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Asking for a Friend: Is this Record Deal Shady?

Jul 20, 2022

Welcome to “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts administrators Rachel Sokolow...

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Announcement

2022 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

Jul 19, 2022

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Compose...

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Video

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

Jun 30, 2022

With predecessors including György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Alexander Scriabin, Jenny Olivia Jo...

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ListN Up: Anıl Çamcı (June 24, 2022)

Jun 24, 2022

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ListN Up: Lewis Jordan (June 17, 2022)

Jun 17, 2022

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ListN Up: Shirine Saad (June 10, 2022)

Jun 10, 2022

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Nadia Shpachenko--Photo by Victoria Innocenzi

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ListN Up: Nadia Shpachenko (June 3, 2022)

Jun 3, 2022

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

May 27, 2022

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Video

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

May 26, 2022

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

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ListN Up: Maria Chávez (May 20, 2022)

May 20, 2022

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ListN Up: L’Rain (May 13, 2022)

May 13, 2022

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Video

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

May 12, 2022

For composer and violinist/violist Bryan Senti, working with the American Contemporary Music Ensembl...

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ListN Up: Aron Dahl (May 6, 2022)

May 6, 2022

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Darlene Castro Ortiz--Photo by Marie Kim

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

Apr 29, 2022

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Announcement

Applications Now Open for innova Recordings Spring National Call

Apr 25, 2022

innova Recordings, the in-house recording label of American Composers Forum, invites applicants to s...

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ListN Up: Akenya (April 22, 2022)

Apr 22, 2022

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Video

Video Premiere: Muspelheim by Jasmine Morris

Apr 21, 2022

A cluster of discordant droning reeds usher in a slinking ornamented melody in composer Jasmine Morr...

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ListN Up: Lisa Bielawa (April 15, 2022)

Apr 15, 2022

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Opinion

Asking for a Friend: Selfie Videos & Elusive Second Performances

Apr 13, 2022

Welcome to the first installment of “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts admi...

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Announcement

ACF Partners with Look + Listen for 20th Anniversary Season

Apr 11, 2022

Look + Listen’s free annual spring festival marks its 20th anniversary with a trio of boldly i...

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ListN Up: Layale Chaker (April 8, 2022)

Apr 8, 2022

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Departure Duo performs Sarah Gibson's The Boys Are There

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Video Premiere: Departure Duo Performs The Boys Are There by Sarah Gibson

Apr 5, 2022

The spirit of the 1920s reverberates through words, architecture, and costuming in Departure DuoR...

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Lidiya Yankovskaya--Photo by Kate Lemmon

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ListN Up: Lidiya Yankovskaya (April 1, 2022)

Apr 1, 2022

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innova Recordings national call projects

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innova Recordings Announces Eight New Artists to Join the Label following National Call

Mar 30, 2022

Today American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the first collection of recording projects selected t...

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