previous performances
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_6.18.11 // soundON Festival of Modern Music, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
With special guest Robert Zelickman (clarinet).
Works: Osvaldo Golijov - The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
6.17.11 // soundON Festival of Modern Music, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Works: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet #4, In the Diaspora
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet #5
5.16.11 // Sofia Gubaidulina Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
With special guests Richard Valitutto (harpischord), Ivan Johnson (bass) and Vera Lukomsky (piano).
Works: Sofia Gubaidulina - Meditation on the Bach Chorale “Vor deinem Thron tret ich hiermit"
J.S. Bach - “Bor deinem Thron tret ich hiermit” BWV 668)
Sofia Gubaidulina - Witty Waltzing in the Style of Johann Strauss
4.9.11 // Wild Beast, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
With special guest Richard Valitutto (piano).
Works: Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 44
4.13.11 // Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Works: Daniel Tacke - Initiale [streichquartett]
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet No. 5
Nicholas Deyoe - ...for every day is another view of the tentative past
2.13.11 // Pomona College, Mabel Shaw Brdges Hall of Music, Pomona, CA
With special guests Gayle Balnkenburg (piano) and Heinz Blankenburg (narrator).
Works: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet #4 “In the Diaspora”
Alfred Schnittke - Piano Quintet
Arnold Schoenberg - Ode to Napoleon
12.12.10 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Adam Greene - String Quartet “Threnody”
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet #4 “In the Diaspora”
Marc Sabat - String Quartet #2 (Cucumber Serenades)
7.6.10 // Selid at Stokkalæk, Stokkalæk, Iceland
With special guest Brian Walsh (clarinet).
Works: Mark Menzies - Only
Gerard Pesson - Nebenstück
Nicholas Deyoe - ...for every day is another view of the tentative past
7.4.10 // Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
With Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir (piano) and Berglind Tómasdóttir (flute).
Works: Gerard Grisey - Vortex Temporum
Atli Ingólfsson - Mantra
Ulfar Haraldsson - Polar II
Nicholas Deyoe - images from a sleepless night
6.12.10 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Nicholas Deyoe - images from a sleepless night
Lei Liang - Gobi Gloria
Gerald Eckert - Krummung der Augenblicke - l’inflexion des moments-
Nicholas Deyoe - ...for every day is another view of the tentative past
2.20.10 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Sean Friar - String Quartet
Mark Menzies - Only
Marko Ciciliani - Sequenced Seizure
Ulrich Krieger - Up-Tight #2
12.14.09 // South Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, CA
With special guest Dzovig Markrian (piano).
Works: J.S. Bach/arr. (prelude) Louis Andriessen/arr. (fugue) Mark Menzies Prelude and Fugue in B minor
Mauricio Rodriguez - [discissum]
Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet No. 5
Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44
Alfred Schnittke/arr. Mark Menzies - Stille Nacht
9.26.9 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Pei-Yu Shi - A Twig of Mume Blossoms
Makiko Nishikaze - ...lux…
Arthur Jarvinen - 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a Chorale and Coda (with bells on!)
4.15.09 // Listen/Space, Brooklyn, NY
Works: Lisa Coons - Cythere
Art Jarvinen - 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a Chorale and Coda (with bells on!)
Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Mark Dancigers - Sun on the Ruins of a Guitar
Andrew Lee - Wha’ Happuhnnn!?
4.14.09 // Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Works: Lisa Coons - Cythere
Mark Dancigers - Sun on the Ruins of a Guitar
Andrew Lee - Wha’ Happuhnnn!?
David T. Little - Musik für den Schultheiß
Sean Friar - String Quartet
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
4.10.09 // ArtSpace Herndon, Herndon, VA
Works: Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet No. 3
J.S. Bach - "Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit"
David Rosenboom/Tholl - "Hymn of Change" from Bell Solaris
Orlando di Lasso - selections from Stabat Mater Dolorosa
David T. Little - Musik für den Schultheiß
4.9.09 // University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
With special guest Lisa Cella (piccolo).
Works: Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Mauricio Kagel - Pan
Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
4.8.09 // Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC
With special guest Lisa Cella (piccolo).
Works: Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet No. 3
Mauricio Kagel - Pan
1.17.09 // Santa Cecilia Orchestra Chamber Series, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
With special guests Mike Kudirka (guitar) and James Sullivan (clarinet).
Works: Orlando Garcia - Fragmentos del Pasado
Osvaldo Golijov - The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
12.12.08 // The Wulf, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Marc Sabat - Beautiful City
David Rosenboom/Tholl - "Hymn of Change" from Bell Solaris
Mark Menzies - Only
Art Jarvinen - 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a Chorale and Coda (with bells on!)
11.14.08 // Festival of Contemporary Dutch Music, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Edward Top - String Quartet No. 1
11.5.08 // California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
Works: Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
4.19.08 // California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
With special guest James Winn (piano).
