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December performances: Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitarist, composer, Denver

Guitarist-composer Aaron Larget-Caplan will return to Denver, Colorado for a series of concerts with the choir Kantorei under the direction of Joel M. Rinsema, titled ‘Silent Nights‘. There will be 5 performances in the Denver area on the first and third weekends. Of special note, is the premiere of ‘Cider Meditation,’ a piece the composer wrote this year for Kantorei.

Also ALC will return to Cherry Creek High School, his alma mater, as well as a give residency for the Aspen Music Festival and School, and a house concert in Taos, New Mexico.

Aspen Music School and Festival: a two-day residency (12/8-9) where I will visit Lead Guitar programs in Carbondale and Basalt to work with young guitarists and aspiring musicians. Details on the calendar

Bravo! Vail: 12/12 – performing and discussing being a professional musician at Black Mountain High School and the Community College. 

CCHS: perform Jeffrey Van’s ’14 Angels’ at Cherry Creek High School with the advanced chamber choir, the Meistersingers, under Sarah Branton on December 5 & 10. (Dec. 5 info)

TAOS: Larget-Caplan returns to Taos, New Mexico for a solo performance in El Prado. The performance includes a preview of pieces from my upcoming album, Guitar America 250. Info HERE.

Nov 8: New publication - Emanuele Arciuli's "Antologia pianistica..." 23 piano works by Italian and American composers

On November 8, 2025 the Italian music publishing house Edizioni Curci (Milano) unveiled its "Antologia pianistica di composizioni contemporanee", which includes 23 piano works by Italian and American composers, including Richard Cameron-Wolfe's "Invocations of the Aetherwind", the work published by arrangement with ACA.

This collection, curated by Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli, himself a devoted champion of late-20th-early-21st-century music, serves as an informative introduction to post-Classical piano repertoire for young pianists, and in fact involved many Italian piano students in the production of the anthology. Soon to be available and distributed in the USA, it is currently available through the publisher, and from Amazon's Italian site.

Feb. 7: Wind Hymn by Robert Carl with SDSO

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra will premiere Wind Hymn by Robert Carl. A tone poem for orchestra, Wind Hymn is set in two movements played without pause. The first, “Aerial View“ evokes the view of a wind farm, as a series of wind turbines seen from a great enough distance that each one has a distinct character, parsed into the different string sections. The second, “Surface View", subdivides the strings so as to create a weaving micropolyphony, as though one is walking amidst the turbines. 

Delta David Gier, conductor
Lio Kuok-Wai, piano
Program:
Brahms / Symphony No. 3
Carl / Wind Hymn (World Premiere)
Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 3

Location: 

Nov 15, 21, 22: Music of Gilbert Galindo - performances and recording release, New York City

Composer Gilbert Galindo's "When will You dry our eyes?" for saxophone and piano will be released on the upcoming album, "On The Verge" featuring the Todd Rewoldt & Jai Jeffryes Duo on Friday, November 21, 2025 by Composers Concordance Records. 

On Saturday, November 22, 7:00PM Steel Wig Music will celebrate the release. Join us (limited seating!). Also, the diminutive string quartet "La Esperanza de la Gente" written in honor of Jovita Idár, a Mexican-American & Tejana journalist, activist, and suffragist who lived in the first half of the 20th century will be performed by the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble on Saturday, November 15.

Details: 

Steel Wig Music, Composers Concordance presents the Album Release Concert for the Todd Rewoldt & Jai Jeffryes Duo, celebrating their new album "On The Verge" (on Composers Concordance Records). This dynamic program highlights bold new directions in contemporary music, featuring works from the album by Gilbert Galindo, Jane Getter, and Eugene W. McBride, along with world premieres by Seth Boustead, Kitty Brazelton, and Jai Jeffryes. The evening will also showcase Gene Pritsker’s When Creatures Stir, featuring a poem by Peter Christian Hall and Dave Soldier’s El Amanecer.

Saturday, November 15, the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble performs recent music, featuring collaboration, technology, improvisation, and theatrical elements. Gilbert Galindo's string quartet "La Esperanza de la Gente" will be performed. If you're in the Pittsburgh area, the concert is free.

