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online, free access on YouTube
A video pairing of the Cycles of Eternity recording
with artwork by Rita Robillard
Details to follow (season brochure)

IN MULIERIBUS:
Anna Song, director
3. Arwen Myers, soprano

PROGRAM
HAILSTORK: The Pied Piper of Harlem (1980)
SHIM: On All Sides (2020) *
MISURELL-MITCHELL: Dolce, Purete (2014)
JONES: The people could fly (2020)
REINKEMEYER: Wings to Air (2013)*

* world premiere

PERFORMER:
Meerenai Shim, flute

Premiere Performance of "Letter to a friend" for Soprano, Horn and Piano

News: Broadway World >

WEEK TWO— PIVOT! PROGRAM CHANGES ANNOUNCED:
Due to Covid concerns within the orchestra, programming for the closing weekend of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has shifted. Details are below:

Saturday, August 6, 7pm, Moonlight
Andrea Reinkemeyer: #@&%!* (expletive deleted)
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Music
Kevin Puts: Moonlight: Second Concerto for Oboe & Strings (Katherine Needleman, oboe)
Christopher Rouse: Ogoun Badagris
Richard Danielpour: Apparitions

This evening’s program features composer Kevin Puts’ Moonlight, a concerto for oboe and string orchestra inspired by the film and its themes of resilience and compassion. Moonlight features the virtuosic oboe soloist Katherine Needleman, for whom the work is written. Richard Danielpour’s Apparitions for string orchestra and percussion is a collection of pieces inspired by fantasies, dream, and stories of the supernatural. Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Music for string orchestra is a beautiful work by Ukraine’s most famous living composer, who recently fled the war in Ukraine. The Festival’s superstar percussionists take centerstage in Christopher Rouse’s exhilarating Ogoun Badagris, a work deriving its inspiration from Haitian drumming pattern; and Andrea Reinkemeyer’s percussion quartet entitled #@&%!* (expletive deleted).

Original Program:
Andrea REINKEMEYER: Water Sings Fire
Kevin PUTS: Oboe Concerto: Moonlight
Sarah KIRKLAND SNIDER: Hiraeth

CABRILLO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA:
Cristian Măcelaru, Music Director and Conductor

Photo: r.r. jones

Firefly (2008) :: Ryan George
A Proper Goodbye (2020) :: Joel Puckett
Smoulder (2019) * :: Andrea Reinkemeyer
Gazebo Dances (1974) :: John Corigliano

SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT:
Dr. Eric Allen, conductor
* Pershauna Johnson, graduate conductor

A Modern Bestiary: Song About Our Friends in the Animal Kingdom

Commissioned by and dedicated to Liz Pearse.
Megan Levad, poet

Francis Poulenc - Le bestiaire ou le Cortège d’Orphée (1919)
Fredrick Gifford - The pros and cons of Live Food (2018)
Katherine Pukinskis - The Sea Cow (2018)
Jason Belcher - Unit of Measure (2021)
Stacey Barelos - Cretoxyrhina (2020)
Anthony Donofrio - And so the penguin (2019)
Daniel Nass - Ode to a Wombat (2022, premiere)
Emily Joy Sullivan - The Wombat (2022, premiere)
Jacob Mashak - Death of a Wombat (2022, premiere)
Andrea Reinkemeyer - The Diver (2022)
Liz Pearse, soprano and piano

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2022 National Conference >
National Association for Music Educators (NAfME)
Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center (National Harbor, Maryland) Program

The Governor's Own :: Alton Adams, ed. Mark Clague
Token of Gratitude :: Jamey Boezi
Dos Danzas :: Andrea Reinkemeyer
Here We Rest :: Anthony Barkield
From Symphony No. 2, Apollo Unleashed :: Frank Ticheli
Rodney Dorsey, conductor

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IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY CIVIC CONCERT BAND >
Tom Kloss, director

Music, She Wrote >
A concert celebrating living female composers from Australia and across the world

