WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		KC VITAs: Eklektikos November 8 and 10, 2024 6101 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO The incredible KC VITAs is performing my Last Lines (for SATB choir, piano, and saxphone) alongside works by Alexandra Gardner, Missy Mazzoli, and George Lewis (!). Lucky to have Kyle Jones on saxophone for this one too. Should be a great show.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Composer-Librettist Studio Showcase (& Reprise!) July 30 and November 3, 2024 University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC The Composer-Librettist Studio, put together by Nautilus and the Alliance For New Music-Theater, is an incredible program that matched me with five librettists and five singers to make five arias or short scenes. It was great to be back in the saddle again with ridiculous deadlines and immediate readings of the works I'd written the previous night. With some refinement, these became Five Opera Scenes, of which all five were performed in July and three were reprised in November.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland March 29, 2024 Gildenhorn Recital Hall, College Park, MD My first show of 2024 has Jessica Harika (mezzo) and Rhys Burgess (piano) reprising the songs I wrote for them last year. Like most song rep, the works benefit from a year of internalization - this should be good!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Fall 2023 Composition Area Recital November 29, 2023 Lulu Vere Childers Recital Hall, Howard University, Washington, DC The Fall '23 installment of our student & faculty composition concert includes my string quartet Short Strange Sad Songs, first workshopped by the awesome Spektral Quartet in 2016, and now played by members of the Washington National Opera orchestra, performing as the St. George String Quartet.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Spring 2023 Composition Area Recital Friday, April 28, 2023, 6:30 PM Lulu Vere Childers Recital Hall, Howard University, Washington, DC The first composition area recital at Howard in a few years! Music is by me (reprises of Uncanny Valley and some Little Dream Pieces), my colleagues Chuck Perryman and Tony Randolph, and my student Sean MacCarthy-Grant. Great mix of Howard faculty and student performers and outside guests in a diverse set of repertoire I'm proud to have assembled.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Art Song Showcase: Jessica Harika Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 3:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park I'd been wanting to write for Jessica's voice ever since I first heard her sing in Rome in 2009, and now, in 2023, I finally got the chance! In this sequel to 2015's Five Epigrams, I set the Latin texts of Martial and modernized translations by Tyler Goldman for mezzo-soprano. This time they're all about money - a very ancient yet prescient type of woe indeed.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Senior Recital: Raymond Schleien Saturday. April 10, 2023, 2:00 PM Ulrich Recital Hall, University of Maryland, College Park I'm delighted that Uncanny Valley is getting some love from trombonists - Raymond (another wonderful former student) is giving the piece its East Coast premiere after it was performed twice in Missouri last year.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Junior Recital: Jolene Blair Monday, March 13, 2023, 5:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, University of Maryland, College Park Nothing makes me happier than having former students program my works! Jolene Blair is an emerging bassoonist and music educator at UMD and she kindly (and ambitiously!) included this showpiece on her recital.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		NSO In Your Neighborhood: Edge of the City Thursday, March 9, 2023, 4:00 and 6:30 PM Woodridge Neighborhood Library (4:00) and President Lincoln's Cottage (6:30) NSO members Mahoko Egushi (viola) and Rachel Young (cello) present an eclectic program including my Four Duos and Two Solos alongside works by Bach, Britten, Clarke, Beethoven, Mozart, and Shaw. Humbling company in two very interesting venues in this fantastic community outreach series.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Sound Collective: Spring Concert Friday, March 3, 2023, 8:00 PM DeLaski Performing Arts Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Four Duos and Two Solos strikes again, this time distributed amongst oboe, flute, and a couple of synthesizers.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		DMA Recital: Alex Chan February 28, 2023, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, University of Maryland, College Park I'm honored that Alex Chan, who I've known for 10 years (!), is including five songs from Little Dream Pieces (Vols. 1-5) on his final dissertation recital. Bill Townsend of Oberlin does the honors as baritone.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		House Concert in Arlington, VA Saturday, January 28, 2023, 6:00 PM (Private residence in Arlington) My work for solo theorbo (!), Ou le lac deviant des montagnes, will be premiered at this intimate home concert by Cameron Welke.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Christmas Eve at All Souls Saturday, December 24, 2022, 9:00 PM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) Pianist/conductor Jen Hayman and I in our sixth and final installment of our an annual tradition: premiering a new Kenlon work on Christmas Eve. We conclude this series with From December To December, a Morricone-esque meditation on looking back at how life can change from one Christmas to the next.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		UGA Repertory Singers: Last Lines November 7, 2022, 3:30 PM Ramsey Hall, University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music Premiere of my most recent choral work, Last Lines for SATB, piano, and high woodwind! (Soprano sax in this case, played brilliantly by Michael Chapa!) It was commissioned by graduate conductor Jack Perdue and features my old JMU pal Greg Hankins on piano - a joyful occasion all around. Text is by Emily Brontë and can be found here. Recording coming soon!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Benefit Concert For Ukraine April 25, 2022 Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family My CUA colleague Francesca Hurst put together a remarkable concert to raise money for Ukrainian relief efforts, and I'm honored to have been asked to adapt a piece for her and Ivo Kaltchev to premiere on the program. (It's a mediation on Ukrainian Christmas traditions, so a little out of season in that respect, but the Ukrainian part of it is certainly more relevant than I ever hoped it would be.)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Daniel Wood: MM Recital #1 April 23, 2022 University of Missouri-Kansas City Trombonist Daniel Wood, grad student in trombone performance, is premiering a new work he commissioned from me called Uncanny Valley on this recital along with two other MM/DMA students at this fabulous conservatory.