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.

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Ensemble Garage gives the Czech premiere of my axe, my gun…my wayward son as part of Ostrava Music Days in Ostrava, Czechia.

Calista Smith, Justin Bell, Rhys Burgess, and myself premiere Yarberry Songs for two singers, piano, and keyboard at the Wheeler Opera House on a program with other composition fellows of the Aspen Music Festival.

The Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Tim Weiss, gives the premiere of Scenes from the Post-Diaspora: I. a moonlit night in Ximending (月光之夜西門町) for ensemble and video. Also on the program are works by other Susan and Ford Schumann Composition fellows.

The Aspen Festival Conducting Academy Orchestra, conducted by Filip Huget, presents a second-round workshop of my orchestral piece intimacies, interruptions as part of the Aspen Music Festival.

Ensemble Garage gives the Spanish premiere of my axe, my gun…my wayward son as part of the Klexos Festival in Plascencia, Spain.

The Aspen Festival Academy Orchestra presents a reading of my orchestral piece intimacies, interruptions. as part of the Aspen Music Festival.

Ensemble Garage gives the German premiere of a newly revised my axe, my gun…my wayward son as part of their Acts n’ Sounds Series. Also on the program are works by Europen composers Kranebitter, Krebs, and Kilger.

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Ekmeles vocal ensemble and Sandbox Percussion premiere a new work for vocal quartet and percussion quartet, with original text inspired by the history of red-lining in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. Also featured are works by Maria Kaoutzani, Yuting Tan, Justin Weiss, Paul Novak, and Kari Watson,.

The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conducted by Timothy Weiss, records leviathan for full orchestra at Chicago’s Symphony Center.

ChamberQueer performs brunetto for clarinet and string quartet at Trinity Wall Street Church in Manhattan. The concert program, entitled untie that knot, presents music that deals with the relationship between the christianity and homosexuality. Live stream is also available at this link: https://trinitywallstreet.org/videos/concert-one-chamberqueer

New European Ensemble performs muzzle for electric guitar and string quartet at Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Also on the program are works by Frey, Fujikura, and Ligeti. https://www.modernemuziek.nl/

New European Ensemble presents the European premiere of muzzle on the legendary Gaudeamus Saturday night series of concerts.

Riot Ensemble presents the European premiere of songs after sufjan as part of Gaudeamus Muziekweek. Also on the program is Ann Cleare’s Fossil Light.

Ensemble But What About premieres my axe, my gun…my wayward son, a commission from Gaudeamus Muziekweek as a 2022 Gaudeamus Award nominee. Also on the program is work by fellow nominee Bekah Simms.

Longleash gives the world premiere of my work songs after sufjan, on a program with other piano trios by Anthony Cheung, Anthony Vine, and James Diaz. The performance will be simultaneously broadcast on the 90.5 WUOL New Lens Series.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Robertson, gives the premiere performance of to remember is always forgetting at Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium. This performance follows a week of workshops with industry leaders and rehearsals as part of the Edward T. Cone Institute. Info here.

Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Jean Deroyer, premieres a new work as the culmination of my residency at IRCAM’s Manifeste Conducted Ensemble Workshop, featuring senior mentor composer Misato Mochizuki

The Playground Ensemble premieres a newly commissioned work, butterfly, posthumously, for soprano and ensemble at the Mercury Cafe in Denver, CO on their Pride 2022 Concert. This commission was the result of winning a national commission competition. Tickets available here: https://www.playgroundensemble.org/pride-2022

Evan Kopca, Santiago Del Castillo Archigo, and Han Lee, conducted by myself, perform a revised version of you in me, me in you as part of the culmination concert of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium 2022: Dialogues with the Past. at NU’s Galvin Recital Hall. Reception featuring Chicago deep dish pizza to follow!

Verdant Vibes presents the East-Cost premiere of muzzle for electric guitar and string quartet, selected as a winner of their national call for scores. https://www.verdantvibes.com/concerts.html

Quince Vocal Ensemble records Yarberry songs, for three sopranos and an alto at the Logan Center for the Arts. Also featured are works by Andrew Stock, Paul Novak, and Yuting Tan.

Ben Melsky, solo harp, and an ensemble led by Michael Lewanski, conductor, records circle broken at Nichols Hall, Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, IL. Also featured are concertino works by Clay Mettens and Ashkan Behzadi.

The Chicago all-star comprised Grossman ensemble premieres my newly commissioned piece roses for sinfonietta, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago.

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The Metropolis Ensemble premieres this distance between us in a unique, spatialized program featuring the other composers of the Biophony Project at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden in New York City’s Prospect Park.

The Music in Bloom Festival Ensemble gives the in-person premiere of Fidelio Descending, featuring myself on keyboard.

The University of Michigan’s Contemporary Directions Ensemble, conducted by Adrian Slywotzky, streams their recording of songs after sufjan - I. I should have known better and II. so/than, as part of the 2021 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium.

The Music for Copland House ensemble streams their recording of songs after sufjan - III. to be alone with you, on http://icareifyoulisten.tv/, recorded at Merkin Hall, NY. This piece was commissioned by the Copland House CULTIVATE fellowship.