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On April 10, the New Mexico ensemble "Chatter" will present a concert showing support for Ukraine, this during the 50th Anniversary season of UNM's John Donald Robb Composers Symposium in Albuquerque. The program will include Richard Cameron-Wolfe's composition "Code of Unsilence: a Prayer" (featuring pianist Judith Gordon) and Ukrainian composer Julia Gomelskaya's flute solo "the hint only" (performed by Jesse Tatum). Cameron-Wolfe will also speak about the impact of the war on Ukrainian musicians - their plight, their hopes, and their courage.

The concert takes place on Sunday morning, April 10 at 10:30AM at the Chatter performance space: 912 3rd St., Albuquerque. Tickets range from $5-16 and are best purchased online via the Chatter Box Office:

H. Leslie Adams (1932 ) Nightsongs, Six songs on texts by African American poets
GeDeane Graham, mezzo-soprano
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
Thomas Wilson, Music Director

Live, First Christian Church, February 19, 2022
Youtube premiere March 22, 2022

Also performedFeb. 18 in Highlands Ranch, CO.
Voices of the African Diaspora
Presented in partnership with Art Song Colorado

Dunbar Songs will be premiered online on April 5th at 5:00pm

Works by Steven Christopher Sacco for piano, will be played by the artists Steven Beck, Nathan Buckner, David Oei, and Theo Rockas, at Tenri Gallery in New York City, April 9th at 7pm. Works include Suites for Mr. Beck, Mr. Buckner, and Mr. Rockas, as well as a concerto for piano and fixed media, composed for David Oei.

Gilbert Galindo's Urban Spring for chamber orchestra will be performed byResonant RefractionsonSaturday, April 2 at 7:30pm. The show will also haveRobert Dickperforming his Concerto for flute / bass flute, percussion, and strings in addition to a set by theCompCord Ensemble. WearableArt designerNana YaaSerwaah Akuokuand artistJevijoe Vitugwill present a live performance of rhythm and poetry while dressed in HAUS OF YBA wearable art.You'll also experience the underground hip-hop artistry of DJ & vocalistSenerio.

The CompCord Ensemble will perform an eclectic set of music featuring compositions by Lynn Bechtold, Dan Cooper, Ginka Mizuki, Max Pollak, and Gene Pritsker. Resonant Refractions will also present large ensemble and chamber orchestra works by Jennifer Higdon and Clifton Joey Guidry.

Church of the Holy Apostles
296 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Tickets start at $15.

Paul Mizzi performed Close Encounters by Arthur Kreiger for flute and taped sounds atthe University of Iowa Voxman School of Music Recital Hall, April 1, 2022.

Mizzi is a Teaching Artist at the Manhattan School of Music at the Distance Learning Center andis a member ofManhattan School of Musics premiere contemporary ensemble TACTUS.He is an active performer, collaborator and educator in New York City and has given masterclasses and private lessons throughout the city.His specializations include Baroque music, chamber music, orchestral/collegiate auditions, solo competitions, and injury prevention/management.

The composer's honors include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Kreiger has served as composer in residence at William Paterson University, The North Carolina School of the Arts and at The Composers Conference at Wellesley. He was the recipient of the 1993 Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal. A portion of the text of this award citing his electronic music follows. "Although much of his music can be heard only as it issues, in whole or in part, from loudspeakers, its creative shaping source is immediately unmistakable, recognized as human and intensely personal. It is not music shaped by technological means, but music that demands technology for its fulfillment. While the music is so singularly Kreiger's, it is assuredly of its time, not only or even primarily because of the composer's mastery of sophisticated musical technology, but in the compositional modes that the music so urgently expresses. For it is learned music, in that it is aware and informed in its craft. . ."

