DownEast New Music, an organization dedicated to bringing dynamic performances of chamber music by living composers to DownEast Maine, is thrilled to announce Community Center. With three performances in Hancock and Washington Counties, DownEast New Music celebrates the exciting and diverse body of music by young American composers.

Featuring: Conrad Winslow, Made from Stony Ground (2024) for clarinet, piano, cimbalom, violin, cello, and double bass WORLD PREMIERE inti figgis-vista, new cosmologies (2020) for mixed ensemble

Gabriella Smith, Anthozoa (2018) for violin, cello, piano, and percussion

Carlos Simon, where Two or three are gathered… (2017) for violin and cello

Co-artistic directors Clare Monfredo (cello) and Edward Kass (double bass) will be joined by Conrad Winslow(composer/pianist), John Diodati (clarinet), MuChen Hsieh (violin), and Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom). 

Community Center is built around the WORLD PREMIERE of Waldoboro-based composer/pianist Conrad Winslow’s (Homer, AK, b. 1985) new work Made from Stony Ground (2024), written for sextet of clarinet, cimbalom, piano, violin, cello, and double bass. Winslow uses monophonic textures and brings disparate voices together into near unison, reflecting new civic possibilities and the ways communities come together. As we listen to the various lines converging, we are inspired to think about what it means for diverging ideas and voices to join and become a singular whole.

With similar inspiration, Carlos Simon (Atlanta, GA, b. 1986) composed where two or three are gathered… drawing from his childhood attending a small church where coming together and holding space for community meant finding a larger purpose, even when numbers are small, like the intimate violin and cello duo the piece is scored for. Starting with a meditative character, the mood gradually transforms into one of jovial energy.

In Anthozoa (2018), Gabriella Smith (Berkeley, CA, b. 1991) finds community in the ocean, taking inspiration from the vibrant ecosystem that forms around coral reefs. Using clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, Smith recreates the soundscape present underwater, giving us an entrancing visit to another world – an imagined version of a far-off reality.

We visit another imagined reality in new cosmologies by Andean-Irish composer inti figgis-vizueta (Washington, D.C., b. 1993). Relying on the improvisatory and interpretive processes in her music, figgis-vizueta asks us to imagine a new history for indigenous people, one free from violence and colonialism. By imagining a new history for her community, figgis-vizueta gives us a chance to think of a new future as well.

By bringing together music written by young American composers from across the country, we look for common ground, shared experiences, and hope as we move forward into the unknown.

DownEast New Music, an organization dedicated to bringing dynamic performances of chamber music by living composers to DownEast Maine, is thrilled to announce Community Center. With three performances in Hancock and Washington Counties, DownEast New Music celebrates the exciting and diverse body of music by young American composers.

Featuring: Conrad Winslow, Made from Stony Ground (2024) for clarinet, piano, cimbalom, violin, cello, and double bass WORLD PREMIERE inti figgis-vista, new cosmologies (2020) for mixed ensemble

Gabriella Smith, Anthozoa (2018) for violin, cello, piano, and percussion

Carlos Simon, where Two or three are gathered… (2017) for violin and cello

Co-artistic directors Clare Monfredo (cello) and Edward Kass (double bass) will be joined by Conrad Winslow(composer/pianist), John Diodati (clarinet), MuChen Hsieh (violin), and Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom). 

Community Center is built around the WORLD PREMIERE of Waldoboro-based composer/pianist Conrad Winslow’s (Homer, AK, b. 1985) new work Made from Stony Ground (2024), written for sextet of clarinet, cimbalom, piano, violin, cello, and double bass. Winslow uses monophonic textures and brings disparate voices together into near unison, reflecting new civic possibilities and the ways communities come together. As we listen to the various lines converging, we are inspired to think about what it means for diverging ideas and voices to join and become a singular whole.

With similar inspiration, Carlos Simon (Atlanta, GA, b. 1986) composed where two or three are gathered… drawing from his childhood attending a small church where coming together and holding space for community meant finding a larger purpose, even when numbers are small, like the intimate violin and cello duo the piece is scored for. Starting with a meditative character, the mood gradually transforms into one of jovial energy.

