The New York Virtuoso Singers Presents ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Awards Concert

The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Concert, the first event of their 2015-16 concert season on Sunday, November 29 - 2:00 PM at National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street in Brooklyn, NY. This event is co-sponsored by Adam Abeshouse, National Sawdust Curator and Advisory Board member.

Repertoire will include the World Premieres of 10 Commissions by recent ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award winners Katherine Balch, Matthew Browne, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Jaehyuck Choi, Takuma Itoh, John Liberatore, Loren Loiacono, Sky Macklay, Gity Razaz and Kathryn Salfelder. Many of today's leading American composers received this prestigious award. More about the concert at http://nyvirtuoso.org/season.html.

Special guests will be The Canticum Novum Youth Choir, Edie Rosenbaum, Director and pianist Brent Funderburk.

Tickets for the November 29 concert are $25 general admission. For tickets or more information, call National Sawdust at 646-779-8455 or visit http://nationalsawdust.org/event/adam-abeshouse-presents-the-new-york-virtuoso-singers/.

All New York Virtuoso Singers National Sawdust events are ADA accessible. For MTA transportation information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/_start.aspx.

Founded in 1988 by conductor Harold Rosenbaum, The New York Virtuoso Singers has become the country's leading exponent of contemporary choral music. Although the chorus performs music of all periods, its emphasis is on commissioning, performing and recording the music of American composers. The choir appears on over 35 commercial CDs, including releases on Bridge, Albany, Soundbrush, and Kasp. Their latest release is Soundbrush Records' 25 x 25, works written by 25 major American composers to celebrate NYVS's 25th Anniversary season. More about the CD at http://soundbrush.com/album/the-25th-anniversary-celebration/. More about the Virtuoso Singers at http://www.nyvirtuoso.org/aboutus.htm. Join their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-New-York-Virtuoso-Singers/130509011774.

This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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