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Edeta Arts has commissioned American composer and percussionist, Michael Udow, to compose a work that will be performed on Saturday, July 6, 2024. This unique performance will take place throughout the city highlighting the history, monuments, culture, and the importance of music in the daily life of the people of Llria. The performance will feature the music & dance societies of Llria, the Valencia community, and invited international artists & ensembles.

Culminating a week-long city-wide Festival honoring the UNESCO designation of Llria, Spain as a world "City of Music." This 4-hour final concert features eight premieres by Michael Udow: Edeta Fantasy for Symphonic Band, Llria Legends for Symphony Band, 2 works for the El Micalet de Llria Plectra Orchestra, additional new works for Jota music and dance ensemble, Chorus and Orchestra, city-wide participation composition, and composition for massed international percussion ensembles.

"Euro Variations" for percussion sextet by Christopher Shultis will be premiered at the University of Maryland College Park, with Simone Mancuso conducting. Mancuso and the Lugano ensemble is on tour and will continue with performances at Penn State, Roger Williams University, and Boston College Berklee.

On Wednesday, March 1, a concert of David Liptaks music will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Liptak has served as Professor of Composition at Eastman since 1986 and has mentored countless students during his tenure. He will be retiring from his position later this spring.

Five of Liptaks compositions will be performed by an incredible lineup of musicians, including pianists Alison dAmato, Yi-Wen Chang and Daniel Pesca, acclaimed soprano Tony Arnold, guitarist Dieter Hennings and violinist Pia Liptak. Pesca will open the program withConstellations(2010) for solo piano, followed by Hennings onThe Sighs(2015) for solo guitar. Following a brief intermission, Arnold will lend her voice toDove Songs(2013) in collaboration with dAmato, and the evening will close with violinist Pia Liptak performing two pieces:Fantasy(2006) with Chang on piano, andParadise(2020) with Hennings on guitar.

An article celebrating Liptak's career can be found here:https://www.esm.rochester.edu/news/2023/02/eastman-school-of-music-celebrates-professor-david-liptaks-retirement-with-a-performance-of-his-compositions/

And an event listing for the concert can be found here:https://events.rochester.edu/event/composition_department_music_of_david_liptak

On Sunday, March 5th, 2023 at 7:00 pm, at UC Berkeleys Hertz Hall, violinist-composer Dan Flanagan presents The Bow and the Brush: an evening of 20 solo violin compositions, accompanied by projections of visual art from Flanagans personal collection.

Featuring works by composers Libby Larsen, Nathaniel Stookey, Jim Stephenson, Trevor Weston, Jos Gonzlez Granero, Peter Josheff, Linda Marcel, David Mecionis, Jessica Mays, Catherine Neville, Evan Price, Cindy Cox, Edmund Campion, Shinji Eshima, Maija Hynninen, Jacques Desjardins, Emily Onderdonk, Michael Panther, and Dan Flanagan.

With music directly inspired by paintings, pastels, mixed media, and sculptures, the program highlights pieces by Raffalli, Guillaumin, Pinchon, and living artists including Paul Gibson, Nikki Vismara, and Elaine Pratt.

The concert serves as a CD release party for Flanagans upcoming solo album, The Bow and the Brush, slated for release on MSR Classics, with visual video accompaniment of the art to be uploaded to YouTube. All of the musical works are Berkeley premieres; works by Stephenson and Mecionis will be West Coast Premieres; and works by Neville, Weston and Flanagan (Timeless) will be World Premieres.

Tickets are $5-16 and are available at events.berkeley.edu. Hertz Hall is located at 101 Cross-Sproul Path on the campus of UC Berkeley.

Celebrated for his exquisite violin tone and stellar musicianship, Flanagan brings his enthusiasm for music and art to Hertz Hall. The program includes three of Flanagan's own compositions alongside several commissioned works written by 18 celebrated living New Music composers. This concert is part of Flanagans current tour, taking The Bow and the Brush to audiences in the United States and across Europe.

Daniel Pinkham's Trumpet Voluntary will be performed on Easter Sunday at Acton Congregational Church.

CHICAGO CURRENTS is a full-length, staged art song concert that draws inspiration from the
land and water that Chicago is built on, featuring an ensemble of five singers, piano and violin.
CFO welcomes Kirsten C. Kunkle, soprano, and citizen of the Mvskoke (Muscogee Creek) Nation,
to perform several art songs set to the poetry of her own Native ancestor, Alex Posey, as well as
songs that honor the Indigenous tribes of Chicago.

