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2009-10 Season
Highlights

Monday, February 22, 2010 at 6:30pm
Queens Public Library, Flushing Branch
FREE Admission


Composers OutFront!:
Donal Fox


Donal Fox
DONAL FOX, composer/pianist
in a solo evening of "Transformations, Variations, Improvisations" on music by Chopin, Ellington, Bach, Gershwin, Monk, Schumann, Scarlatti, and Fox.

Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
57th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC


Orchestra Underground:
Louis & the Young Americans


Louis Andriessen
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor






LOUIS ANDRIESSEN: Symphony for Open Strings (NYC Premiere)
MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds in Us (World Premiere, new orchestration)
MICHAEL FIDAY: HST: In memoriam Hunter S. Thompson (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JOHN KORSRUD: New Work
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
  

Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 4:00pm
Brooklyn Public Library's Dweck Center
Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn


Composers OutFront!:
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire


Victoire
MISSY MAZZOLI, composer/performer
Victoire, ensemble

Missy Mazzoli and her band perform at Brooklyn Public Library giving a different look into the composer's process than her orchestral work These Worlds Within Us performed by ACO.

Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10am
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Broadway at 116th St., NYC
Underwood New Music Readings

Underwood New Music Readings

George Manahan & José Serebrier, conductors
Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel, George Tsontakis, mentor composers

ACO's annual roundup of the country's brightest young and emerging composers.

Guidelines & submission info...

 

Previous Concerts This Season:
 

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 at 7:00pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
5945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, NYC


Composers OutFront!:
Erin Gee &Colin Gee
Erin Gee
COLIN GEE, actor/director
ERIN GEE, vocalist


Join composer/vocalist Erin Gee and her brother Colin Gee, actor/filmmaker, at the Whitney Museum for a special presentation of their work for voice, film, and actor. The evening begins with a performance by Ms. Gee of several of her works for solo voice, which employ unusual techniques using two microphones and live computer processing. Colin Gee, former actor with Cirque du Soleil and currently the Whitney Live Artist-in-Residence, will show an excerpt from his film Dakota. The event will also include a preview of the siblings' work in progress - Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci, Part 1 - which premieres with ACO’s Orchestra Underground on November 30.



Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
57th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC


Orchestra Underground:
Traditions & Transmigrations
Orchestra Underground
Stefan Lano, conductor
Donal Fox, piano
Colin Gee, actor/director
Erin Gee, vocalist
Huang Ruo, vocalist


ERIN GEE: Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci, Part 1 for Electronically Processed Voice, Actor, Film & Orchestra

(World Premiere, ACO/LVMH Commission) 
CURT CACIOPPO: When the Orchard Dances Ceased (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
CHARLES IVES: Tone Roads Nos. 1 and 3
HUANG RUO: Leaving Sao for Chinese folk voice and orchestra (NYC Premiere)
DONAL FOX: Peace Out for Improvising Pianist & Orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission)

Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
57th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC

Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:30pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA


Orchestra Underground:
Conversations
 
Paquito D'Rivera

Anne Manson, conductor
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet & saxophone
Robert Black, double bass
Pawel Wojtasik, video


ROGER ZARE
: Time-lapse (World Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission)

SEBASTIAN CURRIER: Next Atlantis for orchestra, electronics, and video (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
PAQUITO D’RIVERA: Conversations with Cachao (NYC Premiere)

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