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María Valencia -- Photo by Darja Stravs Tis

ListN Up Playlist: María Valencia (February 20, 2025)

María “Mange” Valencia. Saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer from Bogotá &#...
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Shinjoo Cho -- Photo by Nah Seung Yuli

ListN Up Playlist: Shinjoo Cho (February 6, 2025)

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Announcing the 2025 McKnight Composer Fellowship and Visiting Residency Awardees

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com...
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Call for Articles: “Money Matters” Essay Series

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and NewMusicBox are excited to join forces for the first time to launch “Money...
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Brooke Knoll -- Photo by Kateri Ang

ListN Up: Brooke Knoll (January 23, 2025)

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Video Premiere: Exceptet Performs “Mouth Full of Ears” by Sarah Goldfeather

The stoic opening of “Mouth Full of Ears” belies its rambunctious, minimalist, alt-pop e...
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ListN Up Playlist: IOSIS (Alex Bissen) (January 9, 2025)

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Yoon-Ji Lee -- Photo by Anh-Thuy Nguyen

ListN Up Playlist: Yoon-Ji Lee (December 19, 2024)

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN'S Favorite Albums of 2024

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s Favorite Albums of 2024

In a time where the arts and creativity is systemically and politically undermined and unappreciated...
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Akari Komura -- Photo by Yuriko Komura

ListN Up Playlist: Akari Komura (December 5, 2024)

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Armond Dorsey -- Photo by Alexandrea Keith

ListN Up Playlist: Armond Dorsey (November 21, 2024)

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Clae Lu -- Photo by Mary Kang

ListN Up Playlist: Clae Lu (November 7, 2024)

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Mason Bynes -- Photo by Mataoric Photography

ListN Up Playlist: Mason Bynes (October 24, 2024)

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Muyassar Kurdi -- Photo by Laura Sofia Pérez

ListN Up Playlist Muyassar Kurdi (October 10, 2024)

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Mabel Kwan -- Photo by Ben Wardell

ListN Up Playlist: Mabel Kwan (September 26, 2024)

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Evan Williams, Jenn Jolley, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Yaz Lancaster

The End of Finale: Reflections and Advice for Composing in a New Era

Some words from Carolina Heredia, ACF Director of Programs: The abrupt announcement by MakeMusic to...
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Ringdown -- Photo by Anja Schutz

ListN Up Playlist: Ringdown (September 12, 2024)

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Branding Basics for Artists: Finding Authenticity in Digital Spaces

By Christina Jensen and Maya Cassady For many musicians, it can be intimidating to figure out how to...
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2025 McKnight Awardees

ACF McKnight 2025 Program Applications Are Now Open

American Composers Forum (ACF) has announced the opening of applications for the 2025 McKnight Visit...
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Jeremiah Chiu -- Photo by Elizabeth Weinberg

ListN Up Playlist: Jeremiah Chiu (August 29, 2024)

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Caitlin Edwards -- Photo by Orel Chollette

ListN Up Playlist: Caitlin Edwards (August 15, 2024)

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Mobéy Lola Irizarry -- Photo by Christopher Rivera

ListN Up Playlist: Mobéy Lola Irizarry (July 25, 2024)

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2024 ACF | create Awardees

Announcing the 2024 ACF | create Awardees

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa...
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Eliza Bagg (Lisel) -- Photo by Tonje Thilesen

ListN Up Playlist: Eliza Bagg (Lisel) (July 11, 2024)

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Compare the Way we Move performed by Dániel Matei

Video Premiere: Dániel Matei Performs “Compare the Way We Move” by Molly Herron

Percussionist Dániel Matei is sitting at a table, looking like a spelunker traversing a cave. His he...
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Gillian Rae Perry -- Photo by Joe Mazza

ListN Up Playlist: Gillian Rae Perry (June 20, 2024)

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Ayano Kataoka performing

Video Premiere: Ayano Kataoka Performs “Huancara” by Francisco del Pino

Whether highlighting his love of contrapuntal textures, his use of melodies and chords that magnify...
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Jhoely Garay -- Photo by Adrain Trevino

ListN Up Playlist: Jhoely Garay (June 6, 2024)

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Elijah J. Thomas -- Photo by Eldon Phillips

ListN Up Playlist: Elijah J. Thomas (May 23, 2024)

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Julia Perry -- Talbott Music Library Special Collections and Westminster Choir College Archives (Julia Perry Collection), Rider University

In her Centenary Year, the Efforts to Preserve Julia Perry’s Legacy Reveal Issues that Persist Today

By Dr. Samantha Ege and Garrett Schumann From Manchester, England to New York City, performers, scho...
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2024 McKnight Foundation Awardees

Announcing the 2024 ACF McKnight Composer Fellowship and Residency Awardees

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com...
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Jasmine Barnes -- Photo by Paul Green Photography

ListN Up Playlist: Jasmine Arielle Barnes (May 2, 2024)

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Lauren McCall -- Photo by David and Jess Photography

ListN Up Playlist: Lauren McCall (April 18, 2024)

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Natalia Merlano Gómez -- Photo by Juan Merlano

ListN Up Playlist: Natalia Merlano Gómez (April 4, 2024)

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innova Recordings' Fall Call 2023 Recording Projects

innova Recordings Announces Eight New Projects from Fall 2023 National Call

innova Recordings is pleased to announce the fourth collection of recording projects selected throug...
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Ashley Jackson performs Daniel Temkin's

Video Premiere: Ashley Jackson Performs Daniel Temkin’s “Circles”

The music of Daniel Temkin is a reminder that aural and visual expressivity are a powerful combinati...
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SHENSduo -- Photo by Paul Tumason

ListN Up Playlist: SHENSduo (March 7, 2024)

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Candice Hoyes -- Photo by Carolyne Lorée Teston

ListN Up Playlist: Candice Hoyes (February 22, 2024)

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Essay authors Amanda Cook, Forrest Howell, Jenn Jolley, Julia Kuhlman, Tim Igel, and Yaz Lancaster

Should Artists Have a Website? Thoughts from Around the Artistic Community

In the ever-evolving music industry, artists frequently find themselves at the crossroads of traditi...
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ACF | create 2024 Applications Now Open

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2024 ACF |...
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Odeya Nini -- Photo by Elena Ray

ListN Up Playlist: Odeya Nini (February 8, 2024)

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Johanny Navarro -- Photo by Ricardo Acevedo

ListN Up Playlist: Johanny Navarro (January 25, 2024)

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Booker Stardrum -- Photo courtesy of Dennison Hill

ListN Up Playlist: Booker Stardrum (January 11, 2024)

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Daijana Wallace -- Photo by Julian Kincaid

ListN Up Playlist: Daijana Wallace (December 21, 2023)

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Shi-An Costello performs

Video Premiere: Shi-An Costello Performs “Opening (like you’re high on opium)” from The Orient

“Opening (like you’re high on opium)” begins with washes of gently pulsating chord...
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Lesley Mok -- Photo by Tarishi Gupta

ListN Up Playlist: Lesley Mok (December 7, 2023)

