Jessica Bowers

On March 2nd at 7pm, Composers Concordance presents Music & Film @ Westbeth, an event combining cutting-edge short films with contemporary music composition.

On December 16th at 7pm, Composers Concordance will present Generations XIII, the 13th-annual concert featuring the winners of the Generations Composition Competition, with categories for composers 25 or younger, as well as composers 65 or older.

It was another fine and festive time at THE LINEUP WITH SUSIE MOSHER this week!

On Saturday, April 29th at 2:30pm, in collaboration with Goddard Riverside Community Arts, Composers Concordance presents Bagels & Brass, a unique concert featuring eGALitarian Brass Quintet, David Taylor Trombone Ensemble, Trombonist Craig Harris, and fresh homemade bagels courtesy of Jessica Bowers.

On Saturday, April 29th at 2:30pm, in collaboration with Goddard Riverside Community Arts, Composers Concordance presents Bagels & Brass, a unique concert featuring eGALitarian Brass Quintet, David Taylor Trombone Ensemble, Trombonist Craig Harris, and fresh homemade bagels courtesy of Jessica Bowers!

Con Vivo Music will present the world premiere of Chilltown Boogie by Alon Nechushtan on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 12:30pm, beginning at J Owen Grundy Pier. This original new opera is inspired by the events surrounding the formation of Hudson County and Jersey City.

New York Composers Circle will present a Celebration of Contemporary Masters concert on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:00 PM at Church of the Transfiguration ('Little Church Around the Corner'), 1 East 29th Street in Manhattan.

New York Composers Circle will present A Concert of New Chamber Music on Tuesday, March 15 @ 7:00 PM at Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ('Little Church Around the Corner'), 1 East 29th Street in Manhattan.

Composer Gene Pritsker presents a concert of his vocal music. 'I have written many chamber operas, various chamber music with voice, jazz songs, r&b songs, choral music and songs inspired by various genres and cultures. I thought it would be great to have a concert that features my eclectic vocal compositions. I assembled a group of great singers and picked repertoire that will feature each of their voices as well as combine them to perform some of my choral music.'

Composer Gene Pritsker presents a concert of his vocal music. 'I have written many chamber operas, various chamber music with voice, jazz songs, r&b songs, choral music and songs inspired by various genres and cultures. I thought it would be great to have a concert that features my eclectic vocal compositions. I assembled a group of great singers and picked repertoire that will feature each of their voices as well as combine them to perform some of my choral music.'

Patterns in a Chromatic Field is a late work (1981) by Morton Feldman (1926-1987), an 80-minute odyssey for cello and piano exploring different degrees of stasis and patterns of harmony and color. Patterns in a Chromatic Field reflects Feldman's lifelong fascination with the Abstract Expressionist painters: “My compositions are not really 'compositions' at all,” Feldman said. “One might call them time canvasses in which I more or less prime the canvas with an overall hue of music.”

Tenri Cultural Institute presents the world premiere of Emily Bront Through Life and Death, A Chainless Soul, a poetic mono-opera in one act based on selected poems of Emily Bront by composer Akemi Naito on Friday, January 5th and Saturday, January 6th at 8pm. Honoring the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Emily Bront in 2018, this mono-opera is a collaborative work with mezzo-soprano Jessica Bowers, pianist Marilyn Nonken, actor Robert Ian Mackenzie, and visual artist Toshihiro Sakuma, whose Healing exhibition will be on view.

ISCM Mid-Atlantic & Marsyas Productions Present Small is Beautiful, featuring Microtones & Micro-ensembles: Bodies Electric - e-guitar quartet, Vox n Plux - soprano Elizabeth Farnum & her two guitarists, Bowers-Fader Duo - mezzo Jessica Bowers & guitarist Oren Fader, and Sheer Pluck - guitar orchestra

On Tuesday June 21st, 3:00-5:00pm, composer and cellist Peri Mauer will present a free concertat the Bard Graduate Center, located at 18 West 86th St., NYC. 

On May 19 at Symphony Space, Cygnus Ensemble will celebrate the music of American luminary Milton Babbitt, an iconic, sometimes controversial Princeton-based composer, teacher, and musical statesman whose career and direct influence spanned 76 years, from 1935 to his death in 2011.

On May 19 at Symphony Space, Cygnus Ensemble will celebrate the music of American luminary Milton Babbitt, an iconic, sometimes controversial Princeton-based composer, teacher, and musical statesman whose career and direct influence spanned 76 years, from 1935 to his death in 2011.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents I Am (Not) My Mother, based on true stories from and about the women of Frederick. Written by Suzanne Beal and directed by MET Associate Artistic Director Gene Fouche the show made its World Premiere on the MET stage last July to extremely positive reviews and audience response. DC Metro Theatre Arts gave the original production four stars and Charlie Smith emplored, 'everyone go now', in his review for Want2Dish. Since the World Premiere last year the show has received new productions in Baltimore and in Philadelphia (Society Hill Playhouse). Given the tremendously positive response the play has received the Maryland Ensemble Theatre is bringing the show back for a limited run, July 12 through 21 at MET. Get a first look at the cast in action in the photos below!

Society Hill Playhouse will be celebrating Mother's Day with the Philadelphia Premiere of I Am (Not) My Mother, a play by Suzanne Beal with music by Jessica Bowers. The show will begin its run on Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM. The theatre is located at 507 South 8th Street.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is proud to present the World Premiere of the new play, I Am (Not) My Mother, based on true stories from and about the women of Frederick.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present the World Premiere of the new play, I Am (Not) My Mother, based on true stories from and about the women of Frederick. Written by Suzanne Beal and directed by MET Associate Artistic Director Gené Fouché the show runs from July 6 through the 22nd at the MET, located in the historic FSK Hotel at 31 W Patrick Street. Proceeds from the production will support the programs of the Women's Giving Circle of Frederick.