In Anthozoa (2018), Gabriella Smith (Berkeley, CA, b. 1991) finds community in the ocean, taking inspiration from the vibrant ecosystem that forms around coral reefs. Using clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, Smith recreates the soundscape present underwater, giving us an entrancing visit to another world – an imagined version of a far-off reality.

We visit another imagined reality in new cosmologies by Andean-Irish composer inti figgis-vizueta (Washington, D.C., b. 1993). Relying on the improvisatory and interpretive processes in her music, figgis-vizueta asks us to imagine a new history for indigenous people, one free from violence and colonialism. By imagining a new history for her community, figgis-vizueta gives us a chance to think of a new future as well.

By bringing together music written by young American composers from across the country, we look for common ground, shared experiences, and hope as we move forward into the unknown.

DownEast New Music, an organization dedicated to bringing dynamic performances of chamber music by living composers to DownEast Maine, is thrilled to announce Community Center. With three performances in Hancock and Washington Counties, DownEast New Music celebrates the exciting and diverse body of music by young American composers.

Featuring: Conrad Winslow, Made from Stony Ground (2024) for clarinet, piano, cimbalom, violin, cello, and double bass WORLD PREMIERE inti figgis-vista, new cosmologies (2020) for mixed ensemble

Gabriella Smith, Anthozoa (2018) for violin, cello, piano, and percussion

Carlos Simon, where Two or three are gathered… (2017) for violin and cello

Co-artistic directors Clare Monfredo (cello) and Edward Kass (double bass) will be joined by Conrad Winslow(composer/pianist), John Diodati (clarinet), MuChen Hsieh (violin), and Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom). 

Community Center is built around the WORLD PREMIERE of Waldoboro-based composer/pianist Conrad Winslow’s (Homer, AK, b. 1985) new work Made from Stony Ground (2024), written for sextet of clarinet, cimbalom, piano, violin, cello, and double bass. Winslow uses monophonic textures and brings disparate voices together into near unison, reflecting new civic possibilities and the ways communities come together. As we listen to the various lines converging, we are inspired to think about what it means for diverging ideas and voices to join and become a singular whole.

With similar inspiration, Carlos Simon (Atlanta, GA, b. 1986) composed where two or three are gathered… drawing from his childhood attending a small church where coming together and holding space for community meant finding a larger purpose, even when numbers are small, like the intimate violin and cello duo the piece is scored for. Starting with a meditative character, the mood gradually transforms into one of jovial energy.

In Anthozoa (2018), Gabriella Smith (Berkeley, CA, b. 1991) finds community in the ocean, taking inspiration from the vibrant ecosystem that forms around coral reefs. Using clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, Smith recreates the soundscape present underwater, giving us an entrancing visit to another world – an imagined version of a far-off reality.

We visit another imagined reality in new cosmologies by Andean-Irish composer inti figgis-vizueta (Washington, D.C., b. 1993). Relying on the improvisatory and interpretive processes in her music, figgis-vizueta asks us to imagine a new history for indigenous people, one free from violence and colonialism. By imagining a new history for her community, figgis-vizueta gives us a chance to think of a new future as well.

By bringing together music written by young American composers from across the country, we look for common ground, shared experiences, and hope as we move forward into the unknown.

This concert features the world premiere of Open Weave for sextet, commissioned by hear now berlin.

Contemporary collective hear now berlin presents Still Lives, an all-encompassing programme celebrating the cyclical and combinatory nature of present culture, and taking cues from jazz to hip hop, minimalism to Mozart. Expansive and fluid, it is music of now and for everyone. Still Lives features music written by young composers including: Hildur Guðnadóttir (performer with Sunn O, Animal Collective, and composer of scores for “Chernobyl” and “Joker”), Nico Muhly (collaborator with Björk and James Blake), and a world premiere by Berlin-based Conrad Winslow. September 10, 2022 // 8 pm Musikbrauerei, Greifswalderstr. 23A, 10405 Berlin Tickets: 9 Euro / 18 Euro (Soli-Ticket) online or at the door hearnowberlin.de

Music for Sitka, Alaska

A celebration of five years of music for Sitka, Alaska, including favorites from past festivals, new gems, and our 2020 composer competition winner.

Featuring the world premiere of the 2020 edition of The Stone Harp for vocal quartet and piano.

