UPCOMING
EVENTS
TRANSIENT GLORY
SYMPOSIUM
Carnegie Hall Choral Institute
Thursday, 16 February 2012 - 7:30pm
(Le) Poisson Rouge - New York, NY
Saturday, 18 February 2012 - 8:00pm
Zankel Hall - Carnegie Hall - New York, NY
Read the Carnegie Blog Post and Interview with Dominick!
The Huffington Post's C. M. Rubin came out with a feature today on the Transient Glory Symposium, including an interview with Joan Tower and comments about Paquito D'Rivera's "Tembandumba" from yours truly.
Excerpts from the Thursday night performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge will be broadcast on American Public Media's Performance Today on Friday, February 17, 2012. You can tune in up to seven days afterward and listen on the PT website!
I have been selected as a Fellow for the Transient Glory Symposium
under the auspieces of the Carnegie
Hall Choral Institute. As a Fellow,
I will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with composer Paquito
D'Rivera to prepare and conduct his work Tembandumba with
the Young
People's Chorus of NYC and their artistic director, Francisco
Núñez at (Le) Poisson Rouge and Zankel
Hall. The
Symposium will also feature host John Schafer (WNYC), guest conductors
Philip Brunelle, Janet Galván, and Grant Gershon, and composers Derek
Bermel, John Corigliano, Douglas Cuomo, David Del Tredici, Michael
Gordon, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower.
unMET: OPERA
FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 - 8:00pm
Club Oberon - Cambridge, MA
Lidiya Yankovskaya, Julia Scott Carey, and Erin Huelskamp prepare an evening
of slick new opera scenes, including the premiere of A Burden Far Beyond
What Soul Can Cry in the new four-hand piano version. Purchase tickets
from Juventas New Music Ensemble.
ORDINARY-EXTRAORDINARY
Residency with Divergence Vocal Theater
Thursday, 23 February 2012 - 7:30pm
Recital Hall - Lone Star College-Montgomery - Conroe,
TX
Misha Penton leads a collage program of opera theater with the LSC-Montgomery
Chamber Singers and their director, Dominick DiOrio. These concerts will be
the final product of a weeklong residency with Misha and Divergence
Vocal Theater, that will feature the students of the LSC-Montgomery music
program performing solo songs, small vocal ensembles, and choral selections
in new and intriguing combinations. Featuring two of my works: The
Soul's Passing for chorus a cappella and The Captured Goddess for
soprano and piano. Tickets
are $10 general admission and $5 for
students.
A
DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS
Saturday, 24 March 2012 - 7:30pm
The Church of St. John the Divine
2450 River Oaks Blvd. Houston, TX 77019
Works by Brahms, as well as two world
premieres and a composition by David
Ashley White
are highlights of the Houston
Chamber Choir's March concert. Christopher
Theofanidis, a composer in great demand who scored a success with his
HGO premiere,
The Refuge,
adds to the
works he has already written for the Chamber Choir. And A Dome
of Many-Coloured Glass, by Houston
Chamber Choir’s own rising star Dominick DiOrio,
will receive its first performance. Inspired by poetry of Amy Lowell,
the work is scored for marimba, choir and soprano soloist. This concert
will be presented at Yale University in April 2012.
QUEERING THE
PITCH II: music for soprano and cello
Friday, 16 March 2012 - 8:00pm
Esber Recital Hall - Penn State University - University
Park, PA
Friday, 30 March 2012 - 7:30pm
Recital Hall - Lone Star College-Montgomery - Conroe,
TX
Cellist Justin
Dougherty and soprano Meredith
Mecum premiere my new extended song-cycle "And
the barriers had vanished" on poetry of Meleager,
C. P. Cavafy, John Addington Symonds, and Edward Carpenter.The
program for Queering
the Pitch II will feature multiple new works for soprano and cello
written by gay
composers. Dominick will be in residence at Penn State University
during the premiere performance. The event at Lone Star College
is sponsored by the Lone Star College-Montgomery LGBT
Alliance.
