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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) is an immersive audio-visual concert piece inspired by the Marimetsa Raba, located about an hour drive from Tallinn. Raba 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,Raba, in sync with the film. The ensemble and speakers (for the electronic sound in the music) physically surround the audience, unifying the audience experience with a live, immersive audioperformance while each audience member has a unique, individual immersive visual experience.

Miller says, I am really interested in producing collective audience experiences through live performance. What is exciting to me about Raba is that the audience is immersed in the sonic reality of the space, surrounded by the performers and electronic sound, while they are visually immersed in the unique beauty of the Marimetsa Raba.

The musical composition, Raba, was originally commissioned by the Spitting Image Collective, written by Miller following his first visit to Marimetsa as a Fulbright Scholar at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2014. This original version premiered in Minneapolis and St. Paul in May 2015.

Miller will present an electronic performance of Raba (with the studio recording of Ensemble U:, not live performers) on the SCSU campus on December 7, 2017. The 11-minute work will be presented 9 times in Performing Arts Center 158 from 1:30 4:30 pm. Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance due to limited seating. Audience members may reserve seating for shows at 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50, and 4:10. Tickets will be assigned on a first come-first serve basis.

The Indiana University New Music Ensemble, with David Dzubay, director, will present new works by Bruce J. Reiprich and David Heuser, as well as music of Leo Brower. Thursday, Nov. 30th, 8pm, at Auer Hall, Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, IN.

On Monday, December 11, the Berklee Marimba ensembles, together with the Boston Conservatory marimba ensembles, directed by Nancy Zeltsman and Richard Flanagan, performed the premiere of In Search of Holly, by Maine composer Philip Carlsen, for three marimbas with snare drum. Various ensembles performed music of Ivan Trevino, Steven Scher, Scarlatti, and more, at the David Friend Recital Hall in Boston.

Arion Chamber Music Events presents cellist Robert LaRue in concert at Christ and Saint Stephens Church in Manhattan, on Sunday, January 14th at 3pm, with music of Joan Tower, Egon Wellesz, Bach, and more.

On Friday, September 15, at Rice University in Houston - Faculty Recital Series

Duncan Recital Hall Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA

Faculty and Guest Artist Recital

Program: Kurt Stallmann Chrystald Streams
Anthony Brandt Four Score
Elizabeth Brown Arcana
Toshi Ichiyanagi Trio Webster
Emil Awad Paisaje
Karel Husa 8 Bohemian Sketches.

The Webster Trio
Leone Buyse, flute
Michael Webster, clarinet
Robert Moeling, piano
Karol Bennett, soprano
Carson Marshall, violin
Max Geissler, cello
Emil Awad, composer

The Resinosa Ensemble is a recently formed chamber trio featuring mezzo-soprano and Colby music associate, Jolle Morris, along with cellist Eliza Meyer and pianist Bridget Convey. The groups repertoire spans from newly composed and commissioned work to romantic staples and early music gems. Music I Heard With You, their fall 2017 program, explores the theme of love, with wonderfully crafted settings of poems by Conrad Aiken, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others by a highly eclectic list of composers: Justin Henry Rubin, Tom Flaherty, Barbara Strozzi, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi and Amy Beach.

The 2017 Bowling Green New Music & ART Festival - MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
October 18-21 Featuring guest composers STEVEN MACKEY and SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER and guest ensemble LATITUDE 49.
Various concerts through the festival will include music by -Dai Fujikura, Peter Etvs, Marissa DiPronio, and Chin-Ting Chan.
Also, Roger Zare, Takuma Itoh, Dai Fujikura, Christopher Dietz and Jason Eckardt, Anthony Donofrio, Dan VanHassel, Alex Temple, Mario Diaz de Leon, and Matt Marks,
Steven Stucky, James Romig, Robert Morris, Marilyn Shrude, Jonathan Newman, John Mackey, and Emily Custer, among others.

