ACM’s last concert of the season pairs Steven Mackey’s piece Indigenous Instruments with three pieces combining western instruments with actual indigenous instruments from around the world. The concert features Peter Sculthorpe’s String Quartet No. 12 “From Ubirr” for digeridoo and string quartet, Jade for string quartet and pipa by Zhu Jian’er and Paul Moravec’s masterful… Read more »

We’re close to half sold out already for ACM’s fourteenth annual Sound of Silent Film Festival.  Featuring newly composed scores performed live to modern silent films, this is a don’t miss! April 20 Feature Presentation 7:00 Late Show featuring Origin of Animal 9:30 Davis Theater 4614 N. Lincoln Ave. $25, $15, $35 for both shows… Read more »

ACM’s 2019 Composer Alive collaboration with Will Rowe continues with the live performance and recording of installment three in his new piece Commercial Etudes. Will says of the piece “The Commercial Études are a glimpse into the world of earworms and music that exists for reasons other than art. There was a VHS tape in my family… Read more »

Tickets are on sale now for the Third Annual Molto Tutti Student film Festival! Join us for ACM’s Third Annual Molto Tutti Student Film Festival! Students are preparing original films complete with student-composed scores! We’ll be screening these films at the recently renovated Davis Theater Saturday, April 20th, 2019 from 2-4pm. You won’t want to… Read more »

ACM is proud to partner with Julie Koidin and the Chicago Choro Club in offering our second session of the 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… Read more »

ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival, now in its 14th year, returns to the Davis Theater for two all-new programs of modern silent films with new scores performed live. Complete info and tickets here.

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 »