The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam will present the world premiere of Water In Love, on a poem by Ed Bok Lee. (Performance time TBC.)
I am writing an original score for Good Luck Macbeth’s 2024 mainstage production of George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead Live, directed by Jovani Lugo, and featuring a local BIPOC cast.
Mimeo (2024) is a short chamber opera written for The Atlanta Opera’s 96-Hour Opera Festival, and will be premiered as part of a program of five short operas in competition at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College.
David Davila wrote the libretto, and the premiere performance features Pedro Carreras, Jr. (Montalon), Travis Hall (Mimeo), and Choo choo Hu on piano.
The Oak Middle School 8th grade band performs Shrewsbury Fair (2017), a work commissioned for the band and was premiered by the ensemble in 2017, under the direction of Anthony Uglialoro.
Toolbox Percussion (Hong Kong, China) performs the world premiere of Distant Ringing for vibraphone four hands at the Tianjin Juilliard School.
The Vox String Quartet presents the Hong Kong premiere of my String Quartet – a 12-minute pulsating meditation on closely shifting harmonies between the four instruments. The work was first performed by the Romer String Quartet in 2014 in Beijing, and has since been selected by Ensemble Ipse as one of the winners of its string quartet call for scores.
New Morse Code performs The Emigrants as part of the Toolbox Percussion TICA festival in Hong Kong SAR, China.
My new piece Postcard premiered at the Kaufman Music Center / Merkin Music Hall as part of a 25th-anniversary celebration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in NYC.
Yang Yi, gu zheng
Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet
Ben Larsen, cello
Alex Wyatt, percussion
Marble City Opera features Heartbreak Express (music by George Lam, libretto by John Clum) as part of its tenth anniversary season.
October 20-22, 2022 at the Flying Anvil Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The world premiere of Family Association coincides with the 2022 Asian-American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. A series of meetup events were held at Columbus Park in Manhattan’s Chinatown in May and June 2022, and the piece is also featured as part of University Settlement’s ROAR festival.
Sissieretta Jones will be featured as one of the winners of Calliope’s Call’s 2021 call for scores competition. http://calliopescall.org/
The Emigrants will be featured as part of the 2021 virtual Hot Air Music Festival hosted by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Rhymes With Opera will premiere a whole collection of new one-minute operas written by our friends, and specifically for our ensemble of singers. Time TBA!
My contribution will be a new one-minute setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60 for Bonnie Lander.
Rhymes With Opera will release our first-ever studio album: the 10th-anniversary collaborative chamber opera by me, Ruby Fulton and John Clum based on the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. We’ll kick it off in style with an online party - complete with dance remixes of music from Rumpelstiltskin!
The Emigrants will be featured as part of a recorded, streamed concert on New Music Gathering 2020. Event time is listed in EDT. New Morse Code (Hannah Collins and Michael Compitello) performs.
Cisum Percussion presents a workshop performance of the percussion duo Haptic.
White Snake Projects presents the premiere performances of Three English Songs, as part of the collaborative project Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices.
White Snake Projects presents the premiere performances of Three English Songs, as part of the collaborative project Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices.
White Snake Projects presents the premiere performances of Three English Songs, as part of the collaborative project Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices.
New Morse Code (Hannah Collins and Michael Compitello) performs The Emigrants live at BOP STOP at the Music Settlement, along with Christopher Stark’s The Language of Landscapes.
The MSM Contemporary Opera Ensemble (Miriam Charney, director) performs the world premiere of Trio: Elegy, a short trio for soprano, baritone and bass, on a poem by D. H. Lawrence. This piece is part of an evening of new opera selections and world premieres, on the theme of “Postcards from the L Train”.
Soprano Kayla White performs Sissieretta Jones (poem by Tyehimba Jess) as part Opera America’s Emerging Artists Recitals series, featuring members of the Chautauqua Opera Company.
Soprano Kayla White performs Sissieretta Jones (poem by Tyehimba Jess) as part of an Audible.com event featuring the work of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tyehimba Jess.
New Morse Code performs the world premiere of The Emigrants. This concert will also feature Queens-based musicians Duo Yumeno and Rafael Leal, who contributed interviews included as part of The Emigrants.
Ensemble Ipse, with guest artists Stephanie Griffin, Emilie-Anne Gendron, and Hamilton Berry, perform the U.S. premiere of the String Quartet.
Chautauqua Opera Company performs the world premiere of Such Sweet Sorrow (poem by Allison Joseph) as part of the Afternoon of Song recital series.
Chautauqua Opera Company and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, with Steven Osgood, conductor, perform the world premiere of Underwater Acoustics (poem by Rajiv Mohabir) as part of the Opera Highlights concert.
Chautauqua Opera Company performs the world premiere of Sissieretta Jones: Carnegie Hall 1902, O Patria Mia (poem by Tyehimba Jess) as part of the “Afternoon of Song” recital series.
Rhymes With Opera presents the world premiere of Rumpelstiltskin, a collaborative opera by composers Ruby Fulton and George Lam, with a libretto by John Clum. This 10th-anniversary production features the founding members of the RWO ensemble Elisabeth Halliday, Bonnie Lander and Robert Maril, conducted by Conrad Chu.
Elisabeth Halliday (soprano) and Zach Herchen (saxophone) performs The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone.
