Welcome to the sixth New Music Miami ISCM Festival concert of the year featuring virtuoso guitarist Colin McAllister as he debuts a new recital entitled I Sing the Body Eclectic. The program celebrates the diversity of practices and new approaches to modern repertoire for classical and electric guitar. The repertoire—some of which is newly commissioned—is as creative and diverse as the contributing composers themselves, and includes two world premieres, by Stuart Saunders Smith and Philip Blackburn, as well as works by Chaya Czernowin, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Raven Chacon, Jacob David Sudol, and William Walton.

Watch on YouTube! The festival concerts are free to the public and available on the New Music Miami ISCM Festival here thanks to the generosity of our sponsors. 

Colin McAllister serves as assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he was awarded the 2020 LAS Outstanding Teaching Award. His performances as a guitarist have been hailed as ‘sparkling….delivered superbly’ (San Francisco Chronicle), ‘ravishing’ (San Diego Union Tribune) and ‘an amazing tour de force’ (San Diego Story), and he has recorded on the Summit, Innova, Centaur, Naxos, Albany, Old King Cole, Vienna Modern Masters, Carrier and Tzadik labels. His research interests include contemporary music performance and pedagogy, musical modernism, and the apocalyptic paradigm as manifested in varying phenomena—literature, music, and art.

Sponsors

The Festival is presented with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the City of Miami Beach, and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU. The Betsy Hotel is the official host hotel for the festival.