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ListN Up Playlist: justine lee hooper (November 15, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Dalanie Harris and Katie Brown of Classically Black Podcast -- Photo by Lasalle Smith

To Podcast or Not to Podcast? Reflections from the Hosts of “Classically Black”

By Katie Brown and Dalanie Harris Classical musicians in the 21st century are expected to continuall...
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ListN Up Playlist: Jorge Sosa (November 2, 2023)

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Track Premiere: The Angelica Sanchez Nonet Performs “Run”

“Hearing sounds of creatures I don’t recognize makes my imagination run wild,” writes pianist...
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ListN Up Playlist: Hedra Rowan (October 6, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Shepherdess Performs Lainie Fefferman's

Video Premiere: Shepherdess Performs Lainie Fefferman’s “A Sweet & Righteous Soul Gets Drunk On Champagne”

Radical joy is often found at the heart of Lainie Fefferman’s practice, and her latest project with...
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American Composers Forum Fall Applications Now Open

American Composers Forum (ACF) has announced the opening of applications for the 2024 McKnight Visit...
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ListN Up Playlist: Lea Bertucci (September 21, 2023)

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DoYeon Kim -- Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up Playlist: DoYeon Kim (September 7, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Video Premiere: Pathos Trio performs “21600,” by Paul Mortilla

In 21600, the new video from Pathos Trio produced by Four/Ten Media, an orange luminescence washes o...
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ListN Up Playlist: David Aguila (August 24, 2023)

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Shara Lunon -- Photo by Daniel Dorsa

ListN Up Playlist: Shara Lunon (August 10, 2023)

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Video Premiere: Haruka Fujii performs “Shimmer” and “Sparkle” by Vivian Fung

The directness of expression in the music of Vivian Fung makes it immediately engaging, and her two...
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Isaac Schankler -- Photo by Chris Schell

ListN Up Playlist: Isaac Io Schankler (July 27, 2023)

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2023 ACF | create Awards Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa...
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ShoutHouse--Photo by Brandon Ilaw

Track Premiere: ShoutHouse Performs “Shiny Objects” by Will Healy

The strumming acoustic guitar and swelling strings that open “Shiny Objects” establish a...
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ListN Up Playlist: Megumi Saruhashi (July 13, 2023)

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2023 ACF McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com...
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Announcing 15 New Projects from innova Recordings Spring National Call

Today innova Recordings, the in-house recordings label of American Composers Forum, announced the se...
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Celia Hollander -- Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up Playlist: Celia Hollander (June 14, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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New Morse Code -- Photo by Tatiana Daubek

Video Premiere: New Morse Code Performs Viet Cuong’s “Next Week’s Trees”

Today, we’re happy to bring you the exclusive premiere of a new video by New Morse Code (Hanna...
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Announcing “Anatomy of a Commission”: a 360-view Digital Resource

Today, American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the launch of a new digital resource titled “Anatomy...
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ListN Up Playlist: Michelle Lou (June 1, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Isabel Crespo Pardo -- Photo by Megan Leonard

Track Premiere: Isabel Crespo Pardo Performs “Regando La Tierra”

Vocalist, improviser, and composer Isabel Crespo Pardo has a new song that’s worth your ears. WeR...
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ListN Up: Carlos Carrillo (May 18, 2023)

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ListN Up: Tianhui Ng (May 4, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Cleek Schrey--Photo by Alex Fabry

ListN Up: Cleek Schrey (April 20, 2023)

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ListN Up: Erika Dohi (April 6, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Chromic Duo performs

Video Premiere: Chromic Duo performs “Fluorescent Oceans”

The entrancing “Fluorescent Oceans” — the lead single from Chromic Duo’s upcoming EP, Ro...
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Video Premiere: Goldfeather performs “Who Am I”

“I need you to tell me who I am supposed to be,” Sarah Goldfeather sings in the quirky, jump-cut new...
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ListN Up: Maria Kaoutzani (March 23, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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innova Recordings Spring National Call 2023

Applications Now Open for innova Recordings’ 2023 Spring National Call

innova Recordings, the in-house recording label of American Composers Forum, invites artists to subm...
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ListN Up: Jordyn Davis (March 9, 2023)

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ACF Partners with GLFCAM on First Satellite Program

American Composers Forum (ACF) and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (GLFCAM) today...
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Asking for a Friend

Asking for a Friend: What to do when you’re no longer ‘emerging’?

Welcome to “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts administrators Rachel Sokolow...
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James Díaz -- Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: James Díaz (February 9, 2023)

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Chris Williams--Photo by Katherine Pekala

ListN Up: Chris Williams (January 26, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Alex Temple--Photo by Aleksandr Karjaka

ListN Up: Alex Temple (January 13, 2023)

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Applications Now Open for 2023 American Composers Forum Funding Programs

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2023 McKni...
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Grace Parisi--Photo by Jono Gasparro

ListN Up: Grace Parisi (December 16, 2022)

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ListN Up: Holland Andrews (December 2, 2022)

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mattijane brooks epperson--Photo by Olivia Stier

ListN Up: mattijane brooks epperson (November 18, 2022)

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Armando Bayolo--Photo by Eric Schultz

ListN Up: Armando Bayolo (November 4, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Phong Tran--Photo by Jesse Butcher

ListN Up: Phong Tran (October 28, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Immigration, Identity, and the Arts:

ACF and East Side Freedom Library Launch “Immigration, Identity, and the Arts” with NEA Big Read

Two organizations centered on achieving equity and justice are joining together to lift up the stori...
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Reena Esmail--Photo by Rachel Garcia

ListN Up: Reena Esmail (October 14, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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David Sanford--Photo by Sabado Visconti

ListN Up: David Sanford (September 30, 2022)

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EmmoLei Sankofa--Photo by John Dierre

ListN Up: EmmoLei Sankofa (September 2, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Jennifer Bellor's Oneira, Video animation by Christine Banna

Video Premiere: Clocks in Motion Performs Jennifer Bellor’s Oneira

Today’s video premiere comes to us from Clocks in Motion, a percussion ensemble comprised of J...
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Sky Macklay--Photo by Ramez Yousef

ListN Up: Sky Macklay (August 19, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir's strengur

Video Premiere: “strengur” by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

What if the creative relationship between composers and performers was more reciprocal? For her late...
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Composing Inclusion Composers

Inaugural “Composing Inclusion” Composer Commissions Announced

Nine composers have been selected for Composing Inclusion, a new partnership between The Juilliard S...
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2022 ACF | create and Minnesota Music Creator Awards Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create and...
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Amino Belyamani

ListN Up: Amino Belyamani (August 5, 2022)

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innova Spring National Call

Nine Projects Selected for innova Recordings’ Second National Call

Today American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the second collection of recording projects selected...
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John Daniel--Photo by Rob Miller

ListN Up: John Daniel (July 22, 2022)

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Asking for a Friend #2

Asking for a Friend: Is this Record Deal Shady?

