September 2007
Date: September 20, 2007
Composer: Eleanor Sandresky
Organization: Foundation for Modern Music (Houston, TX)
Venue: Menil Collection (Houston, TX)
Eleanor Sandresky will present the Houston premiere of her groundbreaking solo piano ballet, "A Sleeper's Notebook" for "choreographic piano." In the work, Sandresky translates the human dream state through sound and movement, crafting an ethereal, one-woman display of pianistic virtuosity and unique choreography. Sandresky will also lead three seminars which will include discussions, hands-on experiments, and performance.
Date: Various dates beginning September 24, 2007
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Date: September 26, 2007
Composer: Henry Papale
Organization: Underworld Productions
Venue: Thalia Theatre, Symphony Space (New York, NY)
JULIA, an operatic monodrama for soprano and chamber ensemble by Henry Papale is scheduled for two performances at the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space on Sept.26 & 29. Both performances of JULIA will be followed by live interactive Q&A sessions with the composer.
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Date: September 26-28, 2007
Composer: Diane Monroe
Organization and Venue: Erie Art Museum (Erie, PA)
The Erie Art Museum will present Diane Monroe in a 3 day residency Sept. 26-28. A public performance will be held on Sept. 28 in which Monroe will perform her original compositions, "Bach, Blues, and Beyond," "Let It Go," "Conversation," "Free Improv," and others. Monroe will give several workshops in conjunction with the exhibit "Earth and Spirit: Contemporary Maori Art from New Zealand." Monroe will also work with elementary and middle school students, local teachers and string players form the greater Erie Youth Symphony. All workshops will be interactive, allowing participants to ask questions and to join in musically when possible. In addition, a Q&A session regarding Monroe's compositional process will follow the performance.
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Date: September 27-29, 2007
Composers: Juan Pampin, Richardo Zohn-Muldoon and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Organization: Nonsequitur (Seattle, WA)
Venue: Good Shepherd Center (Seattle, WA)
The 1st annual S.L.A.M. Festival (Seattle Latin-American Music Festival) will take place from Sept. 27-29, the first festival of its kind in Seattle to focus exclusively on the works of contemporary Latin-American composers. Each night will have a specific focus (opening night- solo piano, following night-chamber works, final night-electro-acoustic and improvisations). Sanchez-Gutierrez will be the composer-in-residence. Each concert will feature one of his works. Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's piano trio "Jacara" will be performed the second night. Juan Pampin's work "Nada" for viola and live electronics will be performed the final night, with Pampin performing the interactive electronic part. All three composers will participate in other various activities including open rehearsals and panel-discussions.
Date: September 29, 2007
Composer: Mir Ali
Organization: Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York (Stamford, NY)
Venue: Unitarian Universalist Church (Oneonta, NY)
CGSUNY's 7th Annual Fall Festival will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Oneonta, New York. During this Festival, Mir Ali will present a concert of original works as the feature performer of the daytime events. Prior to his performance, Ali will present a 1-hour open discussion/seminar on 'The Guitarist as Composer,’ which will include a Q&A with the audience. During the concert performance he will talk about the composition of the specific works on the program.
October 2007
Date: Various dates beginning October 8 , 2007
Composers: Jason Ditzian and Faraz Minooei
Organization: Red Gate Performance Collective (San Francisco, CA)
Venue: Traveling Jewish Theater (San Francisco, CA)
RGPC presents "The Breeze At Dawn" a new full-length play by Iranian-American playwright Lale Shafaghi with original score composed and performed live by Jason Ditzian (clarinet, bass clarinet, ney) and Faraz Minooei (Persian Santour, harmonium, tar). Red Gate will host three composer activities open to the public: a free, pre-performance discussion with the composers on Oct. 11; a free 2 hour workshop, open to the public, on the history and theory of Persian Classical music on Oct. 17, lead by the composers; and a free, 2 hour master-class on the Persian Santour, lead by Minooei on Nov. 1.
