Composers Now

Jaleel Shaw Quartet will be performing at The Jazz Gallery in NYC on July 30th and 31st! Shaw has four albums as a leader with each album receiving raved reviews from the likes of the New York Times, Downbeat, All About Jazz, and Jazzwise magazine. This upcoming performance will feature Jaleels latest quartet performing music from his upcoming release. For ticket and info, please visit https://shorturl.at/mfaKm

Orchestra of St. Luke’s commissioned four emerging composers, (Liam Cummins
Michael Dudley, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Geli Li) the task of creating a new composition under the guidance of Composer Mentor Augusta Read Thomas. The premier of these works will be at the DiMenna Center of Classical Music in NYC on Tuesday, July 23rd! For tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/0FIqt

On Tuesday, July 30th, composer Shoko Nagai will be part of our IMPACT series on Youtube! Nagai is a versatile musical artist focused on being a pianist, accordionist, improviser, and composer, who composes original scores for films and live performances. Her music is often inspired by the minimalist approach of composer Toru Takemitsu. To learn more about her music, tune on our Youtube channel at 7:00 PM EST!

Composer Declan Sheehy-Moss will be performing his newest project "Bounce", which features a new, deeper sound which combines elements of modern jazz, free jazz, and funk, guitar pedals and other electronics used alongside acoustic instruments. The performance will be at The Jazz Gallery on July 27th, for tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/7WumC

The Town Hall and Indo American Arts Council proudly present "Bollywood & Beyond", extraordinary musical voyage that celebrates the rich repertoire of Indian music. This evening will include performances by singer Kavita Krishnamurti, violinist and composer Dr. L. Subramaniam, and tabla maestro Tanmoy Bose ! The date of the performance is Saturday, July 20th, 8:00 PM. For tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/sKOJ8

American Dance Festival presents a new commission by ShaLeigh Dance Works called “enVISION: The Next Chapter”, an immersive interdisciplinary performance that “relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of sonic experiences and visual perceptions”. The work will be presented to a live audience who can choose to experience the show blindfolded or with earbuds, and six audience members will be invited to join the experience onstage! Performances begin on July 19th. For more info and tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/R1kRZ

Composer David Ibbett’s ‘Mars Symphony’ will be performed at the Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston on June 27th, July 25th, and August 29th! ‘Mars Symphony’ incorporates orchestral melodies created from data collected from Mars and stunning original visuals from the Charles Hayden Planetarium. For tickets and info, please visit https://shorturl.at/39uDg

Caroline Shaw’s work ‘Entr’acte’ will be performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from July 11-14th, a work that takes us “to the other side of Alice’s looking glass.” The concerts will take place at West Bloomfield, Plymouth, Bloomfield Hills, and Grosse Pointe. For tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/iXgV7

Hosted by Composers Now founder and artistic director Tania León, DIALOGUES celebrates composers Victoria Cheah, Susie Ibarra, and Kamala Sankaram. The event will take place at Van Cortlandt House Museum Lawn on Saturday, July 13th, 2:00 PM, and will be followed by thought-provoking town hall-style conversations, a forum for meaningful exchanges of ideas, between composers, performers, and audiences. Admission is free!

Next week on Tuesday, July 9th, Jeryl Johnston will be featured on our IMPACT series! Johnston is a NYC based composer, performer, and teacher. Her experience beginning with the salsa bands of Oregon and Washington, through several years playing with ‘Orquesta Son Mayor,’ among others, in Los Angeles, brought her to New York. She is the musical director of the Afro-Cuban third-stream ensemble “Yanine” and has an article forthcoming called “Variation Techniques in Four West African Lead Drum Examples,” available in “Analytical Approaches to World Music” this month! To learn more about her music, make sure to tune in on our Youtube Channel on July 9th, 7:00 PM!

Enjoy a free concert at Bryant Park, July 5th 7PM, featuring all music by living composers with The Harlem Chamber Players conducted by Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 Debs Composer’s Chair, Tania León! The night will include Terrance McKnight as host and narrator, Josh Henderson as violin soloist, and Leyland Simmons as the choreographer. The program will also include music by Adolphus Hailstork, Chen Yi, Tania León, and Trevor Weston.

The Lehner Quartet will perform Joel Feigin’s string quartet, “Mosaic in Two Panels”, at the Progressive Musicians Laureate Gala on July 1 at 7 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall! For tickets and info, please visit https://shorturl.at/ml7XU

Latin Grammy Award-winner composer and vibraphonist, Juan Diego Villalobos, will be performing at the Jazz Gallery on Friday, July 12th! Villalobos’s music excelles in different styles of music like jazz, classical and Afro-Venezuelan music. For tickets to attend or livestream the concert, please visit https://shorturl.at/y8YTM

Composer and member of our Board of Directors, Michael Minard’s recording of his suite “Sing Emily!” is now available on Youtube! This suite is a setting of Emily Dickinson poems for woodwind quintet and soprano voice. The recording was done at Bard with conservatory students, and a young masters-in-voice graduate, Kirby Burgess. To watch the performance, please visit https://tinyurl.com/2ffbmemk

