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Jennifer Bellor's Oneira, Video animation by Christine Banna

Video Premiere: Clocks in Motion Performs Jennifer Bellor’s Oneira

Today’s video premiere comes to us from Clocks in Motion, a percussion ensemble comprised of J...
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Sky Macklay--Photo by Ramez Yousef

ListN Up: Sky Macklay (August 19, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir's strengur

Video Premiere: “strengur” by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

What if the creative relationship between composers and performers was more reciprocal? For her late...
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Composing Inclusion Composers

Inaugural “Composing Inclusion” Composer Commissions Announced

Nine composers have been selected for Composing Inclusion, a new partnership between The Juilliard S...
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2022 ACF | create and Minnesota Music Creator Awards Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create and...
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Amino Belyamani

ListN Up: Amino Belyamani (August 5, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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innova Spring National Call

Nine Projects Selected for innova Recordings’ Second National Call

Today American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the second collection of recording projects selected...
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John Daniel--Photo by Rob Miller

ListN Up: John Daniel (July 22, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Asking for a Friend #2

Asking for a Friend: Is this Record Deal Shady?

Welcome to “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts administrators Rachel Sokolow...
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2022 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers

2022 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Compose...
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Video still from Jenny Olivia Johnson's Reflect Reflect Respond Respond performed by Wild Rumpus

Video Premiere: Wild Rumpus Performs Jenny Olivia Johnson’s Reflect Reflect Respond Respond

With predecessors including György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Alexander Scriabin, Jenny Olivia Jo...
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Anıl Çamcı--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Anıl Çamcı (June 24, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Lewis Jordan--Photo by Franz Kabelka

ListN Up: Lewis Jordan (June 17, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Shirine Saad--Photo by Gregg Richards

ListN Up: Shirine Saad (June 10, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Nadia Shpachenko--Photo by Victoria Innocenzi

ListN Up: Nadia Shpachenko (June 3, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Emma O'Halloran--Photo by Alex Dowling

ListN Up: Emma O’Halloran (May 27, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Yolanda Kondonassis performs Reena Esmail's Inconvenient Wounds

Video Premiere: Yolanda Kondonassis Performs Reena Esmail’s inconvenient wounds

Nature is seen as both a thing of beauty and reckoning in the music video for Reena Esmail’s i...
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Maria Chávez--Photo by Martyna Szczęsna

ListN Up: Maria Chávez (May 20, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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L'Rain -- Photo by Nathan Bajar

ListN Up: L’Rain (May 13, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Bryan Senti and ACME perform

Video Premiere: Bryan Senti’s “Mantra” Performed by ACME

For composer and violinist/violist Bryan Senti, working with the American Contemporary Music Ensembl...
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Aron Dahl--Photo by Angel Labarthe

ListN Up: Aron Dahl (May 6, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Darlene Castro Ortiz--Photo by Marie Kim

ListN Up: Darlene Castro Ortiz (April 29, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Applications Now Open for innova Recordings Spring National Call

innova Recordings, the in-house recording label of American Composers Forum, invites applicants to s...
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Akenya--Photo by Samantha Fuehring

ListN Up: Akenya (April 22, 2022)

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