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press releases
2011-12 season
5/2/12 LVMH & ACO Partner to Support Work of Emerging American Composers [pdf]
4/23/12 21st Annual Underwood New Music Readings [pdf]
3/28/12 EarShot & San Diego Symphony New Music Readings [pdf]
3/5/12 Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Offered August 2012 at UCLA [pdf]
2/22/12 ACO Orchestra Underground: American Accounts, March 22 at Zankel Hall [pdf]
2/14/12 Composers OutFront! featuring Jessie Montgomery [pdf]
2/8/12 EarShot & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Present the BPO New Music Readings [pdf]
1/12/12 ACO Releases Second Digital Download Album - Emerging Composers Series: Vol: 1 [pdf]
12/19/11 ACO Celebrates Philip Glass at 75 with Premiere of 9th Symphony, Jan. 31, 2012 at Carnegie Hall [pdf]
09/28/11 SONiC - Sounds of a New Century Oct. 14-22 - Interactive Initiatives Update: SONiC: Thicket & Urban Remix Released [pdf]
09/09/11 SONiC - Sounds of a New Century Oct. 14-22 - Program Update - AfterHours Events Announced [pdf]
09/06/11 Narong Prangcharoen wins 20th Annual Underwood Emerging Composer Commission and Audience Choice Award [pdf]
07/19/11 SONiC - Sounds of a New Century Festival launches Oct. 14-22, 2011 [pdf]
2010-11 season
04/21/11 Underwood New Music Readings & Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, June 3 - 6, 2011 [pdf]
03/07/11 Playing It UNsafe, First Digital Downloads, Mar. 8, 2011 [pdf]
02/22/11 Composers OutFront! Doug Cuomo headlines quintet, Mar. 17, 2011 [pdf]
02/07/11 Playing it UNsafe, March 4, 2011 Program Update [pdf]
01/26/11 EarShot Buffalo Philharmonic New Music Readings, Feb. 8 - 10, 2011 [pdf]
01/24/11 Playing It UNsafe R&D Lab for New Music Culminates March 4, 2011 at Zankel Hall [pdf]
11/10/10 ACO Receives Major New Grants [pdf]
10/25/10 ACO Orchestra Underground: A Time & Place, Dec. 3 at Zankel Hall [pdf]
10/19/10 ACO & LVMH Announce Ryan Francis, Winner of LVMH "A Greener NYC" Commission [pdf]
09/27/10 ACO Announces Playing It UNsafe - Groundbreaking "R&D" Lab For New Music [pdf]
09/08/10 ACO Opens Season Oct. 15 with Orchestra Underground: Mystics & Magic [pdf]
07/27/2010 Christopher Stark Wins Underwood Emerging Composer Commission [pdf]
07/21/10 ACO 2010-11 Season Announcement [html] [pdf]
06/14/10 ACO Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Concerts, July 23 & 24, 2010 [pdf]
05/19/10 ACO Appoints New Board Co-Chairs [pdf]
05/4/10 ACO Unveils 19th Annual Underwood New Music Readings new Audience Choice Award & Web Exclusives [html] [pdf]
04/19/10 Seven Composers Selected for 19th Annual Underwood New Music Readings, May 21-22, 2010 [html] [pdf]
04/07/10 EarShot and Pioneer Valley Symphony Present Four Emerging Composers in New Music Readings April 17-18, 2010 [pdf]
03/09/10 EarShot and Nashville Symphony Orchestra Present Four Emerging Composers in New Music Readings April 7-8, 2010 [html] [pdf]
03/02/10 Orchestra Underground: Louis & the Young Americans April 9, 2010 [pdf]
02/23/10 Missy Mazzoli: Composers OutFront! w/ Victoire, Brooklyn Public Library March 21 & Le Poisson Rouge April 7 [pdf]
01/29/10 Donal Fox: Composers OutFront! at Queens Library, Flushing Feb 20, 2010 [html] [pdf]
01/20/10 ACO Appoints George Manahan Music Director [html] [pdf]
12/18/09 ACO & Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies Announce Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute [pdf]
12/14/09 Orchestra Underground: Conversations Jan. 29 & 30, 2010 [html] [pdf]
11/20/09 Cindi Hubbard Appointed EarShot Manager [html] [pdf]
11/16/09 LVMH & ACO Announce "A Greener New York City" Commission [html] [pdf]
10/13/09 ACO Opens Season Nov. 30 at Carnegie Hall - Orchestra Underground: Traditions & Transmigrations [html] [pdf]
09/24/09
Composers OutFront! Erin Gee with Colin Gee Oct. 30, 2009 at Whitney Museum [html] [pdf]
