EVENTS
March 8, 2026
King Tides – Premiere
Portland Oregon
March 4-7, 2026
ACDA NW Regional Conference
Tacoma, Washington
November 6-9, 2025
AMS Conference
Minneapolis MN
November 1-2, 2025
Life Across the Sea – Premiere
Winona State University Wind Band
October 14-26, 2025
Residency
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
September 25, 2025
IAWM Concert
Museum Schnütgen
Cäcilienstraße 29-33, 50667 Köln
August 2025
Piano Trio – KING TIDES
I’ll be spending August working on a new piece…
July 12
The Grapefruits Duo – Wide Open Spaces for Horn & Piano
Unbidden for Piano Solo
250 Scenic Place, Friday Harbor, Washington
July 10
Podcast interview with Andrew Celentano
https://www.acomposerscorner.com/upcoming-interviews
July 9
Wide Open Spaces for Horn & Piano – Unbidden for Piano Solo
St. Dunstans Episcopal Church 7:30pm
722 N. 145th St. Seattle, WA
June 21, 2025
Wide Open Spaces for Horn & Piano
Unbidden for Piano Solo
The Grapefruits Duo
2025 Eugene Symphony’s Make Music Day
Owen Rose Garden, 300 N Jefferson St
Eugene, OR 97402
May 10-17, 2025
Residency
San Juan Island, Washington
March 26-29, 2025
CBDNA Conference
Ft. Worth, Texas
March 18-22, 2025
ACDA Conference
Composers Fair
Dallas, Texas
March 14-16, 2025
Presenting: Connecting to the Wider World and Making a Difference
She Festival
Fayetteville, AR
January 23, 2025
RECORDING: Liberty’s Light for Women’s Choir
First Readings Project
January 19, 2025
PREMIERES: Wide Open Spaces for Horn & Piano
Unbidden for Piano Solo
The Grapefruits Duo
Eugene, Oregon
December 18-21, 2024
Midwest Clinic
Chicago, IL
November 14-17, 2024
IAWM
American Musicological Society
Chicago, IL
October 19, 2024
IAWM Annual Concert
University of Minnesota, Duluth
May / June 2024
Le Jardin Perdu
Coco Bender, Piano
June 23, Eugene, Oregon
June 16, Newport, Oregon
May 31, Medford, Oregon
March / April 2024
Le Jardin Perdu
Coco Bender, Piano
April 13, Portland, Oregon
April 11, Medford, Oregon
April 8, Vashon Island, Washington
April 5 & 7, Friday Harbor, Washington
March 24 & 30 Eugene, Oregon
March 27 – 30, 2024
CBDNA Conference Las Vegas, Nevada
November 17, 2023
Pine Meadow
Thomas Jefferson High School Percussion Ensemble
Virginia Music Educators Association Conference
Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond, Virginia
November 14, 2023 7:30pm
Composing for Orchestra – Panel Discussion
Cascadia Composers
November 11, 2023, 8pm
The Forest and the Architect
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Multicultural Art Center in Cambridge
November 4, 2023
IAWM Annual Concert
Royal Conservatorie of Antwerp, Belgium
September 8, 2023
Voices of the Land
Album Release
September 23, 2023, 8pm
Canyon Voices
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Multicultural Art Center in Cambridge
Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:30pm
IAWM / LunART Fall Concert – VOICES UNBOUND
Arts + Literature Laboratory
Madison, Wisconsin
July 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm
The Forest and the Architect
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA
MAY 21, 2023 8:00pm
Kyripo
Donne Incanto Festival
Ivana Francisci, pianist
Teatro San Lorenzo, Italy
MAY 23, 2023 10:00 am
Presentation
IAWM and Equity and Inclusion Through New Music
February 25-28, 2023
Recording Session – VOICES OF THE LAND
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport MA
Juventas New Music Ensemble
February 15 -18, 2023
CBDNA Conference
Athens GA
December 20, 2022
RELEASE: Rosalie er ses Meubles Fidèles & Rosalie de Knapp Huisbewaarster
both Solo Piano
July 10, 2022
Kyripo for Solo Piano
Atrio di Pallazzo Dici, Marsala, Italy
July 9, 2022
Small Organisms # 1 for Solo Piano
Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, Portland, Oregon
June 2-4, 2022
2022 CONFERENCE CALL & (HER) RESPONSE: MUSIC IN THE TIME OF CHANGE
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
June 4, 2022
FEAR – the Unspoken Geography for Electronic Fixed Media
Oregon State University
May / June 2022
The Forest and the Architect for Flute, Clarinet, French Horn, Violin, and Cello
Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 2:00 pm EDT
