The Palisades Virtuosi chamber group will present a concert at Church of the Atonement in Tenafly, NJ, on Friday, April 1, 7:30 pm. The program will include works for flute, clarinet and piano by traditional and contemporary composers – including a work by Brian Schober, "Wind Space".

The 80th birthday of one of Maine’s most distinguished composers, Elliott Schwartz, will be celebrated in grand style when the Portland Conservatory of Music presents the 8th annual Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival on Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9.  Nearly thirty of Schwartz’s composer friends have written new one-minute pieces in his honor, most of which are based on a musical theme derived from the letters of Schwartz’s name.  These pieces, known collectively as the “ESCHART Variations,” will be premiered by a festival ensemble consisting of violinist Dean Stein and oboist Kathleen McNerney, the co-directors of Venti Cordi, as well as flutist Krysia Tripp, cellist Philip Carlsen, and pianist Chiharu Naruse, many of whom are faculty members of the Conservatory.

The Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival concerts will take place at Woodfords Church on Friday, April 8, at 7:30, and Saturday, April 9, at 3:00 and 7:30.  A reception after the Saturday afternoon concert will give audience members an opportunity to mingle with the composers and musicians. 

Admission to each concert is $15, $10 for seniors, and free for children and students with ID. Tickets and location information here. 

The New York Premiere of Louis Karchin's new quartet "Luminous Fields" for flute, cello, percussion, and harp, will take place on April 1 by the Washington Square Ensemble, at Tenri Cultural Institute.  Other works planned include music of Elizabeth Hoffman, Wolfgang Rihm, Kurt Nelson, Benjamin Boretz, and more.  $15/$8 studends and seniors.

An all-Shultis concert will also take place at John Jay College on Saturday March 19 at 8:00 PM at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery John Jay College 860 Eleventh Ave. New York, NY (in Manhattan) and will include music from his new CD: "An Illusion of Desire: Experimental Music by Christopher Shultis."  The concert will include the world premiere of "4-7-3," (with video by Hee Sook Kim) for two percussion and electronics; featuring Doug Nottingham and Brett Reed; 

The Perrine-Utley Saxophone Duo will give a free concert on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hulsey Recital Hall, 9501 13th St. South. The program will include the world premieres of “Sonata: Folie à Deux” by UAB Associate Professor of Music William Price, and “Circling” for two saxophones by David Froom; “The Garden of Love” for alto saxophone and fixed media by JacobTV; "Caprice en forme de valse" by Paul Bonneau; and “Rush Hour” for tenor saxophone and fixed media by William Price. Saxophonists John Perrine and Brian Utley are both regular guest artists and clinicians at universities and secondary schools throughout the country.