Vally Weigl Trialogues, for flute, viola, and harp, was performed19th of December 2020 in the Ballsaal Aachen, Germany,by the NMEAC, Contemporary Music Ensemble Aachen. The recording is available on Youtube here.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the International Double Reed Society, July 26-31, 2021, the IDRS held its Second Annual Virtual Symposium. Theypresented Trio danches: Stories and Dreams is a 25-minute concert program created to premiere compositions written for Sonora Winds by two composers: Polish-American composer Barbara Jazwinski, and Polish composer Maciej Malecki. The concert began with The Dreams of Vagabond Winds composed by Jazwinski. The work is highly virtuosic, exploring idiomatic, coloristic and textural characteristics of the three instruments in different registers and dynamic levels. The ensemble Sonora Winds includesMadeline Miller, oboe; Anastasiya Nyzkodub, clarinet; andMarta Troicki, bassoon.

Save the Music, inc. and American Composers Alliance
PRESENT

R O S A L I E C AL A B R E S E M E M O R I A L C O N C E R T

live-stream YouTube Premiere
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 7:30PM

Celebrating the life of poet and arts consultant Rosalie Calabrese (1938-2019).

Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano
Susannah Chapman, cello
Max Lifchitz, piano
Steven Mayer, piano
Larry Thomas Bell, piano
George Boziwick, harmonica
Joel Feigin, piano

Musical works to be performed include works by Bruce Adolphe, Otto Luening, Michael Dellaira, Larry Thomas Bell, Francis Thorne, Beth Wiemann, Joel Feigin, William Mayer, George Boziwick, and Irving Fine.

Concert program PDF here

The ACA Bulletin Magazine returns, on April 3, 2021. A report on activities of ACA composers and friends from the past year.
View and download a PDF copy here.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to the content and helped assemble all the materials and information.

Sarah Meneely-Kyders A Garland of Hymns and Carols owes its origins to the composers charming custom of appending miniature scores of her Christmas musicand in some cases, her poetryto greeting cards intended for family and friends. Illustrated by her husband, artist Wayne Kyder, these cards became a family tradition. Realizing that she had accumulated a substantial body of work, and wishing to emphasize to her family that, yes, this was actual, performable music, she decided to produce a recording of the complete series.

The album is available on iTunes, Spotify, and other digital services, recorded by Voce, an inspiring chorus based in Hartford, CT, Mark Singleton, Artistic Director.

The sheet music, complete edition of 20 works is now available from ACA.

Works are for mixed choir, and other combinations of voices and instruments. If performed in its entirety, the collection is a full evening program of 60+ minutes. Each of the 20 movements is from 2 to 4 minutes duration each. Individual movements may be requested/purchased separately.

Maggie Greenwood and Anoushka Divekar have completed the first edition of the Clarinet Repertoire database.Clarinet Repertoire is an ongoing project meant to promote gender diversity in clarinet recital programming. This project started as a dissertation narrowly focused on unaccompanied works written for the clarinet by women composers since 1989. It is now expanding to include more composers with a range of gender identities and an expansion of instrumentation. Search the database for solo clarinet works, and works for clarinet and piano.

ACA works included in the first edition of the database include music of Jan Gilbert, Sarah Meneely-Kyder, Barbara Jazwinski, Laura Greenberg, Vally Weigl, Alison Nowak, Beth Wiemann, Miriam Gideon, Daria Semegen, Dorothy Rudd-Moore, Loretta Jankowski, and Dorothy Rudd-Moore.

Cellist Alyson Berger and pianist Amy Wurtz - website: www.wurtzbergerduo.com - will perform the first-ever concert at the brand new Old Fish Performance Space in Chicagos Humboldt Park area on Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 7pm (Central time), featuring Richard Cameron-Wolfes 2009 Roerich Rhapsody. The program also includes compositions by Alex Shapiro, Jon Jeffrey Grier, and Astor Piazzolla.

Beginning at 7:00PM Central on Thursday, the concert will be streamed here, which links to YouTube, where it will remain thereafter, as The Brand New Old Fish.

