On Thursday April 11th, MCI composer Jeff Herwig's Hope for Tomorrow will be premiered by the Beaver County Honors Band at New Brighton Area High School in Pennsylvania. Read on to learn more about the inspirations that drove Jeff to create this new work for concert band:

On Thursday, April 4th, MCI composer Jeff Herwig's new concert band work The Bridge will be recognized during the 2019 PMEA/NAfME Eastern Division Conference. This piece was written for the conference's Composition Contest and subsequently selected as the winning work. Read on to learn more about the inspirations which drove Jeff to create this new piece:

On Sunday, April 7th, the world premiere of MCI composer Janay Maisano's new work "Bad Show, Bad Show Indeed" will take place at the University of Redlands. This new jazz piece features a unique quartet of instruments and demonstrates various extended techniques for each of the players in the group.

Read on to learn more about Janay's compositional process for this brand-new work: 

This weekend will see two performances of MCI composer Brittany J. Green's "Portraits," a five-movement piano suite composed and premiered in 2017. Green's piece is based on several works by poet Bessie Irene, each of which explores multiple aspects of the human condition in various shapes and forms. The first performance of "Portraits" will take place this Thursday, March 28th at the University of New Mexico, while the second will happen on Sunday March 31st in Chicago, Illinois [check out our Events page for more details on each of these performances!]
We had the opportunity to interview Green this week on this piece! Read on to learn more about her composition:

[from left to right, top to bottom]
Chelsea Williamson - Oklahoma
Dominic Matthews - United Kingdom
Jeff Herwig - Pennsylvania




Nicky Sohn - Seoul, Korea
Ben Lunn - Scotland


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Thomas Erik Nielsen - New York City
Salvador Alan Jacobo - New Mexico
Sarah Keirle - United Kingdom
​Janay Maisano - California

Ching-Shan Chang - New York City
Adam Zolty - British Columbia
Stephen Ryan Jackson - Massachusetts



Piotr Bednarczyk - Poland
Tianyi Wang - Massachusetts




Brittany J. Green - North Carolina
Eddie Jonathan Garcia Borbón - Colombia
Conner Shaw - Colorado
Daniel de Togni - California

​Jessie Rivést - British Columbia
Nicholas Osborn - Michigan




Rebecca Nisco - Connecticut
Dánae Atacho - Venezuela




JaRod Hall - Texas
​Dylan Tran - Louisiana