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New York-based C4, in collaboration with Austin-based chorus Inversion Ensemble, presents its sixth Remote Livestream concert of recent and newly-composed a cappella choral music. The performers, separated by hundreds of miles, will perform at the same time.
Our program will include the following pieces and a composer talkback.
Germán Barboza, Blue (from Cromosaturación)
Misa Ogasawara, Snow
Christopher Fludd, Sunset from Watercolors, text by Jade Blocker
Adrienne Inglis, La ciudad sumergida (The Submerged City), poem by Alfonsina Storni
Michael Dellaira, The Campers at Kitty Hawk, text by John Dos Passos
Last-minute changes are possible. YouTube live chat will be enabled.
Christopher Fludd
It has been over a year since the award-winning C4 ensemble last sang in person, but when the pandemic hit its members wasted no time finding ways to perform live from the safety of their homes. Their first livestreamed choral program on YouTube was on April 23, 2020, and they have continued to perform together every couple of months since then. Their chosen repertoire for livestreaming takes advantage of the inherent time-lag of the medium while minimizing it and circumventing it in innovative ways. The members take turns at "semi-conducting", each from their own pinned window, in accordance with the group's management philosophy as a leaderless collective.
C4's livestreams have earned special notice in Chorus America's The Voice magazine and in Eric Somers' "Audio Penguin" blog. Our first five live programs are archived here.
C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective exists to enrich artists and audiences alike through passionate advocacy of new choral works: to perform pieces written within the last 25 years; to premiere in concert and commission new choral works; and to mentor emerging singers, composers, and conductors of today's choral music.
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Announcing 2021 Visionary Awards Recipient
2021 First Commission
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Paloma Alonso
"2020"
Darian Donovan Thomas, violin
Shayna Dunkelman, percussion
Angélica Negrón, mentor
Paloma Alonso is a New York City native. She is 13 years old and attends the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School. Her parents, both classical concert pianists, were her first piano teachers. Alonso cites her Cuban father and Albanian mother as major inspirations for introducing her to music of all styles and genres. She began studying cello six years ago with Juilliard-trained teacher Yves Dharamraj and also pursues her passion for dance at the school of New York Theatre Ballet where she has trained rigorously since the age of four. Alonso joined the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Program in 2017. She commented that "This wonderful program opened a whole new world of expression to me. Composing is another tool that allows me to be expressive in a beautiful and artistic way". In December 2019, on a Young People's Concert, the Philharmonic performed Alonso's Sweating Bullets under the baton of its Music Director Jaap van Zweeden. The orchestral work was scheduled to be performed by the Philharmonic again in April of 2020 but, was unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.