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On January 29, the distinguished mother-daughter duo of Susan and Renee Jolles (harp and violin) will premiere Barcarole Variations, a work they commissioned from the composer last year. This will be part of a concert at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and will also include music by David Liptak. It begins with a pre-concert talk at 2pm followed by the concert at 3pm.

On March 15, the Daedalus Quartet will perform the world premiere of Karchin's 30-minute Third String Quartet, commissioned by the Morrison Artist Series of San Francisco for the Daedalus. The concert begins at 8pm in McKenna Theatre. They will give a repeat performance in Santa Rosa on March 17.

Ensemble U:, the most renowned Estonian contemporary music ensemble, will present some of the very best Estonian chamber music of recent years some of it written by American composers. The concert features the NYC premiere of Scott L. Miller's "Raba" and Heather Stebbins' "And Drift;" both have stayed in Estonia on Fulbright Scolarship and the influence of Estonian nature and Nordic light is clearly present in their pieces performed in this program.

Firehouse Space

246 Frost Street in Brooklyn

Pianist Eunmi Ko performs as part of the University of South Florida Steinway Piano Series. The program includes new work by Matt Barber and John Liberatore, and "Constellations" by David Liptak.

ACA is pleased to announce a concert of chamber music by four exceptional women composers whose music is rarely heard. Hermine Haselbck, Mezzosoprano; Franz Bartolomey, Violoncello; and Clemens Zeilinger, Piano, will present an evening of music by Charlotte Schlesinger, Vtezslava Kaprlov, Henritte Bosmans, and one of ACA's founding members, Vally Weigl. Many thanks to EntArteOpera for their support of this music.

Vally Weigl (1894-1982):
Old-time Burlesque, fr Violoncello und Klavier 1938
Toccatina, (Homage to Robert Schumann), fr Klavier 1982
Rain in summer, Lied, Text Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1961
The elf and the doormouse, Lied, Text Oliver Herford 1962
Thanks, Lied, Text Clara Fischer
Mice, Lied, Text Rose Fileman
All day I hear the noice of waters, Lied, Text James Joyce 1951
Listen, Lied, Text Clara Fischer 1971
Who is at my window, Lied, Text Denise Levertow 1968

America The Beautiful: Glimpses of an American Songbook

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will sing a concert of music by American composers on September 25th at the Phillips Collection modern art museum located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Miss Graves was born in Washington, DC, graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1981, and went on to study at Oberlin Conservatory and New England Conservatory before embarking on her professional career at the Wolf Trap Opera Company. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1995 as Carmen a role she has sung there more than 40 times.

Leslie Adams (b. 1932) is an African-American composer whose works include the opera Blake based on the nineteenth-century novel by Martin Delany which recounts the story of a slave who resolves to lead his people out of bondage on the eve of the Civil War. Adamss other works includes an extensive output of songs. In the early 1960s, Adams met Langston Hughes (19021967), the great poet of the Harlem Renaissance, who gave permission to set some of his poems, including Prayer. Adams subsequently set more poems by Hughes and other African-American writers to create Nightsongs, a cycle first performed in New York on 1 December 1961. Prayer has remained the most popular song from this set.

Other works on the program will include music by Samuel Ward, Aaron Copland, Jake Heggie, George Gershwin, Gene Scheer, and more.

The Abyssinian Baptist Church, founded in 1809, will present a concert of music on Sunday, Oct. 16th at 4pm, featuring music of composers H. Leslie Adams and Margaret Bonds. "I, Too, Sing America" will feature songs on poetry of Toni Morrison and Langston Hughes. Arrangements by John Carter and Hall Johnson and new poetry by Janinah Burnett will round out the program. Tickets for this event are $20 and can be purchased through the church here.

Abyssinian Baptist Church
132 Odell Clark Place
(Formerly 138th St.)
New York, NY 10030

Soprano Minnita Daniel-Cox will present a free lecture-recital about musical settings of the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, known in the 19th century as the African-American poet laureate. With pianist Gwynne Brown, the program includes music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and H. Leslie Adams.

7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Free. Schneebeck Hall, University of Puget Sound, 1701 S. Union Ave., Tacoma.

Pianist Irena Portenko presents a concert at the Union Arts Center in Sparkill, NY -celebrating her "Versus" CD release of Tchaikovsky (#1) and Prokofiev (#2) concerti. She has gathered together a stellar roster of her performer and composer friends for this November 12 event, including pianists Sergei Kvitko and Svetlana Gorokhovich, soprano Elisabeth Halliday, saxophonist Jordan Smith, and cellist Nargiza Yusupova. The program includes Richard Cameron-Wolfe's 2010 cello-piano work Roerich Rhapsody, along with works by Sergei Rachmaninov, Ellwood Derr, Joelle Wallach, Lu Pei, and Logan Skelton. Tickets are available at http://irena-portenko.eventbrite.com

Orchestre de Flutes Francaises will present the world premiere of a new work for 24 flutes by Harvey Sollberger on October 22, 2016 in Paris, as part of the International Flute Convention.

