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VCU Symphony & Neave Trio - Triple Concerto, "Summit"
Dec 6
Dec 6, 2023
Singleton Center for Performing Arts
VCU Symphony & Neave Trio - Triple Concerto, "Summit"
Dec 6, 2023
Singleton Center for Performing Arts

The VCU Symphony conducted by Daniel Myssyk performs Triple Concerto, featuring the Grammy® nominated Neave Trio.

Dec 6, 2023
Singleton Center for Performing Arts
Orquestra do Algarve - Dark Mountains
Nov 25
Nov 25, 2023
Lagos Cultural Center
Orquestra do Algarve - Dark Mountains
Nov 25, 2023
Lagos Cultural Center

Portuguese premiere of Dark Mountains by Orquestra do Algarve, Martim Sousa Tavares, Conductor. This concert is part of a week dedicated to Mental Health in partnership with the University of the Algarve and the Luso-American Development Foundation - FLAD.

Nov 25, 2023
Lagos Cultural Center
Dior Quartet - String Quartet No. 3
Sep 23
Sep 23, 2023
Hyde Park Visitor FDR Center
Dior Quartet - String Quartet No. 3
Sep 23, 2023
Hyde Park Visitor FDR Center

Dior Quartet performs selections from String Quartet No. 3 at the bi-annual Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards Ceremony sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute.

Sep 23, 2023
Hyde Park Visitor FDR Center
Ottava Radio Show Featuring Makoto Nakura - Forest Shadows
Aug 31
Aug 31, 2023
OTTAVA Radio Station
Ottava Radio Show Featuring Makoto Nakura - Forest Shadows
Aug 31, 2023
OTTAVA Radio Station

Forest Shadows for Solo Marimba performed by Makoto Nakura on Nakura’s radio show on OTTAVA, Japan's only classical music station. This broadcast features Nakura’s recording of Forest Shadows on the album Wood and Forest on the American Modern Recordings label.

Aug 31, 2023
OTTAVA Radio Station
Mostly Modern Festival: Beloved Modern Songs & Arias - Extraordinary
Jun 22
Jun 22, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Mostly Modern Festival: Beloved Modern Songs & Arias - Extraordinary
Jun 22, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center

A spectacular line-up of 20th & 21st-century arias, art songs, and song cycles, including Robert Paterson’s and David Cote’s Extraordinary for soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble. Ten top vocalists from across the United States & abroad will be showcasing their talents, from the avant-garde to post-modern romance.

Jun 22, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Atlantic Brass Quintet/Lexie Signor - Soar
Jun 21
Jun 21, 2023 – Jun 22, 2023
Atlantic Brass Quintet/Lexie Signor - Soar
Jun 21, 2023 – Jun 22, 2023

World premiere of Soar for trumpet and piano, featuring Lexie Signor, trumpet, and Geoffrey Burleson, piano, on this program that features Mostly Modern composers and selections from guest ensemble Atlantic Brass Quintet’s 20th-century repertoire. World premieres abound at Mostly Modern, and tonight is no exception!

Jun 21, 2023 – Jun 22, 2023
Mostly Modern Festival - In Real Life: Comic Online Dating Opera
Jun 18
Jun 18, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Mostly Modern Festival - In Real Life: Comic Online Dating Opera
Jun 18, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center

Performance of In Real Life, music by Robert Paterson, words by David Cote. This performance consists of a staged version of In Real Life I, In Real Life II, and Extraordinary for soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble, featuring singers from Mostly Modern Festival.

Jun 18, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
American Modern Ensemble @ Mostly Modern Festival - Sextet
Jun 16
Jun 16, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
American Modern Ensemble @ Mostly Modern Festival - Sextet
Jun 16, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center

Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Jun 16, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Neave Trio - Summit Trio (World Premiere)
Jun 15
Jun 15, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Neave Trio - Summit Trio (World Premiere)
Jun 15, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center

World premiere of Summit Trio, a new piano trio consisting of a suite of the three solo trio movements from Triple Concerto, which will be premiered at Mostly Modern Festival. This program also features our Mostly Modern composers and selections from Neave Trio’s repertoire.

