10/20/2026
Recomposing America is back! Learn more about the amazing artists and activations coming to you this season by visiting our website. https://composersforum.org/recomposing-america
From composer Juhi Bansal, ACF has commissioned a new work for Del Sol Quartet The piece will be part of their Angel Island Concert Series in the San Francisco Bay.
For Hunter BDM's Recomposing America project, ACF has commissioned a new album titled Heart of a Lion King 3 that fuses hip-hop, punk, and soul.
From Natalie Brown ACF has commissioned a new blues opera titled 90 Miles from Anywhere that is set among Black migrant farmworkers on Long Island during the winter of 1965–66.
Zeelie Brown's Recomposing America residency includes the creation of a new work titled americasongs. The collection of pieces for choir also includes a site-specific installation of found objects gathered around the Twin Cities.
L.A. Buckner's Recomposing America project, in partnership with the in Minneapolis, is part social experiment, part American popular music masterclass, featuring drums, guitar, piano, sampling, DJing, singing, and rapping.
Gilad Cohen & Ronvé O’Daniel’s Recomposing America collaboration, Here We Stand, is inspired by the life of 20th-century actor and activist Paul Robeson. Honoring the 50th anniversary of Robeson’s death.
Christine Gangelhoff's chamber ensemble C Force’s residency will explore classical music of the Caribbean and its connections to the broader Americas through performance, education, and community collaboration in Minnesota.
ACF has commissioned a new composition for hip-hop orchestra by Jeffrey "The Phantom" McNeill titled Maniac Maestro for his ensemble, Thee Phantom & The Illharmonic Orchestra, exploring a tug of war between the maestro and the MC.
For his Recomposing America project, Daniel Bernard Roumain will present a new work titled Black Joy Verses for Castle of our Skins
ACF has commissioned a new cross-cultural album titled Black Lilies that features global artists across the African diaspora from artist Taylor Ngiri Seaberg.
