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• Monday, February 13, 7:00 PM, NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE PRESENTS: THE INTERVAL BETWEEN: A Concert of New Music, OPERA Americas National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, 7th Floor, New York, NY. Tickets go on sale January 31 and will be available for purchase HERE.

Glenn Stallcop's String Quartet 1980will be performed byUrban NocturnesatSt Andrew's Bach Society in Tucson onAug. 27th.The Bach Society series closes Aug. 27 with the return of the Phoenix ensemble Urban Nocturnes, a modular chamber ensemble that plays classical music from duos and trios to quartet and beyond. Their concert will include works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Glenn Stallcop's String Quartet 1980.

St. Andrews Bach Society concerts are held at Grace St. Pauls Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St. near the University of Arizona. Tickets are $25 for reserved seats, $15 for general admission throughstandrewsbach.org.

The European Parliament has invited the Antwerp Cello Quartet to perform Richard Cameron-Wolfe's "Telesthesia", along with the cello quartet version of Schumann's Cello Concerto, on a June 12 free 1:00PM lunchtime concert in the Citizen's Garden of the Antoine Wiertz Museum - Rue Vautier 68, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels. // Then, on June 13, the Quartet will record "Telesthesia" at the Evil Penguin studio in Mechelen, to be included on Cameron-Wolfe's forthcoming New Focus CD.

Songs and Vocal Works by American Composers on March 11 @ 7 PM to Renee Weiler Concert Hall at Greenwich House Music School (seen below), 46 Barrow Street in Manhattan. Works to be performed include Elodie Lautens The Five-Petal Proportion (from Two Cents Opera) for flute, voice and electronic recording, the Premiere of Beth Andersons Various for solo flute, Mantra by Jim Theobald for flute, voice and piano, John Cages A Flower for voice and piano and Frank Wigglesworth's Five Songs of Robert Frost.

The program will also include songs by Charles Ives for voice and piano, Ann Street (words by Maurice Morris, courtesy of "the New York Herald"), The Cage, The Side Show, The Things Our Fathers Loved (and the greatest of these was Liberty), The Childrens' Hour (words by Longfellow) and He is There! for voice, piano & piccolo.

Performers will be Andrew Bolotowsky, flute, Elizabeth Rodgers, piano and Mary Hurlbut, voice.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Next week on November 7 & 8 in the Portland, Oregon area will see the premiere of Gilbert Galindo's second string quartet, "Listen to the Land" by the Dal String Quartet.This came about through the composer's participation in the Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music Composer Earth program. If you are in the Portland area, come out! Read the full details here. Also, if you're in NYC next week, consider attending Random Access Music's Queens New Music Festival Benefit on Nov. 7.

Barbara Jazwinskis Fantasy on Jazz for clarinet soloist with orchestra (15'), is a mediation on the complex and ever-evolving music of New Orleans. Royal Scottish National Orchestra | David Watkin, conductor; Samuel Brando Marques, clarinet. Out now on SYMPHONIC CHRONICLES VOL. 1 from Navona Records.

Barbara Jazwinski studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. She received her M.A. degree in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Her teachers included Mario Davidovsky, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Gyorgy Ligeti and John Chowning. Currently, she is Head of the Composition Program at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University in New Orleans.

Ms. Jazwinski has been active as a performer, conductor and promoter of contemporary music. Since 1988, she has served as Music Director of Spectri Sonori, an award-winning concert series that specializes in performances of contemporary music. The series has presented over 50 programs thus far and featured over 300 works for a variety of chamber ensembles.

Aaron Larget-Caplan makes his Bargemusic debut with a solo performance featuring classics by J.S. Bach arranged for guitar with one re-imagined as if Bach were from South India by Vineet Shende, a lyrical meditation by John Cage, two solos written for Aarons critically acclaimed New Lullaby Project by Laurie Spiegel and Anthony Green, a world premiere by Brooklyn composer Daniel Felsenfeld, and solos by Larget-Caplan from his album honey cadence.The concert will conclude with two works from Aarons latest album dedicated to the music of Spain (release in April 2023).

