Schedule Archive
2022
- November 19-20: The Brown University Orchestra, conducted by Mark Seto, performs the premiere of Anthony Cheung’s orchestral version of Debussy’s Cloches à travers les feuilles (Bells through the leaves). Sayles Hall, Brown University.
- November 2: Kaleidoscope, a Dublin-based new music organization, presents The Real Book of Fake Tunes with flutist Lina Andonovska and the Ficino Ensemble at the Bello Bar in Dublin.
- October 26-29: Paris-based Ensemble Court-Circuit (Philippe Hurel, artistic director), conducted by Jean Deroyer , performs Ebbing Flow (2007) as part of its American tour, Impulses. Oct. 26: University of Buffalo, NY (Lippes Concert Hall); Oct. 28: Kent State University, OH (Ludwig Recital Hall); Oct. 29: Cleveland, OH (Spaces).
- October 21: Duo Axis performs Axis Mundi, a work they commissioned and premiered in 2022, at the University of Missouri’s Sheryl Crow Hall.
- October 19: Duo Axis performs Axis Mundi, a work they commissioned and premiered in 2022, at the University of Iowa’s Center for New Music.
- August 14: Longleash performs Flyway Detour (2006, rev. 2017) in the studios of WUOL Classical Louisville. With other works by James Diaz, Linda Catlin Smith, Anthony Vine, and Baldwin Giang.
- July 20: Pianist Gloria Cheng performs “Recombinant,” parts 1 and 2, at the Mendocino Music Festival (Preston Hall), along with other recent works.
- June 10: Composer/pianist Anthony Cheung is joined by members of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) for the premiere of the echoing of tenses, performed by Paul Appleby (tenor), Miranda Cuckson (violin), and Anthony Cheung (keyboards), with sound design by David Bird. Settings of texts by Victoria Chang, Arthur Sze, Jenny Xie, Cathy Park Hong, Monica Youn, Li-Young Lee, and Ocean Vuong. Presented by the Ojai Music Festival.
- June 2: Pianist Gloria Cheng performs “Recombinant,” parts 1 and 2, at the Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival, along with other recent works.
- May 31: Music on Main presents David Kaplan in a recital of keyboard fantasias. Including the Canadian premieres of two interrelated works: Christopher Cerrone’s Passagework and Anthony Cheung’s Holding Patterns, both written for David in 2020. Fox Cabaret, Vancouver.
- May 25: Pianist Shai Wosner gives the European premiere of “Bitter Seas” at the Wiener Konzerthaus. With other works by Vijay Iyer, Derek Bermel, Shai Wosner, Franz Schubert, and George Gershwin, and readings by Tino Hillebrand.
- May 24: Piano Spheres presents David Kaplan, in a recital of preludes and fantasies, featuring the World Premieres of two interrelated works: Christopher Cerrone’s Passagework and Anthony Cheung’s Holding Patterns, both written for David in 2020. Zipper Concert Hall, Los Angeles.
- April 28: Pianist Gloria Cheng performs a concert of recent piano music, including “Recombinant,” parts 1 and 2, at Western Washington University.
- April 8: Duo Axis performs “Axis Mundi” at UC Davis, part of the Duo@50 program surrounding Copland’s Duo for flute and piano. Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center.
- March 17: Duo Axis (Zach Sheets, flute; Wei-Han Wu, piano) performs “Axis Mundi” on the John Kleshinski Concert Series at the Community Music Center of Boston. In-person attendance and live streaming available.
- March 16: World premiere of “Axis Mundi,” commissioned by Duo Axis for its Duo@50 project, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Aaron Copland’s Duo for flute and piano. Grant Recital Hall, Brown University.
- March 14: Members of the New York Philharmonic perform Bagatelles (2014) for piano quintet, at the Appel Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center, part of the concert Sound ON: The Schumann Connection, curated and hosted by Nadia Sirota.
- March 5: Pianist Shai Wosner performs the west coast premiere of Bitter Seas, part of his Variations on a Theme of FDR project. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, CA.
- February 19: Pianist Shai Wosner performs the world premiere of Bitter Seas, a reflection on the life and work of writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, part of his Variations on a Theme of FDR project. The program also includes work by Derek Bermel, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, Wang Lu, and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Washington Irving High School, NYC, part of Peoples’ Symphony Concerts.
- February 16: Longleash (Pala Garcia, violin; John Popham, cello; Julia Den Boer, piano) performs “Flyway Detour” at Riverside’s Culver Center of the Arts, part of the Outpost Concert Series.
2021
- November 6: Miranda Cuckson performs Character Studies (2016) at Wien Modern, with other works by Wang Lu, Reiko Füting, and Georg Friedrich Haas.
- October 27: Pianist Winston Choi performs “Recombinant” parts 1 and 2 by Wang Lu and Anthony Cheung, at Chicago College of Performing Arts PianoFest 2021. Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, Chicago. The event will also be live-streamed here.
- October 3: The Parker Quartet joins Flutist and Harvard Professor of the Practice Claire Chase in an encore performance of “The Real Book of Fake Tunes.” Plus works by Adolphus Hailstork and Bedrich Smetana. Paine Hall, Harvard University, 3pm. Part of the Blodgett Chamber Music Series.
