Composer Spotlight: Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program - Part 2

Composer Spotlight: Toulmin Orchestral Commission Program - Part 2

Central to its values of diversity, disruption, and discovery, American Composers Orchestra partners each year with orchestras nationwide through its EarShot program (formerly the New Music Readings), which has identified and championed some of the most important rising compositional voices in the orchestral field since its founding in 1991.

To deepen the creative community around this work, the Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program, created by American Composers Orchestra and the League of American Orchestras, commissions three EarShot alumni each year to write a new orchestral work that is premiered by participating orchestras across the country.

Whether you are looking to discover composers new to you for your orchestra's programming, or simply share the boundless curiosity that comes with the discovery of new work, this series highlights four composers on each panel on June 23 and July 7, whose pieces have been recently premiered, or will soon premiere, as part of the program. Get to know each artist, hear recordings of their music, and catch an inside look into the relationships they've built with the orchestras that will premiere their works.

Featured composers, works, orchestras, and moderators are included below.

July 7, 2021

Moderators
Melissa Ngan, President & CEO, American Composers Orchestra
Meghan Martineau, Vice President, Artistic Planning, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Composers, Works & Partner Orchestras
Julia Adolphe, Underneath the Sheen, New York Philharmonic
Cindy Cox, Transfigurations of Grief, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Stacy Garrop, The Battle for the Ballot, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Niloufar Iravani, The Seven Valleys, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact ACO’s Aiden Feltkamp within 48 hours of the webinar (aiden@americancomposers.org).

The Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program (formerly the Women Composers Readings and Commissions Program) has created partnerships between composers and orchestras since 2014, and is embedded in EarShot, an initiative of American Composers Orchestra in collaboration with American Composers Forum, the League of American Orchestras, and New Music USA. All Toulmin Commission winners were participants of past EarShot readings. The Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program is an initiative of the League of American Orchestras, in partnership with American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.