Works: Messiaen - Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes
Shostakovich - Piano Quintet
Schnittke - Piano Quintet
4.6.08 // Stanford University, CCRMA Stage, Palo Alto, CA
Works: Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Blair Foley - Charism
Christopher Moore - Scorched Earth
Juan Cristobal Cerrillo - (re)invención (o inalcanzable cercanía)
Sebastian Semper - zusammenzeit
Mauricio Rodriguez - [discissum]
2.22.08 // Unruly Music Series, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Works: Andrew McIntosh - String Quartet
Mark Menzies - Only
Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
Tim McCormack - String Trio
10.31.07 // Musical Illusionist book reading, Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA
With special guest Alex Rose (author).
Works: David T. Little - Music from The Musical Illusionist
10.26.07 // MOSA Concert Series, Our Savior’s Atonement Lutheran Church, New York, NY
Works: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11
David T. Little - Suite from The Musical Illusionist
Leos Janacek - String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Aaron Helgeson - Five pieces for String Quartet
Ryan Tanaka - Cadences
Ori Barel - Step Variation
Igor Stravinsky - Three Pieces for String Quartet
J.S. Bach - “Wir glouben all’ an einen Gott” (BWV 680)
10.25.07 // Musical Illusionist book release, Cordelia Street Cafe, New York, NY
With special guest Alex Rose (author).
Works: David T. Little - Music from The Musical Illusionist
10.23.07 // Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Works: David T. Little’s - Suite from The Musical Illusionist
10.12.07 // Santa Cecilia Orchestra Chamber Series, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
Works: Leos Janacek - String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata”
10.10.07 // 20th Century Spectrum, California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
Works: Leos Janacek - String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata”
10.3.07 // 20th Century Spectrum, California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
Works: Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
7.16.07 // Academy of Creative Education, Oakwood School, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11
Carsten Hennig - Lost
Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
6.27.07 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Carsten Hennig - Lost
Carsten Hennig - Desire
5.18.07 // Spring Festival, University of California – San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Works: Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
3.3.07 // Nightengale Concert Hall, University of Nevada – Reno, Reno, NV
With special guest James Winn (piano).
Works: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11
Sean Shepherd - String Quartet
2.24.07 // Friendly Monsters From the Boot: Two Nights of Italian Music, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
With special guest Robert Zelickman (clarinet).
Works: Osvaldo Golijov - The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
6.17.11 // soundON Festival of Modern Music, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Works: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet #4, In the Diaspora
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet #5
5.16.11 // Sofia Gubaidulina Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
With special guests Richard Valitutto (harpischord), Ivan Johnson (bass) and Vera Lukomsky (piano).
Works: Sofia Gubaidulina - Meditation on the Bach Chorale “Vor deinem Thron tret ich hiermit"
J.S. Bach - “Bor deinem Thron tret ich hiermit” BWV 668)
Sofia Gubaidulina - Witty Waltzing in the Style of Johann Strauss
4.9.11 // Wild Beast, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
With special guest Richard Valitutto (piano).
Works: Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 44
4.13.11 // Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Works: Daniel Tacke - Initiale [streichquartett]
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet No. 5
Nicholas Deyoe - ...for every day is another view of the tentative past
2.13.11 // Pomona College, Mabel Shaw Brdges Hall of Music, Pomona, CA
With special guests Gayle Balnkenburg (piano) and Heinz Blankenburg (narrator).
Works: Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet #4 “In the Diaspora”
Alfred Schnittke - Piano Quintet
Arnold Schoenberg - Ode to Napoleon
12.12.10 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Adam Greene - String Quartet “Threnody”
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet #4 “In the Diaspora”
Marc Sabat - String Quartet #2 (Cucumber Serenades)
7.6.10 // Selid at Stokkalæk, Stokkalæk, Iceland
With special guest Brian Walsh (clarinet).
Works: Mark Menzies - Only
Gerard Pesson - Nebenstück
Nicholas Deyoe - ...for every day is another view of the tentative past
7.4.10 // Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
With Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir (piano) and Berglind Tómasdóttir (flute).
Works: Gerard Grisey - Vortex Temporum
Atli Ingólfsson - Mantra
Ulfar Haraldsson - Polar II
Nicholas Deyoe - images from a sleepless night
6.12.10 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Nicholas Deyoe - images from a sleepless night
Lei Liang - Gobi Gloria
Gerald Eckert - Krummung der Augenblicke - l’inflexion des moments-
Nicholas Deyoe - ...for every day is another view of the tentative past
2.20.10 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Sean Friar - String Quartet
Mark Menzies - Only
Marko Ciciliani - Sequenced Seizure
Ulrich Krieger - Up-Tight #2
12.14.09 // South Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, CA
With special guest Dzovig Markrian (piano).
