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Richard Cameron-Wolfes chamber orchestra work Reconciliation: Deliberations on Stravinsky will appear on a 5:30PM, Friday, March 3 program of the Not Only Music Festival - # Impreza in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Curator of the project is leading Ukrainian musicologist Yulia Nikolayevskaya. The first half of the program features music for instruments and electronics by one of the great Eastern European women composers, Alla Zagaykevych. Then, presenting the newly-formed Kharkiv Ensemble for Contemporary Music (Sergii Gorkusha, conductor and Artistic Director), Cameron-Wolfes "Reconciliation" and Gyorgy Ligetis "Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments" will be performed. Location: The Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic, Ulitsa Rymarskaya, 21.

Richard Brooks Troubles for alto saxophone and piano*
Jos Bevi Al Borde del Abismo for two flutes and piano**
Hubert Howe Inharmonic Fantasy No. 5 electronics*
Dana Dimitri Richardson Variations on Parang-Sae for flute and piano*
Tania Len Axon for violin and interactive computer
David Mecionis Obstinate Duet for flute and clarinet**
Raoul Pleskow Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano**
Robert S. Cohen Calder's Circus for wind quintet**
*World Premiere **New York Premiere

with Michael Laderman, flute Sato Moughalian, flute Allen Blustine, clarinet,
Anthony Izzo, alto saxophone, Mari Kimura, violin, Cyrus Stevens, violin,
Mark Humburg, cello, Christopher Oldfather, piano, Charles Coleman, conductor.

A Concert of New Music
Tuesday, March 14, 2017, at 7:00 PM
Saint Peter's Church at Citigroup Center
619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City

Sydney Hodkinson will be the featured guest composer of the 2017 RED NOTE New Music Festival from March 26th through March 30th. Hodkinson will work with student composers, and his works performed at the festival will include Symphony No. 10 for wind symphony, on March 26thperformed by the ISU Wind Symphony (Dr. Joseph Manfredo, conductor), and Drawings No. 8 for young string orchestra, which will be performed by students in the ISU String Project. His String Quartet No. 7 will be performed on March 28th by the Jupiter Quartet.

This year, Red Note features guest composer Sydney Hodkinson as well as guest artists Del Sol String Quartetand loadbang, who will lead a Student Composers Workshop open to all student composers. For three days, participants will work with Professor Hodkinson and the ensembles as well as resident composers Martha Horst, Roy Magnuson, and Carl Schimmel. The Workshop will culminate in a concert of the participants' compositions on Wednesday, March 29th, and a concert of contemporary works for bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and baritone voice, presented by loadbang, on March 30th (8 pm, Kemp Recital Hall).

Details about the various events of the Festival are available at the Events page.

Now in its tenth season, RED NOTE New Music Festival at Illinois State University is a week-long event which features outstanding performances of contemporary concert music.

The 21st Century Consort offers a musical reflection of the Washington DC Color School painter Gene Davis, featuring music by minimalist, synesthetic and Washington DC composers. Tickets are FREE. Concert at 5pm, preceded by a 4pm discussion with composers and performers, and followed by a post-concert reception.

Jessica Krash

Dangerous Curves

Robert Gibson

Twelve Poems

David Froom

Nightsongs

John Chowning

Voices

Nicolas Maw

Ghost Dances

The 21st Century Consort, award-winning contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution for three decades, embarks on its tenth 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 William Sharp, Mary Mackenzie and Lucy Shelton.

Painter Gene Davis (1920-1985), a major figure in 20th-century American painting whose contribution was invaluable in establishing Washington, D.C., as a center of contemporary art. Davis also played a significant national and international role in the color abstraction movement that first achieved prominence in the 1960s.

Strings & Hammers is a unique piano trio. Founded by Eunmi Ko, Sini Virtanen, and Julia Keller, the ensemble has the instrumentation of piano, violin, and double bass. The ensemble explores chamber music repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first century and collaborates with composers from around the world. The ensemble will play music of David Liptak, Baljinder Sekhon, Eduardo Costa Roldan, Alejandro Roman, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, and Michael Frazier. For more information about Strings and Hammers, please visit facebook page, facebook.com/StringsHammers

Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York - Saturday, March 25th, 6 PM

Tickets are $15/$10 (cash only) at the door.

Works by: Joel Gressel, Stephen Dydo, Alice Shields (World Premiere), Jeffrey Hall, Joseph Hudson (World Premiere), Maurice Wright (World Premiere), Ionel Petroi, and Adam Vidiksis. A rich diversity of musical technologies and musical styles:classical principles applied to the newest adventures in computer sound synthesis. The power of classical music: 8 composers and 8 very different approaches to new computer music. Tickets: $20/$15 here

8 PM
National Opera Center
330 Seventh Avenue @ 29th Street
Manhattan

Music of Steven Sacco, Eleanor Cory, and Nicolas Scherzinger, faculty of Mannes Prep, on Saturday, Jan. 21st at the New School,

Glass Box Performance Space, Arnhold Hall, 1st floor55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

7pm

Eunmi Ko's performance on the Kaleidoscope "Piano Concert Series" will feature solo piano music by Matthew Barber, John Liberatore, Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, and selections from David Liptak's CONSTELLATIONS. Steinway Piano Gallery, 4104 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, Florida. Tickets ($20, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students) may be purchased in advance at kaleidoscopemusart.com.

