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Hadley McCarroll performs Matthew Welchs piano music, including West Coast premieres of selections from Welch's 12 Etudes for Piano (2015), and Orion (1998), an early piece of Matthews in response to Morton Feldmans style.

Presented by SF Sound

May 21 - 7:00 pm
Mosswood Chapel
3630 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
ALL AGES, $10-25

Following will be the Bernal Hill Players :

P R O G R A M
Toru Takemitsu: Moby Dick and The Night from Toward the Sea
Jennifer Peringer and the Bernal Hill Players: The Canyon Wakes Up
Davide Verotta: Sulle Aridi Pendici
Pauline Oliveros: Environmental Dialogue
Sarah Stiles: A Dana da Sobrevivencia
Sally Davies: Restore the Earth

Max Grafe will have two premieres on different concerts in NYC the weekend of 5/19-21. The first will be a new piece for piano quartet performed by the musicians of Decoda as part of Iceberg New Music's presentation of "PLOT / TWIST, PART 2." The second will the the workshop and discussion of excerpts for electric piano and guitar performed by Jay Sorce and Andrea Lodge on Concept Lab Vol. XVI.

For more information about PLOT/TWIST, PART 2, click here.

For more information about Concept Lab Vol. XVI, click here.

Danzas Mexicanas - Music: Lionel Nowak, original score.

Danzas Mexicanas, is a partially lost early choreographed work by Jos Limn. Developed at a pivotal moment in his career, Danzas is a collection of five solos representing historical Mexican figures that reveal Limns complicated relationship with his heritage and identity. --Dante Puleio, Artistic Director, Limn Dance Company

SFDanceworks will present two solos from Danzas this summer in 4 concerts at the ODC Theater in San Francisco. These will be performed by current Limn Company member MJ Edwards, accompanied by the original piano score by American composerLionel Nowak.The work, which is Joss response to his Mexican heritage, premiered in 1939 at Mills College in Oakland, and restaged by the Joyce Theatre in New York in 2022. Since then it has not been seen outside of New York, and SFDanceworks is the first company to perform these solos apart from the Limn Company.

Thursday, June 29th 7:00pm *Ticketed dress rehearsal
Friday, June 30th 7:00pm *Opening night
Saturday, July 1st 2:00pm
Saturday, July 1st, 7:00pm
Sunday, July 2nd, 2:00pm

Day concert at 12 noon on Wednesday June 7, 2023 -Join violist Aundrey Mitchell and pianist Nnenna Ogwo for Restless Beauty" in performance of music by Rebecca Clarke and H. Leslie Adams. This concert is free and open to the public, at the beautiful chapel of the Interchurch Center at 61 Claremont - near 120th St and Broadway.

Violist Dr. Mitchell received undergraduate and graduate degrees in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, completed post graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music, and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University. She is also an alumnus of the Taos School of Music and LEcole dArts Americaine at Fontainebleau (France). Her principal teachers were Lucien Joel, Karen Ritscher, and Michael Tree.

Composer-pianist-teaching artist Dr. Nnenna Ogwo is dedicated to engaging listeners of all kinds with performances as a solo artist and with her ensemble, Juneteenth LP. Her unwavering commitment to programming the music of under-represented composers, music of the African diaspora, and also arrangements of familiar modern music by such artists as Stevie Wonder deliver richly layered and satisfying program experiences.

The Antwerp Cello Quartet will perform Richard Cameron-Wolfe's "Telesthesia" at the Love2Arts Gallery on June 10, 2023, on a program including the works of Shuya Tanaka, Robert Schumann, and Belgian composers Jules de Swert and Joseph Jongen."Telesthesia" will then be recorded at the MotorMusic Studio in Mechelen, to be included on Cameron-Wolfe's forthcoming CD.

Cellists: Shuya Tanaka, Peter Devos, Jan Sciffer and Clia Brunet Vila.

