Thank you to all the composers from around the world who shared their music with us! As always, we appreciate very much the opportunity to listen to brand new classical music written by composers from around the world. This event with The Bowery Trio is special to us, as this project involves musicians displaced by the pandemic. It has been an inspiration to watch them navigate the challenges of the pandemic, finding a way to practice together and stay strong even when their primary abode may, at times, be in states thousands of miles apart. We very much hope you join us in enjoying their performance coming very soon in April. 

And last but not least, a huge congratulations to the winners of this project’s call for scores! 

Tres Bailes Latinos – Craig Peaslee

The Light that is Felt – Rachel DeVore Fogarty

Without Them, What Remains? – Kirsten Volness

Pop-up Brahms in Pop – Minato Sakamoto

Aurora Dances – Anthony Esland

November Tide – Daniel Crozier

And all that Jazz – Brian T. Field

Choro Steps – Jimmy Kachulis

Run River Run – Sarah Evans

Resolve – Rain Worthington

 

  

In yet another Spring concert, we are thrilled to have Jonah Murphy at Symphony Space NYC taking the time to dig deep into your scores and present a recital of them. This year is a bit of an experiment. We are working with quite a few different musicians, and therefore instruments, within a short timespan. The flute is a staple instrument of contemporary composition for solo instrumentalists, so it seems like a fitting conclusion to this trifecta of Spring concert dates. 

If you haven’t already seen Jonah’s lovely performance, please take a look at our “Listen & Roster” page to find the video recording of it along with the rest of our documented music-making! 

Our biggest event yet! A big thank you to the outsized number of contributors to this call for scores, we were truly surprised at the amount of music to choose from to give to the Bowery Trio. They are extremely pleased to be trying out all this wonderful music, and I’m told they can’t wait to put together a program with it. 

A huge reason why we are so grateful for our partnership with Columbia University is the fact that when we have the opportunity to present music to you there, we can livestream it! 

Livestream and attendance information available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYHgmpUzmH2FkI_q4OZ_mVg.

If you missed the livestream, and are perusing these posts in the distant future, you can find everything neatly organized on the “Listen & Roster” page. 

For our first concert of 2022, which will be a packed year of amazing concerts we are very excited about, Jeffery Kautz will be performing pieces by NYCCMS submitters! As always, it was an absolute pleasure for NYCCMS and Jeffery to peruse your music. It really is a pleasure we do not take for granted. As we enter calendar year three of a pandemic, seeing innovative new music still being written is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise gloomy environment. 

Be sure to tune into the recordings that will be posted to our YouTube channel and Facebook page. You can easily access links to those platforms on our “Listen & Roster” page. 

Thank you to all the composers from around the world who shared their music with us! It was a joy getting to know all your music as always, and we hope you will join us in congratulating the composers selected for performance in Dix Hills, New York. There were once again a significant amount of engaging works, and we have a list of semi-finalists to check out if you are curious about meeting some high quality contemporary composers. 

Selected for recording by Jeffrey Kautz: 

Sun — Daniel Zlatkin

Collapsar — Ethan Prado

Spring’s Rhythms — Ky Nam Nguyen 

Sonatina for Four Timpani — Arpad Solti 

Tetraptych for Solo Timpani — Alex Yucheng Zhang

Semi-finalists:

Alexander Liebermann
Jonathan Newmark
Maurício De Bonis
Xuesi Xu
Daniel Dorff
Linda Dusman
Aidan Gold
Pablo Rubino
Anthony Green
Gavin Luther
Giovanni Di Giandomenico
Tim Corpus

We are pleased to share with you a very special collaboration!

The NYC Contemporary Music Symposium presents the Zodiac Trio in a musical journey through six bold, contemporary works for clarinet, violin, and piano. Heralded by Radio France as “A breathtaking ensemble of virtuosity and sensitivity,” the Zodiac Trio has established itself over the past decade and a half as the leading international trio of its kind.

The ensemble continues its commitment to new music with an evening of fresh and exciting takes on the timeless tradition of musical storytelling, featuring five world premieres written for the Zodiac Trio. Tickets include a post-concert wine reception with the performers and composers.

Concert & Ticket Details:

Wednesday October 27 2021 at 7:30 PM EDT – The DiMenna Center

Tickets available at tinyurl.com/zodiactrio.

Thank you to all the composers from around the world who shared their music with us! It was a pleasure listening to your music, and we hope you join us in congratulating the composers selected for performance in New York City. We had so many high-quality submissions that we have a long list of semi-finalists that we think you should check out! Please stay in touch, so that you won’t miss the date of Jonah’s performance in April.

 

Winners – selected for recording by Jonah Murphy:

Wings to Air – Andrea Reinkemeyer

Circle Round – Jimmy Kachulis

Marble – Anna-Louise Walton

Three Miniature Paintings – Anruo Cheng

Tonoi VI – Nick Demos

Scratches of the Wind – Nnirmali Fenn

Semi-finalists:

Greg Bullen

Jorge Tabarés

Blair Whittington

Maciej Kabza

Paride Galeone

Martin Hebel

Brett Austin Eastman

Brian Field 

Adam Torlkensen 

Joanne S. Na

Kevin Leomo

Patrick Wu

F. Destro

Joshua W. Haisch

Leonidas Sakellarides

Frederic Glesser

Devon Osamu Tipp

Ethan Resnik

We are very pleased to share the product of our first efforts with our composers. If you visit our YouTube channel, you can watch the recordings of all the individual pieces that were performed on April 8th at Columbia University. 

Our next event, Jonah Murphy’s solo flute recital, will have similar such coverage, so rest assured that all of the music that we make, will be shared with everyone regardless if they are or aren’t in New York City to see the concert! 

 

Hello again!

Thank you to all the composers who supported and received our first event so warmly. If you haven’t already done so, please listen to the full concert here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0eN9wVSR5A

We are pleased to share that we have three new Featured Artists listed, and encourage you to introduce yourselves to them on the Apply page! Jonah Murphy is a flutist, Jeffery Kautz is a solo timpanist and percussionist, and the Bowery Trio is a fantastic chamber ensemble consisting of clarinet, cello, and piano. 

I hope you are looking forward, like I am, to all the music that will be made because of the enthusiasm of all the musicians involved in submitting and performing this slew of new works being written for this event. 

Each event going forward will be a celebration of the creative energies being put on display by all of you!