Representation, Blakenship Robertson
Video, Leni Schwendinger's Night City with High Wire Act
Some Upcoming Concerts [check back in Summer 2016 for more] _____________________________________________________
NEWS!
OPERA AMERICA ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF
OPERA GRANTS FOR FEMALE COMPOSERS
Supported by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
SEVEN COMPOSERS AND SEVEN OPERA COMPANIES
AWARDED A TOTAL OF $200,000The most recent round of Discovery Grants attracted 68 applicants, and an independent adjudication panel selected seven composers to receive a total of $100,000. The recipients are Julia Adolphe for So Donia Speaks, Mary Ellen Childs for On Beyond, Emily Doolittle for Jan Tait and the Bear, Nkeiru Okoye for We’ve Got Our Eye On You, Rene Orth for Machine, Elena Ruehr for Crafting the Bonds and Laura Elise Schwendinger for Artemisia. This is the third round of Discovery Grants to be awarded since the program’s inception. See below for composer biographies and summaries of their operas.
Artemisia is a co-commission from Trinity Wall Street Novus, NY and the Left Coast Ensemble, SF.
http://operaamerica.org/Content/About/PressRoom/2016/04202016.aspx
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Until the Sunrise, Premiere. PianoForte Studios
Lakeshore Rush, Chicago, May 27, 2016
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Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra commission, Animal Rhapsody
Tuesday May 17, 7pm, Carpenter Theater Dominion Arts Center
Wganer Schickele, Guonod, and Schwendinger
The Residency of Laura Schwendinger is made possible through Music Alive: New Partnerships, a residency program of New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras. This national program is designed to establish new relationships between composers and orchestras, and to help orchestras present new music to the public and build support for new music within their institutions. Leadership funding for Music Alive is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund_____________________________________________________
Llorona, a setting of the Mexican folk song
UW Concert Choir, Beverly Taylor Director
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Cortona Duo, Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway with CUSP, Princeton 2016
Love Sonnets, set to sonnets by William Shakespeare
for mezzo and violin, Cortona Sessions New Music Festival
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April 2, 2016 RICHMOND SYMPHONY
Altria masterworks series, Steven Smith Music Director, and featuring flutist Mary Boodell in Waking Dream
part of a League of American Orchestras/ New Music USA residency
https://www.richmondsymphony.com/event/copland-appalachian-spring
RSO info page and [ Composer page]
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Seattle North Corner Chamber Orchestra plays Chiaro Di Luna
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Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, The Edward T. Cone Series
High Wire Act with the New Millennium Ensemble
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Recent Concerts (featuring the JACK Quartet, Miranda Cuckson and Novus with Julian Wachner)
October 22, 24 2015
Ruckus Ensemble with Patricia Green
in performances of Lady Lazarus, and About a Mountain
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presents works, including the Kay Ryan Songs (2014)
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Ensemble for These Times,Nannette McGuinness, The Jewish Music and Poetry ProjectKay Ryan Songs (2014)
Peninsula Jeiwish Community Center, Foster City_____________________________________________________
May 8, 2015 Creature Quartet Premiered with JACK with Animation by French Artist Pauline Gagniarre [ Promo here!]
at The Wisconsin Union Theater
Recorded by JACK on a forthcoming Albany CD
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SINFONIETTA AT TRINITY CHURCH, MAY 21, 2015
with Julian Wachner and NOVUS NY
Video online at
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Feb. 24 2015, at ZINC BAR, NY
Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen play Violinists in My Life
Recording of the work at Oktaven studio in June, 2015
3 Works for Solo Instruments and Orchestra on Albany
