Upcoming Events
Winter, 2021
Composed Water & Stone for Citywater New Music Ensemble
Completed Call for Justice for Saxophone Quartet, AATB
Finish Composing South Pass for Orchestra
Finalize new Jazz work
Spring, 2021
Compose and record for two short silent films: Un ravalement precipité & Rosalie en Haar Trouwe Meubels part of a larger project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Past Events
Fall 2020
SHELTERING IN PLACE
Completed composing Fanfare for Justice for French Horn solo commissioned by Mark Olson
Expanded Fanfare for Justice for French Horn Quartet
Worked with And We Were Heard for recordings of five Grades 1-4 Flex pieces https://www.andwewereheard.org/recordings
July, August & the rest of the summer…
SHELTERING IN PLACE
Working with LEADING TONES MUSIC and the CREATIVE REPERTOIRE INITIATIVE to create some Flexible Scores for kids going back to school in the fall!
Check out the FLEXIBLE INSTRUMENTATION Section of this website!
June 16-30, 2020
NEW MUSIC GATHERING ONLINE
Presenting talk on Music and Landscape
March 21, 2020
NACUSA National Conference CANCELLED
March 18-20, 2020
CDBNA, West/Northwest Conference CANCELLED
Early March 2020
EARTH DAY research for new quartet
Mojave National Preserve, self – residency
February 15, 2020
Dusk, presented by Cascadia Composers
Portland State University, Lincoln Recital Hall
7:30 pm
February 6, 2020
Glacier Blue, performed by Ovidiu Marinescu
Delaware County Community College,
901 Media Line Rd, Media, PA
5:00 pm
February 5, 2020
Glacier Blue, performed by Ovidiu Marinescu
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 W 57th St, New York City, NY
8:00 pm
November 10, 2019
Oregon Trail – premiere of the full three-movement piece performed by CITYWATER
Festival of New American Music
Crocker Art Museum 216 O St, Sacramento, CA
3:00 pm
September 29-30, 2019
Pianist Ivana Fransicsi performs Kyripo at the Evmelia Festival in Agria Greece
July 8-24th 2019
Led the renowned Composing in the Wilderness Seminar – part of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Worked with 9 amazing composers from across Australia, Wales and the United States, as they created new works performed by the amazing new music ensemble CORVUS – all in less than two weeks! THIS IS as NEW as MUSIC GETS!
June 6-9, 2019
IAWM and FT&M15 Conference:
Women, Feminists, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today
will be held at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, on June 6-9, 2019.
It will bring together composers, performers, scholars, innovators, and improvisers
May 11, 2019
Recording of Glacier Blue by Parma Recording with Cellist Ovidiu Marinescu
at Futura Productions, Boston, Mass
April 28, 2019
Premiere of The Coast in Winter performed by Winona State University Symphonic Wind Band
175 West Mark Street
Winona MN 55987
2:00 pm
March 13, 2019
Oregon Trail, mvmt 1 – Me-a-pa-teis performed at the TURN UP
Festival in Tucson AZ – Concert 7:30
March 8, 2019
Cellist David Eby performs Glacier Blue at the Friends of Rain concert
Lewis and Clark, College, Portland, OR 7:30pm
February 20-23, 2019
College Band Directors National Assn. 2019 Conference
Tempe, AZ
November 20, 2018
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (Blue-ray) by Kino Lorber Films
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/pioneers-first-women-filmmakers-blu-ray?affiliate=fb
In conjunction with the Library of Congress, I composed A House Divided for the 1913 silent film of the same name.
November 9 and 11, 2018
Premiere of The Mountain Within, Beaverton Symphony Orchestra
November 2, 2018
Festival of New American Music;
Oregon Trail, Mvmt 1 Me-a-pa-te performed by Citywater
https://www.csus.edu/music/fenam/
October 27, 2018
Speaking on a panel about Composers and Careers at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland
Attending the IAWM annual concert at Trinity College Chapel in Dublin Ireland
October 7, 2018
Oregon Trail mvmt 3, Hyas Tyee Temwata, sponsored by Cascadia Composers
October 7, 2:00 pm at The Old Church, Portland, Oregon
http://www.cascadiacomposers.org/concerts/
October 4, 2018
Oregon Trail mvmt 1, Me-a-pa-te, Michigan Technological University
October 4, 7:30pm at McArdle Theatre, Houghton, MI
https://events.mtu.edu/event/landscape_music_rivers_trails#.W1co3i2ZNBx
September 29, 2018
Premiere of Oregon Trail, Mvmt 3 Hyas Tyee Temwata, performed by the Atlanta Contemporary Ensemble
Saturday, September 29, 7:00pm at the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta, Georgia.
https://www.facebook.com/events/875901382593464/
September 25, 2018
Community Discussion for the 50th Anniversary of the National Trails Act and 175th Anniversary of the Oregon Trail.