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland April 18, 2022 Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center I am very lucky to get the chance to collaborate with two great student groups - IGNIS Quintet and Pressez Sextet - in premiering my DMA dissertation piece, Desire Paths, five years after I finished it. Working with these fantastic students (many of them my former theory students!) is a huge pleasure and they all play at a pro or near-pro level. It's exactly what I had in mind when I wrote the piece for two chamber groups of differing experience levels.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Choral Arts Chamber Singers: The Golden Hour November 13, 2021 Live! at 10th and G, Washington, DC Scott Tucker and the chamber singers of the Choral Arts Society of Washington are performing my Whitman Mosaic on this show alongside works by several other living composers (and also a few dead ones). Very exicted to be working with this group on this piece!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Pierce College Faculty Recital Series: Ryan Espinosa, clarinet May 25, 2021 (Zoom livestream) Clarinetist Ryan Espinosa is seeking to add to the repertoire of "hard but not impossible" solo woodwind works, and commissioned this piece from me accordingly. He's including it on a faculty lecture-recital in Los Angeles along with other works by living composers.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Thomas Hunter: Final DMA Recital May 12, 2021 Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Pianist Thomas Hunter and soprano Amy Broadbent commissioned this work from me for the occasion. It's a setting of a poem by English poet Robert Herrick about a witch riding through the night (excellent if anyone's doing a Halloween recital soon, just sayin'), but it takes most of its basic musical ideas from several Irish folk tunes that have the word "hag" in their title.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		DNMC: Collaborative Call Concert March 26, 2021 (Zoom livestream) In collaboration with soprano Hayley Abramowitz and hornist Al Rise, I co-composed/performed/mixed a new electro-acoustic work called Hereupon, which you can now hear here! Thanks to Michael Oberhauser District New Music Coalition for putting together this event that resulted in several great collaborative works by otherwise isolated artists.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		StageFree Music: November Concert (Online) November 20, 2020 (Zoom livestream) As part of StageFree Music's online season, Katelyn Aungst and Miriam Friedman are reprising Four Uncollected Songs, which I composed for them in 2012.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Liz Hill, piano: Corona Chronicles A-Z June 1, 2020 Facebook The wonderful Liz Hill is posting a short piano piece each week in 2020, going through the alphabet letter by letter. I'm honored to have been chosen as letter K (beating out, I suppose, Koechlin and Kreisler...), and Liz gives a gorgeous interpretation of my "Kleines Tryptichon" from Five Number Pieces.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Francesca Hurst, piano: Daily Dose of Piano, Day 33 April 25, 2020 YouTube Francesca Hurst ably takes on the Herculean task of posting 100 short piano videos during the COVID-19 lockdown. The second movement of my Dreamless Counterpoint (adapted from my 2018 one-act opera, Dreamless) is the thirty-third one. Looking forward to the next 67!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		PRISM Concert Saturday, February 29, 2020, 7:00 PM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) In this concert featuring contributions from members of all of All Souls's musical groups, I'm excited to contribute a new arrangement of "Murmures des mélodies" (hommage à Duruflé) from Trois miniatures hypnotisées. Mark Meadows (piano) and Erin Snedecor (cello) do the honors.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Maryland Cello Ensemble: All Cello Concert Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 7:30 PM ArtHouse, 7416 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 20740 Four cellists from the collective present "Paper Birds," the second movement from my 2013 Cello Quartet, alongside free hors d'oeuvres. Resonant sounds guaranteed!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Christmas Eve at All Souls Tuesday, December 24, 2019, 9:30 PM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) Pianist/conductor Jen Hayman and I in our third installment of what is now an annual tradition: premiering a new art song on Christmas Eve! This year's entry is Let Christmas boast her customary treat, with text drawn from a 19th-century account of how various Yuletide customs arose (primarily those involving food).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Al Rise: DMA Horn Recital Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Hornist Al Rise, joined by tenor Tim Keeler and pianist Saeha Youn, performs Die Blinde, my 2012 song cycle on German texts by Adelbert von Chamisso. (Tim is primarily a countertenor, so this take will be very different from the premiere version by Thomas Gregg>!)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Second performance of Semicolon, commissioned and performed by Riley Matties!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Songs of Ourselves: All Souls Choir at the Kennedy Center Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 6:00 PM John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage As part of the Walt Whitman Bicentennial, I was commissioned to write a choral setting of selections from Whitman's epic poem "Song of Myself." The choir learned the heck out of it and are poised to give a great premiere at the KC.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Hayley Abramowitz: Graduate Recital April 22, 2019, 8:30 PM Indiana University: Merrill Hall, 1201 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN World premiere of the piano/vocal version of Longfellow Mosaic - which Hayley also premiered the Pierrot ensemble version of in 2018. Very excited to have been selected as the (only) living composer on this program!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Rich Matties: Senior Trombone Recital Monday, March 25, 2019, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Rich Matties will be premiering Semicolon (which they commissioned for the occasion!) alongside works by Inti Figgis-Vizueta, Eric Ewazen, Stephanie Berg, and Lauren Bernofsky.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Anne Howarth: Breath of the Tufts Community February 17, 2019, 3:00 P.M. Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) Anne Howarth, along with a subset of her wind quintet Vento Chiaro, will be premiering a new wind trio of mine entitled Memory Attic. I'm thrilled to be sharing this program with my mentors John McDonald and Thomas Stumpf, among other composers from the Tuftonian diaspora!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Red Note New Music Festival February 12, 2019, 7:30 P.M. Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois State University (Normal, IL) Members of Chicago's Fifth House Ensemble will perform my Four Duos and Two Solos during this awesome new music festival. Check out the festival's web site for more info!