Concert

Five ASCAP composers were chosen from over 150 submissions received from around the country. They represent a broad spectrum of musical backgrounds and sound worlds.

The Awards program provides recognition and cash awards to gifted young composers of Concert Music. This year, 28 composers between the ages of 8 to 30 years of age were selected from nearly 600 submissions.

All ASCAP members are invited to attend ASCAP's General Annual Membership Meeting at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. The meeting is free to attend and will update members on the "state of the union" of ASCAP.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the New York Virtuoso Singers, 25 of America’s leading composers were commissioned to write short works for this elite chorus. Under the stewardship of Harold Rosenbaum, the March 3rd concert further solidified the NYVS’s reputation as a world class ensemble.

Two compositions by the ASCAP member and award-winning composer and music journalist received world premieres on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 at the Tenri Cultural Institute. “Versions of the Truth” and “Setting the World at Five and Seven” were performed by Phillip Cheah and Trudy Chan.

The ASCAP composer has been awarded a commissioning grant by The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization, Inc. in support of her work,  "Pure, Cool (Water) - Symphony No. 4." Conceived as a consortium work, the music will be playable by a wide range of orchestras.

Acclaimed ASCAP composer Yotam Haber will premiere a new work co-commissioned by the University of Alabama’s Alys Stephens Center and philanthropist Tom Blount to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The work is set to premiere on Saturday, September 21st.

Just in advance of Black History Month, the Da Capo Chamber Players presented a glorious array of concert music at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall. The concert was a way of paying worthy homage to black history via musical celebration.

Paul Moravec is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer whose works range from traditional orchestral pieces to modern film scores. On Northern Lights Electric, we hear four works performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project that are as sweeping and elegant as they are adventurous and sonically rich.

Composer and former conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen was the featured guest at a recent fundraiser supporting the Hear Now Music Festival, held on December 5th, 2012 at the Briard House in Culver City, CA.

ASCAP is pleased to announce that OnStage is now available through its latest mobile update. ASCAP Onstage gives members the opportunity to receive royalties when their music is performed live. The mobile version includes the ability to locate venues using a device's GPS. ASCAP members can now submit performances wherever they are.

ASCAP will recognize eight chamber music and jazz ensembles, and presenters for their adventurous programming at the 35th Chamber Music America National Conference on Sunday, January 20th, 2013. Cia Toscanini, ASCAP Vice President of Concert Music, will present the awards.

The ASCAP member will world premiere his new opera, Doubt, featuring a libretto by fellow ASCAP member John Patrick Shanley that is based on his Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a battle of wills ignited at a Bronx Catholic School in 1964.

ASCAP's Fran Richard was honored at the first annual benefit for Roulette for her years of advocacy and support of living composers and contemporary American music.  Composer and ASCAP member Meredith Monk performed at the benefit, held on January 10th, at Roulette's performance space in Brooklyn, New York.