Welcome to “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts administrators Rachel Sokolow...
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2022 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers

2022 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Compose...
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Video still from Jenny Olivia Johnson's Reflect Reflect Respond Respond performed by Wild Rumpus

Video Premiere: Wild Rumpus Performs Jenny Olivia Johnson’s Reflect Reflect Respond Respond

With predecessors including György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Alexander Scriabin, Jenny Olivia Jo...
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ListN Up: Anıl Çamcı (June 24, 2022)

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Lewis Jordan--Photo by Franz Kabelka

ListN Up: Lewis Jordan (June 17, 2022)

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Shirine Saad--Photo by Gregg Richards

ListN Up: Shirine Saad (June 10, 2022)

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Nadia Shpachenko--Photo by Victoria Innocenzi

ListN Up: Nadia Shpachenko (June 3, 2022)

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Emma O'Halloran--Photo by Alex Dowling

ListN Up: Emma O’Halloran (May 27, 2022)

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Yolanda Kondonassis performs Reena Esmail's Inconvenient Wounds

Video Premiere: Yolanda Kondonassis Performs Reena Esmail’s inconvenient wounds

Nature is seen as both a thing of beauty and reckoning in the music video for Reena Esmail’s i...
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Maria Chávez--Photo by Martyna Szczęsna

ListN Up: Maria Chávez (May 20, 2022)

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L'Rain -- Photo by Nathan Bajar

ListN Up: L’Rain (May 13, 2022)

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Bryan Senti and ACME perform

Video Premiere: Bryan Senti’s “Mantra” Performed by ACME

For composer and violinist/violist Bryan Senti, working with the American Contemporary Music Ensembl...
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ListN Up: Aron Dahl (May 6, 2022)

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Darlene Castro Ortiz--Photo by Marie Kim

ListN Up: Darlene Castro Ortiz (April 29, 2022)

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Applications Now Open for innova Recordings Spring National Call

innova Recordings, the in-house recording label of American Composers Forum, invites applicants to s...
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Akenya--Photo by Samantha Fuehring

ListN Up: Akenya (April 22, 2022)

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Jasmine Morris' Muspelheim

Video Premiere: Muspelheim by Jasmine Morris

A cluster of discordant droning reeds usher in a slinking ornamented melody in composer Jasmine Morr...
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Lisa Bielawa--Photo by Desmond White

ListN Up: Lisa Bielawa (April 15, 2022)

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Asking for a Friend: Selfie Videos & Elusive Second Performances

Welcome to the first installment of “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts admi...
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ACF Partners with Look + Listen for 20th Anniversary Season

Look + Listen’s free annual spring festival marks its 20th anniversary with a trio of boldly i...
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Layale Chaker--Photo by Anna Rakhvalova

ListN Up: Layale Chaker (April 8, 2022)

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Who Cares How You Listen? – Thoughts on Our Relationship with Recordings

By Christian Kriegeskotte and Ciyadh Wells As artists who are also listeners, we tend to have a comp...
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Departure Duo performs Sarah Gibson's The Boys Are There

Video Premiere: Departure Duo Performs The Boys Are There by Sarah Gibson

The spirit of the 1920s reverberates through words, architecture, and costuming in Departure DuoR...
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Lidiya Yankovskaya--Photo by Kate Lemmon

ListN Up: Lidiya Yankovskaya (April 1, 2022)

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innova Recordings Announces Eight New Artists to Join the Label following National Call

Today American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the first collection of recording projects selected t...
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Aeryn Jade Santillan with Massa Nera--Photo by Riley Taylor

ListN Up: Aeryn Jade Santillan (March 25, 2022)

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Julián de la Chica and Yana Mann's Su Voz

Video Premiere: Yana Mann Performs “Su Voz” by Julián De La Chica

Until recently, Julián De La Chica’s 11 Poemas de Bar had been sitting in a pile of unpublishe...
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ListN Up: Renee Baker (March 18, 2022)

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Donna Weng Friedman performs Quiet Poems

Video Premiere: Donna Weng Friedman Performs Sherman’s Quiet Poems

For composer Kim D. Sherman’s newest collection of solo piano works, necessity was the mother...
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Adeliia Faizullina--Photo by Leisan Giliazova

ListN Up: Adeliia Faizullina (March 11, 2022)

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Lady Circon--Photo courtesy of the artists

Video Premiere: GM Sidestick by Lady Circon

As a band, Lady Circon’s influences are wide-ranging and complex, drawing inspiration from ele...
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Kennedy Taylor Dixon--Photo by Quinn Kirby Photography

ListN Up: Kennedy Taylor Dixon (March 4, 2022)

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Introducing “Asking for a Friend” — A New Music Advice Column

Hi! This is Rachel and Carol Ann, and welcome to our advice column, “Asking for a Friend”— a forum f...
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Julian Terrell Otis--Photo by Elias Rios

ListN Up: Julian Terrell Otis (February 18, 2022)

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Shruthi Rajasekar--Photo by Alia Rose Photography

ListN Up: Shruthi Rajasekar (February 11, 2022)

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PaviElle French--Photo by Sharolyn B. Hagen Photography

Artist PaviElle French Launches Residency in St. Paul

American Composers Forum (ACF) is excited to announce “Liberation! Lifting up our Youth:”...
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Michelle Ross' The Whale Song

Video Premiere: The Whale Song by Michelle Ross

The sea has been a source of enigmatic inspiration for many composers, representing a place of immen...
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Andrew Stock--Photo by Carmen Rosby

ListN Up: Andrew Stock (February 4, 2022)

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Leilehua Lanzilotti--Photo by Blaise Hayward Studio

ListN Up: Leilehua Lanzilotti (January 28, 2022)

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Jonathan Hulting-Cohen

ListN Up: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen (January 21, 2022)

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Daniel Schlosberg and Toyin Spellman-Diaz perform Jeff Scott's Of Good and Evil

Video Premiere: Toyin Spellman-Diaz performs Jeff Scott’s “Of Good and Evil”

The opulent Upper East Side townhouse of the Frederick R. Koch Foundation acts as the backdrop for t...
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Percussion duo NOMON (Nava and Shayna Dunkelman)--Photo courtesy of the artists

ListN Up: NOMON (January 14, 2022)

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Applications Now Open for American Composers Forum Programs

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2022 McKni...
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American Wild Ensemble Performs

Video Premiere: American Wild Ensemble Performs “Where the Sun of Freedom Shines” by Ingrid Stölzel

Led by co-directors Emlyn Johnson and Daniel Ketter, American Wild Ensemble is on a mission to bring...
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Cassie Wieland--Photo by Anna Longworth

ListN Up: Cassie Wieland (January 7, 2022)

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Harpist Ashley Jackson performs Danielle Eva Schwob's Shiver

Video Premiere: Shiver by Danielle Eva Schwob

The dark, icy, and metallic timbres of flute, harp, and vibraphone are at the heart of Danielle Eva...
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ListN Up: Norman W. Long (December 17, 2021)

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Diego Espinosa Cruz González--Photo by Thor Brødreskift for Borealis

ListN Up: Diego Espinosa Cruz González (December 10, 2021)