Random Access Music gives the New York premiere of "Currents" for piano trio by Gilbert Galindo. The other works on this program are by Margaret Brouwer,Seth Boustead, Masatora Goya, and Daniel Hass withRAM PlayersThomas Piercy, clarinet; Sabina Torosjan, violin; Daniel Hass, cello; Marina Iwao, piano.

Scorca Hall at National Opera Center

330 7th Ave 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001

Tickets
$25 (General admission)
$10 (Seniors/Students)
Payment by cash or credit at the venue.
Doors open at 7:30pm

Probably this composer's most often performed work, Frederick Tillis's Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 (Suite for String Quartet) embodies the essence of the composer's series of works using thematic and harmonic materials of the spiritual. Each movement uses a spiritual song in musical expressions of pathos and triumph over worldly obstacles. The second movement, Wade in the Water, has been selected by many quartets as a concert staple, and continues as one of the most popular works in the ACA music catalog. Join the Harlem Chamber Players as they start their new season with this and other beautiful works.

Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7 PM
Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 8 PM

Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10025

PROGRAM

Franz Schubert Quartettsatz
Frederick Tillis Spiritual Fantasy No. 12
Felix Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat major

ARTISTS

Ashley Horne, Violin
Claire Chan, Violin
William Frampton, Viola
Wayne Smith, Cello
Lilit Gampel, Violin
Jos Pietri-Coimbre, Violin
Amadi Azikiwe, Viola
Kirsten Jerm, Cello

HOSTED by Terrance McKnight of WQXR

ACA's score distribution efforts have been recognized by several organizations. Most recently the Music Publishers Associations Paul Revere Awards honored the ACA Collection "The Strange Imaginary Piano" vol. 1 with prizes for cover design, book design, and a special category for non-traditional notation.

The six works (and 32 total pieces) that fill Volume One of The Strange Imaginary Piano include works by T.J. Anderson and Darleen Mitchell, as well as Nicolas Roussakis, Jack Briece, Richard Moryl, and Carlos Rausch, range from easy to intermediate. They serve as an introduction to graphic notation with the convenience of the solo keyboard and, additionally, as a small musical overview to certain tendencies of late 20th-Century American musical languages.

In addition, the collection Oboe Works by American Composers (9 pieces for solo oboe) was honored with 1st prize in the unaccompanied instrumental category, also by the Music Publisher's Association Revere Awards, 2022. Curated and edited by Lisa Kozenko, the collection includes works that touch on many of the unique and deeply American compositional languages that sprung amidst and against the musical developments of the 20th Century. Solo Sonatas from Childs and Stein open the anthology with a direct launch into mid-century explorations of sound and form. Two giants of American music, Joan Tower and Harvey Sollberger, anchor the limits of the oboes experimental sound in the serialism of 1965 and the eclectic richness of 2000, while Sacco, Auerbach-Brown, McDonald, and Van de Vate develop interactions of various Modern and pre-20th Century ideas in the form of miniatures.

Juneteenth LP (Legacy Project) will present a week of Juneteenth related concerts featuring Black composers performed by a collective of Black classically trained musicians, curated by Juneteenth LP Founder and Artistic Director, Dr. Nnenna Ogwo. This weeks' event will be Counter/Points: The Black Vanguard, featuring Piano Quintet by Ulysses Kay.

COUNTER/POINTS: THE BLACK VANGUARD
Date: June 14, 7:00 pm
Location: Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Music - 450 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018
Tickets: $35 for general public, $20 for seniors, $15 for students
To purchase tickets for this event, please visit eventbrite.

Outdoor concert with No Exit New Music Ensemble, at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights, OH.

Cain Park Alma Theater

14591 Superior Rd
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

Enjoy the beautiful outdoor setting of Cain Park while listening to No Exit perform diverse repertoire from their previous seasons.

