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# Hear Now Music Festival

A showcase for Southern California composers

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- [HEAR NOW Blog](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/blog/) - We have things to say... and hope you'll listen... (you already know when).
- [Announcing our 15th Anniversary Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/announcing-our-15th-anniversary-festival-2026/) - Hear Now Music Festival’s 15th anniversary features four concerts of new music by Los Angeles composers, exploring inner worlds in sound.
- [Call for Scores — 2027 Festival Guidelines](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/callforscores2027/) - UPDATED -- the ensemble size for the chamber category has been updated below. OPEN CALL TO SUBMIT WORKS Deadline: September 1, 2026 Festival dates: Three concerts in Spring 2027 (Dates TBD) HEAR NOW strives to reflect cultural equity, equality, and inclusiveness in the diversity of its composers, performers, outreach to its audiences and students, and
- [Music Doesn't Stop When the Festival Does](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/music-doesnt-stop-when-the-festival-does/) - The concerts are over, the chairs are put away, and — if you're anything like us — you're still hearing things. A phrase from one of the programs that hasn't quite left you. A sound you didn't expect. A piece that opened a door you didn't know was there. A performer who knocked your socks
- [Worlds Within:  Our 15th Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/worlds-within-our-15th-festival/) - A note from our Artistic Director on this year's overall theme At a moment when the artificial simulation of human behavior and production is becoming easier and astonishingly more accurate, Hear Now 2026 shines a spotlight on our inner worlds. “Worlds Within”, the interior spaces that generate authentic creation, remain beyond the reach of algorithms.
- [Lyris Quartet's Alyssa Park Named Concertmaster at LA Opera](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/lyris-quartets-alyssa-park-named-concertmaster-at-la-opera/) - We are overjoyed to share some extraordinary news from the LA Opera: violinist Alyssa Park, who has been so essential to Hear Now's concerts over the years, has been appointed Stuart Canin Concertmaster of the LA Opera Orchestra. She makes her debut in the role with Verdi's Falstaff, opening April 18 at the Dorothy Chandler
- [Investing in Hear Now's future](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/investing-in-hear-nows-future/) - We've prepared this prospectus as part of our 2025 giving campaign. Please contact us if you'd like to discuss patronage or partnership with Hear Now, so we can continue to support and build the vibrant new music community in the Los Angeles area. Donate now
- [Looking forward to our 15th Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/looking-forward-to-our-15th-festival/) - It is from my belief in the worthiness and necessity of the HEAR NOW Festival I accepted the request to fill this honorary position. I give my full support to all the HEAR NOW endeavors. — Esa-Pekka SalonenHonorary Artistic AdvisorHear Now Music Festival Dear Heidi, As Mark Swed said in his LA Times article of May 17th, "This festival is
- [2026 Call for Scores — Submit now for Hear Now's  next season](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/callforscores2026/) - HEAR NOW strives to reflect cultural equity, equality, and inclusiveness in the diversity of its composers, performers, outreach to its audiences and students, and the makeup of its board and staff. It strives to achieve equity and inclusiveness by reaching out in an Open Call to all composers in the area. HEAR NOW strives to reflect cultural equity, equality, and inclusiveness in the diversity of its composers, performers, outreach to its audiences and students, and the makeup of its board and staff. It strives to achieve equity and inclusiveness by reaching out in an Open Call to all composers in the area.
- [2025 Concert Programs — Our 14th Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2025-concerts/) - Announcing! The 14th Annual Hear Now Music Festival 2025 edition A Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles ComposersHugh Levick, Artistic Director The magic of the voice as solo, as blended - or not - into ensemble, with and without orchestral instruments, with and without electronic modulation, with a speaking string quartet and a
- [Hear Now Festival 2017](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2017/) - Save the dates! Hear Now 2017 is April 28-30
- [Kickstarter](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2016-kickstarter/) - Support us on kickstarter! We rely on your tax-deductible gift to make the 2016 Hear Now Festival into a reality.
- [A Tribute to Ruth Eliel](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/a-tribute-to-ruth-eliel/) - On April 3rd, join us for a tribute honoring Ruth Eliel.
- [Hear Now Benefit 2017](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2017-benefit/) - Join us in Santa Monica with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Lyris Quartet on April 9th.
- [HEAR NOW 2019 Festival of New Music by Los Angeles Composers](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2019-los-angeles/) - Electroacoustic Concert, People Inside Electronics April 30, 2019, 8:00 pm, Throop Hall, Throop Unitarian Universalist Church, Pasadena Liviu Marinescu, Bent Peter Shin, Screaming Shapes Chris Dobrian, Point of No Arrival Sarah Reid, Memory House in Gold Josh Carro, spaces for oblivion Cristina Lord, 24 (mvts 1-2) Jennifer Beattie and Diana Wade, Prelude and Tube electronics arr. by Adam Borecki Jose Luis
- [Brightwork newmusic heading to Paris](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/brightwork-newmusic-going-to-paris/) - Hear Now Music Festival began an exchange program with the ensemble TM+ from Paris who presented a full program of Los Angeles composers last year at our ninth festival. Brightwork newmusic was selected to be hosted by TM+ for a concert in Paris at the Maison de la Musique, Nanterre, which is the home venue
- [2023 Festival Information](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2023-festival-information/) - HEAR NOW Music Festival 2023 Thursday, April 13 through Sunday, April 16 Venue for all concerts: 2220 Arts & Archives (Main Theater)2220 Beverly Blvd., LA 90057 PROGRAMS Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 8:00pm Electroacoustic concert in collaboration with People Inside Electronics (PIE) and Brightwork Ensemble Dante De Silva* — Mr. Distinguished (2011) for violin, alto
- [What's new at HEAR NOW this year?](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/whats-new-at-hear-now-this-year/) - We have so much to share with you this year! Save the dates for four unforgettable concerts April 13-16, and get your tickets as soon as you can. Complete festival information is here, but here are a few things you won't want to miss: A Hear Now multidisciplinary concert! Hear Now is engaging not only
- [March is Women's History Month](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/march-is-womens-history-month/) - Over the years, HEAR NOW has presented an impressive number of female composers as well as composers of various backgrounds, and we continue to review and evolve our selection process and our efforts to present composers from a variety of background, including those from historically underrepresented groups. Since March is Women's History Month, let's take
- [What you're supporting when you give to Hear Now's 2024 year-end appeal](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/what-youre-supporting-when-you-give-to-hear-nows-2024-year-end-appeal/) - HEAR NOW is in the TRADITION, the 200-year-old Western tradition of innovation, wherein artists create work that expresses what it feels like to be alive in the here and now of socio-historical reality. As the challenges of the past several years accumulated and needed to be accounted for in expression, in 2024 the HEAR NOW
- [Happy Thanksgiving!](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/happy-thanksgiving/) - We wish all of you gratitude ❤️ and excitement for a terrific 2025 We're grateful for... ...the phenomenal composers and world-class performers who have made HEAR NOW possible through 14 festivals (including the next one). ...the funding organizations and donors who believe in what we do, and have offered continued support through all these years.