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Vahram Sarkissian--Photo by H. Manoyan

ListN Up: Vahram Sarkissian (December 3, 2021)

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The Drowning Valley by Phonodelica (Donia Jarrar)

Video Premiere: The Drowning Valley by Phonodelica (Donia Jarrar)

The sweeping, cinematic quality of The Drowning Valley by Phonodelica (Donia Jarrar) evokes the vast...
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Nina C. Young--Photo by Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

ListN Up: Nina C. Young (November 12, 2021)

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Phong Tran's de_dust2 from The Computer Room

Video Premiere: de_dust2 from The Computer Room by Phong Tran

For anyone old enough to remember the birth of the internet, the room in the house where that endear...
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Juilliard Preparatory Division students--Photo by Rachel Papo

ACF, Juilliard, and NY Philharmonic Receive Sphinx Venture Fund for Co-Commissions

Editor’s note: As of February 15, 2022, applications are now open for Composing Inclusion. Com...
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Pauline Kim Harris performs Annie Gosfield's Long Waves and Random Pulses

Video Premiere: Pauline Kim Harris Performs “Long Waves and Random Pulses” (Gosfield)

The sounds of deteriorating and malfunctioning technology frequently permeate the works of composer...
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Baljinder Sekhon--Photo by Stephanie Swindle Thomas

ListN Up: Baljinder Sekhon (November 5, 2021)

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Cleo Reed--Photo by Cressida Fletcher

ListN Up: Cleo Reed (October 29, 2021)

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Learning to Listen from Deaf Communities (Casting Light #6)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Teiya Kasahara--Photo by Janet Kimber

ListN Up: Teiya Kasahara (October 22, 2021)

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Gina Izzo ladyybirdd

Video Premiere: Gina Izzo performs “into what is wanted” from “ladyybirdd”

“Stay until you lose the urge to leave.” This was the only musical instruction that flut...
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Rajna Swaminathan--Photo by Yaara Perczek

ListN Up: Rajna Swaminathan (October 15, 2021)

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ACF Announces Compositions Celebrating the AACM’s 55th Anniversary

American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce the premieres of music commissioned through i...
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Darius Jones--Photo by Ebru Yildiz

ListN Up: Darius Jones (October 8, 2021)

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Michael R. Dudley Jr.--Photo by Alan Hsaio

Music of the Unsung America Selects Michael R. Dudley Jr.’s “Elegy” From Call for Scores

ACF | connect partner Music of the Unsung America has announced the selection of Michael R. Dudley J...
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Pathos Trio performs Delirious Phenomena by Alyssa Weinberg

Video Premiere: Pathos Trio Performs Delirious Phenomena by Alyssa Weinberg

There’s a certain magic to a Four/Ten Media music video — intimate, provocative shots ca...
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jaimie branch--Photo by Abdesslam MIRDASS

ListN Up: jaimie branch (October 1, 2021)

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Chanell Crichlow--Photo by Texas Isaiah

ListN Up: Chanell Crichlow (September 24, 2021)

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Anthony R. Green--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Anthony R. Green (September 10, 2021)

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Michae; Compitello performs Nina C. Young's Heart.throb

Video Premiere: Michael Compitello Performs Nina C. Young’s Heart.throb

Of all the things one might expect to find at a post apocalyptic dance club, a lonely snare drum pro...
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Jacquelyn Deshchidn--Photo by Jessica Wittman

ListN Up: Jacquelyn Deshchidn (August 27, 2021)

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2021 ACF | create and Minnesota Music Creator Award recipients

2021 ACF | create and Minnesota Music Creator Awards Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create and...
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Emily Koh--Photo courtesy National Arts Council Singapore

ListN Up: Emily Koh (August 20, 2021)

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Valerie Coleman--Photo by Matthew Murphy

Valerie Coleman Selected for ACF BandQuest Residency with Juilliard MAP

American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce its next BandQuest commission and residency p...
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Tonality performs UnitedWeDream

Video Premiere: Tonality Performs Melissa Dunphy’s “#UnitedWeDream”

In his August 2019 essay for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Alexander Lloyd Blake observed, “An altruis...
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Ken Ueno--Photo courtesy EMPAC/Mick Bello

ListN Up: Ken Ueno (August 13, 2021)

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Mankwe Ndosi--Photo by Sally Nixon

ListN Up: Mankwe Ndosi (August 6, 2021)

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Laura Steenberge--Photo by Boris Oicherman

ListN Up: Laura Steenberge (July 30, 2021)

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Daniel Allas--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Daniel Allas (July 23, 2021)

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Sara Serpa--Photo by Carolina Saez

ListN Up: Sara Serpa (July 16, 2021)

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McKnight Awardees 2021

2021 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Fellows...
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Arooj Aftab--Photo by Vishesh Sharma

ListN Up: Arooj Aftab (July 9, 2021)

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One Voice Mixed Chorus--Photo by Paul Nixdorf

The Establishment of Genderqueer Sound Culture (Casting Light #2)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Carolina Heredia Dejate Caer

Video Premiere: Carolina Heredia Performs Dejate Caer

Much like something out of Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi, Carolina Her...
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ganavya -- Photo by Massinissa Selmani

ListN Up: Ganavya Doraiswamy (June 25, 2021)

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New Music Gathering 2018--Photo by Austin Eamnarangkool

The 6th Annual New Music Gathering: Full Schedule, Keynote Speaker, Headliners

Hailed as “more than just another new music festival” (Wall Street Journal) and “a joyous celebratio...
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Video Premiere: “Gloria” from Mass for the Endangered

Ranging from architectural to celestial, the video album of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for t...
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Gabriel Dharmoo--Photo by Jonathan Goulet

ListN Up: Gabriel Dharmoo (June 18, 2021)

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Jessica T. Carter--Photo by Brianna Edgerly

ListN Up: Jessica T. Carter (June 11, 2021)

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Curtis Stewart Improvisation on Paganini Caprice #11

Video Premiere: Curtis Stewart’s Improvisation on Paganini Caprice #11

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Paganini met trap beats and 8-bit heart emojis? This com...
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Myra Melford--Photo by Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Foundation

ListN Up: Myra Melford (June 4, 2021)

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Jen Shyu--Photo by Ben Doyle

ListN Up: Jen Shyu (May 28, 2021)

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Fay Victor--Photo by Nathan Bahar

ListN Up: Fay Victor (May 21, 2021)

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Wavefield Ensemble--Photo by Rob Davidson

Track Premiere: Wavefield Ensemble Performs Jessie Cox’s Space Travel From Someplace Else

A chorus of otherworldly whispers, harmonics, scrapes, and multiphonics usher in Jessie Cox’s...
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innova Bay Area Pilot Program artists Eki’Shola Abrams, Melinda Martinez Becker, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Lisa Mezzacappa, Beth Schenck, SHENSduo, Lewis Jordan, Julie Herndon, and Anne Hege

Innova Recordings Announces Bay Area Pilot Projects

American Composers Forum (ACF) and Innova Recordings are pleased to announce the selected artists an...
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Marcos Balter--Photo by Heidi Solander

ListN Up: Marcos Balter (May 14, 2021)

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Sandeep Das and Mike Block perform

Video Premiere: “Fight or Flight” by Sandeep Das and Mike Block

For Silkroad artists Sandeep Das (tabla) and Mike Block (cello), the joy of cross-cultural collabora...
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Eunmi Ko--Photo by Eduardo Costa Roldan

ListN Up: Eunmi Ko (May 7, 2021)

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Francisco del Pino--Photo courtesy New Amsterdam Records

Album Premiere: Decir by Francisco del Pino

The tender soprano voice of Cecilia Pastorino gently floats over placid instrumental soundscapes and...
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Erika Dohi performs Particle Of...