- September 30: The Parker Quartet joins Flutist and Professor of the Practice Claire Chase at a Faculty Recital at Harvard, performing “The Real Book of Fake Tunes.” Plus works by Olivier Messiaen and Susie Ibarra. Paine Hall, Harvard University.
- September 27: Performance of Elective Memory with members of Ensemble Musikfabrik, plus other works by Cristóbal Halffter and Malte Giesen. Accompanying concert to the special exhibition "Zündstoff Beethoven" at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn.
- September 18: Violinist Miranda Cuckson performs Character Studies 1-2, along with works by Dai Fujikura, JS Bach, and Kaija Saariaho, at the Ojai Festival (John Adams, 2021 Music Director).
- September 17: Pianist Gloria Cheng performs both movements of Recombinant (composed by Wang Lu and Anthony Cheung) at Old First Concerts, San Francisco. Live attendance (limited seating) and live-stream both available. Plus performances by pianists Monica Chew, Jerry Kuderna, Sarah Cahill, Regina Myers, and Allegra Chapman. Part of Current: A Piano Festival.
- August 28: TIME:SPANS festival — US Premiere of A Line Can Go Anywhere (Concerto for Piano and Ensemble) with Talea Ensemble and Stephen Gosling, conducted by James Baker. Plus works by Ash Fure and Matthias Pintscher. Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center, NYC.
- August 27: TIME:SPANS Portrait Concert with Spektral Quartet, Claire Chase, Gilles Vonsattel, Miranda Cuckson, and Anthony Cheung. Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center, NYC. Program: All Roads (2018), Elective Memory (2015), and The Real Book of Fake Tunes (2015)
- August 21: Violinist Jennifer Koh releases Alone Together, featuring “short new works donated by established composers and commissioned from talented young composers who may be struggling financially because of the COVID-19 crisis.” Springs Eternal, along with 38 other works, was premiered online in Spring 2020 and receives its first studio recording here
- June 12: Violinist Miranda Cuckson performs Character Studies 1-2 at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC (Columbus Circle). Two performances between 2-4pm, free with museum admission, along with works by Wang Lu and others.
- June 8: Streaming on YouTube — Musicians of the International Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) perform SynchroniCities (2012) in Frankfurt . With other works by Liza Lim, Camille Pepin, Salvatore Sciarrino, and an essay by Daniele Dell´Agli. Recorded June 2021.
- May 5: Online premiere of a new work for large ensemble, null and void, to accompany Stump the Guesser, a new film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, commissioned by Acht Brücken for Ensemble Musikfabrik, conducted by Elena Schwarz. With other works by Ayres, Hillborg, and Šenk.
- March 27: Musicians of the International Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) perform SynchroniCities (2012) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt (HfMDK), Germany. With other works by Benjamin, Knussen, Lim, and Turnage.
- March 19: Latitude 49 releases an album of short bagatelles by 36 composers, including sub-liminal, written for clarinetist Andy Hudson. All proceeds of the project support the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA).
- January 31: An online performance of Character Studies by Miranda Cuckson was included as part of the Composers Now opening event, programmed by artistic director Tania León. The event honored Joan Tower and featured works by Tower, Paloma Alonso, inti figgis-vizueta, Donal Fox, Alba Potes and Pamela Z.
2020
- December 9: Reverse Flow (for 16 musicians), a miniature written for Ensemble Modern’s 40th Anniversary, appears on the album Beschenkt, alongside 40 new pieces celebrating the group. Concert premiere on December 9, 2020, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
- December 1: Gloria Cheng performs Recombinant, part 2, on a Piano Spheres program called My Windows: Chinese Composers in America. Featuring music by Ge Gan-ru, Phyllis Chen, Wang Lu, Anthony Cheung, Joan Huang, Chou Wen-chung, Lei Liang, Zhou Long, Carolyn Chen. Archival video online.
- November 19: Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Springs Eternal, alongside other works written for her Alone Together project, and pieces by George Lewis and Julia Wolfe. Archival video online.
- September 30: Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Springs Eternal and other selections from her Alone Together project, in a virtual concert for the Cornell Concert Series.
- September 24: Musicians of the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) perform The Real Book of Fake Tunes (2015) at the KunstKulturKirche Allerheiligen, Frankfurt. The program also includes works by James Tenney, Michael Jarrell, Yukiko Watanabe, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
- September 19: Musicians of the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) perform The Real Book of Fake Tunes (2015) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt (HfMDK). The program also includes work by Georges Aperghis, Stylianos Dimou, Simon Holt, and Elliott Carter.
- August 28: Experiments in Living, a new double-album by the Spektral Quartet on New Focus Recordings (titled after George Lewis’ piece of the same name), features a re-release of The Real Book of Fake Tunes for flute and quartet.
- August 21: The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble releases its debut album, Fountain of Time, on its own imprint, CCCC Records, including Double Allegories, conducted by Michael Lewanski.
