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Lowell Liebermann is featured as the 2012 Festival of Contemporary Art Music guest composer. A concluding concert dedicated to his works will be held on February 4.

Edgar Meyer gives a solo concert and performs with Joshua Bell, the Calder Quartet, and the Calidore Quartet as a guest composer-performer at the tenth annual Laguna Beach Music Festival.

Five nights of music from the evolving Avant-Garde. Featuring new works by Randy Gibson, Eve Beglarian, and Jenny Olivia Johnson, as well as a celebration of John Cage and Arnold Schoenberg.

Paul Dooley introduces his new work for brass ensemble and percussion, to be premiered February 19 by the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings at First Methodist Church in Birmingham. A reception with the composer will be held post-concert.

Bassoonist, composer, and instrument-maker Leslie Ross gives a performance of her multi-channel bassoon endeavors and demonstrates other instruments that she has built.

Featuring Red Light violist Erin Wight, Feldman's Viola in My Life I and II are combined with new pieces by a new generation of composers who cite Feldman as an important influence.

Ken Ueno, Tyshawn Sorey, Harold Budd, John Kennedy, Ikue Mori and four other innovative composers are featured at Other Minds' International Festival of New Music in the Bay Area.

Judith Shatin completes a four-day residency at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, which includes forums, workshops, seminars, and performances of her work.

Brenda Hutchinson and Beta Collide, University of Oregon's ensemble-in-residence, join forces to present a collaborative performance event in which each attendee will be invited to make an offering to everyone else.

Paul Kikuchi will present an artist talk and a performance of his new works as part of the Pacific Exhange outreach program.

As part of the Meridian Music: Composers in Performance series, Pamela Z will perform short works for voice, electronics, and video, including Flare Stains and Broom, and a live version of her new media work Memory Trace.

“Have you ever been kept awake by barking neighborhood dogs and been so agitated you wanted to use the phrase: ‘Terminate with extreme prejudice’? Jeremy dePrisco, composer of the music for Dog Assassin: The Musical will take part in discussions after each performance.

The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet premieres Van Stiefel's new work Cinema Castaneda at the Sundin Music Hall at Hamline University.

Evan Johnson presents a multimedia introduction to his music and aesthetics, and his works ground and Supplement are performed in a concert also featuring music by Stefan Wolpe and Peter Ablinger.

Theatre of Yugen's work-in-progress production consists of two plays from Greg Giovanni’s A Minor Cycle, a series of five plays modeled on a traditional Japanese Noh performance. Composer Edward Schocker has written original music for sections of the plays.