Lungs of the City Concert Series Juventas New Music Ensemble.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 12:00pm EDT
American Wild Ensemble
Prospect Park Audubon Center, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 7:00pm EDT
American Wild Ensemble
City College of New York. Spitzer School of Architecture
Friday, May 27, 2022 at 6:30pm EDT
American Wild Ensemble
Fort Tryon Park, location TBA, New York NY
Free (no tickets required)
March 2022
The Forest and the Architect for Flute, Clarinet, French Horn, Violin, and Cello
Lungs of the City Concert Series
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 8:00 pm EDT
Multicultural Arts Center
41 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA
In-Person & Live YouTube Broadcast
February 24, 2022, 8:00 pm
Kyripo
Ivana Francisci, Piano
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
September 2021
Residency at Pine Meadow Ranch
Late Summer 2021 –
Compose The Forest and the Architect
April – June 2021
Finalize South Pass for Orchestra
April 24, 2021
Recording Session – Completed composing for two short silent films:
Un ravalement precipité & Rosalie en Haar Trouwe Meubels part of a larger project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
MARCH 24, 2021
ASMAC (American Society of Musicians, Arrangers and Composers)
Served as a Panelist for A Celebration of Advocacy for Women in Music Workshop
https://asmac.org/index.php/calendar/parties/womeninmusic-032421
Winter, 2021
Composed Water & Stone &
Call for Justice for Saxophone Quartet, AATB
Fall 2020
Fanfare for Justice for French Horn Solo
Fanfare for Justice for French Horn Quartet
Worked with And We Were Heard for recordings of five Grades 1-4 Flex pieces https://www.andwewereheard.org/recordings
Summer 2020
Collaborated with CREATIVE REPERTOIRE INITIATIVE to create Flexible Scores for kids during the pandemic
June 16-30, 2020
NEW MUSIC GATHERING ONLINE
Presentation on Music and Landscape
March 18-20, 2020
Multiple Conferences CANCELLED
March 9-14, 2020
Residency
Mojave National Preserve
Death Valley National Park
February 15, 2020
Dusk for Quartet
Portland State University, Lincoln Recital Hall
February 6, 2020
Glacier Blue, performed by Ovidiu Marinescu
Delaware County Community College,
901 Media Line Rd, Media, PA
February 5, 2020
Glacier Blue, performed by Ovidiu Marinescu
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 W 57th St, New York City, NY 8:00 pm EST
December 18-21, 2019
73rd annual MIDWEST CLINIC in Chicago
November 10, 2019
Oregon Trail – premiere of the full three-movement piece
Festival of New American Music
CITYWATER New Music Ensemble
Crocker Art Museum 216 O St, Sacramento, CA 3:00 pm
September 29-30, 2019
Pianist Ivana Fransicsi performs Kyripo at the Evmelia Festival in Agria Greece
July 8-24, 2019
Composing in the Wilderness Seminar
Led 9 amazing composers from across Australia, Wales and the United States, as they created new works performed by the amazing new music ensemble CORVUS – all in less than two weeks! THIS IS as NEW as MUSIC GETS!
June 6-9, 2019
IAWM and FT&M15 Conference:
Women, Feminists, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today
Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA
May 11, 2019
Recording of Glacier Blue
by Parma Recording with Cellist Ovidiu Marinescu at Futura Productions, Boston, Mass
April 28, 2019
Premiere of The Coast in Winter
Performed by Winona State University Symphonic Wind Band
175 West Mark Street, Winona MN 55987
March 13, 2019
Oregon Trail, mvmt 1 – Me-a-pa-teis
Performed at the TURN UP Festival
Tucson AZ – Concert 7:30
March 8, 2019
Glacier Blue performance at the Friends of Rain concert
Performed at Cellist David Eby
Lewis and Clark, College, Portland, OR 7:30pm
February 20-23, 2019
College Band Directors National Assn. 2019 Conference
Tempe, AZ
November 20, 2018
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (Blue-ray) by Kino Lorber Films
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/pioneers-first-women-filmmakers-blu-ray?affiliate=fb
In conjunction with the Library of Congress, I composed A House Divided for the 1913 silent film of the same name.