Coming up, the New York Premiere of Clarinet Concerto - Canzoni di Notte (Night Songs) by David Froom, at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, performed by Narek Arutyunian, Clarinet, and the Riverside Orchestra, February 5th, 2022 at 7:30pm.

Performers

Riverside Symphony
Narek Arutyunian, Clarinet
George Rothman, Conductor

Program

ROUSSELLe marchand de sable qui passe
ROSSINI Variations for Clarinet and Small Orchestra
DAVID FROOMCanzoni di Notte(NY Premiere)
HAYDN Symphony No. 83, "La Poule"

More information here.

World Premiere of Three Fantasy Dances for large wind ensemble, performed by the "Presidents Own" Marine Band in Washington DC, Sunday, Feb. 6. Program:

• REEVES / ed. Brion | Fantasie Humoresque on "Yankee Doodle"
• FROOM |Three Fantasy Dances: Concerto for Wind Ensemble -world premire
• MACKEY |Antique Violences - Master Gunnery Sgt. Matthew Harding, trumpet soloist
• SOUSA* | March, "The Pride of the Wolverines"
• SIMON |Amen!
• STRAVINSKY / trans. Knox* | Suite fromThe Firebird

The Presidents Own begins its season of band concerts at Northern Virginia Community College's Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center with a spectrum of music stretching back the length of the organization's 223 year history.

The program shifts between a 19th century showcase of one of our most cherished patriotic tunes and the inimitable music of The March King, new music from the current composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center, Carlos Simon, and the world premire of a piece written especially for the Marine Band by David Froom.

In keeping with the theme, direction of this special performance will be shared between current Director of the Marine Band, Col. Jason K. Fettig, and the brand new Assistant Director, 1st Lt. (select) Darren Lin, who is making his concert debut on the podium of The Presidents Own.

The Department of Music & Dance at University of Massachusetts Amherst honors the late Dr. Frederick C. Tillis (1930-2020), composer, saxophonist, poet, administrator, and founder of our Jazz and African American Music Studies Program, with performances by faculty, student ensembles, and special guests.Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022 @ 4pm Tillis Performance Hall, Free

Andrew McManuspresented at CNMFest, as the winner of the Beo string quartet composition competition withpathways, bursting [neurosonics 2]for string quartet and electronics.Streamed live on Jul 30, 2021, Charlotte New Music Festival.Beo String Quartet returned to the Charlotte New Music Festival for its sixth consecutive year in 2021 as quartet in residence and performed a program that featured eight world premieres composed by the participants of the festival, as well as works by Pamela Z, Gabriela Ortiz, and Andrew McManus,winner of the 2020 CNMF and Beo String Quartet Composition Competition.

The 75th Iowa All-State Music Festival concert will take place November 20, 2021 and feature the work INTO LIGHTby Marilyn Shrude. The Orchestra will be under the direction of Dr. Rebecca Burkhardt.This concert will be streamed live by Iowa PBS and is scheduled to be rebroadcast on Thanksgiving Day.

Musicians of theSWRSymphonieorchester will play String Quartet No. 5 by Karl Weigl, on October 23in Baden-Baden atMuseum Frieder Burda at 8pm, and on October 24th atNeues Schloss in Stuttgart, at 6pm. The concert also features a string quintet by Georges Onslow. Musicians includeStefan Bornscheuer, Insa Fritsche, Alexander Knaak, Michael Mayer-Freyholdt (Violins), Dorothea Funk, Paul Pesthy (Viola), Ulrike Hofmann, Dita Lammerse (Violoncello), and Konstanze Brenner (Kontrabass)

On April 21st 2021, the noted boys choir St. Florianer Sngerknaben (http://www.florianer.at/en/) performed Vally and Karl Weigls Four seasons cantata at Brucknerhaus Linz. 8:30pm.

Vally Weigl(18941982)/Karl Weigl(18811949) Performed in German asDie vier Jahreszeiten. Liederspielfr Kinderchor mit Klavier (1935).