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American Composers Orchestra with Tito Muñoz -- Photo by Alfred Kan

American Composers Orchestra Explores Latin American Music’s Transatlantic Roots at Carnegie Hall

Under the leadership of CEO Melissa Ngan and Artistic Director Curtis Stewart, the American Composer...
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Stephanie Boyd
Kebra-Seyoun Charles -- Photo by Alexandria Hill

5 Questions to Kebra-Seyoun Charles (double bassist, composer)

Kebra-Seyoun Charles is a dynamic and innovative artist who breathes fresh air into the classical ge...
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Katie Brown
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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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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Missy Mazzoli -- Photo by Caroline Tompkins

5 Questions to Missy Mazzoli about Luna Composition Lab

In the early 2000s, several American composers came to define a style of post-Minimalism that defies...
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Esteban Meneses
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5 Questions to Ahmed Alabaca (composer)

I first heard music by Ahmed Alabaca at the premiere of their Ode to Liberty, a 10-minute tone poem...
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Esteban Meneses
Curtis Stewart--Photo by Lelanie Foster

5 Questions to Curtis Stewart (ACO Artistic Director)

Acclaimed composer and violinist Curtis Stewart has spent his career taking contemporary music to ne...
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Dalanie Harris
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
Garrett McQueen--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Garrett McQueen (Director of Artist Equity, American Composers Orchestra)

Garrett McQueen stays busy. A performer; radio producer and host; lecturer on race, administration,...
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A. Kori Hill
Viet Cuong--Photo by Aaron Jay Young

5 Questions to Viet Cuong (composer)

On September 22-24, the Pacific Symphony and the endlessly musical and adventurous Sandbox Percussio...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Brian Raphael Nabors--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Brian Raphael Nabors (composer)

Brian Raphael Nabors is a composer of enormous gifts and accomplishment. A 2020 Fulbright Scholarshi...
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Bill Doggett
Photo by David Pisnoy on Unsplash

Classical Music’s Data-Driven Race Reckoning (And What’s Holding us Back)

In the arts, as in other fields, data can be a powerful tool for accountability, but it has also bec...
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Mansi Shah
Melissa Ngan--Photo by Karjaka Studios

5 Questions to Melissa Ngan (President and CEO, American Composers Orchestra)

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is about to emerge from the pandemic with verve and vision. Not o...
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Stephanie Boyd
Tenth Intervention

This week: live streamed concerts (September 7, 2020 – September 13, 2020)

Songs for the Resistance | Tenth Intervention “Songs for the Resistance” is a two-night event featur...
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Sam Reising
Victoria Bond

This week: live streamed concerts (August 24, 2020 – August 30, 2020)

Carnegie Hill Concerts: Midday Music Festival 2020 Carnegie Hill Concerts (CHC) presents a week of 3...
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Sam Reising
Gelsey Bell

This week: live streamed concerts (August 3, 2020 – August 9, 2020)

Cairns (in person event) Cairns is a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery that leads the listener on a...
Author
Sam Reising
Nico Muhly - Photo by Matthew Murphy

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

Nico Muhly | Works & Process Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audience...
Author
Sam Reising
Seth Parker Woods at Look + Listen 2019--Photo by Idris Solomon

This week: live streamed concerts (July 6, 2020 – July 12, 2020)

Dan Siegler and Dawn Sinkowski | Works & Process Created at home by artists familiar to Works &a...
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Sam Reising
Nathalie Joachim--Photo by Josue Azor

This week: live streamed concerts (June 22, 2020 – June 28, 2020)

ChamberQUEERantine: A Digital Pride Month Festival! Every night at 7:00 PM Eastern Time from June 8-...
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Sam Reising
Shara Nova

This week: live streamed concerts (June 15, 2020 – June 21, 2020)

ChamberQUEERantine: A Digital Pride Month Festival! Every night at 7:00 PM Eastern Time from June 8-...
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Sam Reising
Composer Suzanne Farrin

This week: live streamed concerts (May 25, 2020 – May 31, 2020)

Virtual Commissions: Brandon Stirling Baker | Works & Process Every Sunday and Monday, Works &am...
Author
Sam Reising
Connecting ACO Community streaming presentation featuring Sakari Dixon Vanderveer--Photo courtesy American Composers Orchestra

Connecting ACO Community: Sakari Dixon Vanderveer and Derek Bermel

Overwhelmed by the wave of livestream? As amazing as all the archives are, I’m finding myself drawn...
Author
Lana Norris
Andrew Norman--Photo by Jessa Anderson

This week: live streamed concerts (May 11, 2020 – May 17, 2020)

Virtual Commissions: Gus Solomons, Jr. | Works & Process Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Pr...
Author
Sam Reising
Daniel Bernard Roumain

This week: live streamed concerts (May 4, 2020 – May 10, 2020)

Music on the Rebound Music on the Rebound​ presents​ ​Vol. 2, the 2nd installment of online concerts...
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Sam Reising
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