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On June 14, 2021, Conductor Vinzenz Praxmarer and the Divertimento Viennese trace the old worldVienna in a concert withtenor Paul Schweinester and baritone Rafael Fingerlos. The orchestra played instrumental works, songs and arias by composers whose artistic home was Vienna, but who, due to their Jewish descent, fled into exile. Music of Karl Weigl (Old Vienna), Erich Korngold, and Ernst Krenek was featured.

Divertimento Viennese finds theirmusical home in the music of the Fin de Sicle, of the late 19th and early 20th century. A special focus in their repertoire is works of composers who had been ostracized and forced into exile but whose artistic work has a connection to Vienna. The works include compositions by Gustav Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Arnold Schnberg, Karl Weigl, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Dimitri Schostakowitsch, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and many others.

Engender is The Royal Operas initiative to change gender imbalance in opera and music theatre and drive towards gender equity in all areas of the opera field. The annual Engender festival celebrates the work of women and gender minorities in opera and provides a platform for relevant discussions with audiences.

On July 16 and 17, the festival presents "Mami Wata" - two concerts of of music fromestablished British composers Bushra El-Turk and Errollyn Wallen, alongside music by Nkeiru Okoye, Lettie Beckon Alston, Dorothy Rudd Moore and Nahla Mattar, including UK premieres of unheard works.

Dorothy Rudd Moore's From the Dark Tower, for voice, cello, and piano, will be presented with staging elements.

Conceived by Alison Buchanan, Artistic Director of Pegasus Opera, Mami Wata illuminates rich and varied works from a range of established composers, in the spirit of Mami Wata(Mother Water), the artistic spiritcelebrated throughout much of Africa and the African Atlantic.

Sponsored by and funded by Arts Council England, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation.

The premiere of Louis Karchin's Pastorale Gallop was performed on September 19, 2021 by Dominic Salerni.In a celebration of the 100th birthday of composer Earl Kim, the League-ISCM presents a solo recital featuring new works by two of his students, Karchin and Paul Salerni, along with Earl KimsTwelve Caprices, also performed by Domenic Salerni.

Quintet for Winds(2021) by Louis Karchin; World premiere byWindscape (Tara Helen OConor, Randall Ellis, Alan R. Kay, Frank Morelli, and David Jolley) atGreenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York City. Windscape will present the world premiere of this new, 25-minute work, in five movements.

Transient Canvas, featuringAmy Advocat, bass clarinet andMatt Sharrock, marimba, performed several works at this year's SCI Conference online, includingAgitprop for Bass clarinet, marimba and electronics by Lansing McLoskey, andEphemera forBass clarinet and marimba by Philip Carlsen. Other works performed by Rain Worthington, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, and more.

Gateway Summer Sound: Abstracted Animal and Other Sounds - original album by Ann McMillan from 1979 was re-released on digital services by Smithsonian Folkways in 2020.

A student of groundbreaking composer Edgard Varse, McMillans primary medium was magnetic tape, which she manipulated to create surreal soundscapes. On Gateway Summer Sounds, her debut album released on Folkways in 1979 and recorded at the legendary Princeton-Columbia Electronic Music Center, she sources sounds from the natural world frogs, insects, field recordings from the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York Harbor along with gongs, bells, and a harpsichord to conceive remarkable, hypnagogic compositions.

David Liptak's Trio for Viola, Percussion, and Piano was performed in concert at the University of Canterbury (UC) School of MusicArts Centre Chamber Series - cLoud Collective in the Great Hall of the Arts Centre,Christchurch, New Zealand. August 16, 2020 at 2pm.

Featured workd include New Zealand composer Salina Fisher, two other world premieres by local composers Robert Bryce and Pieta Hextall, and two new works by ensemble member Reuben de Lautour. The program also featured works by David Liptak and Pierre Boulez performed byMark Menzies (Violin/Viola), Reuben de Lautour (Piano/ Electronics), and Justin DeHart (Percussion).

Sunday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 PM
Recital by pianist Se-Hee Jin
Recital Hall of the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Se-Hee Jin will present the first live performance of Labyrinths, from the three-movement suite, Three Images (2020) by Louis Karchin.

