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2020-21 Season
Press Releases
7/1/20: American Composers Orchestra Announces New Board Chair Sameera Troesch and Two New Board Members Samir Nikocevic and Benjamin Hildner [pdf]
2019-20 Season
Press Releases
6/23/20: American Composers Orchestra Announces Online Summer Composition
Programs for Middle School, High School, and College Students [pdf]
5/26/20: American Composers Orchestra Announces Connecting ACO Community – Volume 2 [pdf]
4/21/20: American Composers Orchestra Announces Two Commissions from the 2020 Underwood New Music Readings [pdf]
4/7/20: American Composers Orchestra Announces Connecting ACO Community [pdf]
3/30/20: Houston Symphony EarShot Readings Postponed [pdf]
3/11/20: American Composers Orchestra to Hold the 29th Annual Underwood New Music Readings Without Public Audience [pdf]
3/11/20: American Composers Orchestra 2019-2020 Season Continues at Carnegie Hall [pdf]
10/10/19: American Composers Orchestra 2019-2020 Season Opens at Carnegie Hall [pdf]
9/25/19: American Composers Orchestra Announces 2019-2020 Season [pdf]
2018-19 Season
Press Releases
9/12/19: American Composers Orchestra Announces Two New Board Members [pdf]
5/31/19: American Composers Orchestra Announces Three Commissions from the 2019 Underwood New Music Readings [pdf]
4/16/19: American Composers Orchestra Announces the 28th Annual Underwood New Music Readings [pdf]
2/7/19: Composers Courtney Bryan, Cindy Cox, and Fang Man to Receive $15,000 Women Composers Commissions from the League of American Orchestras [pdf]
2/4/19: American Composers Orchestra Announces 2019-2020 Concerts at Carnegie Hall [pdf]
1/18/19: American Composers Orchestra Honors Jon Deak, Jennifer Koh, Tania León, and Frederick Wertheim at 2019 Gala “Forces of Nature” [pdf]
10/07/18: American Composers Orchestra Opens 2018-2019 Season at Carnegie Hall: Phenomenal Women: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 7:30pm [pdf]
9/12/18: American Composers Orchestra’s Commission Club Supports New York Premiere by Pulitzer Prize Winner Du Yun at Carnegie Hall [pdf]
8/16/18: The Philadelphia Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra to Hold Showcase for Works by Women Composers [pdf]
2017-18 Season
Press Releases
8/1/17: EarShot: Charlotte Symphony [pdf]
8/1/17: EarShot: Fort Wayne Philharmonic [pdf]
8/1/17: ACO Announces 2017-2018 Season: Dreamscapes [pdf]
10/10/17: ACO Announces Commission Club [pdf]
11/6/17: ACO Continues 40th Anniversary Season [pdf]
11/29/17: ACO Announces Fellow Travelers [pdf]
2/1/18: American Composers Orchestra Announces 2018-2019 Concerts at Carnegie Hall [pdf]
3/15/18: American Composers Orchestra Supports Sixteen Emerging Composers During 2017-2018 Season [pdf]
5/3/18: Composers Stacy Garrop, Robin Holcomb, and Andrea Reinkemeyer to Receive $15,000 Women Composers Commissions from the League of American Orchestras [pdf]
5/9/18: EarShot: ACO’s 27th Annual Underwood New Music Readings [pdf]
7/13/18: Carlos Bandera Wins $15,000 Underwood Commission from American Composers Orchestra. Tomàs Peire Serrate wins $15,000 Audience Choice Commission [pdf]
7/26/18: American Composers Orchestra Announces Aiden Feltkamp As Emerging Composers & Diversity Director [pdf]
7/31/18: EarShot and Grand Rapids Symphony Present Brand New Orchestral Works by Four Emerging Composers [pdf]
2016-17 Season
Press Releases
7/10/17: Announcing ACO’s 2017 Underwood Commission Winners [pdf]
5/12/17: Six Composers Selected for the 26th Underwood New Music Readings [pdf]
4/13/17: American Composers Orchestra Continues 40th Anniversary Season with ACO Parables at Symphony Space [pdf]
4/4/17: American Composers Orchestra Continues 40th Anniversary Season Performing Steve Reich’s The Desert Music [pdf]
2/7/17: American Composers Orchestra Continues 40th Anniversary Season with Orchestra Underground: Past Forward [pdf]
1/26/17: American Composers Orchestra Launches EarShot Composer Archive [pdf]
1/17/17: American Composers Orchestra Appoints Edward Yim as President [pdf]
