Cheyenne Civic Center.
Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009: The Dedalo ensemble will premiere a new work by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, in Brescia, Italy with a subsequent performance in Bergamo on February 21. More information TBA at http://www.orlandojacintogarcia.com. 8pm.
March 25-28, 2009: Steven Gerber World Premiere San Francisco Symphony. Vladimir Ashkenazy will conduct the San Francisco Symphony in the world premiere of Steven Gerber's "Music in Dark Times," a 16-minute orchestral work written for and dedicated to Maestro Ashkenazy. A CD of three of Gerber's orchestral works -- Spirituals for string orchestra, Clarinet Concerto, and Serenade Concertante for 2 violins, strings, and harp -- was recently released on the Arabesque label.
Friday, April 3, 2009: The Miami Symphony Orchestra will be premiering a new work by Orlando Jacinto Garcia 8pm. Maestro Eduardo Marturet will conduct the work, which is being written in memory of composer, Earle Brown (1926-2002).
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