The Love2Arts Gallery is located in Residentie Hertogenpark at Desguinlei 90, 2018 Antwerpen.
Entry: 20 Euros.
Link:https://love2arts.com/event/20230610_AntwerpCelloQuartet

ACA had another stellar showing in the 2023 Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence. Hosted by the Music Publishers Association, the awards recognize exceptional editions by associated music publishers in a variety of categories, ranging from book design to educational materials to non-traditional notation. This year, three ACA works placed in three different categories:

Instrumental Solos (with Accompaniment): 1st Prize
Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy: Windrider/Final Ascent
Notesetter: Henry Gale
Book Design: Henry Gale
Production Coordinator: Will Rowe

Cover Design: 3rd Prize
Anthology:Viola Music by Black American Composers
Cover Design: Henry Gale
Production Coordinator: Gina Genova

Chamber Ensemble: 3rd Prize
Martin Boykan: Eclogue
Notesetter: Will Rowe
Book Design: Will Rowe
Production Coordinator: Gina Genova

Samba, (2004) by Andrew Thomas, for solo flutes, antiphonal flute choirs, harp, 3 percussion, piano, and strings is scheduled for performance at the National Flute Association Convention - Concerto Gala concert in Phoenix, AZ, August 5th. Soloists Carol Wincenc, and Sooah Jeon, with conductor Daniel Kessner. 8pm at Phoenix Symphony Hall, Phoenix convention center.

"CAROL WINCENC IS ONE OF THE TOP FOUR OR FIVE FLUTISTS IN THE WORLD."
-THE BUFFALO NEWS

Multi-instrumentalist and champion of "musica obscura" Peter Nelson-King on his July 22 Seattle concert "No Place to Go". The program includes two works from ACA's catalog: Richard Cameron-Wolfe's 2006 piano meditation "Code of Unsilence: a Prayer, as well as Robert Carl's "Warm Waxing Wail" for singing pianist. These will be performed alongside Peter's own Takuboku-inspired improvisation cycle "No Place to Go" plus works by Aaron Keyt, Aaron Kirschner.

8:00PM, July 22nd, 2023
$5$20 donation at the door
Chapel Performance Space of the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave.N., Seattle.
More information at:https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=7660

Here and Now Series: Songs from The 40@40 Project / Laura Strickling, soprano, and Daniel Schlosberg, piano. April 14th at 7pm at the BargeMusic concert room, docked near Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Songs from The 40@40 Project

Daron Hagen/Christina Ramirez benediction*
Nell Shaw Cohen/Megan CohenWoman Walking*
Scott Wheeler/Jeffrey HarrisonSaint*
Felix Jarrar/Lord ByronSun of the Sleepless*
H. Leslie Adams/Nikos ValenceAlone*
Tom Cipullo/Li Po [Translated by Ezra Pound]At Springs End*
Juliana Hall/Vachel LindsayTwo Old Crows*
Evan Fein/William WordsworthSolitary Reaper*
Dennis Tobenski/Elizabeth Seydel Morgan E-mail to Odessa*
Reinaldo Moya/Pamela Rahn Sanchez Las Palmeras*
Ed Windels/C.L. ODellPeony*
Juhi Bansal/Julie BaberNot Quite Stars*
Philip Wharton/Janet BurrowayWe Met at the Met**
Lori Laitman/Caitlin VincentThanks a Latte*

*NY Premiere
**World Premiere

Laura Strickling, soprano
Daniel Schlosberg, piano

Tickets: $35

• Monday, March 27, 7:00 PM, LINES OF REFERENCE: A Concert of New Music, Marc A. Scorca Hall at OPERA Americas National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, 7th Floor, New York, NY. Tickets go on sale March 13 and will be available for purchase HERE.

• Monday, March 27, 7:00 PM, LINES OF REFERENCE: A Concert of New Music, Marc A. Scorca Hall at OPERA Americas National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, 7th Floor, New York, NY. Tickets go on sale March 13 and will be available for purchase HERE.

Louis Karchin will join Anthony Cheung and Tyshawn Sorey on a program of world premieres as a part of Written for Talea at the DiMenna Center this coming Tuesday.

Tribute to the Angels(2020) takes its name and texts from Trilogy, a cycle of poems by the American-British imagist poet, H. D (a. k. a. Hilda Doolittle). Trilogy emanates from H.D.s first-hand experience of the blitz in London during World War II. The text of Tribute to the Angels draws in particular from the portions of the text that focus on spiritual rejuvenation and redemption, rather than destruction. Soprano Jennifer Zetlanjoins Talea for the world premiere.Tribute to the Angelswas commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University.

Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/written-for-talea-cheung-sorey-karchin-premieres-tickets-563592148287

TJ Anderson's Classical Symphony was performed by Chamber Orchestra Musaic, Chamber Orchestra without Borders, conducted by Larry Strachan, at Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada, on Sunday, Feb. 26th, 2023 at 3pm. Other words on the program included music by Shirley J. Thompson (Jamaica/UK), Jenny Pena Campo (Cuba), Adolphus Hailstork (US), and Fred Onovwerosuoke (Ghana).

Max Grafe's "Quintet" was awarded first place in chamber music category of the RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition. As such, it will be performed as part of the RED NOTE New Music Festival on a concert alongside the music of George Tsontakis and Melinda Wagner.

The concert, taking place at 8:00 p.m. CDT on March 28th, can be streamed live at the following link:https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/live/

Seattle Opera Presents a Voice Recital "From His Hearts Deep Core" with songs of Florence Price, Daniel Schnyder, Steve Wallace, David Baker, and Richard O. Thompson.

With Ellaina Lewis, soprano; Martin Bakari, tenor; and Joe Williams, piano

Tagney Jones Hall at Seattle Opera Center, Seattle, WA
Ticket price: $45/general public; $40/subscribers

Website info:

Program:

The Poet and His Song Florence Price
Sympathy from Charlie Parkers Yardbird Daniel Schnyder
Four Songs of Paul Laurence Dunbar Steve Wallace
Piano Sonata No. 1 David Baker

Four Songs from The Shadow of Dawn Richard Thompson

• Dawn
• Loves Apotheosis
• We Wear the Mask
• One Life

Two Songs from Dream Variations Richard Thompson

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Dream Variations

Paul and Alice Duet from The Mask in the Mirror Richard Thompson

Finalists:

Flute and Piano:
Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy: Windrider / Final Ascent

Solo Flute:
Flute Music of New York (anthology project with New York Women Composers)

Honorable Mentions:

Flute and Electronics:
Arthur Kreiger: Close Encounters

Concertos:
Earl Louis Stewart: Katrina Lament

Low Flute Mixed Duet:
Earl Louis Stewart: Corsica

Piccolo:
Jane Rigler: Red

The NFA Newly Published Music Competition winning publications for 2023 (including finalist and honorable mention) will be placed in the NFA library following the August convention.

On Wednesday, April 19, Richard Cameron-Wolfe offered a lecture-conversation titled "Artist Responses to War and Social Conflict", during the KharkivMusicFest event series Music between Peace and War the event originating in Kharkiv, Ukraine. During the presentation he cited historical examples from the past hundred years as well as examples from his own compositions - creations referencing not only military war but also social polarization/conflicts between religions, races, men and women, heterosexual/non-binary gender identification, between political parties, and between nations.

Then, on Thursday, April 20 - sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Kharkiv Academy of Culture, and the National Academy of the Arts of Ukraine - the Culture and Information Society of the XXI Century conference presented a lecture by guitarist-scholar Maksym Trianov, postgraduate student at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, titled Guitar Ensemble in the Works of Richard Cameron- Wolfe. Maksym Trianov has been an active participant in the creation of Cameron- Wolfes guitar ensemble works, as both editor and performer: for example, the 2016 cantata Breathless, the 2019 guitar quartet Mirage desprit, and the soon to be ACA-published 2023 sextet Arcturus.

Transformations is accompanied by a composition by Dane Rudhyar, performed live by pianist Dana Scott. "I chose Dane Rudhyar's piano score Transmutation because of his association to the Transcendental Painting Group," said Burgess. The score is complicated. Its interlacing sections challenge the dancers as they move through space and seek to interact with one another like moving brushstrokes on a canvas." World-renowned Fashion and Textile Designer, Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo, and her daughter Margeaux Abeyta, designed the costumes for Transformations.

On Saturday, May 6th, 2023, the UNM Art Museum will host the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company to premiere a new modern dance entitled Transformations in the University of New Mexicos Keller Hall. Transformations is inspired by the New Mexico-based Transcendental Painting Group. The program will begin at 4:00 PM with a panel discussion featuring Founding Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Costume Designer Patricia Michaels, and UNM Art Museum Director Arif Khan, with the performance to follow. The event will be recorded and simultaneously live streamed on the UNM Art Museums YouTube account.

Additional performances will take place, including May 14th at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.

Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m. at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, Bass-Baritone Christopher Grundy, faculty at Fairfield University, will conduct a choral program, including "Christ Being Raised" by Elizabeth R. Austin.