I-Jen Fang and Ayn Balija will perform five movements from Overlooks, Vol. I, during the fifth concert of the 2024-2025 UVA Chamber Music Series, featuring mixed chamber ensembles comprised of UVA music department faculty members.
Noah Fields, violin, and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, perform some movements from Overlooks, Vol. II on this free concert titled “Future of Music” presented by the Society for New Music. The concert will take place in the Recital Hall of the Academic II Building at Onandaga Community College and also includes music by George Walker, Marc Mellits and Andy Akiho.
You can watch the concert livestream here.
Aqueeressence (Yoshi Weinberg, flute, and Daniel Schreiner, piano) will give the premiere of my piece Finite Things in Elebash Recital Hall at the CUNY Graduate Center. The concert is free - not tickets required - and is also being livestreamed here (passcode: 544624).
The program, also called “Finite Things,” is Aqueeressence’s debut recital and includes “world premieres of Brian Simalchik’s “Finite Things” and Camila Agosto’s “Just Enough to Breathe,” along with works by Amy Williams, Nina Shekhar, and queer improvisations. This concert presents music that explores the unconventional possibilities for grieving, healing, and empowerment through fragmented, wordless expression.”
Noah Fields (violin) and Sar-Shalom Strong (piano) will premiere two movements (lone tree and neversink) from Overlooks, Vol. II, a set of 10 miniatures currently in progress. It will be part of the Syracuse-based Society for New Music’s annual summer performance series in Cazenovia, NY, called Cazenovia Counterpoint.
I-Jen Fang will be performing several of my Overlooks on her UVA Chamber Music Series concert, alongside violist and fellow UVA faculty member Ayn Balija.
I-Jen Fang and Ayn Balija will perform several movements of Overlooks during a combined percussion and viola studio class at James Madison University.
Pianist Seung-Hye Kim will perform my Forgetting Pieces alongside other music for poetry and piano.
Percussionist I-Jen Fang (UVA) and violinist Matt Albert (University of Michigan) will be performing three movements of Overlooks with I-Jen in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Matt in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their performances will be transmitted to each location, and, using motion-capture technology, embodied with robots.
Pianist Seung-Hye Kim will perform my Forgetting Pieces alongside other music for poetry and piano.
My new percussion duo, Sounding Studies, will be performed by I-Jen Fang and Gregory Beyer as part of this outdoor concert featuring strings, flute and percussion.
I’m working with WTJU Charlottesville to present Phil Kline’s luminous yearly December tradition, Unsilent Night, in Charlottesville for the first time. It promises to be a a joyous (and socially distanced) gathering of music making in these dark and challenging times. We’ll start at IX Art Park and make our way ona specially chosen route through downtown Charlottesville, ending back at IX.
Four movements from my ongoing journal piece, Overlooks, will be performed on this live-streamed concert put on by June in Buffalo and the Center for 21st Century Music at the University of Buffalo. They’ll be tackled by four absolutely wonderful players - Eric Huebner, piano; Tom Kolor, vibraphone; Shannon Reilly, violin; and Jonathan Golove, cello. I had the pleasure of working with all of them on the recording of all eight movements of Overlooks back in June, and they brought the piece to life in a way it never had been.
Overlooks will share the program with new works by Oliver Kwapis and Daniel De Togni.
My brand-new work for solo marimba, Self-Portrait (You Are Not Your Thoughts), will be the daily digital performance for day seven of the 2020 Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. Starting at 10am on Monday, September 21, you can watch a video of percussionist I-Jen Fang performing the entire piece on the CCMF website, as well as a video of I-Jen and I chatting with festival director David McCormick. You will also be able to read program notes about the piece of the CCMF website. The performance video will remain online and free to view until October 31, 2020.
Click here to visit the webpage with the performance video and other materials.
On Saturday, June 27, the 2020 Yarn/Wire Institute participants will present new collaborations between institute composers and performers during a digital concert. Percussionist Jessie Otaiza will perform the first movement of my new solo marimba piece, Self-Portrait.
I’m participating in the 2020 Yarn/Wire Institute, a week-long summer institute for composers, pianists and percussionists. This year the festival will be entirely virtual. I’ll be working alongside members of Yarn/Wire, with Institute composers Anne Cleare and Katherine Young, as well as composing a new piece for solo percussion to be performed as part of a concluding digital concert.
I will be participating in the 2020 June in Buffalo festival, which, for the first time, will be entirely remote and virtual. As part of the festival, my piece Overlooks, will be performed and recorded by the Slee Sinfonietta.
I was in residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts for three weeks, working with master composer Jennifer Higdon. I was in residence with seven other composers, as well as eight visual artists working with painter Will Cotton, and eight choreographers working with choreographer Annie B. Parsons.
My vibraphone and piano duo The Utterance and the Space, which was written in memory of David Macbride, will be performed as part of a four-day concert series running from October 2-5 dedicated to David. The Friday, October 4 concert features works written in his memory by alumni and colleagues. The first two nights feature David’s own chamber and percussion music, and the final night, his larger-scale works for wind ensemble.
Percussionist Matthew Gold performs my piece Lacunae (for vibraphone and fixed media) on the Talea Ensemble’s iNSIDE Out series at The Flea Theater. Works by Natacha Diels and Ted Moore round out the program.
Percussionist Matthew Gold will perform the vibraphone version of Lacunae on this program of new works.
Percussionist Matthew Gold performs Lacunae during a live concert at The Church in Troy, NY, part of this immersive art event created by FOUR-D.
Percussionist Matthew Gold performs the solo vibraphone version of Lacunae during his opening set for Paul de Jong (of The Books fame) out on the MASS MoCA Pavilion.
Andrea performs my piece bird's eye along with other works from her "Dynamic Earth" program.
The UTM Contemporary Music Group performs a new ensemble version of Overlooks.
Pianist Andrea Lodge premieres my new piece bird's eye on a solo recital at Spectrum NYC.
The University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Ensemble opens the 2016 UT Contemporary Music Festival with music by Berio, Zorn and Applebaum. They'll also be performing my ensemble version of Overlooks. Directed by Andy Bliss.
My new arrangement of Overlooks appears on a program of works celebrating the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. The National Sylvan Theater is located on the National Mall, right at the foot of the Washington Monument.
My new arrangement of Overlooks appears on a program of works celebrating the National Park Service's 100th anniversary.
My new arrangement of Overlooks appears on a program of works celebrating the National Park Service's 100th anniversary.
My new arrangement of Overlooks appears on a program of works celebrating the National Park Service's 100th anniversary.