- July 29: Online performance of “Character Studies” with Miranda Cuckson, recorded for New Music Miami. Both movements of Character Studies (2016) are available to view, as well as works by Wang Lu, Anna Meredith, Reiko Füting, Elliott Carter, and Orlando Jacinto Garcia.
- June 25: Online premiere of Holding Out, written for violinist Kate Outterbridge, part of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music Covid-19 Response (#GLFCAMGigThruCOVID). Video of the performance. More info on the project
- April 24: Online premiere of Springs Eternal, written for Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together project, raising funds for composers in need during the Covid-19 pandemic. Presented alongside new works by Ellen Reid, Tomás Gueglio Saccone, and Rajna Swaminathan. Archival video of the performance
- Jan. 19: Performance of Character Studies by violinist Miranda Cuckson. Rice University/Shepherd School of Music, Houston.
- Jan. 13: Performance of A line can go anywhere: Concerto for Piano and Ensemble at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, with Ensemble Modern, Ueli Wiget (piano), Franck Ollu (conductor).
- Jan. 6: Premiere of A line can go anywhere: Concerto for Piano and Ensemble at the Kölner Philharmonie, with Ensemble Modern, Ueli Wiget (piano), Franck Ollu (conductor). Commissioned by the Kölner Philharmonie for Ensemble Modern’s 40th Anniversary.
2019
- Dec. 19: : Premiere of Chōmu, for Noh singer, bass flute, and cello. Shibaura House, Tokyo. Commissioned by Ryoko Aoki for her Noh x Contemporary Music project.
- Dec. 6: The Grossman Ensemble of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, conducted by Michael Lewanski, premieres Double Allegories. Logan Center Performance Hall, University of Chicago.
- June 16: Performance of The Natural Word at Ensemble Dal Niente's 2019 Party.
- June 4: Recording All Roads at Oktaven Audio, with Gilles Vonsattel and the Escher Quartet.
- June 1: Ensemble Dal Niente, conducted by Michael Lewanski, premieres The Natural Word. Co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Noon to Midnight. Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA.
- April 27: Conducting and performing in a Wang Lu Portrait concert, with Ensemble Mosaik. With soloists Wu Wei (sheng) and Ryan Muncy (sax). Sophienkirche, Berlin, Germany.
- April 20: Talea Ensemble, conducted by James Baker, performs SynchroniCities at its 10th Anniversary Celebration, DiMenna Center, New York, NY.
- April 12: Performance of Character Study No. 1 by Jennifer Koh as part of Shared Madness. UCSB Arts & Letters, Santa Barbara, CA.
- April 9: Performance of Character Study No. 1 by Jennifer Koh as part of Shared Madness. Fox Cabaret, Vancouver, BC.
- April 9: Claire Chase and the Bergamot String Quartet perform The Real Book of Fake Tunes at Spectrum, Brooklyn.
- April 5: Claire Chase and the Bergamot String Quartet perform The Real Book of Fake Tunes at Church on the Square, Baltimore.
- January 26: Performance of Refrain from Riffing at New Music New College 2018, New College of Florida, with Ensemble Dal Niente. Performed by Taimur Sullivan (alto sax) and Ben Melsky (harp).
- January 17: Two performances of All Roads, piano quintet for the Escher Quartet and Gilles Vonsattel, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Rose Studio, NYC. 6:30 and 9pm.
2018
- Nov. 11: Longleash Trio performs Flyway Detour at Constellation, Chicago.
- Nov. 9: Longleash Trio performs Flyway Detour at Clark University (Worcester, MA).
- Nov. 3: Performance of All thorn, but cousin to your rose at the Sacramento State Festival of American Music, with soprano Jamie Jordan and pianist Daniel Schlosberg.
- October 30: Premiere of All Roads, a new piano quintet for the Escher Quartet and Gilles Vonsattel, commissioned by Music Accord. Schwab Auditorium, Center for the Performing Arts, Pennsylvania State University.
- October 16: Performance of Character Study No. 1 by Jennifer Koh as part of Shared Madness. University of New Orleans.
- July 28: Performance of The Real Book of Fake Tunes (selections) with Claire Chase and the Bergamot Quartet. Banff Centre's "Evolution of the String Quartet" program.
- July 5-9: Guest composer, along with Zosha Di Castri, for Music from Japan's US-Canada-Japan Encounter in Music. Forums and lectures in Tokyo, concert on July 7 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall (vis-à-vis with the Tokyo Sinfonietta, conducted by Yasuaki Itakura), and forum in Fukushima City.
- May 12: Performance of Time's Vestiges with Ensemble CEPROMUSIC, conducted by Michael Lewanski. Palacio De Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
- March 24-25: Recording Time's Vestiges and All thorn, but cousin to your rose with the International Contemporary Ensemble and soprano Paulina Swierczek.
- March 7-8: Co-organizer of Dislocations: Reassessing Ligeti's Many Worlds in the 21st Century, at the University of Chicago. Talk on March 8, “Undercurrents and Overtones: Strangeness, Denaturing, and the Microtonal Conspiracies of Ligeti and His Students.”
- Feb. 9: Performance of vis-à-vis by the Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Ben Bolter. Galvin Recital Hall, 7:30, Evanston, IL.
