WEDNESDAY through SATURDAY, JUNE 4-7, 2008

Experience world premieres by more than 30 award-winning American composers --- at New York City's Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St.

Buy Tickets at: http://www.symphonyspace.org/series/126
Or Call: 212-864-5400

Composers and Artists scheduled:

The New York Virtuoso Singers*, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor
Second Instrumental Unit, David Fulmer, director,
Marc D. Williams, conductor
Hubert S. Howe, composer and artistic director
Special Guests: New York Women Composers, Inc.,
Michael Fennelly, pianist.

Featuring works by:
Eleanor Aversa, Burton Beerman, Elizabeth Bell, Richard Brooks, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Robert Carl, Robert Ceely, Fred Cohen, John Eaton, Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Brian Fennelly, Steven Gerber, Jan Gilbert, Joel Gressel, Gregory Hall, Lisa Hogan, Hubert S. Howe, Edward Jacobs, Louis Karchin, John Melby, Lewis Nielson, Raoul Pleskow, Jody Rockmaker, Elliott Schwartz, Harold Seletsky, Marilyn Shrude, Joyce Hope Suskind, Beth Wiemann, Margarita Zelenaia, and Mark Zuckerman.

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

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, conoisseurs, 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.  

American Music Festival 2007 -- more information about the 2007 festival.

American Music Festival 2006 -- more information about the 2006 festival.