New Album release - FLUX AND FIRE

"Strings meet Poetry" - the music of Robert Gibson, with Soundings, a quartet for double basses, and Night Music, a solo for violin, viola, or cello, each recorded here, as well as Twelve Poems, for violin and piano, and the string quartets Offrande, and Flux and Fire, performed by the Aeolus Quartet, among other works. Gibson's identity as a composer is deeply connected to his experience as a performing artist. Structure and sound is often based on images of transformation. "... it is in the transience of sound that musics deepest beauty is revealed."

Out in stores and on streaming services, from Innova, July 27th.

Join TJ Anderson and friends and family for a concert of works by TJ and his favorite composers, taking place on Friday, August 17 at 7:30pm at Canterbury Court Retirement Center (CCC) in Atlanta. Artists include John McDonald, Louise Toppin, and many others. On Saturday, Aug. 18, a mini-conference will be held in the afternoon, with a presentation of music by other residents of CCC, followed by a dinner/roast of TJ, hosted by the Anderson family, with Master of ceremonies Dwight Andrews and David Morrow of Morehouse Men's Choir.

APNM presents NEW WORKS FOR PERCUSSION with Iktus Percussion Friday May 11, 2018 at 8pm at Aret Venue and Gallery 67 West Street, #103, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Performed by Iktus Percussionists Josh Perry, Sean Statser, Dan Pate and Chris Graham with Andrea Lodge, piano; Roberta Michel, flute/piccolo and Hanna Levinson, viola. They will be premiering a new piece written for Iktus by Alice Shields - Larynx (2018) for piccolo, piano, and 3 percussionists.

Additional works on the program:

Also on the program are works by APNM composers and Call for Scores winners:

Louis Aguirre ORU A OSHN for 3 Chinese cymbals

Morgan Greenwood at one moment gleaming brightfor viola & percussion

Jeremy Rapaport-Stein Rose Traces for 4 percussionists

Kevin Michael Kay Fragments for flute,piano & percussion

Faye-Ellen Silverman Pas de Deux for piano & marimba

Nicholas V. Hall Just Like That for 4 percussionists

Nullius in Verba, a new electroacoustic work by Robert Scott Thompson, has been awarded the Honorable Mention (second prize) at Musica Nova 2018 "Fantasy and Technology" in Prague. A concert of the selected winners will take place on December 14 atTheatre of Inspiration (HAMU), Malostransk sqr. 1, Prague 1, Entry fee 70 CZK, under 15 years free. Broadcasts of the works will follow variously around the EU.

Compositions were received from composers in 26 countries. In category A (studio), the winner:
Epa Fassianos (Greece) - Chromatocosmos
Honorary mention: Robert Scott Thompson USA Nullius in verba

Finalists: Nahuel Litwin (Argentina) Grito Enceguecido + Antonio Scarcia (IT) Interludio And I Rejoice in My Bonnie Bell

In category B (live E + instruments/voices + E), the winner:
John Young UK - Magnetic Resonance
Honorary mentions: Zurine Gerenabarrena (Spain) Luze + Gilles Gobeil CA Dtour

The incomparable David Oei will present music fo solo piano and more at Mezzrow Classical Salon on Sunday, February 18 at 5pm. This afternoon concert is a celebration of Davids new solo CD of Steven Christopher Sacco's Book of Whimsy which is on the program, along with works by Bolcom, Ravel, Mozart, and much more. Mezzrow - 163 West 10th St., basement, in Greenwich Village.

The Genesis of Fantasy Internationally Renowned classical guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz performs an evening of virtuoso guitar works spanning four centuries. Beginning with the masterful Ouverture de la Grotte de Versailles (de Lully) by Robert de Visee (court guitarist to Louis XIV), his program will feature masterworks by the 19th Centurys greatest composer-guitarists: Napoleon Coste (France), J. K. Mertz (Hungary), and Johann Dubez (Vienna). Contemporary compositions by some of Americas greatest living composers dominate the second half of the program, and include Ernst Bacons tuneful AmericanaHymn-tune Suite, Edward Greens powerful GenesisVariations for Guitar, Brian Fennellys urbane Maverick Prelude and Tango, and conclude with Eric Sesslers fantasy-work Bombadiliana based on Tolkien!