- Feb. 8: Performance of The Real Book of Fake Tunes at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee New Music Festival. Seuilly Hall, Boston, 8pm.
- Jan. 28: Performance of Character Study No. 1 by Jennifer Koh as part of Shared Madness. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, 7:30pm.
- Jan. 25: Performance of Recombinant by Joel Fan at the Mansion at Strathmore. North Bethesda, MD.
2017
- Dec. 10, 2017: Performance of Windswept Cypresses by members of uclaFLUX, directed by Gloria Cheng. Popper Theater, UCLA.
- Nov. 29, 2017: Premiere of new version of Flyway Detour with the Longleash Trio. Elebash Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.
- Nov. 18, 2017: Premiere of Recombinant, a solo piano work for Joel Fan, in collaboration with Wang Lu, as part of the Open Source Music Festival (Joel Fan, artistic director). Abrons Arts Center, NYC.
- Oct. 21, 2017: Performance of All thorn, but cousin to your rose by Jamie Jordan and Daniel Schlosberg at Baltimore Lieder Weekend. An die Music, Baltimore.
- Oct. 1, 2017: Longleash performs Maquette brisée at its album release concert, LPR, NYC.
- Sept. 25, 2017: Performance of Character Studies by Masha Lankovsky, as part of Ensemble Infuse's "Impressionisms and Expressionisms," Reid Hall, Columbia Global Centers, Paris.
- Sept. 18, 2017: Chris Gross performs Distance Over Speed as part Da Capo Chamber Players' "Young Composers Abound II." Merkin Hall, NYC.
- Sept. 2 and 6, 2017: Ernest Rombout performs Après une lecture in Nagoya and Tokyo (Nonaka Anna Hall).
- Aug. 25, 2017: Performance of Ebbing Flow by the Syzygy Ensemble in Melbourne.
- Aug. 10, 2017: Premiere of All thorn, but cousin to your rose at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music. Paulina Swierczek, soprano and Jacob Greenberg, piano (and co-curator).
- Aug. 5-8, 2017: Composer in residence of the Loretto Project with the Longleash Trio and participant composers. Performance of Roundabouts on WUOL Louisville broadcast (Aug. 7) and Maquette brisée at the University of Louisville (Aug. 11).
- May 18 and 20, 2017: Premiere of Topos for the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, at Severance Hall.
- May 20, 2017: Cello Solos Today workshop and concert with Chris Gross and Cleveland Cello Society participants.
- April 21, 2017: Claire Chase and the Spektral Quartet perform The Real Book of Fake Tunes at National Sawdust, Brooklyn.
- April 14, 2017: Claire Chase and the Spektral Quartet perform The Real Book of Fake Tunes at Northwestern University (Institute for New Music).
- March 20, 2017: Pianist Stephen Gosling performs Roundabouts at the Tenri Cultural Institute, part of a New York New Music Ensemble concert.
- Feb. 3-5, 2017: Residency with the 113 Composers Collective, including masterclasses and performances of Après une lecture and Roundabouts, with the Fonema Consort. Minneapolis, MN.
- Feb. 5, 2017: Cellist Boubacar Diallo premieres Distance Over Speed, part of Chris Gross' Cello Solos Today project featuring new works for young cellists by 12 composers. Greenwich House Music School, 2 pm.
- Jan. 23, 2017: Andrew Nogal performs the US premiere of Après une lecture for solo oboe, at Spectrum NYC, part of a Dal Niente series concert.
2016
- November 11, 2016: Talea Ensemble Wergo CD release concert. Performances of Refrain from Riffing, Centripedalocity, Character Studies 1 and 2 (world premiere), Roundabouts. Talea Ensemble, conducted by Jim Baker; Yuki Numata Resnick, violin; Anthony Cheung, piano. National Sawdust, Brooklyn, 7pm.
- November 10, 2016: Pianist Winston Choi and the Spektral Quartet perform Bagatelles at the University of Chicago's Fulton Hall.
- November 5, 2016: Performance of Bagatelles at the Maison Française, NYU (3:30 pm), with alumni of the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau.
- November 1, 2016: Pianist Winston Choi and the Spektral Quartet perform the US premiere of Bagatelles at PianoFest, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, Chicago.
- October 15, 2016: Chamber Cartel, conducted by Michael Lewanski, performs Centripedalocity at the M Rich Center, Atlanta.
- October 10, 2016: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by the ensemble of the University of Indianapolis, conducted by Vu Nguyen.
- October 7, 2016: Public conversation with George Lewis as part of the Ear Taxi festival and University of Chicago Music Department Colloquium (3:30 pm), Harris Theater, Chicago.
- October 6, 2016: Performance of Assumed Roles at the Ear Taxi Festival, with the International Contemporary Ensemble, soloist Joshua Modney, and conductor David Fulmer. Harris Theater, Chicago.
- August 23, 2016: Premiere of Assumed Roles with the International Contemporary Ensemble. Maiya Papach, viola, conducted by Karina Canellakis. Mostly Mozart Festival, Merkin Hall, New York.
