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Tickets and Reservations:

coLABoratory: Playing it UNsafe: April 5, 2013

LAB Workshop II (Dec 13, 2012)

LAB Workshop III (Jan 22, 2013)

LAB Workshop IV (Mar 5, 2013)

LAB Workshop V (Apr 2, 2013)

Underwood New Music Readings
April 8-9, 2013

Jazz Composers Orchestra Readings
June 3-4, 2013

 

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Tickets and Reservations:

coLABoratory: Playing it UNsafe: April 5, 2013

LAB Workshop II (Dec 13, 2012)

LAB Workshop III (Jan 22, 2013)

LAB Workshop IV (Mar 5, 2013)

LAB Workshop V (Apr 2, 2013)

Underwood New Music Readings
April 8-9, 2013

Jazz Composers Orchestra Readings
June 3-4, 2013

 

For Carnegie Hall performances,
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212-247-7800
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2012-13 Season Highlights


Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings

April 23 - 24, 2013
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall

Matthew Kraemer, Assistant Conductor
New works by jazz composers selected from the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute.

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June 3 - 4, 2013
Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Gil Rose, Conductor
New works by jazz composers selected from the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute.

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September 19 - 20, 2013
La Jolla Symphony, Mandeville Auditorium, UC San Diego

Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings

Steven Schick, Music Director & Conductor
New works by jazz composers selected from the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute.

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past concerts this season:

April 2, 2013
DiMenna Center


 coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe
Lab
Workshop V

George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Morton Subotnik, Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel,
Mentor Composers

ACO's next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. Come hear new pieces workshopped in this free public reading and open laboratory workshop session. New experimental works by Du Yun, Judith Sainte Croix, Dan Visconti, Troy Herion, and Ray Lustig.

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Free reservation..

April 5, 2013
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall


 Orchestra Underground
coLABOratory: Playing It UNsafe

George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Morton Subotnik, Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel,
Mentor Composers

ACO's next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. Come hear new pieces workshopped in this free public reading and open laboratory workshop session. New experimental works by Du Yun, Judith Sainte Croix, Dan Visconti, Troy Herion, and Ray Lustig.

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Underwood New Music Readings

April 8-10, 2013
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Underwood New Music Readings

George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Jonathan Blumhofer, Louis Chiapetta, Joshua Groffman, Saad Haddad, Arthur J. McCaffrey, Nina C. Young
Composers

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

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March 5, 2013
Flushing Town Hall

coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe
Lab
Workshop IV

George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Morton Subotnik, Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel,
Mentor Composers

ACO's next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. Come hear new pieces workshopped in this free public reading and open laboratory workshop session. New experimental works by Du Yun, Judith Sainte Croix, Dan Visconti, Troy Herion, and Ray Lustig.

More info..
Free reservation..

December 11, 2012
Mannes College
coLABoratory: Playing it UNsafe Lab
Workshop II

George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Morton Subotnik, Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel,
Mentor Composers

ACO's next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. Come hear new pieces workshopped in this free public reading and open laboratory workshop session. New experimental works by Du Yun, Judith Sainte Croix, Dan Visconti, Troy Herion, and Ray Lustig.

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October 26, 2012
Zankel Hall
Jose Serebrier
 Orchestra Underground: Dreams and Dances

Jose Serebrier, Conductor
Sharon Bezaly, flute
Lori Cotler, vocals
Carmen Kordas, video
Milica Paranosic, gusle
Beowulf Sheehan, photography


 NARONG PRANGCHAROEN
The Migration of Lost Souls for Chamber Orchestra (World Premiere ACO/Underwood Commission)
MILICA PARANOSIC
The Tiger’s Wife: Prologue for Orchestra, Voice, Electronics & Visual (World Premiere, ACO/LVMH Commission)
CHARLES IVES Symphony no. 3 “The Camp Meeting”
JOSÉ SEREBRIER Flute Concerto with Tango (U.S. Premiere)

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Orchestra Underground: Time Travels
 Friday, January 18 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

2009-10 Season ACOTime Travels features music that explores the concept of time -- its mutability, importance, and role as an organizing principle. Lukas Foss’ 1960 masterwork, Time Cycle, is the centerpiece for the concert, with soprano Jennifer Zetlan. The evening includes the world premieres of composer and soprano Kate Soper’s now is forever I. Orpheus and Eurydice for Voice and Orchestra and Kyle Blaha’s Triptych, and the US premiere of Zhou Long’s Bell Drum Tower. ACO Music Director George Manahan conducts.
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George Manahan Receives Conductor's Award

George ManahanColumbia University will award George Manahan, Music Director of American Composers Orchestra, the 2012 Ditson Conductor's Award for the advancement of American music. The award will be presented Friday evening, Jan 18, at the 7:30 concert of American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall. Augusta Read Thomas, a member of the Ditson Advisory Committee, will present the award. Mr. Manahan will be awarded $5,000 and a citation on behalf of Columbia's President Lee C. Bollinger.
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coLABoratory: Playing it UNsafe Lab
Worskhop III
January 22, 2013
Flushing Town Hall

George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Morton Subotnik, Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel,
Mentor Composers

ACO's next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. Come hear new pieces workshopped in this free public reading and open laboratory workshop session. New experimental works by Du Yun, Judith Sainte Croix, Dan Visconti, Troy Herion, and Ray Lustig.

More info..

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