February 3 at 8 pmandSunday, April 29 at 7:30 pm Location: 1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center, in Ewing, New Jersey, is a large stone building located at 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ 08628. Parking is free and located across Scotch Road justnorth of the Sanctuary.

Classical Guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz is internationally renowned for his thrilling virtuosity, poetic interpretations, and refined musicality. In addition to his command of the instruments standard repertoire, he has premiered and commissioned over 100 works by composers from Europe, Asia, the United States, Cuba, and Latin America.A scholar and specialist in the field of 19th Century music, he often features unknown compositions by the Romantic guitar composer-virtuosi, playing on period instruments and revitalizing works which have lain dormant (often in manuscript form) for over a century. He has given lecture-recitals internationally on both Romantic and Contemporary music, including the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton USA), the International Guitar Research Centre (University of Surrey UK), the Baltimore Museum of Art (USA), and, the Harp-Guitar Foundation of America.

loadbang celebrates 10 years

Season Concert #3 - Commission Competition Winners
December 6, 2018, 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Hall at the Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 W 37th St - New York City
Music by Gary Philo, David Bird, Evan Johnson, David Franzson, Chris Fisher-Lochhead and Ioannis Angelakis

December 6th at 7:30PM at The Baryshnikov Arts Centers Jerome Robbins Theater in Midtown Manhattan, loadbang plays Commission Competition Winners. Loadbang has been focused on the establishment of a significant body of repertoire for a decade. Beginning in 2011, loadbang began their call for scores, now renamed a commissioning competition, to search for exceptional composers to collaborate with on new works. This program will feature the results of these collaborations, with pieces by Gary Philo, David Franzson, Evan Johnson, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, David Bird, and Ioannis Angelakis.

The Jig is Up, for solo oboe and string orchestra, by Matthew Greenbaum, will be performed by the Riverside Symphony, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Saturday, Jan. 20th at 8pm. Featured soloist is Roni Gal-Ed, oboe. All ticket holders may also attend the Hear Hear! program for this concert at Alice Tully Hall, 7:15 pm, Saturday, January 20, 2018. Click here for additional information about this pre-concert salon event.

Tickets available here.

From November 30 to December 11, Richard Cameron-Wolfe will participate in the Fourth Siberian International Festival of Contemporary Music after adjudicating a young composers competition at the Kharkiv Opera House in Ukraine. In Krasnoyarsk, Siberia (pictured here) he will lecture on his micro-operas, participate in composer-performer roundtables, adjudicate a young performers of contemporary music competition, and perform piano music of Dane Rudhyar and Leo Ornstein on a December 3 chamber music concert in a program which will also include his early art-song Lethe and his recent violin-piano work Lilith.

strains New Music Ensemble premieres Scott L. Miller's Katabasisin two performances, November 2 and 3, 2018.Katabasisis the one of the few works by Miller that does not require electronics to perform. The first concert isNovember 2, 7:30PM at Studio Z in St Paul, MN. The second concert isNovember 3, 4 PMat Antonello Hall, MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolic, MN.

11.2.18 Strains presents...
Studio Z, St. Paul, MN, 7:30PM $10
World premiere of work by Scott Miller, Ann Millikan, Schuyler Tsuda, and Adam Zahller

11.3.18 Strains presents...
Antonello Hall, MacPhail School of Music, Minneapolis, MN, 4PM FREE
World premiere of work by Scott Miller, Ann Millikan, Schuyler Tsuda, and Adam Zahller

Nada Presents: Scott L Miller, pooch Karton, Michael M Flora
On Oct. 27, Nada presented an evening of live electronic music performance in qudraphonic sound, with new work from electroacoustic composer Scott L. Miller, synthesist pooch Karton, and sound artist Michael Masaru Flora. Miller presented three works,Solstice Orerry,Orerry for Casa da Msica, and the premiere of SonAR Study I. Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis.