Winning entries from the call for works - to be performed on the 38th Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival - also include: Piano: Ingrid Stlzel In the Midst and John Liberatore She rose, and let me in; Flute & Percussion: Carl Schimmel Temper Mutations, Janice Misurell-Mitchell The Art of Noise, and Erin Rogers Shimmering Dust. Trumpet / Trumpet and Piano - Robert Gibson Fall; Stephen Lilly Mazed. Brass Quintet Michael Eckert Brass Quintet and Cydonie Banting Carillon Calls.

Featuring Soprano Lucy Shelton, 21st Century Consort's upcoming season concert on Nov. 4 at the Smithsonian Institution in D.C. connects with the Smithsonian's exhibit: Mexican artist influenced by Picasso; shared common interests with younger American artists including Jackson Pollock and Adolph Gottlieb, indigenous art, mythical themes, increasingly non-representational imagery, and the anxieties of World War II. Tamayos fierce and symbolic animal paintings and artworks evoking celestial themes from the 1940s are a special focus of the exhibition.

Mario Lavista

Cuaderno de Viaje

Shulamit Ran

Moon Songs

Missy Mazzoli

Magic with Everyday Objects

Gheorghe Costinescu

Nine Portraits from the Wild

Gabriela Ortiz

Vitrales de Ambar

This is the Consort's 11th season at the Smithsonian American Art Museums Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Artistic Director Christopher Kendall presents a season of new music and high drama featuring artists Paul Cigan, Lisa Emenheiser, Dan Foster, Sara Stern, Rachel Young with guest vocalists Lucy Shelton, William Sharp, Alice Teyssier and Shara Nova.

Tickets are THIS SEASON FREE. Pick up your free tickets beginning at 3:30, and all who attend the 4:00 pre-concert discussion are guaranteed tickets. Past performances suggest that tickets will likely be available for all until the performance itself, at 5:00 pm.

All concerts are at 5:00, preceded by a 4:00 discussion with composers and performers, and followed by a post-concert reception.

Upcoming performances of music by Louis Karchin:

Sunday, Oct. 1, pianist Steven Drury will perform Lyrics II on a program at 3 PM at the Lehigh University's Zoellner Center for the Arts along with Ives' monumental Concord Sonata.

The trio of Elizabeth Brown, Ralph Samuelson, and Issue Migeishi will perform a joyous concert on Sunday, October 8, at 4 PM at the Center for Remembering and Sharing (123 4^th Ave, 2^nd floor) in the East Village, NYC. Both new and traditional works will make up the program. Robert Carl's Jyun On is written for two shakuhachi flutes and ichigenkin. The shakuhachi is by now becoming quite familiar to our ears, but the ichigenkin may not be---its the one-stringed Japanese koto.

Three Additional performances planned:

Performance of Robert Carls Jyun On for 2 shakuhachis and ichigenkin

Monday 10/2 at 8 pm: Bito Auditorium, Bard College. Annandale on-Hudson, NY

Wednesday 10/4 at 5 pm: Composers Seminar, Bliss Music Room

10/11 at 7:30 pm: Heller Center, UCCS (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

Recognized worldwide as one of todays most exciting vocal stars, Denyce Graves continues to gather unparalleled popular and critical acclaim. Ms. Graves will perform a wonderful concert of art songs at Founders' Memorial Amphitorium, Bob Jones University, in Greenville, SC. Her recital includes Prayer, by H. Leslie Adams, as well as music of Richard Danielpour, Jake Heggie, George Gershwin, Gener Scheer, Aaron Copland, Samuel Ward, and George Gershwin. This concert will be webcast live as it happens on www.bju.edu. Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00 PM (ET).

Oct. 14, 2017. Jorma Marggraf will perform Evanescence for solo piano, by Bruce Reiprich. Northern Arizona University.

Bruce Reiprichs music has been described as post-romantic radiance (Danbury News-Times), a deeply personal mediation on the poets feelings (San Francisco Classical Voice), very powerful (All Music Guide).

Pianist Jorma Marggraf was born in Dresden in 1998. At the age of four, he started his piano lessons with Gisela Schreiber at the Georg Friedrich Hndel Conservatoire. Since 2014, he has been a student at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He is also active as a harpsichordist in various ensembles. Jorma Marggraf has been composing for many different ensembles, winning the IMPUL Prize of the Halberstadt Composers Workshop, which included an orchestral commission for the IMPULS-Festival.

