UPCOMING EVENTS:

March 3, 2012; 7:30pm.
Colorfield Ensemble, Unity Church of Buffalo; Buffalo, NY.: Soprano Amanda DeBoer will perform Plain Truths from Timothy Dexter with members of the Colorfield Ensemble, touring the piece around western New York State. The work is based on the writings of the eccentric 18th Century businessman, philospher, and writer, Timothy Dexter, author of A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress.

March 6, 2012
Color Field Ensemble, SUNY Fredonia; Fredonia, NY.: See above.

March 21, 2012
SUNY Fredonia; Fredonia, NY.: Soprano Jamie Jordan will perform The vines in the carpet... with pianist Brenden White (also playing harmonium). The work is based on Edward Gorey's novel The Unstrung Harp. Electroacoustic elements, which were rendered at the Eastman Computer Music Center, include manipulations of the bubble wrap, markers on whiteboards, and my own atrocious violin playing.

March 23, 2012
Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall; Rochester, NY.: Tenor Zachary Finklestein will join the Eastman Sinfonietta to premiere Hold back thy hours, a new work based on poetry from the seventeenth century anthology Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

May, 2012
Music Since 1900 Commission Concert; Rochester, NY.: A new work, commissioned by the Rochester-based chamber group Music Since 1900 will be premiered by violinist Sini Virtanen and pianist Eun Mi Ko.

Fall, 2012
Toronto, ON.: Pianst Ryan Macevoy McCollough will premiere Nemo sleeps, a cycle of miniatures inspired by Windsor McCay's delightful surrealist comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. The drawings that inspired these pieces are available here. The images are public domain.

Past events (11/10 - 11/11):

November 11^th, 2010
8pm in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman.: OSSIA will perform works by Berg, Rabinovitch, and Feldman, with special guest John Graham. The concert will also include works by Eastman composers for Keyboard instruments in combination.

November 22^nd, 2010
8pm in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman.: Violist John Graham will premiere LENNON SCATTERS AND FLEECES HIS FLOCK with the Eastman Composers Sinfonietta. The work exists in two forms: as a chamber piece for viola and percussion and as an orchestral piece with a viola soloist. Other works on the concert include premieres by Michaela Eremiasova, Geoffrey Pope, and Michael McMillan. Geoffrey Pope will conduct. The chamber version will be premiered by John in the Spring of 2011.

February 4^th, 2011
7:30pm at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church,
Scottsdale, Arizona.: Composer and Saxophonist Kevin O. Ames will perform ...anything but mindless good taste... and INERTIA with pianist Liz Ames in recital at Arizona State University. Details are forthcoming.

February 7^th, 2011
8pm in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman.: OSSIA will perform works by Takemitsu, Pope, Berio, and the much anticipated Eastman premiere of Peter Maxwell-Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King with guest vocalist Timur Bekbosunov.

February 25^th
8pm in Bryan Recital Hall,
Bowling Green State University, Ohio.: Soprano Amanda DeBoer will premiere PLAIN TRUTHS IN A HOMESPUN DRESS, a chamber work based on the writings of Timothy Dexter (c. 1800). The work is dedicated to her and the ai ensemble.

March 14^th, 2011
8pm in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman.: Soprano Jamie Jordan and pianist Stephanie Titus will premiere The vines in the carpet, an electroacoustic work, on the Eastman Computer Music Center's spring concert. The concert will also include works by Dhomont, Vaggione, and special guest Tristan Murail.

March 29^th, 2011
8pm in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman.: In the final concert of its 2010-2011 season, OSSIA will perform works by Lavistas, Glass, and Andreson. The concert will also include a premiere of a percussion duo by Allan Schindler and the winner os OSSIA's 4th International Call for Scores.

April 1^st, 2011; 8:00pm
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman.: The Cuong Vu trio will premiere a new work as part of the fourth annual Warren Benson Forum on creativity. Cuong Vu is a leading voice in experimental jazz and is widely recognized as one of today's most influential living jazz trumpeters. The work will reflect a collaboration bewteen the composer and the members of the Cuong Vu Trio.

April 17^th, 2011; 3:00pm.
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.: Percussionist Sean Connors will join John Graham to premiere the chamber version of LENNON SCATTERS AND FLEECES HIS FLOCK at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.

May 27^th, 2011 7:00pm.
Greenwich House Music School Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Manhattan, NY.: The new music ensemble ACCESS will premiere a NEW WORK for flute, perucssion and piano. The group is planning a second performance in San Francisco during the summer of 2011. Members of ACCESS are Carmen Lemoine, flute, Zuzanna Szewczyk, piano, and Melanie Sehman, percussion.

June - August, 2011
Lenox, Massachusetts.: John will attend the Tanglewood Music Center as a composition fellow, working with John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, Steven Mackey, and Charles Wuorinen.

July 13^th, 2011; 8:00pm.
Tanglewood Music Center, Seiji Ozawa Hall; Lenox, MA.: TMC fellows Zach Finklestein, Carlin Ma, and Alex Shiozaki will premiere the pavement stones resound, based on a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Rehearsals for the premiere will be led by John Harbison and Dawn Upshaw.

July 19^th, 2011; 8:00pm.
Tanglewood Music Center, Seiji Ozawa Hall; Lenox, MA.: Violist Derek Mosloff of the New Fromm Players and percussionist Matthew Decker will perform LENNON SCATTERS AND FLEECES HIS FLOCK.

August 13^th, 2011; 11:00am.
Tanglewood Music Center, Seiji Ozawa Hall; Lenox, MA.: As part of Tanglewood's "piece-a-day" project, three pieces will be premiered by the New Fromm Players. Each piece was written in a single span of 24 hours from July 27^th to July 29^th.

July - September, 2011; 12:45pm.
Shakespeare and Company, Berstein Theater; Lenox, MA.: Incidental music, written in conjuction with other TMC composers, will be heard during performances of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. Perfomances of the play will take place Wednesdays through Saturdays each week during July, August, and September.

October 9, 2011; 7:00pm.
Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall; Rochester, NY.

Novemeber 10, 2011; 8:30pm.
Eastman School of Music, Ciminelli formal lounge; Rochester, NY.