Tuesday, September 25, 5:300pm at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Oregon City Oregon.
https://www.historicoregoncity.org/calendar/
September 23, 2018
Premiere of Oregon Trail, Mvmt 1, Me-a-pa-te, performed by Citywater
Sunday, September 23, 4:00pm at the Empress Theatre in Vallejo, California
July 17-20, 2018
Exploring the Oregon Trail in Nebraska and Wyoming
July 5, 2018
“Widening Inclusion & Visibility Article released on New Music Box, https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/widening-inclusion-visibility/
June 28-July 9, 2018
Oregon Bach Festival, Composer Symposium, premiere of FREE LAND, mvmt 1, Eugene, Oregon
MAY 27, 2018
Tundra Tapestry for Alto Flute, English Horn and Cello, Portland
MAY 17-19, 2018
New Music Gathering, Boston
May, 2018
Widening Inclusion & Visibility, July 2018, https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/widening-inclusion-visibility/
April, 2018
Release of Le Jardin Perdue on Jeffrey Jacobs 14th CD, Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano, Ariel Records,
March 21 – 24, 2018:
CBDNA Conference at Sonoma State University in California
January 27, 2018:
A House Divided recording session at Dead Aunt Thelma’s
January 4-7, 2018:
Chamber Music America 40th Anniversary Conference, New York City
December 10, 2017:
Glacier Blue
Performed by Andrew Shaud @ McArdle Theater, Michigan Technological University
November 2-8, 2017:
International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) conference – Vancouver, BC
July 2017:
July 12-25, 2017 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival – Composing in the Wilderness
July 24 & 25, 2017 Tundra Tapestry premiere by CORVUS New Music Ensemble at Denali National Park and in Fairbanks, AK
July 24, 2017 “Commissioning Landscape Music” published on Landscapemusic.org
May 2017:
New Music Gathering in Bowling Green OH
May 17, 2017, NEXT GENERATION, Digital Exchange Webinar on Community Arts
May 20, 2017 Coal Creek premiere, Cascadia Composers, Portland
April 2017:
April 6 & 7, 2017 Glacier Blue for solo cello
Premiere by Marilyn de Oliveira and Third Angle New Music Ensemble
http://thirdangle.org/2016-17-season/solo-hikes
October 2016:
Presentation on “New Music and Community” at Art of the Rural Placemaking conference- Iowa City, October 12-14
“Intersections” CD relase October 14!
Intertwine Alliance – The Life of Ashes performance and presentation, October 18
International Alliance of Women in Music, Annual Concert/meeting October 22nd
September 2016:
September 1, “Landscape Music” published in Oregon Arts Watch http://www.orartswatch.org/landscape-music/
September 2-3 Boise Idaho, Ensemble 208
Glacier MT – research and solo hike for Third Angle commission
September 14-17 – Placemaking – Vancouver BC, Creativity in Public Spaces Leadership Forum
August 2016:
Kickstarter campaign for “Love & Death in Havana – is successful!
May, June, July 2016:
Interview with CULTURE OUT THE BOX July 27, 2016
“Music, Travel, and the New Music Gathering” is published; IAWM JournalVolume 22, No. 1
Glacier MT – research and solo hike for Third Angle commission
July 29 & 30 Britt Festival, Crater Lake National Park
April 2016:
Articles on New Music, Advocacy and Place in April in New Music Box
April 16-24th Traveling to Cuba for the recording of two choral works by Vocal Luna Ensemble in Havana
January 2016:
Completing “Dearly Departed” to be recorded by Vocal Luna Ensemble in April
January 30 “White Rock Morning” Tape piece played at Cascadia Composers’ Concert in Eugene Oregon
November 2015:
11/4/15 “Composing About Landscape” in The Intertwine, Outside Voice
11/13/15 Premiere of The Way Through at Lincoln Hall, PSU Campus, Portland. Presented by Crazy Jane and Cascadia Composers (NACUSA)
July 2015
7/20/15 “Composing Landscape Music” published on Landscapemusic.org
7/25/15 Presenting The Way Through for visitors and park staff at North Cascades National Park
7/28/15 Discussing The Way Through with Stehekin Residents and Seasonal Visitors National Park
June 2015
6/1/15 “Landscape Music as Advocacy” published on Landscapemusic.org
April 2015:
4/10/15 “Composing about Nature and Wilderness” – Maryhill University
November 2014:
11/11/14 Release of Chat,Chill, Highline CD on Parma Recordings
11/14/14 Premiere of Going Rogue exploring the Rogue River Wilderness as part of the CRAZY JANE concert at Lincoln Hall, Portland State University.
11/18/14 Interview on Chat,Chill, Highline CD at Jimmy Mak’s in Portland
October 2014:
10/4/14 I am continuing my artist residency in North Cascades National Park, exploring, composing and learning about the local culture. On the 4th, as part of the Harvest Festival, I will host an interactive talk with Stehekin residents and visitors on composing about nature, place and culture.
10/6/14 Work with Stehekin school children – great marimba performers, I’m told – on composing about nature.
10/31/14 The recording of Life of Ashes will be played at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association in Roseburg Oregon through December 16th
9/18 – 10/6/14 I am exploring and composing in North Cascades National Park, as one of two Fall 2014 Artists in Residence.
9/27/14 I am hosting an interactive talk with Stehekin residents and visitors on composing about nature, place and culture.
August 2014:
8/16 /14 Premiere of CHAT by the Chris Klaxton Band at the Parma Music Festival
8/23/14 Premiere of The Life of Ashes, for Flute, Viola and Percussion commissioned by the Mount Adams Forest Service at the Columbia Arts Center in Hood River Oregon
