To continue an 8-year tradition of presenting live music, Craft in America will stream a series of virtual mini-concerts, Sundays at 2 p.m. PDT this summer.

The series concludes with a pre-recorded performance: Aperture Duo bring you a video compilation from Snapshot, a multidisciplinary performance project for this socially distant time. Performed and recorded "live" over Zoom, Snapshot is a series of short instruction pieces written for Aperture Duo to explore chamber music in the time of quarantine. The performance will include two world premieres and a performance of Jennifer Bewerse's Missed for two live-streaming instrumentalists. Join in for microtonal drones, conversations, coffee, lemonade, dogs, violin, and viola!

The concert will be streamed as part of Craft in America's Sunday Sound Streams Concert Series on Facebook Live.

For more information visit craftinamerica.org

OUTRSpaces will host their second streaming event featuring artists from the 2020 Omaha Under the Radar festival roster.

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Stream the event from the OutrSpaces Twitch channel:

www.twitch.tv/outrspaces

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FEATURING:

Ultima Thule

Riley Leitch performing music by Sivan Cohen Elias

Nathan Brumbaugh

Waveform Collapse

Viscosity Dance Collective

Autoduplicity

Admission: FREE

Facebook Event Here

Music from Salem presents the Cello Seminar's Final Projects. Participants from the Cello Seminar will share their work, performing a wide range of contemporary repertoire for solo cello. 

The concert will also feature the world premiere of Jennifer Bewerse's A Piece of Farm, composed specially for the cello seminar.

Follow along via Zoom

More information at musicfromsalem.org/cello-seminar

Description:I am beyond excited to share that on Tuesday, May 26th, Aperture Duo will premiere Missed for two live streaming performers by ... me! Missed is the 11th a series of Postal Pieces I've been making over the past two months (an homage to James Tenney's Postal Pieces from 1960-71), where each piece is inspired by the person I mail it to. Missed looks at how close friends and collaborators connect (and can't connect) over live streaming: what the internet can and can't replace.    

Catch it, along with a piece by Nick Deyoe, on Living Music: Pirate Radio Edition, a quarantine variety show that features artists from around the globe, performing and chatting from their homes, streamed on Facebook Live every Tuesday and Thursday night hosted by Peabody Award-winner Nadia Sirota. 

Tune In on Facebook HERE

As part of their 2019/20 season, Southland Ensemble presents a portrait concert of Bill Roper.

Description:Synchromy and the Audubon Center at Debs Park present Urban Birds, an online experience showcasing many of the incredible birds and composers of Southern California. Synchromy commissioned pieces from Southern California-based composers inspired by common local birds. Site visitors can find premiere performance videos through an interactive map of LA's Debs Park, including my premiere of Call and Echo by Brandon Rolle.

Cassia Streb and I developed the Concert Design for Urban Birds. I'm particularly excited about the QR scavenger hunt we created! Print out the scavenger hunt and field guide, then use your smart phone or tablet to have your own musical bird hunt at home. All of the materials are available at synchromy.org/urban-birds - just click over and head to the Outpost.

Access: free, but donations are welcome (donate here) 

Explore the online experience at synchromy.org/urban-birds

HEAR NOW Festival answers a two-fold need; for LA composers to be featured in a professional setting with superb performances; and for the audience to begin to know what LA composers are writing. Since 2011 HEAR NOW has introduced nearly 150 new and recent works by 113 individual Los Angeles-based composers. Numerous composers — emerging and mid-career — have been brought to both critical and public attention, and HEAR NOW has served as an incubator for the discovery of new talent.

Featuring... 

CHACONNE PART 1 by John Kennedy 

EL ORO DE LOS TIGRES by Jack Van Zandt (US Premiere) 

CONVERSATIONS by John Williams 

HEAR NOW COMMISSION by Nina Shekhar (World Premiere) 

ACOUSTIC LETTER GENERATOR by Abigail Johnson 

while twigs make minor adjustments by Kevin Zhang (LA Premiere) 

e il naufragar m e dolce in questo mare by Sean Heim

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit www.hearnowmusicfestival.com 

Purchase Tickets Here

HEAR NOW Festival answers a two-fold need; for LA composers to be featured in a professional setting with superb performances; and for the audience to begin to know what LA composers are writing. Since 2011 HEAR NOW has introduced nearly 150 new and recent works by 113 individual Los Angeles-based composers. Numerous composers — emerging and mid-career — have been brought to both critical and public attention, and HEAR NOW has served as an incubator for the discovery of new talent.

Featuring... 

UN RIO by Peter Knell 

HOLY ORDER SHAKER DANCES by Leanna Primiani 

FIFTEENTH by Hitomi Oba (LA Premiere) 

ORBIT E by Russell Steinberg (WC premiere) 

SARAB by Niloufar Shiri 

SONG OF HAFEZ by David Lefkowitz 

SOGNARE VIGNETTE by Nicole Brady 

METAMORPHOSE by Arash Majd

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit www.hearnowmusicfestival.com 

Purchase Tickets Here

A program of experimental music from the United States and Eastern Europe will draw a connection between the near-miss nuclear apocalypse of the Cold War era and the present threat of environmental apocalypse.

FEATURING

Tomasz Sikorski - Diario (1987) 

Morton Feldman - Jackson Pollock (1951) 

Samuel Beckett -The Lost Ones (1971) 

Tatjana Kozlova -Johannes - Nildiostad/Crews (2015) 

Laura Steenberge - Transition (2019) 

Michael Pisaro - Nature, Obscured (2019)   

About Dog Star Orchestra Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by composer Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. Dog Star Orchestra is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the U.S.

About Music at the Wende Now in its second season, Music at the Wende is a new music series in which esteemed musical organizations present free concerts at the Wende Museum, with musical programs inspired by the Wende collection and mission. 

For the full schedule, click here.

RSVPs open Tuesday, March 10, 2020, at 10 a.m.

For more information, go here

Description:Villa Aurora fellow Helmut Oehring was born to deaf-mute parents in East-Berlin in 1961. Self-taught, he started out as a guitarist and composer, however, as a conscientious objector in the GDR, he was barred from attending university. In 1990 he became master student with Georg Katzer at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, where he is a member today. This program will include pieces based on the poetry of American poet Anne Sexton, works referring to Albrecht Dürer and Heinrich Heine, and  a portrait of the infamous Fred A. Leuchter, Holocaust denier and US expert in execution equipment.    

The evening will feature: Helmut Oehring (narrator), Stacey Fraser (soprano), Nic Gerpe (piano), Adrianne Pope (violin), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), Brian Walsh (bass clarinet), Dan Flores (trumpet). Special thanks to Aron Kallay for his support.

Admission: $15 | reply to this newsletter if you would like a free comp

Tickets Here