The music of American composer Andrea Reinkemeyer “offers a luminous glimpse of the next world” (Fanfare Magazine) as it “explores a reverent sound world that hovers just above the brink of silence” (Second Inversion), using “spare, melancholy passages to traverse a complex emotional landscape” (Eugene Weekly) “from reverence and supplication to mournfulness despair” (textura).
Featured Work
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2023
Mars: Curiosity and Perseverance
3(p)23(b.cl)2 | 4331 | timp 4 perc | hp | str
Toledo Symphony Orchestra has commissioned nine new planet pieces from members of the ADJective New Music Collective.
see more"Andrea's submissions stood out among the rest due to her strong musical voice,
lyrical and sophisticated writing and excellent craftsmanship"
Upcoming Events
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Grand Piano Celebration 2024
Center for the Arts, George Mason University
Letter to a friend for Soprano, Horn in F, and Piano (I. Introduction and II. In Winter)
Join us for a spectacular opening of our 2024 Fall Concert season with A Grand Piano Celebration on Sunday, September 22 at 3 p.m. in Mason's Center for the Arts. This concert honors Mason's All-Steinway School. Outstanding student and faculty artists of the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music at George Mason University will be on stage to display their marvelous talents. The concert will be led by Dr. Linda Apple Monson, International Steinway Artist and Director of the Dewberry School of Music. Additional piano faculty artists include Dr. Anna Balakerskaia, Dr. John Healey, and Dr. Eunae Ko Han.
Exciting and dramatic solo piano, duo-piano works, and collaborative piano works will be performed. Mason's faculty piano ensemble (8 hands) will also be showcased!
Mason faculty artists Prof. Jennifer Casey Cabot (soprano), Dr. Caroline Steiger (horn), and Dr. Linda Monson (piano) will be featured in a beautiful work by Dr. Andrea Reinkemeyer, Mason's Director of Composition. Additional composers showcased in the Grand Piano Celebration concert include Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, daFalla, Ginastera, Piazzolla, and more!
Tickets: $20 General Public, $15 Seniors, $5 Students
October 11-13, 2024
XY Duo at New Music Festival 2024
University of Nebraska Omaha
XY Duo will perform "Wrought Iron" at New Music Festival 2024 hosted by Flute New Music Consortium and University of Nebraska Omaha School of Music.
XY duo (Christine Beard, flute and Hannah Weaver, percussion) is a contemporary flute and percussion duo based in Omaha, NE. Founded in 2020, the duo has performed for the Festival Internacional de Flautistas de Lima-Peru, the National Composers Orchestra Chamber Music Series, in addition to numerous recitals around Omaha. Upcoming engagements include performing Andrea Reinkemeyer's "Wrought Iron" at the 2024 FNMC New Music Festival, and plans for a recital tour in 2025. The ensemble’s name XY is representative of the generations during which each artist was born (i.e. Gen X and Gen Y). www.facebook.com/XYduo
