UPCOMING EVENTS

January 20, 2012
Conference Presentation
"Unmagical invitations": The iconography of North from a Southern composer's perspective
International Conference Musique et imaginaire du Nord et du Froid / Music and the Imaginary of the North and the Cold
Laboratoire international d’étude multidisciplinaire comparée des représentations du Nord
Université du Québec à Montréal

January 25, 2012
Passing Through, Staying Put for piano trio, US PREMIERE
Wet Ink, Gaudeamus NYC Festival
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York

March 4, 2012
Really Coming Down
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar
Exapno, Brooklyn, New York

March 8, 2012
MATA Interval 5.3 curated by Christopher Trapani
Works for solo instruments and electronics by Andrea Agostini, Ann Cleare, Paul Clift,
Aaron Einbond, and Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez. Plus the US PREMIERE of Recession.
Carol McGonnell, bass clarinet / Ryan Muncy, saxophone / Bill Schimmel, accordion
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York

March 18, 2012
Past All Deceiving: Cavafy Songs, WORLD PREMIERE
Argento Ensemble with Margot Rood, soprano
St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, New York, NY

March 24, 2012
New work for ensemble and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE
With live video byThings Happen Festival of Interactive Music
Milller Theater, Columbia Universty

April 25, 2012
Really Coming Down
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar
Logos, Ghent, Belgium

July 2012
New work for 10 instruments, WORLD PREMIERE
Ensemble dal niente
Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Darmstadt, Germany

Fall 2012
New work for voice and ensemble, WORLD PREMIERE
Talea Ensemble
Jerome Foundation/JFund Commission
New York, New York

RECENT EVENTS

2011

December 17, 2011
Conference Presentation
Cognitive Consonance: Composing Precise and Practical Microtones in an Ensemble Context
Inharmonic/(X)enharmonic: A Conference and Concert Celebrating Microtonal Music
New York, NY

December 7, 2011
Really Coming Down
Rémi Jousselme, guitar
Studio de L'Ermitage, Paris, France

December 3, 2011
Really Coming Down
Christopher Trapani, electric guitar
Exapno, Brooklyn, New York

September 14, 2011
Passing Through, Staying Put for piano trio, WORLD PREMIERE
Musiques Nouvelles
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus

April 11, 2011
Lecture and workshops at the University of Memphis

April 4, 2011
Leaving Lute for flute, viola, and harp, WORLD PREMIERE
Janus Trio plays Columbia Composers
7:30 PM, The Tank, 354 West 45th Street, New York, NY

March 24, 2011
Music of Today portrait concert
Philharmonia Orchestra, Clement Power, conductor
Performances of Üsküdar and don't know what alright even means
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

February 27, 2011
Forty-nine, Forty-nine for MIDI-controlled Fokker Organ, WORLD PREMIERE
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

January 17-21, 2011
The Geography of Cities on Water
TACTUS Young Composers' Forum
Brussels Philharmonic, Michel Tabachnik, conductor
Brussels, Belgium

January 10, 2011
Séminaire Recherche et Création on Cognitive Consonance
IRCAM, Paris, France

2010

December 3, 2010
Westering for hexaphonic electric guitar and orchestra, WORLD PREMIERE
American Composers Orchestra plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, George Manahan, conductor
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York

June 9, 2010
Cognitive Consonance for two plucked-string soloists, ensemble, and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE
Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss, qanun
Christelle Séry, hexaphonic electric guitar
Ensemble L'Itinéraire, Mark Foster, conductor
Festival Agora, IRCAM, CENTQUATRE, Paris, France

February 2, 2010
Really Coming Down for guitar and electronics
Ensemble Proxima Centauri
SIMC Forum de la Jeune Création Musicale
CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

January 23, 2010
Really Coming Down for guitar and electronics
Ensemble Proxima Centauri
SIMC Forum de la Jeune Création Musicale
Auditorium Saint-Germain, Paris, France

2009

July 17, 2009
The Geography of Cities on Water for orchestra [early version, for double winds]
Centre Acanthes, Metz, France

July 1, 2009
don't know what alright even means for chamber ensemble, WORLD PREMIERE
Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine

April 1, 2009
Recession for accordion and electronics, WORLD PREMIERE
Pierre Cussac, accordion
IRCAM, Paris, France

2008

September 4, 2008
Üsküdar WORLD PREMIERE
Nieuw Ensemble, Micha Hamel, conductor
Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007

October 5, 2007
Sparrow Episodes
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor
Montréal, Québec, Canada

September 5, 2007
Sparrow Episodes
Asko Ensemble, plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, Etienne Siebens, conductor
Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

June 30, 2007
—N'T GO ANY FURTHER WORLD PREMIERE
Really Coming Down WORLD PREMIERE
Ensemble Cairn
Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-St.-Denis), France

March 15, 2007
History by Moonlight
Fondation des Etats-Unis
Paris, France

March 4, 2007
O now the drenched land wakes WORLD PREMIERE
The Providence Singers, Andrew Clark, conductor
Providence, RI

2006

November 6, 2006
Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds)
Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik
Innsbruck, Austria

September 8, 2006
Sing Into My Mouth
Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Etienne Siebens, conductor
Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

August 24, 2006
Sparrow Episodes WORLD PREMIERE
Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, Québec
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne plus Christopher Trapani, guitar, Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor

March 13, 2006
Sunflower Suite American Premiere
Earplay, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA

2005

July 19, 2005
Sing Into My Mouth WORLD PREMIERE
Centre Acanthes, Metz, FR
Members of the Orchestre National de Lorraine, Sylvio Gualda, conductor

April 16, 2005
The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky WORLD PREMIERE
FleetBoston Celebrity Series, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Sergey Schepkin, piano

April 7, 2005
History by Moonlight
Conservatoire Erik Satie, Paris, FR

January 25, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
Christopher conducts the premiere Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds), along with works by Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez and Paul Clift.

2004

November 19, Kaiserslautern, DE
European premiere of Piano Sonata, Jens Barnieck, piano

October 2, Abbaye du Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise, FR
Blues Wrapped Around My Head for clarinet quartet, WORLD PREMIERE
Christopher conducts members of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain

September 25, Lafayette, LA
Canaries in the Morning, Balloons at Night, WORLD PREMIERE
Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Mariuz Smolij, conductor

May 20, New York, NY
North
American Composers Orchestra, Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
13th Annual Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions

March 17, London, UK
North, WORLD PREMIERE
RCM Sinfonietta, Clement Power, conductor

2003

June 19, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Sunflower Suite, WORLD PREMIERE
Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Garry Walker, conductor
Repeated June 20 at National Gallery, London, UK