Composing Home

Composing Home was a collaborative, 6-week afterschool project for children ages 6-12 that will be taking place at The Aquinas Center in Philadelphia in the fall of 2019. The primary goal of the project is to foster emotional self-awareness and expression through music and musical creativity. Participants will learn a variety of musical concepts with a focus on rhythm, range, and dynamics. The project will culminate in applying these concepts through the co-creation of a new piece of music, which will be a musical representation of the participants’ feelings of home and will be paired with Aquinas Center’s new mural titled “Dare to Understand” by Mural Arts Philadelphia. This project is made possible by generous funding from the Connelly Foundation and countless hours of invaluable advisement from the Astral Artists team

Cityscaping

Cityscaping, is the culmination of years of effort by The Brass Project to bring engaging, adventurous new music to a wide audience spearheaded by Eric as founder of The Brass Project and composer, Nick DiBerardino nickdiberardino.com. This debut album features several of the thirty-two works we commissioned specifically for our The Brass Project’s first season.

In this commissioning project, we asked our composers to write music they imagined might be performed in a public space, perhaps even outdoors. We also asked that they keep their works short – roughly three minutes in length. The result is a collection of pieces, each roughly the length of a pop song, which proudly displays the diverse voices of contemporary composers from around the world. Our imagined scenario of outdoor performances in civic spaces hearkens back to an era when participation in town bands and other forms of civic music was a central part of American culture.

Learn more: https://www.thebrassproject.com/cityscaping

Listen to the album: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thebrassproject