Upcoming Concerts & Past Performances
Soundbox Ventures has announced that composers Will Stackpole and Ania Vu will become the newest Composer Faculty for their Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program.
The SCFP 2025 Recording Workshop offers opportunities to all composers at various stages of their careers (students through professional) to develop their portfolio, receive excellent mentorship from acclaimed composer faculty members, workshop and record their compositions at a high level with extraordinary performers, and preview the working environment of a composer’s career path in a supportive and nurturing environment.
This Fall, Impulse New Music Festival will be featuring Chimera by Will Stackpole. The piece was named winner of their Call for Scores in 2024 and will be live-streamed.
Performance date TBD
Check back soon for a link to the broadcast.
Acclaimed pianist Benjamin Hochman joins VoC in a program highlighting the personal and professional relationships between today’s composers. The first half presents the world premiere of Will Stackpole’s Letters to Distant Cities, a work dedicated to three of his composer friends and colleagues who he was separated from during the pandemic. The second half features works by three Finnish masters — Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Magnus Lindberg — and explores their musical and personal ties.
A collection of 32 newly-composed etudes written by contemporary composers. These etudes have been composed in each of the key areas of the time-tested Rose 32 Etudes. Each etude contains written preparation advice and guidance provided by Dr. Joshua Anderson. Now available for purchase at https://conway-publications.com/product/new-32-etudes-for-clarinet/
As part of an album release tour, Cornelia Sommer, along with Dror Baitel, present a magical evening of original arrangements of classic fairy tale music, as well as newly commissioned works. On the concert, Dr. Sommer will be premiering “The End Justifies the Beans” by Will Stackpole.
Acclaimed violist Maren Rothfritz premieres a new work commissioned by her for this concert. More info about the piece can be found here.
On their 20th Anniversary Season New York Composers Circle will feature Palette , which won their John Eaton Memorial Prize.
Read more here.
The Attacca Quartet workshops new works by composers Asuka Kakitani; Liza Sobel Crane ; and Will Stackpole at the CMA National Conference.
For this workshop, Stackpole composed the piece Halation Sketches. Read more about the workshop here
Concept Lab opens up the process of creating new musical works, and reframes the often-solitary work of the composer.
The Dolphins Quartet perform Here Without Trying on Juilliard's Wednesdays @ 1 series at Alice Tully Hall.
Yu-Fang Chen performs Chimera as part of Central Washington University's inaugural Festival of New Music.
The Dolphins Quartet premieres Here Without Trying on Juilliard's Wednesdays @ 1 series at Alice Tully Hall.
A joint performance spanning two continents, this concert features new works performed simultaneously between musicians at the Juilliard School in New York, and the Stauffer Academy in Cremona, Italy.
This concert features the premiere of Will Stackpole's Echoes in the Grain.
NEON AND OAK is Red Dog Ensemble's premiere album. Keeping with their goal of breaking as many classical music traditions as possible, they commissioned four brand new pieces for this record, which will be heard for the first time only on this release. Thematically, these pieces reflect the experience of life in an unsettled world.
Works:
Flowers of Fire - Jon Cziner
Neon & Oak - Tom Morrison
The Imperfect Storm - Sato Matsui
L'Abîme - Will Stackpole
Stream the album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4TvYhL0ni5885HgPBDrERc?si=6Yo34CHWTnabnIHgfykMFQ
Featuring: Increment
ACO holds its 30th EarShot New Music Readings (formerly Underwood New Music Readings) in June 2022 in New York City, conducted by George Manahan.
Experience the full read through of works by seven composers including Adeliia Faizullina, Patrick Holcomb, Tommy Dougherty, Will Stackpole, Yuting Tan, Elijah Smith, Yuqin (“Strucky”) Yi. Read More about the selected composers, click here.
Led by conductor George Manahan, the room crackles with energy in anticipation of the expert music-making of ACO as they bring these emerging composers music to life.
