Imagine after-work drinks and book perusing, leads into community workshops and Olio lectures in the evening and live music + comedy, DJs and cash bar for the night.

 

LINE UP: Thursday, October 20th

5pm – Box vs Bottle Wine Happy Hour // Communal Wines

6:30pm – Sound of Silver // Whitney George

Get more out of LCD Soundsystem’s monumental album Sound of Silver (2007) by joining us for an immersive listening session where you can choose your preferred listening environment, from dance to interactive painting. Prof. George will preface our listening experience with some framing and listening cues for the album: how LCD Soundsystem's mastermind James Murphy created this work with the group, themes of aging and philosophical questions embedded in the lyrics, and the undeniable sound of New York City present in each of the intoxicating tracks.

8pm - DJ set with Ode to Vinyl

a virtual vocal lab which includes master classes

and additional lessons with Fresh Squeezed Opera

collaborators and artists.

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For composers of all ages, nationalities, education levels, races, genders, and backgrounds. We invite you to apply to participate in the virtual Fresh Squeezed Vocal Lab. This VIRTUAL lab will give composers an opportunity to work with the renowned vocalists of Fresh Squeezed Opera to develop a new piece for voice and piano. Workshops and demonstrations from FSO members will help composers take command of writing for the voice. Engraving workshop in June 2022 will be held by Whitney George. Additional (composition) lessons available for lab participants. 

A lecture and concert event with a focus

on climate and the relationship

it has to music. 

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The event will take place at Palais de l'Athénée (Rue de l'Athénée 2, 1205 Genève), as a lecture and concert event, blending performance and discussion. Pieces on the program include works by John Luther Adams, Matthew Burtner, and Whitney George's Reunion Ibis for solo vibraphone from the Extinction Series Set, performed by percussionist Loïc Morin with accompanying lecture by Christophe Bitar. 

A live broadcast of works written for chamber trio

by female identifying composers based in New York,

made possible with generous funding

provided by the New York Women Composers Organization

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Marsyas Trio takes its name from Greek mythology – inspired by the bold, spirited passion of Marsyas, the celebrated pipe-playing satyr who dared challenge Apollo in a musical contest. In victory, Marsyas lost his life to the envious wrath of the god, saving his last breaths for the instrument he immortalised. 

 

The program includes "Somewhere In Between" from the recently completed "Solitude & Secrecy" set by Whitney George, and chamber works by Chen Yi, Elisenda Fabregas, Hilary Tann and Marilyn Bliss.

Founded in 2016 by composers Missy Mazzoli

and Ellen Reid, Luna Composition Lab

provides mentorship, education, and resources

for young female, nonbinary,

and gender-nonconforming composers ages 13-18. 

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Adventures in Sound, taught by Whitney George is taught in two semesters. The first semester—Composers’ Toolkit—focuses on notation and basic music theory for those looking to expand their compositional palette. The second semester—Exploring Inspiration—centers around applied compositional practices including writing for instruments, film, installations, electronics, and beyond. Each semester concludes with a reading session where student works are performed and recorded by professional musicians from our Ensemble in Residence.

a commissioning project

to extend works in The Extinction Series 

and provide hands-on, immediate support

for climate activism

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Since 2014, Brooklyn-based composer Whitney George has been writing movements for The Extinction Series, a large-scale work that will never be completed. The ongoing series is composed of a collection of brief, programmatic movements written for both vocal and instrumental soloists, with each movement acting as a musical obituary for an extinct animal.

 

This Spring, we invite you to consider offering your support for both the expansions of The Extinction Series with three additional solo movements, and a group of organizations working on the twin aims of preservation and climate organizing. 

a multi-day event celebrating the life and legacy of

composer, conductor, and educator Tania León.

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Organized by the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music and sponsored by the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, the symposium will kick off at 7 PM on Thursday evening 14 April with a screening of archival footage ranging from premiere performances of León’s collaborations with Dance Theatre of Harlem to the London Sinfonietta’s surprise gift of choreography for her piece Toque.

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On Friday 15 April, performances of León’s work will be livestreamed beginning at 10 AM from Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center, interspersed with two distinguished panels of León’s colleagues and former students. The festivities on Friday include musical performances of León's Indígena and Parajota Delaté by members of The Curiosity Cabinet, conducted by Whitney George.

a half-hour virtual screening of portfolio selections

and commentary by composers, presented by

Composers NOW: an organization dedicated to

advancing the music of living composers through

public presentations.

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Composers Now announces IMPACT. Each installment in this series offers a composer the opportunity to reflect on one's creativity, influences, pathways, and responsibility as a living artist in our ever-changing world. Designed for the virtual space, every session shares a composer's essential thoughts directly with you, the audience, in the safety and comfort of your own place. These commentaries, interwoven with performance videos and other materials, articulate a creator's IMPACT. The July series includes an episode on Whitney George. 

A new, multi-media chamber opera

by composer Jillian Flexner

and librettist Orlando ​Segarra

for chamber ensemble & electronics

 

Newly created, a sex robot, tries to find out what it means to be a woman while trapped in a world created by her programmer, Pete, and his "Siri" device, Cora. Inspired in part by the “Me Too” movement, the composer's own experiences in an abusive relationship during her formative years, and the works of Sci-Fi pioneers Isaac Asimov and Ursula Le Guin, this opera explores the idea of "womanhood" through the lens of someone new to the world, and desperate to find where she fits. Conducted and musically directed by Whitney E. George. 

a program of music

presented in honor and recognition

to our irreversable impact on this planet

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Torleif Torgersen, professor of piano at the Grieg Academy, will play pieces that honor and recognize extinct and extinct species, and pieces of mourning about rainforests that are cut down, oceans that are heated and fossil emissions.

 

The program includes several works for solo piano from the Extinction Series Set including Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Reunion Ibis, Passenger Pigeon, Mysterious Starling and the newly commissioned Great Auk.