Lansing McLoskey Guest Composer Concert

The 2026 William and Muriel McGee Guest Composer & New Music Festival Series presents:

"The Music of Lansing McLoskey", featuring chamber compositions by the composer.

Lansing McLoskey is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His Zealot Canticles: An Oratorio for Tolerance was a winner of the 61st Annual Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance by the ensemble The Crossing. McLoskey serves as a Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida. He has been commissioned by Guerilla Opera, Copland House, The Fromm Foundation, The Barlow Endowment, N.E.A., The Crossing, ensemberlino vocale, New Spectrum Foundation, Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion, Passepartout Duo, the Boston Choral Ensemble, and Kammerkoret NOVA.

In McLoskey's words: "Music is the only art form with equal power to move the mind, heart, soul, and pelvis. I have an insatiable and omnivorous appetite for music, and am as moved by Berio’s Sinfonia and DuFay’s Nuper rosarum flores as I am by a J.S. Bach cantata. In my lessons, I may reference Steve Reich, Machaut, William Schuman, Claude Vivier, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, and The Ramones…in the same lesson."

The program will feature the following works:

Sarabande, for alto sax, violin, piano and three painters
Blur, for two alto flutes

Two, for solo violin
Suite hypnagogique, for piano
Sikurtawa, for saxophone quartet

Performers:

Brian Ciach, piano
Philip Jung, piano
Michael Hernandez, soprano saxophone
Catalina Barraza, violin
Michael Hernandez and the Mana Saxophone Quartet
Ráyo Furuta, flute
Cristopher Núñez, flute

Free concert no ticket purchase necessary