Chiara String Quartet to perform FIVE SONGS for SOPRANO and STRING QUARTET by Karl Weigl, with Soprano Jamie Reimer, soprano, Kimball Recital Hall; University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Oct 18th, 2017. This amazing ensemble is in its final season of a rich and diverse 18-year performance career.

Join us on Saturday evening, Oct 21 at National Opera Center/Opera America in New York City, for a FREE concert featuring international artists Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, and Paula Fan, piano. Featured songs and arias include music of Barbara Jazwinski, Beth Wiemann, Darleen Mitchell, Roger Vogel, Gheoghe Costinescu, Brian Schober and Michael Dellaira. Poetry and text settings are drawn from a variety of sources - Sophocles, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Howard, Goethe, Micki LeMieux, and Amaut de Mareuil.

Complete program:

Brian Schober
The Wind is fair (Troubador Songs)

Darleen Mitchell
In a Fall Moment, and Other Songs

Gheorghe Costinescu
Wanderers Nachtlied

Barbara Jazwinski
The Girl by the Ocean

Roger C. Vogel
It is Best Not to be Born

Beth Wiemann
Aldingtons Aria (But I say, Dooley, Between Us)

Michael Dellaira
Colored Stones

National Opera Center/Opera America
330 Seventh Ave. - between 28th and 29th streets
7th Floor

8pm - reception to follow concert
No tickets required

A new album from Mtierpresents a range of new works for trumpet by American composers, with the soloist Chris Gekker, acclaimed soloist who is also Professor of Trumpet at the University of Maryland. These are all first recordings and include works by Robert Gibson, Carson Cooman, Lance Hulme, David Heinick and Kevin McKee. Performers alongside Gekker include Rita Sloan (piano), Chris Vadala (tenor sax), and Clara OBrien (mezzo-soprano). To be releasedin July (Mtier MSV 28572).

Full track list: Ghost Dialogues MSV 28572
Robert Gibson:Fall (trumpet/piano)
Lance Hulme: Ghost Dialogues (trumpet/tenor sax)
Carson Cooman: Equinox Sonata (trumpet/piano)
Lance Hulme: The Street has Changed (mezzo-soprano/trumpet) (setting of poems by Randell Jarrell)
David Heinick: Served Two Ways (trumpet/tenor sax)
Kevin McKee: Song for a Friend (trumpet/piano)

sneak preview of "Fall" for trumpet and piano:

Thomas Stimmel Bass Baritone, and Prof. Philipp Vogler Piano, will present an evening of classical vocal music by African-American composers at Rainier-Maria-Rilke Gymasium Concert Hall in Munich.

Program

Thomas Stimmel, Bass-baritone
Philipp Vogler, Piano

with Eroica Berlin String Quartet

Jakob Lehmann, Violin
Angelika Wirth, Violin
Friedemann Slenczka, Viola
Christoph Heesch, Violoncello

Moderators: Th. Stimmel, Ph. Vogler

Concert Hall: Rainer-Maria-Rilke Gymnasiums
Ulrichstrae 1-7
82057 Icking
Germany

Tickets are available from Klangwelt Klassik here and Eventbrite here.

After completing his studies in Munich and his master's studies with Prof. Thomas Quastoff in Berlin, the Bass-Baritone Thomas Stimmel was involved in the Berlin Staatsoper and the Munich Prinzregentheater. The son of a German mother and an African-American father began the search for "classical composers" with African roots, which are hardly known in the German-speaking world.

The result is this concert and a future recording release of these pieces, including a contemporary song cycle and, as a central work, the "Stabat Mater" for string quartet and voice by Julia Perry, created in the 1950s in the face of racial unrest in South Carolina. All these works bear witness to a great creativity, vitality and incredible beauty.

The opera singer Thomas Stimmel was raised in Icking (Munich). He performs at home and abroad as a soloist, in a duo or in ensembles. In addition, he lectures at the College of Music and Theater in Munich. Philipp Vogler is a pianist, composer, conductor and composer. He founded the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra and is Professor for vocal chamber music and choral music at the University of Music and Theater, in Munich.