Super SONiC
Yourchat with Kenji Bunch and Derek Bermel begins Monday at 4 pm. Sign up for a reminder now!This week on The New Canon, we welcome back composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel and composer Kenji Bunch to...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Andrew Norman
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticlePiano Sounds of a New Century
What do you get when you combine the talents of two expert curators, 16 world-class ensembles and over 100 young composers? You get an atwitter Q2 Music and the first-ever SONiC Festival, an exciting...
View ArticleRe:Sound: SONiC Redux
Q2 Music and the hyper-commissioning American Composers Orchestra are pleased to announce Re:Sound: a crowd-sourced presentation of new-music from the premiere-laden SONiC (Sounds of a New Century)...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Marcos Balter
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Susie Ibarra
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Matt Marks
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Bryce Dessner
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleDerek Bermel: Travels in Ethnomusicology
After his clarinet was stolen from a Paris phone booth, Derek Bermel explains, he gave up busking to become a goatherd in the south of the country. He has studied the music of Yemen in Jerusalem, the...
View ArticleSONiC Conclusion from the American Composers Orchestra
On Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7 pm, the concluding night of the American Composers Orchestra's SONiC Festival, the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center played palatial host to the world premiere of...
View ArticleRe:Sound: First Installment
On Wednesday, October 19 at 7 pm, Q2 Music presents the first Re:Sound: a special, patchwork-quilt, virtual concert of those pieces which received the most votes over the first four days of the...
View ArticleRe:Sound: Second Installment
On Wednesday, October 26 at 7 pm, Q2 Music presents the second Re:Sound webcast: a special, patchwork-quilt, virtual concert of those pieces which received the most votes over the second half of the...
View ArticleSONiC Boom!: American Composers Orchestra's First Night
The opening concert of the 2011 SONiC Festival featured conductor George Manahan and the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) performing works by Kenji Bunch, Christopher Stark, Alex Temple, Andrei...
View ArticleEither/Or: Live from Miller Theatre
The 2011 SONiC Festival featured some of the most acclaimed ensembles on the new-music scene performing the work of over 100 composers age 40 and under. This selection, recorded on October 17 at...
View ArticleEighth Blackbird in Flight at Miller Theatre
This installment of the 2011 SONiC Festival was recorded on October 15 at Columbia University's Miller Theatre. Titled Fractured Jams, the show featured the Chicago-based ensemble Eighth Blackbird...
View ArticleExtended Play with JACK Quartet, Imani Winds, Dither, and NOW Ensemble
The ferociously fearless JACK Quartet hosted Extended Play, SONiC's all day marathon of New Music featuring some of the most innovative ensembles New York City has to offer. The nine hour extravaganza...
View ArticleJACK Quartet, PRISM, and the Young People's Chorus of New York: Live at SONiC
On October 16th, 2011, JACK Quartet hosted Extended Play, the American Composers Orchestra's Sounds of a New Century Festival all-day marathon of new-music featuring passionate and adventurous New York...
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