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The Underwood New Music Readings are part of EarShot, the national orchestral composition discovery network. EarShot activities include new music readings and other composer development programs with orchestras around the country. EarShot is coordinated by ACO in collaboration with American Composers Forum, the League of American Orchestras, and New Music USA (formerly American Music Center and Meet The Composer). Lead support for the Underwood New Music Readings comes from Mr. Paul Underwood, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University along with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
22nd Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 10am
Saturday 7, 2014 at 7:30pm
Underwood New Music Readings
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
(450 W. 37th St., NYC)
George Manahan, conductor
Derek Bermel, Robert Beaser,
Olly Wilson, Julia Wolfe,
mentor-composers
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
21st Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Tuesday, April 8, 2013
Cary Hall at DiMenna Center
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Joan Tower, mentor composer
Derek Bermel, mentor composer
Christopher Theofanidis, mentor composer
JONATHAN BLUMHOFER: Diversions
LOUIS CHIAPPETTA: Chroma
JOSHUA GROFFMAN: music from elsewhere: orchestra
SAAD HADDAD: Maelstrom
ARTHUR J MCCAFFREY: Thank You for Waiting
NINA C YOUNG: Remnants
20th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
June 1-2, 2012
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC
Underwood New Music Readings
Six composers will join the ACO at the DiMenna Center for Music in what has become a rite of passage for aspiring orchestral composers. All will receive readings of the works listed below, and one of them will be selected to receive a $15,000 commission for a work to be performed by ACO during an upcoming season.
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
RYAN CHASE: The Light Fantastic
PETER FAHEY: Impressions
MICHAEL-THOMAS FOUMAI: Concerto for Orchestra
PAUL KEREKES: Timber
PIN HSIN LIN: Symphony no. 3
BENJAMIN TAYLOR: Leaving White
19th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
June 3-4, 2011
Miller Theater
at Columbia University
Underwood New Music Readings
In what has become a rite of passage for aspiring orchestral composers, up to eight composers from throughout the United States will be selected to receive a reading of a new work, and one composer will be selected to receive a $15,000 commission for a work to be performed by ACO during an upcoming season.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm
George Manahan, Conductor
JORDAN KUSPA: Iterations
KATE SOPER: Entre les Calanques
MICHAEL DJUPSTROM: Scène et Pas de deux
MUKAI KÔHEI: Mugen
JANET JIERU CHEN: Beyond Distance
NARONG PRANGCHAROEN: Pubbanimitta for Orchestra
18th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10am
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
George Manahan & José Serebrier, conductors
Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel, George Tsontakis, mentor composers
TAMAR MUSKAL: Water Colors
George Manahan, conductor
HANNAH LASH: Furthermore
George Manahan, conductor
XI WANG: Symphony No. 1
José Serebrier, conductor
RICARDO ROMANEIRO: Sombras
José Serebrier, conductor
CHRISTOPHER STARK: Ignatian Exercises
José Serebrier, conductor
ERIC LINDSAY: Samba Koocho Hairy Boocho
George Manahan, conductor
MATTI KOVLER: Unsung Serenade
George Manahan, conductor
17th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Tuesday, May 6 & Wednesday, May 7, 2008.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
16th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 8 & 9, 2007
10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Admission is Free.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers selected from a national search.
Paul Lustig Dunkel & David Alan Miller, conductors
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Tania León, Christopher Theofanides & Yehudi Wyner, mentor composers
ROSHANNE ETEZADY: Cereus
HSU CHIA-YU: Fantasy on Wang Bao Chuan
XINYAN LI: Mountain Sacrifice No. 2
NORBERT PALEJ: Movimento Sinfonico
AMY KIRSTEN: Strange Angel
PHILIPPE BODIN: Fling
JOSEPH PEREIRA: Mask
RYAN STREBER: Arcuare
CLINT NEEDHAM: Earth and Green
15th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Friday May 19, 2006 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
15th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
May 18
ROBERT GATES: Aerials
ANDREA REINKEMEYER: Lured by the Horizon
FANG MAN: Black and White
ANNA CLYNE: rewind
May 19
PAUL RICHARDS: Music for Midsummer
JEFF MYERS: Metamorphosis III
MATTHEW TOMMASINI: Songs Lost and Forgotten
14th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
Thursday, May 5, 2005 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Friday May 6, 2005 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium
Columbia University
14th Annual New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Steven Sloane, music director
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor
James Lowe, conductor
Steven Mackey and Melinda Wagner, mentor composers
Thursday, May 5
ZHOU TIAN: The Palace of Nine Perfections
SPENCER LAMBRIGHT: Lyhennys
JOSEPH SHEEHAN: Sail Away to Soft, Sweet Bells
MICHAEL GATONSKA: An Expedition Aboard the Third Mind
JENNIFER FITZGERALD: Having Once Been, Mvt. I
Friday, May 6
KENNETH FROELICH: Pulse Mutations
STEFAN WEISMAN: The Bird Happened
GREGG WRAMAGE: Remember Death (The Hemingway Summer)
DANIEL VISCONTI: Graffiti
CARLOS RIVERA: Popol-Vuh, Four Mayan Dances for Orchestra
Lead support for the Underwood New Music Readings comes from Mr. Paul Underwood, Fromm Music Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.