Santa Monica Music Festival
World premiere of Will Healy’s Permafrost Ghosts with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra
World premiere of Will Healy’s Permafrost Ghosts with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra
World premiere of Libby Larsen’s I am signaling you through the flames with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra along with Michael Laurello’s I always visit the same imaginary city when I dream for solo percussion and Bartók’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion
Peter S. Shin’s soshi so$$$hi with percussionist Garrett Arney
Elliot Cole’s Bloom Suite for marimba and string quartet with Aleksandra Labinska, Eva Dove, Roberto Henriquez Martinez, and DoYeon Kim
Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel for cello and marimba with Kayla Herrmann
Connor Elias Way’s Sift for mixed chamber ensemble with my LMC colleagues
World premiere of commissioned work by ACMF composer-in-residence Jorge Amado
iQ presents “Bartók Rebórn” in a guest artist recital at Coastal Carolina University
iQ presents “Bartók Rebórn” for the Jacobsen Series at the University of Puget Sound
I team up with the inimitable cellist Julian Schwarz for an afternoon duo program for with with works for percussion and cello by Caroline Shaw, Osvaldo Golijov, Andy Akiho, and Viet Cuong, as well as Michael Laurello’s I always visit the same imaginary city when I dream for solo percussion
I join Peabody colleague saxophonist Doug O’Connor for a duo program of works by Michael Calamas, Michael Laurello, Emma O’Halloran, Christian Quiñones, and arrangements of music by Debussy and Bach
I rejoin the American Modern Opera Company for the West Coast premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies, directed by Peter Sellars
I join pianist and series director Natalia Kazaryan for an eclectic, immersive, electroacoustic program, with works by Wally Gunn, Emma O’Halloran, Andy Akiho, Christopher Adler, Jessie Marino, and more for the launch of a new DC music venue
poster illustration by David Plunkert
I’m excited to join pianist and series director Natalia Kazaryan for the finale of this inaugural concert season, playing Michael Laurello’s I always visit the same imaginary city when I dream for solo percussion along with Caroline Shaw’s Boris Kerner for flowerpots and cello and Andy Akiho’s 21 for marimba and cello with yMusic’s Gabe Cabezas at this abandoned subway station-turned art space
Ian Rosenbaum and I take PPG on the road for this special program featuring music by Reich, Akiho, Torke, Seo, and Crumb, some of which we’ll be hopping in for alongside our students!
My students at Peabody join Marina Piccinini’s flute students for a third annual collaborative concert, this time presented on the conservatory’s afternoon recital series
iQ presents “Bartók Rebórn” for their appearance on the Classical Convergence Series at Colorado State University
iQ presents “Bartók Rebórn” in a guest artist recital at Purdue University Fort Wayne
My students at the Peabody Conservatory perform a concert of chamber works by Andy Akiho, Juri Seo, Michael Torke, and others
icarus joins Beth' Willer’s NEXT Ensemble with vocalists and instrumentalists at the Peabody Conservatory for a special project conceived and led by conductor Juliano Anecito. Luigi Dallapiccola’s Canti di prigionia (Songs of Imprisonment) for chorus, two pianos, two harps and percussion will be paired with the world premiere of Elijah Daniel Smith’s The Thought to Which I Lay, setting poetry by Brian D. Fuller
icarus joins Beth' Willer’s NEXT Ensemble with vocalists and instrumentalists at the Peabody Conservatory for a special project conceived and led by conductor Juliano Anecito. Luigi Dallapiccola’s Canti di prigionia (Songs of Imprisonment) for chorus, two pianos, two harps and percussion will be paired with the world premiere of Elijah Daniel Smith’s The Thought to Which I Lay, setting poetry by Brian D. Fuller
I join The Collective and The Florida Orchestra for the concerto version of Garth Neustadter’s Seaborne for six percussion soloists and strings under the baton of Chelsea Gallo with video by Kjell van Sice
I join The Collective and The Florida Orchestra for the concerto version of Garth Neustadter’s Seaborne for six percussion soloists and strings under the baton of Chelsea Gallo with video by Kjell van Sice
iQ presents “Bartók Rebórn” for their appearance on this series at Colombus State’s Schwob School of Music
iQ presents “Bartók Rebórn” in a guest artist recital at Lebanon Valley College
I join The Collective and the Phoenix Symphony for Chris Theofanidis’ Drum Circles for four percussion soloists and orchestra, under the baton of Lina Gonzalez-Granados in the orchestra’s season opening weekend
I join The Collective and the Phoenix Symphony for Chris Theofanidis’ Drum Circles for four percussion soloists and orchestra, under the baton of Lina Gonzalez-Granados in the orchestra’s season opening weekend
I join The Collective and the Phoenix Symphony for Chris Theofanidis’ Drum Circles for four percussion soloists and orchestra, under the baton of Lina Gonzalez-Granados in the orchestra’s season opening weekend
iQ performs Béla Bartók’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion, Witold Lutoslawski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini, and presents the world premieres of Bartók companion works by Martin Bresnick, Viet Cuong, and Jennifer Higdon, with all three composers in attendance
Looking forward to working with the talented percussion students of Professor Ksenija Komljenović at UNCSA
Preview performance at Brown University of a new opera by Matthew Aucoin with direction by MacArthur Fellow Peter Sellars and the musicians of the American Modern Opera Company
A two-week workshop at Brown University for the staging of a new opera by Matthew Aucoin with direction by MacArthur Fellow Peter Sellars and the musicians of the American Modern Opera Company
Han Lash’s C with pianist Alice Chenyang Xu, Ciel Êtoilé by Kaija Saariaho with double bassist Zach Hobin, and Reena Esmail’s Chuti Hui Jagah with soprano Melissa Wimbish
Sam Suggs’ arrangement of Rossini’s Allegro Zingarese with double bassist Zach Hobin
Ciel Êtoilé by Kaija Saariaho with double bassist Zach Hobin
I always visit the same imaginary city when I dream for solo vibraphone with electronics by Michael Laurello
“Night Club 1960” from Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango with flutist Elizabeth Shuhan
Nobilette by composer-in-residence James Chu with my LMC colleagues
icarus holds our first annual iQ Test Fest in support of the iQ Tests program, with live performances, fundraiser prizes, food, drinks, and the announcement of the 2024-25 iQ Test Scholars
I join my friends in the Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning Sandbox Percussion and the marvelous singers of Trinity Wall Street for Garth Neustadter’s heart-wrenching Memory of Water
iQ plays a guest recital at Penn State with works by Bartok, Lutoslawski, Kirsten, and Reich