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Composing While Black, Volume One: Two World Premieres by Courtney Bryan and Adegoke Steve Colson

  • Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center 129 West 67th Street New York, NY, 10023 United States (map)

The Ensemble is thrilled to present a program of chamber music featuring world premieres by Rome Prize-winning Courtney Bryan, commissioned by Arlene and Larry Dunn, and Adegoke Steve Colson, a longtime member of the famed Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a Fromm Music Foundation commission. Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music of his generation, this program reveals the new Afromodernism as an intercultural, multigenerational space of innovation.

Brittany J. Green: Thread and Pull (2022)
Adegoke Steve Colson: MIRRORS (2023, World Premiere)
Wendell Logan: Runagate, Runagate (1989)
Courtney Bryan: Dreaming (Freedom Sounds) (2023, World Premiere)