New Music DC 2019 Welcome to the 2nd annual New Music DC conference, organized by District New Music Coalition! We’re thrilled to gather together again almost exactly one year after our inaugural event showed just how vibrant — and how warm — DC’s contemporary music community is.
Like last year, New Music DC 2019 features performances of recent compositions selected through professional and student calls-for-scores that were open to DC- area performers and composers. Unlike 2018, this year’s concerts have been arranged so that call-for-score selections are represented on all three of the concerts. Similarly our “spotlight” performers, Meraki and Fuse Ensemble, are Presents… spread out across two of these concerts, and the third offers a non-traditional staging and seating experience designed by Alec Davis of the Green Stairwell Concert Series.
Also new this year, most of the panels and presentations you’ll see were selected through an open application process, yielding a fresh slate of topics proposed by your colleagues and friends. For the first time, we’re hosting a “town hall” meeting. September 14-15, 2019 It’s an opportunity to voice your ideas, suggestions, and concerns about the opportunities and challenges that you’ve identified as a member of this The Catholic University of America community, and we hope you’ll plan to be there when this conversation kicks off Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art an expanded second day of conference activities.
Department of Music, Ward Hall Thank you for attending New Music DC 2019. With your help and support, the DC new music community will continue to thrive and grow, and we look forward to future concerts, conferences, and events! Including professional development opportunities, concerts of DC-area composers and performers selected from District New Music Coalition DNMC’s 2019 Call for Scores, presentations and workshops Founded in 2017, District New Music Coalition promotes the performance and selected from DNMC’s 2019 Call for Program Participation, and appreciation of contemporary music by connecting performers, composers, institutions, and audiences located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area spotlight concerts featuring Meraki and Fuse Ensemble. through concerts, conferences, and active community building. In all of its concert and conference programming, DNMC is dedicated to the inclusion of Presented by compositions, performances, and presentations by musicians and industry District New Music Coalition professionals from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the classical in partnership with and new music fields. The wealth of musical, organizational, intellectual, and community-minded strength in the DC area gives it the potential to become a The Catholic University of America driving force in the creation and advancement of contemporary classical music in and sponsored by America. At DNMC, we are determined to help DC fulfill that potential. The Friday Morning Music Club and Marlow Guitar International, with concert recordings sponsored by Read more about District New Music Coalition on our website, districtnewmusiccoalition.com, and follow us @DistrictNMC Arts Laureate on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and conference booklets sponsored by UMBC Department of Music New Music DC Committee Members Bradley Green Elizabeth Hill William Kenlon #DNMCon19 Dave Molk Michael Oberhauser Ross Wixon NEW MUSIC DC ‘19 – SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE NEW MUSIC DC ’19 – SCHEDULE AND EVENT DESCRIPTIONS
Saturday, September 14 Saturday, September 14
9:00am Registration Opens 9:00am — Registration Ward Hall Lobby Note: Registration will open at 9:00am and continue all day. 10:30am Introduction and Welcome Session LOCATION: Ward Hall Lobby Ward Recital Hall
11:30am* Advice from Commercial Music Industry Pros 10:30am–11:15am — Introduction and Welcome Session Room 127 Please join us in Ward Recital Hall for brief opening remarks and a participatory
11:30am * Practical Concerns in the Business of Choral Composition and performance of a work by Pauline Oliveros. Publishing Room 139
12:30pm Break for Lunch 11:30am–12:30pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 1
2:00pm New Music Concert 1, with Green Stairwell concert experience Ward Recital Hall Advice from Commercial Music Industry Pros Learn how to build an audience with advice from mainstream music industry 3:45pm New Music Speed Dating managers, composers, and a gogo celebrity drummer; all of whom work with the Ward Recital Hall GoGo Symphony. 5:15pm* Music Performance Anxiety: Treating and Working Through a Moderated by Ross Wixon. Biopsychosocial Condition PANEL: Liza Figueroa Kravinsky, Bo Sampson, and Juju House Room 127 LOCATION: Room 127 5:15pm* Theodor Billroth is Alive and Well and Living in Washington, DC Room 139 Practical Concerns in the Business of Choral Composition and Publishing