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival is less than a month away, with dates starting on July 14th! The BCM Festival focuses on the “power of music to move us through reinvention, reinterpretation, and reconnection”. For more info on dates and tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/B41Pg

Other Minds presents “Lost Horse Wash Drone”, a new recording by composer and guitarist Giacomo Fiore! The CD features Fiore’s playing on a variety of justly-tuned and fretless guitars alongside field recordings from Joshua Tree National Park. Purchase the album here at https://shorturl.at/Han3b

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will perform tomorrow night, June 22nd, at the Venetian Theater! Tomorrow’s event is a high-energy celebration of Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, guided by iconic trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis! Tickets are very limited but can be purchased at https://shorturl.at/EMJ2o

Pianist Marc Peloquin will perform as part of the “Here and Now Series” at Bargemusic this Saturday, June 22nd at 4:00 PM! This program will feature music by composers Ned Rorem, Aaron Jay Kernis, and David Del Tredici. For tickets and information, please visit https://shorturl.at/EE7Qb

Harlem Stage and Bryant Park present NEA Jazz Master and 10x GRAMMY winner, Eddie Palmieri and his Salsa Orchestra in a free concert on September 12th! Palmieri fuses the rhythms of his Puerto Rican heritage with the complexity of his jazz influences: Thelonious Monk, older brother Charlie Palmieri, Herbie Hancock, and McCoy Tyner. The concert will start at 7 PM @ Bryant Park!

Percussionist and composer Matanda will perform their program “Alternative World Music” at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in CA on Sunday, June 23rd. Matanda has created a theatrical tone poem expounding on world folk-music sonics for this program! For tickets and details, please visit https://shorturl.at/yi2jS

Composer Margaret Brouwer’s newest release “Rhapsodies” features 5 premiere recordings performed by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, and recorded by Naxos! This album is available for streaming but can also be purchased via this link https://shorturl.at/PGYne . Congratulations!

Yosvany Terry & Afro-Caribbean Quintet will perform at the Jazz Gallery on June 21st and 22nd in NYC! According to the New York Times, Yosvany “has helped redefine Latin Jazz as a complex new idiom” ever since moving to New York in 1999 as a Cuban saxophonist, percussionist, and composer. For tickets to the event, please visit https://shorturl.at/KrlWG

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs ‘Records from a Vanishing City’ by composer Jessie Montgomery, a piece that “pines for the gritty, multicultural Manhattan of her youth, spent in her father’s Lower East Side rehearsal studio for rock and jazz bands”. The concert dates will be from June 13-16 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore! For tickets and info, please visit https://shorturl.at/IND6Z

Arjun Verma will be performing at Old First Concerts in San Francisco on June 14th! Verma’s music weaves together the ancient and modern aspects of Indian classical music in the style of the legendary Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. For tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/NHV6L

Composer Michael Daugherty’s “Songs of the Open Road for Oboe, Horn and Orchestra” will receive its world premiere by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from June 7-9! The work was commissioned by the orchestra and will be paired in program with Jessie Montgomery’s “Coincident Dances” and Mahler’s 5th Symphony. For tickets, please visit https://shorturl.at/CCYSS

Next week on IMPACT, we will have a presentation by composer Santiago Beis! He is an Uru-Brazilian composer, pianist, audio designer, arranger and artistic researcher. Beis has worked with new music ensembles such as Orquestra de Câmara da Cidade de Curitiba, Ensemble Nova Camerata, Ensemble Móbile, Quarteto Brasiliana, and more! To learn more about his music, please tune in on Tuesday, June 18th on our Youtube Channel @ 7:00 PM EST!

Tomorrow on June 4th, composer Andrew Drury will be featured on our IMPACT Series @ 7:00 PM EST on our Youtube Channel! Drury is a Brooklyn based drummer, improviser, composer, and bandleader as well as a presenter, producer, educator, and a pioneer of extended techniques for percussion. He presents concerts in his home in Brooklyn (along with other spaces around Brooklyn) for his music series “Soup and Sound” . To learn more about his music, please tune in tomorrow @ 7:00 PM!

Baryshnikov Arts presents ‘Bloodlines Interwoven Festival’ featuring jazz musician Kaoru Watanabe as artistic director! For this festival, fifteen acclaimed music artists create and compose new works and world premieres drawn from one another’s personal and historical narratives and diverse creative, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds. The festival will be taking place at 120 Broadway Tivoli, NY from June 10-16th. For tickets and info please visit https://shorturl.at/dV4ol

The Astoria Choir will premiere composer Karen Siegel’s choral sound installation ‘Lessons of Stone’ throughout multiple galleries of the Noguchi Museum. ‘Lessons of Stone’ is inspired by the work and life of Isamu Noguchi. Consisting of four movements performed with repetition, the work is intended as a “self-guided sonic experience that can be heard in any order”. The performance is free as part of Free First Friday. Advance reservations are recommended and can be reserved at https://shorturl.at/CcTOA