Posts tagged chamber music ensembles
NEW RELEASE: Catalyst Quartet ft. Michelle Cann "UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price"
NEW RELEASE: Catalyst Quartet ft. Michelle Cann "UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price"

Catalyst Quartet today releases UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price on Azica Records. The 2-CD length digital album is the second in a series of a multi-volume anthology highlighting the GRAMMY award-winning string quartet’s works by important Black composers.

Volume 2 is entirely devoted to the six known string quartet and piano quintet works of composer Florence B. Price – including four world premiere recordings – performed with pianist Michelle Cann, recipient of the 2021 Price Award.

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chamber music, composers, international, music, music history, new release, premieres, stringsChristine EscobarCatalyst Quartet, Michelle Cann, Florence B. Price, Black composers, American composers, French composers, British composers, chamber music, chamber music ensembles, Azica Records, piano, strings, cello, violin, viola, Stewart Goodyear, Anthony McGill, Karla Donehew Perez, Abi Fayette, Paul Laraia, Karlos Rodriguez, Sphinx Organizaiton, Sphinx Organization
"The Hill We Climb": John Clayton’s Music with Amanda Gorman’s Words, Premiered by Amit Peled, Mount Vernon Virtuosi
"The Hill We Climb": John Clayton’s Music with Amanda Gorman’s Words, Premiered by Amit Peled, Mount Vernon Virtuosi

Amit Peled and the Mount Vernon Virtuosi (MVV) today release a new performance film set to the world premiere of composer John Clayton’s The Hill We Climb. The piece is inspired by and set to the poem of the same name by American poet and activist Amanda Gorman, recited at the presidential inauguration in January 2021.

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artist feature, chamber music, composers, music, strings, video, young artistsChristine EscobarJohn Clayton, Amit Peled, Mount Vernon Virtousi, Amanda Gorman, poetry, film, chamber music ensembles, cello, new music, Natalia Vilchis, Nick Pascucci, Lindsey Choung, Mairéad Flory, Kyle Victor, Jiaoyang Sunny Xu, Álvaro Vázquez Osa
NEW RELEASE: Tyshawn Sorey ft. Alarm Will Sound-“For George Lewis”
NEW RELEASE: Tyshawn Sorey ft. Alarm Will Sound-“For George Lewis”

Composer Tyshawn Sorey’s double-album, featuring the chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound, releases on Cantaloupe Music on August 27.

Recently profiled in the New York Times Magazine, Sorey has been called a denizen of the “in-between zone” by the New Yorker. The two works on the album, commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, tap into a central theme that Sorey calls “the decorating of time.”

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artist feature, chamber music, commissions, competitions, composers, music, music history, new release, premieres, stringsChristine Escobarchamber music ensembles, chamber music, new music, Tyshawn Sorey, Black composers, Black classical music, Black musicians, Black American composers, Alan Pierson, George Lewis, albums, Butch Morris, Anthony Braxton
NEW RELEASE: Apollo Chamber Players "With Malice Toward None"
NEW RELEASE: Apollo Chamber Players "With Malice Toward None"

Apollo Chamber Players releases their fifth studio album “With Malice Toward None, August 20 on Azica Records.

The album is “a collection of globally-inspired compositions and collaborations, with each composer sharing their own personal interpretations of folk music.”

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chamber music, composers, international, music, music history, musicology, new release, social justice, stringsChristine Escobarchamber music, chamber music ensembles, Apollo Chamber Players, Azica Records, J. Kimo Williams, Pamela Z, Christopher Theofanidis, Mark Wingate, Komitas, Eve Beglarian, Tracy Silverman, Carol Williams, Matthew J. Detrick, Habrban, Krounk, Vagharshapati, Joan DerHovsepian, Arsen Petrosyan, Pejman Hadadi, contemporary composers, new music
FRIDAY: Sound Off-Live from Broadway Presbyterian Church
FRIDAY: Sound Off-Live from Broadway Presbyterian Church

Sound Off: Music for Bail presents a livestreamed concert beamed live from Broadway Presbyterian Church, featuring four of New York City's finest chamber musicians in a program of music by historical and contemporary Black American composers.

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chamber music, composers, justice reform, music, premieres, social justice, strings, support for BBIPOC music, video, virtual concertsChristine EscobarSound Off: Music For Bail, sound off, Gabrielle Chou, Jannina Norpoth, Jay Julio, Dara Hankins, Blasian March, Rohan Zhou-Lee, Carlos Simon, Margaret Bonds, Julia Perry, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, chamber music, chamber music ensembles, Broadway Prebyterian Church, social justice, abolitionism, classical music, BBIPOC classical musicians, BBIPOC musicians, strings, piano, Black composers, American composers, Black American composers, BBIPOC composers
Series Debut: "Conversations": D-Composed on Intentionality and Honoring Black Creativity through a New Chamber Music Experience
Series Debut: "Conversations": D-Composed on Intentionality and Honoring Black Creativity through a New Chamber Music Experience

Represent Classical talks with Chicago based ensemble D-Composed: Yelley Taylor – Artistic Director, Violist, Arranger Caitlin Edwards – Violinist Kyle Dickson – Violinist Tahirah Whittington – Cellist & Composer Kori Coleman – Founder/Executive Director

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artist feature, chamber music, composers, music, music education, strings, videoChristine EscobarConversations, D-Composed, Represent Classical, classical musiciansBlack classical musicians, classical music, chamber music, chamber music ensembles, Chicago classical music, BIPOC classical music, BIPOC classical musicians, string quartets, Black composers, Black creativity, Yelley Taylor, Caitlin Edwards, Tahirah Whittington, Kyle Dickson, Kori Coleman