- [2025 Call for Scores — Submit now for Hear Now's  next season](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/callforscores2025/) - Things are changing in 2025! We'll be hosting three concerts in March, April and May instead one big festival. We're also dedicating one of those concerts to vocal chamber music, so if you write for singers, please get your submission in asap. Your deadline is August 15. The submissions process is online only -- read
- [2024 Concert Programs — Our 13th Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2024-concert-programs-our-13th-festival/) - We're so excited to welcome these creators to HEAR NOW this year. Programs, performers and details are subject to change, but we'll update this page as regularly as possible. Please contact us if you have questions. Click the composer names to learn more about each of this year's featured creators. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 8pmin collaboration with
- [2024 Program Book](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2024-program-book/)
- [Hear Now 2024:  Abundance](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2024-abundance/) - Hugh Levick, our artistic director, talks about this year's theme, "Abundance": Art is symbolic of an invisible reality, the reality of Spirit. It is through works that the ordinary can open to the extraordinary. But this opening can occur, can work, only so long as we have continued to cultivate the desire and knowledge to
- [Announcing our 2024 Festival!](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/announcing-our-2024-festival/) - This post has been updated to reflect program changes made since this press release was issued. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact us with questions, requests, etc. February 12, 2024 HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024 PRESENTS THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE CELEBRATING THE FESTIVAL’S THIRTEENTH YEAR APRIL 24 TO 28 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE, LYRIS QUARTET, BRIGHTWORK, HEX AND
- [2012 HEAR NOW performers](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2012-hear-now-performers/) - Flutes Sara Andon Michael Matsuno Pamela Vliek Martchev Oboe/English Horn Claire Chenette Leslie Reed Clarinets Stuart Clark Eric Jacobs Alto Saxophone Doug Masek Bassoon Judith Farmer Anthony Parnther Horn Allen Fogle Percussion Ted Atkatz Yuri Inoo Guitar Kenton Youngstrom Piano/Keyboards/Electronics Gloria Cheng Aron Kallay Joanne Pearce Martin Vicki Ray Mark Robson Richard Valitutto Vocalists Bobby
- [Hear Now 2017 Benefit](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2017-benefit-2/) - Hear Now Music Festival Annual Benefit with Esa-Pekka Salonen Catering by Flux, and wines by Graef Winery All proceeds to benefit the HEAR NOW Music Festival! Location: A Bergamot Station location, Santa Monica(Location details upon ticket reservation) Music: The Lyris Quartet to perform Q&A with ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Tickets: $150.00 Buy online or call: 323-226-0326 (Tickets
- [Hear Now 2019: Submission Guidelines](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2019-submission-guidelines/) - u live and work primarily in Los Angeles, and you have not had a work presented by Hear Now in 2017 and 2018, you are eligible to submit a one work in each of the following two categories: Acoustic chamber music No more than 8 players (fewer if possible) No more than 15 minutes in
- [Hear Now Commission: Nina Shekhar](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-commission-nina-shekhar/) - In honor of the festival’s Tenth Anniversary Season, We are proud to announce our first Hear Now-sponsored commissioned composer: Nina Shekhar Nina's commission will be to compose a piece of about 10 minutes for the Lyris Quartet. LYRIS QUARTET The Lyris Quartet is a Los Angeles based string quartet. The quartet was created from a
- [HEAR NOW's 10th-Anniversary Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-nows-10th-anniversary-festival/) - HEAR NOW CELEBRATES THE 2021 FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC BY CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES COMPOSERS 10TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL – 2021 – The Virtues of the Virtual – Featuring 27 New and Recent Compositions HEAR NOW 2021 FESTIVAL of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers, in collaboration with People Inside Electronics. Will showcase fabulous chamber music,
- [HEAR NOW Thursdays - a response to COVID-19](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-thursdays-a-response-to-covid-19/) - Isaac Schankler: GHOST ALMANAC withSara Parkins, violin; Pamela Vliek Martchev, flute; Eric Jacobs, clarinet; Doug Masek, alto saxophone; Aron Kallay, piano; Marcia Dickstein, harp; Ted Atkatz, percussion;Conducted by Elisabeth Wright Click on image (link anytime) Arturo Cardelús' Demian SonataClick on image(link anytime) Benjamin Wallfisch's SpectraClick on image(link anytime) Hugh Levick's MessiahClick on image(link anytime)(Click "show more" for text
- [HEAR NOW Thursday Showcase 2022](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-thursday-showcase-2022/) - The HEAR NOW Music Festival is so happy to be going back to live performances for our Eleventh Annual Hear Now Music Festival for 2022! This year's festival will be featuring: UCLA Philharmonia, The Lyris Quartet, Brightwork newmusic along with many other fine musicians from Los Angeles. Please support our Kickstarter and help us continually
- [Audience Reviews from our 2013 concerts](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/audience-reviews-from-our-2013-concerts/) - What the audience said about HN 2013: It was really good. i liked it alot. the pieces were varied and unique. there wasnt one i didnt like. of course i had my very favorites. it was balanced. the time was right. there is nothing i would criticize about it. and i particularly liked the program
- [Kickstarter](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/kickstarter/) - Hear Now 2016 Kickstarter Successfully backed! Thank you for supporting our Kickstarter to make Hear Now 2016 a reality. » Visit our Kickstarter page Video: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1093232728/hear-now-festival-of-los-angeles-composers-2016/widget/video.html » Visit our Kickstarter page
- [Hear Now 2016 Concerts](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-2016-concerts/) - HEAR NOW 2016 Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers April 21, 23 and 24, 2016 THURSDAY, 8:00 PMApril 21 Orchestra concert Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Philharmonia, Neal Stulberg, conductor Schoenberg Hall, UCLA BEN PHELPS: Circus Maximus WILLIAM KRAFT: Settings from Pierrot Lunaire CEIRI TORJUSSEN: Blodeuwedd (2001, rev. 2015) DANIEL KESSNER:
- [HEAR NOW COMPOSERS 2011-2013](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-composers-2011-2013/) - John Adams :: www.earbox.com Thomas Ádes :: www.thomasades.com Brett Banducci :: www.brettbanducci.org Jason Barabba :: www.jasonbarabba.com Frank Campo :: www.frankcampo.com Arturo Cardelus :: www.arturocardelus.com Billy Childs :: www.billychilds.com Stephen Cohn :: www.stephencohn.com Donald Crockett :: www.donaldcrockett.com Patricio Da Silva :: www.patriciodasilva.com Don Davis :: www.dondavis.net Burt Goldstein :: www.burtgoldstein.com Phillip Golub Stephen Hartke :: www.stephenhartke.com Jason
- [2015 HEAR NOW Music Festival w/ LACO announcement](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2015-hear-now-music-festival-w-laco-announcement/) - Fifth Annual Hear Now Festival, May 1st, 2nd and 3rd HEAR NOW is delighted to partner for the 2015 festival with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), considered one of the nation's premier chamber orchestras as well as a leader in presenting wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissions. In the first-ever LACO/HEAR NOW collaboration, Dutch-Russian pianist Daria van den
