CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS
There is a Humming, premiere, performed by OboeBass!, Jussi Bjorling Recital Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN - 7:30pm, March 5, 2024
Commissioned by OboeBass! with support from Fromm Music Foundation
NORTH, recording to be released on innova Recordings, 2024
RECENT EVENTS
Selected Listing
NORTH, immersive installation. Hamlin Creative Space, Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, September 12 - November 15, 2023
Based on Childs’ residency in the Arctic (Svalbard).
Artist Residency, Nawat Fes, Fes, Morocco, March - May 2023
NORTH (premiere), immersive installation. Co-produced with Zeitgeist, The Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, MN, January 27 - April 4, 2023
Commissioned by Zeitgeist new music ensemble. Based on Childs’ residency in the Arctic (Svalbard).
Wreck (live music with dance), Black Label Movement, Carl Flink, choreographer
The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN, April 15-23, 2023
There Is a Humming (Premiere/Fromm Commission), OboeBass!, Lakeville Area Arts Center, Lakeville, MN, February 26, 2023
DrumRoll installation and North (excerpts) with multi-image video, McKnight Composer Fellows showcase,
Great Northern Festival, Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN, Feb 2, 2023
DrumRoll (premiere), immersive video/sound installation, Charlyn Gallery, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, October 20 - December 1, 2022
Featured composer, North Star Music Festival, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
Rounds (premiere/commission),Talking Stick, Kilter, October 21-22, 2022
Pauline, contriuted music to opera about Pauline Schindler; Frank Esher and Ravi GuneWardena, concept and libretto, Schindler House, Los Angeles, October 1, 2022
Aromúsica (premiere), sound/scent installation, Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 1 - July 1, 2022
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, McKendree Presents, Lebanon, IL, May 3, 2022
Shavasana, ETHEL, GatherNYC, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY, May 1, 2022
Click, St. Olaf Percussion Ensemble, Northfield MN, April 28, 2022
Dream House (selections), Kontras Quartet, Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, IL, February 10, 2021
Artist Residency, Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA, February 2021
Video short: Sight of Hand, available March 2020 - percussion music video filmed at the St. Paul Saints baseball game
Fellowship and residency, Bogliasco Foundation, Bogliasco, Italy, November-December 2019
Recording released November 2019: Eye to Ivory, for piano. Starkland Recordings. Performed by Kathleen Supove, piano.
Parterre (recorder quartet), Flûte Alors, Montreal, Canada, October 2019
Night, for singers and piano, Source Songs Festival, August 5, 2019
Premiere: Night Blooming, for oboe and string bass, for OboeBass!, MCAD Gallery, July 26, 2019
Inspired by photographs by Cy DeCosse
Work-in-progress presentation: North, Studio Z, Zeitgeist, June 18, 2019. More info: here
Premiere: Scent Songs, commissioned by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, and created with additional support from the Emily Harvey Foundation.
May 3, 2019 - Sundin Hall, St. Paul. Performed by Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski. Tickets: here
Zephyrus, Georgia State Bands, April 2019
Strum and Pizz Hocket (from Dream House), Jukebox chamber music series, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Burlington, VT, March 8 & 9, 2019
Emily Harvey Foundation Residency, 5-week creative and research residency in Venice, Italy, October-November 2018
Arctic Circle Expedition, 2-week research residency aboard a sailing vessel in the Arctic Circle, October 2018
Sight of Hand with the St. Paul Saints, August 2018
Live performance at a Saints baseball game, and video shoot for short film Sight of Hand
Project supported by a Knight Arts Challenge Award (Knight Foundation, Miami), the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), and St. Paul Cultural STAR.
Beyond opera workshop and recording session, Frost Opera Theater, University of Miami, April 23-30, 2017.
The development of Beyond received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. This workshop was also supported by the Duffy Opera Institute.