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Date: October 14 , 2007
Composers: Christopher Burns, Eric Sawyer, Kenneth Froelich and Jonathan Russell
Organization: Empyrean Ensemble (Davis, CA)
Venue: Modavi Studio Theatre, UC Davis
The Empyrean Ensemble presents Fault Lines, New Works by California Composers, which will include: Jerome Rosen, New Work for Wind Ensemble (world premiere), Edgar Varese, "Octandre," Jonathan Russell, "Fanfare" (world premiere), Chris Burns, "Second Language," for solo percussion (west coast premiere), Kenneth Froelich, "Clog" (world premiere), and Eric Sawyer, "Gemini" (world premiere). All of the composers will participate in pre-concert discussions of their works.
Date: Various dates beginning October 17, 2007
Composers: Miya Masaoka, Okkyung Lee, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Helias and George Lewis
Organization and Venue: Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor, MI)
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Kerrytown Concert House will present the 11th Annual Edgefest on October 17-20, 2007, featuring composer/performers Miya Masaoka, Okkyung Lee, Rudresh K. Mahanthappa, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway and George Lewis. All artists will perform their own compositions and each composer will take part in various educational activities which will be free and open to the public.
Date: October 18, 2007
Composer: Bennett Siems
Organization: The Ritz Theater Presents (Minneapolis, MN)
Venue: The Ritz Theater
Composer, musician, and multidisciplinary artist Bennett Siems will perform "All Nora's Daughters Can Fly," an evening-length concert at the Ritz Theater. He will co-lead an afternoon workshop at the Ritz Theater centered on the collaborative creative processes employed in the development of "All Nora's Daughters Can Fly". He will also run a number of workshops at a local arts high school focusing on collaborative workshops with the students.
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Various dates beginning October 19, 2007
Composer: Stephen Kent
Organization: Epiphany Productions (San Francisco, CA)
Venue: Labyrinth in Duboce Park
Stephen Kent, master Didjeridu player and composer, will perform in Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater's San Francisco Trolley Dances 2007. In the weeks leading up to the public performances, Mr. Kent will accompany choreographer Kim Epifano in workshops at the School of the Arts in San Francisco which will provide students an introduction to artistic collaborations and concepts relative to live dance and music performances.
Date: October 19, 2007
Composer: Dominique Leone
Organization: Abrazo (Clute, TX)
Venue: Lake Jackson Intermediate School (Lake Jackson, TX)
Dominique Leone will work with musicians in the Brazoport area on an original composition involving rhythmic phasing, chance and the extended arc of a DJ set applied to live performance. He will participate in two open rehearsals with students and community members and will accompany and conduct a percussion ensemble with his laptop.
Date: Residency begins October 14, performances October 19-20, 2007
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The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra opens the 07-08 Post Standard Classics Series on October 19-20th with Michael Daugherty's 'Deus Ex Machine'. There will be both pre- and post-concert talkbacks/discussions with the audience and guest musicians and there will be an open rehearsal prior to the performance which will also include discussions with Mr. Daugherty. The weeklong residency begins on October 14th with Mr. Daugherty working with the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra. He will also participate in a residency day with Nottingham High School and will lead the ensemble in improvisation and composition exercises. In addition, Mr. Daugherty will hold master classes with theory and composition students at Syracuse University and LeMoyne College.
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Date: Various events beginning October 16, 2007
Composers: Zhou Tian and Ricardo Lorenz
Organization: Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis, MN)
Venue: Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis, MN)
The Minnesota Orchestra has commissioned a new work by Zhou Tian, to premiere on the Young People's Concerts in October. This is an annual commission from an alumnus of the Orchestra's Composer Institute program and will be featured on a program sampling Folk Music traditions from around the world. Also, performances of Ricardo Lorenz's "Rumba Sinfonica" will take place on November 16, 17. “Rumba” is a cross-genre, cross-cultural collaboration between classical composer Lorenz, Cuban timba ensemble Tiempo Libre and the Minnesota Orchestra.
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Date: Various dates beginning October 24, 2007
Composer: Brendan Connelly
Organization and Venue: Here Arts Center (New York, NY)
HERE Arts Center will present the New York premiere of Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf's performance "The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa," a 1705 Kabuki text by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The program will have a four-week run, which will include post-show Q&A sessions (featuring composer, ensemble musicians and Japanese theatre experts Samuel Leiter and Carol Martin), an open rehearsal, a panel discussion and a one-day master workshop with the composer and a Japanese master musician.