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Christmas Eve at All Souls Tuesday, December 24, 2018, 9:30 PM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) Pianist/conductor Jen Hayman and I will be continuing what is becoming an annual tradition: premiering a new art song on Christmas Eve! This year's entry is Make We Mirth, based on 15th-century English carols.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Händel: Messiah Friday (8:00PM), Saturday (8:00 PM), and Sun (1:00PM), December 21-23, 2018 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Performing Händel's unstoppable Christmas/Easter juggernaut as a chorister with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas McGegan. Tickets here.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Catholic University: Composition Area Recital Monday, December 10, 2018, 7:30 PM Ward Hall, Catholic University of America (620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20064) Flutist Yeji Oh will be giving the DC-area premiere of Bonsais (six miniatures for solo piccolo) on this program of works by faculty and students of the CUA composition area.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Rachmaninoff: Vespers Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7:30 PM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) Singing one of the masterworks of Russian choral literature: the Vespers portion of Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (1915) with the All Souls Choir and some special (very, very low-voiced) guests.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The East Coast premiere of Words From Friends, originally commissioned by soprano Karly Ritland and pianist Hong Liang Ng of North Dakota, will be given by soprano Joanna Jones and pianist Liz Hill. Also on the concert are numerous acoustic and electronic works by UMD graduate and undergraduate students, including Duncan Boatright and Manuela Osorio.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts Composers: October Prescription October 15, 2018 Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) Pianist John McDonald premiering two short piano excerpts from my opera Dreamless, appropriately entitled Dreamless Counterpoint, in the acoustically amazing Distler Auditorium. Boston friends, come on out!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music DC September 15-16, 2018, 9:45 A.M.-9:30 PM and 2:00 PM-4:30 PM Georgetown University: New North Hall District New Music Coalition is hosting its first conference event, aimed at building stronger community amongst DC-area musicians. I'm not having any music performed during the weekend, but I'll be leading a few panels, and I was heavily involved in planning it and its three fantastic concerts. Not to be missed!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo: 72-Hour Challenge Friday, September 7, 2018, 8:30 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Composers write a piece in 36 hours, performers learn and rehearse it in 36 hours, and then... there's a concert! Presented by Tempo, the student-led new music group at the University of Maryland, I'm returning as a composer of a piece for countertenor and double bass. (What could go wrong?)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Premiere of Dreamless, a new one-act opera July 14, 2018, 5:00 PM; July 15, 7:00 PM; July 21, 1:45 PM; July 22, 2:00 PM; and July 26, 8:45 PM. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I St SW, Washington, DC 20024 My recently-completed opera Dreamless received its premiere at this year's Capital Fringe Fest alongside works by Michael Oberhauser, Joseph Kaz, and Frances Pollock. I'm also delighted be serving as conductor of my own piece as well as Joseph's. For more information on the project, see our page on Fractured Atlas.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		All Souls Choir: Collaboration with Dance Exchange Thursday, May 31, 2018, 5:00 PM John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage Rounding out the season with some choral music in what promises to be a deeply moving cooperative effort between my regular church choir and DC's own Dance Exchange at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. Free!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Karly Ritland and Hong Liang Ng in recital Friday, May 4, 2018, 2:00 PM Beckwith Recital Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Soprano Karly Ritland and pianist Hong Liang Ng, who gave awesome preview performances of "Yellow Room" earlier this year, will premiere the full set from which that song comes, Words From Friends. (These three songs, on poetry by my friends Ruth Bright, Athena Kildegard, and Natalie Vestin - who also happen to be brilliant poets - are scored for [very high] soprano and piano, and will be available to other performers shortly!)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		District New Music Coalition Presents: Anacostia String Quartet Sunday, March 4, 2018, 3:00 PM*; Friday, April 6, 2018, 7:30 PM**; Sunday, April 29, 2018, 2:00 PM*** Denizens Brewing*; St. George's Episcopal Church**; University of the District of Columbia*** Spring 2018 is the first season that the District New Music Coalition is here to help connect composers, performers, and audiences in the DC area. As part of this first season, we're hosting a few concerts, one of which features my string quartet work Wood/Water as well as great music by Sara Corry, Michael Oberhauser, Bradley Green, Dave Molk, and Ross Wixon. Visit the DNMC website for more info!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Karly Ritland: Senior Recital Saturday, April 21, 2018, 5:00 PM Beckwith Recital Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Soprano Karly Ritland, who gave an awesome preview performance of one song in Minnesota earlier in 2018, will premiere "Yellow Room" (for soprano and piano) in a concert setting as part of her capstone B.Mus. recital.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Completing my one-two punch at UMD, my piece Longfellow Mosaic will receive its official premiere by a Pierrot ensemble fronted by soprano Hayley Abramowitz, alongside works by current graduate students Quinn Dizon, Eric Pazdziora, and Dominic Ellis.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo New Music Ensemble: Rising Stars Monday, April 16, 2018, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center In the first of what has turned out to be a two-day alumnus mini-residency at UMD: mezzo Lori Sen, violist Kimia Hesabi, and pianist Ying-Shan Su will premiere the entirety of my recent Two Sephardic Songs, which Lori commissioned from me in 2017. (It's a particular honor to have this piece programmed by the current leadership of the ensemble of which I was once an Artistic Director!)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary Thursday, March 8, 2018, 7:00 PM; Saturday, March 10, 2018, 8:00 PM John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Singing as a chorister in the DC-area premiere of John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary with the National Symphony Orchestra under its new music director, Gianandrea Noseda. The Thursday show includes a talkback panel beforehand, and the Saturday show includes one afterward.