Morton Gould News

The ASCAP Foundation has revealed the recipients of the 2024 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, recognizing talented young composers for their outstanding achievements in music composition. Learn more about the recipients!

Opera Parallele has announced EXPANSIVE, a transgender showcase set for August 8-9, 2024, highlighting diverse talent and stories in a groundbreaking performance.

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times has announced three commissions to Luna Composition Lab alums as part of the group's two-year collaborative Call for Scores.

Color and light will converge in a program of symphonic works by Jimmy López Bellido, Duke Ellington, and Modest Mussorgsky, which will comprise the final Symphonic Series concert of the 2023–24 season. 

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) collaborates with dynamic Houston-based orchestra ROCO for EarShot Readings held from Tuesday, June 4 to Friday, June 7, 2024, in conjunction with the annual League of American Orchestras National Conference, with a live streamed performance on Friday, June 7, 2024 at 11am CT.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts will present the final two concerts in its 2023-24 BACH series with pianist/curator Simone Dinnerstein.

Copland House has announced the six Fellows invited to participate in its acclaimed CULTIVATE 2024 emerging composers institute.

Cincinnati Opera introduces The Black Opera Project, showcasing new operas by Black artists celebrating the Black experience.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts will present a series of three BACH concerts with pianist/curator Simone Dinnerstein. Concerts will take place at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street). Tickets starting at $30.

On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7:30pm, Carnegie Hall presents the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) in America in Weimar: On the Margins at Zankel Hall. 

Carnegie Hall presents the American Composers Orchestra in 'America in Weimar: On the Margins' featuring new works by John Glover, Kelley Rourke, Jerod Tate, and Tonia Ko. The program explores the United States' influence on the pre-World War II Weimar period.

Austin-based female composer and cellist Sophie Mathieu has been named KMFA Classical 89.5's 2024 Draylen Mason Composer-in-Residence.

Washington National Opera will present the 11th season of American Opera Initiative (AOI), an acclaimed initiative to commission and present new American operas, on January 19, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. T

Composer Gity Razaz's major new orchestral work, Methuselah (In Chains of Time) will have its Canadian premiere in performances by the National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley on February 7 and 8, 2024 at 8pm at National Arts Centre's Southam Hall (1 Elgin Street, Ottawa).

Read about what you missed at 54 Below: It's about the shows that missed getting to Broadway. But wait --- that doesn't mean they were missing worthy songs.

 Soundbox Ventures opens its season of the “Listen Hear” Salon Concerts at St. Boniface Episcopal Church with “Preludes with Marisa,” Saturday, December 16, 7 p.m. The program features the world premiere of the young Catalan composer Marc Migó’s “L’illa deserta,” a collection of 12 preludes for solo piano performed by the Paris-based American pianist Marisa Gupta

Washington National Opera will present the 11th season of American Opera Initiative featuring three world premieres of 20-minute chamber operas.

On Sunday November 19 at 3:00pm at the High School of Fashion Industries, the GVO presents American Vistas, a program inspired by visions of America and American music.

Get ready for the highly anticipated debut of XXPONYBOYDEREKXX, a groundbreaking new play executive produced by John Cameron Mitchell. Find out where and when you can catch this unique theatrical experience exclusively on OnlyFans and X.

New York Festival of Song, led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, will present its annual NYFOS Next Festival with two performances on Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art.