Faculty artist series at Eastman School of Music: Renee Jolles and harpist Susan Jolles will premiere Louis Karchin - Barcarole Variations at the Eastman School of Music on Sunday, Jan. 29. The concert also includes new works by David Liptak, Victoria Bond, Roberto Sierra, and Leo Kraft. Susan Jolles and pianist Peggy Kampmeier will alternate as Renee's duo partners for the recital.

An afternoon of new music composed by The Hartt School composition faculty members Robert Carl and Ken Steen.

Program:
Robert Carl Infinity Avenue
Ken Steen Assumption

Robert Carl

Robert Carls music, to my ear at least, has always felt like the work of a particularly sensitive sonic observer of the world. Originally a student of history before he refocused his efforts into music, his interest in time, memory, and space are veins running through his compositions, his work more given to conjuring imagery than narrative plot. And whether inspiration is mined in the wake of a seascape or travelers on a speeding bullet train, the resulting music tends to carry a distinct organic beauty and rich, encompassing depth. ~ Julia Lu, NewMusicBox

More info here

~ notes from the composer on Infinity Avenue

Infinity Avenue is an ongoing project now entering its second year. It unites an interest in alternative tuning with open-ended form. It is designed so as to exist in multiple formats. At the core is a patch in MaxMSP that allows for real-time performance and exploration of a world in precise overtone-derived tuning. The materials of this score allow for realizations that so far have included the following:

An installation that may be either directed by a solo performer for any amount of time, or allowed to run semi-automatically.

A solo performance which can be more precisely structured by a laptop player, allowing for direct choice of pitches, harmonies, and gestures, as well as more automatic fields.

Next up is what will be unveiled at this performance, a version that allows for a small improvising ensemble to interact with the patch.

Celebrating the contributions of African American composers! FREE and open to the public!

Rochelle Sennet, piano, will perform the Intermezzo for Violin and Piano by H. Leslie Adams, with violinist Igor Kalnin, in Austin, Texas for the "Black Composers Concert," sponsored by Austin Chamber Music Society, on February 12, 2017. Also to be performed several other works by H. Leslie Adams, as well as works by Margaret Bonds, Jeffrey Mumford, David Wilborn, and more.

The Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina Street, Austin, TX

Program

Negro Speaks of Rivers | Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Mortal Storm, Op. 29 | Robert Owens

1. A House in Taos
2. Little Song
3. Jamie
4. Faithful One
5. Genius Child

Amazing Grace | Marcus Wilcher (b. 1985)
Battle Hymn of the Republic | Marcus Wilcher (b. 1985)
Blessed Assurance | David Wilborn (b. 1961)
When We All Get to Heaven | David Wilborn (b. 1961)

INTERMISSION

Intermezzo for Violin and Piano (1953) | H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
Etude in G Minor for Solo Piano | H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
Two Miniatures for Violin and Piano | Jeffrey Mumford (b. 1955)
No-body Knows the Trouble Ive Seen | Clarence Cameron White (1880-1960)
For You There is No Song | H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
Creole Girl | H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)

Featuring Rochelle Sennet, piano | Igor Klanin, violin | James D. Rodriquez, baritone |
Icy Simpson-Monroe, soprano Artina McCain, piano | Martin McCain, bass trombone

The Aurora Winter Music Festival will feature music by Karl Weigl and Arnold Schoenberg, on February 25th at the Folkets Hus Kulturhuset live music venue in Trollhttan, Sweden.

Victoria Borisova-Ollas - Silent Island for piano
Karl Weigl - Ein Stelldichein
Arnold Schoenberg - Verklrte Nacht

Tickets: http://www.tickster.com/sv/events/pnv9pbt5wrzchee/2017-02-25/verklarte-nacht

Portrait of Harvey SOLLBERGER:

Works for flute orchestra and flute soloists

KILLAPATA/CHASKAPATA, SONATE CHARLIE HEBDO
NEW WORK FOR FLUTE ORCHESTRA, and RIDING THE WIND II, III, IV

With flute soloists: Harvey SOLLBERGER, and Pierre-Yves ARTAUD
Direction Harvey SOLLBERGER et Marc HAJJAR
Location: Mairie du XVII^me, rue des Batignolles, 75017 Paris

Five Sollberger works composed between 1983 and 2016 will comprise the program, including the world premiere of a new work composed for the OFF, A meme rive (Toward the Same Shore). A meme rive is dedicated to the French people as a token of solidarity in their ongoing resistance to threats of terrorism, and is composed for an orchestra of 24 flutes (including 4 piccolos, 8 flutes, 4 alto flutes, 4 bass flutes and 4 contrabass flutes).

Sollberger will also perform as flute soloist in his New Millennium Memo, Potpourri for Betty and Sonate Charlie Hebdo. The program will conclude with his Killapata/Chaskapata for flute soloist and flute orchestra, with the solo part to be played by French flute virtuoso and Music Director of the OFF, Pierre-Yves Artaud.