Saturday, November 15, 2025, 7:30PM
Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Dec. 7, 2025: Sacco, Mozart, Dohnányi, and a Special CD Signing, Alaria Ensemble, Carnegie Hall

Alaria Chamber Ensemble will present an afternoon concert, featuring:

• SACCO: Kaya Songs for Viola and Piano

• MOZART: String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516

• DOHNÁNYI: Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1

During the intermission, we invite you to meet our wonderful artists, Tzu-En Lee and David Oei, as they will be available to sign copies of their recently released CD “Kaya Songs.” It's a fantastic opportunity to connect with them and take home some new music!

Your attendance at this concert directly supports the mission and artistic endeavors of the Alaria Chamber Ensemble.

August 2025: New Album - Trumpet and Saxophone Duo, with music of T.J. Anderson and more

Composite Brass Duo at Oklahoma State University Greenwood School of Music have released a new album, "Echo Chamber."  Professors Joe Cooper and Johnny Salinas have collaborated to record music as Composite Brass Duo. The musicians met at OSU's Greenwood School of Music. During the pandemic, they came up with the idea to form the duo. The idea sprouted after they noticed there was a lack of music for trumpet and saxophone duos. From there, they set out to create more saxophone and trumpet music that features a modern sound.

Album features music by T.J. Anderson, Matthew Howell, Amy Dunker, Mat Campbell, Igor Karača and Béla Bartók. 

Listen on any platform here.

Nov 10, 15 Music of Scott L. Miller, St. Paul, MN with Figure and Ground, and Miller-Vidiksis-Wells

Nov. 1st: Oberlin Conservatory’s Contemporary Music Ensemble performs the premiere of David Liptak’s "Still Dancing"

Timothy Weiss leads the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble in a Warner Concert Hall performance on November 1st at 7:30 pm. The premiere of David Liptak’s Still Dancing is featured along with works by Justin Weiss, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and Oberlin student composer Oliver Hecht, whose composition After Rain is also a premiere. The concert will be webcast live.

More information about this concert and a link to the webcast is found here: https://www.oberlin.edu/events/concert-contemporary-music-ensemble-9938 

Nov. 7 Concert Retrospective on the Music of Robert Carl, Bard College

Friday Nov. 7, 7 PM

Music of Robert Carl

Venue: Bito Performance Space in the Bard College Conservatory. 

Program:
Floating Fanfare in two versions—solo sax and sax plus “piano resonator” *
Wanderers for “extended pianist”
ColdNightSnow for two concert glockenspiels
A Clean Sweep for two shakuachis and fixed media
Splectar for electric guitar with Max processing
Infinity Avenue for improvising ensemble and real-time Max patch

*Premiere 

Works date from 2004 to 2018, in a mini-portrait of the recent works by Robert Carl. Artists  featured: Matt Sargent, guitar; Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi; Andrew Attock, piano; Mike Jones and Tony Kirk, glockenspiels; and more. 

Nov 15: APNM 2025 Electronic and Multimedia Concert, New York City

APNM presents works by member composers and the winners of our 2025 Call-for-Works. The concert includes works by Sang Mi Ahn, Rodrigo Pascale, Joel Gressel, Maurice Wright, Solomon Kim, Kevin Ramsay, Louis Goldford, and Ryan Pratt.

Nov. 8, 9 & 15: Chorus Premieres by T.L. Read

Two choruses by Thomas L. Read, Misgivings and Blow Thou Winter Wind, commissioned by Social band.org, will receive first performances by that choir in November at venues in Vermont: 8th in Richmond, 9th in Hinesburg, 15th in Burlington, and 16th in Charlotte. Scores are published by ACA. 