- August 6, 2016: Performance of the early Sonata for Violin and Piano (2002) with Wayne Lee and Juliana Han, at the Piedmont Chamber Music Festival.
- June 11, 2016: Performance of Discrete Infinity by the Seattle Modern Orchestra, conducted by Julia Tai.
- May 31, 2016: Premiere of Character Study No. 1, written for Jennifer Koh at the 2016 New York Philharmonic Biennial. National Sawdust, Brooklyn.
- April 24, 2016: Premiere of The Real Book of Fake Tunes with the Spektral Quartet and Claire Chase. University of Maryland Common Tone series.
- March 31 and April 2, 2016: Performances of Lyra by the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
- April 9, 2016: Duo with saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman at the University of Chicago.
- April 2, 2016: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner perform Elective Memory at Herbst Theater (San Francisco Performances).
- March 21, 2016: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner perform Elective Memory at the 92nd Street Y, New York.
- March 13, 2016: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner perform Elective Memory at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington.
- March 11, 2016: Performance of SynchroniCities by the Talea Ensemble, conducted by James Baker, at the Library of Congress.
- March 5, 2016: Performance of Fog Mobiles (chamber orchestra version), with soloist Matthew Oliphant and the Chicago Composers Orchestra, conducted by Allen Tinkham. Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, Chicago.
- February 14, 2016: World premiere of Elective Memory, performed by Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner, at the Laguna Beach Music Festival.
2015
- December 11, 2015: Premiere of Twin Spaces, Interwined, commissioned for the 125th Anniversary of the University of Chicago, performed by members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conducted by Michael Lewanski. Convocation ceremony, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, 2pm.
- November 13, 2015: The International Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by David Fulmer, performs Centripedalocity at Kent State University.
- November 5, 2015: Improvised accompaniment with composer/pianist Wang Lu for a screening of A Trip Through China (Benjamin Brodsky's 1916 film), at the University of Chicago's Logan Center.
- October 23, 2015: Performance of SynchroniCities with the Talea Ensemble, at the Transit Festival in Leuven, Belgium.
- August 15, 2015: Performance of SynchroniCities with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Stephen Burns.
- August 8-13, 2015: Teaching at the American Composers Orchestra Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute at UCLA. On August 12, performance of Time's Vestiges by wild Up, conducted by Christopher Rountree, at the Ostin Music Center, UCLA. Also performances with wild Up of Steve Coleman's Synovial Joints.
- June 28, 2015: Performance of Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee with the Talea Ensemble at the Time Spans Festival at Crested Butte.
- June 26-27, 2015: Performances of SynchroniCities and Time's Vestiges with the Talea Ensemble, conducted by John Kennedy, at the Time Spans Festival at Crested Butte.
- April 29, 2015: Andy Costello performs Eusebius and Florestan, Alone Together at PianoForte, Chicago, as part of his Living Composers-Pianists of Chicago project.
- March 15, 2015: Pianist Winston Choi performs Roundabouts on a Civitas Ensemble concert at Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston.
- February 16, 2015: Premiere of Après une lecture for solo oboe by Ernest Rombout at the Impuls Academy, Graz, Austria.
- February 13, 2015: European premiere of Lyra with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. Maison de la Radio, Festival Présences 2015.
- January 24, 2015: Premiere performance of Huck Hodge's then, with the Pacifica Quartet. Logan Center at the University of Chicago, Contempo series.
2014
- October 28, 2014: Wayne Weng performs Running the Full Gamut at Elebash Hall, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
- October 18, 2014: Works of Chou Wen-chung at the University of Chicago with Ensemble Dal Niente. Performing The Willows Are New and conducting Twilight Colors and Ode to Eternal Pine.
- October 17, 2014: Conversation with Chou Wen-chung, University of Chicago Music Department Colloquium series. 3:30pm, Fulton Hall.
- September 29, 2014: Performance of SynchroniCities by the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW Ensemble, conducted by James Feddeck.
- September 7, 2014: Premiere of More Marginalia for mixed ensemble of western and Chinese instruments by the Atlas Ensemble. Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam.
- July 19, 2014: Katherine Dowling performs Roundabouts at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music. 2:30pm, Ozawa Hall.
- June 11-14, 2014: Premiere of Lyra with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Alan Gilbert. Avery Fisher Hall, New York City.
- June 17, 2014: Two sets at The Stone, New York, hosted by the Talea Ensemble. New compositions and improvisations with Steve Lehman, saxophone (8pm); piano works by Copland, Curran, Johnston, Rands, Sokolovic (10pm).
- June 2, 2014: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by the Empyrean Ensemble at the Mondavi Center, UC Davis.
- May 20, 2014: Performance of Steve Coleman's Synovial Joints with the Talea Ensemble at Roulette, Brooklyn.
- April 1 and 5, 2014: Premiere of Bagatelles for piano and string quartet, commissioned by the Heidelberger Frühling festival.
- March 18, 2014: Ryan Muncy and Ben Melsky perform Refrain from Riffing at the New Sounds Festival at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI).
- March 6, 2014: Ensemble 61 performs Enjamb, Infuse, Implode in Minneapolis, MN.
