[Voxnovus] Announcing the Selections for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Andrew White
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Announcing the Selections for
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Andrew White
Vox Novus presents a new installment of the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame series,
spotlighting baritone Andrew White, performing 15 one-minute works written
specifically for his voice and artistry.
Vox Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame invites composers worldwide to create
one-minute pieces for a designated performer. The result is a panoramic
glimpse into contemporary music—distilled into compact yet potent
miniatures that showcase a wide range of modern compositional voices.
Vox This new set highlights an international group of composers exploring
the expressive intensity of the one-minute form. Styles range from lyrical
and text-driven to multimedia and experimental — all delivered by a master
interpreter.
Andrew White, baritone, serves on the voice faculty at the University of
Nebraska at Kearney. He holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music
and Case Western Reserve University and has previously taught at
institutions such as Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of
Akron, and Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.
His 1995 New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall
featured the songs of Frederick Koch. New York Concert Review described him
as “a formidable interpreter… Every song composer should be so lucky with
collaborators.”
15 works selected from living composers:
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*Time – David Bohn*
Text from Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn (1682)
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*FIREBRAND – Erik Branch*
Inspired by poet Harry Crosby’s ecstatic, prophetic verse
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*Once Awake – Ross James Carey*
A setting of Sherry Grant’s poetry marking the centenary of Katherine
Mansfield
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*As the Rain – Sarah Clevely*
Based on a traditional Gaelic prayer, evoking resilience and clarity
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*A Boat that Sails – Pernille Faye*
A musical meditation on solitude at sea, inspired by Christina Rossetti
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*Karitas – Tom Lane*
A stark, urgent setting of Hildegard von Bingen’s ecological vision
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*Catoblepas – Darth Presley*
A mythic mashup of swamp beasts, fire, and unsettling sonic dreams
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*Let Mother Breathe – Gene Pritsker*
A movement from Mother Earth Doesn’t Wear Lipstick, with electronics
with words by poet Robert C. Ford.
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*tasten II – Volker Ignaz Schmidt*
A poetic abstraction with text by Marko Racković
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*How Much – How Little – Soheil Shirangi*
A contemplative, electronic reflection on Emily Dickinson’s brevity
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*Do you bloom? – Kirsten Johnson*
A delicate setting of a haiku by 17th-century Japanese poet Den Sutejo
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*By My Window – Brent Straughan*
A meditation on sleep and mortality, inspired by Shakespeare
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*Roaming in Thought – Kyle Vanderburg*
A condensed, intense treatment of Walt Whitman’s spiritual ruminations
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*Return – Blair Whittington*
This work is a vocalise, ritornello-inspired form with world music colors
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*The Aliens – David Wolfson*
A sci-fi romp through the tropes of vintage genre fiction
Fifteen-Minute-of-Fame featuring Andrew White at Composer Concordance
concert in NYC
This set of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Famewill be Presented by Composers
Concordance & Vox Novus at The Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza on Monday,
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM in New York City
Andrew White will be joined by pianist David Wolfson for this special
performance, which will also feature additional vocal works by David Bohn,
Michael Coleman, Eugene W. McBride, Gene Pritsker, Jean‑Christophe Rosaz,
and David Wolfson himself.
Composers Concordance, directed by Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper, has been
promoting adventurous new music for over 40 years through live concerts,
recordings, and educational outreach.
Vox Novus and its founder Robert Voisey continue to revolutionize how new
music is made, presented, and experienced — with over 1,000 premieres
through the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame series alone.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of compact musical brilliance and
vocal exploration!
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Andrew White - Collaboration and Accompaniment
Composers Concordance
Andrew White - Baritone
A Preseason Event
Co-Presented with Vox Novus
Composers:
David Bohn, Michael Coleman, Eugene W. McBride, Gene Pritsker,
Jean-Christophe Rosaz, and David Wolfson.
