Akropolis is excited to perform at the University of Arkansas Department of Music! Akropolis will perform Oswald’s These few specks of time, as well as works by Derrick Skye and Jeff Scott.

Yellow Peril was selected for the 2024 Asian Classical Music Initiative’s Call for Scores. It will be performed on the final day of the conference,

More info about the ACMI conference

Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Lee Shirer, Horn, IPO Principal Horn

Huỳnh IPO Composer-in-Residence / World Premiere
Bologne Symphony No. 1
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4
Haydn Symphony No. 104

IPO presents IPO principal horn Lee Shirer at the helm for this stunningly opulent program of classical giants alongside a world premiere of IPO Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh.

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Akropolis is excited to be returning to perform on the Jewel Box Series in 2024. Produced by the Office of Cultural Events, the Jewel Box Series is a professional concert series featuring local, national and international artists. The Jewel Box Series is recognized for quality, diversity, innovation and collaboration among the University and community.

Marc Mellits - Splinter (2014)
Oswald Huỳnh - These few specks of time (2023)
Nina Simone - For All We Know (1934) arr. Althuis
Jeff Scott - Homage to Paradise Valley (2019)

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A video concert of music selected from the Johnson University New Music Café Call for Works. Selected from over 900 submissions, this is the first in this concert series.

Yellow Peril | Oswald Huỳnh
Corporate Coitus | David Hahn
Southern Specter | Timothy Roy
Nebonvena | Benjamin Koller
Children of the Stars | Yuanyuan Kay He

Join IPO for an enchanting orchestral presentation that takes students into a world where music becomes pure magic. Designed to introduce 3rd through 8th-grade audiences to the wonders of the orchestra, There Is Magic In Music actively engages students in the compositional process, resulting in a unique world premiere crafted during each and every performance.

This 50-minute concert is a great mix of classical favorites along with fresh, new music that will see its World Premiere on IPO’s main stage two days later! Featured composers include Bologne, Mozart, Haydn, and IPO’s 2023/24 Composer-in-Residence, Oswald Huỳnh.

This interactive concert experience will allow for chances to meet IPO musicians and more!

Recommended Audience: 3rd Grade through 8th Grade

Tickets: $9 per

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The Columbia Civic Orchestra, conducted by Stefan Freund, will perform Oswald Huỳnh’s Beauty despite daylight for chamber orchestra. This piece received an Honorable Mention in the Open Orchestral category of the 2024 Missouri Composers Project competition. Other winners of this competition will also be on the program.

More information here: http://cco.missouri.org/2023-2024-season.html

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Have you ever heard a song that inspired you? From protest songs by artists like Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan to Adolphus Hailstork’s moving orchestral work Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, music – even with no words – has the power to move us and make a powerful statement. The Minnesota Orchestra is incredibly excited to partner with South African music ensemble, 29:11 International Exchange on this project.

Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture "Leonore" no. 3 in C major, op. 72b
Carlos Simon | The Block
Mary D. Watkins | Five Movements in Color, I. Once Upon a Time
Arr. Andy Thompson | Still Love
Oswald Huỳnh | Gia Đình, III. Blood is thicker than water

More info and tickets here: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/young-peoples/music-for-a-better-world/

Claire Chenette, principal oboe with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, rejoins members of the UNCSA music faculty and guest artist clarinetist Anthony Taylor, faculty of the University of North Carolina College of Visual and Performing Arts, for a concert of mixed chamber music from all over the world.

This concert will feature the talents of UNCSA faculty Tadeu Coelho on flute, Oskar Espina Ruiz on clarinet, Robert Young on saxophone, Stephanie Patterson on bassoon, Maria Serkin on French horn and Ksenija Komljenovic on percussion. The program includes works by living composers Tania León, Du Yun, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Dai Fujikura, Oswald Huỳnh and Jeff Scott.

Oswald’s Travel Hazards will be performed on this concert.

For more info and to purchase tickets, click here: https://www.uncsa.edu/performances/events/20230204-faculty-guest-artist-chamber-music-showcase.aspx

The Indiana University New Music Ensemble, conducted by David Dzubay, performs works by Oswald Huỳnh, Dzubay, and guest composer Claude Baker.

Claude Baker: Carmen infernarum machinarum fugax (2023)
Oswald Huỳnh: I Ask My Mother to Sing (2022)
David Dzubay: Labyrinth (1994)

More info here: https://events.iu.edu/musiciub/event/1070112-new-music-ensemble-david-dzubay-director-claude

Westminster Concert Series is thrilled to announce the selection of Xavier Muzik as the 23-24 Hear & Now commissioned composer. Xavier writes about this commission, “The goal of my "Hear & Now" composition is to create a transformative and immersive experience for the audience. Through the combination of music, visuals, and symbolic narratives woven through my photography, I aim to evoke my state of mind at the time I took the photos: melancholic and pensive, but punctuated by moments of profound joy. The composition will be calming, grounding, exhilarating, and restrained, providing the audience with a deeply immersive and introspective journey.” Hear the world premiere for voice, violin, piano and percussion.

The program also features music by Oswald Huỳnh, Devin Maxwell, and inti figgis-vizueta. Huỳnh’s Glass Shards for violin and harp will be performed. Reception to follow the concert.

This prize was funded in part by the Salt Lake Arts Council through the Racial, Equity, and Inclusion Grant made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.

More info and tickets here: https://westminsteru.edu/student-life/events-and-performances/performing-arts-events/performing-arts-tickets.html

Stilian Kirov, Conductor
Azusa Tashiro, Violin, IPO Concertmaster

Huỳnh IPO Composer-in-Residence / World Premiere
Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Mozart Gran Partita

Leading with the first of three world premieres by most recently minted Composer-in-Residence Oswald Huỳnh, IPO’s November concert will feature the musical mastery of IPO Concertmaster Azusa Tashiro on Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The evening will close with Mozart’s Gran Partita, which offers a glorious explosion of Classical-era Harmoniemusik for small wind ensembles and is justly the most famous piece written for this combination of instruments.

