PAST PERFORMANCES (for performances in 2017 and later, please consult the event calendar) 2016January 27, 2016 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky Marilyn Nonken, piano Rose Recital Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA February 1, 2016 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky Marilyn Nonken, piano Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY February 13, 2016 Waterlines Two Folksong Distortions ICTUS /Christie Finn, soprano /Liesa Van der Aa, voice and violin Handelbeurs Concertzaal, Ghent, Belgium February 19, 2016 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky Marilyn Nonken, piano NYU Black Box Theater, New York, NY February 25, 2015 Two Folksong Distortions Tom Pauwels and Liesa Van der Aa Kaaistudios, Brussels, Belgium February 26, 2016 Two Folksong Distortions Tom Pauwels and Liesa Van der Aa Kaaistudios, Brussels, Belgium March 11, 2016 Writing Against Time Yarn/Wire DiMenna Center, New York, NY March 14, 2016 Passing Through, Staying Put Musica Moderna, Lodz, POLAND April 17, 2016 Hafenlieder — WORLD PREMIERE Collect/Project Radialsystem, Berlin, DE April 21, 2016 Passing Through, Staying Put Longleash EMPAC Troy, NY April 21, 2016 Hafenlieder Collect/Project GNMR, Essen, DE April 23, 2016 Hafenlieder Collect/Project Bunkerrauschen, Hamburg, DE April 24, 2016 Hafenlieder Collect/Project Bunkerrauschen, Hamburg, DE April 27, 2016 Two Folksong Distortions Tom Pauwels and Liesa Van der Aa Opéra de Lille, Lille, France May 9, 2016 Waterlines CSO Music Now Tony Arnold, soprano / Cliff Colnot, conductor Harris Theater, Chicago, IL May 19, 2016 Lost Time Triptych — WORLD PREMIERE Marilyn Nonken, piano Distler Recital Hall, Tufts University, Medford, MA May 22, 2016 Forty-Nine, Forty-Nine Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam, NL May 23, 2016 Lost Time Triptych Marilyn Nonken, piano Roulette, New York, NY June 4, 2016 Anyplace Else members of ICE and Ensemble L’Itinéraire, Jean-Michaël Lavoie, conductor Aspekte Festival, Salzburg, AUSTRIA June 7, 2016 Two Folksong Distortions Tom Pauwels and Liesa Van der Aa Cafe Oto, London, UK July 28, 2016 don’t know what alright even means Bowdoin International Music Festival, Bowdoin, Maine September 22, 2016 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky FRENCH PREMIERE Marilyn Nonken, piano Reid Hall, Paris, France September 30, 2016 History by Moonlight JAPANESE PREMIERE Nagoya, Japan October 1, 2016 Horizontal Drift WORLD PREMIERE Juuso Nieminen, quarter-tone guitar Sonore Hall, Helsinki Music Center October 5, 2016 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky Marilyn Nonken, piano Loewe Theater, New York, NY November 27, 2016 Really Coming Down Christelle Séry, guitar MANCA Festival, Nice, France 2015February 8, 2015 Really Coming Down Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar soundintiative speakeasy, Paris, France February 21, 2015 Spinning in Infinity, WORLD PREMIERE Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Diego Matheuz, conductor Electronics produced at IRCAM Festival Présences, Maison de la Radio, Paris, France April 11, 2015 Waterlines for voice and ensemble, EUROPEAN PREMIERE Christie Finn and ICTUS Opéra de Lille, Lille, France April 20, 2015 Two Folksong Distortions for voice, guitar, violin, and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE Tom Pauwels and Liesa Van der Aa La Muse en Circuit, Paris, France April 25, 2015 Convergence Lines for ensemble and electronics, US PREMIERE Wet Ink, Eric Wubbels, conductor Electronics realized in Lyon at GRAME DiMenna Center, New York, NY May 2, 2015 Rust and Stardust, WORLD PREMIERE BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, conductor Tectonics Festival, Glasgow, Scotland May 18, 2015 Passing Through, Staying Put Longleash DiMenna Center, New York, New York June 14, 2015 Alcohol and Algebra for two guitars, WORLD PREMIERE Oh Mensch Der Sommer in Stuttgart, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany September 25, 2015 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky Jens Barnieck, piano tonAARt, Wiesbaden, Germany September 27, 2015 Passing Through, Staying Put Longleash ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn, New York September 30, 2015 Isolario: Book of Known Islands, WORLD PREMIERE Quatuor Béla MC2, Grenoble, France October 12, 2015 Leaving Lute, FRENCH PREMIERE Ensemble