Video Premiere: Erika Dohi Performs “Particle Of…” by Andy Akiho

Alter egos in blue and pink wigs, layered polyrhythms, and the muted plunks, gear-like clicks, and w...
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Vilde Tuv--Photo by Linn Heidi Stokkedal

Track Premiere: “Tenk At Det Fins” by Vilde Tuv

For Norwegian artist Vilde Tuv, it all started with the idea of a “one woman band.” At f...
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Anthony Davis--Photo by Erik Jepsen

ListN Up: Anthony Davis (April 30, 2021)

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inti figgis-vizueta--Photo by ella joklik

ListN Up: inti figgis-vizueta (April 23, 2021)

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Tiffany Ng--Photo by Nick Hagen

ListN Up: Tiffany Ng (April 16, 2021)

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Arooj Aftab and Badi Assad perform

Video Premiere: “Diya Hai” Performed by Arooj Aftab and Badi Assad

The dreamy soundworlds of Arooj Aftab are defined by patience–never hurried, her richly orname...
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Stephanie Chou--Photo by Shervin Lainez

ListN Up: Stephanie Chou (April 9, 2021)

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Forbes Graham--Photo by Lillian Graham

ListN Up: Forbes Graham (April 2, 2021)

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Carolina Heredia--Photo by Dale Lloyd

ListN Up: Carolina Heredia (March 26, 2021)

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Rohan Chander--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Rohan Chander a.k.a. AIYAAR (March 19, 2021)

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Vivian Fung's (Un)Wandering Souls

Video Premiere: Vivian Fung’s (Un)Wandering Souls Performed by Sandbox Percussion

A timbrally-rich fusion of struck metal, wood, porcelain, and glass defines Vivian Fung’s (Un)...
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Call for Articles: New Series on “Invisible Inequities” in Arts Spaces

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and American Composers Forum are launching a new 10-month initiative entitled “...
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Olivia Shortt--Photo by Alejandro Santiago

ListN Up: Olivia Shortt (March 12, 2021)

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Carmina Escobar--Photo by JP García Busio

ListN Up: Carmina Escobar (March 5, 2021)

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Joy Guidry -- Photo by Nykelle Devivo

ListN Up: Joy Guidry (February 26, 2021)

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TAK Ensemble--Photo by David Bird

Track Premiere: TAK Ensemble’s Star Maker Fragments

Microtonal electroacoustic experimentation meets sci-fi explorations of the universe and creation on...
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Mary Prescott--Photo by Adela Wagner

ListN Up: Mary Prescott (February 19, 2021)

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Expands Perspectives with New Contributors

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (ICIYL) and American Composers Forum (ACF) are proud to introduce the expanded...
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Theo Baer--Photo by Kyna Marie

ListN Up: Theo Baer a.k.a. iT Boy (February 12, 2021)

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Sunny Jain--Photo by Ebru Yildiz

ListN Up: Sunny Jain (February 5, 2021)

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PUBLIQuartet--Photo by Lelanie Foster

ListN Up: PUBLIQuartet (January 29, 2021)

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Samita Sinha--Photo by Shervin Lainez

ListN Up: Samita Sinha (January 22, 2021)

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Marshall Trammell--Photo by Agatha Urbaniak

ListN Up: Marshall Trammell (January 15, 2021)

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Seth Parker Woods--Photo by James Napoli

ListN Up: Seth Parker Woods (January 8, 2021)

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Counter Paint: The Art of Fugue

Video Premiere: Friction Quartet Performs Counter Paint: The Art of Fugue

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features Friction Quartet performing Counter Paint: The...
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Darian Donovan Thomas--Photo by Oscar Moreno

ListN Up: Darian Donovan Thomas (December 18, 2020)

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Matana Roberts--Photo by Evan Hunter McKnight

ListN Up: Matana Roberts (December 11, 2020)

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Alicia Waller & The Excursion

Video Premiere: Soul by Alicia Waller & The Excursion

Today’s video premiere features Alicia Waller & The Excursion performing “Soul”...
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Katherine Balch--Photo by Lanz Photography

ListN Up: Katherine Balch (December 4, 2020)

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Damien Geter--Photo by Rachel Hadiashar

5 Questions to Damien Geter (composer, baritone)

The works of acclaimed composer and baritone Damien Geter range from chamber ensembles to the operat...
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gamin--Photo by Anna Pidgorna

ListN Up: gamin (November 20, 2020)

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Video Premiere: (no) i Don’t Want to Leave You Whole / ‘cause that may Leave Me Empty by Nyokabi Kariuki

Today’s video premiere features composer Nyokabi Kariuki performing her own work “(no),...
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Miya Masaoka--Photo by Heike Liss

ListN Up: Miya Masaoka (November 13, 2020)

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Top row: Aisha Staggers, Anthony Tan, inti figgis-vizueta Middle row: Shruthi Rajasekar, Elizabeth A. Baker, A. Kori Hill Bottom row: Chevall Pryce, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Hon Ki Cheung

“Out of Context” Concludes with Roundtable Discussion Series

This month, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and American Composers Forum will host two roundtable discussions o...
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Annika Socolofsky--Photo by Nadine Dyskant-Miller

ListN Up: Annika Socolofsky (November 6, 2020)

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Playlist (November 4, 2020): Post-Election Day Healing Vibes

Platforms like I CARE IF YOU LISTEN have a responsibility to reflect and respond to the world around...
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Jenny Bilfield, Michelle Ramos, Chrysanthe Tan, brin solomon, Tania León, X. Lee, Anne LeBaron, Kristy Edmunds, Stephanie Lamprea, and Stacy Garrop

What Does the 19th Amendment Mean to You? (Part 2)

This week, we conclude our UNEVEN MEASURES series the same way we began on August 18th by asking a n...
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Sarah Hennies--Photo by Mara Baldwin

ListN Up: Sarah Hennies (October 30, 2020)

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Susie Ibarra--Photo by Tony Cenicola

ListN Up: Susie Ibarra (October 23, 2020)

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (ICIYL)–powered by American Composers Forum–is thrilled to announce...
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American Wild Ensemble performs Takuma Itoh's Adaptation Variations

Video Premiere: American Wild Ensemble Performs Adaptation Variations by Takuma Itoh

Today’s video premiere features American Wild Ensemble performing Takuma Itoh’s Adaptati...
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Transient Canvas--Photo by Robert Torres

