The São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival purpose is to provide international performance opportunities for emerging artists of the 21st century. It provides a once in a lifetime experience for emerging professional composers specializing in the practices of Western contemporary art music.
On this concert, Xiaoyu LIN + Erqing WANG perform Dayton Kinney's newest commission work.

More details to follow!

This Saturday October 14 @ 6:00PM CDT: TWU’s Coordinator of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Excellence for the Center for Faculty Excellence and Adjunct Music Instructor for the Music Department, Dayton Kinney, PhD will be having her newest music composition premiered by the IMPULSE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE as part of their 2023 Commission Concerts.

Her newest work, “Just a Few Short Hours,” will be performed by Erin McKibben (flute), Diana Wade (viola), and Alison Bjorkedal (harp).

To watch the YouTube Concert, please tune-in on 10/14 @ 6:00 PM for Kinney and others’ works are debuted on the streaming platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6AEusEeaA

UNT OLLI Lecture: For most of the history of the Western classical music tradition, the careers of women composers have been subject to many constraints and limited opportunities. Yet over the past century, there has been a dramatic increase in female composers with a wide array of styles. Within the U.S., several women have come to the forefront in concert music with distinct voices. This introductory course will focus on some of the major American female composers of the 20th and 21st centuries by exploring their lives and works with active member discussions. This lecture by Dr. Dayton Kinney will focus on the lives and music of Meredith Monk and Julia Wolfe.

For further information: https://olli.unt.edu/catalog

UNT OLLI Lecture: For most of the history of the Western classical music tradition, the careers of women composers have been subject to many constraints and limited opportunities. Yet over the past century, there has been a dramatic increase in female composers with a wide array of styles. Within the U.S., several women have come to the forefront in concert music with distinct voices. This introductory course will focus on some of the major American female composers of the 20th and 21st centuries by exploring their lives and works with active member discussions. This lecture by Dr. Dayton Kinney will focus on the lives and music of Ruth Crawford Seeger and Joan Tower.

For further information: https://olli.unt.edu/catalog

UNT OLLI Lecture: For most of the history of the Western classical music tradition, the careers of women composers have been subject to many constraints and limited opportunities. Yet over the past century, there has been a dramatic increase in female composers with a wide array of styles. Within the U.S., several women have come to the forefront in concert music with distinct voices. This introductory course will focus on some of the major American female composers of the 20th and 21st centuries by exploring their lives and works with active member discussions. This lecture by Dr. Dayton Kinney will focus on the lives and music of Amy Beach and Florence Price.

For further information: https://olli.unt.edu/catalog

Album Release Concert: Playing on the Edge vol. 2

After the success of their previous albums, the Sirius Quartet is back with PARMA Recordings for a second volume of the Playing on the Edge series.

Program

Works by Bruce Babock, Roger Fong, John Summers, Daniel Burwasser, Gregor Huebner, Jeremy Harman, Gregory J. Harris, Bruce Klepper, Dayton Kinney, and Fung Chem Hwei

For further updates, please check-out Carnegie Hall’s calendar: event information

More Information to come!

Ciompi Quartet premieres An Empty Room

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Commissioned by the Ciompi Quartet, An Empty Room centers around the ambiguous context of an empty room that is full of potential for hope and despair.

Since its founding in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members are professors at Duke, where they teach instrumental lessons, coordinate and coach chamber music, and perform across campus in concert halls, libraries, dormitories and classrooms. In a career that spans five continents and includes many hundreds of concerts, the Ciompi Quartet has developed a reputation for performances of real intelligence and musical sophistication, with a warm, unified sound that allows each player’s individual voice to emerge.

In recent years, the Ciompi Quartet has performed from Washington State to California, Texas, New York, Washington DC and New England, and abroad from China to France, Italy, Germany, Prague, Serbia and Albania. In the summer the Quartet has performed at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit, North Carolina’s Eastern Music Festival and Highlands Chamber Music Festival, and at Monadnock Music in New Hampshire.