Plus the selections of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Andrew White:
David Bohn, Erik Branch, Ross James Carey, Sarah Clevely, Pernille Faye,
Kirsten Johnson, Tom Lane, Darth Presley, Gene Pritsker, Volker Ignaz
Schmidt, Soheil Shirangi, Brent Straughan, Kyle Vanderburg, Blair
Whittington, David Wolfson
Performers
Andrew White - baritone
David Wolfson - piano
Monday, Aug. 18th, 2025 at 7pm
The Ellington Room
at Manhattan Plaza
400 W 43rd St, NYC
FREE EVENT
On Monday, August 18th at 7pm, Composers Concordance, in association with
Vox Novus, kicks off its preseason with a unique concert: Andrew White –
Baritone. This dynamic program showcases new works for solo baritone
voice—ranging from a cappella to pieces with piano and electronics.
Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper will get things started with a
lively rundown of what's in store for the 2025–26 season, Then acclaimed
baritone Andrew White will take the stage, performing compositions by:
David Bohn, Michael Coleman, Eugene W. McBride, Gene Pritsker,
Jean-Christophe Rosaz, and David Wolfson, along with a special presentation
of Vox Novus' Fifteen Minutes of Fame.
This set features 15 one-minute works written for Andrew White by: David
Bohn, Erik Branch, Ross James Carey, Sarah Clevely, Pernille Faye, Kirsten
Johnson, Tom Lane, Darth Presley, Gene Pritsker, Volker Ignaz Schmidt,
Soheil Shirangi, Brent Straughan, Kyle Vanderburg, Blair Whittington, David
Wolfson,
A champion of Art Song and contemporary music, Andrew White has
distinguished himself in recitals of French mélodie, Lieder, and
contemporary American art song, including numerous premiere performances.
He was selected to participate in the Cleveland Art Song Festival six
times, appearing as a featured artist on the 1996 festival. He won the VARN
competition in 1997 and was First Prize winner of the 1995 Richardson
Awards Vocal Competition. While a student, White was granted a full
scholarship to study in Switzerland with Gerard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin.
In 1995, he made his New York recital debut in Weill Recital Hall of
Carnegie Hall in a program devoted to the songs of Cleveland composer
Frederick Koch. One review hailed him as "... a formidable interpreter ...
Every song composer should be so lucky with collaborators."
David Wolfson has been composing for and performing with Andrew White since
the 1980s. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera,
musical theatre, touring children's musicals, and incidental music for
plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art
songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and pop songs,
including his recent singer/songwriter EP Gravity Well. He has performed in
pit orchestras on and off-Broadway and on cabaret and concert stages across
the country.
The concert will also be live-streamed on Composers Concordance's Facebook
Page.
Staying in rotation for 42 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a
new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and
cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's
ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as
well as talented new composers on the scene. Composers Concordance, founded
in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening,
strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis
on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate
the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String
Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter
Jarvis, Debra Kaye, Seth Boustead, and Audrey Morse. Composers Concordance
has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance
Records. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote
contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected
part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the
boundaries of sound and composition.
"Composers Concordance..a veritable New York new music institution of
concerts, album production and multiple ensembles under a sweeping,
tenacious brand, thriving on the emulsion of contemporary classical, free
improv, jazz and rock, overt humor and fearless political statements, all
very much in evidence..The ensemble..was masterful throughout."-John
Pietaro, The New York City Jazz Record
"An unwavering force in giving composers exposure through concert bookings
and its own record label, the intrepid new-music organization Composers
Concordance" - The Brooklyn Rail
"The Composers Concordance folks are unpredictable and at times
refreshingly irreverent in a reverent sort of way....ingenious fun" -
Classical-Modern Music Review
"Enterprising new music organization" - The New York Times
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Call for Scores
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Vox Novus invites composers to submit one-minute works for
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring baritone violin and clavichord—a rare and
intimate pairing. Explore the unique timbres of these historic instruments.
Find more information and submit at
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Call for Lever harp Scores
Deadline: September 15, 2025
Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for lever harp for the
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project. The set of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame
featuring Alyssa Reit with lever harp to be premiered online in 2025. This
call is part of a 15 year anniversary of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame.
Find more information and submit at
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