Solo cello with TJ Borden - The Winner of The New Music Performance Grant @Brown
A premiere of Soft Rains for cello and percussion performed by the winner of New Music Performance Grant @Brown TJ Borden
A premiere of Soft Rains for cello and percussion performed by the winner of New Music Performance Grant @Brown TJ Borden
Culminating act of the Ecoperformance Festival in Rhode Island. An evening-long multimedia work for live instruments, fixed media, motion trackers, image, video, and dance. Made in collaboration with butoh dancer Julie Dind and Rolf Gerstlauer, architect/filmmaker, Professor, at Oslo School of Architecture and Design
An evening of clarinet music with Amy Zuidema that includes a selection of my works alongside other contemporary clarinet repertoire.
An evening of clarinet music including a premiere of bass clarinet duo composed for Amy Zuidema and Fie Schouten
Two premiers at the Avalon Farm Music Institute written for the conference ensemble and Re:Duo
Time of events tbd
Rather than adhere to a linear narrative, the piece is a kaleidoscope of images, places, and mythological creatures, for example, birds with female faces (Sirin, Alkonost, and Gamayun). All participants are invoking the awakening of what in Slav mythology we refer to as Mother Moist Earth — humans’ cradler and nurturer.
Time Slips Through Fingers Like Sand will be performed at the "Percussion Festival" organized by the Japan Percussion Association. It will be performed by Toho college of music percussion ensemble (Leo Shibanuma, Daigo Kokubu, and Yuka Moriya).
Premiere of a solo piece composed for John Popham and his baroque cello at Black Mountain College.
Performer John Popham
This premiere is a part of {Re}HAPPENING, an annual performance event inspired by John Cage’s 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1
Salt Soaked will be performed at the American College Dance Association's Northeast Conference, at the University of Rochester, New York.
performer: Sandbox Percussion Quartet
Performer: Amy Zuidema
Learning to Love America is a reflection on a poem by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. When reading the poem, I was thinking, what does it mean to learn to love a country? In this piece, I reflect on imageries that Shirley Lim describes in her poem and I translate them into sounds.
This piece is not a prescribed and fixed experience. None of the immigrant stories are the same, though there could be overarching similarities. To reflect it, Learning to Love America, has a prescribed path that features several cadenzas where performer takes the idea and unfolds it according to their personal experience. Moreover, multiphonics, the unusual for flute harmonic sounds, are not precisely notated because each flute and each story are different. Instead, the performer is given quotes from the poem which they interpret into complex sounds. For example, the first multiphonic that you’ll hear about 10 seconds into the piece will sound like “jacaranda bloom in April and May.”
Performer Amy Zuidema
On November 15th, Either/Or returns to University Settlement’s historic Speyer Hall with an expansive program of works created by an international group of individual compositional voices. Comprised primarily of pieces written since 2000, the concert introduces new voices to the EO fold (Hannah Kendall, Leroy Jenkins), deepens several recently established relationships (Inga Chinilina, Joanna Ward, Jō Kondō), and pays homage to the great Kaija Saariaho. This event also features a special guest appearance by Downtown legend Kathleen Supové.
PROGRAM
Hannah Kendall Tuxedo: Crown; Sun King (2021) violin solo
Jō Kondō Forme semée (1982)* trombone & piano
Inga Chinilina Wear And Tear (2020) percussion solo
Kaija Saariaho Dolce Tormento (2004) piccolo solo
Leroy Jenkins Thar He (2002) violin & piano
Joanna Ward A London plane tree hid me from the sun (2022)* tutti
* US Premieres
PERFORMERS
Jennifer Choi, violin; Russell Greenberg, percussion; Christopher McIntyre, trombone; John Popham, cello; Special guest - Kathleen Supové, piano
Salt Soaked is a part of Momentum, a free outdoor dance series, a moving tribute to Boston’s rich heritage. This dance is a result of a year long collaboration with Vimoksha Dance Company. In this work we share stories of immigrants’ experiences through movement and music.
Choreographer: Chavi Bansal
Composer: Inga Chinilina
Dancers: Cassie Wang, Claire Lane, Kristin Wagner, Aliza Franz, Hannah Franz, Carmen Rizzo, Elizabeth Epsen
This is the final day of the festival and on that day you can see all four dances by different choreographers:
11-11:30a, Continuum Dance Project at Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park
12:30p: Vimoksha Dance Company at Rowes Wharf Plaza
1:30p: Jean Appolon Expressions at Armenian Heritage Park
2:30p: Public Displays of Motion at Carolyn Lynch Garden
Salt Soaked is a part of Momentum, a free outdoor dance series, a moving tribute to Boston’s rich heritage. This dance is a result of a year long collaboration with Vimoksha Dance Company. In this work we share stories of immigrants’ experiences through movement and music.
Choreographer: Chavi Bansal
Composer: Inga Chinilina
Dancers: Cassie Wang, Claire Lane, Kristin Wagner, Aliza Franz, Hannah Franz, Carmen Rizzo, Elizabeth Epsen
Salt Soaked is a part of Momentum, a free outdoor dance series, a moving tribute to Boston’s rich heritage. This dance is a result of a year long collaboration with Vimoksha Dance Company. In this work we share stories of immigrants’ experiences through movement and music.
Choreographer: Chavi Bansal
Composer: Inga Chinilina
Dancers: Cassie Wang, Claire Lane, Kristin Wagner, Aliza Franz, Hannah Franz, Carmen Rizzo, Elizabeth Epsen
Live bracketed String Quartet competition hosted by the Alamo Drafthouse!