6:15pm Break for Dinner Dr. Joshua Fishbein and Dr. Stephen Caracciolo will outline practical issues relevant to composers seeking to write and distribute choral music. They will 8:00pm New Music Concert 2, with Meraki spotlight performance discuss copyright laws related to text setting, accessible choral writing, Ward Recital Hall commissioning, and choral publishing, including traditional versus self- Sunday, September 15 publishing, how to get published, and techniques for promoting choral compositions. 1:00pm Welcome & Town Hall Moderated by William Kenlon. Ward Recital Hall PRESENTERS: Joshua Fishbein and Stephen Caracciolo 2:30pm* From Britches to Witches: The rebranding of the countertenor voice in LOCATION: Room 139 21st century English opera Room 127
2:30pm* Performance/Discussion of Two Virginian Ballads on Themes of 12:30pm — Break for Lunch Human Sedulity for solo guitar Room 139 Please see the back of this booklet for a list of restaurants within walking distance of Ward Hall. 4:00pm New Music Concert 3, with Fuse Ensemble spotlight performance Ward Recital Hall
*Asterisk indicates conference sessions that occur at the same time. 2:00pm–3:30pm — New Music Concert 1, with Green Stairwell Concert 6:15pm — Break for Dinner Experience Please see the back of this booklet for a list of restaurants within walking The first concert featuring selected compositions from DNMC’s 2019 Call for distance of Ward Hall. Scores, including a talk from Alec Davis, the artistic director of the Green Stairwell Concert Series. Please turn the page to view the concert program. 8:00pm–9:30pm — New Music Concert 2, with Meraki Spotlight LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall Performance The second concert featuring selected compositions from DNMC’s 2019 Call for 3:45pm–4:45pm — New Music Speed Dating Scores, also featuring a spotlight performance by Meraki. Please turn the page to Come socialize and find like-minded future collaborators! This event is open to view the concert program. anyone interested in new music, whether you are a composer, performer, LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall theorist, producer, engineer, etc. Even if you just consider yourself an enthusiastic new music listener, you are welcome to join us for this fun Sunday, September 15 icebreaking event! Moderated by William Kenlon. 12:00pm — Registration LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall Note: Registration will open at 12:00pm and continue all day. LOCATION: Ward Hall Lobby
5:15pm–6:15pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 2 1:00pm–2:15pm — Day Two Welcome and Town Hall Kick off the second day of New Music DC with an opening meeting to talk about Music Performance Anxiety: Treating and Working Through a the opportunities and challenges present in DC’s contemporary music Biopsychosocial Condition ecosystem. What do you need to succeed, what possible directions excite you, Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects amateur and professional musicians and how can we work together to move our community forward? and is the top reason promising musical careers are ended prematurely. Until LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall recently, research has considered only single interventions for this multi- dimensional issue. This presentation will address how a biopsychosocial approach to treating MPA can lead to lasting symptom reduction, in addition to 2:30pm–3:30pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 3 ways attendees can begin managing their performance-related anxieties.
Moderated by Michael Oberhauser. PRESENTER: David A. Heilman, Psy.D. From Britches to Witches: The rebranding of the countertenor voice in st LOCATION: Room 127 21 century English opera th The roots of the countertenor voice have drastically changed since the 17 century. Works by contemporary composers shed light on how versatile this voice Theodor Billroth is Alive and Well and Living in Washington, DC type can be, and a range of characters give this voice type a new life. Today, their Washington is an especially active hotbed of amateur chamber music making, otherness aligns with contemporary archetypes which make them ideal for the but this community may be new to composers in, or recently graduated from, portrayal of the misfits, marginalized, and magic. conservatories and universities. Good amateur players can provide an alternate Moderated by Michael Oberhauser pathway to commissions and performances, in addition to the more typical “new PERFORMERS: James Brown (countertenor) and Jonathan King (piano) music” opportunities. This presentation will focus on what this community looks LOCATION: Room 127 for in new scores. Moderated by Ross Wixon PRESENTER: Jonathan Newmark LOCATION: Room 139 (Please turn the page to view the other 2:30pm session) 2:30pm–3:30pm — CONFERENCE SESSION 3 (cont’d) NEW MUSIC DC ‘19 – CONCERT PROGRAMS
