Archived News and Events

The McLean Symphony with conductor Dingwall Fleary will perform at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Vienna, VA. Music by Haydn, David Ott, and "Ode to Life" a monumental work by H. Leslie Adams.

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 7:30 PM Louis Karchin's Journeys, a selection from Ancient Scenes (2014) will be performed by Temple University New Music Ensemble at Rock Hall, Temple University Campus, Philadelphia, PA.

Composer and conductor Jan Krzywicki directsthe Temple University New Music Ensemble in Journeys, from the modular vocal-instrumental cycle, Ancient Scenes, along with music by Andreia Pinto Correla and three world premieres.

Tuesday, June 14 | 7:00 PM, A CONCERT OF NEW MUSIC will feature premiere performances of string quartets by Timothy Miller and Carl Kanter, a saxophone solo by Jeffrey Niederhoffer, a work for clarinet and piano by Christopher Kaufman, and the winning work of the 2019 John Eaton Memorial Competition by Cheng-Jin Koh, and more. The concert will be LIVE at Church of the Transfiguration at 1 E. 29th St. in Manhattan, and also Livestreamed on YouTube. Please click HERE to be directed to the channel.

Pianist Craig Ketter will also perform a work by Raoul Pleskow in homage to this wonderful composer we have lost.

Raoul Pleskow (October 12, 1930 - May 18, 2022) was an Honorary Member of American Composers Alliance and New York Composers Circle.
He was born October 12, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a naturalized citizen in 1945. From 1950 to 1952 he attended the Julliard School of Music in New york City. In 1956 he, graduated from Queens College, where he studied composition with Karol Rathaus, earning a Bachelor of Music (BM). In 1958 he earned a Masters degree in Music (MM) at Columbia University where he studied composition with Otto Luening. In 1959 he joined the faculty of the department of music at C. W. Post College of Long Island University. There he worked together with Stefan Wolpe, then chairman of the department. Pleskow became chairman of the department of music and in 1970 became full professor; he is now retired from teaching and is composer in residence at C. W. Post College.

Celebrating the return of live concerts: Friday June 10th at 7pm
RAM Composers/Players

Nerissa Campbell When They Talk We Know When for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, violin, viola, and cello (2022) (World Premiere)

Gilbert Galindo "Clean Slate for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2022) (World premiere)
Frances White That of which I speak has all, all passed away for violin, viola, cello, and piano (2014)

Guest composers with guest dancer Miki Orihara
yaz lancaster intangible landscapes for flute, bass clarinet, violin, piano, and dancer (2020)

Joji Yuasa Solitude for clarinet and dancer (1980)

Miki Orihara, dancer
Christine Perea, flute Thomas Piercy, clarinet Douglas Da Silva, electric guitar
Sabina Torosjan, violin Liuh-Wen Ting, viola Daniel Hass, cello Marina Iwao, piano

Celebrated Swedish pianist Niklas Sivelov will play two recitals in New York City, including music of Bach, Beethoven, Schoenberg, and a premiere by New York composer Edward Smaldone.

Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 at Flushing Town Hall, 7:30pm and Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 at Queens College, LeFrak Concert Hall, 12:15pm

Live Stream link for Sept. 14 at 12:15pm here.

Hidden Motives will receive two performances - by the New York New Music Ensemble (Feb 14) in New York, and in Boston by Collage (Feb 27). NYNME shares this music by David Froom, and also Hannah Lash, Max Grafe and Bekah Simms' New York Premiere- joint Barlow commission with Crash Ensemble and Eighth Blackbird.

Composer's note on Hidden Motives:

"Hidden Motives" a quintet for Flute, Clarinet/Bscl, Violin, Cello, and Piano was commissioned for the 21st Century Consort's 2018-2019 season by Andy and Janice Molchon to honor their 50th wedding anniversary. The premiere performance, October 20, 2018, was planned to connect to an exhibition of work by Trevor Paglen at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Paglen's images include landscapes upon which have been imposed secret governmental
instruments of surveillance that present as violations of the peaceful scenery while, from certain perspectives, contributing to a kind of eerie beauty. My work (seven movement-like sections lasting altogether 11 minutes) unfolds motives of pitch, rhythm, tempo, timbre, and register that generate a set of fierce initial gestures, then bury themselves beneath the surface, reemerging (verbatim or transformed) in a variety of postures to provide a sense of overall coherence while disrupting the peace of straightforward expectations.

