May 22, 2013 - Saint Petersburg, Russia
Skorohod Concert Hall - Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:00pm, Concert at 7:00pm
The Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center will host a performance of Rupture along with works by John Cage, Elliott Carter, Augusta Read Thomas, and other American composers at a concert at the annual Saint Petersburg International New Music Festival. Performing the work will be Saint Petersburg’s own PRO-ARTE eNsemble. The concert is supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
May 28, 2013 - Mexico City, Mexico
Auditorio Divino Narciso, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana - 7:30pm
The Mexican group Duplum Dúo (Fernando Domínguez and Iván Manzanilla) will perform Chuchichäschtli at the 35th Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City.
May 29 - June 6, 2013 - Cincinnati, OH
Cincy Fringe Festival - Art Academy Commons
May 29 - 8:45pm
May 31 - 7:00pm
June 2 - 7:30pm
June 4 - 8:15pm
June 6 - 7:00pm
NANOWorks Opera Company of Cincinnati will give five performances of Layover along with productions of 3 other short operas. Tickets can be purchased here.
June 7-8, 2013 - New Orleans, LA
(Concert venues and times TBA)
New Fangled Opera will present two performances of Layover at its 2013 festival. Also on the festival will be operas by Jeremy Beck, John Bilotta, Timothy Brown, Yvonne Freckmann, Jennifer Jolley, and Veronika Krausas.
July ??, 2013 - Berlin, Germany
(date, venue, and concert time TBA)
Stay tuned for information about the premiere of a brand new work!
PAST EVENTS
April 27, 2012 - Los Angeles (Northridge), CA
Valley Performing Arts Center, California State University Northridge - 8:00pm - $5-10
The California State University Northridge Symphony will give the world premiere of Scherzo for orchestra. The performance will be part of the orchestra’s first concert in CSUN’s newly completed Valley Performing Arts Center.
May 10, 2012 - Boston, MA
Hope Central Church - 7:00pm - FREE admission
Dipukų Rauda for a cappella choir will receive its U.S. premiere at Boston Metro Opera’s Contemporary AmericanaFestival alongside the works of several other living composers from around the world.
May 11-13, 2012 - Houston, TX
Winter Street Studios - $15
May 11 - 8:00pm
May 12 - 2:00pm and 8:00pm
May 13 - 2:00pm
Por la Fuerza las Tierras will be choreographed in Frame Dance Productions’ CONTEXT performance. This is a multimedia and family-friendly show with music, dance, and video, so bring the whole family! There are both evening and matinee performances.
May 17, 2012 - Houston, TX
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - 6:30pm - FREE admission
Commissioned by Musiqa, Street for clarinet and percussion will be one of six premieres at Musiqa’s Alternate Tracks concert. Each of the six pieces will serve as new audio tracks to accompany clips from well-known (and not so well-known) films.
June 9, 2012 - Boston (Cambridge), MA
The Lily Pad - 8:00pm
Trio for violin, cello, and piano will be part of the Boston New Music Initiative’s final concert of its 2011-2012 season.
July 31, 2012 - Pavia, Italy
Santa Maria Gualteri - 9:00pm
Rupture, a new work for string quartet, will be premiered by Quartetto Maurice at the highSCORE Festival (July 23 - August 4) in historic Pavia, Italy.
August 5, 2012 - Scranton, PA
Anthracite Heritage Museum - 12:00-5:00pm - $5
The filmed live premiere of Julius will be shown at the Anthracite Heritage Museum’s 5th Lithuanian Heritage Day. Additionally, soprano Maryte Bizinkauskas and pianist Michael McAndrew will perform live an aria from the the opera.
August 12, 2012 - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
San Miguel de Allende International Chamber Music Festival - concert time TBA - from $15
ONIX Ensamble, the Mexican ensemble that commissioned and performed the 2010 premiere of Por la Fuerza las Tierras, will perform the work at the 34th annual San Miguel de Allende International Chamber Music Festival.
August 20, 2012 - Lake George, NY
Caldwell Presbyterian Church - 7:00pm - FREE admission
Round and Round will be performed at the annual Lake George Music Festival in upstate New York. The work won 2nd Place in the festival’s composition competition.