Performance/Discussion of Two Virginian Ballads on Themes of Human New Music Concert 1 Sedulity for solo guitar with Green Stairwell Concert Experience Two Virginian Ballads, composed between 2016 and 2017, is large-scale - - - - - microtonal guitar work. The piece draws inspiration from Virginian folklore, Saturday, September 14 at 2:00pm, Ward Recital Hall treating such poetic themes as resilience, magic, love, death and rebirth. Jeremy Lyons will perform the work in its entirety; and the composer, Lewis Krauthamer, Partial Pressures (2019) ...... Megan DiGeorgio will discuss the piece’s formal, (micro)tonal and extramusical aspects. Daniel Parrish and Roger Zahab, violins Moderated by Bradley Green Andrew Weaver, viola Tim Thulson, cello PRESENTERS: Lewis Krauthamer (lecture/composer) and Jeremy
Lyons (guitar) LOCATION: Room 139 Deep in the Quiet Wood (2017) ...... Joshua Fishbein Jason Widney, baritone Ka Nyoung Yoo, piano 4:00pm–5:30pm — New Music Concert 3, with Fuse Ensemble Spotlight Performance The third and final concert featuring selected compositions from DNMC’s 2019 The Voice of the Rain (2018) ...... Ingrid Stölzel Call for Scores, also featuring a spotlight performance by Fuse Ensemble. Please Sound Impact: turn the page to view the concert program. Sarah Frisof, flute LOCATION: Ward Recital Hall Danielle Cho, cello Lee Hinkle, percussion
The Distance of the Moon (2014)...... Daniel Pesca (End of Conference Schedule) Lauren Rausch, violin Sarah Frisof, flute Daniel Pesca, piano
Resonator (2019) ...... Chuck Perryman
Chuck Perryman, banjo and electronics
New Music Concert 2 Spotlight Performance – Meraki Featuring a Spotlight Performance by Meraki - - - - - Heloha Okchamali (Blue Thunder)* ...... Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate Saturday, September 14 at 8:00pm, Ward Recital Hall I. Wakaa (Flying) II. Twilight Dreams Recurring Dream: Second Fantasy, for Viola and Piano (2019) ...... III. The Trickster ...... Peter Dayton Anastasia Christofakis, clarinet Christopher Lowry, viola Elizabeth G. Hill, piano Peter Dayton, piano
Meraki presents the world premiere performance of Heloha Okchamali, Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges (2010) composed by Jerod Tate, and commissioned by Meraki as recipients of the ...... Douglas Boyce 2018 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program. Robert Baker, tenor Molly Orlando, piano *This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Tombstone for solo viola (2017) ...... Bahar Royaee Kimia Hesabi, viola
Marshall Field (2018) ...... Astrid Lundberg Astrid Lundberg, alto Brittany Young and Ruth Swope, violins Brooke Lackey, viola Nathaniel Hoyt, cello
It’s Bedtime (2018) ...... Dannielle McBryan Winter Rain (2014) ...... Diana Rosenblum Thursday (2019) ...... Ashi Day Meadow Song (2010) ...... Iris Szeghy Whistling Hens: Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano Natalie Groom, clarinet
Modi’in (Part I) (2017) ...... Ljiljana Jovanović/Becker Electronic Playback, glockenspiel recorded by Greg Harron Maya Hand and Adrienne Kraus Latanishen, dancers
***INTERMISSION*** New Music Concert 3 Spotlight Performance – Fuse Ensemble Featuring a Spotlight Performance by Fuse Ensemble - - - - - Excerpts from Nimbus ...... Gina Biver Sunday, September 14 at 4:00pm, Ward Recital Hall Poetry by Colette Inez My Priest Father’s Words Dream Prayer Lullaby (2018) ...... Linda Dusman Fish Dinner with Oysters Stripped of Their Pearls Airi Yoshioka, violin Tula Pisano, voice Colette Inez, recorded spoken word Blue Ride (2018) ...... Ray Fields Ina Mirtcheva, piano Rachel Choi and Eugene Liu, violins Ethan Foote, bass William Gu, viola Gina Biver, keyboard, audio Samuel Lam, cello
I’m Worried Now, But I Won’t Be Worried Long ...... Eva Beglarian 010 machine states (2012) ...... Christopher Adler Greg Hiser, violin Lisa Cella, flute Ethan Foote, bass Gina Biver, guitar
Nativity of the Isles (2017) ...... Eric Paździora Girl, Walking ...... Gina Biver Raha Mirzadegan, soprano Ethan Foote, bass Casey Cook, conductor Jennifer Lapple, flute Artifice (SATB Choir): Karyn Castro, Lee Cromwell, Megan DiGeorgio, Gina Biver, guitar William Kenlon, Farah Kidwai, Chris LaRosa, Madeleine Moran, Greg Hiser, found percussion Fotina Naumenko, Meara O'Malley, Michael Oberhauser, Robin Pennington, Mike Rowan, Gabriel Rhys Simerson, Molly Pinson Simoneau, Alyssa Stanton, Ian Urriola Medieval Induction ...... Marc Mellits Ina MIrtcheva Blevins, piano
