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2024 Community Concerts

New Music On The Point Community Concert: Thursday, June 8: Silver Lake Campground 

New Music On The Point On-Campus Concert: Saturday, June 15: NMOP Campus (1361 Hooker Road, Leicester, VT, 05733) 

2023 Community Concerts

New Music On The Point Performer / Composer Showcase #1: Friday, June 9 at 7:30pm: Salisbury Congregational Church 

New Music On The Point Performer / Composer Showcase #2: Monday, June 13 at 7:30pm: Salisbury Congregational Church 

New Music On The Point Performer / Composer Showcase #3: Monday, June 15 at 7:30pm: Salisbury Congregational Church 

                     

 

2022 Community Concerts

Saturday, June 11 (noon-6pm): Middlebury New Music Crawl

  • Percussionist/composers Susie Ibarra and Levy Lorenzo
  • Solo piano marathon
  • Kids’ Activities
  • Wandering Solos
  • Community improv jam session

Friday, June 17 (8pm): Vocal Night at Barn Opera (Brandon)

Works of Amy Beth Kirsten, Kerrith Livengood, Trevor Weston, Gilda Lyons and Amy Williams, performed by festival participants, soprano Tony Arnold, guest vocalist Sharon Harms and the JACK Quartet.

                     

 

2021 Concerts

September 11-12, 2021 (Brandon/Montpelier, VT)

a murmur in the trees for 24 double basses by Eve Beglarian | Robert Black | Matt Sargent

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June 8, 2021

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Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels (1982)
Robert Black, double bass

Brian Riordan: Succubus (2020)
Anna Elder, soprano (NMOP ’17)

Kerrith Livengood: Soul Searching (2017)
Cyan Quartet

Kerrith Livengood: wherever you go, there’s a human (2021)
Kerrith Livengood, voice and tongue drum

Nicole Mitchell: Too Soon, Gone From Here (for Alive) (2021) WORLD PREMIERE
Devon Osamu Tipp, shakuhachi
Mark Micchelli, piano

Nicole Mitchell: Symbology # 1/#3 (2009)
Ramin Akhavijou (NMOP ’21) piano
Devon Osamu Tipp (NMOP ’21), keyboards
Jason Belcher (NMOP ’17), melodica
Mark Micchelli (NMOP ’18), accordion
Cullyn Murphy (NMOP ’18), toy piano

June 9, 2021

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Amy Williams: Piano Portraits (2019-2020)

Felipe Lara: Injust Intonations (2016)

Nils Vigeland: Tango à deux (1984)

Nils Vigeland: Samantha Smith (1990)
Amy Williams, piano

June 10, 2021

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Felipe Lara: Tran(slate) (2008)

Matthew Evan Taylor: Antsy (2020)

Matthew Evan Taylor: Dawn of a New Day (2018)

Du Yun: Tattooed in Snow (2015)
JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins, John Pickford Richards, viola, Jay Campbell, cello

June 12, 2021

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Amy Williams: Give Way (2020)
Stop/Yield (2015)
Jay Campbell, cello
Amy Williams, piano

Otto Muller: Memor 2.26.12 (2017)
John Pickford Richards, viola

Nicole Mitchell: Decolonizing Beauty #5: Curiousity (2019)
JACK Quartet
Robert Black, double bass

Nils Vigeland: A Dream (2010, version for bass 2021)  WORLD PREMIERE
Robert Black, double bass

György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments – Book IV (1985-87)
Tony Arnold, soprano
Christopher Otto, violin

June 13, 2021

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Eve Beglarian: Farther from the Heart (2016)
Eve Beglarian, voice
Amy Williams, piano

Eve Beglarian: Enough (1993)
Tony Arnold, soprano
Robert Black, double bass
Amy Williams, piano

Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet No. 13 (2020)
WORLD PREMIERE

JACK Quartet with Tony Arnold (soprano)

​June 13, 2021 (Discover Jazz Festival, Burlington)

Works of Matthew Evan Taylor and the world premiere of Wadada Leo Smith’s 13th String Quartet (Tony Arnold and the JACK Quartet)

2021-2022 Alumni Concert Series:

NMOP is thrilled to be funding the following concerts by our amazing alumni:

 

  • Music In Bloom (Bloomington, IN) including works by Baldwin Giang (’14), Bryan Wysocki (’17, ’20), and Nina Shekhar (‘17), performed by Clare Longendyke (piano, ’13-16), Amy Petrongelli (voice, ’14, ’15, ’17) [August 13-14, 2021]
  • Centro de Arte Sonoro (Buenos Aires, Argentina) will host a concert that fuses sound art and improvisation with world premiere commissions by Carlos Quebrada (’20), Ana María González Gamboa and Gabriela Areal [December 2021]
  • All-NMOP concert at Denison University (Granville, OH) with LIGAMENT, Gabi Vanek (bassoon, ’19), Daniel Schreiner (piano, ’19) and works by Lilac Atassi (’19), Ramin Roshandel (’19), Christine Burke (’13), Zachery Meier (’19), Erin Rogers (faculty ’19) and others [February 2022]
  • Quartet 121 (New York, NY) with works by NMOP faculty George Lewis and Du Yun, ZongYun We (’16), James Diaz and Jessie Cox [March 2022)
  • Front Porch and guests (Ypsilanti, MI) with works by Evan Premo (’18), Dayton Hare (’18), Ari Sussman (’19), Nina Shekhar (’17) and others [March 2022]
  • Room 1078 (Ann Arbor, MI) in a concert focused on musical storytelling with commissioned and semi-improvised string quartet works [June 2022]

“NMOP was really an amazing experience. As a performer, I learned tons of things about composing and music and general that would be hard to find elsewhere. The festival was expertly well-organized, and a strong community of participants was built.”
—instrumental participant

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