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EARPLAY PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN FYE2023:EARPLAY CONTINUED ITS LIVE PERFORMANCES IN OCTOBER 2022, PRESENTING A PENDEMIC-DELAYED CONCERT AT OLD FIRST CHURCH.EARPLAY PRESENTED THREE ADDITIONAL CONCERTS IN ITS SAN FRANCISCO HOME SERIES:IN JANUARY 2023 AT OLD FIRST CHURCH, IN MARCH AT NOE VALLEY MINISTRY, AND IN MAY AT OLD FIRST CHURCH.THE PERFORMANCES INCLUDED SEVEN WORLD PREMIERES AND ONE US PREMIERE, AND FOUR WORKS COMMISSIONED BE EARPLAY, AND THE WINNER OF THE 2022 EARPLAY DONALD AIRD COMPOSER'S COMPETITION.EARPLAY CONDUCTED THE 2023 EARPLAY DONALD COMPOSERS COMPETITION, NOW IN ITS 23ND YEAR. THE 2023 COMPETITION GENERATED 149 ENTRIES FROM 131 COMPOSERS, REPRESENTING 26 US STATES AND 24 OTHER COUNTRIES. EARPLAY ALSO CONDUCTED THE SECOND YEAR OF ITS VIBRANT SHORES COMPETITIONFOR COMPOSERS IDENTIFYING AS BLACK, INDIGENOUS, LATINX, ASIAN, PACIFIC ISLANDER, OR PEOPLE OF COLOR. EARPLAY WILL PERFORM THE 2023 AIRD COMPETITION WINNERAND THE INAUGURAL VIBRANT SHORES PRIZE WINNER IN THE 2024 SEASON.2023 MARKED THE SEVENTH YEAR OF EARPLAY'S ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH WEST EDGE OPERA ON THEIR SNAPSHOT SERIES, WHICH INCUBATES NEW OPERAS BY PAIRING COMPOSERS AND LIBRETTISTS OF AN IN-PROGRESS WORK WITH A MUSICAL ENSEMBLE, SINGERS, DIRECTION, AND VENUE FOR PERFORMING STAGED READINGS. SNAPSHOT 2023 PRESENTED A PROGRAM CONSISTING OF FOUR WORKS-IN-PROGRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO.EARPLAY PARTICIPATED IN TWO CONCERTS WITH THE STANFORD MUSIC DEPARTMENT, ONE PRESENTING STUDENT COMPOSITIONS AND THE OTHER PRESENTING FACULTY COMPOSITIONS.EARPLAY ALSO PERFORMED A CONCERT AT CSU SACRAMENTO.