08/28/09
ACO & LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. Announce Partnership to Commission &
Premiere New Music by Emerging Composers [html] [pdf]
07/23/09
ACO 2009-10 Season Announcement [html] [pdf]
06/25/09 EarShot and Colorado Symphony Orchestra Present Four Emerging Composers in New Music Readings [html] [pdf]
05/27/09 Wang Jie Wins 2009 Underwood Commission [html] [pdf]
05/04/09 EarShot and Memphis Symphony Orchestra Inaugurate New Music Readings, May 20 & 21 [html] [pdf]
04/06/09 Ligeti and Bermel are 'Composers OutFront!' Free Community Concerts April 20 & 25 [html] [pdf]
03/25/09 ACO Selects Nation's Top Emerging Composers for 18th Annual New Music Readings, May 7 & 8 [html] [pdf]
03/19/09 ACO Celebrates its Own May 1 at Zankel Hall [html] [pdf]03/11/09 ACO Selects Philadelphia Area’s Top Composers for ACO/Penn Presents New Music Readings & Lab, April 16 & 17 [html] [pdf]
02/20/09 ACO Announces New Online Audio Initiative [html] [pdf]
02/09/09 Encouraging Listeners to 'Compose Yourself' - New Adult Ed. Composition Course [html] [pdf]
01/06/09 Orchestra Underground: New, Wired & Green Feb. 20 & 22 [html] [pdf]
09/23/08 Fred Ho in Orchestral Debut at ACO 'Underground' Season Opener Nov. 14 at Zankel Hall [html] [pdf]
09/05/08 Fred Ho Steps Up at 'Composers OutFront!' at BAMcafé, October 10 [html] [pdf]
07/04/08 ACO 2008-09 Season: The Composer as Visionary with 10 Commissions & 9 World Premieres [html] [pdf]
06/04/08 Composer Roger Zare Wins 2008 Underwood Commission [html] [pdf]
05/27/08 EarShot National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network Launched [html] [pdf]
03/24/08 ACO Selects Nation's Top Emerging Composers for 17th Annual New Music Readings, May 6 & 7 [html] [pdf]
02/20/08 ACO Plays it 'UNsafe' - First-Ever Laboratory for Development of Innovative New Work [html] [pdf]
01/09/08 Uri Caine in Composers OutFront! at Joe's Pub, Jan. 28 [html] [pdf]
12/20/07 ACO Presents Orchestra Underground: Culture Shock at Zankel Hall, Feb. 8 [html] [pdf]
09/11/07 Steve Coleman headlines Composers OutFront! series at the Brecht Forum, October 7 [html] [pdf]
09/05/07 ACO's Orchestra Underground Powers Up with 'Hybridity' at Zankel Hall Friday, October 19 [html] [pdf]
07/04/07 ACO Announces 2007-08 Season, 'Unsafe & Underground' [html] [pdf]
06/24/07 Clint Needham Wins American Composers Orchestra's 2007 Underwood Commission [html] [pdf]
05/29/07 ACO Announces 'Playing it UNsafe', R & D Lab for New Orcchestra Works [html] [pdf]
04/11/07 ACO Honors John Adams at Spring Benefit & Auction April 27, 2007 [html] [pdf]
04/02/07 ACO Selects Nation's Top Emerging Composers for 16th Annual New Music Readings, 8 & 9 [html] [pdf]
03/13/07 John Adams conducts ACO for "An Adams' Apple: John Adams at 60" at Carnegie Hall, April 27 [html] [pdf]
03/05/07 ACO Selects Philadelphia Area's Top Emerging Composers for ACO/Penn Presents New Music Readings & Lab, April 13 & 14 [html] [pdf]
02/08/07 Orchestra Underground puts "Composers OutFront!" Zankel Hall, March 26 [html] [pdf]
01/17/07 Andrew McKenna Lee & Min Xiao-Fen Headline 'Composers OutFront!' at BAMCafé, March 2 & March 30 [html] [pdf]
10/18/06 ACO & Jazz at Lincoln Center in First Collaboration Nov. 16 - 18 features Gershwin & Derek Bermel Premiere [html] [pdf]
9/7/06 "Composers OutFront!" Opens ACO's Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall Friday, October 13 [html] [pdf]
8/21/06 Susie Ibarra & Brad Lubman Headline 'Composers OutFront! at Joe's Pub, Sep. 27 & Oct 20 [html] [pdf]
8/9/06 ACO Receives Two Major Grants from NYS Music Fund & Whitaker Fund [html] [pdf]
7/4/06 ACO's 30th Anniversary Season Puts Composer-Performers "Out Front" [html] [pdf]
6/26/06 Composer Mandy Fang Wins ACO's 2006 Underwood Commission [html] [pdf]
