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The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2018 will run from Monday, July 16 through Sunday, July 22, at the Abrons Art Center on the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, 466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002.

Monday, July 16th at 8:00 pm - Inclusions by Joel Gressel;

Friday, July 20th at 4:00 pm (an APNM-curated concert) includes Joel Gressel'sA Trifle One-Sided; and Alice Shields, Electronic Scenes from Mass for the Dead, a ghost opera, fixed audio, with recorded voices.

Saturday, July 21, 2018, 8-10:30 PM - concert includes Hubert Howe, Jr., Inharmonic Fantasy No. 6

Check the full festival schedule here

WINDOW PANES, a cross-section of works by composerElizabeth R. Austinwill be released on Navona Records August 14.The collection presents a lifetime of Austin's musical expressioninto an album of interwoven associations, subconscious reminiscences and intense melodic reflections.

WINDOW PANES is a musical biography. In 1959, Austin won a scholarship after Nadia Boulanger had heard her Three Rilke Lieder, featured here (the piano accompaniment played by Austin herself). But there are more recent works, too, such as her Symphony No. 1, Wilderness, originally recorded in Poland in 1991, and Symphony No. 2, Lighthouse, recorded in the Czech Republic in 2005.

Allan Blank (1925-2013), composer and supporter of the arts in his home state of Virginia, will receive a performance of his JUMBLIES for Soprano, clarinet, cello, piano, and narrator, at this season's Staunton Music Festival. His work will be performed at the First Presbyterian Church along with Dvorak's Serenade for Winds. This years Staunton Festival will bring together over 100 incredible works of music performed by 80 world-class artists.Highlights include a staged presentation of Handels masterpiece, Theodora; world premieres by composers-in-residence; Bach's St Matthew Passion on period instruments; music byeveryone from Hildegard to John Hilliard and fromBeethoven's Eroica Symphony to Bernstein's West Side Story.With 30+ concertsover 10 days, there is something for everyone.

Music of Hubert Howeto be featured on the upcoming Spread Spectrum concert in Russia, on Saturday 18 July 2020.

Inharmonic Fantasy No. 10 for piano and fixed media, by Hubert Howe, will be performed byRushaniya Nizamutdinova and Rezeda Amirkhanova, Kazan.

In addition,Broken Glass -a screendance by John Crawford and Lisa Naugle, (see photo above) will be performed, set to Inharmonic Fantasy No. 13 by Hubert Howe. Converging reality and dreamspace, the film uses the interplay of light and broken surfaces to consider modes of perception and the inner work of imagination. Choreographed phrases were captured in a green screen studio, then recombined with time-lapse footage from natural environments, juxtaposed to evoke passing shadows and fragmentary forms.

The online Gala concert of the Spread spectrum festival being held on July 18 from 1.30 PM to 9.30 PM (Moscow time) will include participants from New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Stuttgart, Melbourne, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Irvine, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Kazan, etc. music from the17th-21st centuries, for piano, organ, strings, brass, chamber ensembles, and live - electronics. Some performances will be done by remote video and some will be live-on-the-spot during the actual broadcast. Also you will see contemporary dance performances, video art, and electroacoustic music.

Connecting and enriching communities, song by song.

A talk with composer H. Leslie Adams, on Thursday, July 23rd live online at 5:30pm (EDT).

"Clarke, Kay, Berio and Hindemith"

Video streams on Friday evenings that showcase the talented musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Three BSO violists perform on this program of all 20th-century masterworks. Both the English composer Rebecca Clarkes and the German Paul Hindemiths sonatas date from 1919, and both are staples of the viola-piano repertoire. The eminent American composer-conductor Ulysses Kays musical voice has roots deep in the American experience. He wrote his Sonatine for Viola and Piano in 1939, to receive possibly its premiere online performance/recording this year byMary Ferrillo, viola, andBrett Hodgdon, piano. The great Italian composer Luciano Berios Naturale creates a remarkable landscape for viola and percussion evoking Italian folk song and incorporating pre-recorded Sicilian street cries.

Available online fromJuly 31, 2020 at 8PM through August 7
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Mary Ferrillo, viola
Brett Hodgdon, piano
CLARKE Sonata for Viola and Piano
KAY Sonatine for Viola and Piano (world premiere)

Steven Laraia, viola
Kyle Brightwell, percussion
BERIO Naturale, for viola, percussion, and recorded voice

Daniel Getz, viola
Brett Hodgdon, piano
HINDEMITH Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4

$5 per video or $32 for the entire series.

