Women's Work presents Barbara Harbach, and works by composers Elizabeth Austin and Sarah Meneely-Kyder, among others, March 30th.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 8:00pm

Women's Work brings recognition to the achievements of women composers and performers of all periods and nationalities by producing concerts of women's music and by teaching the public about their accomplishments.

The March 30 concert will be presented at St. John's Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Internationally renowned organist and composer Barbara Harbach will perform several of her original works and arrangements, along with music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Hilary Tann, Sharon J. Willis, Elizabeth R. Austin, Sarah Meneely-Kyder and Elizabeth Stirling.

Many of the composers presented speak at the concerts. Join the Women's Work Facebook page here.

CYNTHIA FOLIO, flutist, March 25 at the Hiart Gallery in NYC; 8pm

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Friday, March 25, 2011 - 8:00pm

Composer and video artist, Matthew GreenbaumComposer and video artist, Matthew GreenbaumComposer Matthew Greenbaum announces a new music and video series of his own design called AMPHIBIAN. The next event will be a recital by flutist Cynthia Folio, one of Philadelphia’s pre-eminent new music musicians. Seating is limited. Lots of artworks in the gallery, including works by Johanna Skalsky, Les Rogers, Rosie Kaiser and many others.

With guest artists William Anderson (guitar), Andy Laster (sax) and Adam Vidiksis (djembe).

Works by William Anderson, Eric Chasalow, Cynthia Folio, Alba Potes and Kento Watanabe

Friday, March 25 at 8pm
AMPHIBIAN: THE HIART GALLERY
227 WEST 29TH ST. NY NY

Karl Kroeger's Toccata for Piano, premiere, April 1, 2011 in Chicago

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Friday, April 1, 2011 - 12:00pm
Sharon Peterson, pianistSharon Peterson, pianistKarl Kroeger's Toccata for Piano (2006) will receive its premiere at a piano recital by Sharon Peterson at Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church at noon on Friday, April 1, 2011.  The recital is free and all are welcome.

AMC 2011 Awards recipients: John Harbison, William Bolcom, and the Copland House; So Percussion and the Walden School

The American Music Center is honored to announce the recipients of its 2011 Awards. Founders Award: John Harbison; Letter of Distinction: William Bolcom and the Copland House; Trailblazer Award: So Percussion; New Music Educator Award: The Walden School. “The American Music Center has the happy duty of recognizing those who make the biggest contribution to new American music and each year it is our great pleasure to do so,” AMC President and CEO Joanne Hubbard Cossa comments. “Once more we are astounded with the talent, dedication, and zeal exhibited by this group of honorees. They have dedicated their lives to energizing and advancing the field, and their myriad contributions speak to their excellence, innovation, and commitment to service.

The Other Side of Time by Brian Fennelly to receive European premiere in April

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Brian FennellyBrian FennellyThe Other Side of Time, a 15-minute piece for 30 winds, brass, and percussion, by ACA composer, Brian Fennelly, will receive its  European premiere on April 12, 2011 in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of the annual World Music Days festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music, held this year in conjunction with the Zagreb Biennale. Chosen for performance by the ISCM International Jury, it will be part of a full program by the Croatian Army Symphony Wind Orchestra conducted by Tomislav Fačini.

The Other Side of Time (2009), commissioned by the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble and its director Charles Peltz, was premiered at Jordan Hall, Boston, in February 2010. Their performance has been recorded for release on Albany Records.

Washington Square Contemporary Music presents the Talea Ensemble, with works by David Fulmer, Elizabeth Hoffman, Evan Ziporyn, and more - March 24

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Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 8:00pm

Talea Ensemble: "astonishing fluidity and warmth" --NY TimesTalea Ensemble: "astonishing fluidity and warmth" --NY TimesConcert I of the 34th season of the WSCMS will take place Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 8pm, at Merkin Hall, 129 W. 67th St., west of Broadway. Join artistic directors Brian Fennelly and Louis Karchin, for the Talea Ensemble and works by Aaron Cassidy, David Fulmer, Elizabeth Hoffman, Fred Lerdahl, Rand Steiger, and Evan Ziporyn.

Brian Schober’s new chamber opera “Dance of the Stones,” in New York Concert Reviews

Dance of the Stones, 2010Dance of the Stones, 2010Brian Schober's new chamber opera, "Dance of the Stones" was premiered in November, 2010 at Theatre80 on St. Mark's Place in New York City, and received favorable reviews. With a libretto by Richard Olson, the work is inspired by Japanese Noh drama, but with modern, everyday characters searching for meaning in life. Appropriately subtitled “A Journey beyond Words,” much of the opera’s emotional story is conveyed through dance, pantomime, and choral interludes that draw upon a rich range of what is described as “multi-textured music of shifting modalities.” 

Gregg Smith Singers will premiere Lux Aeterna by Richard Brooks, March 19 at St. Peter's Church

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Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 8:00pm

The Gregg Smith Singers upcoming concert, "Premieres, Poetry & Soloists" is now scheduled for March 19th at 8:00pm. St. Peter's Church at Lexington and 54th St. New York City. Repertoire to include world premiere of Lux Aeterna by Richard Brooks, My Letter to the World by Jay Anthony Gach, and Emily Swings! by Richard Thompson.

