2017 has been an amazing year and I have been incredibly fortunate to have received so many performance and compositional opportunities this year. Here are some highlights:
February
DMA Recital #1: Music for Tuba and Electronics - Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music
Program
Midnight Realities - Morgan Powell
Still - Jonathan Harvey
Performance with OSSIA New Music featuring the JACK Quartet
String Quartet and Orchestra - Morton Feldman
March
Performance of Under at the International Human Rights Arts Festival
Choreography by Jacqueline Dugal and music by Brett Copeland
IHRAF Presents Modern Dance | March 5, 2017 | Theatre at Dixon Place (New York, NY)
Premiere of Warrior for euphonium and electronics
Performed by Danielle VanTuinen
DMA Recital | March 23, 2017 | ASU Art Museum (Tempe, AZ)
Eastman Audio Research Studio Presents the Eastman Mobile Acousmonium (EMA)
Built and composed music for an installation piece titled plastiphonium
March 30, 2017 | Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY)
April
Performance of december and lecture about composing and performing with MAX at the Electrobrass Conference
Finalist for Composition Competition
April 7-9, 2017 | Cookeville, TN
Premiere of Janus for trumpet and electronics
Performed by Marie Mencher
Senior Recital | April 28, 2017 | Gorell Recital Hall at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA)
May
Performance of december at Imagine RIT
May 6th, 2017 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
June
Blue Lake International: Northern Winds Tour
Acted as counselor and tubist
Performances in Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands
August
Flower City Brass residency at the Frankenwald Brass Festival and the Haus Marteau Brass Course in Lichtenberg, Germany.
September
Built and created sound for an installation titled Noise Bucket
Rainforest IV | September 7-11, 2017 | Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY)
October
Flower City Brass performance of Luciano Berio's Call
OSSIA New Music: One + | October 5, 2017 | Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY)
SinusTon: Musik für ein Haus
Composed a piece titled burn for vibraphone, electronics, and video
SinusTon | October 26-29, 2017 | Magdeburg, Germany
November
Premiere of Syzygy for bass clarinet and electronics
Performed by Alexander W. Ravitz
Performance of Alone on Repeat for tuba and electronics by Doug McCausland
Eastman Audio Research Studio Fall Recital | November 16, 2017 | Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music
Compositions
december for tuba, electronics, and video
Warrior for euphonium and electronics commissioned and premiered by Danielle VanTuinen
Under for tuba, electronics, and dance - written for Dugal Dance and the International Human Rights Arts Festival
plastiphonium (installation piece)
soul, turn orange-colored commissioned and premiered by Guerrilla Chamber Collective
Noise Bucket (installation piece)
Syzygy for bass clarinet and electronics - written for and premiered by Alexander W. Ravitz
burn for vibraphone, electronics, and video (installation piece)
i dream of a universe for vibraphone and electronics - commissioned by Danielle Moreau
New music from DJ_ElectroTUBA as well!
Upcoming Performances and Compositions in 2018
A full length DJ_ElectroTUBA album coming in January
Flower City Brass performing Jeff Tyzik's New York Cityscape on February 21, 2018 with the Eastman Wind Ensemble
In the Desert for tuba, electronics, and video set to be premiered in March
DMA Recital #2: Are You Experienced? on March 4, 2018
Program
In the Desert - Brett Copeland
Lamento for tuba and piano - Sofia Gubaidulina
Four Outings for Brass Quintet - Andre Previn (ft. Flower City Brass
Are You Expereinced? - David Lang (with Edo Frenkel, conductor and Mark Powell, narrator)
Performance at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference - March 9-11, 2018
Program
Post-Prae-Ludium per Donau - Luigi Nono
In the Desert - Brett Copeland
Composition for trombone, electronics, and video set to be premiered at the EARS Image and Sound Festival - March 19-24, 2018
Performance at the University of South Florida New Music Festival - April 5-7, 2018