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

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

I join my colleagues of The Percussion Collective, directed by Robert van Sice, for an afternoon show at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center, featuring Garth Neustadter’s Seaborne and his arrangement of Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango as well as Alejandro Viñao’s Stress and Flow