No Exit tours The Land of Little Rain Suite

From June 11-21, No Exit will perform The Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour.

No Exit brings their 2024-25 season to a close with a presentation of music from The Collective – an international consortium of composers who represent some of the most individual and poetic voices in new music today. This eclectic program will be performed throughout Europe by No Exit during the first 2 weeks of June. The concert will feature works by Agata Zubel, Mathew Rosenblum, Douglas Knehans, Spiros Mazis, Amy Kaplan, Constantine Koukias, Edward Smalldone, Timothy Beyer, Cindy Cox, Pamela Madsen and Jack Vees.

Full Tour Schedule

June 11, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Athens, Greece
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be in the Black Box Theater at The American College of Greece. More info here.

June 13, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Peruggia, Italy
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be at the Morlacchi Conservatory. More info here.

June 15, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Wrocław, Poland
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be in the Akademii Muzycznej concert hall. More info here.

June 21, 2025 | The Land of Little Rain Suite in Amsterdam
No Exit performs the Land of Little Rain Suite on their European tour, featuring composers from The Collective. This performance will be in the Vondelkerk Amsterdam. More info here.

Boulanger Initiative: Virtual Presentation

I will explore the creative process behind my Opera America award-winning work, "Why Women Went West." In the presentation, I discuss how my work documents historical dramas and revive the voices of women through archival research, collaboration, and deep listening at significant sites, aiming to impact the future.

This is a virtual presentation held via Zoom.


Full Blurb:

Pamela Madsen, an internationally acclaimed composer, performer, researcher, and director of the CSUF New Music Series, will share insights into her creative process, focusing on her Opera America award-winning work, Why Women Went West; Her diverse portfolio includes immersive concert-length projects, solo and chamber music, and multimedia opera collaborations, tackling themes of social change, image, music, text, and the environment. With a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UCSD and Yale University, and training in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros, Madsen’s research explores compositional evolution, improvisation, electronic music, and the role of women in music. As a composer, she documents historical dramas, reviving women’s voices through archival research, collaboration, and deep listening at significant sites, aiming to impact the future. Her major works include award-winning operas like Why Women Went West; Oratorio for the Earth; and There Will Come Soft Rains. exploring themes around Marie Curie, ancient sibyls, Arctic myths, and climate change. Madsen has been recognized as a Huntington Library Mellon Fellow, Alpert Award Panelist, and Creative Capital artist “on the radar”, with awards from the Copland Foundation, American Scandinavian Foundation, MacDowell, UCross, Women’s International Studies Center, and Wurlitzer Foundation. She currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at California State University, Fullerton.

May 22 - Melting Away: Gravity in NYC

On Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, at 7:30 PM in the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall, the League of Composers/ISCM presents a concert of innovative and expressive new works featuring premieres by Justin Weiss, Pamela Madsen, Paul Salerni, and Roger Reynolds. The Orchestra of the League of Composers will be conducted by Louis Karchin and David Fulmer.

Thursday | May 22, 2025 | 7:30 pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY

Program

Justin Weiss: through depths and shadows (NY Premiere)
Winner, 2024 League-ISCM Competition for New Works

Pamela Madsen: Melting Away: Gravity (Premiere of the version for Sinfonietta)
featuring Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano

Paul Salerni: The Oak and the Reed (NY Premiere)
featuring Domenic Salerni, violin

Roger Reynolds: JOURNEY (U.S. premiere)
featuring Jacqueline Leclair, oboe

Tickets: $25 Advance | $35 Doors | $15 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
Doors open: 7:00 PM

March 21-22: The Consecrating Mother in Greece

The Trio ACG performs The Consecrating Mother from Oratorio for the Earth on March 21st and 22nd in Greece. Performances feature works by the international composer group — The Collective — at The American College of Greece and Ionian Academy.

March 21, 2025 | The Consecrating Mother in Athens, Greece
Trio ACG performs The Consecrating Mother for voice, cello, and piano at The American College of Greece.

March 22, 2025 | The Consecrating Mother on Corfu, Greece
Trio ACG performs The Consecrating Mother for voice, cello, and piano at Ionian Academy.

SŌ Percussion @ CSUF (2/19-20)

2025 Grammy Award winners SO Percussion are coming to CSUF!

Shaw and So Percussion won a Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their album “Rectangles and Circumstance”.

Keep an eye out for CSUF events:
Feb. 19th-Percussion Room 119
Workshop/Masterclass 7:30-8:30PM
Open Rehearsal with So Percussion and CSUF New Music Ensemble 8:30-9:30PM

Feb. 20th, Concert 8PM Meng Hall works by SŌ AT FULLERTON!
MENG AUDITORIUM

Works by Nathalie Joachim, Pamela Madsen, Jason Treuting, Olivier Tarpaga, and Pauline Oliveros.

CSUF New Music Ensemble Performing works by Jason Treuting and Pamela Madsen with So Percussion.