Lisa Neher

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Composers who write opera:

When is the last time you performed from memory?

Instrumentalists who are not currently in college/graduate school:

1. How often do you perform from memory?

2. How often do you perform music of the last 50 years from memory?

Yay! Thank you!

Classical chamber music circles regularly exclude singers, as if we don't belong in those circles or rep with voices isn't "real" chamber music.
It's time for that to end.

It's so frustrating, because I think many of us would like to attend to get all the info and be able to support our students to our very best abilities- but it isn't right to expect us to do so without compensation.

If you want Adjunct faculty to come to a meeting, you need to pay us for that time.
We aren't salaried.
That meeting isn't part of my compensation. It costs extra.

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Love in a Time of Climate Change sets poetry by Craig Santos Perez. It will be premiered by soprano Lindsey Rae Johnson and pianist Dianne Davies at the OMTA State Conference in Florence, Oregon, on June 28.

A friend said, facts speak to our minds, but art speaks to our hearts. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the facts of climate change, to dissociate, and to freeze. When we feel something, it can propel action. Let’s keep feeling and acting together.

A few years ago, I debated the purpose of writing music about the climate crisis. Surely anyone who performs such a piece or listens to it already believes that climate change is real, so what impact can such a piece of music have?

I'm honored to be commissioned by Oregon Music Teachers Association as their 2025 Composer of the Year.

The commission, Love in a Time of Climate Change, is a piece about living in a time of an unprecedented, human-created global emergency.

It’s a kick in the pants to level up our efforts as individuals and, most importantly, as communities.

#climatechange

Inspired by their words, the piece holds space for mourning, for fear, for anger, for all of the emotions we experience in the face of this global catastrophe. It affirms that we are not alone in our grief, but neither are we off the hook for taking action.

Climate change, a phrase that has been with me as long as I can remember, is now something we experience on a daily basis.

Craig Santos Perez and Felicia Zamora ’s powerful, heartbreaking, gorgeous poetry speaks to this reality with unflinching clarity and directness.

As I wrote No One Saves the Earth from Us But Us, a record-breaking heatwave brought temperatures as high as 116 degrees to my city of Portland, Oregon. Just 9 months earlier, we fled our home as wildfires, less than 10 miles away, produced off the charts air pollution for weeks.

THIS FRIDAY! In person or via livestream!

Quinn Patrick Ankrum & Liz Avery perform the World Premiere of No One Saves the Earth from Us But Us at Cincinnati Song Initiative!

Visit www.cincinnatisonginitiative.org for details on how to attend in person or via livestream!

I've loved these animals since I was very young and they were the perfect topic for this piece, which uses the full compass of the piano!

Iowa friends can catch Jason's world premiere performance on June 8 at the Iowa Music Teachers Association Conference!

Nautilus are deep-sea cephalopods, relatives of octopus and squid, that live in the Indo-Pacific region. They are the only living cephalopods with an exterior shell, and have existed relatively unchanged in form for over 500 million years, earning them the title of “living fossil.”

So excited for Jason Sifford to bring Nautilus to life! This piano solo, commissioned by Iowa Music Teachers Association for their 2025 Commissioned Composer Award, is inspired by the biology, behavior, and ecosystem of the nautilus.

Thank you, Carrie!

Thanks, Ann!