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Lori Sen: Final DMA Recital Saturday, February 24, 2018, 5:00 PM Tawes Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Lori Sen will wrap up her doctoral degree with a program that includes one of the Two Sephardic Songs that she commissioned from me, heard here in its edition for mezzo, clarinet, and piano. (As a bonus, I'll be making a vocal cameo on this recital, with Sid Robinovitch's beautiful and tragic chamber piece Rodas Recordadas.)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Minneapolis songSLAM January 11, 2018, 8:00 PM Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404 Working with pianist Hong Liang Ng and soprano Karly Ritland on the premiere of my new song The Yellow Room, the first in a series of collaborations with poet Ruth Bright.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Christmas Eve at All Souls Sunday, December 24, 2017, 9:30 PM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) Pianist/conductor Jen Hayman and I will be premiering "In This Night," my somewhat cynical and Resistance-endorsing attempt at writing a Christmas song.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Händel: Messiah Friday and Saturday, December 15 & 16, 2017, 8:00 PM John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Performing this unstoppable Christmas/Easter juggernaut as a chorister with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jeannette Sorrell (of Apollo's Fire fame).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Baltimore Symphony Orchestra "Off the Cuff": Mozart's Requiem Friday, November 30, 2017, 8:15 PM; Saturday, December 1, 2017, 7:00 PM Strathmore Music Center (November 30); Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (December 1) Performing Mozart's (and Süssmayr's) Requiem as a chorister with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of the always-wonderful Marin Alsop.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		"21st Century Sax" at Tübinger Jazz & Klassiktage 2017 Sunday, October 15, 2017, 6:00 PM Bürgerhaus "Kelter" Entringen, 11 Kelternstrasse Ammerbuch, BW, 72119 Germany Saxophonist Noah Bedrin gives the German premiere of my Bright Solo in its edition for bari sax.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Sonhando: Recital de Canto e Piano Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 8:00 PM Casa Thomas Jefferson, Asa Sul, Brasilia, Brazil Soprano and art song scholar Regina Stroncek and pianist Larissa Paggioli will perform selections from Vols. 1-5 of my Little Dream Pieces on a program of song works by American and Brazilian composers.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		All Souls Worship Service Sunday, September 17, 2017, 9:30 & 11:15 AM All Souls Church, Unitarian (1500 Harvard St. NW, Washington, DC 20009) Pianist Jen Hayman will perform "Kleines Triptychon" from Five Number Pieces.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo: 72-Hour Challenge Friday, September 15, 2017, 10:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Composers write a piece in 36 hours, performers learn and rehearse it in 36 hours, and then... there's a concert! Presented by Tempo, the student-led new music group at the University of Maryland, this concert will feature me not as a composer this time, but as a singer - premiering two of Eric Pazdziora's new Edward Lear songs for baritone, French horn, and marimba.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Just Duet: "After Dark" at New Music Gathering May 10, 2017, 9:00 PM; May 13, 2017, 10:00 PM Howard's Club H (May 10), Two Foxes Gastropub (May 13), Bowling Green, OH For the occasion of the New Music Gathering, hosted this year by BGSU, Just Duet are reprising their "After Dark" program, featuring selections from my "Short Strange Sad Songs."
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky & Pärt Friday, April 28, 2017, 8:00 PM; Saturday, April 29, 2017, 8:00 PM; Sunday, April 30, 2017, 3:00 PM Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (April 28 and 30), Strathmore Music Center (April 29) Performing Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Arvo Pärt's Credo as a chorister with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of the wonderful Marin Alsop. Also on the program: Rachmaninoff's second symphony.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Kayla Hanvey: Master's Recital April 28, 2017, 8:00 PM Housewright Hall, Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL Flutist Kayla Hanvey will play my Bonsais for solo piccolo as part of her M.M. degree recital.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland April 25, 2017, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center My last performance as a doctoral student at UMD! Jon Clancy on marimba and Robert Durie on bass clarinet will be premiering Bright Duo (aka Bright Solo plus a rather virtuosic marimba part) alongside works by Quinn Dizon, Ray Fields, Matthew Chung, Zach Konick, and Chris Newman.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		UMD Chamber Singers: Spring Choral Showcase April 8, 2017, 8:00 PM Memorial Chapel, College Park, MD Performing as chorister in Herbert Howells's Requiem, the Mass of Frank Martin, and some motets by Maurice Durufle, all under the direction of the Oregon Bach Festival's Matthew Halls.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Music & Film at Maryland Thursday, March 30, 2017, 7:00 PM Leah M. Smith Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) It's not every day I write a brass quintet score for a nine-minute film about caterpillars, but we live in interesting times. My score for a century-old wildlife documentary will be performed live at this screening along with works by other UMD students and visiting composer Maria Newman.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Nouveau Classical Project: UMD Residency Thursday, March 9, 2017, 7:00 PM Gildenhorn Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) As part of their two-day residency, the wonderful Pierrot sextet The Nouveau Classical Project will be reading and recording my new piece Longfellow Mosaic, seven songs for soprano and chamber ensemble based on fragments of a few dozen poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Music & Film at Maryland Thursday, December 1, 2016, 7:00 PM Leah M. Smith Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Collaborating with pianist Ruth Bright on a score for a short silent film, performed live at the screening.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The brilliant mezzo-soprano Sarah Best and pianist Sarah Barham will premiere my Little Dream Pieces, Vol. 5, as part of a program of works by UMD composition grads and undergrads.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Just Duet: "After Dark" Saturday, November 19, 2016, 9:00; Saturday, December 3, 2016 Kelly Hall (11/19), Wolfe Center (12/3), Bowling Green State University Idiosyncratic clarinet & percussion duo Cynthia Goosby & Scott Charvet, known collectively as Just Duet, will be premiering my piece Short Strange Sad Songs alongside works by Alex Tran and Michael J. Vince, all of which were commissioned as responses to a mysterious and open-ended prompt: "After Dark."