September 15, 2012 - Houston, TX
The Menil Collection - 3:00pm - FREE admission
Live Bass Improv will be performed along with dozens of other works at Da Camera of Houston’s Musicircus concert in honor of John Cage’s 100th birthday.
September 19-22, 2012 - Michoacán, Mexico
September 19 - Escuela de Artes (La Piedad) - 7:30pm
September 20 - Teatro Obrero (Zamora) - 8:30pm
September 21 - Casa Social de la Parroquía del Sagrado Corazón (Sahuayo) - 7:30pm
September 22 - UNAM Campus Morelia (Morelia) - 7:00pm
ONIX Ensamble will perform the work they commissioned in 2010, Por la Fuerza las Tierras, on its 4-day tour of the state of Michoacán.
October 7, 2012 - Nashville, TN
The Brick Factory - 5:00-8:00pm - $10-20
Live Bass Improv will be featured as a sound installation at Soundcrawl: Art of the Future, one of the many events at the Soundcrawl 2012 festival (October 6-11) in Nashville.
October 17, 2012 - Mexico City, Mexico
Fonoteca Nacional - 7:00pm - FREE admission
ONIX Ensamble will hold an open rehearsal and seminar discussion of the work they commissioned in 2010, Por la Fuerza las Tierras.
November 4, 2012 - Antwerp, Belgium
deSingel - 8:00pm
The final concert of the ISCM World Music Days 2012 will feature Dipukų Rauda for a cappella choir. Performing the work will be the Aquarius Chamber Choir.
November 10, 2012 - San Francisco, CA
Community Music Center - 8:00pm - $10-15
Por la Fuerza las Tierras will be featured on the San Francisco-based new music collective Wild Rumpus’ opening concert. Also on the program are works (three of which are world premieres!) by D. Edward Davis, Andrea La Rose, Elizabeth Lim, and Nicole Murphy.
November 13, 2012 - Houston, TX
Hirsch Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University - 7:30pm - FREE admission
An all-Halka concert (and final DMA recital)! Six Miniatures for brass quintet will finally get its premiere, Panji Fantasy for solo piano will get a repeat performance, and more new works for clarinet and percussion, string quartet, and fixed media will be performed.
November 18, 2012 - Houston, TX
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church - 4:00pm - FREE admission
Pianist Linda Angkasa will perform Panji Fantasy at the Foundation for Modern Music’s annual Introductions concert, which features new works by young Houston composers.
December 2, 7, & 8, 2012 - San Francisco, CA
December 2 - All Saints Episcopal Church (Palo Alto) - 7:00pm - $10-25
December 7 - St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (San Francisco) - 8:00pm - $10-25
December 8 - David Brower Center (Berkeley) - 8:00pm - $10-25
Volti, a six-time winner of the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, will include Dipukų Rauda on three of its concerts in the San Francisco area. Tickets may be purchased here.
January 9 & 13, 2013 - Cincinnati, OH
January 9 - Rohs Street Café - 8:00pm - FREE
January 13 - Northside Tavern - 8:00pm - FREE
NANOworks Opera Company will present Layover in two free public performances as part of Classical Revolution Cincinnati. Titled “Layover Overlay,” the event will feature another one-act comic opera by the same name written by composer Sarah Hersh and librettist Brad Fairchild. What’s more, the librettist for my Layover, Katherine Krueger, will perform one of the soprano roles in Hersh’s Layover. It’s all so wonderfully complicated!
January 26-27, 2013 - Houston, TX
Jewish Community Center - $12-22
January 26 - 8:00pm
January 27 - 3:00pm
Houston’s own Frame Dance Productions will dance to To the Brim, a brand new work for solo violin that the company commissioned especially for this event. The two performances will be part of Houston Choreographers X6, one of several highlights of Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre (January 10 - February 9). Purchase tickets here.
January 31, 2013 - Houston, TX
Hirsch Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University - 7:30pm - FREE
Violinist Micah Ringham will give a concert performance of To the Brim in a recital featuring works by several Shepherd School student composers.
