
The world premiere of The Queen's Gramophone (2009), commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, conducted by music director Yip Wing-sie. The program also includes Mendelssohn's e minor violin concerto and Beethoven's eighth symphony. www.hksl.org
A program of new American art songs, including four unpublished songs by Ricky Ian Gordon. The concert includes Fog Argument, two songs on the poem by Mark Doty. Dennis Tobenski, tenor and Marc Peloquin, piano. http://www.tobenskialgera.com/
The Duke University Wind Symphony, conducted by Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, performs Grand Junction for brass ensemble, in a program of all contemporary music for winds and percussion. The program also includes David Maslanka's Give us this day, William Bolcom's Song for Band, Frank Ticheli's Angels in the Architecture, Steven Bryant's MetaMarch and Jamie Keesecker's Polymodal Transportation. music.duke.edu
The world premiere of The Gestures of Farewell (2010), for orchestra and narrator, commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, with words by Benjamin Rogers. Conducted by Music Director Yip Wing-sie, with Artist Associate Jason Lai, narrator. The program also includes Brahms's violin concerto and Stravinsky's Jeu de Cartes. Part of the 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival. www.hksl.org
The Duke University contemporary music series Encounters: With The Music of Our Time presents the premiere of Thom Limbert's Time Piece, with pulsoptional and guest artists, conducted by George Lam. The program also includes Chiayu's Among Gardens for piano. music.duke.edu
[dnme] presents a program entitled REMIXOLOGY, featuring music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Henry Purcell, Stephen Jaffe and members of the ensemble. My 2006 piece Variations On is on the program, as well as a set of newly composed "remixes" of Stephen Jaffe's Cut-Time Shout composed by David Kirkland Garner, Benito Crawford, Alex Kotch, Paul Leary, Dan Ruccia and Jonathan Wall.
Rhymes With Opera teams up with Baltimore's experimental hip hop quartet Soul Cannon to present Jenny Olivia Johnson's new video cantata Book of Gazes. The three-city tour opens in Baltimore at the Annex Theater, 419 E Oliver St, Baltimore, MD. Suggested $7, $5 students.
Rhymes With Opera teams up with Baltimore's experimental hip hop quartet Soul Cannon to present Jenny Olivia Johnson's new video cantata Book of Gazes. The three-city tour continues in Philly at thefidget space, 1714 North Mascher Street, Philadelphia, PA. $10.
Rhymes With Opera teams up with Baltimore's experimental hip hop quartet Soul Cannon to present Jenny Olivia Johnson's new video cantata Book of Gazes. The three-city tour concludes in NYC at The Tank, 354 West 45th Street, New York, NY. $10.