Kareem Roustom's Buhur for clarinet and string trio will receive its West Cost Premiere in a benefit concert and exhibit in Los Angeles, CA scheduled for June 21, 2017. The program will also feature music of Golijov, Palestrina, Shostakovich, and Villa-Lobos in an eclectic program alongside a painting exhibit by Guy Walker.
All proceeds raised will be donated to the ACLU.
SongFest provides the United States' premier art song festivals and training programs: our summer institute held each June at The Colburn School in Los Angeles and a new winter intensive at Hidden Valley in Carmel Valley. SongFest attracts an internationally distinguished roster of artist teachers as well as students from some of the nation’s top music conservatories. Audiences enjoy a vibrant concert series presented at Hidden Valley and in Colburn's state-of-the-art venues and auditors can attend daily masterclasses and lectures led by the most exciting artists of today. As part of the 2017 festival on June 5-30, music by David Conte and Juliana Hall are included on the repertoire roster.
Daron Hagen was a guest expert at the fresh inc festival via skype. He discussed his work Orson Rehearsed. June 12, 2017.
Daron Hagen led an interactive workshop to help composer participants redefine their artistic visions. A description of Orson Rehearsed, his new "post-genre interdisciplinary prestidigitation" for singer-instrumentalist-actors will serve as the starting point of the session.
fresh inc is a one-of-a-kind chamber music festival that redefines the training process for emerging musicians. Since 2012, we have helped performers and composers to envision and launch their own authentic
"Is this growing trend a gimmick? Or a glimpse of the future?
Choral music making is all about the sound, not what you see on stage."
In a recent article from Chorus America, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus' performance and premiere of James Eakin's #twitterlieder was highlighted in an examination of choral-theater, a developing trend in choral performances.
...Timothy Seelig, artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC), feels the same way. Along with other performing arts organizations, he says, “we compete with basic things such as television, Internet and Twitter.” In 2015, the ensemble responded to that challenge by creating a show called #twitterlieder, with music by James
EDITORS' NOTES
Ancient and modern sit side by side to magical effect in this third album from ORA, Suzi Digby’s superb mixed-voice choir. Woven among some of the most powerful choral works by the greatest of 16th-century choral composers, Thomas Tallis, are eight modern works, most commissioned by the group. Tallis provides the inspiration—and sets the bar very high—and the contemporary responses are wonderfully characterful and imaginative.
ORA was born out of a belief that we are in a Second Golden Age of choral music, comparable with that of the Renaissance. This critically-acclaimed a cappella vocal group has been recognized for its musical excellence, as well as its fresh and engaging approach to music-making and performance.
Rehearsal/reading session with Orchestra Society of Philadelphia of the Beethoven Symphony No. 8 and Hagen's Postcards from America. June 2, 2017.
Daron Hagen and the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia have a long history which has endured for 34 years. Since 1983, Daron has returned to conduct and work with the ensemble 25 times to rehearse Wagner Meistersinger Overture, Beethoven's 3rd and 6th symphonies, the Schumann Cello Concerto, Brahms' Academic Festival
May 13 & 16, 2017 at 8 pm
The Church of the Holy Apostles
296 9th Avenue @ W.28th Street
New York, NY 10001
Artistic Director, Vince Peterson
Accompanist, Sam Shull
For 2017, the Empire City Men's Chorus (ECMC) celebrates American composer, Conrad Susa (1935-2013), who was teacher, mentor and great friend to their Artistic
