New York Composers Circle

MOSCOW CONCERT A HUGE SUCCESS

On September 27th a concert was given in Moscow, Russia featuring the music of eight New York Composers Circle members. The concert was part of a an exchange with Anton Rovner and several other Russian composers. The concert in Moscow featured the music of Peter Kelsh, Christopher Sahar, David Picton, Eric Heilner, Dana Dimitri Richardson, Timothy Lee Miller, and Hubert Howe of the New York Composers Circle. Due to the short turnaround of time between agreeing to the exchange and the actual concert date, not to mention the lengthy process of attaining visas for Americans traveling to Russia, none of the composers involved in the September concert were able toattend the concert. However, the concert in Moscow was considered a great success, and recordings and video of the performances back up the claim.

The reciprocal concert in New York will be held on March 24, 2020, at Marc A. Scorca Hall at the National Opera Center and will include the music of Russian composers Rushaniya Nizamutdinova, Anton Rovner, Mark Belodubrovsky, Rushaniya Nizamutdinova. The performing ensemble was the 20th Century Ensemble, which includes Maria Khodina, violin, Vyacheslav Grebennikov, viola, Nadezhda Grebennikova, cello, Elizaveta Danilina, piano, Sayaka Takahashi, piano, and Olesya Rostovskaya, organ. Continue reading . . .

WINNER of the 2019 JOHN EATON MEMORIAL COMPETITION IS ANNOUNCED

The New York Composers Circle is happy to announce that the winner of its 2019 John Eaton Memorial Competition is Cheng Jin Koh for her composition composition Ecstasy for Piano Quartet. Honorable mentions are also awarded to Derek Cooper, Michael Salvatore Grebla, and Ursula Kwong-Brown for their outstanding works. All four of these composers will be awarded a free one-year membership in the New York Composers Circle, and the winner will have her piece performed on our April 21, 2020 concert, which will also incidentally feature a composition by John Eaton, for whom the competition is named.

Cheng Jin Koh (pictured) graduated from the School of the Arts Singapore in 2014 with the International Baccalaureate Diploma as a major in Yang Qin. She is currently pursuing music composition with Dr. Robert Beaser at The Juilliard School, generously sponsored by Singapore’s Loke Cheng Kim Foundation. Continue reading . . .


WHO WE ARE

The New York Composers Circle is an organization of composers and performers, dedicated to new music, whose mission is to promote public awareness and appreciation of contemporary music through concerts, salons, and other events in the New York metropolitan area.

For its members, the New York Composers Circle (NYCC) offers a variety of opportunities for presenting for feedback works in progress at monthly salons which are also open to the public, performing completed works in concerts, and fostering collaboration and development, both artistic and professional, with other composer and performer members. TheNYCC also offers an annual composition competition for non-member composers, with the winning works being performed on one of its regular series concerts. For the sophisticated concert-going public, the NYCC offers as many as eight concerts a year of its members’ works, including jazz concerts and at least two non-series concerts of special performances, all which are curated by a jury of members headed by award-winning composer Tania León. And for members of the public who have not yet been exposed to much contemporary concert music, the NYCC sponsors an outreach program, in which we send composers and performers out to various institutions, including high schools and senior centers, to perform music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The New York Composers Circle, Inc. is an IRS-registered tax-exempt nonprofit corporation under section 501(c)(3), recognized as an educational organization by the New York State Department of Education. Much of our support is through generous individual patron donations, as well as through various grants for arts and educational programming. We are governed by a set of by-laws, which were written by our member-committee and approved by our board of directors. You may read them by clicking HERE. Please consider supporting the NYCC financially with a tax deductible gift by clicking on JUST GIVE where you will be redirected to our Contributions page. All contributions are welcome, regardless of size.

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