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		NSO: Durufle/Debussy Thursday through Saturday, November 10-12, 2016, 8:00 PM John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Performing the full-orchestra version of Maurice Durufle's Requiem as a chorister with the National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Donald Runnicles. Also on the program: Debussy's Three Nocturnes and Four Preludes.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo: 72-Hour Challenge Friday, September 9, 2016, 6:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Composers write a piece in 36 hours, performers learn and rehearse it in 36 hours, and then... there's a concert! Presented by Tempo, the student-led new music group at the University of Maryland, this concert will feature a short new work of mine played by Angela Kazmierczak (oboe) and Frank Stroup (trumpet). Concluding the show is a new commission by Dale Trumbore, performed by the Inscape Chamber Orchestra - not to be missed!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Source Song Festival August 7 through 13, 2016 Minneapolis, Minnesota Working with Libby Larsen (as well as many performers and fellow composers) for this weeklong festival of art song, including a performance of my set Danna's Dreams For D'Anna.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Triad Presents: Chorale and Variations Saturday, May 14, 2016, 8:00 PM; Monday, May 16, 6:00 PM May 14: Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church (1555 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA); May 16: TBA. Boston's choral collective ensemble Triad will be performing my Five Fantasies on Bach Chorales in a fantastically diverse and forward-thinking program including works by Thomas Stumpf, Charles Turner, Peter Louis van Dijk, and Caroline Mallonee. Honored to be included in such company. (Tickets are $10 at the door.)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		(DMA Recital #3) Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 8:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2201 Some regional, national, and world premieres of recent and semi-recent pieces of mine: all five movements of the Lyric Suite For English Horn, all three movements of the Piano Trio, all four movements of Old Books for saxophone quartet, the bassoon version of Bright Solo, and a few surprises.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Open Reading Session with the Spektral Quartet Monday, April 25, 2016, 7:30 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Chicago's fantastic Spektral Quartet will be reading new works for string quartet by myself (again) and by my colleagues Bryce Fuhrman and Rob Wolk.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Presenting the partial premiere of my Piano Trio (played by Anto Meliksetian, Erin Snedecor, and Pablo Salazar), within a potpourri program of pieces by UMD composition grads and undergrads.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Chamber Music Recital Monday, April 11, 2016, 5:30 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Angela Kazmierczak will be playing three movements from Lyric Suite For English Horn with Josh Waldman, Becca Barnett, and Jon Clancy. (This is, to my knowledge, the first time a piece by a current UMD student has appeared on a school-sanctioned chamber group concert.)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Ethan Greene, bass: "The Transience of Life and Happiness" Thursday, March 31, 2016, 7:30 PM The Scott Theater, Carroll County Community College Bass Ethan Greene will be performing my Little Dream Pieces, Vol. 4 as part of a guest recital, accompanied by pianist Joanna Jones. Ticket info at the link above.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo: Spring 2016 Concert Tuesday, March 29, 2015, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center This semester's regular concert by Tempo, the graduate student-led new music ensemble at UMD, features the three winners of our 2015-2016 call for scores, including William Price's Hardboiled, conducted by me!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Brahms: Eine deutsches Requiem Friday through Sunday, March 4-6, 2016: 8:00 PM/3:00 PM Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore, MD) and the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts (Bethesda, MD) Performing Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem as a chorister with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Markus Stenz.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Advent Library Concert Series Friday, February 19, 2016, 8:00 PM Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Boston MA Presenting solo works for woodwinds on a program shared with the wonderful Transient Canvas.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Music And Film at Maryland Friday, February 12, 2016, 7:30 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Collaborating with the Potomac Wind Quintet on a short film score, performed live at the screening.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Dave Berrios at the 2016 Saxophone Summit Saturday, January 16, 2016, 8:00 PM Seretean Center for the Performing Arts, Stillwater, OK Saxophonist Dave Berrios gives the Midwestern premiere of my Bright Solo in its edition for bari sax.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Opera On Tap: New Works Fest Sunday, November 15, 2015, 3:30 PM The Pinch, 3548 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20010 Soprano Amy Broadbent will be performing songs from Ancient Woes, Vol. 1 and Little Dream Pieces, Vol. 3 in the convivial and informal setting of Opera On Tap! Nathan Bluestein appears as collaborative pianist.