The American PrizeNational Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David (Volosin) Katz, chief judge, is honored to announce the winners, runners-up, citation recipient and honorable mentions ofThe American Prize in Composition, 2021, in instrumental chamber music, professional division.Congratulations!

The American Prize 2nd Place - Robert Scott Thompson (Roswell, GA),Ninth Wave for cello and Electroacoustic Sound.

The American 1st Prize winner: Nickitas Demos Atlanta GAFrontlash

The American Prize 2nd Place (tie for 2nd place) Angelique Poteat Seattle WAHer Story of a Soldier

The American Prize 3rd Place (there was a three-way tie):

Devin Arrington Pittsburgh PAHeavenward: Meditation for solo violin
Bruce BabcockPasadena CAAlternative Facts
Timothy Lee MillerMahwah NJSomething More

The American Prize Special Judges Citation for "Unique Creativity and Aural Vision":
Kotoka Suzuki Chicago ILOrison

An interdisciplinary panel of Black scholarsDr. Fredara Hadley, ethnomusicologist; Dr. Trevor Weston, composer; and Dr. Raymond Codrington, cultural anthropologist will lead a discussion on on the intersection of music, culture, and Black identity. Music by Trevor Weston, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Valerie Coleman will be performed by members of the New York Philharmonic and Bronx Arts Ensemble. Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 5:00 PM

6036 Broadway, Van Cortlandt Park, New York City. Free tickets required, more info here, proof of vaccine and masks required.

The Glenn Korff School of MusicSymphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Tyler White, at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, will perform a concert on Oct. 10 including Introduction and Allegro (1959) by T. J. Anderson. The ensembles objectives are to prepare and present a wide variety of repertoire including chamber, symphonic, and operatic masterworks, and to maintain professional standards of musicianship and etiquette within a collegial and supportive educational atmosphere.

7:30 pm Kimball Recital Hall - Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.

H. Leslie Adams's"Grand March" for Trumpet and Piano was performed byEtienne Massicotte, trumpet andNicole DiPaolo, piano; on September 26, 2021 - 3pm Rocky River United Methodist Church, Rocky River, Ohio. Thank you to American Guild of Organists, Cleveland chapter.

The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) International Convention (PASIC)! November 10 13, 2021 in person - in Indianapolis, IN- one of the largest drum and percussion events in the world features concerts, clinics, panels and presentations given by the finest artists from all over the world. PASIC 2021 will showcase all areas of percussion drum set, marching, keyboard, symphonic, world, recreational, education, music technology, new music, and health & wellness.

On Thursday, Nov. 11, the music of Christopher Shultis "Lost in the Woods" (excerpt) will be performed by the Akros Percussion Collective and "Lengua Encubierto" by Lewis Nielson will be performed by Sean Dowgray.(pictured at left)

TheLa Crosse New Music Festival at the University of Wisconsin,Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts, will take place at 2pm on November 5th, 2021.

Works performed will include Wallace Cheatham's Three Piano Preludes.

Alices Chamber Music America commission The Wind in the Pines- after the climate catastrophe for soprano and six instruments will be performed and livestreamed by the Eurasia Consort of Seattle on October 26 and 27 at Scorca Hall of the National Opera Center, 3307th Avenue at W. 29th St in Manhattan and on October 28 at Hofstra Universitys Helene Fortunoff Theater in Monroe Lecture Center on CaliforniaAvenue in Hempstead, NY.

Inspired by the famous Japanese Noh play Matsukaze, it is written for soprano, recorder, flute, Gothic bray harp, Turkish oud, Baroque theorbo, and percussionist playing sustained, bell-like sounds on vibraphone, glockenspiel and crotales. The delicate orchestral effects reel in a subtle, shifting dance of tempos, while the soprano voice, floating as if in a dream, warns of the impending climate crisis and the need to protect the earth. The Eurasia Consort, who approached Chamber Music America to commission the piece, specializes in music that crosses cultural boundaries between East and West.

Upcoming Premiere Performances of The Wind in the Pines:

October 26 @ 3:30 PM - Online streaming premiere broadcast from the National Opera Center.

October 27 @ 7:30 PM - Live public concert and reception at the National

Opera Center - Tickets are $25 and will be available at the door. Proof of vaccination and masking is required. Thevirtual performance is free.

October 28 @ 7 PM - Live public concert at Hofstra University This event is free and open to the public.Proof of vaccination and masking is required.