Works: J.S. Bach/arr. (prelude) Louis Andriessen/arr. (fugue) Mark Menzies Prelude and Fugue in B minor
Mauricio Rodriguez - [discissum]
Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartet No. 5
Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44
Alfred Schnittke/arr. Mark Menzies - Stille Nacht
9.26.9 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Pei-Yu Shi - A Twig of Mume Blossoms
Makiko Nishikaze - ...lux…
Arthur Jarvinen - 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a Chorale and Coda (with bells on!)
4.15.09 // Listen/Space, Brooklyn, NY
Works: Lisa Coons - Cythere
Art Jarvinen - 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a Chorale and Coda (with bells on!)
Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Mark Dancigers - Sun on the Ruins of a Guitar
Andrew Lee - Wha’ Happuhnnn!?
4.14.09 // Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Works: Lisa Coons - Cythere
Mark Dancigers - Sun on the Ruins of a Guitar
Andrew Lee - Wha’ Happuhnnn!?
David T. Little - Musik für den Schultheiß
Sean Friar - String Quartet
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
4.10.09 // ArtSpace Herndon, Herndon, VA
Works: Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet No. 3
J.S. Bach - "Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit"
David Rosenboom/Tholl - "Hymn of Change" from Bell Solaris
Orlando di Lasso - selections from Stabat Mater Dolorosa
David T. Little - Musik für den Schultheiß
4.9.09 // University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
With special guest Lisa Cella (piccolo).
Works: Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Mauricio Kagel - Pan
Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
4.8.09 // Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC
With special guest Lisa Cella (piccolo).
Works: Lei Liang - Serashi Fragments
Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet No. 3
Mauricio Kagel - Pan
1.17.09 // Santa Cecilia Orchestra Chamber Series, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
With special guests Mike Kudirka (guitar) and James Sullivan (clarinet).
Works: Orlando Garcia - Fragmentos del Pasado
Osvaldo Golijov - The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
12.12.08 // The Wulf, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Marc Sabat - Beautiful City
David Rosenboom/Tholl - "Hymn of Change" from Bell Solaris
Mark Menzies - Only
Art Jarvinen - 100 Cadences with Four Melodies, a Chorale and Coda (with bells on!)
11.14.08 // Festival of Contemporary Dutch Music, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Edward Top - String Quartet No. 1
11.5.08 // California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
Works: Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
4.19.08 // California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
With special guest James Winn (piano).
Works: Messiaen - Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes
Shostakovich - Piano Quintet
Schnittke - Piano Quintet
4.6.08 // Stanford University, CCRMA Stage, Palo Alto, CA
Works: Kristian Ireland - Clearing
Blair Foley - Charism
Christopher Moore - Scorched Earth
Juan Cristobal Cerrillo - (re)invención (o inalcanzable cercanía)
Sebastian Semper - zusammenzeit
Mauricio Rodriguez - [discissum]
2.22.08 // Unruly Music Series, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Works: Andrew McIntosh - String Quartet
Mark Menzies - Only
Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
Tim McCormack - String Trio
10.31.07 // Musical Illusionist book reading, Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA
With special guest Alex Rose (author).
Works: David T. Little - Music from The Musical Illusionist
10.26.07 // MOSA Concert Series, Our Savior’s Atonement Lutheran Church, New York, NY
Works: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11
David T. Little - Suite from The Musical Illusionist
Leos Janacek - String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Aaron Helgeson - Five pieces for String Quartet
Ryan Tanaka - Cadences
Ori Barel - Step Variation
Igor Stravinsky - Three Pieces for String Quartet
J.S. Bach - “Wir glouben all’ an einen Gott” (BWV 680)
10.25.07 // Musical Illusionist book release, Cordelia Street Cafe, New York, NY
With special guest Alex Rose (author).
Works: David T. Little - Music from The Musical Illusionist
10.23.07 // Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Works: David T. Little’s - Suite from The Musical Illusionist
10.12.07 // Santa Cecilia Orchestra Chamber Series, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
Works: Leos Janacek - String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata”
10.10.07 // 20th Century Spectrum, California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
Works: Leos Janacek - String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata”
10.3.07 // 20th Century Spectrum, California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, Valencia, CA
Works: Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
7.16.07 // Academy of Creative Education, Oakwood School, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11
Carsten Hennig - Lost
Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
6.27.07 // Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Works: Carsten Hennig - Lost
Carsten Hennig - Desire
5.18.07 // Spring Festival, University of California – San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Works: Aaron Helgeson - Five Pieces for String Quartet
3.3.07 // Nightengale Concert Hall, University of Nevada – Reno, Reno, NV
With special guest James Winn (piano).
Works: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11
Sean Shepherd - String Quartet
2.24.07 // Friendly Monsters From the Boot: Two Nights of Italian Music, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Works: Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille – an Diotima
