2020-2021 Season
- August – October 2020– Albany Symphony’s “Hot, w/Mustard”: a series of 10 world premieres for voice and ensemble, premiering on Sunday evenings at 6 PM. Composers include:
- August 2 – Alexis C. Lamb
- August 9 – Carlos Bandera
- August 16 – Annika Socolofsky
- August 23 – Andre Myers
- August 30 – Nina Shekhar
- September 6 – Jack Frerer
- September 20 – Gala Flagello
- September 27 – Paul Mortilla
- October 4 – Derrick Spiva
- August 2020 – VIVO music festival (virtual events); Columbus, OH. Premiere of John Stolz’s La Grande neige with pianist Ryan McCullough.
- September 5, 2020 – Socially-distanced outdoor recital with pianist Ryan McCullough, performing works by Sheila Silver, Ryan McCullough, and William Grant Still; Red Hook, NY
- September, 2020 – Recording Sheila Silver’s Chariessa with pianist Ryan McCullough at the Morgan Library
- September 25, 2020 – Broadcast of PBS’ Great Performances: Now Hear This “The Schubert Generation.” Available to watch online until October 23.
- September-October, 2020 – YellowBarn Patio Noise: Rebroadcast and discussion of summer concerts including works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Schubert, Alan Ridout, Kurtag, and Osvaldo Golijov.
- October, 2020 – Filming works by Debussy for Salon Séance
- October, 2020 – Anna Lindemann’s The Colony (2020) featured in the Imagine Science Film Festival. This filmed version of Lindemann’s stage work, premiered fall 2019, received Honorable Mention in the Science New Wave Award category, for “Films in competition that proposes bold, singular and oftentimes hybrid ways to communicate science. These films are considered to be visionary and outside of the (science) box”).
- November 10, 2020 – Modern premiere of Joel Engel’s “Jewish Folksongs,” Vols. I & II; Sidney Krum Young Artist Concert Series, YIVO Institute (virtual performance)
- December 13, 2020 – “Hold Fast to Dreams: The Songs of Florence Price.” Cornell Voice Program student recital featuring student and faculty performances of works by Florence Price (virtual performance).
- December 18, 2020 – “Home for the Holidays with Stephanie Blythe” – works by Peter Tiefenbach and Benjamin Britten with pianist Ryan McCullough
- January 8, 2021 – Brahms’ Die schöne Magelone with pianist/narrator Ryan McCullough at the Harvard Musical Association – Rescheduled to December 2021
- January 28, 2021 – Broadcast of Anna Lindemann’s The Colony (2020) by the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria), with live discussion
- January 30, 2021 – Works by Schubert and Amy Williams at Bard College-Conservatory (virtual performance)
- February 13, 2021 – William Walton’s Façade with the Albany Symphony (live virtual performance)
- February 13, 2021 – Schubert’s Viola with Brooklyn Art Song Society (virtual performance)
- February 14, 2021 – Works by Tadeusz Kassern, Grazina Bacewicz, and Zygmunt Mycielski with pianist Ryan McCullough and musicologist J. Mackenzie Pierce for the conference Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives at Indiana University (virtual performance)
- March 14-28, 2021 – Musicians from Marlboro National Tour – Canceled due to COVID-19
- April 10, 2021 – Premiere of Katherine Balch’s estrangement with Michael Brofman for Brooklyn Art Song Society (virtual performance)
- April 16-17, 2021 – Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne with the Eureka Symphony – Canceled due to COVID-19
- April 21, 2021 – Premiere of Daniel Schlosberg’s “Futility (is Futility)” with Diana Borshcheva for YIVO’s Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Contemporary Classical Music (virtual performance).
- April 23-25, 2021 – Anna Lindemann’s Ant Songs at the SEAMUS 2021 Virtual National Conference
- April 29, 2021 – Debussy in Persona, an interdisciplinary music-theatrical project by Salon Séance, premieres virtually at the Schubert Club.
- May 4, 2021 – With Ryan McCullough, new works by Alex Weiser, Chris Rogerson, Loren Loiacono, and Emily Cooley for Kettle Corn New Music (virtual performance)
- May 2021 – Naumburg Competition
- June 2021 – Alumna recital, SongFest – Canceled due to COVID-19
- June 11, 2021 – Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire: American Music Festival
- July 2021 – Kneisel Hall
- July-August 2021 – Marlboro Music Festival
Stay tuned for updates!
