New York Composers Circle Performs NEW MUSIC FOR WINDS AND PIANO at Saint Peter's Church Tonight

The New York Composers Circle will present a concert of new music at 7:30 PM tonight, April 21 at Saint Peter's Church, Citigroup Center, 619 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan.

The concert will feature the world premieres of Susan J. Fischer's Intermezzo, for oboe, violin, cello, and piano; Peri Mauer's Journey, for oboe; Gayther Myers's The Workday, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and piano; Max Giteck Duykers's Dark Body, for flute, violin, cello, and piano; David Picton's Turning Leaves for Sandy, for oboe and guitar; Eugene Marlow's Trois Chansons pour une Poetesse, for flute and alto flute; and Richard Brooks's Into the Twilight, for flute, bassoon, violin, viola, and piano. In addition, Orlando Legname's Vortici D'etere, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, will receive its New York premiere.

The performers will include Margaret Lancaster and Roberta Michel, flute; Christa Van Alstine, clarinet; Christa Robinson, Keve Wilson, and Virginia Chang Chien, oboe; Nanci Belmont, bassoon; Matt Marks, horn; Esther Noh, violin; Hannah Levinson, viola; John Popham, cello; Oren Fader, guitar; Stephen Gosling, piano; and Tamara Cashour, conductor.

The April 21st concert is free; however, a $20 donation is suggested, payable at the door. For more information, call 212-787-8309 or visit nycomposerscircle.org. For public transit information, visit tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/tripplanner.aspx. All NYCC concerts are ADA- accessible.

The New York Composers Circle is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt artistic and educational organization dedicated to new music -- its creation, its performance, and the development of new audiences. Its members and supporters are composers, performers, and music lovers. Its activities include concerts of new music (currently six each season), monthly salons at which composers play and discuss new works and works in progress for fellow members and guests and hear talks by various members of the new-music community, an annual competition open only to nonmembers, and a program of outreach concerts designed to benefit the broader community and to attract new concert audiences. Much more about the organization at NYComposersCircle.org/about.