Nov. 28, 2025 Arctic Explorations opera by Michael Dellaira, recording release on Naxos

Nov 7, 9, 10: Music of Edward Smaldone, and in Italy Nov 9, 14, 22, 23

October 20th: Zohn Collective Premieres David Liptak’s The Locust Tree

Soprano Leah Brzyski and chamber ensemble Zohn Collective will perform a concert titled Songbook at the Eastman School of Music. Selected movements of David Liptak’s The Locust Tree will be premiered with Dieter Hennings on guitar and Paul Vaillancourt on percussion alongside new works by composers John Liberatore (a premiere), Daniel Pesca, Ania Vu, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. The Zohn Collective describes their program Songbook: “Our inspiration in designing Songbook is to curate a kaleidoscopic reflection of questions central to our inner lives, such as devotion, memory, and loss”.

https://events.rochester.edu/event/faculty-artist-series-ricardo-zohn-muldoon-composition-1943?n=31

Oct. 18: New Music by Andrew Ardizzoia, Contemporary Music Festival at Muhlenberg

Mezzo-Soprano Daveda Karanas and the Muhlenberg Choir will present a concert of premieres of works by Andrew Ardizzoia, Sat. Oct. 18th at 5pm in the Egner Cathedral, Allentown, PA. 

Andrew's music, described as “exuberant, rhythmic, and great fun,” as well as “smart, intriguing, and masterful,” has been performed on four continents by a wide variety of soloists and ensembles.

Karanas will premiere Ardizzoia's new cycle Afterglow with texts by Georgia Douglas Johnson. 

Nov. 16: A Surrealist's Wish, with music of Christopher Shultis, Seoul, Korea

Portrait concert for composer Christopher Shultis will take place on November 16 in Seoul organized by the Gyeonggi Gayageum Ensemble, and featuring music written for them, Circlings and Sanjo Variations, both published by ACA. Two new pieces will be premiered, A Surrealist’s Wish for gayageums and percussion, and Samulnori Variations for solo percussion. New York based percussionist Gustavo Aguilar will be performing. The concert will open with the Shultis tamtam solo, One Far Noise. Sunday, Nov. 16, 5pm, at Folk Theater Pungryu

Oct. 18: Music of Marilyn Shrude, Reena Esmail and more at BGSU New Music Festival.

Featuring the Music of: Matthew Mariano, Nicholas Cline, Jocelyn Hagen, Evan Williams, Joel Thompson, Marilyn Shrude, Reena Esmail, & Samuel Adler. 8pm concert featuring Shrude, Adler, and Esmail with conductor Emily Freeman Brown. Festival programs and info here.

The 46th Annual Bowling Green
New Music Festival
OCTOBER 16-18, 2025 Celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of the College of Musical Arts and the many composers and performers who have made BGSU a hub of new music for nearly a half century.

Nov 3: Andrew Thomas' Premonitions to be performed by Claudia Schaer and North/South Consonance, New York City

Andrew Thomas' PREMONITIONS for violin and chamber ensemble, will be performed by the ensemble that commissioned and premiered it in 2017. Experience this beautiful and sparkling work by Andrew Thomas, written for violinist Claudia Schaer. It will be performed by Schaer (pictured) and the North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra conducted by Max Lifchitz at Christ & Saint Stephens Church, New York City. Works by Lifchitz, Christopher James, and Alexandro Rodríguez are also on the program. November 3, 2025 at 7pm. 120 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023. Free Admission

October 4 and 5: Premiere Performances of David Liptak's Suite for Strings by Cordancia Chamber Orchestra

Cordancia Chamber Orchestra will premiere David Liptak's Suite for Strings on October 4th and 5th in Rochester, New York. The composition is dedicated to David's wife Pia, who was one of the founders of the orchestra in 2009. For more information about Cordancia Chamber Orchestra and this pair of concerts, please consult Cordancia's website: https://www.cordancia.org.

Oct. 18: Marc Peloquin and KeyedUp Music present works by Copland, Thomson, and Allen Shawn

The 16th season of the KeyedUp MusicProject is set to begin on Saturday, October 18th at 7:00 p.m. at the National Opera Center in New York City. Each season features a concert that pianists Marc Peloquin and Roberto Hidalgo share. This year features a celebration of the 125th anniversary of Aaron Copland. Roberto will perform Copland’s Four Piano Blues and the solo piano version of El Salón Mexico.  Marc will be premiering the first full piano version of the suite from Copland’s famous ballet Billy the Kid. And a work for two pianists together, this event will feature a beautiful work by friend (and ACA composer) Allen Shawn titled Suite Parisienne, as well as a rarely performed piano four-hand version of Virgil Thomson’s Symphony No. 2.   Following the concert will be a festive artist-audience reception.