Students from Pacific Lutheran University perform this distance between us at Lagerquist Hall for flexible instrumentation on the composition department’s Spring 2026 concert.
https://events.com/r/en_US/registration/louisville-orchestra-at-arthur-street-hotel-an-evening-of-fellowship-music-and-conversation-louisville-may-1048941
You are invited to join us for a special evening of music, dinner, and conversation at Louisville’s Arthur Street Hotel (ASH) on Saturday, May 9th. The hotel is a trailblazing ‘housing first’ program operated by Community Advocates for Resources and Empowerment (C.A.R.E.). It provides low-barrier transitional housing and critical wraparound supports that prioritize safety and relationships as guests work toward stability following chronic houselessness.
Over the past year, a remarkable partnership has quietly taken shape: one that brings together the Louisville Orchestra, ASH guests and staff, local social service and global public health nonprofits, a former LO Creators Corps composer, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist.
The resulting work in progress is The Arthur Street Hotel Passion, a multimedia oratorio for full orchestra and choir rooted in the stories of the people who call the hotel home. Born of a collaboration between composer Baldwin Giang (LOCC 2024-25) and photographer Jon Cherry, this multimedia performance piece invites C.A.R.E. staff and ASH guests to serve as lyricists, amplifying their voices and stories of resilience, care, and community.
On May 9th, this partnership presents a musical program designed to bring together ASH guests and those who care about Louisville, housing, and the power of art to bear witness. The evening begins with a short musical program reflecting on the meaning of home in Western classical music, featuring works by Johannes Brahms and Lori Laitman. Then we will share an exclusive preview excerpt of The Arthur Street Hotel Passion in a chamber ensemble arrangement, performed by members of the Louisville Orchestra and nationally recognized vocalists. The event concludes with a free hot dinner, catered by Feed Louisville, followed by intimate small-table conversation guided by members of the creative team, bringing hotel guests and staff into fellowship with attendees.
The Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia gives the world premiere of their commissioned piece, I am your village, with original text by National Youth Poet Laureate Evan Wang, at Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia.
JACK Quartet gives the world premiere of a new work for string quartet commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
https://santafechambermusic.org/concert/new-music-with-the-jack-quartet/
The Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows, directed by Dawn Upshaw and Randall Scarlata, present the world premiere of a new commission for SATB vocal quartet, I honestly believe with text by Donny Greene.
Mycelium New Music presents the Chicago premiere of songs after sufjan for piano trio. Grateful to them for sponsoring my attendance as a featured composer.
https://www.myceliumnewmusic.com/spore-series-no-1.html
Blackbox Ensemble gives the west coast premiere of butterfly, posthumously.
The Da Capo Chamber Players give the NY premiere of I desired my dust to be mingled with yours.
https://www.dacapochamberplayers.org/
Blackbox Ensemble presents a program I co-curated with Artistic DIrector Leonard Bopp, which includes the DC premiere of PIPA BOY. I also give a lecture on my work at the Smithsonian museum as part of my visit.
Blackbox Ensemble gives the Philadelphia premiere of butterfly, posthumously on a series presented by Bowerbird.
https://www.bowerbird.org/event/blackbox-ensemble/
Blackbox gives the US premiere of PIPA BOY at the prestigious New York city venue, National Sawdust. The program, which I curated, also includes works by my former mentors and teachers Anthony Cheung and MIsato Mochizuki, as well as my work butterfly, posthumously.
https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/scenes-from-the-post-diaspora-blackbox-ensemble-performs-cheung-mochizuki-and-the-us-premiere-of-baldwin-giangs-pipa-boy
Blackbox Ensemble performs butterfly, posthumously at this historic DC university.
Phil Pierick gives the world premiere of Bagatelle for solo baritone saxophone, commissioned as part of the Chicago Bagatelles project.
https://imss.org/program/performance-chicago-bagatelles-project/?srsltid=AfmBOorl4a9YlP6RQ8dYDuyqL32mN_nl_g0TOgN9JB_iXBZZu_oRq87J
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows give the US premiere of soll ich mit dir gehen? for piano quartet.
