April 30 at 7:30pm
RAM Composers ~ RAM Players 

May 1 at 7:30pm
Fifteen Minutes of Fame

May 2 at 3pm
KOE (Eva Ding, flute & Emma Kato, cello)

May 2 at 5pm TBA

May 2 at 7:30pm
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College Percussion Ensemble

May 3 at 3pm
Luminae Trio

May 3 at 7:30pm
RAM Composers/Players and Guest Composers
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Winner of the
RAM Queens New Music Festival
Composition Competition
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QNMF Opening Concert​
Thursday April 30 at 7:30pm

RAM Composers ~ RAM Players ​

RAM Sings
Risa Harman, soprano
Seth Gilman, baritone
Adelina DeBella, flute
Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Laurel Gagnon, violin
Corey Chang, piano
Marina Iwao, piano
 

Corey Chang
“Shimmer” for piano
(2023/2024)

Gilbert Galindo
“Braided Soul” for soprano, flute, bass clarinet, violin, piano
(2026) (World Premiere)

Masatora Goya
"Robert Louis Stevenson Suite"
for soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, and piano
(2026) (World Premiere) 

Beata Moon
“Prayer of Saint Francis”
for baritone, clarinet, violin, and piano
(2026) (World Premiere)

Allen Schulz “8 miniatures” for alto flute and clarinet
(2026) (World Premiere)

Frances White
"The lily bearers" for narrator, alto flute, violin, and piano
(2026) (World Premiere)



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Friday May 1 at 7:30pm
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame and Vox Novus

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame
Alyssa Reit, Lever Harp

"RUST" duet for violin and voice by Melinda Faylor

Charlotte Munn-Wood, violin;  Melinda Faylor, voice

"Little Decoherence for Piano" by Leslie de Melcher
Eunmi Ko, piano

"sang de glacier" for piano and toy piano by Emily Koh
Eunmi Ko, piano

One Minute More - "Frolic In An Endlesss Sky" by Allen Schulz
Eunmi Ko, toy piano

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame DANCE

featuring Eunmi Ko, toy piano

Full Program info
www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/dance/QNMF/2026/program

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Saturday at 3pm
KOE
(Eva Ding, flute & Emma Kato, cello) 


Saturday at 5pm
TBA

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Saturday at 7:30pm
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College

Queens College New Music Group 

Latai Zhuo Fireworks

for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano

[A trace of fleeting fragments, where sound, silence, and resonance linger beyond disappearance.]

Program Note: 
Fireworks is not a linearly unfolding work, but a constellation of independent fragments — like the brief flare of fireworks that have already vanished, leaving only resonance, after-image, and a suspended tension in the air. What the piece points to is not the moment of “bursting,” but what remains after disappearance. Each fragment behaves like a breath: it appears, it is held, and it slowly fades away. For this reason, tempo and dynamics function not as fixed structures but as living shapes — expanding and contracting with breath rather than driven by metric logic. Silence is not treated as emptiness, but as something weighted: the retreat of sound, the residue of memory, and the anticipation of what is yet to come. Like separations in life, these pauses do not signify an ending, but a preparation for the next return. What is heard is therefore not only the sounding material, but also the spaces between sounds. These distances — suspended between impulse and disappearance — exist entirely in preparation for a more radiant unveiling that has yet to arrive.

Matt Krane Canned Gopher

for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
 

Program Note: Canned Gopher is a semi-programmatic work of which the defining features are both a persistent piano ostinato and recurring harmonic texture. The work makes partial allusion to the penultimate chapter of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, which tells an allegory of a gopher briefly finding what is seemingly an ideal home before circumstance forces him to leave. The music does not narrate the episode literally. Rather, it reflects certain aspects of the parable at a distance: themes of comfort, routine, and disturbance. The gestural nature of Canned Gopher seeks to contribute to the tradition of the Pierrot ensemble and maintain an established contrast between stability and interruption as it shapes the work’s broader character. No gophers were hurt in the making of this piece.

Sawyer Adler Dale - A Monodrama

for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano

[Dale - A Monodrama tells the story of a husband and wife who don’t quite know each other like they used to.]

Program Note:
It can be difficult to acknowledge when you aren’t quite as close with someone as you used to be. “Is it my fault? I hardly reached out… But, then again, neither did they…” It’s been years since I’ve spoken to various old friends — ones that I used to see nearly every day. I wrote Dale in an attempt to examine the kind of passivity that leads to the end of relationships like those. Set in the bleak, everyday England of my childhood, Dale tells the story of a husband and wife who don’t quite know each other like they used to. 

Alegría Ensemble
Chloë Dickens, violin; Robert Feifan Hurley, cello;
Mina Šuković, flute; Alex Yu, clarinet, Lydia Saylor, soprano;
Emre Tetik, conductor

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Sunday at 3pm
LUMINAE TRIO

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob Nordlinger, cello
Jestin Pieper, piano
​Elizabeth Wright, violin​
 

Paul Shoenfield (1947-2024)
Cafe Music, Movement 1:  Allegro
 

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1961)
Brilliant Blue, Pale Yellow
 

Fred Hersch (b. 1955)
Lyric Piece

Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961)
Piano Trio no. 1,  Op. 32
 

James Bassi (b.1961)
Piano Trio, Variations on "O Filii Et Filiae"
(World Premier) 

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Sunday May 3 at 7:30pm
Closing Concert
RAM Composers/Players
Guest Composers
Winner of the RAM QNMF Composition Competition

Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Laurel Gagnon, violin
Elena Ariza, cello
Corey Chang, piano
Zhihua Hu, piano
Marina Iwao, piano


RAM COMPOSERS

Corey Chang
"Calm." for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
(2026) (World Premiere)

Zhihua Hu
"Wind" from "Autumn Wind" for clarinet and piano
(2026) (World Premiere)

Frances White
“From the book of infinite secrecy”
for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2025)


GUEST COMPOSERS

Miho Sasaki
“Winter Red Blossoms” for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
(2026) (World Premiere)

Michael Schelle
“Torched Songs” for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
(2026) (World Premiere)

RAM Queens New Music Festival
2026 Composition Competition Winner 
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee
"Layers of Waves” for clarinet, cello, and piano
(2026) (World premiere)


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RAM and QNMF are delighted to announce that Chihchun Chi-sun Lee's winning composition "Layers of Waves" will receive a featured performance at this year’s Queens New Music Festival on May 3, 2026.
Winners

1st Place – Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (Taiwan)
"Layers of Waves" (2026) for clarinet, cello, and piano
World Premiere

2nd Place (tie) – Roxani Chatzidimitriou (Greece)
"Floating Inside" for clarinet, cello, and piano
2nd Place (tie) – Fabricio Gatta (Argentina)
"Tangueramente" for clarinet, cello, and piano