Track Premiere: Transient Canvas Performs Emily Koh’s \very/ specifically vague

Today’s track premiere features Transient Canvas (Amy Advocat, bass clarinet; Matt Sharrock, m...
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ListN Up: Yvette Janine Jackson (October 9, 2020)

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UNEVEN MEASURES Roundtable Discussion Series

This month, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and American Composers Forum will host a series of Zoom roundtable...
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Sugar Vendil--Photo by Elizabeth Haynes

ListN Up: Sugar Vendil (October 2, 2020)

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Kamala Sankaram--Photo by Dario Acosta

ListN Up: Kamala Sankaram (September 25, 2020)

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Du Yun--Photo by Zhen Qin, Makeup by Nina Carelli, Art Direction by SpaTheory

ListN Up: Du Yun (September 18, 2020)

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Joins American Composers Forum

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, the award-winning multimedia hub for living music creators, has officially bec...
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Katie Brown and Dalanie Harris of Classically Black Podcast--Photo by Richard Desinord

ListN Up: Classically Black Podcast (September 11, 2020)

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Shaw Chang and Diana Golden--Photo by Pierre Lidar

Track Premiere: Diana Golden and Shawn Chang Perform DBR’s Femiel

Today’s track premiere features cellist Diana Golden and pianist Shawn Chang performing Femiel...
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Sarah Kirkland Snider--Photo by Anja Schütz

ListN Up: Sarah Kirkland Snider (September 4, 2020)

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ListN Up: Nina Shekhar (August 28, 2020)

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Amanda Gookin--Photo by Ryan Scherb

ListN Up: Amanda Gookin (August 21, 2020)

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Top row, left to right: Wang Jie, Paola Prestini, Nebal Maysaud, JoAnn Falletta, Angélica Negrón Bottom row, left to right: Alex Temple, Alysia Lee, Natalie Calma, Libby Larsen, Aeryn Santillan

What Does the 19th Amendment Mean to You? (Part 1)

This day, August 18, 2020, marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment–a mome...
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Announcing UNEVEN MEASURES: Artists Reflect on the 19th Amendment

The centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving white women the right t...
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Liza Stepanova performs Reinaldo Moya's

Video Premiere: Liza Stepanova Performs Reinaldo Moya’s “Rain Outside of the Church”

Today’s video by visual artist Kevork Mourad features pianist Liza Stepanova’s performan...
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Miyamoto is Black Enough

Video Premiere: Miyamoto is Black Enough Performs “Burn / Build”

Today’s video premiere, “Burn / Build,” is the title track from Miyamoto is Black...
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Ashleigh Gordon--Photo by Robert Torres Photography

ListN Up: Ashleigh Gordon (July 24, 2020)

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Jessie Montgomery--Photo by Jiyang Chen

ListN Up: Jessie Montgomery (July 17, 2020)

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deVon Russell Gray

ListN Up: deVon Russell Gray (July 10, 2020)

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Meerenai Shim--Photo by Diana Fast

ListN Up: Meerenai Shim (July 3, 2020)

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Juhi Bansal--Photo by Nicolas Gerpe

ListN Up: Juhi Bansal (June 26, 2020)

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Alexander Lloyd Blake--Photo by Matthew Ian Welch

ListN Up: Alexander Lloyd Blake (June 19, 2020)

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Anaïs Maviel--Photo by Dar Es Salaam Riser

ListN Up: Anaïs Maviel (June 12, 2020)

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Michael Malis We Shake With Joy

Video Premiere: Michael Malis and Kaleigh Wilder Perform We Shake With Joy

Today’s video by Matt Lima features composer-pianist Michael Malis and saxophonist Kaleigh Wil...
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Sarah Saviet and Liza Lim--Photo by Jascha Zube

Video Premiere: Sarah Saviet Peforms Liza Lim’s The Su Song Star Map

Today’s video premiere features violinist Sarah Saviet performing composer Liza Lim’s 20...
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Qasim Naqvi--Photo by Smriti Keshari

ListN Up: Qasim Naqvi (May 29, 2020)

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Sahba Aminikia--Photo by Matthew Washburn

ListN Up: Sahba Aminikia (May 22, 2020)

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Ricardo Donoso--Photo by Nat Urazmetova

Track Premiere: Thought Contagion by Ricardo Donoso

Today, we’re premiering “Thought Contagion” by Brazilian composer, percussionist,...
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ListN Up: Raven Chacon (May 15, 2020)

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Birdsong from Sensorium Ex performed by Lucy Dhegrae and Jeffrey Zeigler

Video Premiere: “Birdsong” from Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex

Today’s video premiere features Lucy Dhegrae and Jeffrey Zeigler performing an excerpt from th...
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Niloufar Nourbakhsh--Photo by Michael Yu

ListN Up: Niloufar Nourbakhsh (May 8, 2020)

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Karl Larson performs Scott Wollschleger's Gas Station Canon-Song

Video Premiere: Larson Performs Wollschleger’s Gas Station Canon-Song

Today’s video premiere features a live recording of Karl Larson performing Scott Wollschleger&...
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Angélica Negrón--Photo by Quique Cabanillas

ListN Up: Angélica Negrón (May 1, 2020)

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Sophia Subbayya Vastek--Photo by Beth Mickalonis

ListN Up: Sophia Subbayya Vastek (April 24, 2020)

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Bora Yoon--Photo by Lynnel Herrera

ListN Up: Bora Yoon (April 17, 2020)

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Alicia Waller--Photo by Shay Paresh

ListN Up: Alicia Waller (April 10, 2020)

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Molly Joyce Form and Flee

Video Premiere: Molly Joyce Performs Form and Flee

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features composer-performer Molly Joyce performing Form...
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Afro Yaqui Music Collective--Photo by Renee Rosensteel, provided courtesy of the New Hazlett Theater

ListN Up: Afro Yaqui Music Collective (April 3, 2020)

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Andrew Janss performs Vivian Fung's Humanoid

Video Premiere: Andrew Janss Performs Vivian Fung’s Humanoid

Today’s premiere features Andrew Janss performing Vivian Fung’s Humanoid for cello and e...
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Mother Sparrow film

Video Premiere: Mother Sparrow by Sonya Belaya and Eryka Dellenbach

Today’s video premiere is a film by composer-performer Sonya Belaya and choreographer/director...
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COVID-19 Emergency Funding and Artist Resources

Updated August 21, 2020 With the increased spread of COVID-19 in the United States, it has been an e...
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Video Premiere: Kate Amrine & Katya Barmotina Perform Ruby Fulton’s “I’m Sorry Not Sorry”

Today’s video premiere features Kate Amrine (trumpet/vocals) and Katya Barmotina (viola/vocals...
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Bec Plexus Busy Making Steps

Video Premiere: Bec Plexus’ Busy Making Steps

Today’s video premiere features Bec Plexus‘ “busy making steps” from her for...
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Paul David Flood

New Voices Essay Contest Third Place Winner: Paul David Flood

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to hold the second annual “New Voices” essay con...
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Sierra Wojtczack