L’Itinéraire Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Paris, France October 18, 2015 Visions and Revisions JACK Quartet Merkin Hall, SONiC Festival, New York, NY November 3, 2015 Difficult Places, PREVIEW Ensemble Modern, Johannes Kalitzke, conductor Merkin Hall, SONiC Festival, New York, NY November 16, 2015 Visions and Revisions JACK Quartet Boston University, Boston, MA November 18, 2015 Really Coming Down Christelle Séry, guitar Les Voûtes, Paris, France November 24, 2015 Visions and Revisions, GERMAN PREMIERE JACK Quartet quartetaffairs, Frankfurt, DE November 27, 2015 Really Coming Down, TAIWANESE PREMIERE Christelle Séry, guitar WOCMAT, TAIWAN November 29, 2015 Difficult Places, WORLD PREMIERE Ensemble Modern, Johannes Kalitzke, conductor Congress Park Hanau, cresc… Biennale, Hanau, DE 2014 January 23, 2014 Visions and Revisions for string quartet, WORLD PREMIERE JACK Quartet Wigmore Hall, London, UK January 23, 2014 Convergence Lines for ensemble and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Pierre André-Valade, conductor Electronics realized in Lyon at GRAME Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Germany February 1, 2014 O now the drenched land wakes Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Andrew Clark, conductor Harvard University, Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA February 4, 2014 Convergence Lines for ensemble and electronics Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Pierre André-Valade, conductor Electronics realized in Lyon at GRAME de Singel Antwerp, Belgium February 8, 2014 O now the drenched land wakes Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Andrew Clark, conductor ACDA convention, Baltimore, MD March 7, 2014 Convergence Lines for ensemble and electronics Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Pierre André-Valade, conductor Electronics realized in Lyon at GRAME Biennale Musiques en Scène Lyon, France March 10, 2014 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky for piano Marilyn Nonken, piano Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT April 3, 2014 Visions and Revisions for string quartet, US PREMIERE JACK Quartet The Stone, New York, NY April 4, 2014 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky for piano Marilyn Nonken, piano Spectrum, New York, NY April 12, 2014 Anyplace Else for 10 instruments, NEW YORK PREMIERE Either/Or Ensemble New York, NY May 1, 2014 Writing Against Time for 2 pianos, 2 percussion, and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE Yarn/Wire Issue Project Room, New York, NY May 23, 2014 Waterlines for voice and ensemble, EUROPEAN PREMIERE ICTUS fellows Flagey, Brussels, Belgium June 20, 2014 Really Coming Down Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar Sonar Festival, Saint-Gilles Culture, Brussels, Belgium June 25, 2014 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky for piano Marilyn Nonken, piano Roulette, Brooklyn, NY September 5, 2014 Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds) Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Niedersachsen Wolfenbüttel, Germany September 6, 2014 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky for piano Marilyn Nonken, piano Constellation, Chicago, IL September 19, 2014 Five out of Six for ensemble and electronics, GREEK PREMIERE With video by Things Happen International Computer Music Conference Athens, Greece September 26, 2014 Waterlines for voice and ensemble, FIRST COMPLETE PERFORMANCE Lucy Dhegrae and Talea Ensemble Roulette, Brooklyn, NY October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015 Drum Circle Eight-Channel Sound installation Bamboula Nola, Prospect.3, New Orleans, Louisiana November 7, 2014 Really Coming Down Christopher Trapani, guitar Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, Richmond, Virginia December 9, 2014 Really Coming Down, GERMAN PREMIERE Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar Unerhörte Musik, Berlin, Germany 2013January 22, 2013 Five out of Six for ensemble and electronics, EUROPEAN PREMIERE With video by Things Happen Ensemble Mosaik Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Germany February 11, 2013 Widening Circles for 8 instruments and electronics, FINNISH PREMIERE Atlas Ensemble Musica Nova, Helsinki, Finland February 26, 2013 Really Coming Down Christelle Séry, guitar Théâtre Comédie Nation, Paris, France February 28, 2013 