LCCMF BRINGS MUSIC-MEMORY WORKSHOP TO SENIORS THIS WEEK Composers Nick DiBerardino and TJ Cole This year, Nick DiBerardio has been a Community Artist Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. One of Nick’s projects is Creative Expression through Music, a program for people with cognitive impairments, from mild decline to Alzheimer’s disease. Working with the Penn Memory Center and two Penn graduate students, Nick designed a series of workshops, creating a curriculum that targets anxiety, depression, and other mood concerns. Nick is [...]

LCCMF COMMISSIONS ALISTAIR COLEMAN: MICRO-CONCERTO FOR SOOVIN KIM AND BCO Alistair Coleman and Soovin Kim with members of the BCO. As part of our 10th anniversary, we celebrated our Young Composers Seminar by commissioning 3 alums of the program to write concert pieces. Alistair Coleman, a student at Juilliard, wrote a micro-concerto for LCCMF Co-Artistic Director Soovin Kim and the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, which received its world premiere at the BCO concert on Saturday February 2, at the UVM Recital Hall. The [...]

Composer Nick DiBerardino Workshop at IAA Nick with Mr. Whitman's 5th graders. At the Integrated Arts Academy on Monday morning, composer Nick DiBerardino introduced the artist Kandinsky, William Kraft, the composer of Kandinsky Variations, and the concept of graphic notation. He worked with eac h of the 5th grade classes, students who have been in LCCMF's ONE Strings program studying violin since the 3rd grad Kraft's score (see photo) says that "RED indicates bright colors," "BLUE indicates midrange (warm or cool)," and "BLACK [...]