Eight world premieres! By composition fellows Caterina di Cecca, Oswald Huynh, Jia Yi Lee, PIyawat Louilarpprasert, Cassie Wieland, Pascal Le Boeuf, Felipe Tovar-Henao, and Niko Schroeder.
Alarm Will Sound’s resident ensemble concert, featuring works by guest composers Meredith Monk (with the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble), Angelica Negron, and Don Freund.
Alarm Will Sound presents John Luther Adams’ theatrical work in two performances (1pm and 3pm) at the National Gallery of Art.
Alarm Will Sound performs at Walt Disney Concert Hall in the Gen X Festival, curated by Thomas Ades. Works by Andrew Hamilton and Alyssa Pyper. Free “bonus” concert following the LA Phil’s matinee performance.
Alarm Will Sound returns to its electronica roots, with works by Aphex Twin, Jlin, Lucrecia Dalt, King Britt / Marcos Balter, and more.
The University of South Carolina bassoon studio presents a special concert of contemporary bassoon quartets and quintets. World premiere of a work by Matthew Fink; pieces by Amy Beth Kirsten, Emily Joy Sullivan, Anthony Charlwood, and the pathbreaking Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa.
Principal bassoon on “American Classics,” a program including works by Aaron Copland and William Grant Still.
Southern Exposure celebrates 20 years of bringing the best of new music to the Southeast! Includes a performance by the Bourbon Quartet (flute, bassoon, violin, cello), with Jennifer Parker-Harley, Ari Streisfeld, Claire Bryant, and yours truly. Includes a silent auction benefitting Southern Exposure.
UofSC’s faculty chamber series, Freeman@3. A chamber performance of Berlioz’s song cycle Le nuits d’ete, featuring mezzo soprano Rachel Calloway Streisfeld.
The world premiere of David T. Little’s new opera, based on the novel by Garth Greenwell and featuring tenor Karim Sulayman.
Alarm Will Sound residency at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), December 13-17, 2021. This five-day residency will be focused workshopping and rehearsing composer Mary Koyoumdjain and playwright Nigel Maister’s evening-length theatrical work Paper Pianos, a piece that explores the “disclocation, longing, and optimism of refugees.” We have been working on bits and pieces of Paper Pianos for several years — it was temporarily halted by Covid and other factors — and I can tell you it is a tremendously beautiful, moving, and important new work.
The Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra, Rock Hill, SC — an orchestra still in its infancy! — presents a program of Christmas favorites.
Performances at the Columbia Art Museum of short new pieces inspired by artworks in the museum’s 30 Americans collection. With Jennifer Parker-Harley, flute; Ari Streisfeld, violin; and Claire Bryant, cello. Other faculty and student groups from UofSC also performing!
Recital with Phillip Bush at Florida State University. Works by Jeff Scott, Adrienne Albert, Fang Man, Caleb Burhans, and Stefan Freund.
Recital with Phillip Bush at Columbus State University. Works by Jeff Scott, Adrienne Albert, Fang Man, Caleb Burhans, and Stefan Freund.
Recital with Phillip Bush at Georgia State University. Works by Jeff Scott, Adrienne Albert, Fang Man, Caleb Burhans, and Stefan Freund.
Recital with Phillip Bush at the University of Georgia. Works by Jeff Scott, Adrienne Albert, Fang Man, Caleb Burhans, and Stefan Freund.
Recital at the University of South Carolina School of Music, with pianist Phillip Bush. Works by Jeff Scott, Camille Saint-Saens, Adrienne Albert, Philippe Hersant, and Stefan Freund.
Performance of John Luther Adams’ Ten Thousand Birds on the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Live Arts series.
Performance with Alarm Will Sound of Tyshawn Sorey’s atmospheric, Feldmanesque concert-length work For George Lewis, live at the Dimenna Center. Our first indoor concert in NYC in so long!…
With Alarm Will Sound, at this extraordinary Western NY venue near Niagara Falls. The program features electronica artist Eartheater’s When Fire Is Allowed to Finish, as well as music by King Britt (arr. Balter) and Aphex Twin (arr. Freund).
Alarm Will Sound’s Video Chat Variation No. 4, “On leading and following.”
Southern Exposure New Music Series concludes its season in an outdoor concert at the Thomas Cooper Library fountain. I’ll be playing on David Garner’s beautiful Eternal Song, inspired by the writings of Richard Powers.
The UofSC Bassoon Studio and friends perform Brad Balliett’s Arboretum, specially conceived in this new version for the Congaree National Park. Each of the many solos, which work both individually and together — all are based on the same elongated harmonic progression — portrays a specific species of tree in the park (I’ll be playing the premiere of Bald Cypress). Check out our website for more details about this extraordinary piece and event!
Performance of a movement from Valerie Coleman’s trio Rubispheres on the UofSC Horseshoe. “Celebrating Our Heroes” final event. Live-streamed and in person.
Alarm Will Sound’s Video Chat Variation No. 3, “On breathing together while far apart.” Commissioned by and first premiered on the Southern Exposure New Music Series, University of South Carolina.
A live performance online with students at Shenandoah Conservatory and Alarm Will Sound.
Southern Exposure New Music Series, University of South Carolina.- outdoors and socially distanced, at the Russell House Patio Stage! A musical tribute to UofSC’s first African American professor and the first Black graduate of Harvard. Works commissioned by Rebecca Schalk Nagel, Jennifer Parker-Harley, and myself in 2018, by Jeff Scott and Valerie Coleman. This performance features UofSC wind and string faculty, with special guests Kendrick Williams, baritone, Isaiah Hogue, narrator, and Katherine Chaddock, Greener’s biographer.
Alarm Will Sound’s Video Chat Variation No. 2, “On breakout rooms and real-time composition.” A completely improvised performance, led / created via the process of “conduction” by Sorey.
Live-streamed Freeman Series Concert — UofSC faculty perform Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 16. With Phillip Bush, piano; Rebecca Nagel, oboe; Joseph Eller, clarinet; and Dakota Corbliss, horn.