Violist Mary Ferrillo joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra inSeptember 2019. An active freelancer, she has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Ms. Ferrillo spent three summers (2012-2014) as a Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, where she received the 2014 Maurice Schwartz Prize by Marion E. Dubbs. She returned to Tanglewood as a member of the New Fromm Players in 2016 and 2017, premiering works by John Harbison, Joseph Phibbs, Kui Dong, and Marc Neikrug, among others. She has also performed at the Spoleto Festival USA, Japans Pacific Music Festival, the National Orchestral Institute, and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. As a chamber musician, she performs frequently in the Boston and Berkshire areas in concerts actively combining contemporary and classical repertoire to create engaging and unique programs. At the University of Pennsylvanias 2018 Rochberg @ 100 centennial celebration, she performed Rochbergs Seventh String Quartet with other Tanglewood colleagues alongside the Daedalus Quartet. Ms. Ferrillo earned her bachelor of music degree at the University of MarylandCollege Park with Katherine Murdock. She received her masters degree from the New England Conservatory, studying with Roger Tapping and Edward Gazouleas.

Friday, July 31 at 1pm ET: Masterclass Concert and Conversation with Tania Len

Composer, conductor, social activist, cultural innovator, and educator Tania Len joins us for a very special Masterclass onJuly 31with co-hosts vocalistHelga Davisand composer and National Sawdust co-founderPaola Prestini.Theyll explore the maestro's array of influencing traditions and learn more about how she has incorporated her varied personal and political experiences into her work. This event will include a listening session of Len's seminal 1999 work "Horizons, as well asHannah Ishizaki (violin) performing "Aurelia, In Memoriam" (1999) by the composer T.J. Anderson.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cancel live performances across the world, the music community suffers a major blow to its livelihood. Freelance performers find themselves suddenly without necessary performance income expected this year.

In response, ACA's initiative to support players sheltering at home will take immediate effect:The Shelter Recordings.

Professional musicians sheltering at home will be invited to select works to record from the ACA catalog. We will work with the musicians to create at-home recordings of the works using equipment they have on hand. These are DIY, not in-studio recordings.

The recorded repertoire will come from two sources: works from ACA's legacy program, and works by active ACA composers selected in an ongoing call-for scores.

Artists supported by ACA through this ongoing program include Eliot Heaton, Ran Cheng, Carson Cooman, Peter Nelson-King, Clare Longendyke, Andrea Lodge, Jay Sorce, and Marina Kifferstein.

Interested musicians can contact us through this webform.

Winter Garden, a new work by Darleen Mitchell, for baritone, violin and cello has been selected for the Great Plains New Music Festival at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD on Sept. 12.The Great Plains New Music Festival is dedicated to the performance of music of living composers. Hosted on the campus of the University of South Dakota, the festival is open to all solo and chamber musicians and composers wishing to perform their works live.The performers scheduled will beAndrew White, baritone, Ting-Lan Chen, violin, and Noah Rogoff, cello, all faculty members of the University of Nebraska-Kearney.The performers are Andrew White, baritone, Ting-Lan Chen, violin, and Noah Rogoff, cello, all faculty members of the University of Nebraska-Kearney.

On this weeks Modern Notebook: hear Concerto for Piano and Percussion Orchestra by David Liptak featuring USF faculty pianist Eunmi Ko. Plus, a new release from the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, performing a work by Paula Matthusen created from experiments with the resonances in South Dakotas Wind Cave. Featuring music by Laura Elise Schwendinger, Jennifer Jolley, and more, with performances by Cobalt Duo, the Leviathan Trio, the PRISM Quartet. Join Tyler Kline for Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.

JUSTICE SPEAKS: A Festival for Queer and Trans Black Lives, Part II Sat. Jun 20, 5:00 PM EDT

Reserve your spot/Register for this event here: https://www.justicespeaks.info/

Among many other artists and performers, the countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen will sing art songs of H. Leslie Adams.

Jack Briece (1945-1988), photo courtesy of NYPL; Photo by Lisa Law.

Concentric Circles is very proud to announce a first time vinyl edition of this barely-heard high/lowbrow masterpiece, Heterophonious Fool (1984), by composer Jack Briece, withLiner notes by Peter Garland. One time pressing of 250 copies, high gloss sleeve and DMM mastering.

Heterophonious Fool,was self-produced in an edition of 50 cassettes andnever publicly distributed until now.

Owing to a deep obsession with all things relating to astronomy and the esoteric, Briece composed Heterophonious Foolas a suite in five parts, its meter and melody determined by his readings of the I Ching. Despite these somewhat lofty inspirations, Briece instilled these pieces with a sense of playfulness, composing the suite for four tracks of the same cheap Casio keyboard, with phased rhythm tracks and catchy, looping minimal melodies floating around the stereo field. One easily gets the sense of a joyfully creative mind at work.