- [2014 Hear Now Festival announcement](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2014-hear-now-festival-announcement/) - The HEAR NOW Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers is pleased to announce the program for its fourth annual Festival, from Friday to Sunday, May 2, 3, and 4, 2014. The events take place at the Miles Playhouse in Santa Monica and the First Lutheran Church of Venice. In a departure from
- [2020 Call for Scores](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2020-call-for-scores/) - 2020 HEAR NOW Music Festival Deadline: October 22, 2019 Festival dates: April 23rd, 24th, 30th, May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 2020. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY! Open to Los Angeles area-based composers. If you are writing contemporary, classical concert music, you live and work primarily in Los Angeles, and you have not had a work presented by Hear Now in 2018 and 2019,
- [2018 HEAR NOW Music Festival lineup](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2018-hear-now-music-festival-lineup/) - HEAR NOW 2018 Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers April 26, 27, 28, and 29 THURSDAY, 8 PM April 26 UCLA Philharmonia, conducted by Neal Stulberg Night Train, Benedikt Brydern Lines/Angles, Peter Knell Thank You for Waiting, A.J. McCaffrey Tjur, Jeffrey Holmes Salmagundi, Bruce Broughton FRIDAY, 8 PM April 27 People Inside
- [Announcing our 2014 Events](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/announcing-our-2014-events/) - After a highly successful festival April 13 and 14, 2013, HEAR NOW Festival of Los Angeles Composers is planning its fourth festival, scheduled for May 2, 3, 4, 2014 at a location to be announced shortly. Please click here for announcements of upcoming events. Please click here to scan through our past events and festivals.
- [2014 Events](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/2014-events/) - March 5 2014 :: Benefit and CD Release For more information, please go here. May 2/3/4 2014 :: HEAR NOW Music Festival 2014 For more information, please go here. 2014 HEAR NOW Music Festival In three concerts on May 2nd, 3rd and 4th HEAR NOW 2014 presented 23 compositions by 23 contemporary Los Angeles composers.
- [State of the Art:  HEAR NOW at the California Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/state-of-the-art-hear-now-at-the-california-festival/) - [The following information for this previous event has been preserved here as part of our Past Events archive. Elements such as ticket links have been disabled or removed] HEAR NOW is honored to be part of the CA Festival’s celebration of contemporary classical music being written and performed in our state. Our concert, "State of
- [Save the Date -- November 17 with CA Fest!](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/save-the-date-november-17-with-ca-fest/) - We are delighted to announce that HEAR NOW has been invited to be part of the new California Festival this fall. This bold new endeavor conceived and led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and Rafael Payare brings together many concerts across the Golden State to celebrate the diversity and fascinating power of contemporary classical music.
- [Our submissions window has closed for 2024](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/our-submissions-window-has-closed-for-2024/) - Thanks to all who sent submissions this year. The submission period for next year's festival has closed, and planning for that 2024 Festival, as well as our part in the November California Festival, is in full swing. Click the image above to learn how to submit your proposal for our next fest, and please sign
- [Call for Scores — Submit now for Hear Now 2024](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/callforscores2024/) - SoCal composers... we've moved our annual submissions period up this year! Please send us your proposals by August 1st. The submissions process is only and via email -- read the instructions carefully, and make sure you complete all steps. We're looking forward to hearing about your work! Submission guidelines for HEAR NOW Music Festival, April
- [Press Release:  Hear Now Festival 2023 announcement (Updated)](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/press-release-hear-now-festival-2023-announcement/) - View the most recent press release below, or download a copy here. Please let us know if there's anything else we can provide. All programs are subject to change. Press Contact: Sylvi Brown 310-702-5847scbrownpr@msn.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2023 UPDATED HEAR

## Pages

- [Welcome to Hear Now!](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/) - The Hear Now Music Festival features composers from the Los Angeles metropolitan area in a series of concerts each spring. This nationally-recognized festival is an important showcase for contemporary classical artists in Southern California
- [Board & Staff](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/board-members/) - BOARD MEMBERS Officers: Hugh Levick, President Heidi Lesemann, Treasurer and General Manager Members: Dennis Dreith Jonathan Flint Peter Knell Dustin Seo Thomas Small HEAR NOW STAFF Hugh Levick, Artistic Director (contact here) Heidi Lesemann, General Manager (contact here) Lauri D Goldenhersh, Director of Operations and Marketing Dustin Seo, Production Manager
- [DONATE](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/donate/) - Donate Will you help build Hear Now's dynamic future? Hear Now Music Festival is in the 200-year-old Western tradition of innovation, wherein artists create work that expresses what it feels like to be alive in the here and now of socio-historical reality. Your donation helps bring the future of music to enthusiastic audiences. It supports
- [Press Room](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/press/) - We are always updating this page. Please let us know if there's something you'd like to see here! The latest: Press release: February 9, 2026, Los Angeles, CA — 'WORLDS WITHIN': COMPOSERS EXPLORE INNER WORLDS AT HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL Is there a Los Angeles musical style? [Front page, Sunday edition] Mark Swed has thoughts
- [History](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/history/) - Founded in 2011 by composer Hugh Levick and cellist of the Lyris Quartet Timothy Loo (both pictured here), the HEAR NOW Music Festival’s mission is to promote the breadth and diversity of concert music being written by composers living and working in the LA area by presenting concerts and informative activities of high artistic quality
- [Composers Presented](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/composers-presented/) - This is a comprehensive list of the 209 composers HEAR NOW has presented through 2026. Thank you all for being part of the festival over the years! Composers, if you'd like to send us updated information, please contact us. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
- [Fahad Siadat](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/fahad-siadat/) - A “fanciful and downright utopian artist and thinker” (LA Times), Fahad Siadat explores sound as spiritual practice, creating interdisciplinary pieces as a vehicle for unveiling the mystery of our interconnected world. His music is described as “evoking wonder, desire, and terror” (Off Broadway) with narratives that “border on being a spiritual journey” (LA Dance Chronicle).
