Student Composer’s Recital
Student Recital featuring music composed by participants of the Compose Yourself! Project and HBMS Composition classes under the direction of Derek Cooper. Part of The Music of Our Time Festival.
Student Recital featuring music composed by participants of the Compose Yourself! Project and HBMS Composition classes under the direction of Derek Cooper. Part of The Music of Our Time Festival.
Now in its second year, the Micro-Commissions Project is an innovative collaboration between Hoff-Barthelson Music School and the Manhattan School of Music. Co-directed by Peter Seidenberg and Reiko Füting, Chair of Composition at MSM, the initiative pairs ten HBMS students with undergraduate composers from MSM to create brand-new works tailored to each student’s instrument and...
The Music of Our Time Festival concludes with the premiere of a newly commissioned work by composer Flannery Cunningham, recipient of support through the Wilma Machover Fund. Her piece, We long to wake, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble, draws on poetry by Carl Sandburg and the traditions of Sacred Harp singing to explore themes of...