- February 15, 2014: Ensemble Linea performs Enjamb, Infuse, Implode in Metz, at the Arsenal.
2013
- December 13, 2013: Performance of SynchroniCities by the Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble. Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin, OH.
- December 8, 2013: Guest composer at the University of Iowa's Center for New Music, and performance of Time's Vestiges, conducted by David Gompper.
- November 3, 2013: Performances of Time's Vestiges (US premiere) and Windswept Cypresses by the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, conducted by Barbara Schubert. Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, 3PM.
- November 1, 2013: Performance of SynchroniCities by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Matthew Chamberlain, at the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival.
- September 22, 2013: Performance of Refrain from Riffing with Ryan Muncy and Ben Melsky, at Ryan's CD release party. Watch for the recording on the New Focus label in October. Constellation, Chicago.
- September 11+14, 2013: Performances at the International Beethoven Project Festival - Winston Choi performs Roundabouts (Sept. 11) and Lisa Kaplan premieres Vanished Traces (Sept. 14).
- August 24, 2013: Performance of Dystemporal, with musicians from the Juilliard School and the Sibelius Academy, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, at the Helsinki Festival.
- August 4, 2013: Performing new work by Steve Coleman with the Talea Ensemble at the Newport Jazz Festival.
- May 29, 2013: Conducting selected works with the Alter Ego Ensemble at the American Academy in Rome.
- May 17, 2013: German premiere of Time's Vestiges, conducting the Scharoun Ensemble at the St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin.
- March 28, 2013: US premiere of Dystemporal, with musicians from the Juilliard School and the Sibelius Academy, conducted by Susanna Mälkki. Alice Tully Hall, New York City.
- March 23, 2013: Sound Icon, conducted by Jeffrey Means, performs Centripedalocity at Boston University.
- March 10, 2013: Conducting the premiere of Time's Vestiges with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic at the Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome. Performance of Ebbing Flow by the Scharoun Ensemble on March 8 at the Villa Aurelia.
- January 12, 2013: I performed my Roundabouts for piano as part of the University of Chicago's Contempo series at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago.
2012
- December 14, 2012: Premiere of SynchroniCities with the Talea Ensemble, conducted by James Baker. Mannes College of Music, New York City. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation.
- November 18, 2012: I performed Roundabouts and a solo piano improvisation at the Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome. Part of the Nuova Consonanza festival.
- November 12, 2012: Solo piano concert at the Aula Magna Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Università Roma Tre, 5pm. Included works by myself, Aaron Copland, George Enescu, Maurice Ravel, Alvin Curran, Jesse Jones, and, Tristan Murail.
- October 22, 2012: pianist Marina Radiushina performed Running the (Full) Gamut at the Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome. Part of the Nuovi Spazi Musicali festival.
- October 4, 2012: Premiere of Dystemporal for large ensemble (23 players), conducted by Susanna Mälkki, commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain. IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- September 27, 2012: Performance of vis-à-vis by the Ensemble Linea, conducted by Jean-Philippe Wurtz. Festival Musica, Strasbourg.
- June 26, 2012: At a New York Philharmonic concert honoring the great composer Henri Dutilleux, I was named a co-recipient of the inaugural Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, at the request of Mr. Dutilleux. A newly commissioned work will be premiered by the orchestra in a future season.
- June 4, 2012: US premiere of Fog Mobiles (version for horn and chamber orchestra), with the League of Composers Orchestra; Saar Berger, horn; James Baker, conductor. Miller Theatre, NYC. New York Times review of the concert.
- May 25, 2012: Premiere of Marginalia for ten traditional Chinese instruments given by the Taipei Chinese Orchestra (in honor of Chou Wen-chung), Taipei Zhongshan Hall.
- May 5, 2012: piano recital at Harvard University, with works by Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, and selections from my own Roundabouts.
- April 2012: Recipient of the 2012-13 Rome Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Rome.
- April 13, 2012. Talea Ensemble, conducted by James Baker, performs Enjamb, Infuse, Implode at Ithaca College, 8PM.
- April 4, 2012: short work for violin + piano (Maquette brisée) premiered at the Tristan Murail tribute concert, Italian Academy at Columbia University, 8PM. Performed by the composer with violinist Pala Garcia.
- March 27-31, 2012: recording works of Fausto Romitelli with the Talea Ensemble at EMPAC (Troy, NY). Romitelli portrait concert on March 31, 8PM. The recording will be released by Tzadik at the end of July, 2012.
- March 2012: Faculty appointment at the University of Chicago announced.
2011
- December 17, 2011: US premiere of Discrete Infinity with the Talea Ensemble at Merkin Hall, NYC. Part of Inharmonic/(X)enharmonic, a concert and conference celebrating microtonal music that I curated, which also featured works by Toby Twining, Dean Drummond, Tristan Murail, Enno Poppe, and Ivan Wyschnegradsky.
- December 12, 2011: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Harris Theater, on a CSO MusicNow concert.
