Alone Together
In response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on many in the arts community, violinist Jennifer Koh launched Alone Together, an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers among them.
Twenty composers, most of whom have salaried positions or other forms of institutional support to carry them through this challenging time, agreed to donate a new, 30-second micro-work for solo violin, while also recommending a fellow freelance composer to write their own 30-second solo violin work on paid commission from the artist-driven nonprofit ARCO Collaborative. Ms. Koh premiered these donated and commissioned works beginning April 4 through June 13. Each premiere performance is archived on YouTube. Related interviews with each composer have been archived on YouTube.
Commissioned Composer — Recommending / Donating Composer
Katherine Balch — Andrew Norman
Hanna Benn — Rafiq Bhatia
Layale Chaker — Anjna Swaminathan
Caroline Davis — Qasim Naqvi
Adeliia Faizullina — Nina C. Young
inti figgis-vizueta — Jen Shyu
Tomás Gueglio Saccone — Anthony Cheung
Morgan Guerin — Vijay Iyer
Tonia Ko — Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff
Joungbum Lee — Wang Lu
Angelica Négron — Tania León
Nina Shekhar — Ted Hearne
Lester St. Louis — George Lewis
Rajna Swaminathan — Ellen Reid
Darian Donovan Thomas — Ian Chang
Cassie Wieland — Missy Mazzoli
Elizabeth Younan — David Ludwig
Vincent Calianno — Kati Agócs
Sugar Vendil — Patrick Castillo
Shayna Dunkelman — Du Yun
Alone Together is commissioned and produced by ARCO Collaborative with the support of commissioning partners National YoungArts Foundation and generous individual donors of ARCO Collaborative.