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APNM presents works for live interactive electronics, fixed audio and video and live instruments with Barry Crawford, flute; Sam Wells, trumpet and Tatjana Rankovich, piano Matthew Burtner:Flute Code (flute and live electronics)

Stephen Dydo:Atalanta Fugiens: As above, so below

Joel Gressel:From an Undisclosed Location (video by Michael Bergmann)
William Lamkin:Resistance of Memory (fixed audio)*
Andrew Lovett: Lets Talk (fixed audio)*
Michal Massoud:Vulgaritka (flute and fixed audio)
Wil Pertz:Spring (video, fixed audio)*

Ionel Petri:Concerto for Piano and Electronics No.1

Alice Shields:Electronic Scenes from Mass for the Dead, a ghost opera
Sam Wells:Strange Pilgrims: Light is Like Water

National Opera Center/Opera America
330 Sevnth Ave. 7th Floor
New York, NY

ACOs April concert at Carnegie Hall, Dreamscapes, is a global celebration of musical dreams, fusing jazz, world, and classical music. It features the world premieres of Ethan Iversons Concerto to Scale with the composer as the piano soloist, and Steve Lehmans Ten Threshold Studies, both commissioned by ACO; and the New York premieres of Clarice Assads Dreamscapes featuring violinist Elena Urioste, TJ Andersons Bahia Bahia, and Hitomi Obas September Coming.

The premiere of Liptak's Concerto for Piano and Percussion Orchestra will be given by piano soloist Eunmi Ko with the McCormick Percussion Group at 7:30 pm on Saturday, April 7th, 2018, in the University of South Florida Concert Hall. All events during this two-day festival are free and open to the public.

Hartford Women Composers Festival April 6 and 7, 2018, 7:30 pm Chamber concert on April 6:Ensemble-in-Residence Concert (Cuatro Puntos), at St. Patrick - St. Anthony Church.

The Program for April 6th: Elizabeth R. Austin: B-A-C-Homage for viola and piano; Florence Price: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint; Sadie Harrison: SQUISH! King Kong's Love Story for string quartet and American Sign Language Storyteller; Ursula Kwong-Brown: Unwinding II; Liza Sorbel: 5 Scenes for String Quartet; Sonia Jacobson: Melting Pot
The Musicians: Aaron Packard, violin; Annie Trepanier, violin; Kevin Bishop, viola; Allan Ballinger, cello; Miguel Campinho, piano; Danielle Holdridge, American Sign Language Storyteller.

and on April 7th: Opera Scenes Performance. The concert will feature opera scenes from Composer-in-Residence Tawnie Olson, as well as scenes composed by Elizabeth R. Austin and Dawn Sonntag. Aetna Theatre at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

The Program: Evangeline by Dawn Sonntag; I am one and double too, by Elizabeth R. Austin Final Scene - Lydia McClain, Julietta, Christopher Grundy, Peter; with Amelia Nagoski Peterson, conducting Cuatro Puntos Chamber Ensemble, and Sanctuary and Storm by Tawnie Olson The Musicians:Aaron Packard, violin; Annie Trepanier, violin; Kevin Bishop, viola; Allan Ballinger, cello; Opera cast and company.

Raba Virtual Reality Concert Premier by Ensemble U - Friday, December 29 at 6 PM - 7:30 PM
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in Tallinn, Estonias capital on the Baltic Sea.

Scott L. Miller, with support from a St. Cloud State University 2017 Research Faculty Improvement Grant, has created Raba, a virtual reality concert piece. This work was created in collaboration with Mark Gill of the SCSU Visualization Lab, Rein Zobel of Maru VR, and Ensemble U:, Estonias premier new music ensemble, based in Tallinn.

Raba (which means bog in Estonian - example/detail of this natural wonder pictured at left) has been conceived as an immersive audio-visual concert piece inspired by the Marimetsa Raba, located about an hour drive from Tallinn. Raba as a work for ensemble and virtual reality projection is experienced by the audience seated in swiveling office chairs and wearing VR headsets. Audience members can visually explore a 360 video while Ensemble U: performs the music, composed by Scott L Miller in sync with the film.

Sample of upcoming season concerts from New York Composers Circle. *

New Music for Cello, performed by Craig Hultgren, Marc A. Scorca Hall, National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave., between 28th & 29th Sts., January 25, 2018, 7:30 PM

Tamara Cashour, Queens' Suite Nr. 5: KC: Queen of Hoards;
Max Giteck Duykers, Black Meadow;
Monroe Golden, Pinhoti;
Hubert Howe, Chimera;
Carl Kanter, Cello Song;
Debra Kaye, Dialogue With the Ghost; Peri Mauer, September 16th;
Kevin McCarter, Tacking;
Dary John Mizelle,Cello Suite II;
Dana Dimitri Richardson, Sonatina.