PROGRAM

Lyrical Inventions for Ensemble (2020) Derrik Balogh
Unnatural Tendencies (2021) Ameila Kaplan
Duke Re-Dux (2021) Edward Smaldone
Mono-Drum (2020) Agata Zubel
We waited for each other on aim (2018) Victoria Cheah
Mist Waves (2019) Douglas Knehans

Composers Concordance presents music by Aaron Alter, Dan Cooper, Delilah Gutman, Kristjan Jrvi, Mark Kostabi, Lowell Liebermann, Eugene W. McBride, Daniel Palkowski, Gene Pritsker, David Saperstein, David See, and Christopher Vassiliades.Greenwich House, New York City, June 9th. The video of the concert is available for streaming online at the Composers Concordance website, facebook page. Performers: Joan Forsyth, Jai Jeffryes, Taka Kigawa, Eugene W. McBride, Daniel Palkowski, David Saperstein, David See, Kathleen Supov, Christopher Vassiliades - piano, Christina Kay - soprano.

Join New York Composers Circle for a concert of new music on Tuesday, Nov. 15th at 7pm. Works by Hubert Howe, Dary John Mizelle, Richard Brooks, Roger Blanc, Igor Vorobyov, and Dana Dmitri Richardson are on the program. Artists scheduled to perform include Oren Fader and Bill Zito, guitarists, and Craig Ketter, pianist. General Adm $20; Seniors $15; Students free. Location: The Church of the Transfiguration 1 East 29th Street New York, NY 10016

The Percussive Arts Society will be inducting Michael Udow into its Hall of Fame at their International Convention (PASIC) being held at the Indianapolis Convention Center. In addition to the 2 PM Showcase Concert of four Udow works on Thursday, Nov. 10th, the composer/percussionist will also present a morning session on his book, "Percussion Pedagogy" published by Oxford University Press. The induction ceremony will take place on Nov. 10th at 6 PM.

Udow works scheduled include

Ancient Echoes (Concerto for Multiple Percussion & 5 Percussionists)*
Lightning (Concerto for Marimba & 6 Percussionists)*
Topsy-Turvy (Percussion Quartet)**
Coyote Dreams (Marimba & 3 Percussionists)***

* World Premiere **PASIC Premiere *** 25th Anniversary Performance of the PASIC Premiere

Other percussionists being inducted to the PAS Hall of Fame in 2022 include Bernard Woma, Nancy Zeltsman, Peter Erskine, and Roland Kohloff.

March 16, 2022
Campaigning for Women's Rights: Fighting Against Facism
Remembering Social Scientist and Union Organizer Kthe Leichter 80 Years After Her Murder by the Nazis

The Austrian Cultural Forum of NYC
A Reading by Jeannie Im and Gregorij von Letis, and music by Vally Weigl, the sister of Leichter, who safely emigrated to the US with her husband Karl Weigl. Performances by soprano Alexis Rodda and pianist Dan Franklin Smith. Presented by Elysium - Between Two Continents.

Music planned for performance:

The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend - Vally Weigl
The Invisible Light - Karl Weigl
Erinnerung aus Tirol - Vally Weigl
The Refugee - Karl Weigl
When the Vision Dies - Vally Weigl
Fremd geh' ich unter den Fremden - Karl Weigl

The world premiereof Louis Karchin's four-movement Quintet for Winds, along with works of Julia Wolfe, Stravinsky and Ligeti took place on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 PM in Greenfield Hall, at MSM.Artists in Residence at MSM, the ensemble WINDSCAPE is performing. Tickets: $15/$10.

Fixed media music of Robert Scott Thompson will be featured in one of the Listening Rooms at the 2022 Sonorities Festival Belfast throughout the day from April 4th to April 10th, 2022. The intimate spaces allow for immersive experience of spatial quadra- and octophonic works. Having grown up partly in Northern Ireland, the inclusion of Robert Scott Thompson's music makes this something of a homecoming for the composer.

https://sonorities.net/events/listening-rooms/