Date: Various dates beginning October 25, 2007
Composer: Jewlia Eisenberg
Organization: Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, CA)
Venue: The Red Poppy Art House (San Francisco, CA)
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The Judah L. Magnes Museum will be co-presenting “The Bowls Project” at The Red Poppy House in San Francisco. The Bowls Project is an immersive performance installation, incorporating live music and projected video in a specific site. Jewlia Eisenberg has composed the music, based on the bowl texts and more contemporary "secrets of the home." Shezad Dawood, of Middle Eastern visual art group Green Cardamom, will do live manipulation of video, accompanying the music with projections over all the dome walls. Source material for the projections will be drawn from the Iraq Museum's aerial footage of the bowl sites along the Tigris. Panel discussions and interdisciplinary programming with scholars from UC Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies Dept. and musicians will take place at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley on Oct. 25 & 28 as well as at UC Berkeley in late October and early November 2007.
Date: October 26, 2007
Composer: David Sanford
Organization and Venue: Miller Theatre (New York, NY)
The Miller Theatre is delighted to present the work of David Sanford as part of our renowned Composer Portrait series (concerts representing aural immersion galleries and investigation into the work of a single composer by offering a prismatic view of their output). Sanford conducts his own big band, the Pittsburgh Collective, with special guest Matt Haimovitz. The program will include "Seventh Avenue Kaddish," "Alchemy," "Link Chapel," V-Reel," "22 Part I," and "Scherzo Grosso." The audience will also have an opportunity to meet the composer during the concert with a between-sets interview and Q&A session with the audience.
November 2007
Date: November 1-11 , 2007
Composers: Pauline Oliveros, Ronald Bruce Smith, Wayne Peterson
Organization: Festival of New American Music (Sacramento, CA)
Venue: Capistrano Hall (Sacramento, CA)
The 30th Annual Festival of New American Music will run from Nov.1-11, 2007. Visiting composers will play an important role in the Festival, giving lectures, participating in pre-concert panel discussions and offering outreach programs at area public schools and community colleges.
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Date: Various dates beginning November 2 , 2007
Composer: Cam Millar
Organization: Goose Route Arts Collaborative, Inc. (Shepherdstown, WV)
Venue: National Conservation Training Center (Shepherdstown, WV)
GRAC has commissioned the creation of "Remember," a multi-disciplinary, site-specific piece, which will include original music, dance, and art, created by Millar, Colleen Tracey (visual art), and Kitty Clark (choreographer). Musical motifs and melodies will be based in part on sounds from nature, allusions to traditional folk melodies, soundscapes and impressionistic mood-setting music, and an improvisational section that will coordinate with the dancers' activities. The musicians will move from site to site and at times be hidden and/or surround the audience. The composer's public activities will include an open rehearsal, post-performance discussions, and a children's workshop.
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Date: November 2 , 2007
Composer: Andrew Lippa
Organization: Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL)
Venue: Red Mountain Cabaret Theatre
Red Mountain Theatre Company will present "Andrew Lippa in Concert." Lippa will be performing a selection of songs from his impressive repertoire and will perform several numbers with students from the Red Mountain Theatre Company Youth Program. Mr. Lippa will perform for two Birmingham City Schools and will hold a master class which will be open to the public.
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Date: November 2-4 , 2007
Composer: Reza Vali
Organization: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Venue: Alex Theatre (Glendale, CA)
Mr. Vali will participate in a mini-residency with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra centered upon his work "Toward That Endless Plain," a concerto for Persian ney and chamber orchestra co-commissioned by the LACO and written for ney performer Khosrow Soltani. In the hour before each performance, Vali and Soltani will participate in our Concert Preludes which is free to all ticket holders, and consists of short musical performances, discussions and a Q&A session. "Toward That Endless Plain" will also be the subject of LACO’s Meet the Music elementary education concert on November 2 for LA Unified School District students and will explore the interaction of Persian and European culture and art.
