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Dina Koston
Established by composer/pianist Dina Koston, who named the fund after her husband, psychiatrist Roger Shapiro, the Roger Shapiro Fund is a new fund for commissioning, performance and recording of New Music. Ms. Koston intended the fund to promote music in the Western modernist tradition.
The Roger Shapiro Fund is concerned with:
–new music, not limited by geographical region
–education in music, composition, and international outreach
–promoting further knowledge and appreciation of the music of founder Dina Koston.
Connecting Composers
The Roger Shapiro Fund aims to arrange for composers to collaborate with organizations, particularly presenting organizations and performing ensembles that have built a sizeable audience or are implementing creative strategies to gain an audience for new music.
Education
It is very important to us at the Roger Shapiro Fund that music education and the creation of new music be a priority for each new generation! We foster opportunities for young people to study and perform new music, study composition and present their own compositions. We are particularly interested in promoting international musical studies and exchanges in the hope that broader, deeper musical and cultural connections will lead young people to a greater understanding of what unifies us as inhabitants of the globe.
Reaching New Audiences
In addition to traditional concert venues, the Roger Shapiro Fund is interested in developing new ways for new music to reach people, including radio, television & internet, recording projects, new music in public spaces, real or virtual and innovative collaborations with other arts disciplines.
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Day I – September 12: Wolpe, Brouwer Feldman
The Village Trip Guitar Orchestra
Daniel Conant
Day II – September 13: The Darkness is God
Three Premieres:
The Olson/DeCari Duo present Thomas Flippin’s Rilke Settings
Bowers Fader Duo …
February 20 and 21, 2026
The Columbus Symphony combines Mahler with a new work by Jeffrey Mumford, commissioned by RSF.
Program
Mumford: floating layers interwoven with expanding brightness
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”)
Tickets
Jeffrey …
above: Victoria Bond, composer and Director of Cutting Edge Concerts
September 24, 2025
7pm
At Salmagundi Arts Club
47 5th Avenue
$25 advance sales
$30 at the door
Cutting Edge Concerts
in cooperation with The Coffee House Club at …
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3 September 2025
—->The Village Trip’s Wolpe-Albers-Brouwer-Feldman Weekend<—-
With Thomas Flippin, David Glaser, Ben Verdery, Kentner Anderson, Robert Morris and much more.
The performance will feature Leo Brouwer’s Cuban Landscape With …
20 August 2025
The Village Trip, in three pre-festival events at Loft393 in Tribeca
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will explore Wolpe’s Interval Studies, performed on guitar and mandolin. There is a similar impulse behind Wolpe’s …
16 June 2025
The work discussed here will be released in a matter of months.
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