Jun 15, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Mostly Modern Orchestra - Electric Lines
Jun 11
Jun 11, 2023
Mostly Modern Orchestra - Electric Lines
Jun 11, 2023

Performance of Electric Lines with Mostly Modern Orchestra, Aram Demirjian, conductor, Maestro from the Knoxville Symphony. A broad palette of musical styles define Mostly Modern, entirely ‘mostly modern.’ Not to be missed!

Jun 11, 2023
American Modern Ensemble @ Mostly Modern Festival - Elegy (Version for Two Bassoons and Piano)
Jun 9
Jun 9, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
American Modern Ensemble @ Mostly Modern Festival - Elegy (Version for Two Bassoons and Piano)
Jun 9, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center

Performance of Elegy (version for two bassoons and piano) at Mostly Modern Festival. Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Jun 9, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Tony Paterson: Memorial - Elegy for Two Cellos and Piano
Jun 3
Jun 3, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Tony Paterson: Memorial - Elegy for Two Cellos and Piano
Jun 3, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center

Performance of Elegy for Two Cellos and Piano as part of a memorial celebrating the life of sculptor Tony Paterson (1934-2022).

Jun 3, 2023
Arthur Zankel Music Center
Musica Sacra, Sing for Hope & Mostly Modern @ Oculus World Trade Center
May 25
May 25, 2023
Musica Sacra, Sing for Hope & Mostly Modern @ Oculus World Trade Center
May 25, 2023

Join Musica Sacra, Sing for Hope & Mostly Modern for a very special choir program at the Oculus World Trade Center. Lead by Maestro Kent Tritle and featuring Robert Paterson’s Look to the Sky, written in memory of 9/11, commissioned by New York Choral Consortium.

May 25, 2023
Carthage Wind Orchestra - The Winds of Time (World Premiere)
May 12
May 12, 2023
Carthage College
Carthage Wind Orchestra - The Winds of Time (World Premiere)
May 12, 2023
Carthage College

World premiere performance of the second movement of The Winds of Time by the Carthage Wind Orchestra, Dr. James C. Ripley, conductor. Commissioned by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Davis Scatterday, Conductor, and a consortium of wind ensembles, in honor of the Eastman School of Music’s Centennial Anniversary.

May 12, 2023
Carthage College
Mostly Modern Orchestra - Dark Mountains (European Premiere)
Apr 30
Apr 30, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Orchestra - Dark Mountains (European Premiere)
Apr 30, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal

This program features the European premiere of Dark Mountains, as well as works by Mostly Modern Festival | The Netherlands composers, including two new works by composers from the MMF | NL Cultural Institute, a performance of a work by the Ukrainian/Dutch composer Svitlana Azarova, and the European premiere of Robert Paterson’s Dark Mountains.

Apr 30, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Ensemble - Hell's Kitchen (European Premiere)
Apr 29
Apr 29, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Ensemble - Hell's Kitchen (European Premiere)
Apr 29, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal

This program features our Mostly Modern composers, as well as works by our composition faculty members and other classic 20th and 21st-century chamber works.

Apr 29, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Vocal Concert - In Real Life I, In Real Life II, and Extraordinary (European Premieres)
Apr 28
Apr 28, 2023
Oostkerk
Vocal Concert - In Real Life I, In Real Life II, and Extraordinary (European Premieres)
Apr 28, 2023
Oostkerk

Vocal concert featuring Alyson Cambridge, soprano, and Keith Phares, baritone, singing the European premieres of In Real Life I for soprano and chamber ensemble, and In Real Life II for baritone and chamber ensemble, as well as Extraordinary for soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble.

Apr 28, 2023
Oostkerk
Dior Quartet - String Quartet No. 3 (European Premiere)
Apr 27
Apr 27, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Dior Quartet - String Quartet No. 3 (European Premiere)
Apr 27, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal

Silver prize winners of the 2021 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition and Bronze Medalists of the 2019 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Dior Quartet performs the European premiere of String Quartet No. 3 by Robert Paterson, Mostly Modern Festival’s Artistic Director, and world premieres by participant composers from around the world.