- [Archives](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/archives/) - 15 years creates a mountain of exciting content! We continue to rebuild our Past Events archives and make resources and highlights available for you. Keep an eye on the menus as we continue to expand this archive, and contact us if you need something in particular. Start with our Featured Works page, which will lead
- [Featured works](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/featured-works/) - This is a collection of musical works we've performed over the years, offering a peek into what Hear Now is all about. Past Commissions Julia Adolphe - Between the Accidental Jonathan Beard - ioso Daniel Corral - Eikosany Study Jeffrey Holmes - Hagall Akari Komura - Inhabited by air Daniel Newman-Lessler and Mady Thornquest -
- [Serrate: Awake](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/audio-links/) - Tomàs Peire Serrate: Awake (2013) presented at Hear Now 2015, festival recording
- [Adolphe: Between the Accidental - full recording](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/adolphe-between-the-accidental/) - Julia Adolphe: Between the Accidental (2010) Hear Now festival 2014, festival recording
- [Meet our 2025 HEAR NOW composers](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/) - We are so proud to be an integral part of the Los Angeles new music community, and privileged to work with so many talented composers over the years. We'd love to introduce the dynamic creators behind our 2025 festival! Please join us March 30, April 13 and May 18 to hear the work of these
- [Lyris Quartet, artistic advisors](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/artistic-team/lyris-quartet/) - Lyris Quartet, artistic advisors The Lyris Quartet is a Los Angeles based string quartet. The quartet was created from a conversation between violinist Alyssa Park, who has enjoyed an illustrious career as an international soloist and is the youngest prizewinner in the history of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and violinist Shalini Vijayan who has built
- [Artistic Team](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/artistic-team/) - Artistic Team HUGH LEVICK, founder and director Graduating cum laude from Yale University, and with an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Hugh Levick set off for Paris to write a novel. In Paris he returned to his musical beginnings and the saxophone, studying and playing with Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy and the Chicago Art
- [About Us](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/) - About Us The mission of HEAR NOW is to explore and bring to the public’s attention the breadth, diversity, and artistic excellence of concert music being written by composers living in and associated with the Los Angeles area. Please click HERE to learn more about our artistic team. Please click HERE to learn more about
- [Donate by mail](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/donate/donate-by-mail/) - Donate by mail We're often asked... and yes, we do accept checks! Make the check payable to "Hear Now Music Festival", and send to the following address: Hear Now Music Festival4209 Via Arbolada, #231Los Angeles, CA 90042 Thank you so much for your generous support of contemporary music in Los Angeles! Prefer to donate online?
- [The Resonance Society](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/donate/legacysociety/) - The Resonance Society Hear Now Music Festival’s Legacy Society By naming Hear Now in your estate plans, you join the Resonance Society - a community of visionaries ensuring that Los Angeles composers will be heard for generations to come. Membership is open to anyone who includes Hear Now in their will, trust, or other plans.
- [Donor Benefits](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/donate/giving-levels/) - Donor Benefits Donate online Donate by mail Every gift makes a difference, so all donors receive recognition in our printed and digital programs and on the Hear Now website. Your support directly fuels the performances, commissions, and educational outreach that make Hear Now Los Angeles’s most vital voice for living composers. In return for your
- [2022 Hear Now Music Festival](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/eleventh-annual-hear-now-music-festival/) - Eleventh Annual Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers April 24, 29, 30 and May 1 Featuring: UCLA PhilharmoniaLyris QuartetBrightwork Ensembleand many other fine musicians April 24 @ 4:00pm — Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Orchestra concert with the UCLA PhilharmoniaWorks by Ian Dicke, Hugh Levick, Jeff Beal, Saad Haddad, Mark Lanz Weiser, and Jairo
- [Video](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/media/video/) - 2018 Hear Now Philharmonia Concert Previous Years Below you will find the playlist from our 2013 Festival. To jump to a specific piece on the playlist, click the "Playlist" menu in the top left corner of the video screen. Enjoy!
- [Media](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/media/) - Check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfhcAfDQMgY468P6_H5lRhg
- [Social Media](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/media/social-media/) - Facebook facebook.com/HearNow Twitter @HearNowLA YouTube Hear Now Music Festival
- [Photos](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/media/photos/)
- [April 2016 - A Tribute to Ruth Eliel](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/ruth-eliel-tribute/) - Please join us for A Tribute to Ruth Eliel Arts Advocate -- Foundation Leader -- Mentor -- Friend and a much-beloved member of the Los Angeles arts community. Honoring her leadership in the arts upon her retirement from The Colburn Foundation Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 7:00 pm In the beautiful Venice home of hosts
- [The HEAR NOW Music Festival Review Process](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/the-hear-now-music-festival-selection-process/) - How are works selected for the Hear Now Music Festival? In the summer of each year, Hear Now sends out an open call to composers living and working in Los Angeles to submit a work for consideration in the following year's festival. This includes works for the electroacoustic concert, the two chamber music concerts, and,
- [Hear Now and The Harmony Project](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-and-the-harmony-project/) - Quotes from students and teachers with The Harmony Project: April 30th, 2018 - Hear Now Workshop Reflections "I really enjoyed that the composer introduced his piece and the meaning behind the piece; it's not everyday that you can meet a living composer." -Vianey Calixto, age 16, has been playing cello for 8 years at The
- [HEAR NOW Thursdays](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/hear-now-thursday-2022/) - Originally brought on by COVID-19, this series is a weekly showcase of performances across our 11-year history. We hope you enjoy listening back through the decade.
