DePaul University’s Opera Theatre will be presenting the Chicago premiere of my opera Twelfth Night on October 31 of this year. The opera, based on Shakespeare’s play, was commissioned by Long Leaf Opera in North Carolina and premiered in October 2005.
For the Chicago performance Steven Mosteller will conduct and Elizabeth Margolius will direct. For tickets and more information, please visit http://events.depaul.edu/event/depaul_opera_theatre_2750
Some of my music will be presented on Sunday, May 20 at Kanack Hall in Yokohama, Japan. This Zen in Music concert is presented as part of a meeting of the Japan Institute of Rhythm.
The event will feature violinist Junko Ando and pianist Daidouji Rentarou performing Gently Flowing, Sonata for Violin and Piano (2010). I will perform the first and third of my Four Meditations from Dogen (1994). Music by composer Kouichi Kiriyama will also be presented.
On May 19, I’ll take part in a panel discussion on “Schoenberg in America” presented by the Musicological Society of Japan. It will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Art Hall of Meiji-Gakuin University of Tokyo.
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.