- Nov. 26, 2011: Premiere of Fog Mobiles, version for horn and large orchestra, at the Böllenfalltorhalle Darmstadt, Germany. Saar Berger, soloist; Matthias Pintscher, conductor; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester). Part of the CRESC... Biennale für Moderne Musik. Also works by Stockhausen (Gruppen), Xenakis (Terretektorh), Thierry de Mey.
- Nov. 18, 2011: Performance of Stockhausen's Kontakte at the German Consulate General, NYC, with the Talea Ensemble. Also performed the US premiere of a solo piano work by Carl Christian Bettendorf.
- Oct. 23, 2011: Two of my transcriptions of Jimmy Giuffre's Free Fall improvisations for clarinet were performed by Rane Moore at the Roger Smith Hotel, NYC. Part of the Talea Ensemble's program, "The Art of Transcription."
- Oct. 16, 2011: I performed my Roundabouts for solo piano at Miller Theatre, NYC, part of the SONiC Festival marathon concert.
- Sept. 30, 2011: I performed Roundabouts for solo piano at the Stone in NYC. Additional works by Curran, Pesson, and Adan.
- Sept. 24, 2011: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by the musicians of the International Ensemble Modern Academy, at the Festival Musica in Strasbourg. Additional performance on Sept. 28 at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt.
- June 4, 2011: Performance of Centripedalocity by the Linea Ensemble at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, NYC. Part of a joint concert of the Linea and Talea ensembles. New York Times review of the concert.
- May 8+9, 2011: Premiere of Discrete Infinity by the Ensemble Modern at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and Frankfurt Alte Oper, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke.
- Spring-Summer 2011: A new article titled New Colors: Notes on Composing in the 21st Century has appeared in the latest edition of Esopus Magazine. The article contains observations about the creative process, recent preoccupations and modes of thought from the world of contemporary music, and some personal history too. And there's a CD attached (13 Composers) that I've curated, with excerpts from a wide cross-section of new music that I find compelling. Buy a copy online or find it in stores.
- January 22, 2011: Performance of vis-à-vis by the Ensemble Modern at the Ultraschall festival in Berlin.
- January 21, 2011: Danish Counterpoint with the Talea Ensemble: works by Bent Sorensen and Hans Abrahamsen (US premiere of Schnee) at the Scandinavia House, New York City.
- January 15, 2011: Premiere of vis-à-vis for 18 musicians at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, commissioned by the Ensemble Modern for its 30th Anniversary, conducted by Franck Ollu.
2010
- December 19, 2010: Talea Ensemble's Exploded Melody: Synchrony, Heterophony, Infinity concert at the Roger Smith Hotel. Works by George Enescu, Stefan Niculescu, Per Nørgård, and Julian Anderson.
- December 9, 2010: Azure Ensemble performs Windswept Cypresses at Merkin Hall, New York.
- December 6, 2010: Pierre Boulez 85th birthday concert with the Talea Ensemble at Miller Theatre, New York. The New York Times review of the concert.
- November 4, 2010: Performance of Enjamb, Infuse, Implode by the University of Washington Contemporary Group, conducted by Vu Nguyen.
- October 24, 2010: Pianist Benjamin Binder premieres Eusebius and Florestan, Alone Together as part of his Carnaval nouveau project, Pittsburgh, PA. Additional performance-lecture at Boston University on October 26.
- October 13, 2010: Ensemble Dal Niente performs Centripedalocity for seven musicians in Chicago.
- October 1, 2010: Stockhausen's Kontakte with the Talea Ensemble at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis, MN.
- June 27, 2010: U.S. premiere of the complete Professor Bad Trip cycle by Fausto Romitelli with the Talea Ensemble during the Bang on a Can Marathon at the World Financial Center in New York City.
- May 12, 2010: Azure Ensemble performs Windswept Cypresses at the Players Theatre, New York City, 8PM.
- May 7-9, 2010: Ensemble Interface, conducted by Scott Voyles, performs Enjamb, Infuse, Implode in Germany (Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Schloss Engers, and Mainz Villa Musica) as part of its 2010 Villa Musica Tour.
- April 20, 2010: Performance of Windswept Cypresses by the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, conducted by David Dzubay.
- April 16, 2010: Performance of Refrain from Riffing at Northwestern University with Ryan Muncy, alto sax, and Ben Melsky, harp.
- April 8, 2010: Talea Ensemble at Roulette in a tribute to Fausto Romitelli. Works by Lanza (Aschenblume), Boulez (Dérive I), and Romitelli.
- April 3, 2010: Premiere of Refrain from Riffing at the Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC. Columbia Composers concert, with Michael Ibrahim, alto sax, and Jacqui Kerrod, harp.
- March 27 and 29, 2010: Suggestioni - Out of Italy. Talea Ensemble at Harvard University and the Casa Italiana (NYC) in works by Italian composers: Francesconi, Gervasoni, Nieder, Vanoni, Franceschini, Billone, Gardella.
- March 16, 2010: Performance of Roundabouts (German premiere) by pianist Ueli Wiget at the Alte Oper/Mozart Saal in Frankfurt, presented by the Ensemble Modern (30th Anniversary Concert).
- March 6, 2010: Premiere of Roundabouts for pianist Ueli Wiget and video artist Lillevan in Fribourg, Switzerland. Also works by Benjamin, Kyburz, Messiaen, and Debussy.