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo: 72-Hour Challenge Friday, September 11, 2015, 7:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Composers write a piece in 36 hours, performers learn and rehearse it in 36 hours, and then... there's a concert! Fellow composers Scott AuCoin, Quinn Dizon, Bryce Fuhrman, Bradley Green, Zach Konick, Eric Pazdziora, Pablo Salazar, Nolan Veldey, Mary Whitmore, Ross Wixon, and Rob Wolk will be joining me in this adventure. Presented by Tempo, the student-led new music group at the University of Maryland.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Second Sunset Thursday, August 13, 2015, 8:00 PM Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) In a return to my old stomping grounds, I'm putting together a recital of works I've composed since leaving Boston in 2013. Check out the Boston-area premieres of Bright Solo, Danna's Dreams For D'Anna, and Three Sisters In Autumn, plus the world premiere performances of String Quartet No. 3 and Lyric Suite For English Horn. My wonderful collaborators this year include saxophonist Mary Joy Patchett, oboist Jennifer Slowik, violinst Anna Griffis, and mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo, among others.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		The Cortona Sessions For New Music June 28 through July 12, 2015 Cortona, Italy Working with composer/teachers Forrest Pierce and Frederic Rzewski (as well as many performers and fellow composers) for this two-week festival, including the premieres of my new works Old Books for saxophone quartet and Bright Solo for bassoon on July 7 and 10 respectively.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Fresh Inc. 2015 at Constellation Saturday, June 20, 2015, 7:00 PM Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago IL 60618 Members of the Fresh Inc. Festival (2015 edition) will be premiering my Park Bench At The End Of The World for mixed quintet at this fantastic venue in Chicago. The venue is small, so click here to buy tickets ($15 general admission, $10 students) in advance!
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music at Maryland Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Presenting Frank Chu and Madeline Miskie in the first performance of Ancient Woes, Vol. 1 on English and Latin texts, within a potpourri program of pieces by UMD composition grads and undergrads.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Elizabeth Erenberg: CD Release Concert Sunday, April 26, 2015, 4:00 PM Flutistry Boston, 801A Tremont St., Boston MA 02118 Longtime collaborator and stalwart new music advocate Elizabeth Erenberg (flute/piccolo) will be celebrating the release of her debut CD, Ascend, which features my Bonsais for solo piccolo. Also on the concert (and album) are works by Kurt Mehlenbacher, Albert Oppenheimer, Jeannette Chechile, John McDonald, and Russell Steinberg.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Andrew Welch's Master Recital: "Distant Horizons" Friday, April 17, 2015, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center At the same time that the UMD Chamber Singers premiere Five Fantasies On Bach Chorales, pianist Andrew Welch will be performing a movement from Five Number Pieces as part of his MM degree recital in solo piano performance. If you don't like my piece, fear not; there's also music by Andriessen, Sosnowski, Volchok, Salonen, Ravel, Scarlatti, and Mozart.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		UMD Chamber Singers & Chorale: Spring Showcase Friday, April 17, 2015, 8:00 PM Dekelboum Concert Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center UMD's top choral ensemble will be giving the full premiere of my award-winning piece for SATB choir, Five Fantasies On Bach Chorales. This is a ticketed event, so get yours here.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tempo Presents: Numera by Ryan Oldham Monday, March 2, 2015, 8:00 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Tempo, the student-run new music collective, is presenting the surrealist chamber opera Numera by Ryan Oldham of UMKC as the centerpiece of their spring concert. I'll be singing the role of "Triangle" (I told you it was surrealist).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Alexandra Porter and Meghan Mae Curry in Recital Friday, February 13, 2015, 8:00 PM Trinity Episcopal Church, 207 W. Main St., Moorestown, New Jersey Soprano and new-music specialist Alexandra Porter will perform my Little Dream Pieces, Vol. 3 in this recital with fellow soprano Meghan Mae Curry.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Open Reading Session with the Spektral Quartet Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 7:30 PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Chicago's fantastic Spektral Quartet will be reading my new String Quartet No. 3, Op. 57a, along with new works by my colleagues Petra Hogan and Bryce Fuhrman.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music At Maryland December 2, 2014, 8:00pm Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Premieres of new works composed by me and by my UMD colleagues Geoff Sheil, Pablo Salazar, Rob Wolk, Bryce Fuhrman, Petra Hogan, Bradley Green, and Alexandra Bryant. My contribution is Sunflower Poem, featuring soprano Emily Riley with an eight-piece chamber group.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Victoria Suchodolski in Recital November 26, 2014; December 5, 2014* Newbridge on the Charles, Dedham, MA; *Taylor House Bed & Breakfast, Jamaica Plain, MA Pianist Victoria Suchodolski will be taking on my Five Number Pieces for solo piano in these two Boston-area recitals.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Dance in the Garden, Part III October 18, 2014, 2:00-4:00pm Three Sisters Garden at Schrom Hills Park (Greenbelt, MD) In this collaboration with choreographer Monica Warren, our piece Three Sisters In Autumn for four sopranos and five dancers will be presented by Monica's colleagues of the Alight Dance Theater. (It's a 20-minute piece that will be cycled a few times during the 2-4pm period, rain or shine.)
