November 2023
2pm Eclectic Series: BMTG 5th Intercontinental Music Competition Winners Concert / Music of Immortal and Living Composers
BMTG 5th Intercontinental Music Competition
Winners Concert: Music of Immortal and Living Composers
The Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild is proud to present winners of BMTG's 5th Intercontinental Music Competition - Music of Immortal and Living Composers. Winners will perform works of living composers representing various cultures and styles of music, accompanied by the BMTG Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Guest Conductor, Maestro Camilo Rojas (Bogota, Colombia).
BMTG's Intercontinental Music Competition promotes new music from all over the world and provides young students the unique opportunity to perform solo and piano ensemble works of living composers, with a chamber orchestra.
Program details and BUY TICKETS »4pm Eclectic Series: BMTG 5th Intercontinental Music Competition Winners Concert / Music of Immortal and Living Composers
BMTG 5th Intercontinental Music Competition
Winners Concert: Music of Immortal and Living Composers
The Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild is proud to present winners of BMTG's 5th Intercontinental Music Competition - Music of Immortal and Living Composers. Winners will perform works of living composers representing various cultures and styles of music, accompanied by the BMTG Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Guest Conductor, Maestro Camilo Rojas (Bogota, Colombia).
BMTG's Intercontinental Music Competition promotes new music from all over the world and provides young students the unique opportunity to perform solo and piano ensemble works of living composers, with a chamber orchestra.
Program details and BUY TICKETS »6pm Eclectic Series: BMTG 5th Intercontinental Music Competition Winners Concert / Music of Immortal and Living Composers
BMTG 5th Intercontinental Music Competition Winners Concert:
Music of Immortal and Living Composers
The Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild is proud to present winners of BMTG's 5th Intercontinental Music Competition - Music of Immortal and Living Composers. Winners will perform works of living composers representing different cultures and styles of music. The program will feature performers as young as 5 years old, and will include piano solos, piano duets for 4-hands and piano trios for 6-hands.
Program details and BUY TICKETS »Here and Now Series: FIVE COMPOSERS AND A PIANIST / Beata Moon, Stefania de Kenessey, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Kim D. Sherman, William Hirtz / Donna Weng Friedman with William Hirtz, piano and Diana Solomon-Glover, reciter
FIVE COMPOSERS AND A PIANIST
Beata Moon Prelude
Stefania de Kenessey Microvids: for Solo Piano and Poetry Recitation *World Premiere
Out of place
Skipping stones
Like a rock
Reach for the sky
Standing tall
Got it
On fire
The grand opening
Running on empty
Just joking
Pure joy
Bursting out
Dream away
Hurry up
Clouds
In a moment
Fooled you
Hiding in plain sight
That’s what you think
Niloufar Nourbakhsh HbeaRt, for piano and electronics
Kim D. Sherman Quiet Poems: Water Circles / A Gesture / Night Sounds
Four Moods: Unwinding / Fence / Reflections / Listening to the Moon
William Hirtz The Wizard of Oz Fantasy (for four hands)
Donna Weng Friedman, piano
with William Hirtz. piano and Diana Solomon-Glover, reciter
Here and Now Series: Evening of music by the composer Alexander Zhurbin / Lev Zhurbin, Sharon Harms, Steven Beck
Evening of music by the composer Alexander Zhurbin
Fine Fantasy for Fadolin
Lev Zhurbin, fadolin
Three Madrigals lyrics by William Shakespeare
1. Sweet Music (from "Henry VIII")
2. O, Night! (from "Lucrece")
3. Be My Love (from "The Passionate Pilgrim”)
Sharon Harms, soprano and Steven Beck, piano
Symphony #8, “The Patchwork Symphony” (World Premiere)
Part I: Piano solo
Steven Beck, piano