Join Interviewer Andrew Celentano, virtually on Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm, as he interviews composer, Elizabeth R. Austin. Learn about her musical beginnings to becoming a talented contemporary classical composer with compositions ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works to operas. Elizabeths education includes The Peabody Conservatory, The Conservatoire Americana in Fontainebleau, France, and The Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford) where she earned a Masters in Music. While studying for her Ph.D. at The University of Connecticut, she won her First Prize in the Lipscomb Electronic Music Competition. Elizabeths awards have included a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant, First Prize in The Mariam Gideon Competition and a Rockefeller Foundation residency at Bellagio, Italy. Dr. Austin was also the Vanderbilt University Composer in Residence in 2015.

More info and register for the zoom link here.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2022

Inner Children: Music by George Enescu, John McDonald, and Ryan Vigil

89:30pm

Location:Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, TUFTS University.

A Recital by Lilit Hartunian, violin; John McDonald, piano, and Mike Williams, percussion, performing music by George Enescu, John McDonald, and Ryan Vigil.

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The Frahm-Lewis Trio will be performing at the 2022 State Conference Artists for the Nebraska Music Teachers' Association. The program, hosted by U of Nebraska-Kearney will include works by Brahms, Ries, and the premiere of a new work "Three Lyric Pieces" by Steven Christopher Sacco. The recital is free, open to the public, and will be live streamed here. Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 at 7:30pm central time.

Join us for the world premiere of Richard Cameron-Wolfe's micro-opera "Passionate Geometries", featuring soprano Elisabeth Halliday-Quan. Gayle Blankenburg (pianist, California), Agustin Castilla-Avila (guitar) and Ruslana Prokopenko (cellist, Ukraine) are joined by seven of New York's stellar new-music provocateurs: guitarists Dan Lippel, Oren Fader, William Anderson, and Matt Slotkin; flutist Roberta Michel, clarinetist Madison Greenstone, and cellist Caleb van der Swaagh. Other works on the program include "In Memoriam Dmitri Hvorostovsky", Wladimir Rosinskij's tribute to his good friend, the great Siberian baritone, and the world premiere of Agustin Castilla-Avila's "Suite of Movements" (for solo cello). Tickets and more info here.

The Chicago Composers Orchestra presents Jeffrey Mumfords verdant cycles of deepening spring with Christine Wu, violin. Also presenting 10th anniversary world premieres by Chicago composer Ben Zucker, and Hymns of the Sky by NYC based composer Gilbert Galindo.

7:30 PM Central Time
St. James Cathedral | 65 E Huron St, Chicago

The Kennedy Center, National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Summer Music Institute Orchestra, conducted byDaniel Bartholomew-Poyser, will present the world premiere of Derrick Skyes Flames Nurtured the Rose, a piece for orchestra that reflects on bittersweet contradictions. The sun is a constantly burning sphere of flames, yet it nurtures everything on earth -- After a forest fire, the soil is very fertile. Musically, the juxtaposition of these conflicts are explored through dissonance that underpins soaring lyrical melody. Dissonances are created both harmonically and rhythmically with indeterminacy, pitch bends, and clustered pizzicati. Flames Nurtured the Rose also integrates musical practices from numerous cultures into a Western classical setting. Other works on the program include Anna Clyne's Masquerade and Reena Esmail's Ram Tori Maya.

The Kennedy Center Concert Hall is located at 2700 F St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20566. It is accessible by Metro (via the subway and bus lines), by taxi, and by car. The concert is free to the public.

The creation of Flames Nurtured the Rose was commissioned by The National Orchestral Institute + Festivals K12 New Music Project at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, in partnership with the American Composers Alliance.

The Anderson Center at Tower View presents Nomads-Oasis, an evening of compositions by Wladimir Rosinskij, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Scott L. Miller, and artist-in-residence Agustn Castilla-vila, on Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m. in the Tower View Barn. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for Anderson Center members & youth under 18.

