Elia Foster and Matias Perinetti-Paniagua will perform feral / fluid for bass clarinet duet at the McGill Association of Student Composers fall concert in Tanna Schulich Hall in Montreal.
Katie Rice and Shiana Montanari performed their commissioned work for bass clarinet duet, feral/fluid, at the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors national conference in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
The Belter Murphy Duo performed Steam for flute and clarinet duet at the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors national conference in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
The Oasi Trio premiered their newly commissioned work, Alkemia, a multisensory collaboration with Sharra of Alkemia Perfumes, at the Areté Venue and Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The Oasi Trio (Kathryn Vetter, Claire Niederberger, and Magnus Villanueva) is dedicated to the performance of contemporary music, with a focus on presenting new and original compositions for all combinations of instruments in the ensemble—clarinet, violin, and piano. They aim to increase the accessibility of new music through performance, projects, and outreach. Their fall 2019 project, known as the Post-Cortona Premieres Recital and Tour, consists of commissions from five alumni composers of the Cortona Sessions for New Music.
Tragico Tecti Syrmate (clothed in tragic robes) is a brass quintet inspired by the eerily timeless lament of the angels from Sefano Tucci’s 1569 play Christus Judex. The work was premiered by Kenneth Chauby, Charlie Jones (trumpets), Maxwell Paulus (horn), Addison Maye-saxon (trombone), and Alec Mawrence (tuba) at the 2019 Aspen Music Festival.
Eight World Premieres
More than 215 composers from around the world applied, the top eight are here! Alarm Will Sound performs world premieres by resident composers Theophilus Chandler, Inti Figgis-Vizueta, Charles Halka, Chelsea Komschlies, Aaron Mencher, Nicole Murphy, Peter Shin, and Kristina Wolfe.
The Laissez-Pair (Katie Rice and Shiana Montanari) will be giving the world premiere of the bass clarinet duet they commissioned: feral / fluid (inspired by ferrofluid).
The Mizzou International Composers Festival -- taking place each July in Columbia, Missouri -- features three public concerts, presentations, workshops, and more. Featuring ensemble-in-residence Alarm Will Sound as well as two distinguished guest composers, the festival selects eight resident composers each year through an application process to compose new works that will be premiered by Alarm Will Sound at the festival. During the week, resident composers will rehearse closely with the ensemble, give public presentations on their work, and receive private lessons with the guest composers (Amy Beth Kirsten and Donnacha Dennehy).
Chelsea has been selected for fellowship at the Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies at the 2019 Aspen Music Festival. Students work intimately with AMFS composition faculty (Christopher Theofanidis and Stephen Hartke), composers-in-residence, and guest composers, as well as Aspen’s own Music Director Robert Spano and President and CEO Alan Fletcher, both active composers. Student works will be performed by students of the AMFS in a variety of mixed ensemble configurations including the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra.
An all-scholarship, intensive creative workshop and mentoring program for highly-gifted composers at the start of their professional careers, CULTIVATE will take place this year between June 3 and 9 in northern Westchester County, NY, at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in Cortlandt Manor and at the Merestead estate in nearby Mount Kisco. Launched in 2012, CULTIVATE quickly became a coveted destination for these young creative artists. The six Fellows will each create a new composition that serves as the focus of an intensive week of collective and individual daily rehearsals and workshops with Bermel and Principal and Guest Artists from the Music from Copland House ensemble, hailed by Louisville Weekly as “one of the leading champions of contemporary music.” Evening discussion sessions focus on practical and professional career matters, and feature prominent, forward-looking arts leaders. CULTIVATE concludes with a public concert by the ensemble on Sunday afternoon, June 9 on Copland House's mainstage performance series at Merestead, featuring the World Premieres of all the new works. All costs of composer participation, working sessions and rehearsals, travel, accommodations, and meals are covered by Copland House. CULTIVATE composers receive pre-Fellowship creative counsel and advice from Bermel and the ensemble, and become eligible for ongoing career advancement support and prospective recording, performance, and commission opportunities.
The NorCal Music Festival Orchestra performed Jupiter, Colossus on their annual concert series at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco on June 2, 2019.
The NorCal Music Festival Orchestra performed Jupiter, Colossus on their annual concert series at First Congregational Church of Berkeley on June 1, 2019.
Erinn Komschlies’ master’s degree recital at Southern Illinois University will feature Moon and Moss, a new work for tenor, clarinet, and piano, which she commissioned. (Stay tuned for finalized date and time.)
The Music Marathon runs from 9-5 on Saturday, March 30, 2019 and features nonstop music by women. At 1:00 the Belter Murphy Duo will be performing Steam for flute and clarinet as well as 3×2 for flute and clarinet by Lita Grier (b. 1937).
The Belter Murphy Duo will be performing Steam for flute and clarinet as well as 3×2 for flute and clarinet by Lita Grier (b. 1937). The Music by Women Festival, held in historic Poindexter Hall on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women, will include papers, presentations, lecture recitals, and performances all relating to the subject of music composed, taught and performed by women. The festival will feature concerts of new and historic music written by women composers historically as well as in the present day.
In its sixth year of existence, Bach@7 series offers two programs in the Fall and three in Winter-Spring, featuring choral, orchestral, solo and chamber works by J.S. Bach, his predecessors and followers, including a world premiere by young Philadelphia composer Chelsea Komschlies (February 27).
I had a wonderful time as composer in residence with the Key City Winds in Abilene, TX! The weekend included a great concert of woodwind quintets by women throughout history and a guest lecture at Abilene Christian University.
