Events

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)

Suggested donation of $10 at the door

Vocalist Liz Pearse has alternately been described as a “badass”, having “a near-psychic understanding of what a composer is trying to accomplish”, and possessing “a voice made of arrows forged in a volcanic pit, transforming the didactic and mundanely intellectual into actual fire”. After a childhood spent playing every instrument she could find, Liz has focused her career on exploring the infinite possibilities of the human voice. Though Liz is known as a specialist in contemporary vocal repertoire, she enjoys a well-aged song.

Liz enjoys work as a solo artist and as a chamber musician, and has performed all over North America (from Canada to Mexico and coast-to-coast in the USA) and in both Europe and the United Kingdom. Liz has commissioned and performed over a dozen works for solo singer/pianist, and the focus of her dissertation, Roger Reynolds’ Sketchbook for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, was recently recorded and released on the double album For a Reason with Neuma Records. Though solo performance and self-accompanying is a large part of her practice, Liz has a voracious appetite for the camaraderie of chamber music, mostly with her quartet Quince and the Damselfly Trio. When she’s not performing, Liz lives and teaches in the beautiful Driftless region of Minnesota. More information about Liz can be found at lizpearse.com

Including The Diver for Soprano and (Self-Accompanying) Piano (Megan Levad Beisner, poet; Andrea Reinkemeyer, composer)

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