2027 Composers Now Festival Kick-Off Concert

The annual festival launches with cross-genre work spanning contemporary classical music, jazz, electronics and multidisciplinary performance. The program will celebrate Annea Lockwood and Rio Sakairi, Artistic Director of The Jazz Gallery, in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to music and their steadfast support of living composers with the Visionary Award and feature First Commission awardee Andromeda Smith, a teenage composer who will premiere a new work for saxophone quartet. Additional participating composers include Tamar Muskal, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Alexis Cuadrado, Yuhan Su and Daniel Prim.