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Marika Hughes -- Photo by Petra Cvelbar

Artists Need Better Funding and Support Networks to be the Catalysts for Hope We Need in 2025 and Beyond

Last year, a seasoned performer-composer called to ask for my advice: though she had secured her fir...
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Jennifer Kessler
2025 McKnight Awardees

ACF McKnight 2025 Program Applications Are Now Open

American Composers Forum (ACF) has announced the opening of applications for the 2025 McKnight Visit...
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2024 ACF | create Awardees

Announcing the 2024 ACF | create Awardees

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa...
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2024 McKnight Foundation Awardees

Announcing the 2024 ACF McKnight Composer Fellowship and Residency Awardees

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com...
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innova Recordings' Fall Call 2023 Recording Projects

innova Recordings Announces Eight New Projects from Fall 2023 National Call

innova Recordings is pleased to announce the fourth collection of recording projects selected throug...
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Mary Kouyoumdjian -- Photo by Alik Barsoumian

Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian Meets Discomfort with Empathy

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. In one of my favorite photos of composer...
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Amanda Cook
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ACF | create 2024 Applications Now Open

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2024 ACF |...
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Joel Thompson -- Photo by Rachel Cheong

Joel Thompson Brings Introspection and Imagination to New ACF-led Commission

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “I don’t know if you know, but I...
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Amanda Cook
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American Composers Forum Fall Applications Now Open

American Composers Forum (ACF) has announced the opening of applications for the 2024 McKnight Visit...
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Oswald Huỳnh -- Photo by Allison Davis

Composer Oswald Huỳnh Centers the Vietnamese Diaspora in his Music

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. For Oswald Huỳnh, composing for orchestra...
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Amanda Cook
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2023 ACF | create Awards Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa...
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2023 ACF McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com...
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Xavier Muzik -- Photo by JonJon Blunden

Xavier Muzik Channels Emotion, History, and Culture into his Compositions

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “Anything you do is art,” my colleague Xa...
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Amanda Cook
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Announcing 15 New Projects from innova Recordings Spring National Call

Today innova Recordings, the in-house recordings label of American Composers Forum, announced the se...
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It’s Time to Drop the Word “Emerging” from Composer Opportunities

In their Feb. 16 advice column on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Asking for a Friend responded to a message f...
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Jessica Rudman
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Announcing “Anatomy of a Commission”: a 360-view Digital Resource

Today, American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the launch of a new digital resource titled “Anatomy...
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José Halac Transforms Dichotomies into Infinite, Liminal Spaces

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. José Halac is seemingly full of contradic...
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Amanda Cook
Alex Shapiro -- Photo courtesy of the artist

Endlessly Curious, Alex Shapiro Draws Inspiration from Nature, Technology, and Humble Beginnings

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “Nobody needs me,” composer Alex Shapiro...
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Amanda Cook
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Reflections on “Immigration, Identity, and the Arts”

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Image caption: Artists featured in “...
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Carolina Heredia
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Video Premiere: Goldfeather performs “Who Am I”

“I need you to tell me who I am supposed to be,” Sarah Goldfeather sings in the quirky, jump-cut new...
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ACF Partners with GLFCAM on First Satellite Program

American Composers Forum (ACF) and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (GLFCAM) today...
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Masatora Goya--Photo by Sanae Ono

Masatora Goya Follows the Elusive Pathways of Human Emotion

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Since childhood, composer Masatora Goya h...
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Amanda Cook
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Applications Now Open for 2023 American Composers Forum Funding Programs

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2023 McKni...
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James Diaz, Trevor Weston, inti figgis-vizueta, Vanessa Rose, and Erin Busch

Follow Through: Why Living Composers are Key

This article was first published in Chamber Music magazine’s Winter 2023 issue and has been reprinte...
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Vanessa Rose
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