New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Sierra Wojtczack

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to hold the second annual “New Voices” essay con...
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Gleb Kanasevich performs inti-figgis-vizueta's no words

Video Premiere: Gleb Kanasevich performs inti figgis-vizueta’s no words

Today’s video premiere features clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich performing inti figgis-vizuetaR...
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John Carroll

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner: John Carroll

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New Voices Essay Contest 2019

Announcing the Winners of the 2019 “New Voices” Essay Contest

This year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN again collaborated with 21CM to launch the second iteration of the “...
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Alexa Dexa's Be a Doll

Video Premiere: Alexa Dexa’s Be A Doll (Four/Ten Media)

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is premiering the Four/Ten Media music video adaptation of Be a Doll, a...
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Kimberly Sparr performs Molly Joyce's ABC

Video Premiere: Kimberly Sparr Performs Molly Joyce’s ABC

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features violist Kimberly Sparr performing Molly Joyce&#...
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how many bodies have we to pass through

Video Premiere: Zosha Di Castri & Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez’s how many bodies have we to pass through

Today’s video premiere features percussionist Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez performing how many...
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Pauline Kim Harris Ambient Chaconne II

Video Premiere: Pauline Kim Harris’ Ambient Chaconne II

Today’s video premiere, “Ambient Chaconne II,” comes to us from violin-composer Pa...
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Land's End Ensemble

Video Premiere: Land’s End Ensemble & Ben Reimer Perform “Twister” by Vincent Ho

Today’s video premiere features Land’s End Ensemble and percussionist Ben Reimer perform...
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Majel Connery Pretend to Cry

Video Premiere: Majel Connery’s Pretend to Cry

Today’s video premiere features the latest single from vocalist-composer Majel Connery, “...
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Alev Lenz

Video Premiere: Alev Lenz’s “The Chair” Feat. Roomful of Teeth

Today’s video premiere features Roomful of Teeth and songwriter/producer Alev Lenz performing...
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Mario Diaz de Leon--Photo by Ebru Yildiz

Track Premiere: Rebekah Heller Performs Mario Diaz de Leon’s Labrys

Today’s track premiere features Rebekah Heller performing Labrys for bassoon and electronics f...
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New Voices Essay Contest 2019

The 21CM + I CARE IF YOU LISTEN “New Voices” Essay Contest Returns

Downloadable announcement available here! Are you a college student who loves to put your passion fo...
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Nathalie Joachim--Photo by Josue Azor

Track Premiere: Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet Perform “Alléluia”

Today’s track premiere features Spektral Quartet and flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie...
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Swept Up Whole Video

Video Premiere: Lindsay Kesselman and Wild Up Perform “Swept Up Whole” (Cerrone)

Today’s mind-bending Four/Ten Media video premiere features Lindsay Kesselman and Wild Up perf...
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Siggi String Quartet--Photo by Ágúst Atlason, Gústi productions

Video Premiere: Siggi String Quartet Performs Una Sveinbjarnardóttir’s Opacity

Today’s video premiere features Siggi String Quartet (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, violin; Helga Þó...
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Donnacha Dennehy--Photo by Britt Olsen-Ecker

Track Premiere: Donnacha Dennehy’s Surface Tension Performed by Third Coast Percussion

Today, we are premiering Donnacha Dennehy‘s Surface Tension performed by Third Coast Percussio...
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Isaac Schankler's Future Feelings performed by Nadia Shpachenko

Video Premiere: Isaac Schankler’s Future Feelings Performed by Nadia Shpachenko

Today’s MediaVision video premiere features pianist Nadia Shpachenko performing composer Isaac...
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TAK Ensemble--Photo by David Bird

Album Premiere: TAK Ensemble’s Oor (TAK Editions)

Today on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, we have an exclusive album premiere of TAK Ensemble‘s Oor. TAK...
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Hub New Music performs Pascal Le Boeuf's Media Control

Video Premiere: Hub New Music performs Media Control (Le Boeuf)

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features Hub New Music performing Pascal Le Boeuf’...
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Annika Socolofsky Rise

Video Premiere: Hulting-Cohen and Shaneyfelt Perform Socolofsky’s Rise

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features saxophonist Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and pianist ...
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Jessica Meyer's Gp BIG or Go HOME

Video Premiere: Nu Deco Performs Jessica Meyer’s Go BIG or Go HOME

Today’s video premiere features Nu Deco Ensemble performing Jessica Meyer’s Go BIG or Go...
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Ashley Jackson performs Danielle Eva Schwob's The Long Way Down

Video Premiere: Ashley Jackson Performs Danielle Eva Schwob’s “The Long Way Down”

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features harpist Ashley Jackson performing Danielle Eva...
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Argus Quartet performs Andrew Norman's Peculiar Strokes

Video Premiere: Argus Quartet Performs Norman’s Peculiar Strokes

Today’s video premiere of Peculiar Strokes by Andrew Norman features Argus Quartet in collabor...
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4 Bucolic Machines

Video Premiere: Now Hear Ensemble Performs 4 Bucolic Machines (Ghys)

Today’s video premiere features Now Hear Ensemble (flutist Adriane Hill, clarinetist Amanda Kr...
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Retrouvailles

Video Premiere: Compitello and Truesdell Perform Aperghis’ Retrouvailles

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features MikeDrop Duo (Mike Compitello and Mike Truesdel...
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Post-Haste Reed Duo

Track Premiere: Post-Haste Reed Duo Performs Takuma Itoh’s Snapshots

Today’s track premiere features Post-Haste Reed Duo (saxophonist Sean Fredenburg and bassoonist Javi...
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Yevgeny Kutik and Gity Razaz

Track Premiere: Yevgeny Kutik Performs Gity Razaz’s Cadenza for the Once Young

Today’s track premiere comes to us from “Meditations on Family,” violinist Yevgeny...
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Unheard-of//Ensemble

Track Premiere: Unheard-of//Ensemble Performs Erin Rogers’ Family Picnic 2008

Today’s track premiere features Unheard-of//Ensemble performing Erin Rogers‘ Family Picn...
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Hillary LaBonte

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner: Hillary LaBonte

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti...
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Anjali Misra

New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Anjali Misra

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti...
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Leah Dunbar

New Voices Essay Contest Third Place Winner: Leah Dunbar

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti...
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New Voices Essay Contest

Announcing the Winners of the “New Voices” Essay Contest

In August, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” Essay Contest. We inv...
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Alarm Will Sound

Video Premiere: Alarm Will Sound Performs “Winners” by Scott Johnson

Today’s video premiere features Alarm Will Sound performing Scott Johnson‘s “Winne...
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir -- Photo by Saga Sig

Track premiere: ICE Performs Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Illumine

Today’s track premiere features the International Contemporary Ensemble led by Steven Schick p...
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Golden Hornet

Album Premiere: Golden Hornet’s The Sound of Science Featuring Jeffrey Zeigler

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN premieres The Sound of Science, a new project from Austin’s compos...
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Nordic Affect

Track Premiere: Nordic Affect Performs Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Point of Departure