November 9 and 11, 2018
Premiere of The Mountain Within
Beaverton Symphony Orchestra
November 2, 2018
Festival of New American Music;
Oregon Trail, Mvmt 1 Me-a-pa-te
Performed by Citywater
https://www.csus.edu/music/fenam/
October 27, 2018
IAWM Annual Concert at Trinity College Chapel
Guest Panel at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.riam.ie
October 7, 2018
Oregon Trail mvmt 3, Hyas Tyee Temwata, sponsored by Cascadia Composers
October 7, 2:00 pm at The Old Church, Portland, Oregon
http://www.cascadiacomposers.org/concerts/
October 4, 2018
Oregon Trail mvmt 1, Me-a-pa-te, Michigan Technological University
October 4, 7:30pm at McArdle Theatre, Houghton, MI
https://events.mtu.edu/event/landscape_music_rivers_trails#.W1co3i2ZNBx
September 29, 2018
Premiere of Oregon Trail, Mvmt 3 Hyas Tyee Temwata, performed by the Atlanta Contemporary Ensemble
Saturday, September 29, 7:00pm at the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta, Georgia.
https://www.facebook.com/events/875901382593464/
September 25, 2018
Community Discussion for the 50th Anniversary of the National Trails Act and 175th Anniversary of the Oregon Trail.
Tuesday, September 25, 5:300pm at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Oregon City Oregon.
https://www.historicoregoncity.org/calendar/
September 23, 2018
Premiere of Oregon Trail, Mvmt 1, Me-a-pa-te, performed by Citywater
Sunday, September 23, 4:00pm at the Empress Theatre in Vallejo, California
July 17-20, 2018
Exploring the Oregon Trail in Nebraska and Wyoming
July 5, 2018
“Widening Inclusion & Visibility Article released on New Music Box, https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/widening-inclusion-visibility/
June 28-July 9, 2018
Oregon Bach Festival, Composer Symposium, premiere of FREE LAND, mvmt 1, Eugene, Oregon
MAY 27, 2018
Tundra Tapestry for Alto Flute, English Horn and Cello, Portland
MAY 17-19, 2018
New Music Gathering, Boston
April, 2018
Release of Le Jardin Perdue on Jeffrey Jacobs 14th CD, Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano, Ariel Records,
March 21 – 24, 2018
CBDNA Conference at Sonoma State University in California
January 27, 2018
A House Divided recording session at Dead Aunt Thelma’s
January 4-7, 2018
Chamber Music America 40th Anniversary Conference, New York City
December 10, 2017
Glacier Blue
Performed by Andrew Shaud @ McArdle Theater, Michigan Technological University
November 2-8, 2017
International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) conference – Vancouver, BC
July 12-25, 2017
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival – Composing in the Wilderness
July 24 & 25, 2017
Tundra Tapestry premiere by CORVUS New Music Ensemble at Denali National Park and in Fairbanks, AK
July 24, 2017
“Commissioning Landscape Music” published on Landscapemusic.org
May 2017
New Music Gathering in Bowling Green OH
May 20, 2017
Coal Creek premiere, Cascadia Composers, Portland
May 17, 2017
NEXT GENERATION, Digital Exchange Webinar on Community Arts
April 6 & 7, 2017
Glacier Blue for solo cello
Premiere by Marilyn de Oliveira and Third Angle New Music Ensemble
http://thirdangle.org/2016-17-season/solo-hikes
October 18, 2016
Intertwine Alliance – The Life of Ashes performance and presentation,
October 12-14, 2016
Presentation on “New Music and Community” at Art of the Rural Placemaking conference- Iowa City,
October 14, 2016
“Intersections” CD release
September 14-17, 2016
Placemaking – Vancouver BC, Creativity in Public Spaces Leadership Forum
September 2-3, 2016
Boise Idaho, Ensemble 208
Glacier MT – research and solo hike for Third Angle commission
August 2016
Kickstarter campaign for “Love & Death in Havana – is successful!
