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Music for All Ages and Stages

Thursday February 11th 7:00PM PT 10:00PM ET: Deon Price and Carla Bartlett – Piano Pieces for All Ages and All Stages Composing for students! Deon and Carla are masters of this form. It will be fun to listen to and informative about this in-demand style.

Beethoven 250th Spectacular

Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th Birthday with a live concert of new music inspired by Beethoven! From profoundly beautiful to jovial humor, this will have something for everyone. Featuring music of: Adrienne Albert Bruce Broughton Greg Steinke Richard Derby Matthew Hetz Ian Wiese David Raiklen Alex Shapiro Deon Price And special guest Read more…

Performed By The Composer

Amazing rare recordings of all-time greats playing their own music! The sound quality is good even from a century ago thanks to special reproducing piano technology. A delight for all music lovers! This Monday with David Raiklen  nacusa.la@gmail.com

First Music Book Club

Absolutely on Music, by Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa Available online or support your local bookstore. Discussion led by Michelle Green Willner, composer-conductor and Fellow at Columbia University.

Spectacular Beethoven 250th!!

Greetings NACUSA-LA Members: The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Composers is pleased to invite NACUSA-LA composers to participate in a Zoom Recital for a BEETHOVEN SPECTACULAR. in honor of the 250th Anniversary of LVB’s Birth!!     The concert will take place On ZOOM on Saturday, December 12th, 2020 at 3 pm PT, Read more…

Listening Party!

Time for another free listening party on October 12th, 7:00PM PT! Send your 5 minute or less mp3s to nacusa.la@gmail.com. Bring a beverage and join the fun!

Dr. Raymond Torres-Santos

You’re invited to a conversation with the prolific Dr. Raymond Torres-Santos,  who’s work spans many genres and who was Dean at CSULB. Monday September 21st 8 pm. A fun, thoughtful speaker! Dr. Raymond Torres-Santos is a composer, conductor and pianist. His works include orchestral,electronic and vocal music for the concert Read more…

Writing for Oboe Family

Join us Monday August 17th for Dean Greg Steinke – Writing for Oboe. 8pm PT Zoom. NACUSA LA Conversations presents a series on writing for solo instruments. Handouts available here: A COMPOSER BIBLIOGRAPHY    Oboe WORKING SYLLABUS9 They are really useful. Plus info on our group – Please consider joining! Read more…