QUEERING THE
PITCH
Saturday, 31 March 2012 - 8:00pm
AvantGarden - Houston, TX
Justin
Dougherty performs "Queering the Pitch"--his program
of solo violoncello music exploring the works of gay composers-- during his trip to Houston in
March. Featuring works of Robert Muczynski, Benjamin Britten, Ned
Rorem, and my Tarantella!
TRINITY CHOIR - COMPLINE
Sunday, 1 April 2012 - 8:00pm
Trinity Wall Street - St. Paul's Chapel - New York, NY
Julian Wachner leads
the Trinity
Choir in the world premiere of my work O
Virtus Sapientiae for a cappella mixed chorus and three soprano soloists.
The
composition
will be the cornerstone of the weekly Compline service,
here the final ritual for Palm Sunday.
SPRING CHOIR
CONCERT
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes
Wednesday, 4 April 2012 - 7:30pm
Recital Hall - Lone Star College-Montgomery - Conroe,
TX
Dominick conducts the LSC-Montgomery Concert Choir, Chamber
Singers, and guest pianists in a performance of Brahms intimate and
beautiful Liebeslieder Valser! Featuring student soloists from the Lone
Star College-Montgomery Music Department.
HOUSTON CHAMBER
CHOIR NEW ENGLAND TOUR
12 April - 16 April 2012
Robert Simpson and the Houston
Chamber Choir take their "A Dome of Many-Coloured
Glass" program on tour to New York and New Haven, culminating with a concert
and residency at Yale University. The tour will include the New England premiere
of my new work A
Dome
of Many-Coloured Glass for marimba, choir, and soprano soloist.
THIRD
ANNUAL OPERA GALA & SILENT AUCTION
ZACHARY WADSWORTH: VENUS AND ADONIS
Friday, 4 May 2012 - 7:30pm
Recital Hall - Lone Star College-Montgomery - Conroe,
TX
Dominick DiOrio conducts the LSC-Montgomery Chamber
Singers in Zachary Wadsworth's
chamber opera, Venus and Adonis.
Using Shakespeare's famous text, Wadsworth creates a work of ethereal
beauty and lyricism for soprano, tenor, choir, strings, alto saxophone,
and piano. Tickets are $15, $10 students/seniors. All proceeds benefit
the Lone Star College-Montgomery Music Department Scholarship Fund.
INTERNATIONAL ORANGE CHORALE OF SAN FRANCISCO
75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge Celebration
Sunday, 27 May 2012 - Time TBA
Golden Gate Bridge Crissy Field - San Francisco, CA
The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco premieres my new work Chrysopylae, which is the winner of the IOCSF Composer Competition. Zane Fiala conducts this fantastic ensemble, as well as works by David Conte, Caroline Adelaide Shaw, Julian Moerth and others!
HEROINES
Sunday, 10 June 2012 - Shows at 2pm and 5pm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Gallery 214 - Houston, TX
Misha Penton is Klytemnestra in this performance installation
at the Museum of
Fine Arts Houston. The performance draws on music from our opera collaboration
of last year, Klytemnestra:
the
original
subversive
female, and presents the material in the same gallery as Anton von Maron's Return of Orestes. A reception will follow the 5pm performance.
FRESHLY SQUEEZED
Juicy New Music from Today's Premium Composers
International Orange Chorale of San Francisco
Friday, 22 June 2012 - 5pm
Solarium Atrium - 55 2nd Street - San Francisco, CA
Saturday, 23 June 2012 - 8pm
First Unitarian Church - 1187 Franklin Street - San Francisco, CA
The Come see what's new in choral music today! The IOCSF program will include the premiere of my new work Chrysopylae, five world premieres, one U.S. premiere, three pieces we will premiere as part of two special events in May, 2012, and one piece we premiered in December, 2011. New works by David Conte, Zane Fiala, Robin Estrada, Daniel Kohane, Caroline Adelaide Shaw, and others. Free - donations gladly accepted.
