2017 Composers Now Festival Opening Event

Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at 7:30 pm

This is an archived event, not part of the current festival.

Cary Hall, Dimenna Center

450 W. 37th Street

New York, NY

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 7:30pm

Cary Hall, DiMenna Center
450 West 37 Street, New York, NY

Tania León and IONE

The Opening Event of the seventh annual Composers Now Festival featured a vibrant program of music by living composers hosted by Composers Now founder and artistic director, Tania León. The event also included the second annual Composers Now Visionary Awards ceremony honoring Muhal Richard Abrams, Thomas Buckner, and Pauline Oliveros (posthumously). At the Opening Event, Composers Now was honored with a Proclamation presented on behalf of Mayor Bill de Blasio by Kathleen Hughes, Assistant Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs:

"I, Bill de Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 in the City of New York as: Composers Now Festival Day."

Music by composers including:

Video Screenings by Fall 2016 Composers Now Creative Residents at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund:
Sasha Zamler-Carhart, composer, singer Ngô Thanh Phu'o'ng, choreographer, dancer		Tonia Ko, composer Yasuno Miyauchi, composer