Josh Perry, mise-en’s percussionist, will perform with percussionist Dennis Sullivan works by members of New York Women Composers Inc. alongside their own compositions.
Category: SEED MONEY GRANT CONCERT PROGRAM
Coming Up: Donna Weng Friedman’s Seed Money Grant Concerts in NYC | November 12 & 14, 2023
2022 Seed Money Grant Recipient Donna Weng Friedman, who just performed at the New York Women Composers Gala, will be presenting two concerts this month in New York City. The first concert is presented by Bargemusic, the second by Steinway Hall. Details are below.
Here and Now Series: FIVE COMPOSERS AND A PIANIST
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 4-5PM
Bargemusic, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tickets: $35 (Also sold at the door, cash or check)
Featuring 2022 Seed Money Grant Recipient Donna Weng Friedman, pianist, performing music by de Kenessey, Sherman, Moon, Nourbakhsh, and Mandel. Donna Weng Friedman has chosen to perform the following works:
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Beata Moon’s Prelude
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Kim D. Sherman’s Quiet Poems (a set of 3 poems to nature) and Four Moods
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Julie Mandel’s Two selections from Intervals
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Stefania de Kenessey’s Microvids, 19 miniatures for solo piano
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Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s HbeaRt for piano and electronics
Donna Weng Friedman, piano
William Hirtz, Piano, and Diana Solomon-Glover, reciter
FIVE COMPOSERS AND A PIANIST featuring pianist Donna Weng Friedman
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 10:30AM
Steinway Hall, 1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
REGISTER HERE (Required)
Created with STEINWAY Teacher & Educational Partners in mind, this concert features gorgeous music composed by Beata Moon, Julie Mandel, Kim D. Sherman, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Stefania de Kenessey, with poetry recited by Diana Solomon-Glover.
Much of this music was composed for tween/teen piano students, an often-neglected age group especially when it comes to new music.
The performance will be followed by a panel discussion with the composers and pianist, led by Jed Distler, radio host of Between the Keys.
If you are curious about the title Five Composers and a Pianist, here’s a recent article about the BargeMusic concert in Broadway World that explains it: https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/Donna-Weng-Friedmans-Five-Composers-and-a-Pianist-Concert-Will-Be-Performed-Next-Month-20231025.
These concerts are made possible in part through funding from the New York Women Composers organization. We’d like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
Coming Up: Sergio Puccini’s Seed Money Grant Concert in Rosario, Argentina on October 21
Guitarist and 2022 Seed Money Grant Recipient Sergio Puccini will be presenting his concert this Saturday in Rosario, Argentina! Details are below.
Sergio Puccini’s Seed Money Grant Concert
Saturday, October 21, 2023, 6:00PM
The Central Hall of the Castagnino Museum (Av. Pellegrini 2202)
Av. Pellegrini 2202, S2000QDN
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
The concert will feature three works by three NYWC members, including the late Hilary Tann:
- Parterre by Nailah Nombeko
- Processional by Faye-Ellen Silverman
- A Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning by Hilary Tann
You can find more information about the event here. This concert is made possible in part through funding from the New York Women Composers organization. We'd like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
Aram Tchobanian’s Seed Money Grant Concert – October 1, 2022 at 2PM
Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library
40 Lincoln Center Plaza (or 111 Amsterdam Ave between W. 64th and W. 65th Streets), New York, NY 10023
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 2PM
Song and vocal chamber ensemble celebrating contemporary musical creation inspired by Middle English and Elizabethan Mystical Poetry.
A concert of song and vocal chamber ensemble, “The Faucon” is a tribute to mid-20th-century and contemporary composers that created new works inspired by “mystical” Middle English and Elizabethan poetry. The project is a collaboration with the ensemble 2Flutes, and is a recipient of a New York Women Composers Seed Grant. The presenting artists are vocalists mezzo soprano Anna Tonna and tenor Aram Tchobanian; flutists Laura Falzon and Pamela Sklar; pianist Adam Kent.
The program serves to highlight:
Songs by American composer John Edmunds (1913-1986), who headed the American collection at the New York Public Library from 1956 to 1961, and whose archive of letters and papers are part of the New York Public Library holdings.
Songs and vocal chamber ensemble by contemporaries of John Edmunds that had similar aesthetic preoccupations such as American composer Ramiro Cortés (1933-1984), perhaps the first Mexican-American to achieve recognition as a composer of music in the classical idiom; Sheree Clement (b.1955), and Juliana Hall (b. 1958).
Two vocal chamber music premieres by Alma Hamilton and Pamela Sklar.
(This program was postponed from April 9, 2022)
The event is free, but RSVP is required. You may RSVP here.