Auróra Musis Amica :: Sally Greenaway
Scary Clown Theme (Canberra premiere) :: Neille Williams
Twist :: Jodie Blackshaw
Dos Danzas (Australia premiere) :: Andrea Reinkemeyer
Beauty Broken (Canberra premiere) :: Nicole Piunno
Kangaroo Hill (World premiere) :: Elaine Johnson

Shilong Ye, director

"Celebrating Diversity, Pursuing Harmony" - 2023 OMEA Conference

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN STUDENT ENSEMBLE

POST-HASTE REED DUO

Sean Fredenburg, alto saxophone

Javier Rodriguez, bassoon

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STAND CLEAR presents: "The Moon Goes Down: An Evening in the Americas"

"From raucous dances to tenebrous meditations—anything can happen when the moon goes down!

Brazilian choro, Venezuelan joropo, and Argentinian tango intertwine with modern works by Molly Joyce, Andrea Reinkemeyer, and George Crumb in this flute and percussion concert featuring music of the night from across the Americas.‍

Stand Clear is a project of Riley Palmer and Leo Sussman, dedicated to rambunctiously pluralistic noisemaking. We're delighted to also feature percussionists Dániel Matei and Jonathan Collazo on this concert."

Wrought Iron will be presented online during Concert #2 of the SCI National Conference.

theblankexperiment performs "in the speaking silence"

Peter SHIN: Relapse
Carlos SIMON: Tales - A Folklore Symphony
Andrea REINKEMEYER: Water Sings Fire
‍Tan DUN: The Tears of Nature‍

The Linfield Collaborative Music Ensemble presents the premiere performance of "Red Flame" for Flute and Marimba

Alexis Evers, flute
Florian Conzetti, marimba

Revolutions Per Minute with host Sarah Cahill (Bay Area)

September 3, 2023
KALW 91.7 FM  - Water Sings Fire

Re-broadcast of the Eugene Symphony performance of October 17, 2023 on KWAX 91.1

“ON BEING A CREATIVE CATALYST: CONNECTING NEW MUSIC, COMPOSERS, AND COMMUNITY” AN ONLINE FORUM, MODERATED BY CRISTI MĂCELARU

Free registration required.

The Dana Trio performs new works for soprano, horn, and piano. Featuring composers Andrea Reinkemeyer, Cara Haxo, Jamie Wilding, Dave Morgan, and Elliott Bark.

"Beyond Auf dem Strom: Diversifying Repertoire for Horn, High Voice, and Piano" - event link

MMEA preview concert featuring works by Michael Daugherty, Percy Grainger, Andrea Reinkemeyer, and Ottorino Respighi.

II. Gallo fino from Dos Danzas for Concert Band
Four State Symphonic Winds >
Dr. Brandon Robinson, conductor >

Program

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Red Flame for Flute and Marimba (2021)

Alexis Evers, flute

Florian Conzetti, marimba

Florian Conzetti's proposal for Performances & Lecture-Recitals was accepted to the CMS Northwest Chapter Conference 2024: "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.

In Mulieribus

Our Spring program contemplates the mysteries of time and eternity through music and texts to touch our hearts and unite us across time and space. The program will feature the complete performance of Oregon composer Andrea Reinkemeyer’s haunting Cycles of Eternity, as recorded on IM’s recent album. Soprano Arwen Myers joins IM for this special program.

March 16, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
March 17, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
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The Madeleine Parish
3123 NE 24th Ave.
Portland, OR

In the spring of 2024, Toledo will be in the direct viewing path of a total solar eclipse. To celebrate this phenomenon, the Toledo Symphony has commissioned ADJ*ective New Music – a composers’ collective with ties to Toledo – to compose a suite of new planets. Paired with Gustav Holts’ Planets with stunning visuals from KV 265, this program explores both the scientific mysteries of space and our planets and the human imagination of what lies beyond our world.

TOLEDO SYMPHONY
Alain Trudel, Conductor

ADJective New Music
World Premiere

Gustav Holst
The Planets

Read the press release!

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Flutist Alexis Evers presents on Flute and Percussion Music including an introduction to composer Dr. Andrea Reinkemeyer and a performance of her composition for flute and percussion Red Flame.

Trio SaeRon performs works by composers representing marginalized or underrepresented groups.

