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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Pianist Uģis Krišjānis reprises his recent performance of my Vernacular Dances at Rīgas Latviešu biedrības nama Zelta zālē (Riga’s Society House, Golden Hall) on March 27 at 8PM.
Uģis Krišjānis is joined by musicians Jānis Rinkulis (cello), Kristaps Pētersons (electric guitar), Dzintars Vīksna (drums) on this concert called “NEPIERADINĀTS” (UNTAMED), including works by Gundega Šmite, Volfgangs Dārziņš, Gundaris Pone, Imants Zemzaris, Līga Celma, Uģis Krišjānis and Kristaps Pētersons. Tickets cost 2 Ls/1 Ls (Seniors, students).
From the Faraway Nearby at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s New Music Festival, March 13
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
The Piano Duo Gastesi-Bezerra will perform four movements from my suite of pieces for piano four-hands From the Faraway Nearby, inspired by paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe on March 13 at 7:30 PM at the New Music Festival at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Vera Lea Rinker School of Music in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The duo will also perform music by Terry Winter Owens, Dennis Kam, Marlene Woodward-Cooper, Spanish-Basque composer Ramon Lazkano and Italian composer Danielle Corsi.
Vernacular Dances included on the XVI International Piano Stars Festival in Liepāja, Latvia on March 12
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Pianist Uģis Krišjānis will give the Latvian premiere of my Vernacular Dances on March 12 at the Liepāja Symphony Concert Hall (Graudu iela) at 7PM as part of the eight day XVI International Piano Stars Festival. The festival brings classical and jazz pianists this year from Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Latvia, Spain and Russia to perform concerti, chamber music and solo concerts. The solo concert of Uģis Krišjānis will also include works by Gundega Šmite, Volfgangs Dārziņš and Gundaris Pone.
Chamber works on Latvia’s New Music Days festival in Riga on February 8 & 18
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The piano duo Antra and Normunds Viksne will perform three movements from my suite for piano four-hands inspired by paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, From the Faraway Nearby, at Rīgas Latviešu biedrības nama Zelta zālē (Riga’s Society House, Golden Hall) on February 8 at 7PM. This concert of chamber music will also include works by Latvian composers Kalniņš, Kalsons, Ābols, Jermaks, and Riekstiņš.
Flutist Liene Denisjuka will perform my Fragmentary Rondo for unaccompanied solo flute on a concert of electroacoustic and chamber music at the Jaunais Rīgas Teātris Kamerzālē in Rīga on February 18 at 7PM. Other composers on this program include Ēriks Ešenvalds, Rolands Kronlaks, Solveiga Selga, and Anita Mieze.
These concerts are just two of eleven concerts that will take place throughout Riga in February.
From the Faraway Nearby in Serbia, December 28 & 29
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 The Piano Duo Gastesi-Bezerra will perform four movements from my suite of pieces for piano four-hands From the Faraway Nearby, inspired by paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe on December 28 - 8PM at the Studentski Kulturni Centar in Belgrade, Serbia and on December 29 - 7 PM at Novi Sad’s City Hall in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Both programs will include twelve premieres in Serbia. Among them, works by Dimitri Cervo, Carme Fernández-Vidal, Charles Griffin, Piotr Lachert, Terry Winter Owens, Justin Rubin, Rodolfo Coelho de Souza, Ricardo Tacuchian, Tim Thompson , and Marlene Woodward-Cooper. They will also be playing works by distinguished Serbian composer Vladimir Tosic.
Intis Choir performs Aijā, ŽūŽū in Liepāja, Latvia on December 15
Friday, December 14th, 2007
The Chamber Choir Intis, directed by Ilze Valce, will perform my Aijā, ŽūŽū at Liepājas Latviešu Biedrības Nama, Lielajā zāle at Rožu laukumā 5/6 (The Great Hall of the Latvian Society House) on December 15 at 4PM, as part of their 20th Anniversary celebration concert. This will be the first public performance of the piece, and the composer will accompany the choir at the piano.
Ana Cervantes plays Murmuring in Comala in Morelia and Guadalajara, MX, December 8 & 12
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Pianist Ana Cervantes will perform selections from Rumor de Páramo, a 2-disc recording and commissioning project celebrating the work of Mexican author Juan Rulfo in Morelia (in the state of Michoacán), Mexico on Saturday, December 8 at 8PM, at el Museo de Arte Colonial; and on December 12 at 7PM at la Capilla Tolsá del Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara (in the state of Jalisco), Mexico.
The concerts will include my Murmuring in Comala, as well as works by Laurie Altman (US, 1946); Paul Barker (RU, 1956); Silvia Berg (Brasil-Dinamarca, 1958); Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras (México, 1927); Federico Ibarra (México, 1946); Anne LeBaron (EUA, 1953); Arturo Márquez (México, 1950); Ramón Montes de Oca (México, 1953-2006); Alex Shapiro (US, 1962); and Horacio Uribe (México, 1970).
Sky Above Clouds in Nice, France on December 7
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The Germany-based piano duo Francis Gailus and Sana Villeruša will take the Sky Above Clouds movement from my suite for piano 4-hands, From the Faraway Nearby, to the Valberg 2ème Concours International du Mercantour/Piano à quatre mains in Nice, France, on December 7. The competition will take place at L’École Départementale de Musique des Alpes-Maritimes, Cité des Moulins, 38 Rue de la Santoline in Nice. Bon voyage et bonne chance.
Weaving Olden Dances performed by the Griffin Ensemble in Liepāja, Latvia on December 4
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
The Griffin Ensemble will perform my Weaving Olden Dances, a work based on traditional Irish and Appalachian music and scored for Clarinet, String Quartet, Piano and Bodhrán on December 4 at Liepājas Biedribas Nams (Liepāja’s Society House) at 5PM, as part of a concert in honor of the 70th Birthday of local artist Irina Ture. Several of the musicians in the ensemble, as well as others performing on the concert, have all been the subjects of Ture’s photographic portraits, many of which are currently on exhibition in the hall.
U of Michigan Percussion Ensemble performs The Persistence of Past Chemistries on December 2
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
On Sunday December 2, 2007 at 3PM at the McIntosh Theatre of the University of Michigan, The University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble, directed by Joe Gramley, will present their semester-end concert called American Tradition and Innovation, featuring seminal works that demonstrate the twentieth-century rise of percussion as a chamber-music art as well as the ever-more-global focus of American classical percussion in our time. Along with three works by John Cage and Lou Harrison that brought an array of never-before-heard instruments from around the world to the American stage, the Ensemble will perform a rock etude (co-written by Michigan’s own Michael Udow) that marries American percussion and the modern marimba to a range of vocal traditions spanning several continents. The program is rounded out with two other unique pieces: Steve Reich’s minimalist composition “Six Marimbas” and Charles Griffin’s “The Persistence of Past Chemistries,” written entirely for wood instruments.
PROGRAM: Cage/Harrison - Double Music; Cage - Third Construction;
Harrison - Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra;
Udow/Douglas - Rock Etude No. 7;
Reich - Six Marimbas;
Griffin - The Persistence of Past Chemistries.
Free - no tickets required
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