Events

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

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

The Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music presents its annual showcase recital featuring its stellar faculty artists in magnificent solo and chamber performances.

Free and open to the public.

3. Letter to a friend on the return of spring
   from Letter to a friend for Soprano, Horn in F, and Piano (D. Allen, poet / Andrea Reinkemeyer, composer)

Prof. Jennifer Casey Cabot (soprano), Dr. Caroline Steiger (horn), and Dr. Linda Monson (piano)

Florian Conzetti's proposal for Performances & Lecture-Recitals was accepted for the 67th CMS National Conference: "A Pioneering Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program for Professional Student Development." This features my program, the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program at Linfield University through the performance of my Red Flame with student works developed through the program.

Virginia Music Educators Association Composition Festival 2024

The VMEA Council on Creativity & Innovation is excited to celebrate and share the musical creativity of our state’s incredibly talented student musicians through the reimagined 2021 VMEA Composition Festival.

​The Festival will highlight student musical compositions of all types and styles through performance and display at the 2023 VMEA Professional Development Conference, which will take place from November 16-18, 2023 in Richmond, Virginia.

K-12 and Collegiate Virginia students are invited to submit original compositions for evaluation by a panel of experts. Compositions submitted will receive a written evaluation providing feedback on their work. Many submissions will be selected for display and/or live or recorded performance at the VMEA Conference.

Apply to participate in a masterclass with award-winning composer, Dr. Andrea Reinkemeyer