Calendar

Upcoming Performances &c.

  • November 15, 2014, 8pm PST: West Coast premiere of Retouchage, by Faythe Vollrath in Capistrano Hall Room 151 of Cal State-Sacramento. Part of the FeNAM festival.
  • December 18, 2014, 7:30pm: World premiere of Two Birds, as yet Unheard by it's commissioner, Roberta Michel, at The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost Street, Brooklyn.
  • December 21, 2014: Something special is in the works for 4pm in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Meet at the Grand Army Plaza entrance with your bicycle (or citibike...)

Past Performances

  • October 13, 2014 at 7pm: Release party for New Music for Old Instruments, recorded by Flying Forms at The Baroque Room, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
  • October 9, 2014: I gave a talk about my work in Minnesota, at Gustavus Adolpus College, in Bjorling Recital Hall at 7:30pm.
  • April 9, 2014: World premiere of Oedipus Overture for solo Baroque double bass and Baroque ensemble (traverso/recorder; Baroque oboe; percussion; harpsichord; Baroque violin, viola, and 'cello; violone) in Aubervilliers, France.
  • January 28, 2014: G Train performed by Quartuour Devarte at Le Chinois de Montreuil, France.
  • October 20, 2013: World premiere of the organ version of Shadow in the Hot Sun for soprano, organ, and string trio by Alia Musica, East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • August 29, 2013: Czech premiere of Hell Study: Nature morte with hurdy-gurdy (octet version) for flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, marimba, percussion, violin, and cello at Ostrava Days in Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • May 21, 2013: World premiere of a Hell Study: Nature morte with hurdy-gurdy for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello by Ensemble Sillages in La Courneuve, France
  • May 17, 18, & 19, 2013: Retouchage from On retouche les nouveaux habits du roi for solo harpsichord by Tami Morse at The Baroque Room in St. Paul
  • US premiere of Shadow in the Hot Sun by Alia Musica with soprano Jamie Jordan and accordionist Henry Doktoski on Apr. 6, 2013
  • Trio was performed by Cadillac Moon Ensemble on Feb. 1, 2013 at Firehouse in Brooklyn
  • "Pre-premiere" of Retouchage for solo harpsichord and live electronics at La Courneuve Conservatory by Alissa Duryee on Jan. 29, 2013
  • November 21, 2012: Irish premiere of Harpsichord Swirl on Dublin Sound Lab's reSounding Dublin concert, St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin.
  • November 15, 2012: Nuevos Misterios performed by Flying Forms at Studio Z, St. Paul, MN
  • July 29, 2012: French premiere of G Train to Smith/9th (Jennifer Lang and Masha Lankovsky, violins; Sarah Niblack, viola; Vincent Lopez, ‘cello) at Café Chéri(e), Paris
  • June 29, 2012: Nuevos Misterios, Four Preludes for Harpsichord, for Baroque Trio, and Prelude and Fantasia performed by Flying Forms and Tulio Rondon at The Baroque Room, St. Paul, MN
  • June 21 and 22, 2012: World premiere (tentative) of J. Sibelius in Provence for baroque violin and electronics at L'Universite de Paris VIII in St-Denis, and at Instituto Cervantes in Paris
  • June 7, 2012: Trio for violin, cello, and percussion performed by Ensemble Interface at June in Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY
  • May 26, 2012: The Noblest Instrument performed by Ottawa New Music Creators at Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Ottawa, Canada
  • April 3, 2012: World premiere of Open Sky Empty Sky for flute, clarinet, saxophone, and percussion, with 3 dancers, at the Theatre de la Commune d'Aubervillers
  • March 29, 2012: World premiere of Harpsichord Swirl, a site-specific piece for 8-channel audio in the Chapelle des Carmelites at the Musee d'art et d'histoire in St-Denis, France.
  • January 30, 2012: The Noblest Instrument. World premiere by Ottawa New Music Creators at De La Salle High School, Ottawa, Canada
  • January 27, 2012: French premiere of Something Else (Music for Sleeping through Winter) for violin and piano, by Jennifer Lang (violin) and Il-Woong Seo (piano) at the Conservatory of La Courneuve-Aubervilliers
  • November 12, 2011: World premiere of Cyclictych by Miriam Kapner (oboe) and Frank Perko III (organ) at the First Plymouth Congregational Church in Englewood, CO (near Denver)
  • June 9, 2011: World premiere of What Nobody Expected for tenor saxophone and tape, at L'Universite de Paris VIII in St-Denis
  • February 16-19, 2011: World premiere by Ben Hofer Lanz of Redirect for solo Trombone in Utrecht, Eindhover, Groningen, and Rotterdam at the Cross Linx Festival
  • February 8, 2011: World premiere of Something Else (Music for Sleeping through Winter) for violin and piano, by Esther Noh (violin) and Jacob Rhodebeck (piano) at St.Peters Lutheran Church in New York City.
