now it's time: Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Ensemble Presents Four World Premieres in All Female Composer Concert

www.cmu.edu/news: The Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Ensemble's next concert will feature five outstanding composers who happen to be women.

The ensemble, directed by Daniel Nesta Curtis, will perform four world premieres: "Little boy blue" by alumna Annika Socolofsky, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2012; "Everything Flows" by Professor of Composition Nancy Galbraith; "stacked emotions" for chamber ensemble by alumna Binna Kim, who graduated with a master's degree in 2012; and "Songs of Strength" by Professor of Theory and Composition Marilyn Taft Thomas. The concert also features "The Vermeer Room" by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe and will take place at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 16 at the historic Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave. in Pittsburgh.