I mentored 8 emerging songwriters local to Louisville to write music and lyrics inspired by intergenerational communication within the LGBTQ community. I will emcee the evening as their works are performed by musicians from the Louisville Orchestra, and also play host to a larger community gathering featuring local LGBTQ food and drink vendors.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, premieres a new horn concerto written for Scott Leger, Associate Principal Horn. Also on the program are works by Oswald Huynh, Brittany Green, and Andrew Norman.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, premieres a new horn concerto written for Scott Leger, Associate Principal Horn. Also on the program are works by Oswald Huynh, Brittany Green, and Andrew Norman.
I perform solo pipa with the Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, in a new orchestration of PIPA BOY on the LO’s In Harmony Tour.
I perform solo pipa with the Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, in a new orchestration of PIPA BOY on the LO’s In Harmony Tour.
I perform solo pipa with the Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, in a new orchestration of PIPA BOY on the LO’s In Harmony Tour.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by David Baker, performs leviathan for full orchestra as part of their Music Without Borders series.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by David Baker, performs leviathan for full orchestra as part of their Music Without Borders series.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by David Baker, premieres leviathan for full orchestra as part of their Music Without Borders series.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, premieres intimacies, interruptions for full orchestra as the opening to the program. The program also includes Samuel Barber’s violin concerto and recent works by Oscar Huynh, Brittany Green, and Valerie Coleman.
More info and tix here.
The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams, premieres intimacies, interruptions for full orchestra as the opening to the program. The program also includes Samuel Barber’s violin concerto and recent works by Oscar Huynh, Brittany Green, and Valerie Coleman.
More info and tix here.
Metallicum presents the German premiere of WAVE for bass flute and electric guitar. More info and tix here.
Longleash performs two movements from songs after sufjan at a concert organized by the American Academy in Rome featuring all Rome Prize winners.
More info and tix here.
Musicians from the Louisville Orchestra perform an arrangement of an excerpt of antiPHONY at the outdoor street festival organized by Louisville Pride.
Ensemble Garage (Germany), members of New European Ensemble (Netherlands), and Yun-Han Su (Taiwan), pipa present a portrait concert of my works at this trendy arts space in Milan. Conducted by Elias Peter Brown, this concert was supported by MMT Creative Labs. Featuring my works PIPA BOY for ensemble and video, songs after sufjan, and my axe, my gun, my wayward son…
Ensemble Garage (Germany), members of New European Ensemble (Netherlands), and Yun-Han Su (Taiwan), pipa present a portrait concert of my works at this historic and innovative Italian festival. Conducted by Elias Peter Brown, this concert was supported by the American Academy in Rome, Mahler and Lewitt Studios, and the Carla Fendi Foundation. Featuring my works PIPA BOY for ensemble and video, songs after sufjan, and my axe, my gun, my wayward son….
Exploring the relationship between death, love, and memory, this tender program features Extended Music Collective, Severine Ballon, Luca Sanzo, Carlotta Libonati, and Baldwin Giang performing works by Giang and David Lang. The program begins with GIang’s san clemente syndrome, which is inspired by the Basilica San Clemente’s unique palimpsestic architecture. Featuring ensemble and synchronized lighting, san clemente syndrome finds its starting point in a queer perspective on the basilica as expressed in André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name. Further developing the theme of love is Giang’s ever thine, which meditates on the closing lines of Beethoven’s famous Immortal Beloved letter, creating a lush and timbrally inventive sound world.
A new arrangement of Lang’s Death Speaks, a breathtaking song cycle using only text as originally spoken by the character of death in Schubert’s lieder, will also receive its Italian premiere. In a way, these latter pieces could be understood as musical palimpsests written on top of Beethoven and Schubert, respectively.
Extended Music Collective performs san clemente syndrome at the American Academy in Rome’s open studios in two performances.
Loadbang premieres a new work, as the prize for winning the 2022 Loadbang Commissioning Competition. Also on the program are works by Johnson, Lin, Yang, and Zervigon.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/loadbang-presents-premieres-vol-23-tickets-706182068577?aff=oddtdtcreator
Longleash Trio performs songs after sufjan at the University of Louisville’s New Music Festival. Also on the program are works by Balch, Knight, Oliveira, Porter, and Santos.
https://www.longleash.org/current-season/
Ensemble Garage gives the Czech premiere of my axe, my gun…my wayward son as part of Ostrava Music Days in Ostrava, Czechia.