Composers Concordance has been a booster for local composers, through both its concerts across the city and a record label.
—The Wall Street Journal
CompCord@40 is a 22-track digital-only compilation album featuring a variety of eclectic cross-over new music curated from Composers Concordance Records (CCR) extensive catalogue.
CCR has released 88 albums by well-known artists including jazz luminaries, Adam Holzman, John Clark and David Taylor; Hip-Hop artist Keith LeBlanc; percussionists Glen Velez and Peter Jarvis; conductor Kristjan Jarvi and The Absolute Ensemble, and composers Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Debra Kaye, and Shanan Estreicher.
The cover art image and design are by graphic artist Graham Elliott who created the band Living Colour’s Vivid album cover and their music video for “Glamour Boys.”
Other writers, composers and performers featured on the compilation album include Roger Aplon, Lynn Bechtold, Seth Boustead, Charles Coleman, Robert C. Ford, Patrick Grant, Mark Kostabi and Milica Paranosic.
CCR is distributed internationally by Naxos. It was founded in 2010 by Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, and Joseph Pehrson under the umbrella of the Composers Concordance, a non-profit presenting organization for contemporary music with a 40-year history of producing concerts in New York City. Composers Concordance was established in 1984 by Patrick Hardish and Joseph Pehrson, advised by Otto Luening.
Composers Concordance has presented hundreds of concerts at venues including the Museum of Natural History, Austrian Cultural Forum, Barnard College, Bohemian National Hall, Chelsea Art Museum, Cutting Room, Dimenna Center, DROM NYC, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Kosciuszko Foundation, Le Poisson Rouge, MC Gallery, Miller Theater, The New School, 92nd St Y, NYU Loewe Theatre, Shapeshifter Lab, Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall, annual concerts at William Paterson University as part of its New Music Series, and The New School.