February 15, 2013 - Columbus, OH
The Ohio State University School of Music - 3:00pm
Duet for bassoon and cello will be performed at the Society of Composers, Inc. 2013 National Conference held at The Ohio State University School of Music. It will be featured among dozens of works by other American composers.
February 16, 2013 - Houston, TX
Rice Gallery - 3:00pm - FREE
Live Bass Improv will be included, along with other compositions by Rice University composers, on a concert in the Rice Gallery on Rice University’s campus. The concert will feature works the composers felt suited to the gallery’s current installation, The Wheel of Everyday Life, by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg. The works on this concert will also be on a playlist in the gallery from January 31 - March 17, 2013.
February 21, 2013 - Houston, TX
AvantGarden - 8:00pm - FREE
Come out and have a few beers while listening to some electroacoustic music by Rice University composers! Melodica NV will be on the program.
January 31 - March 17, 2013 - Houston, TX
Rice Gallery - 4:00-5:00pm daily (except Mondays and university holidays)
From 4-5pm, Live Bass Improv will be included, along with other compositions by Rice University composers, on a playlist in the Rice Gallery on Rice University’s campus. The playlist features works the composers felt suited to the gallery’s current installation, The Wheel of Everyday Life, by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg.
February 28, 2013 - Havana, Cuba
Casa de las Américas - 5:00pm
Live Bass Improv will be featured on the Espacio Sonoro concert series hosted by the Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica.
March 26, 2013 - Orangeburg, SC
South Carolina State University - (concert time TBA)
Live Bass Improv will be performed at the BulldogBytes Concert Series at SCSU.
March 30, 2013 - Houston, TX
Zilkha Hall - 7:30pm - (ticket info TBA)
Pictures on Silence will make its Houston debut with a performance of Rhapsody and the world premiere of harp and saxophone double concerto the group commissioned from Andrian Pertout. The concert is presented by the Foundation for Modern Music.
April 12-13, 2013 - Houston, TX
The Orange Show Monument - Doors at 7:00pm, Concert at 8:00pm - $10-15
Six Miniatures and Live Bass Improv will be performed along with works by composers Robert McClure and Stephen Bachicha at an outdoor concert that takes advantage of one of Houston’s cultural landmarks, The Orange Show Monument. The show runs two nights in a row and tickets are cheaper if purchased in advance here.
April 21, 2013 - Ghent, Belgium
(POSTPONED)
The chamber choir Aquarius will perform Dipukų Rauda at an exhibition of photography related to war, suffering, and injustice.
May 3-4, 2013 - Cincinnati, OH
May 3 - St. Thomas Episcopal in Terrace Park - 7:30pm - $12-20
May 4 - Clifton Cultural Arts Center - 7:30pm - $12-20
NANOWorks Opera Company of Cincinnati will give repeat performances of Layover at their production of short operas, Game of Hearts. Tickets can be purchased here by clicking on the performance dates.
May 4, 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - 8:00pm - FREE
Charles will be joining violinist Katie Hyun, cellist Giovanni Scaglione (of the Quartetto di Cremona), and pianist Nolan Pearson for a performance of a revised version of Round and Round. The concert is a preview of the final event (on May 5) of the two-week Intimacy of Creativity partnership directed by composer Bright Sheng.
May 5, 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong City Hall Theatre - 3:00pm - $100-300 (HK Dollars)
Charles will be joining violinist Katie Hyun, cellist Giovanni Scaglione (of the Quartetto di Cremona), and pianist Nolan Pearson for a performance of a revised version of Round and Round. The concert is the final event of the two-week Intimacy of Creativity partnership directed by composer Bright Sheng. Purchase tickets here.
May 10, 2013 - Wales, United Kingdom
Holy Cross Church (Cowbridge, UK) - 7:30pm - £10-12
ÓNIX Ensamble will perform Por la Fuerza las Tierras at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival in Wales. The festival will feature several world premieres by important composers as well as musicians from Mexico, Lithuania, Estonia, and France.
May 11, 2013 - London, United Kingdom
Bolivar Hall (Venezuelan Embassy in the UK) - Concert time TBA
ÓNIX Ensamble will perform Por la Fuerza las Tierras in Bolivar Hall at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the UK.
