Los Angeles
Welcome to the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles (ACF-LA) ! The Mission of ACF-LA is to support the artistic and professional growth of composers and to expand the markets for new music through audience building, advocacy, community educational programs, visibility, workshops, composer residencies, and grants for new music projects. Currently ACF-LA uses a Yahoo groups message board to post concert announcements by members as well as other important information. Join us here to submit and receive announcements about new music in the Los Angeles.
Featured Chapter Programs
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Alive and Composing: The Wonderful World of Innova (podcast)
You are inivited to subscribe to a new weekly series of podcast conversations with artists on the innova Recordings label. The first show has been posted to iTunes and it features California electroacoustic composer Barry Schrader. Each week is a different composer so please keep listening. It will automatically download to your computer for your listening pleasure, and you can also synch up your iPod and take the show with you as you jog. Just go to: http://innova.mu/podcast.html
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Find Chamber Music Database
The American Composers Forum has partnered with the Amateur Chamber Music Players (ACMP) to create an online resource where chamber music lovers can find access to contemporary chamber music--with features tailored specifically to the needs of amateur players.
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Measure For Measure: New Music, New Thoughts (podcast)
Where are we going? And what are we doing?
All in Good Measure (aka Measure For Measure), a weekly series of online audio conversations, takes a fresh look at the world of making new music for a new world. Through candid, in-depth interviews with leading thinkers in a variety of related fields, listeners will gain new perspectives on issues that face artists today and learn ways to adapt for survival.
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Subito in California
Quick turnaround, career advancement grants for composers and new music performers/ensembles in California. Current application deadlines are: November 1, 2008; February 15, 2009; and June 1, 2009
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Chapter News
2010 ASCAP EXPO in Los Angeles
(November 1, 2009)
ASCAP invites registrants to their "I Create Music ASCAP Expo" Conference in Los Angeles, April 22-24, 2010, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. Master classes, songwriting and composing workshops, publisher and business panels, One-on-One sessions, DIY career building workshops, showcases and performances, song feedback panels, state-of-the-art technology demos as well as leading music industry exhibitors. Please note: the lowest Early Bird pricing for the 2010 ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO will expire on November 30. Those who wish to attend the conference should book early to take advantage of the lowest rates.
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1st Annual Composition Competition
(June 1, 2009)
ACF-LA announces a call for unpublished chamber scores for any combination of flute, clarinet, oboe, violin, viola, cello, bass, percussion from all ACF member composers in two categories (over and under age 18) for their 1st Annual Composition Competition and performance organized by ACF/LA in conjunction with Ensemble Green and the Ruskin Art Club. Selected composers will have the opportunity to attend rehearsals, a professional performance of their work in the Fall of 2009 and receive an archival recording of the performance.
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2009 Essentially Choral composers selected
(February 27, 2009)
Los Angeles composer Roger Matthew Brown and six others selected for Essentially Choral reading sessions with Philip Brunelle's VocalEssence Ensemble Singers in Minneapolis.
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Kate Gale
ACF-LA Chapter President
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Contact Information:
American Composers Forum of Los Angeles
(p) 818.723.5066
17050 Midwood Drive
Granada Hills, CA 91344
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