- [Gloria Cheng, artistic advisor](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/artistic-team/gloria-cheng/) - Pianist Gloria Cheng is widely cited for performances that unveil the emotional core of music both new and old. She is the winner of the 2009 Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance, while her newest disc, The Edge of Light: Messiaen/Saariaho, in collaboration with the Calder Quartet, was a 2014 Nominee in the same category.
- [William Kraft (1923-2022), former artistic advisor](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/artistic-team/william-kraft/) - Distinguished composer, musician, educator, and inspiration, William Kraft was born in Chicago, IL, on September 6, 1923 and grew up in San Diego, CA. After serving in the United States Air Force for three years, Kraft was awarded two Anton Seidl Fellowships at Columbia University, graduating with a bachelor's degree cum laude in 1951, and
- [Audio](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/audio/) - 2019 Hear Now Music Festival: 2019 2017 Hear Now Music Festival: People Inside Electronics, 2017 Hear Now Music Festival: Chamber Music Concerts, 2017 2016 Hear Now Music Festival: People Inside Electronics, 2016 Hear Now Music Festival: Chamber Music Concerts, 2016
- [Hugh Levick, founder and director](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/artistic-team/hugh-levick/) - Hugh Levick, founder and director Graduating cum laude from Yale University, and with an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Hugh Levick set off for Paris to write a novel. In Paris he returned to his musical beginnings and the saxophone, studying and playing with Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy and the Chicago Art Ensemble, amongst
- [Theo Trevisan](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/theo-trevisan/) - Theo Trevisan (b. 1999) is a Los Angeles-based composer, bass-baritone, and conductor from New Jersey. His influences include the Renaissance, algorithms, minimalism, and memes.Theo’s music has been performed by many collaborators, including the International Contemporary Ensemble, TAK Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Friction Quartet, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, Princeton Laptop Orchestra, DJ Sparr, David Friend, Matthew Gold, and
- [Arin Shahjahanian](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/arin-shahjahanian/) - Arin Shahjahanian is a composer, pianist, and educator whose music emerges at the junction of literature, culture, and poetics. His compositional practice superimposes intricate pitch structures onto complex layers of timbre, rhythm, and noise, all the while featuring recurring inquiries into form, groove, and canon. Throughout these shifting constellations of sounds, he makes space to confront
- [TJ Sclafani](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/tj-sclafani/) - TJ Sclafani is a composer and performer based in Los Angeles. His music has been performed and/or recorded by gnarwhallaby, Flux Quartet, the Moravian Philharmonic, pianist Allison Brewster-Franzetti, C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, and the Ensemble at CalArts. When he’s not doing musical things, he likes trying new foods and restaurants, hiking, and crate digging
- [Tanner Pfeiffer](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/tanner-pfeiffer/) - Tanner Pfeiffer is a culture crafter and sound syncretist known for “coaxing energetic and nuanced improvisations and interpretations into being.” With an artistic practice revolving around gameplay, storytelling, and melodrama, Tanner is known to “never settle for anything less than outrageous.” Compositional focuses include polystylism, satire, and community building. Tanner is the artistic director of
- [Elliot Menard](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/elliot-menard/) - Elliot Menard is an opera-maker, performer-composer, and producer. Working at the nexus of opera-theater, new music, and experimental performance, she is dedicated to exploring opera’s many forms—seeking wonder, discovery, and new perspectives. Elliot’s compositions pursue how text allows music to emerge and the expressive range of the voice. A recent composer-in-residence at Millay Arts, her
- [Peter Knell](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/peter-knell/) - Composer Peter Knell’s music has been praised as “riveting” (Musical America) “alluring”, “deft” (LA Tempo), and “gratefully idiomatic” (Los Angeles Times). He is deeply invested in musical structure as a crucible to intensify the affective experience of the listener. He has received numerous national and international awards, as well as commissions from the Fromm Music
- [John Hollywood](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/john-hollywood/) - At age 30, while working as a registered Professional Engineer in energy efficiency and HVAC, I had an existential crisis. My work was well intentioned and sorely needed, but my impact could never be truly significant because my heart wasn't in it. I don't dream about car engines or neatly organized spreadsheets. I have the
- [Drew Corey](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/drew-corey/) - Drew Corey is a composer, performer and conductor who creates clean, minimalist works while maintaining a sense of warmth. She creates this “warm minimalism” using her signature cellular writing, aleatoric structures, floating melodies and large harmonic textures. Her practice focuses on human connectivity and the visceral nature of certain physical and sonic stimuli. She creates
- [Chris Castro](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/chris-castro/) - Chris Castro is a composer, double bassist, theorist, and educator residing in Southern California. He is a recipient of the 2023 Fromm Music Foundation Commission from Harvard University and Chamber Music America's 2021 Classical Commissioning Award. His music has been described as "on par with Varèse" (anonymous CMA juror) and “at once celebratory and solemn”
- [Kevin Zhang](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/kevin-zhang/) - Kevin Zhang is a composer whose work encompasses instrumental, vocal, electronic, and electro-acoustic concert music, along with field recordings, sound walks, site-specific installations, and interdisciplinary projects involving film, theater, and dance. His compositions have been presented internationally at the Darmstadt, Dian Red Kechil, MoxSonic, NUNC, Royaumont, and SEAMUS festivals, as well as the Electroacoustic Barn
- [Stephen de Filippo](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/stephen-de-filippo/) - Stephen de Filippo is a composer from Wardandi country in the remote southwest of Australia. His music is grounded in detailed score-based concert works that emphasize contemporary performance techniques and rich, textural sound worlds. Often thematically inspired by concepts of travel, place, and identity, Stephen’s works explore the complexities of cultural belonging and disconnection, as
- [Kevin Hartnett](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/kevin-hartnett/) - Kevin Hartnett is composer of instrumental, choral, and electro-acoustic music. He has received honors from the American String Teachers Association, the Music Educators National Conference, and the Mizzou New Music Initiative and was a finalist for The American Prize in Composition in 2020. In 2018, his choral work De profundis was recorded by The Zurich
- [Mason Moy](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/mason-moy/) - Mason Moy is a composer, tubist, and bass trombonist based in Los Angeles, CA. He makes music exploring intersections between extended just intonation and free improvisation. As a composer, Mason has written for the Los Angeles Brass Alliance, theBABAOrchestra, and the James Madison University Wind Ensemble. Mason has performed with Wild Up, Monday Evening Concerts, the Other
