New Music Gathering, an annual three-day conference focusing on contemporary concert music, will take place from January 7 to 9 at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore. The theme of the conference is “communities,” and Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will deliver the keynote address. The conference will include concerts, lecture-recitals, roundtable discussions, talks, composer-performer “speed dating,” and consultations with industry professionals. Topics to be covered include music notation, new-music commissioning, and building new-music communities. A panel entitled “Scholarly Perspectives on American New Music Since 1960” will feature musicologists William Robin, Kerry O’Brien, Patrick Nickleson, Ryan Ebright, Sasha Metcalf, John Pippen, Joanna Helms, and Imani Mosley. Performers at the conference will include Sō Percussion, Project Three/Kyle Johnson, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble 50. The founders of New Music Gathering are composers Lainie Fefferman, Daniel Felsenfeld, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Matt Marks, and Jascha Narveson. More information about New Music Gathering is available at http://www.newmusicgathering.org/.
Posted January 4, 2015