The Quartet’s commitment to creative programming often mixes the old and the brand new in exciting ways.Its extensive catalog of commissions includes many that the group continues to perform on tour. Close ties to composers such as Paul Schoenfield, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Lindroth, and Melinda Wagner have produced important contributions to the repertoire; the quartet recently premiered Stephen Jaffe’s Third String Quartet and two new quintets by Lindroth: “Schley Road” for quartet and saxophone, and his Cello Quintet, written for the Ciompi and cellist Ashley Bathgate. The group’s most recent recordings are on Toccata Classics (a string quartet by 19th century violin virtuoso Heinrich Ernst), and Naxos, which released “Journey to the West” by Chiayu Hsu in 2015; also on Naxos online is a recording of the quartets of Paul Schoenfield including the popular “Tales from Chelm.” Numerous other discs are on the CRI, Arabesque, Albany, Gasparo, and Sheffield Lab labels, with music from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, up through the present.

Carol Woods Music Series

Concert by Sandra Cotton (mezzo soprano) and David Heid (piano)

Pieces are curated by Cotton and Heid, which will include Kinney’s “Alone” and “Confinement” from Falling Between the Worlds song cycle, based on the poems of Ann Witherspoon

College Music Society Southern Chapter Regional Conference (February 25-27, 2021)
CMS Composers Concert 2, Session 11-1

Virtual Conference on the Platform: AirMeet

Album Release Concert: Playing on the Edge vol. 2

After the success of their previous albums, the Sirius Quartet is back with PARMA Recordings for a second volume of the Playing on the Edge series.

More information to come, so please mark it on your calendar and I hope to see you there!

For further updates, please check-out Carnegie Hall’s calendar: event information

The South Central Graduate Music Consortium (SCGMC)—a collaboration between the students of the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—is pleased to announce its 2020 Annual Meeting, digitally hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 25–26. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the meeting will be held virtually via Zoom, in an effort to convene despite travel restrictions.

Papers and Presentations are scheduled throughout Friday and Saturday. The Consortium Concert is scheduled for Friday September 25, 2020 and will feature many pieces from an array of styles and genres. One of the pieces, Dayton Kinney’s Watching the World Through Glass, will be featured that night.

RAM celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, extending women's suffrage across the U.S.

As part of 2020 RAM Queens New Music Festival’s concert series We the [whole] People, MISS Music and Zhihua Hu take the stage on May 16, 2020 to perform a unique collection of pieces by living female composers. The concert will range from rearrangements of pre-existing work for Chinese instruments or as premieres commissioned by MISS Music and Zhihua Hu for the occasion.

Random Access Music
“we, the whole people” 2020 Concerts
 

Random Access Music (RAM) has dedicated its 2019-2020 season, entitled "we, the whole people," to honoring the centenary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which extended women's suffrage throughout the United States. Inspired by the pioneering women who achieved these freedoms, the season will feature music by female composers of the past 100 years. In addition, new composer commissions on the theme of suffrage will be performed from current RAM composers, as well as composers and musicians from the broader community. RAM’s season title is drawn from Susan B. Anthony's speech following her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election: "It was... we, the whole people, who formed the union.” 

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men.” SUSAN B. ANTHONY, speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

For more information, please visit: https://www.ram-nyc.org/event

RAM celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, extending women's suffrage across the U.S.

As part of 2020 RAM Queens New Music Festival’s concert series We the [whole] People, MISS Music and Zhihua Hu take the stage on May 16, 2020 to perform a unique collection of pieces by living female composers. The concert will range from rearrangements of pre-existing work for Chinese instruments or as premieres commissioned by MISS Music and Zhihua Hu for the occasion.

Random Access Music
“we, the whole people” 2020 Concerts
 

Random Access Music (RAM) has dedicated its 2019-2020 season, entitled "we, the whole people," to honoring the centenary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which extended women's suffrage throughout the United States. Inspired by the pioneering women who achieved these freedoms, the season will feature music by female composers of the past 100 years. In addition, new composer commissions on the theme of suffrage will be performed from current RAM composers, as well as composers and musicians from the broader community. RAM’s season title is drawn from Susan B. Anthony's speech following her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election: "It was... we, the whole people, who formed the union.” 

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men.” SUSAN B. ANTHONY, speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

For more information, please visit: https://www.ram-nyc.org/event