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FIND MEMBERS OF THE CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS COMMITTEE AT THESE APAP|NYC EVENTS.
CLASSICAL MUSIC FORUM
Join a discussion with colleagues exploring timely issues, challenges and opportunities facing classical music presenting today.
Friday, January 10, 9-11 a.m. Free and open to the public.
EQUITY IN CLASSICAL MUSIC: FROM BEHIND THE TIMES TO AHEAD OF THE CURVE
Using the classical music field and racial equity as a jumping-off point, this session will interrogate power dynamics, grapple with difficult questions, review practical solutions and consider stakeholders' responsibility in the transformation of communities through the arts.
Saturday, January 11, 10:15-11:15 a.m.
SMALL AND MID-SIZED PRESENTING: SCALING CLASSICAL MUSIC PROGRAMMING TO YOUR NEEDS
Presenting classical music can pose unique challenges for small and mid-sized organizations. This session explores strategies for building a classical music audience, maintaining artistic quality despite budget limitations and offering tactics for new classical music presenters. This interactive session will benefit presenters from all types of communities and organizational structures.
Saturday, January 11, 9-10:15 a.m.
YPCA SHOWCASE AND RECEPTION
The YPCA program, funded by the Classical Connections Endowment, supports classical musicians early in their careers. They learn the trade during sessions at APAP|NYC and then are featured in a special performance – APAP’s only showcase! – at Carnegie Hall. This year’s musicians are: Invoke, Ivalas Quartet, Jiji Kim, Omer Quartet and Hanzhi Wang.
Monday, January 13, 6-8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall. Free and open to the public.
JOHN ZION
Owner and Managing Director MKI Artists
The most pressing question facing the classical music community right now is how we can maintain and grow the necessary economic support for all parties – artists, presenting organizations and orchestras. It’s such an unbelievably vibrant and innovative time artistically right now, but we all need to move away from a place
of fear and inflexibility in order
to achieve true sustainability.
I’m particularly heartened to see the classical music community growing increasingly open-minded, as well as by continued efforts to cultivate more diverse and inclusive participation in the art form.
The current and accepted programming models have given us a firm foundation to build on, and we need to keep pushing to innovate. Artists want to perform music that will connect with audiences and communities. This impact happens most often when an open dialogue can take place between artists and presenters each bringing their own
expertise and knowledge to the conversation.
We also need to listen to artists, presenters and audiences that have traditionally not been accepted or who don’t feel comfortable in this world. In order for classical music to thrive today and tomorrow, we need to incorporate new ideas, develop new business models, and expand who is on stage and in our audiences.
FAVORITE COMPOSER: My parents tell a story that when I was very young they put on a record of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and I came bounding down the stairs demanding to know “What is THAT?” This was the first time I came under the spell of classical music. Ever since, I’ve continued to marvel at the beauty, level of human expression and remarkable development Beethoven achieved over the course of his life.
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