RAM Presents the Queens New Music Festival this Week

The composers and performers of Random Access Music (RAM) are thrilled to present the 6th Annual Queens New Music Festival taking place Friday, May 19th through Sunday, May 21st. The mission of the festival is to promote new music in Queens by highlighting the wealth of artists living and working in Queens, as well as inviting artists from other parts of New York City and the country to contribute to the livelihood of the most diverse borough of the city.

RAM is proud to host a special pre-festival event: a collaboration with faculty and students from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, CUNY curated by Michael Lipsey. Student performers will present a program of new and known music on Tuesday, May 16th at 8pm to warm up the audience for this year's Queens New Music Festival. Proceeds from this concert will be donated to www.hourchildren.org, whose mission is to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and build healthy, independent, and secure lives.

Opening night on Friday, May 19th at 7pm, features the Svr?ek-Ojeda piano duo (Susan Svr?ek & Nelson Ojeda- Valdes), and (h)artDrive electric guitar duo (Giacomo Baldelli & Nadav Lev). The music continues throughout the weekend with world renown flutist Robert Dick, violinist Myroslava (Mira) Khomik & pianist Füreya Ünal (L.A.), New York City Guitar Orchestra, loadbang, and vocal works by RAM composers, and guest composer Kamala Sankaram.

All performances will be held at The Secret Theatre's Main Stage in Long Island City as part of the LIC Arts Open. Tickets for all concerts are $15 including Tuesday's student concert.

For full listings and more information, visit www.ram-nyc.org and www.queensnewmusicfestival.org.

2017 Queens New Music Festival

Friday, May 19 - Sunday, May 21, 2017
Special Pre-Festival Event: Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Secret Theatre
4402 23rd Street (bet. 44th Road & 44th Avenue)

Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ram-nyc.org

www.queensnewmusicfestival.org

TICKETS:

General: $15
Students and seniors $10
Day Pass $35 (Saturday)
Day Pass $25 (Sunday)
Festival Pass $65 (Friday through Sunday)

Special Pre-Festival Event:

*Tuesday, May 16, 2017 8pm

Aaron Copland School of Music Student Concert (curated by Michael Lipsey)

2017 Queens New Music Festival Overview:

Friday, May 19, 2017 7pm

Svrc?ek-Ojeda piano duo (Susan Svrc?ek & Nelson Ojeda-Valdes)

(h)artDrive electric guitar duo (Giacomo Baldelli & Nadav Lev)

Saturday, May 20, 2017
3pm Flutist Robert Dick performs William Hellermann's monumental work Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December
5pm Coast to Coast: violinist Myroslava (Mira) Khomik & pianist Fu?reya U?nal arrive from L.A. to perform works by John Adams, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Torke, and more!
8pm New York City Guitar Orchestra

Sunday, May 21, 2017
1pm loadbang

4pm Random Drama: vocal works by RAM composers, Barash, Fetherolf, Galindo, and Schulz, as well as guest composer Kamala Sankaram