Awad's Paskát was premiered by the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and the Chorus Soñando Hadas, Feb 18

Emil AwadEmil AwadEmil Awad's Paskát, for women's chorus, harp and string orchestra, commissioned by the Veracruz Institute of Culture, was premiered on Friday, Feb. 18th, 2011 at the State Theater, Xalapa Veracruz, Mexico. The composer led the premiere, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa and the women's chorus Soñando Hadas, to a full theater. The Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, which just celebrated its 81st birthday, performed superbly, with a depth rarely heard in a premiere. Soñando Hadas, directed by David Tapia, is an internationally acclaimed youth chorus, and sung with total commitment to the work. The title and text of the work come from an anonymous poem written in Totonaca, an autochthonous language of the Veracruz region. Paskát means "woman" and it explores the infinite cycle of life as homage to the feminine.

Lansing McLoskey wins 2011 Academy of Arts and Letters, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship Award!

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS ANNOUNCES 2011 MUSIC AWARD WINNERS

New York, February 16, 2011-The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the fifteen recipients of this year's awards in music, which total $165,000.  The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members:  Ezra Laderman (chairman), David Del Tredici, Fred Lerdahl, Bernard Rands, Steven Stucky, and Yehudi Wyner.   The awards will be presented at the Academy's annual Ceremonial in May.  Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the Academy.

Two GoddardLansing McLoskeyLansing McLoskey Lieberson fellowships, endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation, are given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts.  This year they will go to John Aylward and Lansing McLoskey.

Lansing McLoskey  has been described as "a major talent and a deep thinker with a great ear" by the American Composers Orchestra, and "a distinctive voice in present day American music." Recent performances include premieres in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Rome,

Glasgow audiences hear the UK premiere of David Fulmer's Violin Concerto Feb. 5, 2011

Composer,violinist David Fulmer: ACA Festival 2009Composer,violinist David Fulmer: ACA Festival 2009"Here and Now" with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra:

Glasgow audiences had their first chance to hear Matthias Pintscher’s beautiful and haunting sounds with another of his highly crafted works as well as earlier pieces from Michael Jarrell and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. In keeping with the BBC SSO’s commitment to new music, David Fulmer gave the UK Premiere of his own Violin Concerto. The evening opened with Webern’s masterful orchestration of the fugue from Bach’s The Musical Offering.

This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3's programme Hear and Now.

“The Wider View: Love Rejoices" by H. Leslie Adams, broadcast on Now is the Time Feb. 13th

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Sunday, February 13, 2011 - 10:00pm
Albany Records, TROY 428Albany Records, TROY 428“The Wider View: Love Rejoices" on Now is the Time
On February 13th, from 10 to 11 pm, listen online at wrti.org or on WRTI HD-2 to Kile Smith's Contemporary American Music show, Now is the Time. Works by David Snow, Wendy Mae Chambers, and H. Leslie Adams will warm you up for Valentine's Day! The show begins in winter and ends with intimations of spring. David Snow shares the haunting Winter for trumpet and piano. The second movement from the Symphony of the Universe by the always-engaging Wendy Mae Chambers is called 'Organism.' She wrote for a big-band jazz ensemble to be recorded in the cavernous Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and the results are stunning. The song cycle The Wider View comes from the romantic and lyrical pen of H. Leslie Adams. Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and others lead to the final 'Love Rejoices' by James Dillet Freeman.

Works by John Eaton - upcoming February Performances

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 8:00pm

John EatonJohn EatonPiano Variations (1957) will be performed by the remarkable and amazing, Christopher Oldfather, at St. Peter's at Citicorp on 54th St. (between Lexington and 3rd Ave.s) on Tuesday Feb. 15th at 8PM.    The composer says: "That's right, 1957! I wrote them specifically for the first of several concert tours consisting of programs dedicated to contemporary music and modern jazz combined. Although inspired by sets of variations that I had played by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn to tie together several variations as a unit of construction, they proceed much more freely in terms of developing elements of the theme by rhythmic, melodic and harmonic expansion and contraction and alterations of the time scale. They are my last totally chromatic piece and contain a great variety of harmonic structure and emotional mood - still a goal in my music."

And, Eaton's  Sor Juana Songs (1998) will be peformed on Friday, Feb. 25th, by the incredible singer Christina Asher and the wonderful pianist Taka Kigawa, at the Tenri Cultural Institute at 43A West 13th Street, at 8PM    Composer's note: "Three sonnets by, in my opinion, the greatest Latin American poet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. To capture their themes of, respectively, illusive love, defying the overbearing authority of her male detractors, and the loss of love, I have used microtones in the voice as well as as well as singing into the piano strings, and such piano techniques as holding "lesser" sonorities with the middle pedal of the piano and catching sf passages or chords by the quick change of the right pedal - the last three of which create softer, echoing images of previous events. This is perhaps my favorite and most moving song cycle."

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