***INTERMISSION*** Accusing Shadow ...... Ethan Foote Ethan Foote, bass Jennifer Lapple, flute
For the first time, concept-based Fuse Ensemble will be presenting a selection of music from past seasons, including music from 2019’s Nimbus and works from their 2014 Sketch and 2012 Voices of the Depths seasons, with exciting music from Eve Beglarian, Marc Mellits, Gina Biver and Ethan Foote and video art by Ethan Jackson, Steve Biver and Dana Brotman. NEW MUSIC DC ‘19 – PRESENTER AND ENSEMBLE INFO Alec owns and operates Davis Music Studios, based in Cockeysville, MD, where he teaches 30 private students of piano, music theory, and choral singing. In addition A Maine native considered by the Portland Press Herald as “a countertenor with a to teaching, he is an active accompanist and chamber musician, frequently collaborating with singers and instrumentalists for recitals, rehearsals, recordings, pleasingly warm, powerful tone…”, James Brown has been seen performing and competitions. He is also the Rehearsal Pianist and Performance Pianist and repertoire of diversity while completing his graduate degree at McGill University Organist for the Thomas Circle Singers in NW Washington, DC. Alec is an active under the esteemed Dominique Labelle. He recently completed the Opera McGill composer of both Sacred and secular music, a music copyist specializing in season as both Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante and an “irresistible” Old Lady in transcription and engravement, and also the Audio Producer for Folíe a Two, a Bernstein’s Candide. Summer engagements include Handel's Hercules with local video production project dedicated to helping non-profits increase their Richmond Oratorio Society and Le Comte Ory with Chicago Summer Opera. Mr. visibility, co-founded with his husband Ed. Brown has been hailed by L’Opéra as “a voice well controlled in the whole range for playing the cold menace” whilst portraying the role of the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneassimultaneously with the North American premiere of East O’ the Dr. Joshua Fishbein composes vocal and instrumental music, with special Sun, West O’ the Moonby rising opera composer James Garner. Noteworthy work emphasis on choral music. He has won awards from the American Choral Directors consists of Mercutio (Romeo & Juliet) along with previous performances of Blow's Association, the American Composers Forum, BMI, Chorus America, Chorus Austin, Venus & Adonis with the Tafelmusik Baroque Institute and Purcell’s King Arthur The Esoterics, the Guild of Temple Musicians, the National Lutheran Choir, and with the American Bach Soloists Academy. Joined by notable talent in the New several others. Currently, Dr. Fishbein is an adjunct faculty member of The England and Montreal concert scene, he has been involved with the Portland Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Towson University. He holds Rossini Club, Bay Chamber Concert Series, and Montreal Rose Festival with works degrees from the UCLA, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Carnegie by Britten, Bolcom, and Bach. Mellon University. E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Hal Leonard Corporation, Transcontinental Music Publications, and Yelton Rhodes Music publish his choral compositions. Dr. Stephen Caracciolo is a choral conductor recognized for his passionate artistry, creative teaching, and as a nationally known composer and arranger. Dr. Caracciolo serves as the Artistic Director of LancasterChorale, Central Ohio’s Fuse Ensemble is a concept-based new music/new media performing ensemble. premier professional chamber choir, has guest conducted at Washington National Each season a concept is presented, giving voice to new music composers and Cathedral, Capital University NOW Music Festival, has accepted commissions from creating musical happenings with visual elements of live, interactive video and/or numerous organizations, including Cantus, the Maryland State Boychoir, and the kinetic installations. The musicians of Fuse perform on an eclectic mix of flute, Columbus Chamber Singers, and was awarded the prestigious Individual Artist’s clarinet, electric violin, electric guitar, cello, piano, electronic playback, percussion, Fellowship in Composition from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. His and invented instruments. Linked by the insane possibilities of software such as compositions have been widely performed and recorded nationally by MaxMSP/Jitter and Processing, sometimes using sensors on the musicians and professional, community, cathedral, parish, university, and school ensembles in live interactive cameras on stage, the artists create an experience that fuses the United States, and have aired on the syndicated radio program With Heart and sound, video and humans into a liquefied state and gives each concept a setting Voice and Twin Cities Public Television. Dr. Caracciolo holds degrees from Capital — a visual and kinetic environment to experience it in that furthers communication University, Westminster Choir College, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana and unifies the concept. Learn more at www.fuse-ensemble.com/. University. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Music at UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he conducts the UMBC Camerata and teaches voice and conducting. In addition, he sings as a professional bass at The GoGo Symphony, with its mix of go-go and classical music, has succeeded Washington National Cathedral. in building a younger diverse audience in the Washington DC area. After its critically acclaimed sell out show at the Atlas in 2014, it has been paid to perform regularly for its growing following. Its music has played on broadcast radio; and it Alec Davis is an active musician in both the sacred and secular music worlds as has appeared on television, radio, and newspaper media. For more information, an instrumentalist, vocalist, conductor, composer, and teacher. He has contributed to many Sacred Music programs in the Washington DC and Baltimore visit www.gogosymphony.com. Regions, including the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Cantor/Chorister and Assistant to the Director of Liturgy), St. Francis Green Stairwell Concert Series curates collaborations between contemporary of Assisi in Gaithersburg (Principle Organist), and most recently at Our Lady of Mt. art & music disciplines to provide unique and powerful concert experiences for Carmel outside Baltimore (Director of Music and Organist). limited attendance audiences. It is an outreach program of Westmoreland Choral Conducting at the University of Maryland, and has completed two Master Congregational UCC in Bethesda, MD. of Music degrees at the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of the Edward P. Frolich and Brehm Fellowship awards. His mentors include Edward Maclary, Martin Katz, Julius Drake, Daniel Paul Horn, and Jerry Blackstone. Juju House is a celebrity gogo drummer who has worked for Chuck Brown, Experience Unlimited (E.U.) and the GoGo Symphony. He composed and performed for Spike Lee’s films “School Daze” and “Do The Right Thing.” He also Lewis Krauthamer was born in New York but grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. He has toured with a long list of world-class artists, including Roberta Flack, Chaka obtained an undergraduate diploma in composition from the Longy School of Khan, Nancy Wilson, Arrested Development, Kurtis Blow, Salt n’ Pepa, Luther Muisc and an MM in Musicology from the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne, Vandross, Peabo Bryson, Natalie Cole, David Sanborn, Skritti Politti, SMAP, Jon France. Secada, Grace Jones, Eva Cassidy, Sugar Bear, Little Benny, Madonna, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Soul II Soul, Steel Pulse, Sitali/Kush. Lewis is a composer of microtonal/sixth-tone music. His music has been performed by soloists, chamber groups and orchestras throughout the US and abroad. Many of his works feature microtonal guitar, lap steel guitar, trickeyboard, David A. Heilman, Psy.D., is a Psychology Associate and Psychotherapist within and other unconventional instruments. Lewis has received numerous awards as a the District of Columbia, and recently received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology composer, including grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Meet at The George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program. He the Composer. received additional clinical training at American University’s Counseling Center, Lewis is also a professor, pianist and author. His recent article, "An Analysis of Two Georgetown University’s Counseling and Psychiatric Service (CAPS), and Virginia Large-Scale Works by Christian Wolff," is published in Perspectives of New Music, Commonwealth University’s University Counseling Services. While pursuing his vol. 55, no. 1 (Winter, 2017). Since 2014, Lewis has served on the faculty of the doctoral studies, David completed a Graduate Certificate in LGBT Health Policy University of the District of Columbia, where he teaches courses in music theory, and Practice. He is currently a member of the board of directors at Mid-Atlantic analysis, orchestration and music history. In addition, he teaches privately, directs Group Psychotherapy Society (MAGPS) and works full-time in private practice at the Washington D.C. - based Off the Beaten Path Music Series (OBPMS) and serves his office in Dupont Circle. Before dedicating himself to the practice of on the board of the Contemporary Music Forum. psychotherapy, Dr. Heilman trained in vocal performance at The Juilliard School in New York, NY, The Chautauqua Institution’s Voice Program in Chautauqua, NY, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, CA, and at The Music Liza Figueroa Kravinsky is founder, composer, and artistic director of the GoGo Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA. For more information on Dr. Heilman’s Symphony. In 1991, she composed for, directed, and performed a Paisley Park work, please visit his website at www.davidheilman.com. project created by