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April 2023

Boston’s Radius Ensemble to Perform the Music of Alexandra du Bois

April 29, 2023@ 8:00 pm-9:00 pm
Pickman Hall,
27 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA United States
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Boston's Radius Ensemble Perform the music of Alexandra du Bois From Radius Ensemble: Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 8 pm Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music CZERNOWIN – fardanceCLOSE for solo piano DU BOIS – Night Songs for wind quintet BRAHMS – String Sextet in G major, Op. 36 Radius brings the season to a close with two works by locals in a program of cultural and historical Reverberations. First comes a solo piano…

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February 2020

Fort Dodge Symphony to Perform Fanfare for Orchestra

February 16, 2020
Fort Dodge Symphony,
Fort Dodge, IA United States
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Conductor Joshua Barlage leads the Fort Dodge Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Alexandra du Bois' Fanfare for orchestra. Originally commissioned and premiered by the Anchorage Symphony with conductor Randall Craig Fleischer in 2008, du Bois wrote Fanfare in honor of the inauguration of the first African American to hold office of President of the United States in 2009. It has since been performed throughout the United States. 

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March 2023

Neave Trio perform music of Alexandra du Bois

March 12, 2023@ 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Neave Trio,
Waverly Chamber Music Concerts
Waverly, United States
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The Neave Trio perform the music of Alexandra du Bois. PROGRAM March 12th, 2023, 3pm Waverly Chamber Music Concerts - Waverly, IA Alexandra du Bois ~ L’Apothéose d’un Rêve Josef Suk ~ Piano Trio, Op. 2 Ravel ~ Trio

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May 2023

Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra Performs Alexandra du Bois’ Fanfare for Orchestra

May 5, 2023@ 7:00 am-8:00 pm
Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra
Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra with Composer Alexandr du Bois

"An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times." —Dr. Nina Simone, composer, songwriter, concert pianist.


Fanfare for orchestra (2008) was written during the months before the inauguration of the first African American to hold office of President of the United States and celebrates this moment in time in a fanfare for orchestra. The piece celebrates the civil rights movement and in particular in relation to the inauguration of President Barak Obama. The piece was equally inspired the hymn written by Rev. Charles Tindley in 1901 which later became the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome. While the work is a “fanfare”, after the opening, it moves quickly into introspection in the center of the piece bookended by fanfare, representing the inner work white Americans must do in acknowledging, confronting, understanding, and addressing systemic racism in the United States, past and present, and the fact that the inauguration of the 44th president was not going to do that.

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May 2020

Serenata of Santa Fe to Present the New Mexico Premiere of du Bois ‘Speaking Tide’

May 2, 2020@ 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Serenata of Santa Fe,
Santa Fe, NM United States
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Serenata of Santa Fe in New Mexico will perform The Speaking Tide for bass clarinet, cello, and piano which will be the New Mexico premiere of the work. Alexandra du Bois wrote the work in 2007 for a core of dancers choreographed by Spenser Theberge at The Juilliard School. The work has since been performed throughout the United States without the original choreography. Mimesis Ensemble in New York City is recording and will be releasing…

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May 2022

Museum of Science Boston & Institut Curie Paris present music of Alexandra du Bois

May 5, 2022@ 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Boston Museum of Science,
1 Museum Of Science Driveway
Boston, MA 02114 United States
du bois Quintet

When music and science meet
Music and science have often been linked in the history of music. Until the middle of the 20th century, most of the music inspired by science was related to physics and mathematics. With the considerable progress made in biology, especially since the discovery of the structure of DNA, biology has also begun to serve as a source of musical inspiration. Some scientific concepts or measures have sometimes been converted directly into music, in other cases a scientific discovery has simply animated the imagination of composers.

The Muse-IC project aims to give composers this opportunity by commissioning a work inspired by a recent scientific discovery. Six composers have been selected to compose a ten-minute work, which may include up to eight musicians: piano, string quartet, clarinet, harp, percussion. Following a call to scientists motivated by the idea of interacting with composers, the composers chose the scientific theme that inspired them the most among fifteen recent findings, pre-selected by Judith Miné-Hattab. During their creative processes, composers interacted with the implicated researchers in order to gain an in-depth understanding of their subject and enrich their pieces.

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August 2022

Cramer Quartet Premieres du Bois’ String Quartet No. 6

August 14, 2022@ 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Music Mountain Festival,
CT United States
Cramer Quartet and composer Alexandra du Bois

Cramer Quartet: "With this project, the quartet marries its passion for historical performance with a commitment to rebalancing the string quartet canon by centering the voices of women, non-(cis)males, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folx and other communities historically underrepresented in classical music."

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April 2023

The Neave Trio perform the music of Alexandra du Bois

April 22, 2023@ 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
The Neave Trio,
Chamber Music Tulsa
Tusla, United States
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The Neave Trio perform the music of Alexandra du Bois PROGRAM April 22nd, 2023 at 7:30pm  Chamber Music Tulsa - Tulsa, OK Alexandra du Bois ~ L’Apothéose d’un Rêve Ravel ~ Trio

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June 2023

Richmond Philharmonic Orchestra to Perform du Bois’ ‘Fanfare’

June 18, 2023@ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Virginia War Memorial,
Richmond, VA United States

Richmond Philharmonic Orchestra to Perform du Bois' 'Fanfare'. Alexandra du Bois' Fanfare' was written in 2008 in honor of the first African American to hold office of President of the United States and was premiered by the Anchorage Symphony. The work has since been performed dozens of times by orchestras throughout the United States.

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July 2023

Upcoming 2023-24 Season Concerts and New Website Launch – to be announced soon

July 31, 2023

Upcoming 2023-24 Season Concerts and New Website Launch - to be announced soon. Meanwhile, please check "Previous Events" below for partial listing of past events, not listed chronologically due to website error.  New Website Launch scheduled for 2023. Musical excerpts available on SoundCloud and imagery on Instagram.   Spring '23 performances of du Bois' music were given by ensembles including Asheville Symphony Orchestra,Tallahassee Symphony, Boston Festival Orchestra, Radius Ensemble, Neave Trio, and soloist…

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