Performances will take place March 19-25 at The Edge Theater 5451 N Broadway, Chicago, IL. For more info here.

Works to be performed include music by Indigenous composers Kirsten Kunkle, Ian Cusson,
and Andrew Balfour; Haitian composer Justin Elie; gems by prominent African-American
composers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Harry T. Burleigh, and H Leslie Adams; settings of
American folk songs by Steven Mark Kohn; as well as works from the catalogue of Chicago
composers Stacy Garrop, John Alden Carpenter, and Ernst Bacon.

New Amsterdam Singers salutes American composers who have chosen great poetry from Hilaire Belloc to e.e. cummings with expressive references to dreams. These works span 80 years, from Louise Talmas charming Lets Touch the Sky from 1952 to Judith Shatins 2021 La Frontera, a poignant setting of poems by an undocumented teenager at the U.S. southern border, to Dale Trumbores Charting the World, a newly commissioned piece that will receive its world premiere at this concert. After our first-ever collaboration in May 2022, The Harlem Chamber Players will again join the chorus on this program, performing a string quartet by composer, poet, and jazz saxophonist Frederick C. Tillis.

Live stream available - purchase tickets here.

Charting the World, World premiere, commissioned by NASDale Trumbore

La Frontera Judith Shatin

Most Holy Night Carol Barnett

You Can Tell the World Alice Parker

The Road Home Stephen Paulus

Lets Touch the Sky Louise Talma

To Sit and Dream Rosephanye Powell

Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 Frederick C. Tillis

The Eastman Wind Ensemble, Luke Camarillo, conductor, presents in Kilbourn Hall (Rochester, NY) program:

Andres Luke Camarillo, conductor
Staff Sgt. Patrick Morgan, clarinet

MONTAGUEIntrada 1631 after Juan Perez Bocanegra
GIBSONThe Sound of Light
ISRAELConcerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble

For program info and streaming link, here.

The Eastman Wind Ensemble (EWE) is both Americas first and leading wind ensemble. Its core of about 50 performers includes undergraduate and graduate students from The Eastman School of Music. Frederick Fennell first formulated the general concept of the wind ensemble at Eastman nearly 65 years ago. Under his leadership the group became known as the pioneering force in the symphonic wind band movement in the United States and abroad.

Widely performed and recorded, the EWE released a recording of David Liptaks music (THROUGH THE BRIGHTENING AIR) on New Focus Records in 2021.

The SEAMUS ANNUAL FESTIVAL 2023 will take place in New York City on April 7 and 8, 2023; and a Live Online Event in late April.

The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music will feature concerts and paper presentations with many composers and musicians in residence this year.

The music presented will include a diverse mix of fixed media, mixed media, acousmatic, new instruments, diverse channel and spatialization formats, installations, and many more forms of experimental electroacoustic involving media. A substantive number of paper sessions, and at least two Workshops or panels, will also take place.

The venues for the Conference are the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York University Bobst Librarys Avery Fisher Center, and New York Universitys Silver Center.

The renowned Cassatt String Quartet in concert at the Italian Academy at Columbia University will perform music by three American women Amy Beach, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Florence Price.

Florence Price
String Quartet No.1 in G major (1929)

Florence Price
Fantaisie ngre, No. 1, for piano solo (1932)

Dorothy Rudd Moore
Modes for string quartet (1968)

Amy Beach
Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor Op 67 (1907)

CASSATT QUARTET

Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower, violins
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Chorus Viennensis presented Vally Weigls work "Let Down the Bars, o Death" for male choir on 3 June in Vienna; and will also present the work on 5 November in Rabenstein an der Pielach (Lower Austria).

Five Bagatelles for Piano and Toccata for Piano by Alison Nowak, played live by Marc Peloquin at the Bennington Museum (VT) on Sunday, May 29th. (link to full concert below includes music of Peter Lieberson, Franz Schubert, David Del Tredici in addition to the two works by Nowak. Two pieces received their world premieres the Nowak Toccata and the pianist's solo piano transcription of Schuberts Arpeggione Sonata.

