Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary during the 2020 Hear Now Festival. Hear incredibly breathtaking performances of very personal, idiosyncratic, impossible to categorize forms of concert music. With over 250 submissions for our 2020 call for scores, we have placed a spotlight on Los Angeles composers and performers. With your support, we will bring another 10 years of showcasing the diversity and astounding talent of Los Angeles.
Hear Now 2020 takes place April 23rd, 24th, and May 2nd and 3rd, 2020, presenting orchestral, electroacoustic, and two chamber music concerts by contemporary Los Angeles composers in collaboration with three outstanding Los Angeles institutions, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the UCLA Philharmonia, and People Inside Electronics. In addition to performances by Lyris Quartet (founding ensemble of Hear Now), Brightwork newmusic (ensemble-in-residence for the electroacoustic concert), UCLA Philharmonia, Neal Stulberg Music Director and Conductor, plus other first-rate musicians in the Los Angeles area, Hear Now is also pleased to announce that the outstanding vocal ensemble, HEX, will be joining our performers’ roster.
How has Hear Now been received over the last 10 years?
Mark Swed, LA Times: ‘…rapturous chamber music…’ ‘ …Fresh and surprising…’
Russell Steinberg: What a treat to hear such contrasting and artistically conceived worlds of sound, performed by talented and deep-thinking performers, in such an acoustically perfect hall. Let’s keep embracing the different!”
Richard Ginell: “A diverse display of new music it was, spanning nearly four generations of living Los Angeles composers and a cross-section of idioms…. the performances were technically top-notch, often reaching deep into the music for that something extra…”
Rodney Punt: “…a host of L.A.’s finest composers and musicians … a very successful Hear Now Music Festival …”
The composers and instrumentalists involved in the HEAR NOW Festival are the artists keeping music moving beyond the known frontiers. They are giving us beauty where we never expected to find it. Please support the values that innovative art brings to our world. We cannot do it without you.
Your support is vital to the festival.
If you want to give more than described on the side panel, there are some great benefits to commissioning a composer, supporting an instrumentalist, or sponsoring a full concert. Please see our website for further information, or contact the Hear Now office at (323) 226-0326.
All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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The experience, knowledge, and professionalism of the composers, musicians, artistic and administrative personnel together with the financial and enthusiastic support of the community have led HEAR NOW to nine successful festivals without serious mishap. But, yes, of course things do happen! A few years ago a soloist cracked his head in a fall the day of the performance! (He was fine in a couple of days.) We postponed the performance for following year. Another year, on the last day of the festival, the piano broke!! Our great piano technician propped it up, retuned it, and the show went on–perfectly!! That one was a corker!
Producing a 4-concert festival with over 100 musicians and 22 composers in three different locations is a rewarding challenge and requires the dedication of a large group of people who are determined to make an exciting, rapturous experience for audience, composer, and performer alike!
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The experience, knowledge, and professionalism of the composers, musicians, artistic and administrative personnel together with the financial and enthusiastic support of the community have led HEAR NOW to nine successful festivals without serious mishap. But, yes, of course things do happen! A few years ago a soloist cracked his head in a fall the day of the performance! (He was fine in a couple of days.) We postponed the performance for following year. Another year, on the last day of the festival, the piano broke!! Our great piano technician propped it up, retuned it, and the show went on–perfectly!! That one was a corker!
Producing a 4-concert festival with over 100 musicians and 22 composers in three different locations is a rewarding challenge and requires the dedication of a large group of people who are determined to make an exciting, rapturous experience for audience, composer, and performer alike!