2017-2018 SEASON 16

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

NEW MUSIC for STRINGS (#59)

Benzaquen Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music


Frederick Boyle — Gorman Quartet

Tamara Cashour — Love Is Not a Subaru: Musical Meditations on 21st-Century Libidinal Economy, Greed Technomia, American Healthcare and the Rationing of Knowledge

Jinhee Han — Hyssop

Peter Kelsh — String Quartet No. 2

Debra Kaye — Ikarus — Duo for Binya (rev. 2017)

Eric Heilner — SQrt: Series 1, Episode 2

Craig Slon — String Quartet No. 2


Premieres: † World

Klang Quartet: Gregor Kitzis & Katie Thomas, violins, Artie Dibble, viola, Dave Eggar, cello

with Grant Swift Glidden, guitar

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Thursday, January 25, 2018

CRAIG HULTGREN performs NEW MUSIC for CELLO (#60)

Marc A Scorca Hall at the National Opera America Center


Dana Dimitri Richardson — Sonatina

Peri Mauer — September 16th, for cello

Carl Kanter — Cello Song

Kevin McCarter — Tacking

Dary John Mizelle — Suite II for Unaccompanied Cello

Hubert Howe — Chimera

Monroe Golden — Pinhoti, for cello and fixed media

Debra Kaye — Dialogue With the Ghost

Max Giteck Duykers — Black Meadow

Tamara Cashour — KC: Queen of Hoards


Premieres: † World

Craig Hultgren, cello

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

NEW MUSIC for VOICE and ENSEMBLES (#61)

Advent Lutheran Church, New York City


Timothy Lee Miller — The Bird Lady

David Picton — Tabiji (Travels in Japan)

Jacob Elkin — Dance Music in Seven Movements

Frank Retzel — Three Songs of Seamus Heaney

Andrey Komanetsky — String Quartet in Five Movements

  • Winner of the 2017 John Eaton Memorial Competition

Roger Blanc — Brief Encounter ‡

Craig Slon — Ode to Hölderlin

Monroe Golden — Winona's Lesson 

Kevin McCarter — Stars Above and Earth Below 



Prermieres: † World ‡ New York

Lauren Ishida & Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano, Margaret O'Connell, mezzo-soprano, Michael Laderman, flute, William Birkbeck, Ayana Ouchi, & Alex Yu, clarinet, Tony Park, bass clarinet, Artie Dibble, viola, Craig Ketter & Christopher Sahar, piano

Miolina Duo: Lynn Bechtold & Mioi Takeda, violins

Klang Quartet: Gregor Kitzis & Katie Thomas, violins, Artie Dibble, viola, Jillian Blythe, cello

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Monday, March 19, 2018

CRAIG KETTER performs NEW MUSIC for PIANO (#62)

Marc A Scorca Hall at the National Opera America Center


Madelyn Byrne — Conversations with Michael

Emiko Hayashi — Sonata for Piano

Raoul Pleskow — Fantasy of Fragments ‡

Peri Mauer — A Little New Year's Flair

Max Giteck Duykers — Arborescence

Scott D. Miller — The Major Scale in Octaves

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Piano Variations

Dary John Mizelle — Blues for Sal – in memoriam Sal Mosca

Christopher Sahar — Three-Card Monte Suite


Premieres: † World ‡ New York

Craig Ketter, piano

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Wednesday, April 17, 2018

A CONCERT OF NEW MUSIC (#63)

St. Peter's Chelsea Episcopal Church


Joseph Pehrson — Trombone Explorations

Richard Brooks — Swansong Suite

Catherine Neville — The Witch

Frederick Boyle — Hippolopolus

Hubert Howe — Expansions

Robert Cohen — Love Triangles

Eric Heilner — Exercise for Looped Cello

Carl Kanter — Piano Trio



Premieres: † World

Erin Lensing, English horn, Sammy Lesnick, clarinet, Jacob Elkin, trombone, Gregor Kitzis, violin, Dave Eggar, cello, Craig Ketter & David See, piano, Hansol Choi, Juan Herrera & Patrick Kennedy, percussion

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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

NEW MUSIC by NYCC Performed by C4 (#64)

"Little Church Around the Corner" Church of the Transfiguration


Timothy L. Miller — Jubilate Deo

Frederick Boyle — Four Prayer Songs

Tamara Cashour — Five Introits ‡

Kevin McCarter — When the Dawn

David See — The Kiss: A Dialogue

Richard Brooks — Yeats Triptych

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Remembrance

Dary John Mizelle — Requiem and Kyrie

Robert S. Cohen — Peter Quince at the Clavier ‡


Premieres: † World ‡ New York

Composers and Conductors Choral Collective (C4), Perry Townsend, Melissa Wozniak, Hannah Carr, Timothy Brown, and Dary John Mizelle, conductors

Tamara Cashour & Jinhee Han, piano

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