Ear + Nose a new work for Zeitgeist incorporating fragrance, Studio Z, February 16 &17, 2017 info and tickets
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, University of Albany Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY, November 3, 2016
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY, October 14, 2016
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, The Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA, October 8, 2016
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 22, 2016
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Denison College, OH April 14, 2016
RESIDENCY, Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy, February 1-29, 2016 - to work on new opera Beyond with collaborators Claire Porter, Liz Engelman and Alan Johnson
Premiere: Stone Steel Wood Glass Light, Kontras Quartet, The Farnsworth House, Plano, IL, November 14 & 15, December 12, 2015; Commissioned by the Farnsworth House for the 2015 Chicago Architectural Biennial with funds from the Graham Foundation
Now, Anthony de Mare, piano; Liaisons: Reimaging Sondheim from the Piano, Symphony Space, NYC, Nov 19, 2015
Premiere: Field, in collaboration with choreographer Judith Howard, Carleton College, November 6 & 7, 2015
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Michigan Tech Nov 6, 2015
After Dust, ETHEL, National Sawdust, NYC, Nov 4, 2015
CRASH: Click, Missing Link, Three, Sight of Hand, DrumRoll, Hands - Havana International Theater Festival, Havana, Cuba, October 27 & 28, 2015
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Oct 23, 2015
Sight of Hand, Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Awards event, St. Paul, MN, Oct 6, 2015
Kilter, Los Angeles, Lynn Hutchinson, Los Angeles, Oct 4, 2015
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, New Orleans October 2, 2015
Shavasana, ETHEL, Wells College, Aurora, NY, September 17, 2015
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Breckenridge, CO August 16, 2015
Premiere: Sweep, GTCYS (Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony), Minnesota, April 19, 2015
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, UCLA, April 17, 2015
Featured Composer: TUTTI Festival, Denison College, March 2015
Ephemeral Geometry
Dream House excerpts
Night
The Capacity of Calm Endurance
Ear + Nose, Northern Spark, at Northrop, Minneapolis, MN – June 13, 2015 – 9:30pm-5:30am
CRASH: Three, Sight of Hand, DrumRoll, Hands, Click, January 2015, Middlebury, VT
A Frail Weight, Havana New Music Festival, Havana, Cuba, November 20, 2014
Tri-Cycles, Schubert Club Museum, St. Paul, MN, November 18, 2014
Wreck, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, July 10-20, 2014
Falling for Prepositions, Joe’s Pub, NYC, April 26, 2014 - Collaborative work with choreographer Claire Porter
Performed by Marla Berg
Now, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA, March 30, 2014
Shavasana, ETHEL, Trinity Wall Street, NYC, March 13, 2014
Sound Curved Light, Ensemble 61, Antonello Hall, Minneapolis, March 6, 2014
The Eleventh Hour, Minnesota Dance Theater’s Rumblings, Mpls, January 2014
Premiere: Recipes Our Mothers Gave Us, dance work with Beth Corning, Pittsburgh, PA, Jan 2014
Premiere: Scry, Guidonian Hand, Chamber Music America, trombone quartet & amplified violin, Bryant Park, NYC, July 2013
Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, BAM Next Wave series, October 2013
Now, Anthony de Mare, Virginia Arts Festival, Norfolk, VA, May 22, 2013
Click, Hands, Shiva, Talking Stick, Wichita State University, KS, April 2013
CRASH: Sight of Hand, Kolokol, Click, Hands, Three, Talking Stick, Drumroll, Lakeville, MN April 2013
Now, Music in the Loft, Chicago, IL, April 7, 2013
Premiere: Now (LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano); Anthony de Mare; Symphony Space, NYC, March 2013
Zephyrus, Eastman Wind Orchestra, Eastman Theatre, Rochester, NY, December 5, 2012
Premiere: Ephemeral Geometry, ETHEL, Park Avenue Armory, December 2 & 3, 2012
Premiere: Farmstead Now Open, Opera America, NYC, 2012