News and Events

California concerts with composer - guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan, 2/26 to 3/6

Upcoming programs: Southern California events feature works from recent recordings, new arrangements, standards, and a special guest.

The Northern California concert includes three premieres: Clould Lacrymae for guitar and electronics by Douglas Knehans, the California premiere of Heretic, a micro-opera by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, and a new work by Aaron Larget-Caplan.

Honorary Doctorate for Marilyn Shrude, Nov. 2024

Marilyn Shrude received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West, Romania, November 2024.  The Romanian university honors BGSU’s Marilyn Shrude as composer, pianist, educator, & role model.

In her remarks, she addressed the importance of the arts in the contemporary world. Art helps people “make sense out of the confusion, to sort things out, to prioritize,” she said. “Those of us who make our living as artists must secure its place in the future.  We should embrace the responsibility of protecting and nurturing the artistic soul of our society. It would be wrong to watch to idly watch the arts dwindle to a state of non-existence.

(photo) Marilyn Shrude (center) with educators at the West University of Timisoara, Romania.

Feb 23: Earl Louis Stewart's Adagio Alla Spiritual for chorus and orchestra, Toledo Symphony with Antoine Clark.

Earl Louis Stewart’s Adagio alla Spiritual from Symphony No. 4, Juneteenth will be performed in a ‘Neighborhood’ concert in Toledo, Ohio on February 23, 2025. The conductor will be Antoine Clark. The performance will be in St. Martin de Porres Church, in Toledo.

Feb 13 Gilbert Galindo's Sonata for Viola and Piano - CMW Center Rhode Island

Sonata for Viola and Piano by Gilbert Galindo will be performed in Rhode Island by  Ivan Tan, guest pianist and violist Walter Muelling on the 13th of February.  The Sonata is an eclectic and harmonically modern piece that combines tasteful lyricism with jazz, in ultimately what the composer writes is “a heartfelt song for viola.”  

More info here.

Pianist Dale Tsang performs Judith Shatin's Scirocco

Pianist Dale Tsang will perform Scirocco twice under the auspices of Ensemble 4 These Times (E4TT), first on February 22 at 7:30 pm at the Berkeley Piano Club in Berkley, CA, and then on March 2 at 4:00 p.m. at the SF Music Center. Named for the hot wind that sweeps up from the Sahara to the Mediterranean, it is a short whirl of a piece that is newly published by ACA. 

Dale Tsang's full program:

Alexa Canales: "(un)ravel"
Michael Coleman: "Eastern Shore Rag"
Albert de la Fuente : Sonata, Movement 1
Lilyanne Dorilas: "Black Amber"
George N. Gianopoulos: "Fughetta on Monk's 'Well You Needn't'" ("Five Pieces," #4)
Jon Grier:"Quantum Entanglement"
Dorothy Hindman: "Wanting - Night Music" ("Forward Looking Back," #5)
Ye-Chong Jeon: "Drum of Creation" (Shiva Nataraja, #2)
Evans Kocja: "Prelude No. 1 for Piano"
Kian Ravaei: "The Sea Serpent" ("Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existed," #5)
Judith Shatin: "Scirocco"

Consuela Lee's "The Sun Is Rising" at WSMR Classical

Pianist Clare Longendyke performed Consuela's Lee's piano solo "The Sun is Rising" on Classical WSMR's live broadcast series, October 22, alongside Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30 and Debussy's Claire de Lune. 

Longendyke also performed "The Sun is Rising" alongside Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30 and Amy Beach's "Variations on Balkan Themes" on Dec. 4, 2024, at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music.

Feb. 8: Wanchi Huang performs Judith Shatin's "For the Fallen"

For the Fallen, in the version for violin and electronics commissioned by Wanchi Huang, will be performed at Garth Newel Music Center on February 8, at 6 p.m., when she will reprise selections from her recent album Imagining Worlds (including music by Adolphus Hailstork, Judith Shatin, Meira M. Warshauer, Jeffrey Mumford, and John Corigliano).

