C o n c e r t s
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7 Mar 2021 | Sunday 4pm Pacific Time livestream performance
Hot Air Music Festival (SFCM) - Session Sol
Venue: Livestream - San Francisco, California
Tickets/Info: https://sfcm.edu/performance-calendar/event/hot-air-music-festival-2021
An all-day new music extravaganza, Hot Air Music Festival at San Francisco Conservatory of Music will be live-streamed online. In this part of the schedule, cellist Clark Evans will perform my work Reverie, a daydreaming poem for cello. Full program available at link above.
21 Apr 2021 | Wednesday 5pm Pacific Time livestream encore performance / interview
Visions of the Wild: Landscape Music in Earth Year
Venue: Livestream - Vallejo, California
Tickets/Info: https://visionsofthewild.org/event/landscape-music-earth-year/
A collaboration between Landscape Music, Visions of the Wild, and Citywater, this virtual event will feature two world premieres by Juhi Bansal and Daniel Morel, as well as excerpts from performances of works by myself, Derek Keller, and Nell Shaw Cohen. I will discuss my orchestra work from 2019, Burning, and have a conversation with the other artists and with the audience.
22 Apr 2021 | Thursday 7'30pm Eastern Time livestream performance
Calliope's Call - There is no plan(et) B
Venue: Livestream - Boston, Massachusetts
Tickets/Info: https://www.sparrowlive.com/calliopescall
The New England-based vocal / art-song collective, Calliope's Call, will premiere my soprano/piano arrangement of decketh joy, water destroy, which uses Ralph Waldo Emerson's meditation on water to contemplate the meaning of water for humans in our troubled century. The work was selected along with pieces by Catarina Domenici, Andrew List, and Katie Palka for a performance in a program that focuses on the climate crisis. Grateful for the selection and to the ensemble for highlighting this issue through art!
8 Oct 2021 | Friday 7pm
Empyrean Ensemble
Venue: Pitzer Center, UC Davis - Davis, California
Admission: FREE
Tickets/Info: https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/empyrean-ensemble-new-music-davis-1
Also available on YouTube.
After a year and a half of pandemic delays, Empyrean Ensemble premieres my vox mysterium, based on a cadenza from my Piano Concerto. Works also by Orkun Akyol, Trey Makler, Emily Sullivan, Addie Camsuzou, and Aida Shirazi.
21 Oct 2021 | Thursday 12pm PDT
Works for Viola at UC Davis
Venue: Pitzer Center (UC Davis) - Davis, California
Admission: FREE
Watch the performance: https://youtu.be/E8Zyw2BExFA?t=1833
Violist and composer Kurt Rohde premieres my new work for solo viola, Colors in Motion, commissioned by visual artists Peter London and Gregory Guss as a response to their works being exhibited at the Pence Gallery.
17 Oct 2021 | Sunday 7'30pm (Berkley, in-person)
24 Oct 2021 | Sunday 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT (virtual)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble - Long Distance Call
Venue: Berkeley Piano Club - Berkeley, California / YouTube Premiere
Admission: from $15 (in person), from $5 (virtual)
Info: https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/set-one-long-distance-call
"Responding to the safety measures required in the pandemic, Left Coast has commissioned new works conceived as long distance conversations between a piano trio and a soprano. Laura Rose Schwartz and Ryan Suleiman [The Robin, based on a poem by Lebanese-American poet Gibran Khalil Gibran] have each written a new work using a call and response model: the singer and ensemble alternate in sending each other musical postcards! It is intended that the music can be performed successfully virtually or in person. Music by George Lewis and Louise Farrenc completes the program."
13 Nov 2021 | Saturday 7pm PDT / 10pm EDT livestream encore performance
Festival of New American Music (FeNAM) - Local Voices
Venue: Sacramento State School of Music - Sacramento, CA / virtual via Facebook
Admission: FREE
Info: https://www.csus.edu/college/arts-letters/music/spotlight/fenam-festival.html
"FeNAM features an encore video performance of my recent commission from Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, The Robin, along with other performances by local artists!
26 Mar 2022 | Saturday 8pm upcoming!
Juventas Ensemble - Lungs of the City
Venue: Multicultural Arts Center - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Virtual Viewing: YouTube
Admission: $30 regular, $20 senior, $15 student, $1 no-questions-asked
Info: https://www.juventasmusic.org/lungs-of-the-city.html
Juventas Ensemble premieres a new work of mine for small chamber ensemble inspired by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's working space and residence in suburban Boston, Fairsted. Honoring the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted, the concert will also feature new works inspired by Olmsted parks by Cristina Rusnak, Justin Ralls, Ayumi Okada, Libby Meyer, Michael Thomas-Fourmai, Nell Shaw Cohen, and Artistic Director Oliver Caplan.
9 Apr 2022 | Saturday TBD upcoming!
10 Apr 2022 | Sunday TBD upcoming!
West Edge Opera - Snapshot 2022
Venue: Taube Atrium Theater, Wilsey Center - San Francisco, California
Admission: $40
Info: https://www.westedgeopera.org/ tickets available in February
West Edge Opera presents the first scene of The School for Girls Who Lost Everything in the Fire, a collaboration with librettist Cristina Fríes - Tina and I are excited to return to Snapshot and work with WEO! Also featured are works by Jean Ahn, Michael Kaulkin, Gabrielle Rosse, and Cancino/DeTurk.
Postponed due to the pandemic
16 May 2020 | Saturday 7pm POSTPONED due to COVID-19
Compositions for Dance, Cello & Piano
Venue: Pitzer Center, UC Davis - Davis, California
Admission: $12 students / $24 general
Tickets/Info: https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/compositions-dancepiano-and-cello
In a cross-disciplinary collaboration, Sakurako Kanemitsu (piano) and Michael Dahlberg (cello) team up with choreographer Jacob Gutiérrez-Montoya for a performance of original music and dance, with compositions by myself, Aida Shirazi, and Sarah Wald. They will premiere my new piece, in a field of stars.