New Music for Piano, performed by Craig Ketter, Marc A. Scorca Hall
National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave., btwn. 28th & 29th Sts., March 19, 2018, 7:30 PM

Madelyn Byrne, Sonata for Piano; Max Giteck Duykers, Arborescence; Emiko Hayashi, Sonata for Piano;
Peri Mauer, A Little New Year's Flair; Scott Miller, The Major Scale in Octaves; Dary John Mizelle,
Blues for Sal; Raoul Pleskow, Fantasy of Fragments; Dana Dimitri Richardson, Piano Variations; Chris Sahar,
Three-Card Monte Suite.

New Music for Ensembles and Electronics, St. Peter's Chelsea Episcopal Church
346 W 20th St., btwn. 8th & 9th Aves., April 17, 2018, 8:00 PM

Richard Brooks, Swansong Suite, for English horn; Robert Cohen, Love Triangles, for three percussionists;
Hubert Howe, Expansions, for electronics; Carl Kanter, Trio, for violin, cello and piano; David Mecionis,
The Speaking Masks of Hofmannsthal, for tenor, English horn, bass clarinet, violin and electric guitar;
Catherine Neville, Three Witch Pieces, for clarinet, violin and piano; Joseph Pehrson, Trombone Explorations,
for trombone and piano.

*See NYCC website for more info

The North/South Chamber Orchestra welcomesthe New Year onTuesday eveningJanuary 9, 2018 performing optimistic and vibrant works by four livingAmerican composers.

Violinist Kurt Nikkanen and pianist Maria Asteriadouwill appear as soloists in the first New York performance of Encore IIbyDinos Constantinides -- theGreek-American composer celebrating his 90th birthday next year. Other works also receiving their first hearing in New York include the American Elegy by Richard Brooks;Hextet by Paul Reale;and Fire Withinby the ensemble's conductor, Max Lifchitz. American Elegy for string orchestra, by Richard Brooks, was composed in 2002 with a profound love for New York and a deep sadness for those who were lost on September 11, 2001. Brooks has composed over one hundred works in all media. His opera for young audiences, Rapunzel, was commissioned by the Tri-Cities Opera (Binghamton) in 1971 and has been mounted also by the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, Wolf Trap Farm Park, and the Denver Symphony/Central City Singers. Most recently, it received sixty-five performances by the Cincinnati Opera. A native of upstate New York, Brooks holds a B.S. degree in Music Education from the Crane School of Music, Potsdam College; an M.A. in Composition from Binghamton University; and a Ph. D. in Composition from New York University.

The Harlem Chamber Players - 10th Annual Black History Month Celebration - will be co-presented by the Schomburg Center and will take place in their Langston Hughes Auditorium on Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 6:30 PM.This concert will feature Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Nonet for piano, winds and strings, and Major Scurlock will make his debut with The Harlem Chamber Players. SopranoAndraBradford and baritone Kenneth Overton will perform music by H. Leslie Adams and selected spirituals.

Schomberg Center, Langston Hughes Auditorium
515 Malcolm X Boulevard (formerly Lenox Ave.) at 135th St. New York, NY, 10037

ART AFTER DARK: Thursday, February 1, 2018, 5 pm 8 pm Visit the Wadsworth Museum after hours for music and more.

Five choreographers paired with five musicians include Lydia McClain, soprano, and Elizabeth R. Austin, piano, performing Austin's Three Sandburg Songs.

There will be free snacks, cash bar, tours, a film, an art activity, and much more! Februarys event features an ice sculpture and a fire eating demonstration, trivia, and dance performances byThe Dance Collective. College students with their valid ID will receive free admission.

Tickets are $10/$5 members and are available for purchase at the door. Learn more aboutvisiting the museumor get more information aboutparking.Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 600 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103 860.278.2670

Michael Dellaira's SATB choral work The Campers at Kitty Hawk will be performed on Feb. 28 by the Temple University Chorale, conducted by Mitos Andaya Hart. The concert will feature Temple University Singers, Women's Chorus and University Chorale, with music also by Victoria and Barnwell. Performance in Lew Klein Hall
Free admission, no tickets required.