James Wilding: Lonely Night
Andrea Reinkemeyer: Letter to a Friend
Elliott Bark: Brother Tiger
KeeYoung Kim: A Love Song for Violet
Cara Haxo: Of Which We Dreamed Not Before
Dave Morgan: In This Moment and Tonight

TRIO SaeRon:
Misook Yun, soprano
Sean Yancer, horn
Caroline Oltmanns, piano

Saturday, 9:15-12:15: GPFS Member Performances, McLoughlin Auditorium (1st floor); Clackamas Community College.

9:15 – 9:45:  New Works for Flute and Marimba by Student and Faculty Composers, performed by Linfield College music faculty flutist Alexis Evers & percussionist Florian Conzetti. A showcase of compositions for flute and marimba by Linfield student composers, along with Red Flame by Andrea Reinkemeyer. The student works were premiered in November 2023 as part of the Lacroute Composer Readings & Chamber Music Mentorship program at Linfield University. Red Flame served as the reference work for this ensemble, and was premiered by Conzetti and Evers in August 2023.

The UCF Concert Band and University Band, the two non-auditioned ensembles in the UCF Bands, present their final concert of the Spring 2024 semester, featuring works by many of the wind band’s most exciting established and emerging composers. The concert can also be viewed live online.

UCF University Band

Scott Lubaroff, Director of Bands

Kaitlin Oresky & Ryan Polk, Graduate Conductors

1. Declaration Overture (1976) - Claude T. Smith / Ryan Polk, Graduate Conductor
2. Thank You Notes (2022) - Andrea Reinkemeyer / Kaitlin Oresky, Graduate Conductor
3. Summit (2020) - Kevin Day / Scott Lubaroff, Conductor
4. The Sight That Awaits Us (2022) - Kelijah Dunton / Kaitlin Oresky, Graduate Conductor
5. The Klaxon (1930) - Henry Fillmore / Ryan Polk, Graduate Conductor

UCF Concert Band

Dave Schreier, Director

• Ride! (2003) - Samuel Hazo
• Traffic (2006) - Thomas Doss
• To Soar Above the Clouds (2024) - Cameron Cummins
• The Great Locomotive Chase (2000) - Robert W. Smith
• In Joyous Flight (2019) - Patrick Roszell

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In collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Mason Wind Symphony presents “In Our Hands,” a concert curated to bring awareness to humanity's collective responsibility in Earth conservation. This concert will feature a pre-concert talk highlighting how artists can advocate for environmental awareness.

Works on this final concert of the 2023-2024 performance year, the Mason Wind Symphony presents “An Outdoor Overture” by Aaron Copland, “D’un soir triste” by Lili Boulanger, Aaron Perrine’s immersive “Pale Blue on Deep,” Andrea Reinkemeyer's “Smoulder,” and Jun Nagao’s take on the “missing” movement of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, “Earth.”

$12 General Public, $8 Seniors, $5 Students

https://fb.me/e/3J9NaRzhm

Performance: Letter to a friend for Soprano, Horn in F, and Piano (2022)

Trio SaeRon (seh-ron) specializes in the commission and performance of works by composers of under-represented groups. SaeRon is Korean and means 'new' - like the works we commission.

Learn from insiders how orchestras operate, from an overview of the various functional areas to roles and relationships that are essential for the success of any orchestra. Hear from professionals in a variety of roles about their careers and advice for success in the orchestra world.  

Speakers:

- Rebecca Cain, Vice President of Orchestra Operations, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
- Anwar Nasir, Executive Director, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dr. Andrea Reinkemeyer, Composer,Director of Composition, Associate Professor, Dewberry School of Music at George Mason University
- Katie Sejba, Director of Marketing and Communications, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
- Kelly Woodhouse Boston, Senior Director of Operations at Seattle Symphony

Hello from recording Day 1 with Trio SaeRon (seh-ron). What a pleasure to record the music of Cara Haxo, Elliott Bark, Andrea Reinkemeyer, James Wilding, KeeYoung Kim, and Dave Morgan.
Special thanks to Bill Kirkwood for preparing the piano for us. Looking forward to day 2 already!

