Facilitator(s): Vanessa Gardner, Vice President of Marketing & Operations, Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts; Jamie Leigh Sampson, Co-Owner and Composer, ADJ•ective New Music; Merwin Siu, Artistic Administrator, Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts; Andrew Martin Smith, Co-Owner and Composer, ADJ•ective New Music; and Zak Vassar, President and CEO, Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts

Orchestras can expand impact and communities through multi-composer commissions. The Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and ADJ•ective New Music have an artistic partnership that has developed over the past 14 seasons of music making in Toledo and beyond. Their collaborations have included marathon concerts at the Toledo Museum of Art and contemporary music festivals across the Northwest Ohio city.

Come discuss the logistics and benefits of working with composers’ collectives and where to look for such communities.