Jan. 29: Jackie Biggs performs Citiscape Piano Concerto 1st mvmt (by H. Leslie Adams) at BYU

BYU PHILHARMONIC: EVENING OF CONCERTOS
Nathan Haines, conductor

One of the most anticipated concerts each year, the Evening of Concertos features the top instrumentalists and singers in the School of Music in this annual showcase. Pianist Jackie Biggs will perform the first movement of the lush concerto Citiscape by H. Leslie Adams. Jackie has been a champion for the music of Adams and other composers, along with her husband and duo partner trombonist Curtis Biggs.  

January 29 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

CONCERT HALL (MB)
$10–16, ON SALE NOVEMBER 20

The concert will live-stream at 9:30pm eastern time

New Recordings by Matthew Davidson, Contemporary Piano Rags

The Graceful Ghost: Contemporary Piano Rags 1960 – 2021
Matthew de Lacey Davidson
Rivermont Records BSW-3138

Davidson's recent releases include two CD sets totaling five discs. Both albums merit a “deep dive” and are recommended for listening. The Graceful Ghost album is a broad survey of contemporary piano rags composed between 1960 and 2021, some originally recorded and released by Davidson in 1994, others brand new. Thirty-seven works by eighteen composers are packed onto two discs, making this collection a welcome addition to a contemporary Ragtime connoisseur’s listening library.

Stolen Music, released this month, features two previously released discs of Davidson’s original compositions (sixteen works in all). Stolen Music is quite eclectic; the works contained are influenced by musics originating from all around the globe, coming to life here via the transcription of folk music by Davidson and others.

I Had Five Long Years for string quartet (performed by the Solaris String Quartet) is based on a Louisiana prison song, with individual sections sounding more akin to the string music of Shostakovich and Webern. Magyar Rondo for solo viola (played by Rudolf Haken) is Hungarian. The album’s titular piece is a three-movement suite for solo flute of melodies from Appalachia, Africa, and Afghanistan, played by Lisa Goethe-McGinn.

Feb 2: Lisa Williamson performs Nightsongs by H. Leslie Adams with Connecticut Symphony

Lisa Williamson performs Nightsongs by H. Leslie Adams with the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra,  Feb. 2nd, 2025 at 3pm at Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford.

Described by the Washington Post as “silvery of voice” and “a showstopper” for performances with Washington National Opera as The Rose in The Little Prince and The Flamingo in the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn and Me, Lisa Williamson is a versatile soprano who has forged a career that has taken her around the world

H & G, A Great and Terrible Story by Allen Shawn, Performances at Eastman School and William Paterson University

H & G, A Great and Terrible Story, set for voices and piano by Allen Shawn will be performed at the Black Box Theatre at Eastman School of Music Jan. 30, 21, Feb. 1, and 2 and also at William Paterson University on April 11-13. 

T.J. Anderson's orchestration of the Treemonisha Opera Overture by Scott Joplin, performances March 1,2; April 19.

T.J. Anderson's orchestration of the Treemonisha Overture by Scott Joplin is scheduled for performances by the Reno Chamber Orchestra, March 1 and 2, and also by Symphony New Hampshire, Roger Kalia, conductor, at Nashua Center for the Arts on April 19th.

Treemonisha Overture - 2 performances March 1 and 2

Feb. 22, March 2. Judith Shatin's Scirocco to be performed by Dale Tsang, pianist

Pianist Dale Tsang will perform Judith Shatin's Scirocco twice under the auspices of Ensemble 4 These Times (E4TT), first on Feb. 22 at 7:30 pm at the Berkeley Piano Club in Berkley, CA, and then on March 2 at 4:00 p.m. at the SF Music Center. Named for the hot wind that sweeps up from the Sahara to the Mediterranean, it is a short whirl of a piece that is newly published by ACA. 