Artists include David Bloom, conductor; Martha Cluver, soprano; Daphna Mor, alto recorder; Sarah Carrier, flute; Karen Lindquist, bray harp; Adem Birson, oud; August Denhard, theorbo, with Rex Benincasa, percussion, playing glockenspiel, vibraphone and crotales.

The music is published by American Composers Alliance.

University of Nebraska at Kearney -
Concerts-On-The-Platte Series
Twenty-Third Season: 2021-2022

Works from American Composers Alliance

Performed by the Frahm-Lewis Trio
Ting-Lan Chen, violin
Noah Rogoff, cello
Nathan Buckner, piano
With
Andrew White, baritone

Live from U of Nebraska, and Streamed on the ACA channels, FB and Youtube.

Music of
Beth Wiemann
Daniel Perlongo
Burton Beerman
Elizabeth R. Austin
Scott L. Miller
John D. McDonald
Darleen Mitchell
Mark Zuckerman

The London-based Marsyas Trio (flute, cello, piano), will present an online concert of music fromNew York Women Composers (NYWC) on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 5pm.

In the programwill be music by Marilyn Bliss, Whitney E. George, Hilary Tann and more.. This will be an online event - broadcast information to be published soon.

Supported by NYWC Seed Money Grant

A Concert celebrating the 75th Birthday of composer Marilyn Shrude, featuring Lost Dog, New Thread, Momenta, and guest soloists.

December 2, 2021, 8:00
$20
Dimenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, New York City

LOST DOG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Sotto Voce (2012)
A Window Always Open on the Sea (1990)
Within the Wall (2018; 2021)*

*WORLD PREMIERE OF NEW VERSION WITH PERCUSSION

NEW THREAD QUARTET
energy flows nervously ... in search of stillness (2015)
Evolution V (1976) - John Sampen, alto sax soloist

MOMENTA QUARTET
Secrets (2004) - Sonja Tengblad, soprano

The concert celebrates Shrudes 75th birthday, a ground-breaking composer, known for music of exquisite texture and detail. Her catalog features a large body of chamber and orchestral works, and a particular interest in saxophone. She is the first woman to receive the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for Orchestral Music (1984) and the Cleveland Arts Prize for Music (1998).

featuring:

Lost Dog New Music Ensemble
New Thread Quartet
Momenta Quartet

and guest artists

John Sampen- saxophone
Sonja Tengblad- soprano

Announcing the three-concert festival Song of America: A Celebration of Black Music, in cooperation with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, is now available to stream online! The concerts will be available for 12-months, on-demand from the first date of broadcast; this means that everything will be available until the first week of June next year.

The three streamed concerts of the festival are available here:

Scroll down to Die Konzertstreams and this section will link you to the pages of the three concerts.

The concert featuring ACA composers H. Leslie Adams and Richard Thompson, among many others, can be found here

Song of America: A Celebration of Black Music is a mini-festival celebrating the music, poetry, and stories of Black composers, writers, and artists. Curated by Thomas Hampson and scholar/performer Dr Louise Toppin, with special assistance in the orchestral repertoire from conductor Roderick Cox, this festival brings the stories and artistry of Black Americans to the international stage with the message that this music is for everyone. This festival aims to lift up artists and artistic works that have been marginalized and amplify the beauty and creativity of their artistry. Writing Black artistic expression back into the narrative of American art music, this festival in cooperation with Hampsons not-for-profit Hampsong Foundation and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg invites a global audience to participate in our celebration of Black musicality in all its rich and diverse expressions.

Seeking ways to still connect with other performers during apandemic, Dilate Ensemble met while participating in the NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble led by Sarah Weaver. As a satellite group, theydove into an exploration of how we might be able to engage in audio/visual improvisation online given the available technologies. Kim had compressed her work in videoinstallation to fit beneath her kitchen table creating an intimate live venuethat readily accommodates aconvergence of online live presence.

Reserve your free tickets here:https://currentsnewmedia.org/events/aerial/

Dilate Ensemble is an audio visual collective featuring:

Carole Kim: micro video installation
Gloria Damijan: extended toy pianos, percussion
Scott L. Miller: Kyma
Luisa Muhr: voice
Jon Raskin: sax, voice, concertina, electronics, recycled materials