Performances

Amy X Neuburg (vocal and live electronics) and William Winant’s percussion ensemble premiere this new work, commissioned by the Other Minds Festival.

America’s only international festival of avant-garde music returns with composers from the Faroe Islands, India, Spain, Canada, Sweden and around the U.S. From bass recorder to bansuri, from Bång to Sachdev, Other Minds presents another incomparable aggregation of revelationary new music. This season introduces Gáman, a brilliant folk trio from Denmark.

Toca Loca performs Halo Ballet on Montréal’s preeminent new music festival.

Toca Loca performs Halo Ballet on a festival dedicated to art in video games.

Forecast music celebrates the 100th (ok…101st, technically…) anniversary of the seminal Pierrot Lunaire with selections from the Schoenberg masterpiece juxtaposed with new work for that essential legacy ensemble, Pierrot + percussion and additional 21st-century music for various fragments of the Pierrot Ensemble.

The Coterie premières a new piece of mine, for soprano, piano, violin, and cello, written in collaboration with librettist/songwriter Royce Vavrek. Set in a frenetic style, this piece is a manic exploration of mismatched relationship expectations.

The junctQín keyboard collective performs Disney Princess Disasters at the S. Walter Stuart Library in Toronto, as a part of their Culture Days program.

Edmonton’s Plexoos Ensemble will be performing Jackhammer Lullaby, along with works by several other Canadians composers, including Nicole Lizée, Allison Cameron, and Nicolas Gilbert.

Tapestry presents workshop performances of the 2nd act of my opera in development, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.

June 11 & 12, 2012

From the Tapestry website:

“Sung in Ukrainian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue and epilogue uses non-operatic music from various cultures to enhance the composed score and drama. The tragic ménage à trois is a topic as ancient as Greek drama, but in Oksana G. it takes on a life as immediate as today’s headlines, yet honours the ingredients common to all great operas: universality, timelessness and high emotion.”

Tapestry presents workshop performances of the 2nd act of my opera in development, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.

June 11 & 12, 2012

From the Tapestry website:

“Sung in Ukrainian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue and epilogue uses non-operatic music from various cultures to enhance the composed score and drama. The tragic ménage à trois is a topic as ancient as Greek drama, but in Oksana G. it takes on a life as immediate as today’s headlines, yet honours the ingredients common to all great operas: universality, timelessness and high emotion.”

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.