Prince. She also toured with Mowtown recording artist Stacy Lattisaw; TRJ, a faction of go-go band Trouble Funk, and go-go band Pleasure. She has composed award winning music scores for independent films, videos, An active pianist and conductor based in Baltimore, MD, Jonathan King currently commercials, and documentaries. serves as Assistant Music Director at Church of the Resurrection in Lutherville, MD, and Choral Activities Graduate Assistant at the University of Maryland School of Music, where he directs the University Chorale. He has previously served as Guitarist Jeremy Lyons has been performing in the Baltimore area and beyond assistant conductor to the UMS Choral Union, a Grammy® award-winning for more than ten years. He regularly gives solo recitals and has collaborated with ensemble that regularly collaborates with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras and chamber ensembles. In addition to solo endeavors, Jeremy is a has prepared choirs for eminent conductors including Leonard Slatkin and Philip member of two Baltimore-based contemporary music ensembles: Mind on Fire Brunell. King has assisted conductor John Nelson in several performances with and Pique Collective, and he regularly performs with his duo partner soprano, Lisa the Chicago Bach Project, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and the MasterWorks Perry. Additionally, Jeremy applies his extensive background in Renaissance and Festival in Winona Lake, IN, and has previously served as a répétiteur with the Baroque music by performing on period instruments such as the Renaissance lute, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Oregon Bach Festival. As a collaborative pianist, King Baroque guitar, and viola da gamba. As a composer, Jeremy works on projects that has worked with celebrated singers including J’nai Bridges, Nicole Cabell, and combine music and other artistic mediums such as poetry, theater, and sculpture. baritone Will Liverman, with whom he was a semi-finalist in the 2015 and 2017 Jeremy received a BM in guitar performance from Florida State University, and Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition in London. King holds a MM in Guitar Performance and Pedagogy, a MM in Musicology, and a DMA all from the Peabody Conservatory. and Liverman have recorded with Deutsche Grammophon, and were recently signed as artists with Odradek Records. Together they maintain an active recital For more information, you can visit his website: www.jeremylyonsguitar.com. schedule. Mr. King is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Meraki is a chamber ensemble co-founded by former classmates, Anastasia Special Thanks Christofakis, clarinet, and Elizabeth G. Hill, piano. They are recipients of Chamber District New Music Coalition would like to thank the many presenters and panelists Music America’s 2018 Classical Commissioning Grant for their current who gave their time and expertise to allow this conference to come to fruition, the collaboration with award-winning composer, Jerod Tate. The ensemble is Department of Music at The Catholic University of America for support and use of dedicated to awakening cultural compassion through music. Meraki’s recurring its facilities, Arts Laureate for sponsoring concert recordings, the call-for-scores focus is the music of “Essence” that evokes the culture and history of people adjudicators (Nebal Maysaud, Gina Biver, Megan DiGeorgio, Erin Snedecor, through their folk sound and musical language. Learn more at www.elizabethghill.com/meraki/. William Wielgus, Lewis Krauthamer), and the entire Washington, DC area new music community.
Conference photography supplied by Courtney Ruckman: Composer Jonathan Newmark, pianist, violist, and conductor, received his MM www.cruckmanphotography.com degree in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2015. His teachers included Joel Hoffman, Douglas Knehans, and Campus Food Options for Lunch/Dinner Michael Fiday at CCM, as well as Jonathan Kolm, Gloria Wilson Swisher, and James McVoy. He has participated at the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington, VT On Campus since 1981 and worked there with composers including Allen Shawn, Martin Student Restaurant (Brunch, 8:30am-2pm; Dinner 5pm-8pm+) Bresnick, Daniel Strong Godfrey, Kurt Rohde, Paul Moravec, Chen Yi, Pierre Murphy’s Grill (12pm-11pm, closed Sunday) Jalbert, Jesse Jones, Scott Wheeler, and Ted Hearne. His works have premiered Starbucks (9am-11pm) at the Imani Winds, Charlotte, CT Summerfest, artsonglab, International P.O.D. Market – Campus Store (10am-12pm) Trombone, and nief-norf festivals, and are published by TrevCo Varner Music and BrassArts Unlimited. His works appear on three CD’s on the Music Unlimited, Near Campus Navona, and PnOVA labels. Monroe Street Market (at the corner of Monroe St. and Michigan Ave.)
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