4/20/06 15th Annual Underwood New Music Readings, May 18 & 19, 2006 at Miller Theater [html] [pdf]
3/27/06 Deborah Voigt Joins ACO for "Erotic Spirits" at Carnegie Hall May 3, 2006 [html] [pdf]
3/25/06 Composer Derek Bermel Begins 3-Year Residency with ACO [html] [pdf]
3/4/06 ACO Online Benefit Auction, April 10 - May 5, 2006 [html] [pdf]
3/4/06 ACO honors Audra McDonald and Norma Flender at annual Spring Gala, April 10, 2006 [html] [pdf]
3/1/06 ACO and Annenberg Center team up with the ACO/Penn Presents New Music Readings & Lab, April 13 & 14, 2007 [html] [pdf]
1/25/06 In "Tech & Techno" American Composers Orchestra performs using computer technology and downtown club music, March 17 & 18, 2006 [html] [pdf]
12/27/05 ACO Brings "Underground Mix" to Philadelphia's Annenberg Center, Feb. 4 [html] [pdf]
09/20/05 "Music in Motion" Opens ACO's Orchestra Underground With A World Premiere Featuring Pilobolus - Zankel Hall, November 11, 2005 [html] [pdf]
07/04/05 American Composers Orchestra Announces 2005-06 Season; Nine World Premieres at Carnegie Hall & Orchestra Underground on Tour [html] [pdf]
07/01/05 Music Director Steven Sloane to Assume New Role as of 2006-07 Season [html] [pdf]
06/10/05 Michael Gatonska awarded American Composers Orchestra's 2005 Underwood Commission [html] [pdf]
04/02/05 American Composers Orchestra Selects Nation's Top Emerging Composers for 14th Annual New Music Readings - May 5 & 6, 2005, Columbia University [html] [pdf]
01/15/05 All World Premiere Concert February 23 at Carnegie Hall Features Legendary Rock Guitarist Andy Summers & Orchestral Debut of Hollywood Composer Danny Elfman [html] [pdf]
12/03/04 Young Composers Reinvent Symphony with High-Tech Intuition, Percussive, Improvisational & Spatial Explorations at Zankel Hall January 21 [html] [pdf]
9/17/04 ACO goes "Underground" - November 17, 2004 Concert Focuses on Music & Painting [html] [pdf]
6/18/04 Composer Kristin Kuster Wins American Composers Orchestra's 2004 Underwood Commission [html] [pdf]
6/10/04 American Composers Orchestra 2004-05. Updated Carnegie Hall Concerts Refocus Vision on Innovation, Emerging Composers & World Premieres [html] [pdf]
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4/14/2004 American Composers Orchestra Selects Nation's Top Emerging Composers for 13th Annual Whitaker New Music Readings. Eight premieres to be presented on May 20 and 21, 2004 in NYC [html] [pdf]
3/22/2004 Improvisation Meets the Orchestra, April 24 - May 1, 2004 [html] [pdf]
1/21/2004 "Fanfares and Fire" Heat Up Carnegie Hall March 10 NEW, UPDATED PROGRAM [html] [pdf]
1/9/2004 American Composers Orchestra Launches "Orchestra Underground" debut concert at Zankel Hall February 27 [html] [pdf]
10/20/2003 Jeffrey Milarsky appointed Assistant Conductor of ACO [html] [pdf]
8/26/2003 "Different Trains" Arrive at Carnegie Hall for ACO Season Opener October 8 [html] [pdf]
8/11/2003 American Composers Orchestra 2003-04. ACO launches Orchestra Underground & features Improvise! Festival Carnegie Hall concerts include four world premieres [html] [pdf]
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5/15/03 Composer Manly Romero Wins ACO's 2003 Whitaker Commission [html] [pdf]
3/14/03 Whitaker new Music Readings, April 7, 2003 [html] [pdf]
2/25/03 Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra," April 6, 2003 [html] [pdf]
1/21/03 "Zappa and the Emerging American Composer" — March 2, 2003 [html] [pdf]
8/12/2002 American Composers Orchestra begins the next 25 years with Music Director Steven Sloane [html] [pdf]
7/9/2002 ACO appoints new staff members
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1/20/2002 Steven Sloane, ACO Music Director Designate, Makes Carnegie Hall Debut; Launches ACO's 25th Anniversary Celebration. World premiere by Stewart Wallace performed with British contemporary ensemble "Icebreaker"