Today’s track premiere features Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect performing Hildur Guðnadóttir...
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American Wild Ensemble

Video Premiere: American Wild Ensemble Performs Covers and Uncovers (Ko)

Today’s video premiere features American Wild Ensemble performing Tonia Ko‘s Covers and...
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Aizuri Quartet Carrot Revolution

Video Premiere: Aizuri Quartet Performs Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution

Today’s video premiere (Four/Ten Media) features the Aizuri Quartet performing Gabriella Smith...
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Ashlin Hunter heirlooms

Video Premiere: Matt Magerkurth performs Ashlin Hunter’s heirlooms

Today’s video premiere heirlooms comes to us from composer Ashlin Hunter, cellist Matt Magerku...
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Announcing the “New Voices” Essay Contest in Partnership with 21CM

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Joshua Modney and Kate Soper

Track Premiere: Josh Modney and Kate Soper Perform Soper’s Cipher

Today’s track premiere features violinist Josh Modney and vocalist/composer Kate Soper perform...
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Jonah Sirota

Track Premiere: Jonah and Nadia Sirota Perform Nico Muhly’s Lean

Today’s track premiere features Jonah and Nadia Sirota performing Nico Muhly‘s Lean, one...
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Duo Noire

Album Premiere: Duo Noire’s Night Triptych (New Focus Recordings)

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN premieres Night Triptych, the latest album from ​American ​classical ​gu...
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Video Premiere: Would the Miracle Ever Come? by Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Teletextile

Today’s video premiere, Would the Miracle Ever Come?, is a collaborative project from composer...
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The Hands Free

Album Premiere: The Hands Free (New Amsterdam Records)

Today, we have a New Amsterdam Records album premiere of the self-titled debut album from the new ac...
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Elizabeth A. Baker--Photo by Charlotte Suarez

Track Premiere: Two Works from Elizabeth A. Baker’s Quadrivium

Today, we have a double track premiere from Quadrivium, the upcoming debut album from new renaissanc...
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Majel Connery

Video Premiere: Oracle Hysterical’s Bolero with the Chicago Composers Orchestra

Today’s video premiere features a live orchestral arrangement of “Bolero,” a track...
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Tigue--Photo by Catalina Kulczar

Exclusive Album Stream: Tigue’s Strange Paradise (New Amsterdam/NNA Tapes)

Today, we have an exclusive album stream of Strange Paradise, the sophomore album from Brooklyn-base...
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Track Premiere: Invisible Anatomy Performs Facial Polygraph XVIA by Fay Wang

Today’s track premiere comes to us via the composer-performer ensemble Invisible Anatomy: Dani...
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Video Premiere: New Morse Code Performs Lang’s Stuttered Chant

Today’s video premiere from Four/Ten Media and New Morse Code (Hannah Collins, cello; Michael...
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Philipp Rumsch

Track Premiere: Philipp Rumsch Ensemble Performs “Part IV”

Today, and we have a track premiere from German composer, pianist, and sound designer Philipp Rumsch...
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Video Premiere: Symmetry: In Memories by Nick Zoulek

Today we have another video premiere from Nick Zoulek‘s Rushing Past Willow, an intermedia pro...
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Du Yun in an excerpt from her opera Angel's Bone

Video Premiere: Angel’s Bone Music Video featuring Du Yun

On September 22, 2017, VIA Records released the studio recording of the Pulitzer Prize winning opera...
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Video Premiere: Pascal Le Boeuf Wanderlust (Four/Ten Media)

Back in April, we premiered the video for Pascal Le Boeuf’s Alkaline, which is now nominated f...
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Video Premiere: Molly Joyce Form and Deform (Four/Ten Media)

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features composer and toy organist Molly Joyce performin...
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Track Feature/Exclusive Download: ACME Performs Silent Night

It’s after Thanksgiving, and it’s officially December, which makes it an acceptable time...
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Video Premiere: Tenth Intervention We Are Anonymous

Today’s video premiere of “We Are Anonymous” comes to us from Tenth Intervention,...
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Track Premiere: Valentine’s by R WE WHO R WE

Today, we are premiering “Valentine’s” from R WE WHO R WE’s upcoming album &...
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Video Premiere: LAPQ Performs Matt McBane For Triangles

Another day, another awesome Four/Ten Media video premiere. Today’s video features the Los Ang...
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Video Premiere: Shattered Glass Performs Transition Behavior (Le Boeuf)

Today, we are featuring a performance of Pascal Le Boeuf‘s Transition Behavior by the Shattere...
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Album Premiere: Mario Diaz de Leon’s Sanctuary (Denovali)

Today’s full album premiere on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN comes from composer Mario Diaz de Leon and...
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Video Premiere: New Morse Code Performs Shaw’s Boris Kerner

On Friday, September 22, 2017, New Focus Recordings releases Simplicity Itself, the debut album from...
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Track Premiere: Qasim Naqvi’s Wreckage

Today, we are premiering a track from Qasim Naqvi‘s new album Film, a self release published b...
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Video Premiere: Nick Zoulek Silhouette of a Storm-Bent Tree

Today, we bring you a video premiere featuring the multi-faceted talents of saxophonist and multimed...
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Album Premiere: Nick Photinos Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam)

We have an exciting premiere on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN today: a full-length album! Eighth Blackbird fo...
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Video Premiere: Clara Kim Performs Two Mythological Birds (Nelson)

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is premiering another beautifully-shot new music video from Four/Ten Med...
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Track Premiere: Jonathan Nangle’s Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds

Our new track premiere today comes to us from Dublin composer Jonathan Nangle and Crash Ensemble, Ir...
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Track Premiere: Jonah Parzen-Johnson Too Many Dreams

We’re premiering another track on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN today–this time from saxophonist ...
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Exclusive Video: “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (Wubbels) Performed by Mariel Roberts

Today, we have an exclusive video of cellist Mariel Roberts and composer/pianist Eric Wubbels perfor...
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Track Premiere: Ornithology by Meaghan Burke

Today, we are excited to premiere Ornithology, a track from cello songstress Meaghan Burke‘s s...
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Exclusive Video: Alkaline by Pascal Le Boeuf

The 19th annual MATA Festival kicks off next week featuring 7 world premieres, 15 United States prem...
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Monthly Music Hackathon: Science of Music

Monthly Music Hackathon rides again on August 5 and 6. The theme this month is Science of Music. The...
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New Music Instruments Hackathon: Meet the Speakers

Monthly Music Hackathon is back with their annual New Music Instruments Hackathon. On June 11, at Sp...
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Monthly Music Hackathon: Gender in Music

Gender in Music is the theme of this month’s Monthly Music Hackathon. On April 30, at Spotify’s NYC...
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5 Questions about the Sound Visualization & Data Sonification Hackathon

On Saturday, December 12 at Spotify’s New York City offices, 150 musicians, computer programme...
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Mobius Trio Video Premiere: Nick Vasallo’s Dark Matter

By Daniel L. Muñoz Bay Area composer Nick Vasallo smelts heavy metal aesthetics with Western classic...
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