New Music Anthologies Launch Concerts!

Beginning in November, Black Tea Music and NewMusicShelf has joined forces to present a series of concerts celebrating the launch of NewMusicShelf’s Anthology of New Music series at the National Opera Center in Manhattan. After a successful series launch concert...

Black Tea Music Welcomes D. J. Sparr

We are delighted to welcome D. J. Sparr to our BTM family this autumn! As a composer, his “iridescent and wondrous” (San Jose Mercury News) as well as “boundary-erasing” (The New York Times) music has been presented by the California Symphony (where he has been their...

What’s Brewing This Concert Season

This new season has started with a bang for our BTM artists! We have already enjoyed some exciting premieres and performances so far, and we are looking forward to more in the upcoming months. Check out some of our recaps and previews for select artists below! ...

Celebrate the centennial of Jack Beeson in 2021!

Did you know that two of Jack Beeson’s operas – Dr. Heidegger’s Fountain of Youth , and The Sweet Bye and Bye were premiered in November? The characters and stories of Beeson’s operatic world still rings surprisingly true in today’s society, whether it is the...

Saxophone Works Old and New

This July at the World Saxophone Congress just held in Zagreb, Croatia, a new arrangement for saxophone ensemble of Claude Debussy’s best-loved piano prelude La fille aux cheveux de lin by composer Denis Levaillant was unveiled at the international conference...