Marshall Brown and the Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra will play the world premiere of Symphony No. 3 "The World Turned Upside Down" - by Robert Carl, in Burlington, CT, on May 12th. Details at Nutmegsymphony.org

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, 7 PM, the highly acclaimed British baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams, with Paula Fan, piano will perform two baritone songs by Louis Karchin: Echoes, andMemory, on a concert entitled "A Look Behind the Curtain," a presentation of works by five contemporary composers, anchored by Poulenc's iconic 1956 song cycle,Le travail du peintre. Additional works by Barbara Jazwinski, Friedrich Kern, Andrew MacDonald and Guy Sacre The concert is at NYU's Maison Francaise, 16 Washington Mews, New York City.

If you haven't listened to music by Elliott Schwartz recently, you're in for a treat. Two gorgeous tracks, the final recordings supervised by the composer in 2016. Grateful thanks to Blair McMillen, Ryan Streber, counter)induction, Emi Ferguson, Doug Balliett, Ben Fingland, Karl Kramer-Johansen, Jacob Rhodebeck, Robert P. Burkhart, Nina Schwartz Kahn, Gisela Gamper. Artwork, woodblock "Daedalus and Icarus" (1957) by Dorothy Schwartz. Download both tracks here for 1.98 or check Spotify for streaming.

Credits:
Track 1 - Divertimento No. 4 (1980) Scherzo, Aria, Soliloquy, Fixation, Accompanied Cadenza, Rondo; Scherzo
Emi Ferguson, flute
Doug Balliett, contrabass
Blair McMillen, piano
Publisher: Keiser Classical (BMI)

Track 2 - Remembering David: Echo Variations (2012)
counter)induction
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Robert Burkhart, cello
Karl Kramer-Johansen, horn
Jacob Rhodebeck, piano
Publisher: American Composers Edition (BMI)
Audio samples of David Gamper, used courtesy of Gisela Gamper

L'Amour Eternel for flute and piano by Cleveland composer H. Leslie Adams has been selected for performance by the Greater Cleveland Flute Society's Composer Connection. The composer will be in attendance and will speak about the piece at the concert on April 22nd at 7 pm at Judson Manor, 1890 East 107th Street in Cleveland.

On March 25 Richard Cameron-Wolfe will be participating in the 47th annual John Donald Robb Composers Forum (3/23-29 at UNM-Albuquerque), offering his solo clarinet Variations and Liebestodin a collaborative performance featuring clarinetist Michael Gruetzner with dancers Amanda Hamp (UNM faculty) and Navy Encinias (graduate student). The Sunday, March 25 concert will take place at 4:30PM in Keller Hall, UNM College of Fine Arts (free admission). Other composers featured on the program include John Donald Robb, Annie Merrill, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Elaine Bearer. The Robb Trust promotes the exploration of new music through the UNM John Donald Robb Composers Symposium, which takes place every spring on the UNM campus. Since 1972, the internationally renowned symposium has brought composers and musicians from around the world to UNM for a series of public concerts and unique learning opportunities for UNM students.

Saxophone Quartet by David Froom - upcoming performances:

Saturday, February 10, 11:30 am
SUNY Schenectady County Community College
The Manhattan Saxophone Quartet (Jordan Smith, Aaron Patterson, Daniel Kochersberger, and Jay Rattman) will perform a concert of music by Jennifer Higdon, David Froom, Paquito D'Rivera, Hilary Tann, and Astor Piazzolla.

Monday, February 12, 1 pm
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Q/A session immediately following the concert

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Other upcoming performances of music by David Froom:

Sunday, March 11, 3pm
Salon Concert
Washington, DC
Noah Getz, saxophone; Jeffrey Chappell, piano perform:
Before the Dawn
Contact composer for location

Monday, March 19, 7:30pm
Vieve Gore Concert Hall
Westminster College
Salt Lake City, UT
David Porter performs:
Sonata for solo violin
Click here for further information

Perforances in April and beyond, see News/David Froom