This week: live streamed concerts (July 13, 2020 – July 19, 2020)

on July 13, 2020 at 6:00 am

Nico Muhly | Works & Process

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, July 13 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, July 14 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Dan Tepfer | Digital Discovery Festival

This Discovery Concert kicks off a week of “music and technology” focus led by pianist and composer Dan Tepfer and a live artificial-intelligence driven composition for keys.
Tuesday, July 14 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Club Paradise Virtual Soirée

Akropolis Quintet by Steve Korn Photography

Join Akropolis and composer Jeff Scott for an intimate, interactive online concert experience. Their Virtual Soirée features live performances from Akropolis members, a live interview with composer Jeff Scott, a historical review of Detroit’s Paradise Valley neighborhood and musical legacy from “primordial Detroiter” Marsha Music, and the exclusive web premiere of Homage to Paradise Valley, Jeff Scott’s new 25-minute work for reed quintet.
Wednesday, July 15 to Friday, July 15 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, July 18 at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM; Sunday, July 19 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $15
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Aki Onda | Isolated Field Recording Series

In response to COVID-19’s impact, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. This series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing.
Wednesday, July 15 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, July 16 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Molly Joyce | Digital Discovery Festival

Molly Joyce will present five self-composed songs, including one from her new album. The accompanying visuals feature closed captioning.
Thursday, July 16 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Calidore String Quartet

Anna Clyne – Photo by Todd Rosenberg

The Calidore String Quartet performs a program of chamber works by Bach and Beethoven alongside a new composition by contemporary Anna Clyne.
Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
Tickets $10
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Virtual Works & Process: Lisa Bielawa | Works & Process

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Presents the Virtual Premiere of Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home Chapter 15 with Film for Chapter 4 by Anthony Hawley.
Thursday, July 16 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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Jennifer Walshe | Digital Discovery Festival

Composer Jennifer Walshe (photo: Blackie Bouffant)

A masterclass conversation-performance hosted by vocalist Helga Davis and composer and National Sawdust co-founder Paola Prestini who will be joined by the AI-inspired Irish composer Jennifer Walshe, exploring the topic of how our rapidly advancing technological future is poised to shift the way we listen to and create music.
Friday, July 17 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Social Bubble Salon Concert

Composers Concordance combines the Live Stream concert with a Social Bubble Gathering of colleagues to present their third chamber salon concert in the Pandemic era. The performance will consist of 14 composers/performers presenting their music for each other in a socially-distanced setting in Mark Kostabi’s spacious Chelsea townhouse, while simultaneously live streaming 14 cameras on Facebook Live.
Saturday, July 18 at 5:00 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, July 18 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Pathways: Art & Technology, Part III

Join bespoken and the International Contemporary Ensemble for Part III of a free, four-part online series focusing on the intersection of technology and art. Each session will have different speakers discussing their artistry and practice across four disciplines – moving image, audio engineering, live-sound, and video – and how their work intersects within each area. How does technology and art come together in performance? How do we begin to work across disciplines? The series is not only educational but also a platform for empowerment, breaking down the barriers to using technology in an artist’s practice, & specifically for women & gender non-conforming artists.
Sunday, July 19 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time
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Alejandro Basulto Martinez & Alecia Lawyer | Connecting ACO Community

Alecia Lawyer–Photo by Lynn Lane

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 Alejandro Basulto Martinez’s new work for oboist Alecia Lawyer and an exclusive Q&A with the composer and performer, hosted by Ed Yim and Derek Bermel.
Sunday, July 19 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Tickets $5
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Eyal Vilner | Works & Process

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, July 19 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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