My piece “Song on Loving-Kindness”, with a text adapted by Jaime Manrique and myself, based on the Pali “Loving-Kindness Sutra” (“Metta Sutta”), will be performed on Saturday, April 14 at 4 PM by the New Century Voices in the program “New Songs for a New Season”, directed by Katherine Saxon. The performance will take place at the Student Affairs and Administrative Services Building Foyer and outdoor staircase on the UC Santa Barbara campus, and admission is free. This performance is part of the 2012 UCSB Primavera Festival, on which I’m a featured composer.

Echoes from the Holocaust for oboe, viola and piano will be performed by Ensemble I & D on February 11 at the Hard Club Cultural Animation Centre, Mercado Ferreira Borges in Porto, Portugal. This performance is part of the Intercontinental #2 project, which involves the Composition Department of Portugal’s ESMAE School of Music and Performing Arts and the Composition Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Lament for viola ensemble will be performed by Helen Callus and accompanying violists on February 26 and 27 at Karl Geiringer Hall on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. This is part of the New Works for Viola Festival. Lament is 3 interconnected works – Lament for solo viola, Ghosts for 6 violas and Lament with Ghosts for solo viola with complement of 6 violas.