— with Misook Yun and 2 others.

II. In Winter from Letter to a friend – Andrea Reinkemeyer, composer and Megan Levad Beisner, poet

Resident Faculty: Zae Munn, Josh Marquez
Guest Faculty: David Liptak, Andrea Reinkemeyer

What is the design?

- 6 private lessons
- 4 faculty 'cycles' (presentation/prompt/masterclass)
- In addition: presentations by guest composers and participants, extra 'Nuts and Bolts' sessions, and plenty of individual work time 

When to apply:

Feb. 1 through April 1 for priority admission, then open until positions filled, international students should apply early if time is needed for visas

Questions? Contact Zae Munn, munn@saintmarys.edu‍

Where is the Intensive?

It is hosted by the Music Department at Saint Mary's College in the Moreau Center for the Arts, with meetings in the modern, air-conditioned Music Lab, Music Seminar Room, and faculty offices. Saint Mary's College is located in South Bend, Indiana, just off Exit 77 on the I80/90 toll road, and easily accessible by car, Amtrak, Chicago South Shore train, and air. By car, it is 1.5 hrs. from Chicago and Kalamazoo, 2.5 hours from Indianapolis, and 3 from Ann Arbor.

Red Flame for Flute and Marimba was selected for performance through a national call for scores. More details soon!

The Epicenter Musical Performance Organization (TEMPO ensemble)
Larry Kaplan, flute
Evangeline Yip, marimba

Watch in person or online ($)

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)

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.

Presentation in room Columbia A

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

ANIMAL SONGS

Liz Pearse will be performing ANIMAL SONGS - a solo performance celebrating members of the animal kingdom. This performance is being held in partnership with the Coulee Region Humane Society, the beneficiary of any proceeds from this donation-only event.

This concert is child friendly - bring your kiddos! Sit and listen, or dance along to songs about a range of creatures - maybe one of your favorites? Represented creatures include:
Camels, Goats, Grasshoppers, Dolphins, Crabs, Carp, Goldfish, Manatees, Cretoxyrhina (extinct giant shark!), Penguins, Capybaras, Wombats, and the most maligned of birds - the pigeon!

Music by:
Francis Poulenc
Fredrick Gifford
Kate Pukinskis
Stacey Barelos
Anthony Donofrio
Jason Belcher
Daniel Nass
Emily Joy Sullivan
Jacob Mashak
Andrea Reinkemeyer

This concert is FREE - there will be a free-will offering with 100% of proceeds to be donated to the Coulee Region Humane Society, who will be coming to speak about their mission during the program.

ANIMAL SONGS is sponsored in part by the Culture and Animals Foundation, and the generosity of Cappella Performing Arts Center for use of their space.

Local TV News story

Excelsis Percussion

#@&%!* (expletive deleted) for Percussion Quartet (2000) was selected for performance at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford (University of Hartford)

Dr. Soo Han conducts the Mason Symphony Orchestra performance of "Water Sings Fire" for Orchestra

PERFORMANCE: Wrought Iron for Flute and Percussion

The Conservatory of Music presents a faculty recital featuring flutist Brittany Trotter.

Professor Trotter will collaborate with with Kyle Bruckmann, oboe; Nicolasa Kuster, bassoon; Guy Powell, guitar; Jonathan Latta, percussion;  and Cathie Apple and Mathew Krejci, flutes.

Works by Andrea Reinkemeyer, Katherine Hoover, Adolphus Hailstork and faculty composer Hendel Almetus. Apple is a co-founder of Citywater new music ensemble based in Sacramento. (Program)

This recital is free and open to the public.

Christopher Bell, composer

NaamJai (2015) - Andrea Reinkemeyer
Concerto Braziliano (2006) - James Stephenson
Sinfonia No. 4 (2009) - Roberto Sierra
An American in Paris (1928) - George Gershwin

Luis Fred, trombone
Jaime Morales-Matos, conductor
CENTRAL OHIO SYMPHONY (Delaware, Ohio USA)

thank-you notes for Concert Band

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor
Eugene Symphony

Prefontaine (Schiff) and Water Sings Fire (Reinkemeyer)