Posts in chamber music
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
Sound Off x Justice Committee: Celebrating Richie Perez
Sound Off x Justice Committee: Celebrating Richie Perez

Sound Off: Music for Bail presents a pre-recorded and livestreamed Groupmuse concert Wednesday March 31 at 7 p.m. ET in collaboration with the Justice Committee to celebrate the life of co-founder Richie Perez and his incredible impact. Proceeds from the concert directly benefit performing musicians' stipends and the Justice Committee’s liberatory work.

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justice reform, music, social justice, strings, video, virtual concerts, chamber music, composersChristine Escobarsocial justice, Sound Off: Music For Bail, sound off, Richie Perez, Justice Committee, Groupmuse, chamber music, Latine composers, Latino composers
Composition for Abolition: How Sound Off is Changing the Nation One Note at a Time
Composition for Abolition: How Sound Off is Changing the Nation One Note at a Time

Saturday, February 27 at 7 p.m. EST, Sound Off: Music for Bail will present a live-streamed concert featuring string quartets by Florence Price, Yaz Lancaster, and George Walker with the support of the Groupmuse Foundation’s Planetary Music Movement (PMM).

The abolitionist musical collective Sound Off: Music for Bail celebrates Black composers and raises money for national bail funds in a live-streamed concert on Groupmuse, an online concert platform.

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artist feature, chamber music, commissions, composers, justice reform, music, new release, premieres, social justice, strings, video, virtual concertsChristine EscobarNjioma Grevious, Curtis Stewart, Kayla Williams, Thapelo Masita, Tatiana Hill, Sound Off, Black composers, Yaz Lancaster, De’Siree Reeves, Dara Hankins, Groupmuse Foundation’s Planetary Music Movement
Composer J.E. Hernandez' "Voces Fantasmas" Honors The Plight of Detained Immigrants
Composer J.E. Hernandez' "Voces Fantasmas" Honors The Plight of Detained Immigrants

“Voces Fantasmas” by Houston-based Mexican American composer and filmmaker J.E. Hernandez is a multi-disciplinary artistic work that honors immigrants being held in U.S. federal detention. It is based on Hernandez’ own 60 day imprisonment at Houston Immigrant Detention Center.

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artist feature, chamber music, composers, justice reform, music, opera, orchestras, premieres, social justice, strings, video, ballet, danceChristine EscobarLatine composers, Mexican American composers, J.E. Hernandez, "Voces Fantasmas", immigrant detention, immigrant imprisonment, The Kennedy Center, Arts Across America, U.S. federal immigrant detention, FILMATIC, Christian Briones, Orlando Briones, Shannon Murray, The Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Concertia, Houston Immigrant Detention Center, Freedom for Immigrants, Houston Arts Alliance, Lux Martinez, A.J. Mendoza, Jesus Acosta
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
Sound Off: Music For Bail x The City Reliquary: Dorothy Rudd Moore & More
Sound Off: Music For Bail x The City Reliquary: Dorothy Rudd Moore & More

Sound Off: Music for Bail will host a livestream premiere at 7 p.m. EST on November 14 from Brooklyn’s City Reliquary museum featuring Dorothy Rudd Moore’s “Modes”, Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 4, Op. 44 No. 2, and William Grant Still's “Lyric Quartette”. The evening’s performance of Moore’s "Modes" will be the first ever full recording of this work.

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chamber music, composers, justice reform, music, premieres, social justice, virtual concertsChristine EscobarDorothy Rudd Moore, Felix Mendelssohn, William Grant Still, Sound Off: Music For Bail, City Reliquary, Giancarlo Latta, Argus Quartet, Njioma Grevious, Abeo Quartet, Jay Julio, Thapelo Masita, Uhuru Quartet, Kyle Carrero Lopez
New Youth Orchestra Initiative to Match Composers and Orchestras in Collaboration
New Youth Orchestra Initiative to Match Composers and Orchestras in Collaboration

The Youth Orchestra Commissioning Initiative is designed to create remote performances of new works by women and composers of color. The project hopes to connect young musicians with new music by composers who will write short chamber pieces for groups of various instrumentation to rehearse and perform virtually from the young musicians’ homes.

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composers, music, chamber music, commissions, youth orchestrasChristine Escobarcomposers of color, women composers of color, youth orchestra commissioning initiative, metropolitan youth symphony, new jersey youth symphony, Portland youth philharmonic, chamber music, virtual events