The Polyphonists present a program of music that grapples with life and death, transience and permanence, mortality and immortality. The programs spans seven centuries of choral music, from Josquin to Trevor Weston, and concludes with Conrad Winslow’s new work, “No Longer Mortal,” composed in 2021 for the Polyphonists.

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The Polyphonists present a program of music that grapples with life and death, transience and permanence, mortality and immortality. The programs spans seven centuries of choral music, from Josquin to Trevor Weston, and culminates in the world premiere of Conrad Winslow’s “No Longer Mortal” (2021).

Conrad Winslow performs Dry County (2020-21, world premiere) and Keep an Open Channel (2021) for solo piano and Longliner Trio (2020, world premiere) for piano trio, performed by Liam Mallett (flute), Joseph Kromholz (violin), and Conrad Winslow (piano).

an evening with CHIMERA at the Les Atelier de la M'ain D'or on Saturday 14 March at 8 PM. The hour-long program will be followed by complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres with the artists: Andrew Robret Munn, bass; Rami Sarieddine, piano; Conrad Winslow, piano and composer; Hugo Abraham, double bass.

Entrance Free, Suggested Donation 20€

reserve in advance by email to David Tepfer, david.tepfer@gmail.com

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Schubert invites us into Goethe's expansive pantheism and offers three ideas of the mortal relationship to omnipotence in Ganymed, Prometheus, and Grenzen der Menschheit. Conrad Winslow's Viewing Rooms projects three gay poets within dissimilar chambers: C.P. Cavafy, writing at the turn of the 20th Century in his sealed off room, Tennessee Williams tests his desire in a 1950s bedroom, and Garth Greenwell fantasizes of the seemingly limitless  possibilities within a French nightclub in 2012. Mozart's Per questa bella mano is pure indulgence, a passionate love song for the unlikely combination of bass voice and double bass solo. Ned Rorem's War Scenes sets excerpts of Walt Whitman's Civil War diaries in music that matches the poet's sensual yet unflinching description of war's toll on the human body. Hugo Wolf sculpts three of Michelangelo Buonarotti's sonnets in music at times triumphant, desolate, and erotic in his unparalleled Michelangelo Lieder.

Mr. Munn and pianist Rami Sarieddine from the duo+ Chimera. They make their Berlin recital debut in an intimate program of songs of expressed and repressed desires. The program includes:

• Conrad Winslow’s Viewing Rooms for bass and piano four-hands, with the composer joining Mr. Sarieddine.

• Samuel Barber’s Three Songs, Op. 10

• Franz Schubert’s settings of Johann Mayrhofer

• Hugo Wolf’s Michelangelo Lieder

• Cole Porter Standards

The program is motivated by the Ballery’s current exhibition of male figure paintings by Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938). The Ballery presents an independent collective of artists and performers who have stepped out of the main stream to follow their own personal path, and whose artistry comes from a keen observation of the world. Consisting of artists coming from all parts of the world, visual arts, dance, music, film, or literature, each medium is an equally important part of a more global work.

Entrance 10 €

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Daniel Curtis leads the Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Music Ensemble in a performance of Virgin Soil.

Alarm Will Sound returns to Saint Louis and the Sheldon Concert Hall on May 9 to perform new music by DJ/producer King Britt, Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater), and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi. These musical artists collaborate with Alarm Will Sound to create new work that brings together the diversity of their backgrounds, from electronica to classical from jazz to noise. This push to mix styles and defy genres is part of our Alarm System project whose world-class participants over the last four years have included jazz/avant-garde trio Medeski Martin & Wood, Warp Records artist Mira Calix, Brian Reitzell (composer of the soundtrack to the television show Hannibal), and St. Louis Native Ryan McNeely, to name a few.

King Britt (arr. Stark), The Intention;
King Britt (arr. Mayo), The Cosmos Feel Me;
King Britt (arr. Peck), The Moment of the Fall;
Eartheater, When Fire is Allowed to Finish;
Eartheater (arr. Parker), Iridescence of this Char;
Eartheater (arr. Winslow), The Slow Burning Chamber of My Heart;
Eartheater (arr. Parker), Frustra Incandescent;
Eartheater (arr. Snowden), Late Blooms in Fertile Ash;
Eartheater (arr. Snowden), Arson of Comfort or Claustrophobia;
Eartheater (arr. Snowden), Candied Inferno;
Oren Ambarchi (arr. Winslow), Quixotism Part 5;
Oren Ambarchi (arr. Balter), new work;

World premiere of Bloody Lyre, a new song cycle with texts by celebrated poet Adrienne Rich.