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Suite For Sextet And Other Works (DMA Recital #2) October 12, 2014, 8:00-9:30pm Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) My second annual recital at the University of Maryland will feature the Pierrot-ensemble version of my master's thesis (Suite For Chamber Orchestra, now entitled Suite For Sextet), alongside songs for mezzo (Danna's Dreams For D'Anna) and some instrumentals (Four Duos And Two Solos).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		A Flute Is Not A Bird: A Recital of Natural Selections October 12, 2014, 2:00-3:30pm Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church (Somerville, MA) Flutist Kristen Dye will be playing my Bonsais for solo piccolo alongside chamber works by Forrest Pierce, Kaija Saariaho, David Farrell, Mark Dancigers, and George Crumb.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Ruth Bright: Chamber Recital September 7, 2014, 2:00-4:00pm College Park United Methodist Church (College Park, MD) Pianist Ruth Bright and cellist Jess Albrecht will be performing my piece Choi Mosaic alongside piano and string works by the slightly more accomplished composers Arno Babadjanian and Claude Debussy.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		First Sunset August 21, 2014, 8:00-9:00pm Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) In a return to my old stomping grounds, I'll be putting on a short recital of works I composed since leaving Boston last fall: in their U.S. premieres, Sunflower Poem and several short duos and solos; the world premieres of the un-cello'ed edition of Little Dream Pieces and the original harp version of Three Aphorisms; and Five Number Pieces for solo piano in its Boston area premiere.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		IFCM World Symposium on Choral Music August 6-13, 2014 Seoul and Gunsan, South Korea Performing by invitation of the International Federation for Choral Music with the UMD Chamber Singers under the direction of Edward Maclary. Other invited choirs include the USC Thornton Chamber Singers, the Oslo Chamber Choir, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, and Roomful of Teeth.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		The 53rd National NATS Conference July 6, 2014, 5:30pm Boston Marriott Copley Place (Boston, MA) Mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato and pianist/composer John McDonald present the partial premiere of my new song cycle Danna's Dreams For D'Anna. Full premiere to follow at Tufts University this fall (exact date TBA).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		The Cortona Sessions For New Music June 21 through July 5, 2014 Cortona, Italy Working with composer/teachers Forrest Pierce, Gabriela Frank, and Stevan Tickmayer (as well as many performers and fellow composers) for this two-week festival, including the premiere of my new work Sunflower Poem on July 3.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		A Celebration Of Small Things (DMA Recital #1) May 16, 2014, 8:00pm Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) In this concert of miniatures, I'll be presenting the premieres of Five Number Pieces for solo piano and Little Dream Pieces, Vol. 4 for medium voice, piano, and two cellos; plus, fresh takes on Trois Miniatures Hypnotisees and Trois Plus Miniatures Hypnotisees and a retrospective of the first three volumes of Little Dream Pieces. Featured performers include pianist Frank Chu and members of the Maryland Opera Studio and Chamber Singers.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music At Maryland April 22, 2014, 8:00pm Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Premiere of the chamber version of Three Frozen Sketches in the company of pieces by my UMD colleagues.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		A Britten Celebration April 4, 2014, 8:00pm Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Performing A Hymn To St. Cecilia, Five Flower Songs, and Choral Dances From Gloriana under the direction of Edward Maclary, Greg Graf, and Rachel Carlson (respectively).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Granoff All Night Long March 28, 2014, 8:00pm through March 29, 2014, 8:00am (!) Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) Premiere of the flute & cello version of Three Aphorisms at this all-night music event.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Recording session with Elizabeth Erenberg & Michael Reichman March 16, 2014 Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) Recording the revised version of the old November Duo (Op. 5) in beautiful Distler Auditorium.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Lukas Foss: The Prairie February 28, 2014: 8:00 PM (MD); March 3, 2014: 8:00 PM (DC) Memorial Chapel (College Park, MD), Capitol Hill Pres. Church (Washington DC) Partipicating as chorister in the DMA project of C. Paul Heins, a rare performance of this 1942 cantata by the late German-American composer Lukas Foss.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		UMD Symphony Orchestra & Concert Choir: Ravel & Bruckner March 1, 2014: 8:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Singing Ravel, Bruckner, and (surprise!) Palestrina, conducted by James Ross and John Devlin.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		The Senior Recital of Scott AuCoin Monday, December 16, 2013: 8:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Singing the role of Jesus in composer Scott AuCoin's short oratorio The Betrayal.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Music In Mind Sunday, December 15, 2013: 3:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Performing as a chorister with the University of Maryland Chamber Singers.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New Music At Maryland Wednesday, December 4, 2013: 8:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Presenting a new song cycle in this installment of a biannual concert series of music by UMD composition students.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Linda Mabbs In Concert Thursday, November 21, 2013: 8:00 PM Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD) Performing as a chorister with the University of Maryland Chamber Singers in support of UMD voice faculty member Linda Mabbs.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Britten: War Requiem Thursday through Saturday, November 14-16, 2013: 8:00 PM Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Thu/Fri, Baltimore, MD) and the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts (Sat, Bethesda, MD) Performing Britten's War Requiem as a chorister with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		The Fifth National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization Friday, November 1, 2013: 8:30 PM College of Charleston (SC) Performing works by Britten, Howells, Purcell, and Poulenc as a chorister with the University of Maryland Chamber Singers (guest conductor: Matthew Halls).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		UMD Family Weekend Thursday, October 10, 2013: 8:00 PM Memorial Chapel (7600 Baltimore Ave, College Park, MD 20740) Performing as a chorister with the University of Maryland Chamber Singers.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		UMD Convocation Tuesday, October 8, 2013: 3:00 PM Memorial Chapel (7600 Baltimore Ave, College Park, MD 20740) Performing as a chorister with the University of Maryland Chamber Singers.
