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28 April 2017 | Friday 7pm
Sakurako Kanemitsu - Final Masters Recital
Venue: Capistrano Concert Hall, Sacramento State - Sacramento, California
Admission: FREE
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Pianist extraordinaire Sakurako Kanemitsu gives the world premiere of my piece The Floating Island II, inspired by the book Life of Pi. Also on the program, works by Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, Liang, Steiger, and Einaudi. Not to be missed!!
5 + 6 May 2017 | Friday + Saturday
Heartstrings - Hawkins School of Performing Arts
Venue: Jill Solberg Theatre, Folsom High School - Folsom, California
Admission: tickets on sale in March
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Friday, May 5 - 7:00pm
Saturday May 6 - 2:00pm & 7:00pm
The Hawkins Contemporary Jazz Company gives three performances of Heartstrings, which will feature a live piano quartet performing my composition of the same name with choreography by Jacob Montoya. In the quartet: Sakurako Kanemitsu, Rei Luu, Christian Johnson, and Jia-mo Chen.
11 May 2017 | Thursday, noon
Ensemble Mise-en - Thursday at Noon Series
Venue: Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis - Davis, California
Admission: FREE
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The amazing, NY-based Ensemble Mise-en premieres my new work, Three Solar Essences, for large chamber ensemble, along with works by other UC Davis graduate composers. The composition is inspired by meditations on the dimensions of the Sun.
22 July 2017 | Saturday 7'30pm
New Works for Flute and Clarinet
Venue: 716 N St., Davis, California
Admission: FREE
My piece, "Shine, Perishing Republic" for flute, clarinet, and speaker, based on the timely poem of the great Robinson Jeffers, will be premiered on a concert of new works for flute and clarinet, performed by Christine Richers, True Randall, and myself, in a program commissioned and curated by composer Laura Schwartz. Works by Randall, Richers, and Schwartz.