PROGRAM
Conrad WINSLOW* (featuring Justine Aronson)
Brian PETUCH*
Caroline MALLONÉE*+
Christian WOLFF

*World Premiere
+ Call for Scores Winner

Doors 6pm
Show 7pm

$10

Performance of Outline.

Metropolis String Quartet Festival

March 26 & April 10

For their first of two appearances at the Metropolis String Quartet Festival, Mivos celebrates the 7th Annual Mivos/Kanter Prize Winner Jon Yu. Yu's winning work o reche modo will be featured alongside quartets by Carl Kanter, Conrad Winslow, and Patrick Higgins.

Pianist Miki Sawada embarked on her Gather Hear Alaska tour this summer, in which she traveled for three weeks in Alaska with a piano in a van. Accompanied only by a filmmaker, she gave 25 performances in community hubs such as cafes, bars, parks, schools, mostly focusing on rural communities. The project explored the idea of the piano as a central object of a gathering place - how we as humans can't help but be drawn to a piano to sing, play, listen, and gather - and to also explore the social possibilities of classical music when taken out of a concert hall and into community gathering spaces.

On October 15 at Spectrum, Miki will share footage and stories from the tour as well as newly gained insight into what it is about classical music that moves people. Her performance will simulate a tour concert and will include solo works by Ariel Friedman, Paul Kerekes, Brendon Randall-Myers, Charlie Usher, and Conrad Winslow. In Gather Hear Alaska style, the program will also include works from the standard repertoire, but the exact selections and program order will be undecided until the concert begins. The program will be threaded together by Miki's commentary. 

*Admission $15 at the door*

About Miki:
In the 2016-17 season, Miki presented a solo recital on the Dame Myra Hess concert series in Chicago, broadcast live on WFMT radio. Other season highlights include a debut recital with cello partner Lukas Stasevskij at Helsinki Music Centre, solo recitals in Japan, Belgium, and the U.S., and contemporary music performances in New York City at venues including Spectrum, Dimenna Center, and Roulette. Miki’s performances in the past have been featured at venues and occasions such as: Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center Stage on Holland America Line, the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at Yale, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Aurora Music Festival (Sweden), Music on Main (Vancouver), Chicago Symphony Center’s Macy’s Day of Music, the Banff Centre, and radio stations WQXR (NYC) and WFMT (Chicago). In the summers, she teaches and performs as a faculty member of Point CounterPoint Camp and Catskill High Peaks Festival. iki holds degrees from Yale School of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Northwestern University.

The Aspen Music Festival Fellowship Brass Quintet gives the world premiere performance of Coming Around, a miniature with a prominent tuba solo.

The Aspen Music Festival chose the string quartet Outline to be repeated on this chamber concert.

Jimin Lim, violin
Jecoliah Wang, violin
Seido Karasaki, viola
Leo Singer, cello

Donald Weilerstein , violin
Alisa Weilerstein , cello
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein , piano

ACE

Alex Klein , oboe
Hugo Lee , oboe
Joaquin Valdepeñas , clarinet
JJ Koh , clarinet
M. Taylor Eiffert , clarinet
Eddie Sundra , basset horn
Per Hannevold , bassoon
Sean Maree , bassoon
John Zirbel , horn
Simon Poirier , horn
Brian Mangrum , horn
Alec Michaud-Cheney , horn
Sam Loeck , bass

IVES: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, op. 86
CONRAD WINSLOW: Outline

SARAH GIBSON: I prefer living in color
MOZART: Wind Serenade in B-flat major, K. 361, “Gran Partita”

AMFS artist-faculty, representing the best teachers and players from the country's top orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories, enjoy a chance to come together each summer to play chamber music. Always a joyful and creative ninety minutes of exquisite music-making.

String fellows from the Aspen Music Festival give the world premiere of Outline for string quartet.

Miki Sawada performs The Same Trail on a preview program for her Gather Hear Alaska Tour. 

Felix Mildenberger and Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra conduct an open rehearsal of Leaving a Space.