- [Daniel Cui](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/daniel-cui/) - Daniel (Jingyang) Cui, a Chinese-born composer, draws inspiration from his rich Chinese heritage, encompassing culture, history, and contemporary social issues. Having spent considerable time abroad, he passionately shares his unique perspectives on China through his musical compositions. His creativity is not confined to grand themes alone, as he finds inspiration in the subtleties of daily
- [Shahab Paranj](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/shahab-paranj/) - Composer, Conductor, Instrumentalist, and Educator Shahab Paranj, an Iranian-born composer, holds degrees in music composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music BA, Manhattan School of Music MM, and the University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. He is considered one of the pioneers among his generation of Iranian composers whose composition style integrates Persian and
- [Gibson Mahnke](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/gibson-mahnke/) - A creator who uses music to explore the human experience, Gibson Mahnke (b.2004) works to constantly push boundaries within the arts. A composer and multi-instrumentalist from Denver, Colorado, Mahnke uses his work to explore the interconnectedness of humanity, nature, and spirituality. His music has been performed worldwide, and he has had the privilege of working
- [Haosi Howard Chen](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/haosi-howard-chen/) - Born in Shanghai, Haosi Howard Chen immigrated as a child with his family to Los Angeles. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor of Arts in piano performance and in composition, before completing his Master of Arts in composition while teaching music theory classes as a teaching assistant there. Upon
- [Tommy Dougherty](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/tommy-dougherty/) - Composer and violinist Tommy Dougherty (b. 1990) is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and solo works. Recent projects include writing a new work, Impro-Vice, for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s through his participation in the 2023 DeGaetano Composition Institute where he worked closely with mentor- composer Anna Clyne.
- [Peter S. Shin](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/peter-s-shin/) - Introspective, referential, and observant, the music of Peter S. Shin strives in reach of others. In its citation for the 2023 Charles Ives Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters observed that Peter “has already established an individual voice” and singled out Hyo, a work in which he reflects on his family’s immigration story
- [Taylor Joshua Rankin](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/taylor-joshua-rankin/) - Taylor Joshua Rankin (b. 1991) is a filmmaker and composer of new music based in Los Angeles, CA. Taylor’s music exists within the trend of contemporary classical composers who draw upon a depth of influences such as minimalism, avant-rock, experimental, micropolyphony, and tintinnabulation, inside of and extending beyond the world of new music. Taylor’s joy
- [Aria Gittelson](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/aria-gittelson/) - Aria Gittelson is a composer, songwriter, and vocal artist from Southern California. They have a BM from the Bob Cole Conservatory in Long Beach, where they premiered their song cycle “purgatory” for their Bachelor’s recital. Aria has written for the Four Corners Ensemble through their program “Operation Opera”, and had a work premiered in the
- [Matthew Brown](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/matthew-brown/) - California native Matthew Brown is active in Los Angeles as a composer, orchestrator, arranger, producer, keyboardist, session singer, and tenor with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. His choral works, hailed by the New York Times as “quietly mesmerizing,” are featured on the Antioch Chamber Ensemble’s album Though Love Be a Day and are published by
- [Bill Alves](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/bill-alves/) - Bill Alves is a composer, video artist, and writer engaged at the intersections of musical cultures and technology. He studied the music of Java and Bali during a 1993-94 Fulbright fellowship and is now the director of the HMC American Gamelan. He is the co-author of Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick and author of Music
- [Jiyoung Ko](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/jiyoung-ko/) - Born in Korea, Jiyoung Ko is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music whose works are deeply rooted in narrative, guiding her creative decisions. Her music often reflects themes of people, landscapes, and experiences, with an affinity for dense textures, resonant hues, and poetic, delicate melodies that shines through in all her creations. Her
- [Arman Gushchyan](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/arman-gushchyan/) - Arman Gushchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1981 and grew up in Moscow, Russia since 1993. Since 2022 he lives in Los Angeles, USA. Education and teaching He graduated Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with honors in 2005, where he studied composition with Roman Ledenyov. Subsequently, he studied composition with Roland Moser and orchestration with Georg
- [Raphael Radna](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/raphael-radna/) - Raphael Radna is a composer and computer music researcher working in acousmatic music, mixed music, computer-assisted composition, spatial audio, and creative music software development. He has presented music and research worldwide in such venues as the International Computer Music Conference, the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, the SEAMUS National Conference, and the San Francisco
- [Hagall — Jeffrey Holmes](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/hagall-haglaz-jeffrey-holmes/) - Performed Saturday, April 27th, 2024 PROGRAM NOTES: Hagall (Haglaz) The title “Hagall” comes from the Old-Norse Runic symbol for hail (as in hailstorm). “Hagall” is the first of the “Winter” runes, implying a not yet fully-frozen landscape, but instead a period of transition and struggle. The individual runic symbol is accompanied by an ancient elemental
- [Eikosany Study — Daniel Corral](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/eikosany-study-daniel-corral/) - Performed Wednesday, April 24, 2024 PROGRAM NOTES: Eikosany Study Eikosany Study takes what I have learned from my prior electronic microtonal music and translates it for a (mostly) acoustic ensemble. Eikosany Study is also my first attempt at exploring the harmonic possibilities of an Eikosany—a 20-note scale built around just-tuned intervals (partials 1, 3, 5,
- [Double Jeopardy — Mu-Xuan Lin](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/double-jeopardy-mu-xuan-lin/) - Performed Friday, April 26, 2024 PROGRAM NOTES: Double Jeopardy Certain deeds, once done, can never be done, at least not in the same way. That is the law of music. Walking the way of music one is both at the moment and through time; objects present themselves blunt and front, shaking off droplets when one
- [an echo that doesn't rhyme — Daniel Newman-Lessler and Mady Thornquest](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/an-echo-that-doesnt-rhyme-daniel-newman-lessler/) - Performed Friday, April 14, 2023 PROGRAM NOTES: an echo that doesn't rhyme Two pianos are bowed by six performers in an antiphonal harmonic progression that alternates between chords built on the harmonic series and their corresponding subharmonic series. Two performers play the extreme low and high registers of the keyboard and pluck a constellation of
- [Inhabited by air — Akari Komura](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/inhabited-by-air-akari-komura/) - Performed Sunday, April 28, 2024 PROGRAM NOTES: Inhabited by air Inhabited by air invites both the listeners and musicians to connect with the subtle momentum of air behind each inhalation and exhalation. Emerging out of the breath, the piece journeys into invisible,transparent, and light qualities of air. How is your body wreathed in the air?