As the winner of the New England Philharmonic’s 2023 Call-for-Scores, Oswald’s Gia Đình will be performed alongside the world premiere of Eric Nathan’s In Between II at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on October 22, 2023.

As the winner of the 2022 Musiqa Emerging Composer Commission, Oswald will have his new work premiered at MATCH in Houston, TX.

Tickets and info: https://matchouston.org/events/2023/new-voices-2023

Trevor Davis performs Oswald’s “Aubade with Ashen Clouds, Scarlet Sky” at the International Clarinet Association’s 2023 ClarinetFest in Denver, CO.

Music from Copland House presents six world premieres of the new works it commissioned from the 2023 Fellows of its acclaimed annual Emerging Composers Institute: Henry Dorn, Seare Farhat, Oswald Huỳnh, Maya Miro Johnson, Grace Ann Lee, and Max Vinetz. CULTIVATE 2023, directed by Grammy-nominated composer-clarinetist Derek Bermel, is an intensive, creative workshop and mentoring program for gifted American composers of all backgrounds and identities, in the initial stages of their professional careers. Each year, six young composers are awarded fellowships to participate in this immersive, weeklong session, which takes place at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in Westchester County, one hour north of New York City.

Oswald’s 2022 Black Bayou Composition Award commission The History of Anonymity—a song cycle for mezzo-soprano with flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, and cello—will be premiered at the 2023 New Music on the Bayou Festival.

The concert is free and open to the public.

American Composers Orchestra holds its 31st EarShot Readings (formerly Underwood New Music Readings) in June 2023 in New York City, conducted by Tito Muñoz.

Audiences are invited to experience the full read through of works by six composers. One composer will be selected to receive a $15,000 commission for a new work to be performed by ACO in a future season. Featured artists, venue and more details will be announced in early 2023.

EarShot is a program of the American Composers Orchestra, in partnership with the League of American Orchestras, American Composers Forum, and New Music USA. Over the past 10 years the program has initiated dozens of composer/orchestra/conductor relationships across the country offering opportunities to more than 100 composers. In 2016, ACO launched a composer archive of past EarShot compositions as a resource to the field. Orchestras across the country and around the world rely on EarShot to identify and connect with creative artists, as well as to advise on commissions, competitions, and program design.

PROGRAM:
Younje Cho – Feast of Particles
Henry Dorn – …i forgot to say good morning today
Brittany J. Green – Rencontres for orchestra
Oswald Huỳnh – Gia Đình
Amy Nam – Mimi’s Song
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei – (گر آتش بارد به پیکرم)Hommage à Khāleqī

American Composers Orchestra | Tito Muñoz, conductor
Tishman Auditorium | New York City, NY | Tickets

Yellow Peril was selected for New Music on the Bayou’s 2023 Call for Scores and will be performed at their festival this summer.

The concert is free and open to the public.

American Composers Orchestra holds its 31st EarShot Readings (formerly Underwood New Music Readings) in June 2023 in New York City, conducted by Tito Muñoz.

In this initial reading session, hear the works of today’s emerging composers in an open rehearsal with American Composers Orchestra members and artistic staff. Audiences get an immersive view into what happens when an ensemble sits down to read a new work for the first time. Featured artists, venue and more details will be announced in early 2023. The rehearsal is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Capacity is limited.

EarShot is a program of the American Composers Orchestra, in partnership with the League of American Orchestras, American Composers Forum, and New Music USA. Over the past 10 years the program has initiated dozens of composer/orchestra/conductor relationships across the country offering opportunities to more than 100 composers. In 2016, ACO launched a composer archive of past EarShot compositions as a resource to the field. Orchestras across the country and around the world rely on EarShot to identify and connect with creative artists, as well as to advise on commissions, competitions, and program design.

PROGRAM:
Younje Cho – Feast of Particles
Henry Dorn – …i forgot to say good morning today
Brittany J. Green – Rencontres for orchestra
Oswald Huỳnh – Gia Đình
Amy Nam – Mimi’s Song
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei – (گر آتش بارد به پیکرم) Hommage à Khāleqī

American Composers Orchestra | Tito Muñoz, conductor
Tishman Auditorium | New York City, NY | Tickets

TORU TAKEMITSU Small Sky
HON NING CHEUNG Vague
OSWALD HUỲNH Cloud Walker
KYOHEI SUGIHARA Viewing Clouds at the Seasides
HON NING CHEUNG Cloud Trace

Nefelibata New Music Collective | Wolken Trio
Willem Hijstek Concert Hall | Conservatorium Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands

OSWALD HUỲNH Gia Đình (2021, rev. 2022)
JOSEPH HAYDN Keyboard Concerto No. 11, Hob. XVIII
ROBERT SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”

Stephanie Childress, conductor | Peter Henderson, piano
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Powell Hall | St. Louis, MO | Buy tickets

OSWALD HUỲNH Gia Đình (2021, rev. 2022)
JOSEPH HAYDN Keyboard Concerto No. 11, Hob. XVIII
ROBERT SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”

Stephanie Childress, conductor | Peter Henderson, piano
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Powell Hall | St. Louis, MO | Buy tickets

OSWALD HUỲNH Gia Đình (2021, original version)
WENBIN LYU Terracotta Army
REENA ESMAIL My Sister’s Voice

Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra | Anna Wittstruck, conductor
University of Puget Sound | Tacoma, WA