Jordan Bak
"stillness echoing" by renowned composer Jeffrey Mumford is a new music character piece for viola and harp, inspired by natural elements such as cloud imagery and gradations of light, and exploring the unique registral and timbral relationships of both instruments.
Jordan Munson
Residuals is a concert-length work for solo voice, amplified pipe organ quartet, live electronics, and interactive lighting that explores our complex relationship to breath in a post-pandemic world.
Juana Luna
Songs about travelers, about taking chances. Songs that look like old photos and sound like another time. Songs about immigrants; about you and me.
Judd Greenstein
“Where do you like to go?” is a collaboration between composer Judd Greenstein, Classical Uprising, and the families of Reiche Elementary School that uses the title’s question as a writing prompt to explore place, identity, and the future of Maine.
Julien-Alexandrre Yves Guichard – Jimi Lucid
Jimi is a Trans Non-Binary musician based in NYC, As Jimi Lucid is creating genre bending music pulling from Rock, Drum and bass, and Electronic music.
Kian Ravaei
This collaboration between composer Kian Ravaei and choreographer Annie Kahane is a suite of four dances for solo violinist and solo dancer that responds to seasonal rituals from our respective Persian and Jewish cultures.
Lyndon Harewood
Gengis Don & The Empire blend elements of jazz, R&B, Hip Hop & Afrobeat, to create a unique sound cemented in groove!
Lisa DeSpain
The Albany Garbage Wars: The Opera. In 1908, the city of Berkley, California had a problem; a plague, rats, and lots of garbage. Their solution? To turn Albany, a small neighboring town into a garbage dump. This is the true story of how the women of Albany took up arms, and babes in arms, to save their community.
Marion T Hayden
A collaborative project, creating and recording original music by bassist/ composer Marion Hayden with poetry by author Melba Joyce Boyd, in response to a sculptural work by artist M. Saffell Gardner, entitled Gateway to Black Eden, which is dedicated to the Black resort town of Idlewild, Michigan.
Megan Conley
‘The Queen’s Songbook for Harp’ is a project to commission five Hawaii-based composers, each of whom will arrange two songs by Queen Lili’uokalani. These arrangements will be performed and recorded by harpist Megan Conley, making the music and legacy of this beloved Hawaiian monarch more widely known and accessible.
Melinda Faylor
Composer/pianist Melinda Faylor brings to life Christina Newhard's Sari-Sari Storybooks, a stunning collection of children's tales from across the Philippines, through the use of live actors and an electro-acoustic soundscape featuring extended piano techniques as well as sounds local to the regions of the Philippines in which these stories take place.
Mai Khôi
“Bad Activist” is Mai Khôi’s multimedia autobiography—a stage show that combines original music, projections, archival footage, and storytelling to interrogate the relationship between art and activism.
Rod Wallace
Social Studies: A Music Project For Black Male Educators is constructed by African-American teachers and school administrators to share their experiences and dreams in the hopes of recruiting the next generation of great Black educators.
Ryan Cohan
Composed by pianist Ryan Cohan, Brothers Beyond Borders is a new project dynamically integrating jazz, Arabic and Western European impressionistic music featuring a collaboration with oudist Ronnie Malley.
Sirintip Phasuk
"Mycelium" is a research and creation project resulting in a 90-minute original interdisciplinary musical suite. With interactive visuals, dancers, and a 12-piece ensemble, the goal is healing the audience from climate despair and inspiring sustainable action through a scientifically informed experience where microorganisms show us how we’re interconnected.
Taína Asili
An ode to Mother Earth and a plea for climate justice, "One Mother" weaves material from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Stabat Mater into dynamic new songs composed and performed by Taína Asili and arranged for chamber orchestra by Aaron Grad.
Tracy Yang
Tracy’s debut album "OR" is a jazz odyssey, tracing her decade-long evolution from aspiring to work as an Operating Room professional to finding a calling as a jazz composer. Featuring a 17-piece orchestra, it reimagines her dreams, passions, and cultural identity.
Trey Makler
Waiting Rooms is a walk-through music theater piece that considers the AIDS crisis and its current state through the perspective of survivors, archival documents, and community contributed materials.
Whitney George
IN THE THROES OF DEATH is a live presentation of HOME, AXEMAN, and PAPER DAUGHTER: three 30-minute, pandemic themed cautionary tales. Illuminated with music, immersive theater, and puppetry, composer and librettist team George & Goodwin are interested in retelling a past that is relevant to current day audiences who are living in the wake of post-pandemic life.
Yuhan Su
A film project combining Dance, Poetry, Visual Arts for an original composition by Jazz Vibraphonist Yuhan Su
Austin Yip
"The Dialects" researches on the Cantonese speaking communities of San Francisco Chinatown and Chicago Chinatown, where field recordings will be used as source materials to compose a new work for violin and electronics.
Avram Fefer
Avram Fefer is a New York-based composer, improviser, bandleader and player of multiple woodwinds. As a jazz musician son of a Jewish immigrant born in a Siberian labor camp, much of his work involves reconciling cultural influences, and his own jazz groups often reflect a wide global perspective.
Carla Kihlstedt
X AMENDMENTS is an immersive improvised musical structure for an orchestra of electric guitarists/bassists, a vocalist, and an ambisonic audio engineer, using The Bill of Rights as its text. It is an experiment in individual and collective freedom, an exploration of rights, agency, responsibilities and restrictions.
Coco Elysses
Book of Elysses, an Afro-futuristic work, spoken through the voice of an ancestor weaves the individualized and collective karma of her family's lineage though voice and sound. This interdisciplinary work is experimental in nature and is part of a larger cross genre work.
Julie Herndon
Julie Herndon and [Switch~ Ensemble] collaborate on a new piece exploring modes of tactile interaction and embodied intelligence.
Lea Bertucci
My Words Came Out Slow and Odd is a new text-based composition for voice, electronics and instruments by Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci.
Nala Duma – Lamb
Lamb's major stage debut — co-directed by Ava Elizabeth Novak — follows five characters who encounter a mysterious portal door while living on an unnamed cape in the southernmost region of early 16th century Africa.
Shamiqua Wilson
With a focus on self-discovery and empowerment, this project delves into themes of identity, sorrow, and mysticism and through a combination of personal experiences and storytelling, this project aims to inspire listeners to embrace their true selves and celebrate their unique identities.
Kal Sugatski
Kal Sugatski presents Vigorous Tenderness, an immersive outdoor fall equinox concert in Maine with six ensembles nestled into the landscape and featuring a new work in collaboration with the Burnurwurbskek Singers, a Maine-based indigenous drumming group.
Alphonso Horne
THE OSCAR MICHEAUX PROJECT is an original jazz / musical theater crossover project. It is inspired by research into the life of the first major African-American film director, writer and producer, Oscar Micheaux, who lived from 1884-1951. The project aims both to honor Micheaux’s legacy and critically examine the context in which his work was created.
