2009 Performances


Date Event Where Time Other Information
January 14, 2009 Fresh Ink: Winter Songs WCNY-FM 91.3, Syracuse, NY, USA 2:00 PM Radio broadcast and webcast of Winter Songs performance with Society for New Music.
January 18, 2009 Fresh Ink: Visual Music WCNY-FM 91.3, Syracuse, NY, USA 2:00 PM Radio broadcast and webcast of Braids performance with Society for New Music.
January 25, 2009 American Modern Ensemble concert Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, New York, NY, USA 7:30 PM New York premiere of Winter Songs for bass-baritone and chamber ensemble, David Neal, bass-baritone. I will be conducting. Tickets $25, $20 (Students & Seniors).
March 15, 2009 Jeremy Justeson recital Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, USA 3:00 PM First world premiere of Tongue and Groove for alto saxophone and marimba with Jeremy Justeson on alto sax. This work was commissioned by CASE Arts Group, Inc. and a consortium of performers who will give world premiere performances. I will be playing this first performance of the six-mallet version at KU. I will also participate in a discussion with the other commissioned composers on the program, supported by the Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections Program.
April, 2009 Keiko Abe masterclass Taipei National University of the Arts, Music Department, Opera Rehearsal Studio, Taipei, China

Performance of Komodo for marimba played with six-mallets at a Keiko Abe masterclass, Ki-Hau Chi, marimba.

April 4, 2009 Jeremy Justeson recital North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, West Virginia University, Bloch Performance Hall, Creative Arts Center, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 3:50 PM Second performance of the six-mallet version of Tongue and Groove with Jeremy Justeson. I will be playing marimba.
April 5, 2009 Wild Basin Winds subscription concert First Presbyterian Church
8001 Mesa
Austin, TX, USA
3:00 PM Performance of Wind Quintet on a program of new and recent works entitled "Be Afraid, be Very Afraid!"
April 7, 2009 Wild Basin Winds subscription concert Riverbend Center-Chapel
Austin, TX, USA
7:30 PM Performance of Wind Quintet on a program of new and recent works entitled "Be Afraid, be Very Afraid!"
April 9, 2009 Ithaca Wind Quintet concert Ithaca College, School of Music, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Hockett Recital Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA 8:15 PM Performance of Wind Quintet by the Ithaca Wind Quintet.

April 27, 2009 American Modern Ensemble concert Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, New York, NY, USA 7:30 PM Performance of Thursday for soprano and piano, Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano and Blair McMillen, piano, on AME's What's So Funny concert. I will also be conducting works by Peter Schickele and David Heuser. Tickets $35, $30 (Students & Seniors).
May 1, 2009 A Child Possessed Demo Recording Session Recording of the piano reduction of two scenes from A Child Possessed, the new, two-act opera based on the book by R.C. Hutchinson with a libretto by David Cote.
May 15, 2009 Volti choir concert St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, USA
8:00 PM World premiere of Eternal Reflections (formerly titled On The Day The World Ends), a new choral work commissioned by Volti, Robert Geary, Artistic Director, for its 30th season, on a concert entitled "Ecstatically Impromptu." This work consists of settings of poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Mary E. Frye. Tickets available online or at the door. I will be at all three performances.
May 16, 2009 Volti choir concert St. Gregory of Nyssa Church,
500 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
8:00 PM See above...
May 17, 2009 Volti choir concert All Saints' Episcopal Church,
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA, USA
4:00 PM See above...
June 17-July 5, 2009 Yaddo residency Yaddo, Saratoga Spring, NY, USA In residence at Yaddo.
July 10, 2009 Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble concert City Theater Mainstage, 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 8:00 PM Performance of Sextet on the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble summer season.
July 11, 2009 Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble concert City Theater Mainstage, 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 8:00 PM Performance of Sextet on the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble summer season.
July 18, 2009 Gillian Maitland recital St John's - Forfar, Angus, Scotland TBD European premiere of Merry Go Round for solo six-mallet marimba.
August 2-9, 2009 Vermont Youth Orchestra Association residency Saint Michael's College, Elley-Long Music Center, Colchester, VT, USA Composer-in-residence at the Reveille Festival with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association as part of a three-year residency. Made possible by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras through the Meet The Composer Music Alive Program.
August 7, 2009 Opera on Tap concert Barbes, Park Slope, 376 9th St. and 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, USA 7:00 PM Thursday will be performed on this concert, curated by soprano Amberleigh Aller. From their site: "New Brew returns to Barbes for it's second installment of contemporary musical madness! This time around our fabulous troupe will be highlighting the works of New York's living composers. Come and hear the music your neighbors are creating!" Suggested $10 donation.
August 15, 2009 National Flute Association convention Marriott Marquis Hotel, SOHO Complex, New York, NY, USA 1:30 PM The last movement of Wind Quintet will be performed by the Ithaca Wind Quintet on a chamber music concert featuring NY composers, entitled "On the Town." Over 4,000 flutists are expected to attend this convention. The other performers are flutists from the New York Philharmonic with various chamber ensembles. the convention is entitled "Bright Flutes, Big City".
October 4, 2009 Stacy Maugans faculty recital Valparaiso University, Duesenberg Recital Hall, Valparaiso, IN, USA 3:00 PM World Premiere of four-mallet version of Tongue and Groove, Stacy Maugans, saxophone, Alex Keim, marimba. This work was commissioned by CASE Arts Group, Inc. and a consortium of performers who will give world premiere performances.
November 3, 2009 American Modern Ensemble concert Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street (DUMBO), Brooklyn, NY, USA 8:00 PM Performance of Steve Reich's Tokyo Counterpoint for MalletKAT on this American Modern Ensemble concert entitled m&m's, featuring work by microtonal and minimalist composers. Other composers on the program include Philip Glass, Ben Johnston, Ingram Marshall and Spencer Topel.
November 15, 2009 Marcos Duran recital Baylor University School of Music, Meadows Recital Hall, Waco, TX, USA 2:00 PM World Premiere of four-mallet version of Tongue and Groove, Marcos Duran saxophone, Daniel Medina, marimba on this graduate recital. This work was commissioned by CASE Arts Group, Inc. and a consortium of performers who will give world premiere performances.
November 7-16, 2009 Vermont Youth Orchestra Association residency Saint Michael's College, Elley-Long Music Center, Colchester, VT, USA Composer-in-residence with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association as part of a three-year residency. Made possible by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras through the Meet The Composer Music Alive Program.