Date: November 9-10 , 2007
Composers: Dan Becker, Belinda Reynolds, Marc Mellits, John Halle
Organization: Iridian Arts, Inc. (Goleta, CA)
Venue: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Santa Barbara, CA)
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The Robin Cox Ensemble will be premiering eight works written for the group by the Common Sense Composers Collective. The composers will attend an open rehearsal, attend post-concert receptions, participate in a round table discussion of compositional issues, and hold individual lessons with composition students at the Univ. of Calif.-Santa Barbara. On November 10, Belinda Reynolds will conduct an afternoon session with high school students on the subject of creating new music.
Date: November 9 , 2007
Composers: Iris Shiraishi
Organization: Mu Performing Arts (
Venue: The Ritz Theater (
Shiraishi has composed two new pieces for the Mu Daiko main stage concerts. The first piece involves a small ensemble which will be using hand-drumming and improvisation to create an aural version of a gentle sea breeze or Hamakaze. The second piece will involve gib drums in a characteristically fast and furious way that exploits Mu Daiko's signature movement and theatrical style. Events will include an open rehearsal, opening night reception and post-concert discussion. Audience interaction and response to the compositions will be encouraged. This will be more than a Q& A session, but a rare opportunity for audience members to learn about the entire artistic process from concept to creation.
Date: Various events beginning November 12 , 2007
Composer: Craig S. Harris
Organization: Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (New York, NY)
Venue: multiple locations including Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
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The composer, Craig Harris, is Musical Director of 'Songs of the Spirit,' a multicultural, interfaith concert series to be presented throughout New York State. 'Songs of the Spirit' combines contemporary popular music with traditional sacred music in a unique fusion of genres, styles and traditions. Spoken word performances from both sacred and secular texts weave a thematic thread throughout the program, focusing on the shared spiritual ideals of an interconnected, interdependent world. Artists perform both individual and collaborative pieces in a program that explores a web of musical connections (artist include Craig Harris, Hugh Masekela, Odetta, Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics, Haale, Tracy Grammer, the Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery and the Shangilia Children's Choir from Nairobi). Other events include performances by Harris and his ensemble, pre-concert discussions and Q&A, a symposium at Union Theological Seminary, and open rehearsals.
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Date: Various dates beginning November 13, 2007
Composer: Gustavo Aguilar
Organization and Venue: Galeria 409 (Brownsville, TX)
Galeria 409 will facilitate an 8-day series of performances, discussions, community outreach events, and workshops with Gustavo Aguilar. Mr. Aguilar will be performing his multi-media music composition, "Ah, Raza! The making of an American Artist." The composers schedule will include: Creative Music Workshop, Media Day, Tech Rehearsals, Performance and Talk Back Sessions, Meet and Greet with Local Artists, Open Seminar, Performance of Creative Music Workshop.
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Date: November 15, 2007
Composer: Elisenda Fabregas
Organization: Allegro, Inc. (Midland, TX)
Venue: various venues in and around Midland, TX
Ms. Fabregas will give a pre-concert lecture about her work "The Flaming Rock" commissioned by the Allegro Chorale for chorus and string quartet. She will discuss her compositional style and give two master classes (one at Univ. of Texas-Permian Basin and one at Midland College), as well as a workshop with the Cassatt String Quartet at Permian High School.
Date: November 16-18, 2007
Composer: Robert Een
Organization: Collage Dance Theatre (CDT) (Los Angeles, CA)
Venue: California State University (Los Angeles, CA)
Collage Dance Theatre will create and present a performance, titled "My Beowulf," at the State Theatre at CSU-LA. Mr. Een will perform his work as well as participate in other activities including: open rehearsals, a lecture demonstration for community groups invited to the preview performance, and a post-performance discussion for the general public.
Date: Various events beginning November 16, 2007
Composer: Graham Haynes
Organization: Roxane Butterfly's Worldbeats (New York, NY)
Venue: Chicago Human Rhythm Project (Chicago, IL)
Graham Haynes will compose, direct and perform "Djellabab Groove," the latest work of Roxane Butterfly's Worldbeats, which includes 3 tap-dancers, 1 flamenco dancer, and 4 musicians (including the composer). Haynes work creates a soundscape fusing arabo-andalucian influences with jazz, which will also illustrate the video work and the multi-lingual narrative accompanying the dance. Post-performance discussions: Nov. 17, 24, 29. Workshops and open rehearsals for the Clarice Smith students: Nov. 27, 28, 29.
