Award-winning San Francisco contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) performs the sixth edition of its annual favorite: music by women and nonbinary composers and the second year of its collaboration with Luna Composition Lab, featuring composers chosen in the 2023 E4TT/Luna Composition Lab Call for Scores.
Pre-concert composer talk at 7:00 p.m.
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB COMMISSIONED WORLD PREMIERES:
Lucy Chen: "Exhalation"for cello and piano
Madeline Clara Cheng: "Fisherman's Post" for soprano, cello, and piano
Caleb Palka: TBD, for soprano, cello and piano
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB CALL FOR SCORES WINNERS:
Olivia Bennett: "Prelude to the Afterlife" for piano
Gabriella Corrido: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" for soprano and piano
Devon Lee: "What I Know About Living" for soprano and cello
PLUS MUSIC BY:
Gabriela Lena Frank, (Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities): "Manhattan Serenades"
Carla Lucero (Opera America Discovery Grant): "Sin voz"
Jodi Goble (2024 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Art Song Competition winner): "Twelve Chairs" to poetry by Rita Dove
Akshaya Avril Tucker (ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award winner): "Midnight Snack"
Performed by E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Abigail Mornoe, cello, Margaret Halbig, piano), with guest coloratura soprano, Chelsea Hollow
In-person and online
More information: https://E4TT.org/midnight.html
$0-17.85.