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