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Date: Various events beginning Nov. 17, 2007
Composer: Jose Conde
Organization: Musicians for Music (New Orleans, LA)
Venue: various venues including Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA)
Mr. Conde will be playing and singing with his group, Ola Fresca. He will perform a program of his work at Trinity Church, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Delgado Community College, Tulane University and the Contemporary Arts Center. He will speak to the audience about his original works at all of the events.
Date: November 29 and December 3, 2007
Composers: Lei Liang and Karl Kohn
Organization: Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, CA)
Venue: Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley, CA) and The Green Room (San Francisco, CA)
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The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble's Nov./Dec. concerts, "New String Quartets," features two new works for string quartet, and a performance of the Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op. 135, November 29 at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley and December 3 at the Green Room. The program will be: Beethoven, Op. 135, Karl Kohn, "Three Pieces for String Quartet," (World Premiere) and Lei Liang, "Serashi Fragments" for string quartet (West Coast Premiere). These two new works are part of LCCE's ongoing "Companion Commissioning Project," Which helps create new works for the chamber music repertoire that are meant as companion works to masterpieces from the traditional literature. The composers will participate in the rehearsal preparation process and give a pre-concert talk about their new work.
December 2007
Date: December 1, 2007
Composer: Adam Di Angelo
Organization: Rose Memorial Library (Stony Point, NY)
Venue: Stony Point Center (Stony Point, NY)
The performance will include Di Angelo playing and manipulating live electronics, in addition to a string trio and soprano. Di Angelo's concert program consists of two original works ("Vita Nova" and "L'etere") as well as an original adaptation of Satie's "Three Songs." The concert will be followed by a Sound Design Workshop led by Di Angelo which will allow participants to explore methods of creating music with technology.
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Date: December 2-4, 2007
Composers: Patrick Grant, Daniel Goode and David Demnitz
Organization and Venue: The Living Theatre (New York, NY)
Living Theater will host the new music repertory ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion who will feature works by Patrick Grant, Daniel Goode, David Demnitz. The composers will participate in half-hour pre-concert discussions, open rehearsals and workshops. All events will be free and open to the public (concert admission by donation). There will be an open rehearsal on December 2, and on December 3-4 there will be free community gamelan workshops, a spiraling introduction to gamelan performance practice and rhythmic structure.
Date: Various events beginning December 8, 2007
Composer: Joseph Koykkar
Organization: Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (Madison, WI)
Venue: Mills Concert Hall (Madison, WI)
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"Commission Connection: A Composer's Living Art" brings new music and the compositional process to young musicians. This project provides youth the opportunity to work with a composer through the process of commissioning a work specifically for Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO) with the project culminating in a concert performance of the work. Joseph Koykkar will work with the Youth Orchestra in preparing the work (which are open to the public), present master classes (one for the Youth Orchestra and one for other WYSO members), teach a free composition mini-course for WYSO members and community youth, present a pre-concert talk, and meet informally with audience members at the reception.
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Date: December 12, 2007
Composer: Eric Glick Rieman
Organization: Society for the Art Publications of the Americas (SAPA) (San Francisco, CA)
Venue: Meridian Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
“ Meridian Music: Composers in Performance” will present a concert by Eric Glick Rieman. On the day of the concert, prior to the performance Rieman will conduct a workshop with the youth in the gallery's Meridian Interns Program, a paid internship for low-income inner-city high school youth which will include a discussion of the Anabaptist heritage and his use and modifications of his Rhodes electric piano. He will also be available during the informal reception to discuss and answer questions.
Date: December 18, 2007
Composer: Phil Kline
Organization: Relache, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
Venue: Ethical Society Building (Philadelphia, PA)
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Relache Ensemble celebrates the holidays with a Philadelphia presentation of New York composer Phil Kline's "Unsilent Night," a work in which the audience becomes the performers. Participants will process through the streets of Center City Philadelphia with boom-boxes playing Kline's 45-min cassette tape ambient-music piece. Prior to the "caroling," the composer will present a talk about the philosophy and logistics of audience-as-performer dynamics and recorded-as-live music.
