American Composers Orchestra Presents EarShot Readings

American Composers Orchestra

Rei Hotoda Conductor

Featured Artists and Works:

Lavell Blackwell – Toccata for Orchestra

Arjan Singh Dogra – Live Salmon

Shawn Johnson – The Cardinal Takes Flight

Cheng Jin Koh – Midnight Visions

Marie Douglas – The People Could Fly

Grace Ann Lee – In Crystallized Time

Mentor Composers: Vijay Iyer Nkeiru Okoye Curtis Stewart

EarShot is the first ongoing systematic program for cultivating relationships between composers and orchestras on the national level developed by the American Composers Orchestra to ensure a vibrant future for new American orchestral music. Over the last 25 years these readings have provided more than 250 composers with vital artistic and technical resources as well as career-accelerating public exposure. EarShot alumni have won every composition award including the Pulitzer GRAMMY Grawemeyer American Academy of Arts & Letters and Rome Prizes to name a few. Critically composer-orchestra relationships extend beyond the EarShot Readings themselves. Since 2009 more than 25 works have been commissioned by partner orchestras from EarShot participants and more than half of selected EarShot composers report receiving a commission directly resulting from their participation.

Lead support for EarShot CoLABoratory is generously provided by TD Charitable Foundation and Altman Foundation.

You may also like the following events from Primo Artists:

• This Sunday, 18th May, 02:00 pm, Apollo Chamber Players Presents “We The People, Concert Four: Freedom” in Houston
• Next month, 5th June, 10:30 am, American Composers Orchestra EarShot Readings in New York