Disclaimer: The cake should read “100+ Concerts.” The bakery made a mistake, but make no mistake, we will get to 200+ concerts!

SEASON 22 IS IN THE BOOKS!

The final curtain has fallen on the 2024-2025 concert season, and it was a memorable one for the New York Composers Circle. This was our 22nd season of concerts, which began the year with our 100th concert in November and ended with our 104th concert in May. In five concerts, we featured the music of 33 different composer-members with 24 world premieres, ten New York premieres, and one US premiere. Three of our remaining founding members had music performed this year — Debra Kaye, Patricia Leonard, and Gayther Myers — as did our five newest members — Alexa Canales, Sofia Jen Ouyang (winner of the 17th John Eaton Memorial competition), Jakub Polaczyk (runner-up of the 17th JEMC), Victor Xie, and Margarita Zelenaia. In January, we featured the music of Hubert Howe, who served as our Executive Director for the past ten years. We are forever grateful for the leadership he provided the organization during his years of service.

This season, we hosted two special salons with a presentation by Daniel Spreadbury, Marketing Director for Steinberg-Dorico Software, in March, and a harp presentation by New York City harpist Tiffany Wu. We will conclude our salon season in June with a presentation by Gina Genova, Director of the American Composers Alliance, on “Publishing: Yesterday and Today."

As the summer approaches, the executive staff begins the process of assembling our 23rd season. We will curate the music submitted from our roster of composers, as well as determine the winner of the 18th John Eaton Memorial Competition to put together another season of incredible new music. But no season would be complete without the support of our patrons, those of you who attend our concerts and show their support with donations. We appreciate every one of you. Thank you! We hope to see you at one of our upcoming concerts.

UPCOMING EVENTS

While our concert season has concluded for the year, we still have one more event left on the calendar.

• Salon #7: Sunday, June 22, 2:00-5:00 PM—This will be our final salon of the season. It will feature a presentation by Gina Genova, Director of the American Composers Alliance, on Publishing: Yesterday and Today. The salon will be available virtually ONLY via Zoom. To join the call, please click HERE at 2:00 PM on Sunday, June 22nd.

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