Performance Calendar

Upcoming

Title TBD for vibraphone (World premiere commission)
Melanie Sehman, vibraphone
February 22, 2010
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Manhattan
Other dates TBD:
The Tank, Hell’s Kitchen
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
Good Shepherd Performance Space, Seattle
Title TBD for marimba and choir (World premiere commission)
Makoto Nakura and Cantori New York
Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City
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Litany of the Sacred Heart for six strings, two clarinets, and six voices (World premiere)
The University of Chicago Presents
Cliff Colnot, conductor
Members of Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird, and Schola Antiqua of Chicago
Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave, 7th floor
FREE ADMISSION
Arbor Una Nobilis for marimba and violin
Makoto Nakura, marimba and Karen Rostron, violin
November 10, 2010
New York City
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Afternoon for clarinet, vibraphone, and cello (World premiere)
The University of Chicago New Music Ensemble
November 15, 2009
Fulton Recital Hall, Chicago
FREE ADMISSION
Ruach for orchestra (World premiere)
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Cliff Colnot, conductor
March 6, 2009
Mandel Hall, Chicago
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Eight Bad Omens for mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano (World premiere commission)
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano, Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, viola, Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
May 3, 2008
Mostly Music, Chicago
Albion for six players (World premiere)
eighth blackbird
May 15, 2009
Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago
FREE ADMISSION
Rapid Transit (World premiere commission)
Commissioned by the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music
August 7, 2009
Tanglewood Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
Mass for All Saints for choir, orchestra, and soloists (World premiere commission)
Millennium Chamber Players
Robert Katkov-Treviño, conductor
September 20, 2009
St. John Berchmans Church, Logan Square, Chicago
Arbor Una Nobilis for marimba and violin (World premiere commission)
Makoto Nakura, marimba, Yoyoi Toda, violin
November 3, 2009, Barocksaal, Kyoto
November 7, 2009, Hakuju Hall, Tokyo
Angelus for soprano, tenor, choir and piano (World premiere commission)
Commissioned by the Knights of Malta
Kara Morgan, soprano, Arnaud Penet, tenor
The Suspicious Cheese Lords
Jacob Bancks, piano
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, DC

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At home in Chicago With teacher and friend Shulamit Ran Jake and Kara with mentors and friends Augusta Read Thomas and Bernard Rands
With my Hannah-bug at the John Paul II Cultural Center, before the premiere of Angelus. At the home of Tom and Loretta Volini for a "Mass for All Saints" fundraiser, with mezzo Joanna Wernette. After a roaring performance of "Eight Bad Omens" at the Outside the Box Festival, with Julia Bentley (and Herr Janek), Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, and Kuang-Hao Huang.
With the many luminaries at the University of Chicago Composition Department \"By the power vested in me by the state of Colorado...\" Officiating at the wedding of close friends, clarinetist Lauren Miner (USMC) and oboist Andrew Jacobson. With fellow 2008 BMI Student Composer Winners
Finding my name on the marquee at Carnegie Hall Jake and Kara with former neighbors and top-notch percussionists Steve and Melanie Sehman, awaiting the premiere of ...among the leaves... at Carnegie Hall At premiere of Lumen de Lumine in South Dakota (Brahms gets top billing... again)
Jake and Kara with conductor Delta David Gier and longtime friends and supporters Steve and Mary Kay Truckenmiller, at the premiere of Lumen de Lumine at the South Dakota Symphony With Chandler Branch, Executive Director of Soli Deo Gloria, at premiere of Lumen de Lumine With Milton Babbitt, Ralph Jackson, and Del Bryant at 2006 BMI Student Composer Awards
With good friends, mentors, and teachers Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, in Rochester With the last man who dared teach me piano lessons, Eastman's own Vincent Lenti, at Christ Church Rochester Eastman graduation 2006, with fellow \"Masters\" Alex Miller and Ching-Mei Lin, and ESM Composition Department Chair, David Liptak