Anyplace Else for 10 instruments, NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Ensemble dal niente Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois June 28, 2013 Recession Fanny Vicens, accordeon CENTQUATRE, Paris, France December 27, 2013 Sunflower Suite TURKISH PREMIERE MIAM Modern Music Ensemble MIAM ITÜ, Maçka, Istanbul, Turkey 2012January 20, 2012 Conference Presentation “Unmagical invitations”: The iconography of North from a Southern composer’s perspective International Conference Musique et imaginaire du Nord et du Froid / Music and the Imaginary of the North and the Cold Laboratoire international d’étude multidisciplinaire comparée des représentations du Nord Université du Québec à Montréal January 25, 2012 Passing Through, Staying Put for piano trio, US PREMIERE Wet Ink, Gaudeamus NYC Festival Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York March 4, 2012 Really Coming Down Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar Exapno, Brooklyn, New York March 8, 2012 MATA Interval 5.3 curated by Christopher Trapani Works for solo instruments and electronics by Andrea Agostini, Ann Cleare, Paul Clift, Aaron Einbond, and Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez. Plus the US PREMIERE of Recession. Carol McGonnell, bass clarinet / Ryan Muncy, saxophone / Bill Schimmel, accordion Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York March 18, 2012 Past All Deceiving: Cavafy Songs, WORLD PREMIERE Argento Ensemble with Margot Rood, soprano St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea, New York, NY March 24, 2012 Five out of Six for ensemble and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE With live video by Things Happen Festival of Interactive Music Milller Theater, Columbia Universty April 25, 2012 Really Coming Down, BELGIAN PREMIERE Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar Logos, Ghent, Belgium July 21, 2012 Anyplace Else for 10 instruments, WORLD PREMIERE Ensemble dal niente Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Darmstadt, Germany August 31, 2012 Widening Circles for 8 instruments and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE Atlas Ensemble Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, NL September 10, 2012 Recession for accordion and electronics, SLOVENIAN PREMIERE Luka Juhart, accordion Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia September 24, 2012 Séminaire Recherche et Création — “Kickoff” Seminar IRCAM, Paris, France September 24, 2012 Really Coming Down, MEXICAN PREMIERE Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar Chihuahua City Festival, Chihuahua, Mexico November 10, 2012 Conference Presentation Thirty-One to Forty-Nine: Composing for the Fokker Organ through OpenMusic International Keyboard Symposium Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK December 14, 2012 Waterlines for voice and ensemble, preview performance (movements I. and V.) Daisy Press and Talea Ensemble Jerome Foundation/JFund Commission Mannes College of Music, New York, New York 2011December 17, 2011 Conference Presentation Cognitive Consonance: Composing Precise and Practical Microtones in an Ensemble Context Inharmonic/(X)enharmonic: A Conference and Concert Celebrating Microtonal Music New York, NY December 7, 2011 Really Coming Down Rémi Jousselme, guitar Studio de L’Ermitage, Paris, France December 3, 2011 Really Coming Down Christopher Trapani, electric guitar Exapno, Brooklyn, New York September 14, 2011 Passing Through, Staying Put for piano trio, WORLD PREMIERE Musiques Nouvelles The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus April 11, 2011 Lecture and workshops at the University of Memphis April 4, 2011 Leaving Lute for flute, viola, and harp, WORLD PREMIERE Janus Trio plays Columbia Composers 7:30 PM, The Tank, 354 West 45th Street, New York, NY March 24, 2011 Music of Today portrait concert Philharmonia Orchestra, Clement Power, conductor Performances of Üsküdar and don’t know what alright even means Royal Festival Hall, London, UK February 27, 2011 Forty-nine, Forty-nine for MIDI-controlled Fokker Organ, WORLD PREMIERE Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands January 17-21, 2011 The Geography of Cities on Water TACTUS Young Composers’ Forum Brussels Philharmonic, Michel Tabachnik, conductor Brussels, Belgium January 10, 2011 Séminaire Recherche et Création on Cognitive Consonance IRCAM, Paris, France 