May, June, July 2016
Interview with CULTURE OUT THE BOX
“Music, Travel, and the New Music Gathering” is published; IAWM JournalVolume 22, No. 1
Glacier MT – research and solo hike for Third Angle commission
July 29 & 30,2016
Britt Festival, Crater Lake National Park
April 2016
Articles on New Music, Advocacy and Place in April in New Music Box
April 16-24, 2016
Traveling to Cuba for the recording of two choral works by Vocal Luna Ensemble in Havana
January 2016
Completing “Dearly Departed” to be recorded by Vocal Luna Ensemble in April
January 30,2016
“White Rock Morning” Tape piece played at Cascadia Composers’ Concert in Eugene Oregon
November 13, 2015
Premiere of The Way Through at Lincoln Hall, PSU Campus, Portland. Presented by Crazy Jane and Cascadia Composers (NACUSA)
November 4, 2015
“Composing About Landscape” in The Intertwine, Outside Voice
July 28, 2015
Discussing The Way Through with Stehekin Residents and Seasonal Visitors National Park
July 25, 2015
Presenting The Way Through for visitors and park staff at North Cascades National Park
July 20, 2015
“Composing Landscape Music” published on Landscapemusic.org
June 1, 2015
“Landscape Music as Advocacy” published on Landscapemusic.org
April 10, 2015
“Composing about Nature and Wilderness” – Maryhill University
November 18, 2014
Interview on Chat,Chill, Highline CD at Jimmy Mak’s in Portland
November 14, 2014
Premiere of Going Rogue exploring the Rogue River Wilderness as part of the CRAZY JANE concert at Lincoln Hall, Portland State University.
November 11, 2014
Release of Chat,Chill, Highline CD on Parma Recordings
October 31, 2014
The recording of Life of Ashes will be played at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association in Roseburg Oregon through December 16th
October 6, 2014
Work with Stehekin school children – great marimba performers, I’m told – on composing about nature.
October 4, 2014
I am continuing my artist residency in North Cascades National Park, exploring, composing and learning about the local culture. On the 4th, as part of the Harvest Festival, I will host an interactive talk with Stehekin residents and visitors on composing about nature, place and culture.
September 18, 2014 – October 6, 2014
Exploring and composing in North Cascades National Park, as one of two Fall 2014 Artists in Residence.
September 27, 2014
Hosted an interactive talk with Stehekin residents and visitors on composing about nature, place and culture.
August 23, 2014
Premiere of The Life of Ashes, for Flute, Viola and Percussion commissioned by the Mount Adams Forest Service at the Columbia Arts Center in Hood River Oregon
August 16, 2014
Premiere of CHAT by the Chris Klaxton Band at the Parma Music Festival
EVENTS ARCHIVE
2024
December 2023
December 18-21
Midwest Clinic
Chicago, IL
November 2024
November 14-17
IAWM
American Musicological Society
Chicago, IL
October 2024
October 19, 2024
IAWM Annual Concert
University of Minnesota, Duluth
May / June 2024
June 23, Eugene, Oregon
June 16, Newport, Oregon
May 31, Medford, Oregon
Le Jardin Perdu
Coco Bender, Piano
March / April 2024
April 13, Portland, Oregon
April 11, Medford, Oregon
April 8, Vashon Island, Washington
April 5 & 7, Friday Harbor, Washington
March 24 & 30 Eugene, Oregon
Le Jardin Perdu
Coco Bender, Piano
March 2024
March 27 – 30
CBDNA Conference Las Vegas, Nevada
2023
November 2023
November 17, 2023
Pine Meadow
Thomas Jefferson High School Percussion Ensemble
Virginia Music Educators Association Conference
Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond, Virginia
November 14, 2023, 7:30pm
Composing for Orchestra – Panel Discussion
Cascadia Composers
November 11, 2023, 8pm
The Forest and the Architect
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Multicultural Art Center in Cambridge
November 4, 2023
IAWM Annual Concert
Royal Conservatorie of Antwerp, Belgium
September 2023
September 8, 2023
Voices of the Land
Album Release
September 23, 2023, 8pm
Canyon Voices
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Multicultural Art Center in Cambridge
Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:30pm
IAWM / LunART Fall Concert – VOICES UNBOUND
Arts + Literature Laboratory
Madison, Wisconsin
July 2023
July 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm
The Forest and the Architect
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA
May 2023
MAY 21, 2023 8:00pm
Kyripo
Donne Incanto Festival
Ivana Francisci, pianist
Teatro San Lorenzo, Italy
MAY 23, 2023 10:00 am
Presentation
IAWM and Equity and Inclusion Through New Music
February 2023
February 25-28, 2023
Recording Session – VOICES OF THE LAND
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport MA
Juventas New Music Ensemble
February 15 -18
CBDNA Conference Athens GA
2022
December 2022
RELEASE December 20, 2022
Rosalie er ses Meubles Fidèles
Rosalie de Knapp Huisbewaarster
both Solo Piano