Our musicians take to the “stage” in three iconic buildings in downtown Milwaukee on Saturday, September 23rd for our third annual collaboration with Doors Open. Three composers, Robert Laidlow, Asta Hyarvinen and Cristina Spinei, have been commissioned to write new pieces inspired by the Clock Shadow, Two Fifty and Colby Abbot buildings respectively. On Saturday… Read more »
ACM is partnering with the Chicago Architecture Foundation again this year for their exciting Open House Chicago event. We’re working in two buildings: the Golden Triangle and Sedgwick Studios. A composer has been commissioned for each building and will write a new piece of music for it and then on the day of the event,… Read more »
Tonight’s concert, our first in our new home the Davis Theater, is more than half sold. Which is quite a feat for a 275 seat theater! Buy your ticket now to enjoy great performances of contemporary music inspired by religion, spirituality and altered states of consciousness.
ACM will collaborate with Open House Chicago for the sixth year to commission composers to write music inspired by landmark buildings and then put musicians in the buildings to play the music every 15 minutes for self-guided tours. This year we’re working with two buildings: the Golden Triangle and the Sedgwick Studio. Read about them… Read more »
Our latest Composer Alive project is a collaboration with David Smooke, a composer we’ve long admired. David will be writing a new piece for us and sending it in installments as he writes us. Join us on September 12 as our musicians publicly rehearse and record the first installment of the piece before our Into… Read more »
We’re very excited to announce that our next Composer Alive commission goes to one of the most creative composers in the universe, David Smooke! Composer Alive is one of ACM’s longest-running programs in which a composer writes a new piece for us in installments and emails each installment as he composes it. Our musicians then… Read more »
Three composers have been chosen, from a pool of more than a hundred, to write music inspired by three featured buildings in this year’s Doors Open Milwaukee project. Doors Open Milwaukee is part of the global Doors Open project celebrating architecture and unusual spaces and encouraging people to be a tourist in their own town…. Read more »
This year’s Thirsty Ears Festival was a total blast! A tremendous thanks to all those who could attend. Check out our Facebook album to see some fantastic photos of the two-day fest, courtesy of the terrific photographer Elliot Mandel. Here are a few photos from the collection: We look forward to seeing you at the… Read more »
ACM will partner with Doors Open Milwaukee again on September 23rd 2017 to commission three composers to write music inspired by featured buildings in the project. Composers will write short duos, for any combination of flute, clarinet, violin and cello, 4 to 6 minutes in length to be performed in the building every 15 minutes… Read more »
We’re very excited to be teaming up with Doors Open Milwaukee again this year! We’ll be commissioning three composers to write music for three landmark spaces in Milwaukee and then on the day of the event we’ll have musicians in each space to play the piece every 15 minutes for the self-guided tours. This year… Read more »