ACA Festival of American Music

The American Composers Alliance Festival was first presented in 2000, to introduce new works by ACA composers, past and present, to a broader audience. The Festival features works by both established and emerging composers, and offers lively, accessible, and well-rehearsed performances. It's audience includes music students and faculty from the region, artists from other disciplines, the general public and walk-ins from the neighborhood, as well as New York's premier new music community of composers, connoisseurs, and instrumentalists. For the first three years, the festival was comprised of three concerts. In 2003, it grew into a series of six concerts over one weekend, in celebration of ACA’s
65 th Anniversary.

ACA’s  concerts offer audiences the rare opportunity to hear and appreciate the music of excellent composers from around the United States, played by New York's top contemporary music performers. The festival also offers younger, emerging composers an opportunity to hear their music performed by fine professionals at one of New York's finest concert venues.

And finally, ACA, with its long and rich history, is committed to performing works by its founders and important early members, giving both an important historical perspective and link between the early decades with the music of today. The ACA Festival offers the new music community a central meeting place, where people can come to hear a great variety of American classical music. ACA remains true to its original and continuing mission, to publish and promote our members and to support performances of their works.  

• ACA FESTIVAL 2008 page. With complete program listing, composers, and performers. June 4-7 at Thalia, Symphony Space!

ACA Festival 2007 -- program list from the 2007 festival.

ACA Festival 2006 program listings from the 2006 festival.

ACA Festival 2005 program listings from the 2005 festival.

*Funding courtesy of the Argosy Foundation
*Additional funding courtesy of BMI