2010December 3, 2010 Westering for hexaphonic electric guitar and orchestra, WORLD PREMIERE American Composers Orchestra plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, George Manahan, conductor Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York June 9, 2010 Cognitive Consonance for two plucked-string soloists, ensemble, and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss, qanun Christelle Séry, hexaphonic electric guitar Ensemble L’Itinéraire, Mark Foster, conductor Festival Agora, IRCAM, CENTQUATRE, Paris, France February 2, 2010 Really Coming Down for guitar and electronics Ensemble Proxima Centauri SIMC Forum de la Jeune Création Musicale CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France January 23, 2010 Really Coming Down for guitar and electronics Ensemble Proxima Centauri SIMC Forum de la Jeune Création Musicale Auditorium Saint-Germain, Paris, France 2009July 17, 2009 The Geography of Cities on Water for orchestra [early version, for double winds] Centre Acanthes, Metz, France July 1, 2009 don’t know what alright even means for chamber ensemble, WORLD PREMIERE Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine April 1, 2009 Recession for accordion and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE Pierre Cussac, accordion IRCAM, Paris, France 2008September 4, 2008 Üsküdar WORLD PREMIERE Nieuw Ensemble, Micha Hamel, conductor Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007October 5, 2007 Sparrow Episodes Nouvel Ensemble Moderne plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor Montréal, Québec, Canada September 5, 2007 Sparrow Episodes Asko Ensemble, plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, Etienne Siebens, conductor Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands June 30, 2007 —N’T GO ANY FURTHER WORLD PREMIERE Really Coming Down WORLD PREMIERE Ensemble Cairn Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-St.-Denis), France March 15, 2007 History by Moonlight Fondation des Etats-Unis Paris, France March 4, 2007 O now the drenched land wakes WORLD PREMIERE The Providence Singers, Andrew Clark, conductor Providence, RI 2006November 6, 2006 Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds) Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik Innsbruck, Austria September 8, 2006 Sing Into My Mouth Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Etienne Siebens, conductor Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands August 24, 2006 Sparrow Episodes WORLD PREMIERE Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, Québec Nouvel Ensemble Moderne plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor March 13, 2006 Sunflower Suite American Premiere Earplay, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA 2005July 19, 2005 Sing Into My Mouth WORLD PREMIERE Centre Acanthes, Metz, FR Members of the Orchestre National de Lorraine, Sylvio Gualda, conductor April 16, 2005 The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky WORLD PREMIERE FleetBoston Celebrity Series, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA Sergey Schepkin, piano April 7, 2005 History by Moonlight Conservatoire Erik Satie, Paris, FR January 25, 2005 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR Christopher conducts the premiere Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds), along with works by Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez and Paul Clift. 2004November 19, Kaiserslautern, DE European premiere of Piano Sonata, Jens Barnieck, piano October 2, Abbaye du Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise, FR Blues Wrapped Around My Head for clarinet quartet, WORLD PREMIERE Christopher conducts members of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain September 25, Lafayette, LA Canaries in the Morning, Balloons at Night, WORLD PREMIERE Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Mariuz Smolij, conductor May 20, New York, NY North American Composers Orchestra, Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor 13th Annual Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions March 17, London, UK North, WORLD PREMIERE RCM Sinfonietta, Clement Power, conductor 2003June 19, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK Sunflower Suite, WORLD PREMIERE Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Garry Walker, conductor Repeated June 20 at National Gallery, London, UK