Judith Shatin's For the Fallen performed by Wanchi Huang, Feb. 8

Judith Shatin's For the Fallen, in the version for violin and electronics commissioned by Wanchi Huang will be performed at Garth Newel Music Center on February 8, at 6 p.m., when she will reprise selections from her recent album Imagining Worlds. The program also includes works by Adolphus Hailstork and John Corigliano. 

Music by Tillis and Montgomery - Free Family Concert, Feb. 1

Music by Tillis and Montgomery - Family Concert

Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Newark School of the Arts
89 Lincoln Park Newark, NJ 07012

TICKETS
This concert is FREE and open to the public. RSVP is not required.

PROGRAM
Frederick Tillis Spiritual Fantasy No. 12
Jessie Montgomery Strum

ARTISTS

Ashley Horne, violin
Claire Chan, violin
William Frampton, viola
Wayne Smith, cello

Nancy Van de Vate's Six Etudes for Solo Violin, performance in Tel Aviv, Jan. 17

Nancy Van de Vate - Six Etudes for Solo Violin will be performed by Smadar Schidlowsky on Friday, 17 January in the Museum Yafo, Tel Aviv in concert beginning at 12:30pm.

Smadar grew up in Berlin, Germany, where she also started playing the violin. Studying music and violin brought her to the State University of Music Stuttgart, the Guildhall School of Music London and the University of Music Frankfurt. For her musical developement she gained support of various scholarships and foundations like Yehudi Menuhin „Live Music Now“ Stuttgart and the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium. 

Choral work by Philip Carlsen, with Una Voce Choir, Jan. 31 and Feb. 2

The Una Voce Chamber Choir presents its winter concert series The Sounding Sea will be held Friday Jan. 31st at 7pm and Sunday Feb. 2nd at 2pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle St. in Brunswick, Maine. 

The concert will feature a variety of works in a program featuring music by contemporary standouts Jan Sändstrom, Caroline Shaw, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Eric William Barnum, Jake Runestad, Cecilia McDowall, Matthew Lyon Hazzard, and Maine-based composer Philip Carlsen.

The Sounding Sea, Una Voce Chamber Choir’s 2025 Winter Concert Series, is a richly textured program that evokes both the spirit of adventure, and the need to return to the communities and people we love.  Replete with images of seascapes, desert landscapes, and urban milieu, the Sounding Sea weaves together a variety of musical styles to highlight and connect poems that reflect a panoply of human experiences.

Music of Philip Carlsen, Farnsworth Concert Series, Jan. 15

New songs by Philip Carlsen for the Resinosa Ensemble, collectively called "Three Paintings," will be premiered next week at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland. The songs are "Dark Winter," "Woman and the Nautilus," and "Bella Above," using poems by Jeri Theriault that were inspired by paintings. Also on the program by Carlsen will be "Moving Day" for cello and piano.

Farnsworth Concert Series: Resinosa Ensemble

Music of Hubert Howe, David Mecionis, Dana Richardson, and more, NYCC, Jan. 23

Thursday, January 23 @ 7:00 PM
Marc A. Scorca Hall
OPERA America's National Opera Center
330 7th Ave, 7th Floor, New York, New York

New York Composers Circle Presents:

New Music by Hubert Howe:

Harmonic Fantasy No. 8 for electronic sounds
Inharmonic Fantasy No. 18 for clarinet and electronic sounds

Paul Aljian - Sonatina for Flute
Galen H. Brown - Night Machines for piano
Emiko Hayashi - Three Arabesques for clarinet and piano
David Mecionis - Fragmentary Scenes for piano
Dana Dimitri Richardson - Piano Variations, Book 2
Cameron Wentz - Baixalto for flute

with aritsts Craig Ketter & Blair McMllen, piano
Michiyo Suzuki, clarinet, and Ammon Swinbank, flute

Gen Adm $20
Seniors $15
Students Free
NewYorkComposersCircle.org

New York Women Composers with William Wielgus, oboe, in recital, Dec. 18

William Wielgus, oboe recital, Dec 18th  7:30, Scorca Hall, National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave 7th Floor, NYC