12/14/16: Composers Chen-Hui Jen, Wang Jie, and Hannah Lash to Receive Commissions in Third Year of League of American Orchestras’ and EarShot’s Women Composers Readings and Commissions Program [pdf]
12/5/16: American Composers Orchestra and BIS Records Co-Commission New Piano Concerto from Composer/Conductor José Serebrier: Symphonic B A C H Variations for Piano and Orchestra To Be Recorded by Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin [pdf]
11/21/16: American Composers Orchestra and WWFM Announce The ACO Experience: A New Radio Program on WWFM Featuring Live ACO Recordings Airing on Monday Evenings Once a Month [pdf]
10/17/16: EarShot & Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Announce Reinaldo Moya as Winner of the EarShot Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composers Competition Audience Choice Award [pdf]
9/29/16: American Composers Orchestra Opens 40th Anniversary Season with Orchestra Underground: Contempo-Scary Music [pdf]
9/19/16: American Composers Orchestra President Michael Geller Departing in December [pdf]
9/6/16: ACO’s 2016-17 40th Season Release Featuring Eight World Premieres! [pdf]
8/26/16: EarShot and Buffalo Philharmonic Feature Jazz Composers Readings Sep. 20-21, 2016 [pdf]
8/22/16: EarShot and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Select 5 Composers for Competition, Sep. 23, 2016 [pdf]
8/2/16: Carlos Simon Wins $15,000 Underwood Emerging Composer Commission [pdf]
7/28/16: ACO Releases SONiC Double Live – Digital Album Features Premieres from Inaugural Festival of 21st Century Music [pdf]
7/6/16: Roger Zare Wins Earshot: China – U.S. Composers Project Emerging Composers Competition [pdf]
2015-16 Season
5/9/16: ACO announces 25th annual Underwood New Music Readings and the 2016 JCOI Readings June 14 & 16, 2016 [pdf]
4/25/16: American Composers Orchestra Spring Benefit May 16, 2016 [pdf]
3/31/16: Earshot: China – U.S. Composers Project Emerging Composers Competition, May 31-June 3, 2016 [pdf]
3/2/16: 16 Jazz Composers Selected for Jazz Composers Orchestra Readings in 2016 [pdf]
2/24/16: ACO presents Orchestra Underground: Eastern Wind, April 1, 2016 [pdf]
1/28/16: ACO presents coLABoratory: Judith Shatin ‘Black Moon’ Lab-Workshop March 5, 2016 [pdf]
1/19/16: ACO presents Composers OutFront! Angélica Negrón, Feb. 3, 2016 at National Sawdust [pdf]
12/1/15: Andreia Pinto-Correia and Xi Wang Awarded 2015 Toulmin Commissions [pdf]
9/08/15: SONiC Festival Update: 9 Days of 21st Century Music with 80+ Composers [pdf]
7/30/15: Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Features Wild Up Concert August 12 at UCLA [pdf]
7/15/15: SONiC – Sounds of a New Century Festival Announced, Oct. 15-23, 2015 [pdf]
7/2/15: China-US Composers Project Announced in Inaugural Concert in Washington, DC [pdf]
2014-15 season
6/22/15: David Hertzberg Wins 2015 Underwood Emerging Composer Commission [pdf]
4/18/15: 24th Annual Underwood New Music Readings at DiMenna Center May 6-7 [pdf]
4/15/15: EarShot Berkeley Symphony Readings Convene in California May 2-3 [pdf]
3/9/15: American Composers Orchestra Blues Symphony & Beyond at Jazz at Lincoln Center [pdf]
3/5/15: Toulmin Foundation Renews Support for Women Composers through EarShot [pdf]
1/16/15: Orchestra Underground: Sins & Songs w/Shara Worden; Khari Joyner premieres Carman Moore’s MADIBA [pdf]
1/13/15: EarShot Network: Buffalo Philharmonic New Music Readings Feb 11 at Kleinhans Music Hall [pdf]
10/16/14: Orchestra Underground: Monk’s Sphere Opens ACO Season Nov. 21 at Zankel Hall [pdf]
10/01/14: Toulmin Commissions for Women Composers Julia Adolphe and Melody Eötvös [pdf]
9/30/14: Kendall Williams Featured in Composers OutFront! Concert October 29th [pdf]
9/02/14: Andy Akiho Wins ACO’s 2014 Underwood Emerging Composer Commission [pdf]
7/03/14: ACO Releases 5th Digital Album – ‘Tech & Techno’ August 5th [pdf]
4/24/14: 2014-15 Season Preview: Includes Meredith Monk, Wynton Marsalis, and More [pdf]
2013-14 season