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Dina Koston
Established by composer/pianist Dina Koston, who named the fund after her husband, psychiatrist Roger Shapiro, the Roger Shapiro Fund is a new fund for commissioning, performance and recording of New Music. Ms. Koston intended the fund to promote music in the Western modernist tradition.
The Roger Shapiro Fund is concerned with:
–new music, not limited by geographical region
–education in music, composition, and international outreach
–promoting further knowledge and appreciation of the music of founder Dina Koston.
Connecting Composers
The Roger Shapiro Fund aims to arrange for composers to collaborate with organizations, particularly presenting organizations and performing ensembles that have built a sizeable audience or are implementing creative strategies to gain an audience for new music.
Education
It is very important to us at the Roger Shapiro Fund that music education and the creation of new music be a priority for each new generation! We foster opportunities for young people to study and perform new music, study composition and present their own compositions. We are particularly interested in promoting international musical studies and exchanges in the hope that broader, deeper musical and cultural connections will lead young people to a greater understanding of what unifies us as inhabitants of the globe.
Reaching New Audiences
In addition to traditional concert venues, the Roger Shapiro Fund is interested in developing new ways for new music to reach people, including radio, television & internet, recording projects, new music in public spaces, real or virtual and innovative collaborations with other arts disciplines.
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In Queue:
Chester Biscardi will compose a solo guitar piece for the guitarist David Leisner.
Guitarist/composer David Leisner
Chester Biscardi’s music has been performed throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America. His catalog includes …
14November
Alice Shields
Alice Shields’ White Heron Dance was selected to be performed at the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand.
Alice Shields with some other Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music School regulars.
Alice Shields is a master …
14November
Anna Weesner’s What Gathers What Lingers was selected for ISCM 2020 World New Music Days in New Zealand. The Roger Shapiro Fund commissioned Anna Weesner’s My Mother in Love, which won the Virgil Thomson Award of the American Academy of Arts …
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14 December 2019
Piano Studies at NYU Steinhardt
presents
21st-Century Wanderers: Jonathan HARVEY / Helmut LACHENMANN
Manuel LAUFER, piano
Dorothea HAYLEY, soprano
Friday, December 13 at 8 pm
Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East
I could not imagine better …
11 November 2019
RSF supported Bridge Records’ *George Crumb Vol. 16*
Cygnus pianist Joan Forsyth is a regular at Sonatina Enterprises. She recently lectured on nocturnes for the pianists from far and wide, assembled in Bennington for one of the …
7 November 2019
Jotting some notes here that will have to be edited and focused in the fullness of time.
Links to sound or video are in the works.
I consulted with Harold Bloom
when preparing for Cygnus’ RW Emerson bicentennial celebration.
In the end, Bloom …