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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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