The Orchestre de Flutes Francais has been a pillar of the Parisian musical scene for many years. Founded and led by Pierre-Yves Artaud, it consists of 24 of the French capitol's leading flutists and has presented many premieres and new works by leading French and international composers.

Harvey Sollberger was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and is a graduate of Marion High School and the University of Iowa. He has been Professor of Music at Columbia University, the Manhattan School of

Music, the Indiana University School of Music and the University of California, San Diego. Aside from his academic appointments, he has served as Composer-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Red Cedar Chamber Music.

He has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sollberger's compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco
Symphony, Tanglewood, Interlink (Tokyo), Radio France (Paris), Incontri di Musica Sacra (Rome)
and many other organizations. In 2012 he donated his papers to the Library of Congress in Washington,

D.C. In 2015 he received the National Flute Association's Distinguished Achievement
Award, and is a 2016 recipient of a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs for the
production of a compact disc of his flute music written between 1958 and 2016.

Composed of graduates from top music schools, Symphony Nova creates opportunities for its musicians to present outstanding music as they grow professionally. On April 7th, they will perform ANDY VORES: Symphony Nova Commission; COPLAND: As it Fell Upon a Day; KARL WEIGL: Songs for Soprano and String Quartet, Op. 44; and GEORGE ONSLOW: Nonet in A Minor, Op. 77. Tickets can be purchased online here.

Regarding the Five Songs: "intriguing novelties, especially seldom-heard songs for soprano and string quartet from the 1920s and 30s by Karl Weigl, a friend and colleague of Schoenberg," - Anthony Tommasini, NY Times. [Renee Fleming with the Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall, May 5, 2013]

Symphony Nova concerts are four times a year in the beautiful Old South Church in Copley Square, Boston. A vibrant presence in the classical music world, Symphony Novas Music Director, Lawrence Isaacson inspires audiences with exciting, interactive and creative concerts.

A graduate of Northwestern University (Bachelors of Music) and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Masters of Music), Ms. Jacobs has worked with many excellent musicians, including Karen Brunssen, Alan Darling, Ken Smith, Thomas Baresel, Barbara Honn, Ken Griffiths, Marie-France Lefebvre, Donna Loewy, and Terry Lusk. She is a recent graudate of the highly competitive Artist Diploma in Opera program at CCM.

On March 17 at Spectrum NYC, the California-based duo of cellist Susan Lamb Cook and pianist Gayle Blankenburg will perform Richard Cameron-Wolfes Time Refracted, on a concert also including music by Dutch composers Jo and Antal Sporck, Argentine composer Pablo Ortiz, and Sergei Rachmaninov. Joining the duo will be dancer-choreographer Mariah Maloney (formerly of the Trisha Brown Dance Company). Cameron-Wolfes piano miniature Elegy for Janis will also appear on the program.

Friday, March 17 at 7:00PM Admission: $20 at the door; $10 for students and seniors. Spectrum: 121 Ludlow St. 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10002.

On Oct. 28th, Christopher Shultis concert and lecture, withpianist Curtis Cacioppo - the premiere performance of the Complete Piano Etudes (World's End and Devisadero) by Christopher Shultis.

Livewire 7:The New York School and Beyond
Featuring Special Guest Artist Malcolm Goldstein
Wednesday, October 26 Saturday, October 29
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
and othervenues
Baltimore, MD

The New York School, which included composersJohn Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff and Earle Brown (as well as pianist David Tudor) flourished in the 1950s and 60s, revolutionizing contemporary Western music and creating connections with dance, theatre, visual arts and poetry that continue to influence artists today. Over a span of fourdays, Livewire 7 explores music by these composers and explores the Beyond, with performances of works by figuressuch as Bunita Marcus, Ben Johnston, Toshi Ichiyanagi, James Tenney, Thomas DeLio, Christopher Shultis, and others. Prominently representing the Beyond will be featured guest composer/violinist Malcolm Goldstein, whose soundings improvisations have received international acclaim for extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the violin.

On October 20 and 22, the world premiere of Louis Karchins Jane Eyre with a libretto by Diane Osen based on Charlotte Brontes novel, will be staged by the Center for Contemporary Opera at The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. Jane Eyre, an opera in three acts, was presented in 2013 by the CCO in a workshop production at the Cell Theatre, and is Karchins second opera. Conducting will be the Grammy-nominated and CCO's Chief Conductor Sara Jobin, joined by Director Kristine McIntyre who will be making her New York City directing debut. The leading roles will be performed by Jennifer Zetlan and Ryan McPherson.

The Center for Contemporary Opera for more than 3 decades has been the leading opera company devoted exclusively to the development and production of modern operas, seen in both in the United States and abroad.

Dreamscape - a new work by Louis Karchin for oboe and violin will be premiered by the Plurimo Ensemble of Venice, Italy. The concert, to be held at the beautiful Sale Apollinee, (the Chamber Recital Hall of La Fenice), will center around musical responses to Mallarme's poem, Apparition. Performing a prior setting of this poem by Debussy on the same concert will be upcoming young soprano, Marisa Karchin.