2009
- November 13, 2009: Morton Feldman's Why Patterns? with the Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 8PM. Also works by Fabien Lévy and Salvatore Sciarrino.
- October 3-17, 2009: Talea Ensemble with the Hyperion Ensemble of Bucharest. Concerts in Paris and London as part of the Spectrum XXI Festival. Works by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson, and Diaz de Leon.
- October 6, 2009: Talea Ensemble with Ensemble Cairn in Paris. Included performance of Running the (Full) Gamut for solo piano.
- September 25, 2009: Mario Diaz de León's Gated Eclipse for sextet/electronics with the Talea Ensemble at Roulette (8PM) as part of Mario's CD release event with the International Contemporary Ensemble.
- September 24 2009: Stockhausen's Kontakte, Tenney's Ergodos II, and Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen. Talea Ensemble concert at Roulette with Alex Lipowski, percussion, and Victor Adan, sound engineer.
- August 20, 2009: Premiere of Interlude and Part II of Color Coordinate(s) for ten musicians by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt conducting, as part of the Rencontres de Musique Nouvelle of the Domaine Forget (Saint-Irénée, Québec). Audio excerpt.
- May 30, 2009: Premiere performance of a new jazz ensemble octet (Foregone Conclusion) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, with musicians from the jazz program at Columbia University and Beijing's Red Hand Jazz Band.
- May 10 and 12, 2009: Hyperbaton for 19 musicians was commissioned and premiered by the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, in Frankfurt and Munich.
- April 28, 2009: Performance with the Talea Ensemble, with works by Romitelli, Ferneyhough, Rands, Billone, and Hurel, at the Players Theatre in NYC.
- April 13, 2009: Premiere of Flyway Detour (original trio version) by the Callisto Ensemble in Chicago.
- Feb. 14, 2009: First US performance of Centripedalocity at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, conducted by the composer, on a Columbia Composers concert.
- Feb. 7, 2009: Two performances of Windswept Cypresses at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in Finland.
2008
- Dec. 6 and 10, 2008: Performances with the Talea Ensemble at Columbia University and the Players Theatre, NYC.
- Nov. 10-12, 2008: Performances and a masterclass with the Talea Ensemble at the 6th Contemporary Classical Music Festival in Lima, Peru.
- Nov. 6-9, 2008: Performances with the Talea Ensemble at La Ciudad de las Ideas conference, Puebla, Mexico.
- Oct. 24, 2008: Centripedalocity for flute, clarinet, alto sax, harp, violin, viola, and cello, was premiered at the Conservatoire de Paris, Espace Maurice Fleuret.
- Sept. 2-5, 2008: Pantoumime for orchestra was selected for the Tactus Young Composers Forum in Belgium, featuring workshops with the Orchestre National de Lille, conductor Jonas Alber, and many composer guests. Color Coordinate(s) for ten musicians was performed by Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul Dessy conducting.
- April 30, 2008: Students from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music performed Windswept Cypresses.
- April 29, 2008: The Collegium Musicum of Columbia University premiered Contra/ficta (after J.S. Bach) at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University.
- April 16, 2008: Performance with the Talea Ensemble in works by Jason Eckardt, Geof Holbrook, Claude Vivier, Michael Gatonska, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, and myself (Running the Full Gamut) at the Stone in NYC.
- April 5, 2008: Part 1 of Color Coordinate(s) was premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at Merkin Hall, NYC.
- March 31, 2008: I premiered Second unRaveling: (4X25) Chains of Sisyphean Shepard Tones for piano (score) at a New York Miniaturist Ensemble concert and gave the premieres of many new works by other composers with violinist Erik Carlson.
- March 14, 2008: Windswept Cypresses received the First Prize and Public Prize at the 6th International Henri Dutilleux Composition Competition. The piece was later published by Editions Alphonse Leduc.
2007
- Dec. 12, 2007: Performance with the Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute. Program included the US premieres of new chamber works by Marco Stroppa, Aldo Clementi, and Stefano Gervasoni, as well as pieces by Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey.
- July 19, 2007: Flyway Detour, version for sixteen musicians, was premiered by the Orchestre National de Lorraine, at the Centre Acanthes festival in Metz, France.
- June 21, 2007: The Second Instrumental Unit performed Enjamb, Infuse, Implode at the American Composers Alliance 2007 Festival of American Music, Symphony Space in NYC.
- June 16, 2007: eighth blackbird performed Enjamb, Infuse, Implode at the Music07 Festival in Cincinnati, OH. The piece was selected as a co-winner of the Music07/eighth blackbird competition.
- May 5, 2007: Performance with the Talea Ensemble at its debut concert, including a performance of my Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The program also featured Alexandre Lunsqui's Ligare, Jonathan Harvey's Nataraja, excerpts from Salvatore Sciarrino's L'Opera per flauto, and Gérard Grisey's Talea.
- March 30, 2007: Premiere of Ebbing Flow for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, written for violinist Wayne Lee and friends, Paul Hall at Juilliard, conducted by the composer.