Nomads-Oasis features several world & US premieres. This program is also being presented at Zeitgeists Studio Z in Saint Paul on Saturday, July 30 and at the National Opera Center in New York on August 6. Featured performers include cellist Ruslana Prokopenko, pianist Gayle Blankenburg, flutist James DeVoll, clarinetist Pat OKeefe, guitarist Agustn Castilla-vila and soprano Tracey Engleman. Composers Wladimir Rosinskij, Richard Cameron-Wolfe and Scott L. Miller will also be in attendance.

Event information: Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota -

Titus Underwood will perform the Ulysses Kay Oboe Concerto, the first oboe concerto written by a prominent Black composer in the mid-20th century. This performance of the work will be the third in 81 years. This beautiful concerto written in E minor served as Kays final thesis for his graduate degree at the Eastman School of Music. In 1940, It was performed by the Rochester Civic Orchestra with Professor Robert Spenkle as the soloist. Underwood is the principal oboist of the Nashville Symphony and the associate professor of oboe at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. An Emmy Award winner, he is the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence Award. Underwood is an F Lore Artist.

At the International Double Reed Society Conference 2022, world-class artists and pedagogues from around the globe will assemble in Boulder to present five-days of performances, masterclasses, and lectures.

Members of The Cleveland Orchestra will perform music by Black American composers on three separate concert events at Cleveland's Karamu House. Sonata for Violin and Piano III. by H. Leslie Adams will be played byYun-Ting Lee, violin, and Dan Overly, piano.Other works on the programs include music by William Grant Still, Dolores White, Julia Perry, George Walker, and Alllison Loggins-Hull.

MARTIN BOYKAN - A Memorial Concert

A Tribute to Irving Fine and Martin Boykan: Celebrating a Brandeis Legacy of Music and Friendship will take place on Sunday, March 6, 2022, at 3pm. Bellow are the links to attend in person and how to listen by streaming etc.

I will be at the concert. It should be beautiful.

How to register to be there in person-

https://www.brandeis.edu/concerts/21-22-register.html

How to hear the concert by streaming in real time- (on ones computer)

https://www.brandeis.edu/streaming/music/

Information on all Brandeis concerts

https://www.brandeis.edu/concerts/series/index.html

Sunday afternoon, March 6, 2022 at 3pm
Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham MA

A Tribute to Irving Fine and Martin Boykan: Celebrating a Brandeis Legacy of Music and Friendship
Martin Boykan: Voyages for soprano and piano on texts by Hart Crane (1992)

Mary Mackenzie, soprano; Keith Kirchoff, piano
Martin Boykan: Piano sonata #4 (2016)
Yoko Hagino, piano
Irving Fine: Childhood Fables For Grownups (complete, both sets)
Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano; Leslie Amper, piano
Martin Boykan - Trio no.1 for violin, cello and piano (1975) commissioned by the Fromm Foundation
Yonah Zur, violin; Nicole Cariglia, cello; Yoko Hagino, piano
Martin Boykan - Sea Gardens, four songs for soprano and piano on texts by Hart Crane, Whitman and Shakespeare (1993)
Mary Mackenzie, soprano; Keith Kirchoff, piano

Sin Fronteras, a contemporary music ensemble consisting of University of Texas Rio Grande Valley faculty and other members of the RGV musical community performed Gilbert Galindo's Ampelmnnchen Stroll for flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, violin, & bass (2015). The program, atTSC Performing Arts Center in Brownsville, TX, featured a variety of mixed chamber ensembles performing an exciting selection new and innovative repertoire.

On Wednesday, Nov. 9th, TAK ensemble (pictured) will present "TERRAIN" a concert of music by Hannah Kendall, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Bethany Younge, and the world premiere of Siesta Negra by Lewis Nielson.

The HRO - Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and it's alumni celebrate beloved former music director James Yannatos. The HRO will perform the Yannatos Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring Joseph Lin '00. This piece first premiered by the HRO and Mr. Lin in 2004.

Sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, Joseph Lin (pictured) has performed at such venues as Symphony Hall in Boston, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Town Hall in Auckland. He has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Taiwan National Symphony, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Ukraine National Philharmonic. His regular festival appearances include Marlboro, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Tucson Winter Festival.

Joseph Lin was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, stepping down this year to devote more time to his four young children. Mr. Lin continues on the faculty of the Juilliard School, where he teaches violin and chamber music.