American Composers Orchestra EarShot Readings at Neidorff-Karpati Hall

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.