Mise-En Festival in Brooklyn will include the long-delayed premiere of Karchin's trumpet and percussion work, Arches. There will be a live stream and the link is here:

Arches will be performed by Sam Jones, trumpet, for whom the work was written, and percussionist Josh Perry.

Wednesday, June 15: CONCERT III

Elizabeth Hoffman: Da_Dum_Dum_Pling for piano, violin, viola, cello, and flute (2014)
Amy Brandon : gestures of recoil (2018)
Manolis Ekmektsoglou: Subtraction Melody (2015-16)
Amelia Kaplan : Unnatural Tendencies for piano (2022)
Louis Karchin : Arches for percussion and trumpet (2020)

MISE-EN_PLACE, 341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
8PM
Free Admission

Now Musique presents

Thursday November 17 5:30pm Uphams Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library, 500 Columbia Rd. Dorchester, 02125
Music by New Lullaby Project composers Laurie Spiegel, Anthony Green, Jim Dalton, Michael Veloso, Cutris Hughes, Francine Trester, plus works by Vineet Shende & Larget-Caplan.

Convergence Ensemble "Strings Galore"

Sunday, November 20 4pm St. Marys Church, at 14 Cushing Ave. Boston, MA, 02125
$15 suggested donation, Students Free
Works by J.S. Bach, Aaron Larget-Caplan, Beethoven, Antonio Celso Ribeiro, Thomas L. Read, Libby Larsen, and more.
Musicians: guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan, violist Michelle LaCourse,
violinist Heidi Braun-Hill and cellist Hyun-Ji Kwon.

Photo of Aaron Larget-Caplan by Emma Jensen The Student Life

On December, 3, 2022, Jacob Harrison conducts Andrew Ardizzoia's transcription for orchestra of Debussy's Clair de Lunewith the TMEA Region 20 Honor Orchestra, Richardson, TX.

The premiere broadcast of I Give You My Home, with music and libretto by Beth Wiemann and stage direction by Cara Consilvio, will take place at the Guerilla Opera Emergence Festival (Nov 29-Dec 2, 2022). This live production of Wiemann's site-specific chamber opera at the Nichols House Museum in Boston, MA, which premiered on June 3, 2022, brings to light the efforts and passions of Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960), a true-life Bostonian who was a professional landscape architect, published author, and an activist for the Womens Peace Movement and Womens Suffrage.

This performance is the first of a three-part artistic and transient journey for the opera. In March of 2023, Womens History Month, The Guerillas will present the world premiere of an operatic film adaptation of the opera, which filmed at locations throughout New England.

The opera is a monodrama written for Guerilla Operas core ensemble members: soprano and Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia as Rose, percussionist and co-founding artist Mike Williams, and saxophonist Philipp Studlin.

This is an online video-on-demand program of Guerilla Opera, with ticketing available for the whole festival or individual programs at flex pricing.

The score and parts are available through American Composers Edition (BMI).

Layne Anspach, horn (pictured), and Mireia Frutos Fernandez, piano will include in their upcoming faculty recital the Sonatine for Horn and Piano by Darleen Mitchell. Recital to be given Sunday, January 29th, 2023 at 4pm CT - Duesenberg Recital Hall; Valparaiso University; Valparaiso, IN.

Violist Liuh-Wen Ting performs Sonata for viola and piano (2018) by Gilbert Galindo, which was commissioned by the artist as part of her DMA recital at the Staller Center for the Arts Recital Hall at Stony Brook University. Other works on the program are by Dana Richardson and Dmitri Shostakovich. Joining Liuh-Wen on piano is the energetic Molly Morkoski.

NYCC Presents | NAMASTE CLARINET QUINTET, Guido Arbonelli from Perugia, Italy & Special Guest Performers. Works include Circus Minimus by Timothy L. Miller, Inharmonic Fantasy No. 15 by Hubert Howe, and Two Table Canons for Two Clarinetists by David Mecionis. Tuesday, January 10, 7:00 PM, Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E. 29th Street, New York, NY.

Upcoming concerts with Brian Schober, organist, and flautist Laura Falzon.
Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. - Church of the Atonement -97 Highwood Avenue in Tenafly, NJ. and
Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.-Church of the Transfiguration - 1 East 29th Street in New York City.

Works included will be by Bach, Hartmann, Rorem, Rutter and excerptsfrom Schober's newly composed set of "Magnificats" for solo organ. Schober's 2020 album of contemporary music for organ can be found on Spotify and other channels.