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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2025

Ensemble for These Times

Announces its

2025 Call for Scores

for

PIANO FOUR-HANDS

San Francisco – Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) is excited to announce its first-ever Call for Scores for music for piano four-hands. Chosen works will be performed by E4TT emerita pianist Dale Tsang in a recital at the Berkeley Piano Club on March 1, 2026; Tsang’s performance partner will be announced in August 2025 as part of E4TT’s 2025/26 season announcement.

Scores for works for acoustic piano four-hands will only be accepted during the two-week window of July 1-July 15, 2025, with the winning scores announced in August 2025. Complete requirements, along with submission information can be found at https://E4TT.org/scores2025.pdf. Composers may address any questions to info@E4TT.org.


ABOUT E4TT’S CALLS FOR SCORES

E4TT’s 2025 Call for Scores will be the group’s fifth since rebranding in 2016. The group put out its first Call for Scores in 2016 as part of that rebranding, which brought in 275 works by 200 composers, of which E4TT chose 56 works by 54 composers to perform over a three-year series entitled “56x54.” Since completing that series in 2021, E4TT has held three additional Calls, a second and third for solo piano in 2022 and 2024—performed by E4TT emerita pianist Dale Tsang on February 25, 2023, and February 22, 2025 and March 2, 2025, respectively—and a fourth, a two-year collaboration with Luna Composition Lab in 2023 that yielded two concerts, six chosen scores and three commissions. The group’s 2025 Call for Scores is for acoustic piano four-hands only, to be submitted as pdf files between July 1-15, 2025. The full requirements for submissions are available at https://E4TT.org/scores2025.pdf. Interested composers should review the information carefully, as only submissions that follow the listed requirements will be considered. Questions can be addressed to E4TT at info@E4TT.org.

ABOUT DALE TSANG

E4TT emerita pianist DALE TSANG earned her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California, her MM from the University of Michigan, and her DMA from Rice University. She is a faculty member at Laney College, teaches an inspiring assortment of adult students, and serves as a competition adjudicator for a number of local and statewide piano competitions. A winner of numerous competitions and an active solo and chamber musician, she frequently performs locally and in Europe and Asia. As a core member of Ensemble for These Times, she championed 20th and 21st-century music and collaborated in many commissions, premieres and international performances. She continues to enthusiastically disseminate the music of living composers.

ABOUT ENSEMBLE FOR THESE TIMES

Winner of The American Prize in 2021 for Chamber Music Performance, ENSEMBLE FOR THESE TIMES (E4TT) consists of award-winning soprano/ Artistic Executive Director Nanette McGuinness, cellist Abigail Monroe, pianist Margaret Halbig, and co-founder/ Senior Artistic Advisor composer David Garner. E4TT made its international debut in Berlin in 2012; was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest for a four-city tour of Hungary in 2014; and performed at the Krakow Culture Festival in 2016 and 2022, and at the Conservatorio Teresa Berganza in Madrid in 2017. E4TT has performed locally at the German Consulate General, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Old First Concerts, JCC Peninsula, Trinity Chamber Concerts, and Noontime Concerts, among other venues. E4TT has released five albums, all of which have medaled in the Global Music Awards: “Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood” (2024) featuring music by composers who fled the Nazis for Hollywood and changed movie music as we know it; “The Guernica Project” (2022), commemorating the 85th anniversary of the horrific carpet bombing of civilians and Picasso’s masterwork in response; “Once/ Memory/ Night: Paul Celan” (2020), honoring the centennial of the seminal 20th century poet; “The Hungarians: From Rózsa to Justus” (2018), with works by Hungarian émigré Miklós Rózsa, and three of his compatriots who perished in the Holocaust; “Surviving: Women’s Words,” (2016), new music to poetry by women survivors.

For more information about E4TT’s 2024/25 Bay Area Home Season, please visit our website. High resolution jpgs are available for download at http://www.e4tt.org/presskit.html.

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