CONVENTION 22 Octobre 2016 LEVALLOIS
James Newton JUBAL pour flte solo et orchestre de fltes **

Harvey Sollberger A mme rive-signes dsaccords, chemins pars
d'aprs Yves Bonnefoy **

Soliste Pierre-Yves Artaud
Direction Marc HAJJAR

For its opening concert of the 2016-17 season, the Talea Ensemble presents its next installment of 'Written for Talea' concerts. The evening will include the world premieres of ...in terra aliena.. by Lewis Nielson and Taylor Brook's Exploded Views, as well as the US premiere of Natacha Diels's Princess Nightmare Moon, three dramatic works with very different derivations. Nielson's ...in terra aliena... has a topical political message focusing on equality. Through music and text, Nielson uses the story of the trial of American abolitionist John Brown to explore true equality, rights and compassion.

The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
(Just south of 118th Street)

Fri. Oct. 14th
7:30 pm
Free Admission

Sound And Fury Concerts presents Multiple Grammy nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko will play Close-Ups (Through Tiny Eyes) by Stephen Cohn, as well as a World Premiere by Tom Flaherty and works by Daniel Felsenfeld, Vera Ivanova, Missy Mazzoli, Nick Norton, Peter Yates and Adam Borecki. --at Art Share on July 23rd. at 3:30 PM

When: Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 3:30 PM
Location:
Art Share
801 E. 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA

http://artsharela.org

Admission: Ticket prices are $20.00 at the door. Eventbrite tickets in advance $15.00.

Christopher Shultis ist Distinguished Professor Emeritus und Regents Professor of Music an der University of New Mexico, wo er Percussion, Komposition und Musikwissenschaft unterrichtete. Das international renommierte Percussion-Ensemble der UNM arbeitete u. a. eng mit John Cage zusammen.

Zur Zeit verbindet Shultis Komponieren und Schreiben; seine Studien zu Cage sind international anerkannt. Als Komponist steht er bei NEUMA unter Vertrag; seine Partituren werden von der American Composers Alliance verffentlicht. Nach Fulbright Senior Lecturerships in Aachen (1993-1994) und Heidelberg (1999-2000) unterrichtet er im laufenden Semester wieder am Anglistischen Seminar der Universitt Heidelberg.

Concert of music by Christopher Shultis at DAI Heidelberg - (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg) Sofienstrae 12, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany. Works performed will include the world premiere of One Far Noise for solo tam tam, performed by Simone Mancuso. The composer and Simone Mancuso will also perform together the European premiere of Shultis' work for two percussionists and electronics, 4-7-3.

Musikanten, and Kerry Krebill, conductor, released a CD of sacred music by Robert Evett on the Innova label 15 years ago. This group ispreparing to reprise it on an upcoming tour to Berlin and Gdansk on the Baltic coast in September 2016. In case you missed it, the recording is still in print at many fine outlets.

Musikanten was founded in June of 1979 as a lab chorus for the Masters degree work of director Kerry Krebill. It is the oldest choral chamber ensemble in the nation's capital, with nearly a thousand appearances, including concerts at the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian galleries, the Kennedy Center, and performances on concert series at embassies, churches, universities, museums and historic homes throughout the Washington DC area. The group has also travelled to Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis and many Eastern Shore venues; members of Musikanten have performed on ten European tours since 1990, including Maestra Krebill's 1997 50th birthday celebration singing two SRO performances of the Monteverdi Vespers in Venice. Their first three solo recordings, in 1990, 1993 and 1997, received international acclaim; Musikanten Sings Music of Russell Woollen was nominated for the 1991 Choral CD of the Year by Chorus! magazine, and has! been featured on the national radio program "The First Art." Awards won by Musikanten include the 1992 Louise Goucher National Memorial Prize for a concert of Renaissance madrigals, Chorus America's American Performing Works grants and the National Endow-ment's Choruses grants and Heritage and Preservation grant. The ensemble was the first American choir to perform on the Krakow Music Festival (1990), was invited to sing the closing services for the 30th annual Bruges Festival van Vlaanderen (1993) and received the Alexander Nevsky Award of Excellence from St. Petersburg Conservatory (1995).

Robert Evett (1922-1975) was a highly esteemed American composer whose works were performed regularly during the 26 years that he lived and worked in Washington DC. He was prolific, numbering among his works three symphonies, six piano sonatas, seven concertos, chamber music for various combinations and many choral works ... He was known nationally and his works were commissioned with frequency by major local arts organizations. He was one of only two Washington composers chosen to create works for the United States Bicentennial Celebration. In addition, he was nominated for a Pulitzer prize in composition by Washington's most respected music critics Paul Hume and Irving Lowe ... As eloquent with words as he was with music, it was literary editing and writing that financially sustained him. Here too, he reached the highest levels of his craft ... [H]e received a second Pulizter prize nomination for literary commentary ... Evett contributed significantly to the richness and diversity of 20th century music in America and to the cultural life of Washington in particular.

Tango Dreams for accordion and string trio by Raymond Luedeke will be performed by Alexander Sevastian, accordionist, at Festival Saint-Znon-de-Piopolis in Quebec. Concert time is 8pm at St-Znon Church located in the village of Piopolis.

Alexander Sevastian, born in Belarus and now established in Canada, is a Master of the accordion, playing with an absolute virtuosity. Mr. Sevastian will be accompanied by the string quartet Bankas and will interpret great classics of the Argentin Tango repertoire.