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Coming Up: Donna Weng Friedman’s Seed Money Grant Concerts in NYC | November 12 & 14, 2023

Posted on November 1, 2023November 8, 2023 by Mykel Nairne

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)

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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:

Beata Moon’s Prelude
Kim D. Sherman’s Quiet Poems (a set of 3 poems to nature) and Four Moods
Julie Mandel’s Two selections from Intervals
Stefania de Kenessey’s Microvids, 19 miniatures for solo piano
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

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

Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by Mykel Nairne

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

Posted on September 29, 2022 by facade_admin

The Faucon

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.