Composer Alive is an innovative commissioning project in which we ask a composer to write a new piece in short installments and perform and record them in front of an audience. We post each installment to our website for the composer, and our online audience to listen to. The composer can then make changes and… Read more »

ACM’s first concert of 2019 features music inspired by, and incorporating, language including pieces by Alex Temple, Lee Hyla, Martin Bresnick, Florent Ghys and Steve Reich’s groundbreaking string quartet Different Trains.

Composer Alive is an innovative commissioning project in which we ask a composer to write a new piece in short installments and perform and record them in front of an audience.  We post each installment to our website for the composer, and our online audience to listen to. The composer can then make changes and… Read more »

ACM presents the Discovery Series, a Song-Exploder style exploration of musical creativity.  On January 17th join us at Le Poisson Rouge for the half hour before a live broadcast of Relevant Tones as pianist Blair McMillen performs and records the first and second installment of Commercial Etudes by Will Rowe as part of our 2019… Read more »

ACM is embarking on our first ever end of year fundraising campaign! Help ACM continue it’s vision of a world in which everyone regardless of social status, creed, ethnicity, sexual orientation or placement in the gender spectrum has equal access to high quality contemporary music performances, performers, composers and teachers by contributing to our end… Read more »

  ACM is proud to partner with Julie Koidin and the Chicago Choro Club in offering Choro Group Classes this winter! These classes work best for musicians who are already studying privately on an instrument, but even beginners can join in with percussion instruments. In each hour session of the six week course, students will… Read more »

The Sound of Silent Film Festival takes place each year in Chicago’s historic Davis Theater. We screen each film in silence with original music by our composer members performed live. The deadline for submission for the 2019 festival is December 31. The films we screen are either actual modern silent films with no sound whatsoever… Read more »

Victoria Malawey was one of the two composers commissioned by ACM to write music for buildings in the Chicago Architecture Center’s Open House Chicago project.  She wrote a beautiful piece for the Arts Club.  Watch the video below! Performed by: Alyson Berger – cello Trevor O’Riordan – clarinet

David A. Jaffe was one of the two composers we commissioned to write music for Open House Chicago.  He wrote a wonderful piece for the historic Newberry Library.  Watch the video below! Music Performed by: Cory Tiffin- clarinet Violetta Todorova – violin