Apr 27, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Festival | The Netherlands, Cello & Piano Recital - Elegy for Two Cellos and Piano
Apr 22
Apr 22, 2023
Oostkerk, Middelburg
Mostly Modern Festival | The Netherlands, Cello & Piano Recital - Elegy for Two Cellos and Piano
Apr 22, 2023
Oostkerk, Middelburg

Performance of Elegy for two cellos and piano and other works for cello and piano by Dave Eggar, cellist, and Paolo Gorini, pianist, including three European premieres.

Apr 22, 2023
Oostkerk, Middelburg
Mostly Modern Ensemble - Sextet
Apr 21
Apr 21, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Ensemble - Sextet
Apr 21, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal

This program features our Mostly Modern composers, as well as works by our composition faculty members and other classic 20th and 21st-century chamber works.

Apr 21, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Percussion Quartet - Stealing Thunder
Apr 20
Apr 20, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Mostly Modern Percussion Quartet - Stealing Thunder
Apr 20, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal

This program features selections from the classical percussion repertoire, the world premiere of a new work by Celia Swart, and the European premiere of Robert Paterson’s Stealing Thunder and Stillness for alto flute and marimba, featuring special guest Daniela Mars on alto flute. Enjoy free admission to the opening concert!

Apr 20, 2023
Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Temple University Percussion Ensemble - Stealing Thunder
Apr 3
Apr 3, 2023
Temple University Performing Arts Center
Temple University Percussion Ensemble - Stealing Thunder
Apr 3, 2023
Temple University Performing Arts Center

Performance of Stealing Thunder with the Temple University Percussion Ensemble, Phillip O’Banion, director.

Apr 3, 2023
Temple University Performing Arts Center
Recital: Micheal Barnes, Percussion - Mandala
Apr 1
Apr 1, 2023
Temple Boyer College of Music and Dance: Rock Hall
Recital: Micheal Barnes, Percussion - Mandala
Apr 1, 2023
Temple Boyer College of Music and Dance: Rock Hall

Performance of Mandala for two marimbas on this recital, featuring Micheal Barnes, marimba, with Phillip O’Banion, marimba.

Apr 1, 2023
Temple Boyer College of Music and Dance: Rock Hall
Phillip O’Banion Faculty Recital - Mandala
Mar 13
Mar 13, 2023
Temple University
Phillip O’Banion Faculty Recital - Mandala
Mar 13, 2023
Temple University

Performance of Mandala for two marimbas on this faculty recital at Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance, featuring Phillip O’Banion and Micheal Barnes, marimbas.

Mar 13, 2023
Temple University
Louisiana State University - Masterclass, Coaching, and Lecture
Mar 7
Mar 7, 2023 – Mar 9, 2023
LSU School of Music Recital Hall
Louisiana State University - Masterclass, Coaching, and Lecture
Mar 7, 2023 – Mar 9, 2023
LSU School of Music Recital Hall

Masterclass, coaching, and lecture at Louisiana State University School of Music, of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts. This will culminate in a performance of works later in the semester.

Mar 7, 2023 – Mar 9, 2023
LSU School of Music Recital Hall
Aura Contemporary Ensemble @ University of Houston - Hell's Kitchen, I See You (Quartet Version), & Spring Songs
Mar 4
Mar 4, 2023
University of Houston Moores Opera House
Aura Contemporary Ensemble @ University of Houston - Hell's Kitchen, I See You (Quartet Version), & Spring Songs
Mar 4, 2023
University of Houston Moores Opera House

Performance of Hell’s Kitchen and Spring Songs by Aura Contemporary Ensemble, directed by Rob Smith. This includes a presentation to the UH composers and a talk on music business-related topics.

Mar 4, 2023
University of Houston Moores Opera House
Milwaukee Musaik - Wind Quintet
Feb 7
Feb 7, 2023
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
Milwaukee Musaik - Wind Quintet
Feb 7, 2023
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Performance of Wind Quintet by Milwaukee Musaik.

Feb 7, 2023
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

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