The Dublin Guitar Quartet will perform at the third annual Accidental Music Festival on October 20th! 

Thank you all for your support and for making AMF 2012 a success! 

Be on the look out this March for the 2013 schedule!

in the meantime, on March 18th Accidental Music Festival, Tiny Waves, and CM5 will be presenting:

Zs solos: Diamond Terrifier (Sam Hillmer), Guardian Alien (Greg Fox) and Higgins (Patrick Higgins)

@ lil’ indies

Check out this gripping live recording of the Symphonic Orchestra of Guanajuato performing Schnittke’s Piano Concerto with  pianist Anna Paolina Hasslacher!

From the album Breakup Song, available September 4th. Pre-order CD/LP here - http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/breakupsong

Deerhoof perform on the opening night of Accidental Music Festival 2012!  It will be there first show in Orlando since 2008 and their only show south of Tallahassee.

On Sunday June 3rd Accidental Music Festival will be presenting Terry Riley’s in C as well as a few surprise solo pieces at our annual silent art auction fundraiser!
This event will begin at 2pm and go until 4pm. 
Come out and enjoy an afternoon of music and local art:)

click here for more information!

Video from the Florida premiere of Juan Trigos’ Ricercare VI for guitar and chamber orchestra at Accidental Music Festival 2011.  

Juan Trigos, Conductor
Dieter Hennings, Guitarist 

Festival founder Christopher Belt performing with his mentor Eladio Scharrón at the University of Central Florida.

In case you missed it, here’s the cover story the Orlando Weekly did on our first ever 10 day festival!

Check out Analog Artist, Digital World for Thor’s sketches of AMF2011!

The chamber music recital about to get under way.

Accidental Music Fest Day 3 by Hastings Huggins on Flickr.

Bryan Eubanks and Jason Kahn at AccMusFes day 3.

Charles Glazer getting ready to open the show last night.  The Glazer family did a great free improv piece before Emily Hay, Wayne Peet and Brad Dutz had us riveted the rest of the night.

The Civic Minded 5 present Emily Hay on September 4th!  Check out the other amazing concerts they have presented in the past.

Check out the awesome t-shirts designed by Austin “the Intern” Warren and printed by Absent Muse.  This comes from a series Austin designed featuring portraits of composers and features Benjamin Britten and Gustav Mahler.  Head to the Kickstarter page to pick one up today!  

Composer and virtuoso trumpet player Matt McCarthy will give the first complete performance of his work “The Hang” at our concert on September 11th!

Hotel accommodations provided by Embassy Suites Hotel - Downtown Orlando!

Accidental Music Festival is proud to present the world premier of John Alvarez’s “In the Beginning.”  The piece, scored for big band and electronics, is a musical interpretation of the Big Bang in three movements.  Here he explains the basis of the first movement, The Singularity:

“A singularity, according to the general theory of relativity, is an infinitely small, infinitely dense and hot point where the curvature of space-time and gravitational forces become infinite. 

I imagined this singularity to be a small, black orb. Shortly, before the Big Bang occurred, I imagined the orb to cycle through what I call pulsations: a process in which the singularity would begin to grow in size but, due to its immense gravity, would eventually return to its initial state. With each successive pulsation the singularity becomes larger and larger and the process takes longer and longer. I imagined this singularity to have reached a critical mass at which point its gravitational force becomes too weak to keep itself together which in turn, results in the Big Bang. ”

Which is a bit drier than my description: this piece will make you feel infinitely small and infinitely dense, and then really thankful that you were able to hear it. 

Jason Kahn is presented by Prohelvetia - the Swiss Arts Council.