Karen Got­tlieb and Julie Stein­berg bring Cul­ture no.1 to San Fran­cisco for the first time. Writ­ten in 2006, this is the piece that I took to the Gaudea­mus Fes­ti­val that same year, for harp, piano, and elec­tron­ics, and which kicks off my three-part Cul­ture series.

The junc­tQín key­board col­lec­tive will be pre­mièring the entirety of Dis­ney Princess Dis­as­ters at Hart House on the Uni­ver­sity of Toronto cam­pus. They pre­vi­ously per­formed the first move­ment, Snow White, at a num­ber of other venues in South­ern Ontario.

Ensem­ble Klang per­forms Schizo Psy­cho on the Babel Fes­ti­val in Ams­ter­dam, their third per­for­mance of the Music for Motion Pic­tures pro­gram based on clas­sic Hol­ly­wood films with re-composed scores.

Ensem­ble Klang gives a repeat per­for­mance of Schizo Psy­cho in Mid­del­burg, as a part of their Music for Motion Pic­tures pro­gram of re-composed film scores. Schizo Psy­cho is based on the clas­sic Hitchcock/Herrmann collaboration.

Tapes­try and the Women for Oksana G. net­work are pre­sent­ing an excerpt from my opera in devel­op­ment, The Enslave­ment and Lib­er­a­tion of Oksana G., at this annual con­fer­ence spon­sored by the Alliance Against Mod­ern Slavery.

The junc­tQín key­board col­lec­tive is offer­ing another per­for­mance of the Snow White move­ment from Dis­ney Princess Dis­as­ters at Wil­frid Lau­rier University.

The junc­tQín key­board col­lec­tive pre­mière this new work on the Barrie’s Colours of Music fes­ti­val. Based on clas­sic fairy­tales with alter­nate end­ings, Dis­ney Princess Dis­as­ters includes three pianists, three squeeze toys, one piano, and three fairy­tale princesses whose fates take a turn for the unexpected…

Toca Loca takes Halo Bal­let to the Ottawa Cham­ber­fest, also paired with Chris­tine Fel­lows and Shary Boyle. Halo Bal­let is my piece for vir­tual dancers, chore­o­graphed within the Halo videogame envi­ron­ment and per­formed “live” by gamers along­side the ensemble.

Ensem­ble Klang gives the pre­mière per­for­mance of Schizo Psy­cho, a video piece based on a clip from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psy­cho and the score writ­ten for the film by Bernard Herrmann.

Gre­gory Oh, Toca Loca, and the “Halori­nas” reprise Halo Bal­let, orig­i­nally pre­mièred in Oct 2010. This time, they are per­form­ing the ver­sion with elec­tric guitar.