Praised for "professional musicianship" and "rich, free sound" (Boston Music Intelligencer), the Temple University Concert Choir has enjoyed a regional and national reputation for excellence and versatility. The choir is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students at the Boyer College of Music and Dance. In addition to performing the great masterworks of the choral and choral/orchestral canon, the choir is committed to the performance of new American choral music and has presented many first Philadelphia performances.

Portrait concert of composer NANCY VAN DE VATE, with DANIELA LAHNER (Cello), THOMAS LUKSCHANDER (Clarinet) and RUTH SPINDLER (Piano). On January 30th, at 7pm, some highlights of the composer's chamber music will be featured in concert at Alte Schmiede Kunstverein Wien, LQ Literarisches Quartier | Schnlaterngasse 9, 1010 Wien.

Program:
Fantasy Pieces for Piano (1995)
Sarabande for Flute and Piano (1973)
Fantasy Pieces for Flute and Piano (1993)
Balinese Diptych for Piano (2003)
Variations for Clarinet and Piano (1961)
Twelve Pieces for Piano: from Vol. 1-3 (1986-2005)

After extensive studies in the US, the Austrian-American composer Nancy Van de Vate relocated to Vienna in the 1980s and has enjoyed a productive career for many years as a composer in her new home. Her catalog includes seven operas, numerous orchestral works, chamber music and vocal works performed internationally. She founded the record company Vienna Modern Masters, which was committed to the distribution of new music and large-scale works, which is now in management with American Composers Alliance in the U.S.

Release date: March 1, 2018

Composer Harvey Sollberger, a new album:The White Labyrinth: Harvey Sollberger at 80
The IWO Flute Quartet, on Albany Records: TROY 1709

Grand Quartet
Two Pieces for Two Flutes
Hara
Sonata Charlie Hebdo
Aurelian Echoes
Second Grand Quartet

Joelle Wallach's A Revisitation of Myth will be performed by Ensemble for These Times: Nannette McGuinness, soprano, Julie Michael, viola and Dale Tsang, piano on Sunday, February 4 @ 4 PM at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O"Farrell Street in San Francisco, CA.
Written in 1998, A Revisitation of Myth is a four-movement chamber piece for viola, piano and medium voice. Each of the four lyrical and moving songs re-examines a myth (or myths as in the fourth one) to discover new, different or more complex meanings in it. Read Joelle's complete program notes and hear samples here.

Works by Henryk Gorecki, Shulamit Ran, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Julianna Hall and others will also be on the program. Tickets and event information

TRIO 8831
12:30pmat Richland College: Dallas, Texas

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
TRIO 8831
7:30pmat Tarleton State University: Stephenville, Texas

Through the Brightening Air for wind orchestra by David Liptak will be premiered on December 1 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Other works scheduled include music of Karel Husa, David Maslanka, and John Adams.

The Eastman Wind Ensemble is Americas leading wind ensemble. Its core of about 50 performers includes undergraduate and graduate students of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

Raymond T. Jackson, internationally celebrated concert pianist and Professor of Music at Howard University, Washington, DC, will perform "A Little Whimsy" by Dorothy Rudd Moore, among other works, on Sunday Nov. 12 at Howard University. He has successfully taught and served in administrative capacities. A life dedicated to music began in Providence, Rhode Island, where he received piano instruction from age five. Early mastery of the keyboard expanded six years later when study of the organ, along with the piano, helped inspire an international career as concert pianist and recording artist; scholar, researcher and author; organist and choral conductor; coach and accompanist; and lecturer, clinician and adjudicator.

On Friday evening, November 3, at 7:30, Kiev's outstanding new-music ensemble Sed Contra will present a richly-varied program of American chamber music at MasterKlass (Bogdan Khmelnitsky 57B, Kiev). The repertoire includes works by Hubert Howe, Edward Jacobs, Jody Rockmaker, Brian Schober, Amy Williams, and Richard Cameron-Wolfe. Additionally, Cameron-Wolfe will offer a pre-concert lecture, titled "The Evolution of American Sound-Art - Past, Present, Future". Admission: 150 UAH; 100 UAH for seniors and students.

Piano miniatures written for pianist Gloria Cheng, and in memory of Steven Stucky, will be performed at Tenri Cultural Center in New York, 8pm, Nov. 11. Works include pieces by Harbison, Lash, Meltzer, Liptak, Adolphe, and more. Many of these 32 pieces were written for the memorial event for Steven Stucky at Juilliard last year, and also for a recording project by Ms. Cheng.