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2022-07-01 00:57:31
BACK IN PERSON!MANNES SCHOOL OF MUSIC, NEW YORK CITYIWCMF is devoted to performance excellence, career development and the JOY of chamber music. OverviewThrough coachings, masterclasses, performances and workshops, the festival’s core curriculum focuses on: Chamber Music/Solo MusicianshipCommunication Entrepreneurship/Networking Composing and Arranging Education/Outreach TrainingPerformance & Career DevelopmentWork with Imani Winds and their catalogue Fellowship CurriculumRegular rehearsals and intense training within an assigned ensembleFull mentorship with regular coachings from members of Imani WindsPerformance participation in masterclasses with esteemed guest artistsPerform in solo instrument classes by members of Imani WindsPerformance in culmination concerts Emerging Composers Program (ECP) CurriculumReading/mentorship sessions with Imani Winds and IWCMF Composer-in-ResidenceRehearsals and readings in collaboration with fellowship ensemblesPromotion and broad exposure of ECP fellows on the festival’s […]
2022-03-23 00:49:20
The Choral Arts Society of Washington Presents the East Coast Premiere of Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem
[…] with Portland Opera, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti with the Reno Symphony, the title role in Errollyn Wallen’s Quamino’s Map with Chicago Opera Theatre, bass soloist in Darrell Grant’s Sanctuaries, and the bass soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for the Richmond Symphony. Composition premieres in 2022 include his large work, An African American Requiem, with Resonance Ensemble and the Oregon Symphony and I Said What I Said for Imani Winds. Damien looks forward to his second opera, Holy Ground, premiering this summer at the Glimmerglass Festival. More about An African American Requiem damiengetermusic.com ABOUT RESONANCE ENSEMBLE Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble based in Portland, Oregon, creates powerful programs that promote meaningful social change. Resonance Ensemble works to amplify voices that have long been silenced, and does so through moving, thematic concerts that highlight solo […]
2022-02-05 00:43:10
Out Today: Catalyst Quartet Releases UNCOVERED Vol. 2: Florence B. Price, Featuring Four World Premiere Recordings
[…] vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for Jazz at Lincoln Center, for which the subsequent recording won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. The Catalyst Quartet launched its New York concert series, CQ@Howl, in 2018. Highlights of upcoming collaborations include Encuentros, featuring a newly commissioned work by innovative Cuban composer Jorge Amado Molina and other voices from across the Cuban diaspora; (Im)migration: Music of Change, a collaboration with the Imani Winds; and CQ Minute, a commissioning project of 10 miniature string quartets in commemoration of the quartet’s 10th anniversary with works by Andy Akiho, Kishi Bashi, Billy Childs, Paquito D’Rivera, Tania Leon, Jessie Montgomery, Kevin Puts, Caroline Shaw, Joan Tower, and one young composer to be selected from a national call for scores. The Catalyst Quartet’s latest project is UNCOVERED, a multi-volume set of albums to be […]