Virtual Commissions: Evita Arce | Works & Process
Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Process will premiere brand new virtual commissions. Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Monday, May 18 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble
Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Tuesday, May 19 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Next Fest Connects: A Masterclass with Violist Ralph Farris
Next Fest Connects presents a masterclass with violist Ralph Farris. Connie Li and Hailey Walterman workshop piece by Bright Sheng and Hindemith.
Tuesday, May 19 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time
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Emily Wells | Digital Discovery Festival
The free Digital Discovery Festival provides a platform for artists to work creatively and be supported financially for their efforts in the virtual world. The Festival includes two live-streamed series: Discoveries, with artists in performance, introduced by Helga Davis, and Masterclasses with established artists hosted by Paola Prestini. The Festival will respond to the need of artists during this time, paying $1000 per person for each 30-minute performance, and gifting relevant audio-visual equipment and technical training on live streaming to each participant. The May 19 stream features Emily Wells.
Tuesday, May 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Ashley Bathgate | Digital Discovery Festival
The free Digital Discovery Festival provides a platform for artists to work creatively and be supported financially for their efforts in the virtual world. The Festival includes two live-streamed series: Discoveries, with artists in performance, introduced by Helga Davis, and Masterclasses with established artists hosted by Paola Prestini. The Festival will respond to the need of artists during this time, paying $1000 per person for each 30-minute performance, and gifting relevant audio-visual equipment and technical training on live streaming to each participant. The May 20 stream features Ashley Bathgate.
Wednesday, May 20 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble
Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Thursday, May 21 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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How Low Can We Go? | C4
C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective will present “How Low Can We Go? – C4 Goes Low Latency,” a short, live, remote concert of contemporary choral works, with guest performers from C4 Network choirs Inversion Ensemble and C3LA.
Thursday, May 21 at 8:30 PM Eastern Time
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Masterclass: Vijay Iyer | Digital Discovery Festival
Vijay Iyer–Photo by Kyle Dorosz for Miller Theatre
The free Digital Discovery Festival provides a platform for artists to work creatively and be supported financially for their efforts in the virtual world. The Festival includes two live-streamed series: Discoveries, with artists in performance, introduced by Helga Davis, and Masterclasses with established artists hosted by Paola Prestini. The Festival will respond to the need of artists during this time, paying $1000 per person for each 30-minute performance, and gifting relevant audio-visual equipment and technical training on live streaming to each participant. The May 22 stream features Vijay Iyer.
Friday, May 22 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time
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New Music Help Desk: Audience Edition feat. composer Alex Temple
Composer Alex Temple speaks on early history of electronic music in advertising #NMG2017 (photo: Tina Tallon/SALT Arts Documentation)
Spektral Quartet is back with its New Music Help Desk series with a full slate of top-level special guests through the month of May. Developed as an interactive and entertaining resource for emerging composers, new-music performers, and curious listeners at the onset of the quarantine, the Help Desk fills the gap left by the masterclasses, coaching, and workshops that Spektral would typically be conducting while touring around the country – all at no cost to attendees.
Friday, May 22 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time
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Sky on Swings | Digital Festival O
Opera Philadelphia’s first-ever Digital Festival continues with Sky on Swings by Lembit Beecher and Hannah Moscovitch. The stream will premiere on Friday, May 22 at 8:00 p.m. and will be available for viewing through Monday, August 31.
Friday, May 22 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Alone Together | Jennifer Koh
Violinist Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together is an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers among them. Twenty-one composers have each agreed to donate a new, 30-second micro-work for solo violin while also recommending a fellow composer to write their own 30-second solo violin work on paid commission from the artist-driven nonprofit ARCO Collaborative. Koh will premiere a selection of these donated and commissioned works each Saturday at 7:00 p.m Eastern Time.
Saturday, May 23 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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The Philadelphia Flute Quartet | Raritan River Music Festival
Closing the festival is The Philadelphia Flute Quartet with a program featuring the New Jersey premiere of Hidden River by Eric Sessler. The evening offers a nod to the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with music by American women.
Saturday, May 23 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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Free Online Concerts: Culture in the Time of Corona
The Streetlight Guild, in partnership with the Johnstone Fund for New Music, presents Culture in the Time of Corona, a series of 6 free live-stream concerts taking place at The Streetlight Guild on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 PM. in April, May, and June. The purpose of these performances is to provide musicians with much-needed income, as many of them have experienced cancelled gigs due to public health concerns, and to provide the public at large with much-needed musical therapy during an unprecedented time of crisis. May 24 features Pendulum Duo.
Sunday, May 24 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time
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Yuan-Chen Li & Jeffrey Zeigler | Connecting ACO Community
Jeffrey Zeigler
In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on composers and performers, American Composers Orchestra announces Connecting ACO Community, a new initiative to commission short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer will receive $500 to write the work, and each performer will receive $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. With this project, ACO aims to support artists who need financial assistance; to create new work that will live beyond this crisis; and provide virtual, interactive performances to ACO’s supporters and the general public. This event will include the world premiere of Yuan-Chen Li’s new work for cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and an exclusive Q&A with the composer and performer, hosted by Ed Yim and Derek Bermel.
Sunday, May 24 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
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An Essential Honor | Living Room Music
Hosted by Tamara Tunie, An Essential Honor looks at the strength and unity that is discovered through times of great strife, recognizes those who serve in times of distress, and acknowledges the lessons we must learn in order to build trust among one another.
Sunday, May 24 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Virtual Commissions: Jamar Roberts | Works & Process
Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Process will premiere brand new virtual commissions. Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Sunday, May 24 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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golden sun
Saxophonist Bryan McNamara broadcasts a live performance of Eva-Maria Houben’s golden sun every day from Sunday through Friday during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Live@NationalSawdust
Live@NationalSawdust is a digital home for the voices and work of the artists they have hosted over the past 5 seasons in their Brooklyn venue. Live@NationalSawdust will feature weekly releases from their archive of live performances and is free for audiences across the globe.
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Opera of the Week | Beth Morrison Projects
BMP is keeping the work of our artists out in the world as theaters are shuttered by offering an “Opera of the Week,” which will stream on their homepage.
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