- [Our 13th Festival — April 2024](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/festival-13-april-2024/) - HEAR NOW Music Festival 2024 April 24-28 Electroacoustic Music with People Inside ElectronicsThree Chamber Music Concertsand our biennial Orchestra Concert with the UCLA Philharmonia In addition to HEAR NOW’s extraordinary resident ensembles—Lyris Quartet, Brightwork Ensemble, HEX and other stunningly talented Los Angeles musicians, we are extremely honored that the International Contemporary Ensemble will be traveling
- [Beard: ioso (2012)](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/beard-ioso-2012/) - Jonathan Beard: ioso (2012) Hear Now Music Festival 2015, festival recording
- [Hugh Levick](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/hugh-levick/) - As a composer Levick has received commissions and grants from the NEA, the NY State Council for the Arts, Mutable Music, the King’s Fountain Foundation, le Quatuor Diotima, Radio France, Pianospheres, the Environment Maze Project, the French Ministry of Culture, TM+, UCLA, the Rosetta Consortium, the Formentera Arts Council and the Eric Stokes Fund. Performed
- [John M. Kennedy](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/john-m-kennedy/) - Narrative, process and spontaneity are at the core of the work of composer and bassist John M. Kennedy. His early roots as a rock and jazz bassist gave him the opportunity to explore a variety of styles and piqued his curiosity in experimentation, which has been a constant throughout his career. In recent years, he
- [James Leelayuvat](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/james-leelayuvat/) - Hi, I’m James. I’m a Thai American composer and flautist, born 2005. I started my exploration into music as a flautist in my high-school band. After several years of playing, I began to study composition independently. My compositional interests have slowly shifted over time through different musical techniques and styles. My current interests and focus
- [Jeffrey Holmes](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/jeffrey-holmes/) - Jeffrey Holmes composes post-spectral, teleological music incorporating elements of mysticism and lyrical expression. His creative inspiration is rooted in primitive myths, transcendent legends, and dramatic elemental landscapes in their primal and violent natural states. As a traditionalist, he composes music for acoustic orchestral instruments, using standard notational methods; as a formalist, he works within a
- [Donald Crockett](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/donald-crockett/) - Los Angeles-based composer and conductor Donald Crockett has received commissions from a wide spectrum of organizations including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (Composer-in-Residence, 1991 – 97), Kronos Quartet, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hilliard Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Xtet, Volti and the Guitar Foundation of America, among many others. Recent commissions have come from New Music USA, Aspen
- [J. M. Gerraughty](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/j-m-gerraughty/) - Jason Michael Gerraughty (b. 1982) grew up playing brass instruments in community bands, drum and bugle corps, musical pits, and orchestras in small-town New England. These influences instilled a desire to create music of value to both amateur and seasoned listeners. A central tenet of his work is combining innovative approaches to form, color, and texture
- [Isaac Io Schankler](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/isaac-io-schankler/) - Isaac Io Schankler (they/them) is a composer, accordionist, and electronic musician interested in how technology complicates the ways we create and consume music. Their music has been described as "beautiful, algorithmic, organic, dystopian" (I Care If You Listen) and “remarkable listening” (Sequenza21). They have collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and ensembles, including the Ray-Kallay
- [George Lewis](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/george-lewis/) - George Lewis is an American composer, musicologist, and trombonist. He is Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and Area Chair in Composition at Columbia University, and Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Corresponding Fellow
- [Feona Lee Jones](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/feona-lee-jones/) - Feona Lee Jones currently lives in Los Angeles (Westwood), where she works as a freelance composer, pianist, and teacher. As a composer and pianist, she continues to explore her own musical language, influenced by classical, jazz, North Indian classical, avantgarde film, experimental theatre, and electronics. Her music has been performed in the United States, Iceland,
- [Ella Kaale](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/ella-kaale/) - The music of Ella Kaale [Kah-lee] (b. 2003) is perpetually chasing cathartic release, characterized by collagism, abstraction, and polarity. Kaale is an alumna of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America’s Composer Apprenticeship, where she was mentored by Sean Shepherd. Her music has been performed by the USC Thornton Symphony, TAK Ensemble,
- [Daniel Corral](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/daniel-corral/) - Daniel Corral is a mixed heritage Filipino-American composer/performer born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. Based in Los Angeles since 2005, his creative work includes microtonality, combinations of pop culture and experimental music conceptual rigor, unique instrumentation, performances in outdoor and/or public spaces, consideration of the relational values of performances, and pieces that address current
- [Corey Dundee](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/corey-dundee/) - Los Angeles-based composer and saxophonist Corey Dundee composes music he describes as “rhythmic ridiculousness written in a quasi-atonal yet esoterically functional harmonic language.” Critics have essentially said as much in far less flowery English, characterizing his sonic aesthetic as “trippy dream music” (casual university acquaintance) and “falling down a black rabbit hole” (six-year-old concert-goer in
- [Andrew Moses](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/andrew-moses/) - Andrew Moses is a multimedia artist, composer, and clarinetist living in Los Angeles. His work has been performed by ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Up, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and Mivos, Argus, Calder, and Zorá string quartets. His work has been presented by venues such as
- [Alexander E. Miller](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/alexander-e-miller/) - Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer, guitarist, and educator based in Southern California. His compositions have been described as “deceptively laid back in an LA way… inventive…unconventional (LA Times), and “wild…unearthly…lyrical…a voice worth listening to” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Much of Miller's recent work has focused on his own instrument, the electric guitar, featuring it as a
- [Akari Komura](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/akari-komura/) - Akari Komura (b.1996) is a Japanese composer-vocalist. She grew up in Tokyo and spent her teenage years in Jakarta, Indonesia. From an early age, Akari has been involved in performing arts through playing the piano, singing, and dancing modern ballet. Her interest in somatic practice and embodied consciousness is central to her creative process. Akari