WHAT   WHEN   INFO		The Oriana Consort July 26 through August 5, 2013 Touring Germany (as chorister and occasional soloist), presenting works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Telemann, Bernstein, et al. at three concerts and a church service in Frankfurt, Dietzenbach, and Leipzig.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Recording session with Elizabeth Erenberg July 25, 2013 Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University (Somerville, MA) Recording Bonsais for solo piccolo, for eventual CD release.
WHAT   WHEN   INFO		The Oriana Consort April 14 and 21; May 31, 2013 Performing (as a baritone) choral works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Telemann, Bernstein, et al. Click the link above for more information on locations, times, and tickets.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Junk Kitchen #13: Electronically Yours, Acoustically Speaking Friday, May 24, 2013: 10:00 PM The Lily Pad (1353 Cambridge St./Inman Sq.), Cambridge, MA Playing some woodwinds on acoustic/chamber/jazz versions of electronic music ranging from the ancient (Raymond Scott) to the 8-bit ("Theme From Duck Hunt") to the eighties (Kraftwerk). Should be a really fun show.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		songs en route Sunday, May 12, 2013: 8:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) My farewell concert, marking my move from Boston to the Washington D.C. area. Check out the "home game" performance of the Cello Quartet plus many a premiere: Three Songs of Passing Times and Places (for mezzo, piano, and harp), on poems by Thomas Hardy - featuring my frequent collaborator Victoria Suchodolski, my old friend Monica Chieffo, and my new collaborator Caroline Harvey Four Uncollected Songs (for soprano and oboe), also on Thomas Hardy texts - performed by the dedicatees, special guests Katelyn Aungst and Miriam Friedman Bonsais (for unaccompanied piccolo) - performed by Danna Solomon String Quartet No. 2 - commissioned and performed by Tamara Win (viola) and her Tufts-based quartet And as I said, this is my last full concert in Boston until at least 2016, so it would be great to see some familiar faces out there. Click here to see the poster.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Community Music Concert #1 Saturday, May 11, 2013: 12:15 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Presenting and singing new music by Nia McLean, one of my young theory/composition students.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts Composers 2D + New At (Not) Noon Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Premiering a work for unaccompanied baritone by Meng Tian, on a text by Oscar Wilde. Also on the program are other works by Meng and by Chris Marinuzzi, plus a few things by members of the Tufts composition seminar.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Junk Kitchen #12: Spring Cleaning Friday, April 26, 2013: 10:00 PM The Lily Pad (1353 Cambridge St./Inman Sq.), Cambridge, MA Performing autoharp duos co-written with series curator Ben Dicke. Informal atmosphere and great people in wonderful Inman Square.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts University New Music Ensemble (NME) Friday, April 26, 2013: 8:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Performing (on various instruments) new and improvised works with Don Berman, et al.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts Jazz Orchestra On Tour March 17-20, 2013 Various venues in Portugal I'm traveling to Lisbon and Algarve, Portugal, with the Tufts Jazz Orchestra as they perform my big band piece "Other Journeys." Check it out if you happen to be in the neighborhood(s).
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Advent Library Concert Series Friday, February 22, 2013: 8:00 PM Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Boston MA Premiere of my Cello Quartet and new looks at Lost In The Woods (version for unaccompanied soprano, again featuring Suzanne Lis) and Schismic/Dyschismic/Schismic, plus music by Mimi Rabson's Strings Theory Trio and cellist Valerie Kuehne.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		New At Noon #3 Friday, February 22, 2013: 12:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Believe it or not, two variants on Lost In The Woods are getting premiered on the same day. John McDonald commissioned and will perform the piano version at this lunchtime concert at Tufts.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Community Music Concert #1 Saturday, January 19, 2013: 12:15 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Presenting and/or performing (on piano) new music by three of my young theory/composition students.
WHAT   WHEN   INFO		The Oriana Consort December 2, 7, and 9, 2012 Performing (as a baritone) choral works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Adam Simon, et al.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts Symphony Orchestra December 4, 2012: 4:30 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Conducting a reading session of works by myself and by Will Myers of the New England Conservatory. Open to observers; feel free to drop in.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts University New Music Ensemble (NME) Friday, November 30, 2012: 8:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Performing (on various instruments) new and improvised works with Don Berman, et al.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Tufts Symphony Orchestra Wednesday, November 28, 2012: 8:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) Appearing as second conductor of Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question; other works on the program by Brahms, Marquez, Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky, McDonald.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		The Beasts of Improvisation On Parade Wednesday, November 14, 2012: 8:00 PM Washington Street Art Center, 321 Washington St., Somerville, MA Featured composer in program of new and improvised music, including premieres of works for flute duo plus fresh versions of Little Dream Pieces, Vols. 1-3 and String Quartet No. 1: Trees.
WHAT   WHEN   WHERE   INFO		Lost In The Woods Sunday, October 28, 2012: 8:00 PM Distler Auditorium, Tufts University (20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA) A full program of jazz and song cycles, most receiving their first performances. Suzanne Lis, soprano, is featured with chamber orchestra on Lost In The Woods; Kate Nye, mezzo, will perform a new version of Die Blinde on German texts by Adelbert von Chamisso, joined by pianist John McDonald and cellist Jason Coleman. Also on the program are new works for jazz combo, performed by an all-star group of Tufts & NEC students and faculty.
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