Tuesday,
31 Aug 2010 - Longy School of Music Convocation
Kyle
Siddons, baritone, and Caroline Harvey, piano perform "Hear the
Voice" from my song cycle Five Blake Lyrics for
the Opening Convocation 2010 at the Longy School of Music.
* Longy School of Music - Pickman Hall - 10am - Cambridge, MA
Wednesday,
6 Oct
2010 -
Voices of America
Grace Allendorf, mezzo-soprano,
Kyle Siddons, baritone, and Caroline Harvey, piano premiere my song
cycle Five Blake Lyrics in the version for 2 voices. A
repeat performance at the Longy School of Music is slated for early
October.
* Cathedral Church of St. Paul - Noon - Boston, MA
Thursday,
22 Oct 2010 -
Night Music
I conduct a program
exploring the evocative nature of "night" with the Lone
Star College-Montgomery Choirs, featuring music of Brahms,
Wilbye, Lauridsen and my own Say
On, Sayers! Also featuring the String Ensemble, under the
direction of Dr. Lisa Burrell, and faculty soprano Lisa
Borik.
* LSC-Montgomery Mainstage Theater - 7:30pm - Conroe, TX
Thursday,
2 Dec 2010 -
Holiday Benefit Concert
The LSC-Montgomery
Choirs and String Ensemble join together for a special performance
of the Vivaldi Gloria,
under my direction.
Proceeds go to benefit a local community organization. General
admission $10.
* LSC-Montgomery Mainstage Theater - 7:30pm - Conroe, TX
Saturday,
18 Dec
2010 - Winchester Holiday Concert
Winchester
HS Choirs--Christopher Nickelson, director--and the Boston
Choral Ensemble--Miguel
Felipe, director-- join together for a majestic holiday concert, that
will feature the premiere of my commissioned work Woods in
Winter, on a text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
* Date and Time TBA - Winchester, MA
Sunday, 30 Jan
2011 - Hear the Future
12th Annual Invitational School Choral Festival
Join the Houston
Chamber Choir as they welcome three extraordinary choirs: The Rice
School Elementary Honors Choir, Holly Holt Cabrera, director; the Spring
Oaks Middle
School Choir, Gregory Morgan and Julia Mays, directors; and the Bellaire
High School Choir, Amy Solberg, director. The HCC will premiere A
dome of many-coloured glass, my
cantata-concerto for mixed chorus, soprano, and marimba on texts of
Amy Lowell. Free--no ticket is required!
* South Main Baptist Church - 4:00pm - Houston, TX
Thursday,
3 Feb 2011 - New Music Hall
Opening Concert Celebration
The Lone Star College-Montgomery
Music Department starts a new chapter in its history with the opening
of the New Music Hall.
This state-of-the-art new facility houses a 175-seat recital hall with
acoustical design by noted firm JaffeHolden.
This special concert will feature the college's diverse ensembles,
faculty artists, and student performers, as well as the premiere of
my
new work for mixed chorus and trumpet.
* LSC-Montgomery Recital Hall - 7:30pm - Conroe, TX
Wednesday,
23 Mar 2011 - Home Concert
LSC-M Chamber Singers Tour to Austin, TX
I direct the Chamber
Singers in a special home concert before we leave on tour to
Austin. The program will explore the edgier side of contemporary
choral repertoire and it will include a special new commissioned
work by talented and emerging composer Zachary
Wadsworth, as well as Rautavaara's Suite de Lorca. Free
and open to the public.
* LSC-Montgomery Recital Hall - 7:30pm - Conroe, TX
Chamber Singers
Tour Itinerary
Thursday, March 24 - Montgomery, TX
Friday, March 25 - Austin, TX
Saturday, March 26 - San Marcos, TX
April 2011
- Divergence Vocal Theater
Stay tuned for information about my new dramatic
scene for mezzo-soprano and piano written
for
Misha Penton and Divergence
Vocal Theater, in collaboration with John
Harvey of the The Honors College at the University of Houston.
* University of Houston - Date and Time TBA - Houston, TX
Thursday,
14 Apr 2011 - American Folk Music
I direct the Lone
Star College-Montgomery Concert Choir in a program of 20th
Century American Folk Music in
April, featuring selections of Copland, Gershwin, Moses Hogan, and
music from
the Gospel
tradition. Free and open to the public.
* LSC-Montgomery Recital Hall - 7:30pm - Conroe, TX
Friday, 6 May 2011 - Opera Gala
Handel's Acis and Galatea
To
close the season, the Chamber Singers perform Handel's charming
opera-serenata, Acis
and Galatea. The performance will feature faculty vocal artists Lisa
Borik, soprano,
and Michael
Walsh, baritone, as well as a stylish ensemble of professional
instrumentalists and yours truly conducting. Proceeds go to benefit
the Music Department Student Scholarship Fund.
* LSC-Montgomery Mainstage Theater - 7:30pm - Conroe, TX
May 2011
- Julia Killey Senior Recital
Pianist Julia Killey
premieres my solo piano work, L'Homme Armée Variations at
the College of St. Rose.
* College of St. Rose
- Date and Time TBA - Albany, NY