- [Jack Van Zandt](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/jack-van-zandt/) - Jack Van Zandt (b. 1954) is a Grammy-winning composer of music for concerts, film and TV, and a music educator and writer. He is based in Los Angeles and Ireland. He attended UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies and Cambridge University, and studied composition with Alexander Goehr, Thea Musgrave, Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter
- [Kay Rhie](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/kay-rhie/) - Kay Rhie often explores in her music the issues of belonging and the science of acoustics. She is inspired by a wide-ranging palette of classical, film, and European avant-garde music as well as various literary and artistic traditions. Her musical studies began in South Korea on the piano from the age of seven, and continued
- [Joseph Pereira](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/joseph-pereira/) - Joseph Pereira (1974) enjoys a multi-faceted career as a timpanist/percussionist, composer, conductor, and teacher. His work in all areas has been widely hailed for his creativity and virtuosity, and has been profiled in feature articles in both The New York Times (2006) and The LA Times in 2012 and 2015. In 2015 Pereira was featured
- [Oscar Pan](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/oscar-pan/) - Oscar Pan is an award-winning composer for the screen and concert stage. Being a travel enthusiast and arts fanatic, he is always drawn to cross-cultural collaborations and new sounds that speak to our living world. His recent works include the score to Sonnet Crown for NYC (2021), a poetic documentary commissioned by and played at The Shed in New
- [Thea Musgrave](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/thea-musgrave/) - (b. 1928) Rich and powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting contemporary composers in the Western world. Her works are performed in major concert halls, festivals, and radio stations on both sides of the Atlantic. Known for the clarity of
- [Mu-Xuan Lin](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/mu-xuan-lin/) - Mu-Xuan Lin (Taiwan/USA)’s music has been heard worldwide as well as on the radio stations SRF2 kultur (Switzerland) and WQXR (New York), on SOOND (France) and ein_klang (Austria) records. She is a guest-composer/faculty at the Novalis music+art Festival (Croatia) and the New Music on the Bluff (Los Angeles), the winner of the Protonwerk No.3 award (Switzerland) and
- [Michael M Lee](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/michael-m-lee/) - Michael M Lee is an active composer and teacher with a pedagogy background in composition, theory, post-tonal analysis, and aural skills. Based in Los Angeles, he tries to discover different techniques and approaches for expanding one’s pitch language. He was born in Atlanta, GA, and raised in Maryland. His primary instrument is the trumpet, and
- [Jeonghyeon Joo](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/jeonghyeon-joo/) - Jeonghyeon Joo is a haegeum performer/composer based in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her practice includes performance, composition, improvisation, artistic research, collaboration, writing, and teaching. She explores the physical, social, cultural, and political relationship between the performer and instrument, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and performance artists. She is a recipient of the Arts
- [Kion Heidari](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/kion-heidari/) - Kion Heidari is an LA-based composer, vocal artist, and instrumentalist. He has written for film, concerts, musicals, and more. His versatile work for media includes animated short films such as First Period (2023, dir. Julianna Romero), Nothing is Here (2021 dir. by Kyky Yang), Truce in March (2021, dir. Janelle Feng), and Low-Key (2020, dir. Collin Schuster). In his chamber and concert writing, Kion
- [Jeremy Dávalos](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/jeremy-davalos/) - Jeremy Dávalos (b. 1999) is a composer, trumpet player, recording engineer, and video editor based in the Los Angeles area. As a composer, Jeremy writes music that experiments at the stylistic intersection of contemporary classical music and modern jazz, all to create deeply emotional musical experiences unique to each performance. His music melds the highly
- [Juhi Bansal](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/juhi-bansal/) - “Radiant and transcendent”, the music of Juhi Bansal weaves together themes celebrating musical and cultural diversity, nature and the environment, and strong female role models. Her music draws upon elements as disparate as progressive metal, Hindustani music, spectralism, musical theatre and choral traditions to create deeply expressive, evocative sound-worlds. As an Indian composer brought up
- [Ryan McWilliams](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/ryan-mcwilliams/) - Ryan McWilliams (b. 1992) is a Los Angeles-based composer, performer, and educator. His music plays with ideas of attention and difference as perceived through instrumental timbre, gesture, and form. Ryan’s music at times also reflects his scholarly work in Early Music and its relationship to the music-making of today. As a guitarist, Ryan is interested
- [Madeline Barrett](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/madeline-barrett/) - Madeline Barrett is a Los Angeles-based composer of concert music known to evoke imagery of nature and foster human connection. Raised in Phoenix, AZ, she draws inspiration from the world around her, whether it be the oceans of the North American coast, the deserts of Arizona, or the softly bustling streets of Boston. Madeline’s new
- [Jack Herscowitz](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/composers/jack-herscowitz/) - Jack Herscowitz is a Los Angeles based composer, improviser, and sound artist whose work engages impossibility, autobiographical sampling, performance-as-commitment,horror, shifting unstable loops, and the extremities of noise to recognize music as a multi-sensory social art form: bringing attention to the situations in which we experience andcreate sound, rather than just sound itself. His work runs
- [Program book — HEAR NOW Music Festival 2017](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/program-book-hn22-2-2-2/)
- [Program book — HEAR NOW Music Festival 2018](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/program-book-hn22-2-2/)
- [Program book — HEAR NOW Music Festival 2019](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/program-book-hn22-2/)
- [Program book — HEAR NOW Music Festival 2023](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/program-book-hn22/)
- [Commissions](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/commissions/) - HN ANNUAL COMMISSIONS Krummel 2023: Continuum: Cause & Effect by Arash Majd, composer
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- [Press feature:  LA Times interview, 5/11/11](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/press-feature-la-times-interview-5-11-11/) - The following is an LA Times interview with our founder, Hugh Levick, as featured on their "Culture Monster" blog in May 2011: LA Times subscribers can view the article in the archives here.
- [Program book — HEAR NOW Music Festival 2022](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/eleventh-annual-hear-now-music-festival/program-book-hn22/)
- [Kraft Memorial Concert 2023](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/past-events/kraft-memorial-concert-2023/) - William Kraft Memorial Concert Curated by Joan Huang Kraft Saturday, February 11, 8pm Thayer Hall - The Colburn School Pre-concert talk with David Ocker and John Steinmetz starts at 7:45pm View the concert program here
- [Program - William Kraft Memorial Concert 2023](https://hearnowmusicfestival.com/about-us/artistic-team/william-kraft/program-william-kraft-memorial-concert-2023/)
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