  • January 21, 2011: Flying Forms performs excerpts from 4 Preludes for Harpsichord, for Baroque Trio (Substitutions and Rolling) at First United Methodist Church, St. Paul, MN
  • November 30, 2010: World premiere of the arrangement of Trio for flute trio and percussion, by Kelli Kathman and friends in New York City.
  • November 12, 2010: Flying Forms performs excerpts from 4 Preludes for Harpsichord, for Baroque Trio at Olivet Congregational Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
  • September 18, 2010: US premiere of Trio by New Music Raleigh at the Flanders Gallery in Downtown Raleigh, NC, as part of SparkCon
  • September 11, 2010: Washington, DC premiere of Rising as part of the SCI Chapter of the composition division of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America's New Voices Festival, 10am in the St. Vincent de Paul Chapel on the CUA campus.
  • July 1, 2010: World premiere of Trio by Matt Albert (violin), Agnieszka Kolodziej (cello), and Yu-Chun Kuo (percussion) at the Hindemith Foundation in Blonay, Switzerland.
  • June 4, 2010: recording/concert of Yelha Wurar, an arrangement of the Algerian song, for chamber orchestra and traditional Algerian instruments, at the Maison de la Radio in Paris. An excerpt was boradcast on the program, Couleurs du Monde on June 16.
  • May 1, 2010: World Premiere of (Restful Waters)(מי מנחות) for Soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and 'cello by the MEANS New Music Ensemble at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in Urbana, Illinois.
  • Yelha Wurar, an arrangement of the Algerian song, for chamber orchestra and traditional Algerian instruments, was performed on Novermber 7, 2009, at the Conservatoire d'Aulnay-sous-Bois.
  • October 1, 2009: 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30), Gotham Early Music Scene presents Flying Forms at (le) poisson rouge, performing Nuevos Misterios for amplified Baroque violin and harpsichord. 158 Bleeker Street, New York, NY.
  • July 31, 2009: World premiere of Three Studies for Soprano, Accordion, and String Trio (Shadow in the Hot Sun), Chapelle Saint-Victor, Villecroze, France by The Elixir Trio, accordionist Thomas Chedal, and soprano Isa Lagarde in connection with the composition masterclass at the Academie Musicale de Villecroze.
  • April 17, 2009: New York premiere of some amount of Rising for 3-part chorus and any instrument(s) available by Worldmuse. At Sulzberger Parlor, of Barnard Hall on the Barnard campus (3009 Broadway at 117th St, third floor, #1 subway to 116th Street) in New York City. Here's the press release.
  • Premiere week for Nuevos Misterios in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, with Flying Forms.
  • February 13, 2009: Omie Speaks for saxophone quartet and electronics, Espace Renaudie, Aubervilliers, France
  • June 23, 2008: First section of Rising for 3-part chorus and any instrument(s) available, Slovenian premiere by the International Vocal Arts Workshop, Izola, Slovenia.
  • June 22, 2008: First section of Rising for 3-part chorus and any instrument(s) available, world premiere by the International Vocal Arts Workshop, Grožnjan, Croatia.
  • March 12, 2008: The complete Wedge Miniatures for oboe/English horn and piano, world premiere by Sally Wall and Eriko Nagai, Staller Center Recital Hall. Repeat performance, March 14, 2008.
  • February 21, 2008: Exercices de style, for SATB chorus, violin, and piano, world premiere by the Orfeo Duo and their composers chorus, Ascension Church, New York, NY. Text by Raymond Queneau used with premission.
  • February 10, 2008: Two of the 4 Preludes for Harpsichord, for Baroque Trio, world premiere by Flying Forms at the Staller Center for the Performing Arts, Stony Brook, NY.
  • November 1, 2007: Everybody's Going There for recorder quartet, performed by QNG-Quartet New Generation at Nightingale Concert Hall, Reno, NV.
  • June 29, 2007: Movements 3, 5, and 7 of Wedge Miniatures for oboe and piano were played by Samuel Andreyev (oboe) and Hyun Hwa Cho (piano) at the Espace Francois Mauriac in Sevran, France, a suburb of Paris.
  • April 11, 2007: Prelude and Fantasia for harpsichord, European premiere by Anthony Romaniuk at Conservatory of The Hague, the Netherlands.
  • February 8, 2007: Everybody's Going There, performed by QNG-Quartet New Generation at Symphony Space, New York, NY.
  • May 4, 2006: Prelude and Fantasia for Harpsichord, performed by Tami Morse at the Staller Center for the Performing Arts, Stony Brook, NY. Part of the Emerson String Quartet's Annual Chamber Music Festival.
  • April 2, 2006: Prelude and Fantasia for Harpsichord, premiered by North Shore Pro Musica (Tami Morse, harpsichord) at the Ward Melville Education and Cultural Center, Stony Brook, NY.
 
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