E4TT’s annual audience favorite—a concert of music by women and nonbinary composers—returns in its sixth iteration with a program featuring works from our two-year collaboration with Luna Composition Lab, including the World Premieres of commission works by three composers chosen from our 2023 Call for Scores to Luna Composition Lab alums—Madeline Clara Cheng, Lucy Chen, and Caleb Palka—and three additional works chosen from the 2023 Call for Scores: “Prelude to the Afterlife” (2021) for piano by Olivia Bennett, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” for soprano and piano by Gabriella Carrido, and “What I Know About Living,” (2022) for soprano and piano by Devon Lee. Rounding out the program will be “Manhattan Serenades” (1995) for cello and piano by Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities recipient Gabriela Lena Frank; Sin vos from Juana (2019) by Opera America Discovery Grant composer Carla Lucero; “Twelve Chairs” (2016) for soprano and piano by National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition Winner Jodi Goble; and “Midnight Snack” (2019) for soprano and cello by ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Akshaya Avril Tucker. Guest coloratura soprano Chelsea Hollow will join E4TT soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Abigail Monroe, and pianist Margaret Halbig. The concert will be presented at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, and will also be livestreamed at no charge (donations welcome) on E4TT’s YouTube channel.
Ensemble for These Times – “Midnight Serenades: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers”
E4TT’s annual audience favorite—a concert of music by women and nonbinary composers—returns in its sixth iteration with a program featuring works from our two-year collaboration with Luna Composition Lab, including the World Premieres of commission works by three composers chosen from our 2023 Call for Scores to Luna Composition Lab alums—Madeline Clara Cheng, Lucy Chen, and Caleb Palka—and three additional works chosen from the 2023 Call for Scores: “Prelude to the Afterlife” (2021) for piano by Olivia Bennett, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” for soprano and piano by Gabriella Carrido, and “What I Know About Living,” (2022) for soprano and piano by Devon Lee. Rounding out the program will be “Manhattan Serenades” (1995) for cello and piano by Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities recipient Gabriela Lena Frank; Sin vos from Juana (2019) by Opera America Discovery Grant composer Carla Lucero; “Twelve Chairs” (2016) for soprano and piano by National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition Winner Jodi Goble; and “Midnight Snack” (2019) for soprano and cello by ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Akshaya Avril Tucker.
Guest coloratura soprano Chelsea Hollow will join E4TT soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Abigail Monroe, and pianist Margaret Halbig. The concert will be presented at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, and will also be livestreamed at no charge (donations welcome) on E4TT’s YouTube channel.
